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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1877. 



GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND EXPLORATION. 

 Works under these heads are less numerous 

 than in some former years. Among the books 

 to which passing events give a special interest 

 is " Among the Turks," by Cyrus Hamlin 

 (Carters), recording the observations of a vet- 

 eran missionary in the East, whose ample means 

 of knowledge and undoubted good faith with 

 his readers make him an authority upon his 

 subject. The Hon. E. G. Squier, a veteran in 

 another field, who has gained a name in the 

 literature of ethnographic exploration among 

 the remains of the extinct races of America, 

 resumes his wonted task in his " Incidents of 

 Travel and Exploration in the Land of the 

 Incas" (Harpers). The Rev. Dr. Henry M. 

 Field continues his circumnavigatory record 

 in a volume entitled " From Egypt to Japan " 

 (Scribner), in which his practised descriptive 

 powers, dealing with less hackneyed topics, 

 have freer play, and with more attractive re- 

 sults. "California Pictures, in Prose and 

 Verse," by Benjamin Parke Avery (Hurd & 

 Houghton), has the merit of shunning the 

 much bewritten portions of California sce- 

 nery, and thus has an unlooked-for freshness of 

 interest. " Syrian Sunshine," by Thomas G. 

 Appleton (Roberts, Boston), will take an hon- 

 orable place among those books in which the 

 objects described are subordinate in the read- 

 er's appreciation to the literary style and spir- 

 it of the work. A prominent feature of the 

 monthly magazines is the description of sce- 

 nery, familiar or remote, with pictorial illustra- 

 tions. One magazine (Lippincott's) provides 

 material for four illustrated volumes of this 

 class: "Persons, Places, and Things;" "Wan- 

 dering in Four Continents ; " " Highways and 

 Byways of American Travel ; " and " Europe 

 seen through American Spectacles," by Charles 

 C. Fulton. We note also the following : 



One Year Abroad. By Blanche Willis Howard. 

 (Osgood.) 



The Plains of the Great West, and their Inhabi- 

 tants. Being a Description of the Plains, Game, 

 Indians, etc., of the Great North American Desert. 

 By Richard Irving Dodge, Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. 

 A. With an Introduction by William Blackmore. 

 (Pntnams.) 



The New Descriptive Geography of Palestine, 

 with Critical and Historical Notes of all Places 

 whose Names occur in the Scripture, and whose 

 Sites have with any Degree of Probability been 

 identifisd. By H. S. Osborn, LL. D. (State Uni- 

 versity, Oxford, 0.) 



The Great West and Pacific Coast; or, 15,000 

 Miles by Stage-Coach, Ambulance, Horseback, Rail- 

 road, and Steamer. By James F. Eusling, Brevet 

 Brigadier-General U. S. A. (Sheldon.) 



Beyond the Sierras ; or, Observations on the Pa- 

 cific Coast. By Rev. A. H. Tevis, A. M. (Lippin- 

 cott, Philadelphia.) 



Summer Rambles in Europe. By Alexander 

 Clark. (Nelson & Phillips.) 



To the East, by Way of the West. By Bishop E. 

 M. Marvin. (Bryan, Brand & Co., St. Louis.) 



Mexico as It is ; being ^Notes-of a Recent Tour in 

 that Country. By A. Zabriskie Gray. (Dutton.) 



From Gotham to the Golden Gate. By Mrs. 

 Frank Leslie. (Cnrleton.) 



Arizona as It is ; or, The Coming Country. Com- 



piled from Notes of Travel during tlie Years 1874, 

 1875, and 1876. By Hiram C. Hodge. (Hurd & 

 Houghton.) 



The Silver Country ; or. The Great Southwest. A 

 Review of the Mineral and other Wealtb, the Attrac- 

 tions and Material Development of the F owner King- 

 dom of New Spain, comprising Mexico and the Mex- 

 ican Cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853. 

 By Alexander D. Anderson. (.Putnams.) 

 Abroad again. By Curtis Guild. (Lee & Shepard.) 

 The Old World as Seen by Young Eyes. By Ellen 

 H. Walworth. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



POETRY AND THE DRAMA. Not much of 

 original composition in these lines of invention 

 has graced our literature within a year. Mr. 

 Edmund Clarence Stedman has indeed remem- 

 bered his friends and the public in the vol- 

 ume, " Hawthorne, and Other Poems " (Os- 

 good) ; and Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Whittier, and 

 Dr. Holmes, with the Rev. E. E. Hale and the 

 Rev. James Freeman Clarke, make up a col- 

 lection of "Poems of the Old South" (Gill, 

 Boston), which, if the venerable edifice should 

 be saved from demolition, will doubtless share 

 its perpetuity. Mr. William Leighton, Jr., 

 who all unconsciously found himself competing 

 with Tennyson in the drama, and divided with 

 the Laureate the suffrages of critics, has come 

 out with another drama, "At the Court of 

 King Edwin " (Lippincott), of sustained merit. 

 " Angelo," by Stuart Sterne a pseudonym, it 

 is supposed (Hurd & Houghton), has attracted 

 favorable notice. Among collections of poetry, 

 the first place is deservedly taken by Mr. Long- 

 fellow's "Poems of Places " (Osgood), which 

 make a steady progress, volume by volume, 

 around the world. A very pleasing minor 

 collection is " Hillside and Seaside in Poetry," 

 by Lucy Larcom (Osgood). The reissue in a 

 compacter library edition of the series of 

 "British Poets," edited by Prof. Francis J. 

 Child, of Harvard University (Hurd & Hough- 

 ton), is an enterprise which deserves and is 

 understood to have received a welcome from 

 the public. "Tears for the Little Ones; a 

 Collection of Poems and Passages inspired by 

 the Loss of Children," edited by Helen Ken- 

 drick Johnson (Osgood), appeals to a numer- 

 ous class of readers to whom it offers its sym- 

 pathy. 



Two Men of Sandy Bar. A Play. By Bret Harte. 

 (Osgood, Boston.) 



Out of the Question. A Comedy. By W. D. 

 Howells. (Osgood, Boston.) 



Lotos-Flowers. By Mrs. Chambers - KetcLum. 

 (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Ideals Made Real. A Romance in Verse. By 

 George L. Raymond. (Hurd & Houarhton.) 



Lotos-Land, and Other Poems. By G. S. Ladson. 

 (P. G. Thomson, Cincinnati.) 



Pasco, a Cuban Tale, and Other Poems. With an 

 Essay on Music. By B. Rutland Manners. (Hurd 

 & Houghton.) 



Robin, and other Poems. By George Percy. 

 (Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Boston.) 



The Rock that is Higher than I, and other Relig- 

 ious Pieces. By John Edgar Johnson. (Whittaker.) 



Two Women : 1862. A Poem. By Constance 

 Fenimore Woolson. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



Christmas Carols, and Other Verses. By the Rev. 

 H. G. Batterson, D. D. (Lippincott, Philadelphia.) 



