Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events

"A Chat about Celebrities: or, the Story of a
Book," was by Curtis Guild; "An Epistle to Pos-
terity," by Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sherwood; and
A Society Woman on Two Continents," by Mrs.
James Mackin. "A Correspondence between John
Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson" was published
by Edward Waldo Emerson, with a sketch of Ster-
ling's life; Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop gave to
the world delightful "Memories of Hawthorne";
and "Hawthorne's First Diary: saw the light
through the instrumentality of Samuel T. Pickard.
The Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe"
were fortunate in their editor, Mrs. Annie Fields,
and from Mary E. Phillips we have "Reminiscences
of William Wetmore Story." "Calamus," by R.
Maurice Bucke, M. D., gives letters of Walt Whit-
man. The "Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons" was
edited by Sarah Hopper Emerson and "Remi-
niscences and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs," by
George S. Merriam. "Oberlin Thursday Lectures"
were by James Monroe. "On Two Continents," by
Hezekiah Brake, describes pioneer and war times in
Kansas, while from Dr. Louis Albert Banks we have
the story of "An Oregon Boyhood." "Journals of
John Lincklaen," the records of travels in the years
1791 and 1792 in Pennsylvania, New York, and
Vermont, were published with a biographical sketch
and notes by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. "Thirty
Years a Slave," was by Louis Hughes. To educa-
tional biography belong the "Life and Letters of
William Barton Rogers," edited by his wife, and
"Memorials of William Cranch Bond and George
Phillips Bond," by Edward Singleton Holden. Vol.
II of "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of
Yale College," by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, cov
ered the period from 1745 to 1763. The Life of
Philip Schaff" was written by his son, Dr. David
S. Schaff, and from Dr. Charles Force Deems we
have an" Autobiography," with memoir by his sons.
"Life Reminiscences of an Old Lutheran Minister"
were by Dr. John G. Morris, and "The Life Story
of Dr. Franklin Wilson, as written by himself in
his Journals," appeared in small compass. The
"Life and Times of Edward Bass, First Bishop of
Massachusetts (1726-1803)," came from Daniel Du-
lany Addison. "From Different Points of View"
was the title of a study of Benjamin Fiske Barrett,
by the author of "The Republic," John Robert Ire-
lan; "Brother Azarias" was written by Rev. John
Talbot Smith, and "A Life for Africa: Rev. Adol-
phus Clemens Good" was commemorated by Ellen
C. Parsons. "In Journeyings Oft" was a sketch
of the life and travels of Mary C. Nind, by Georgi-
ana Baucus, and "A Group of French Critics," by
Mrs. Mary Fisher, and Hours with Famous Pa-
risians," by Stuart Henry. "Marchesi and Music"
was by Mathilde Marchesi. Christopher W. Knauff
devoted a volume to " Doctor Tucker, Priest-Mu-
sician," about the rise and progress of church music
in America. Lippincott's "Pronouncing Dictionary
of Biography and Mythology" went through a new
revised and enlarged edition, and Vol. II appeared
of" America's Successful Men of Affairs," an ency-
clopædia of contemporaneous biography, edited by
Henry Hall.

phens. Toombs, and Jefferson Davis, by William
Peterfield Trent, collected in a volume of "Crow-
ell's Library of Economics and Politics," and Mar-
shall de Lancey Haywood gave an account of the
official administrations of "Governor George Bur-
rington," twice Governor of the colony of North
Carolina. In the series of "Women of Colonial
and Revolutionary Times" we have "Martha
Washington," by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton,
and "Catherine Schuyler," by Mary Gay Hum-
phreys, the last an historic daughter of New York.
"True Stories of New England Captives carried to
Canada during the Old French and Indian Wars"
were told by Charlotte Alice Baker, and Henry
Johnson (Muirhead Robertson) recounted "The
Exploits of Miles Standish." "The Life and Ad-
ventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the
Adirondacks," by A. C. Byron Curtiss, introduce
us to the original of Natty Bumppo, while still to
the early period of our history belongs "John
Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter, Cock-
enoe-de-Long Island," by William Wallace Tooker,
in an edition limited to 215 copies. No less than
six volumes were given to Gen. Grant: "Ulysses S.
Grant and the Period of National Preservation and
Reconstruction" was written by William Conant
Church for the "Heroes of the Nations Series," a
companion volume in which series was "Robert E.
Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870," by
Henry Alexander White, D.D.; "Gen. Grant's
Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880” were supplied with
an introduction and notes by James Grant Wilson,
who also contributed "General Grant" to the "Great
Commanders Series"; "Conversations and Un-
published Letters" of Ulysses S. Grant were pub-
fishen by M. J. Cramer; Gen. Horace Porter de-
scribed "
Campaigning with Grant"; and "The
True Story of U. S. Grant, the American Soldier,"
was told for boys and girls by Elbridge Streeter
Brooks in the series of "Children's Lives of Great
Men." "Forty-six Years in the Army," by Gen.
John M. Schofield, was a military autobiography of
unusual interest, which came out near the end of
the year; Richard Meade Bache contributed a
'Life of General George Gordon Meade," and "Per-
sonal Recollections of General Nelson A. Miles"
were illustrated by Frederic Remington and other
artists. "Commodore Bainbridge" was followed by
James Barnes from the gunroom to the quarter-
deck, and Molly Elliot Seawell's "Twelve Naval
Captains" commemorated certain Americans who
made themselves immortal. "1861 to 1865, by an
Old Johnnie," contained the personal recollections
and experiences of James Dinkins in the Confeder-
ate army, and J. Harvey Mathes gave the title of
"The Old Guard in Gray" to lives of men who
were in the Confederate service. "The Life of
Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great
Britain," in two volumes, was from the able pen of
Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan: Vols. II and III ap-
peared of William Milligan Sloane's "Life of Na-
poleon Bonaparte"; "Bertrand du Guesclin, Con-
stable of France," was the subject of a study by
Enoch Vine Stoddart, M. D.; Mrs. Mary Hartwell
Catherwood revived "The Days of Jeanne D'Arc";
and Anna L. Bicknell, the author of "Life in the
Tuileries under the Second Empire," retold "The
Story of Marie Antoinette." The "Life of Philip
Melancthon," by Rev. Joseph Stump, had an intro-
duction by G. T. Spieker, D. D., and was prepared
in view of the approaching anniversary of the birth
of the great reformer. "The Sacrifice of a Throne,"
being an account of the life of Amadeus, Duke of
Aosta, sometime King of Spain, was by H. Remsen
Whitehouse "Heroic Stature" was the title given
to five addresses of Nathan Sheppard upon the lives
and times of eminent theologians and reformers.

Criticism and General Literature.-"The Literary History of the American Revolution, 17631783," by Rev. Moses Coit Tyler, in two volumes, exhibits the condition of mind alike of Whig and Tory during that trying period, and is a companion work to the same author's "History of American Literature during the Colonial Time." "Varia," by Agnes Repplier, and "Patrins," by Louise Imogen Guiney, represent some of the work of the female essayists who have come so markedly to the front of late years, while from Arlo Bates we had "Talks on the Study of Literature," and from Thomas

Wentworth Higginson "Book and Heart: Essays on Literature and Life" and "The Procession of the Flowers and Kindred Papers," with an index of plants and animals mentioned. Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel) was equally at home with "English Lands, Letters, and Kings," the volume for the year covering the period of "The Later Georges to Queen Victoria," and with "American Lands and Letters," treating in the latter, with his usual pleasing style, of "The Mayflower to Rip Van Winkle." James Freeman propounded "Nineteenth Century Questions' on various themes; Theodore Roosevelt examined "American Ideals"; William Norman Guthrie published "Modern Poet Prophets" and a study of Walt Whitman (the Camden Sage) as Religious and Moral Teacher"; Henry Cabot Lodge presented new theories as to "Certain Accepted Heroes," with other essays in literature and politics; and Elbert Hubbard collected into the compass of a book his series of "Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women." J. D. Buck, M. D., wrote on "Browning's Paracelsus and Other Essays" and a volume was issued of Papers" selected to represent the work of the Boston Browning Society from 1886 to 1897. Charles Dudley Warner was delightful as ever in his portrayal of "The People for whom Shakespeare Wrote," while "The Genesis of Shakespeare's Art" was the title of a study of his sonnets and poems by Edwin James Dunning. "Gleanings in Buddha Fields," by Lafcadio Hearn, consisted of studies of hand and soul in the far East. From Denton Jaques Snider we had a commentary on "Homer's Iliad." with a preliminary survey of the four literary Bibles, and National Epics" were examined by Kate Milner Rabb. Modern English Prose Writers" were examined by Frank Preston Stearns. "How to tell a Story, and Other Essays," by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), appeared in the series of "Harper's Contemporary Essayists," and Charles M. Skinner was interesting in his rambling dissertations upon Nature in a City Yard" and in his suggestive essays entitled "With Feet to Earth." "The Colonial Tavern," by Edward Field, gave a glimpse of New England town life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Sydney George Fisher devoted two volumes to "Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times," which were illustrated with photogravures and with decorations by Edward Stratton Holloway, and Thomas Nelson Page was an authority upon "Social Life in Old Virginia before the War." "Curiosities of Popular Customs, and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities" were the theme of William Shepard Walsh, the author of "The Handbook of Literary Curiosities." Louis Lombard was responsible for "Observations of a Bachelor"; "Ars Recte Vivendi" was the title given to essays contributed to "The Easy Chair" by George W. Curtis: Bishop John Lancaster Spalding embodied in a volume six papers containing "Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education"; and Orison Swett Marden set forth ideals, helps, and examples for all desiring "Success." Bishop Henry Codman Potter published "The Scholar and the State, and Other Orations and Addresses," and Charles W. Eliot "American Contributions to Civilization, and Other Essays and Addresses." Henry Thurston Peck made a study of "The Personal Equation"; Charles B. Newcomb asserted" All's Right with the World"; Charles F. Goss proclaimed himself "The Optimist" in 68 "secular sermons"; "The Chatelaine," by G. E. X., touched happily on numerous subjects; Julia H. Johnston wove Bright Threads" together; and Lilian Bell explained how things look "From a Girl's Point of View." Mrs. Margaret E. M. Sangster's familiar talks on the conduct VOL. XXXVII.-29 A

of "Life on High Levels" will prove helpful to many of the rising generation. "The Smart Set " of America had its correspondence and conversations reported by Clyde Fitch," and "Men in Epigram," compiled by Frederick W. Morton, gave views of maids, wives, widows, and other amateurs and professionals, and was designed as a companion to his "Woman in Epigram." The Story of Language' was told by Charles Woodward Hutson. George Herbert Palmer wrote briefly on "Self-cultivation in English," and Ralph Olmstead Williams placed before the public "Some Questions of Good English examined in Controversies with Dr. Fitzedward Hall" during the past five years. The Elements and Science of English Versification" were thoroughly treated by William C. Jones, and Lorenzo Sears considered "The Occasional Address: Its Composition and Literature." The first of three volumes of "Specimens of Pre-Shakespearean Drama," with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by John Matthews Manly, appeared in the "Athenæum Press Series," and Charles Langley Crow edited "Maldon and Brunnanburgh: Two Old English Songs of Battle." A Dictionary of American Authors," by Oscar Fay Adams, is an outgrowth of his Handbook of American Authors," first published in 1884; Truman J. Backus traced "The Outlines of Literature, English and American, based upon Shaw's Manual of English Literature'"; and Edward L. Pattee suggested "Reading Courses in American Literature" in a small booklet. Vols. I and II appeared of "A Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern," edited by Charles Dudley Warner, as did Vol. II of George Haven Putnam's exhaustive work upon "Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages," covering the period 1500-1700, and a seventh edition, rewritten, with additional material, of "Authors and Publishers," by the same author and John Bishop Putnam. English Synonyms and Antonyms," by Rev. James C. Fernald, contained also notes on the correct use of prepositions, and was designed as a companion for the study and as a text-book for the use of schools, appearing in the "Standard Educational Series"; "A Manual of Esopic Fable Literature," by George C. Keidel, is intended as "a first book of reference for the period ending A. D. 1500: first fascicule”; “American Authors, 1795-1895," a bibliography of first and notable additions chronologically arranged with notes, by P. K. Foley, had an introduction by Walter Leon Sawyer; A. Growoll traced the beginnings and history of " American Book Clubs," giving also a bibliography of their publications, in an edition limited to 300 copies; and Frederic Lawrence Knowles was the author of "Practical Hints for Young Writers, Readers, and Book Buyers."

In the "In

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Education. "The American College in American Life" was ably discussed by Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, and Kate Holladay Claghorne dwelt upon "College Training for Women. ternational Education Series" "Froebel's Educational Laws for All Teachers" were set forth by James L. Hughes, Joseph Baldwin wrote on "School Management and School Methods," and a ography of Education" was prepared by Will S. Munroe. In the "Columbia University Studies" William Clarence Webster treated of "Recent Centralizing Tendencies in State Educational Administration"; Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, late superintendent of the schools of ethical culture in New York, wrote briefly of "The Common School and the New Education," and also proposed "A Working System of Child Study for Schools"; "Coeducation of the Sexes" was considered by Mabel Hawtrey; and Isabel Maddison compiled the supplement for 1897 to the "Handbook of the

Courses open to Women in British, Continental,
and Canadian Universities." Jessie A. Fowler
proffered "Childhood: Its Character and Culture."
Harriet M. Scott, assisted by Gertrude Buck, pre-
pared a manual of " Organic Education." A sec-
ond edition appeared of Dr. William T. Harris's
essay upon
"Art Education the True Industrial
Education"; William W. Murray was the author
of a 66
Handbook for Teachers"; and William H.
Mace, of "Method in History for Teachers and
Students." Mrs. Irene M. Mead treated of "The
English Language and its Grammar," and Lucy
Tappan prepared "Topical Notes on American Au-
thors." Henry Carr Pearson discoursed of "Greek
Prose Composition," and Thomas L. Stedman,
M. D., in "Modern Greek Mastery " offered a short
road to ancient Greek. "Latin Manuscripts," by
Harold W. Johnston, was an elementary introduc-
tion to the use of critical editions for high schools
and college classes. From Charles F. Kroeh we
had a "Three-Year Preparatory Course in French";
from Francis Wayland Parker and Nellie Lathrop
Helm, Vol. II of "Uncle Robert's Geography";
from Henry W. Keigwin, "The Elements of Ge-
ometry"; and from J. F. Smith, a "School Geome-
try," inductive in plan. Emerson E. White pub-
lished a "Key to School Algebra,'
," in "White's
Series of Mathematics"; Emily E. Benton suggested
"The Happy Methods in Numbers for Little Peo-
ple"; "School Gymnastics; Free Hand: A System
of Physical Exercises for Schools" emanated from
Jessie H. Bancroft; the first of "Nature Study
Readers," in "Appletons' Home Reading Books," was
"Harold's First Discoveries," by J. W. Troeger.
James Baldwin arranged "School Reading by
Grades" for the seventh and eighth years; H. A.
Guerber contributed "The Story of the Chosen
People" to the " Ecletic School Readings"; Russell
B. Smith, M. D., and Everett C. Willard were the
joint authors of a "Standard School Physiology,
Hygiene, Anatomy"; and Albert F. Blaisdell, M. D.,
sent out "A Practical Physiology," intended as a
text-book for higher schools. "Physical Experi-
ments," by Alfred P. Gage, was a manual and note
book adapted to accompany any text-book of phys-
ics.
Asia," by Frank G. Carpenter, came out in
Carpenter's Geographic Readers." To Lois Bates
we were indebted for a "Kindergarten Guide." An
American view of "Schoolboy Life in England"
was given by John Corbin; and "On a Western
Campus" was a collection of stories and sketches
typical of life in a coeducational college in the
West, written by undergraduates, and with draw-
ings by Frank Wing.

by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, embraced the
portions of that nobleman's life omitted from "A
Lady of Quality," and from Rudyard Kipling, now,
we suppose, to be classed among American novel-
ists, we had "Captain Courageous," a story of the
Grand Banks. William Dean Howells was repre-
sented by "The Landlord at Lion's Head" and "An
Opened-Eyed Conspiracy," and he also wrote "A
Previous Engagement: Comedy." Henry James
told "What Maisie knew," and also of "The
Spoils of Poynton"; Francis Brete Harte described
Three Partners; or, The Big Strike on Heavy
Tree Hill"; and from Richard Harding Davis we
had "Soldiers of Fortune." "The Story of an Un-
told Love" and "The Great K, and A. Robbery,"
the latter considerably lighter in theme, came from
Paul Leicester Ford, whose "Hon. Peter Stirling"
has grown constantly and deservedly in popularity
since it was published in 1894, and entitles its au-
thor to a place in the front rank of American nov-
elists. Full of the feeling and fire of the olden
time was "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on the Staff of His Ex-
cellency General Washington," in two volumes, by
Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, and to the same period be-
long "A Colonial Free-Lance," by Chauncey C.
Hotchkiss; "A Daughter of Two Nations," by
Ellen Gale McClelland: "The Sun of Saratoga,"
by Joseph A. Altsheler, who wrote "A Soldier of
Manhattan"; "King Washington," by Adelaide
Skeel and William H. Brearley; "An Unwilling
Maid," by Mrs. Jennie Gould Lincoln; and "A Son of
the Old Dominion," by Mrs. Burton Harrison. "Free
to Serve," by E. Rayner, and Mrs. Watson's "Beyond
the City Gates" are colonial. "Vivian of Virginia,"
by Hurlbert Fuller, a story of Bacon's Rebellion of
1676. Captain Shays, a Populist of 1786," was
by George R. R. Rivers, the author of "The Gov-
ernor's Garden." "The Latimers" was by Henry
Christopher McCook, D. D.; "A Loyal Traitor,"
came from James Barnes; and "Chalmette" from
Clinton Ross (R.), who published also "Zuleka."
Other historical novels were "The Forge in the
Forest," by Charles G. D. Roberts, which relates to
the period anticipating the expulsion of the Aca-
dians from Nova Scotia; "Pontiac, Chief of the
Ottawas," by H. R. Gordon; "A Colonial Witch,"
by Frank S. Child; "The Romance of a Jesuit Mis-
sion," by M. Bourchier Sanford; "Sweet Revenge,"
by F. A. Mitchell; "A Hero in Homespun," a tale
of the loyal South, by William E. Barton; and
"Brokenburne: A Southern Auntie's War Tale," by
Virginia Frazer Boyle. "An Enemy to the King,"
by R. N. Stephens dealt with France in the time of
Henry III; and "The Falcon of Langéac," by Isabel
Whiteley, with the early part of the reign of Fran-
cis I. "On the Red Staircase" and "An Imperial
Lover" were tales of Russia by M. Imlay Taylor,
while "Prisoners of the Sea," by Florence Morse
Kingsley, centered around the Man in the Iron
Mask. Two novels which aroused considerable com-
ment were "The Gadfly," a strong but bitter story
of Italy in the first half of the present century, by
Mrs. E. L. Voynich, who was for some time believed
to be a man, and "The Descendant," written to dem-
onstrate the impossibility of living contrary to ex-
isting social laws, published anonymously, by Ellen
Glasgow. "In the Crucible" was by Grace Denio
Litchfield, and Anna Katharine Green gave full
particulars of "That Affair Next Door." Jerome,
a Poor Man," was one of Mary E. Wilkins's stories
of New England life. "The Third Violet" figured
in a romance by Stephen Crane, and "The Gen-
eral's Double," a story of the Army of the Poto-
mac, was by Capt. Charles King, who published also
"Warrior Gap," a story of the Sioux outbreak of '68.
"The Missionary Sheriff" was by Alice French

Fiction.-Only 869 novels were recorded as printed or imported into this country during 1897, a falling off of 245 from the 1,114 of 1896. Of this number 358 were by American authors, while the English and Continental works of fiction manufactured in the United States numbered but 352 against 690 the year previous, showing a growing preference for native talent in this department of literature. Of the total number of novels issued from publishing houses during the year, 713 were new books, as compared with 1,012 in 1896, while new editions showed an increase, there being 156 as against 102. The most marked feature in the character of the novels was the return in many to Revolutionary days and scenes. Perhaps the most successful novel of the year was "The Choir Invisible," by James Lane Allen, the author of "A Kentucky Cardinal," the scene of which is also laid in Kentucky in 1795. From F. Marion Crawford we had two novels, "Corleone: A Tale of Sicily," in two volumes, and " A Rose of Yesterday," the characters in which last are American, although the

scene is laid in Lucerne. His Grace of Osmonde,"

(Octave Thanet), and from Molly Elliot Seawell we had "The History of the Lady Betty Stair." Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree) sent out "The Juggler" and a volume of short stories entitled "The Young Mountaineers"; Mrs. Amelia E. Barr wrote “The King's Highway" and "Prisoners of Conscience," the last a strong story of the Shetland Islands; Frank R. Stockton's sole contribution was "The Great Stone of Sardis"; while from John Kendrick Bangs there came "The Pursuit of the House-Boat" and "Paste Jewels." "Eat not thy Heart' was by Julien Gordon (Mrs. Julia Storrow Cruger) and "A Damsel Errant," by Amélie Rives (now Princess Troubetzkoy). Two stories of Illinois at different periods, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, which were included in one volume, were "The Spirit of an Illinois Town" and "Little Renault." Harriet Prescott Spofford traced the evils of "An Inheritance"; Herbert Ward told of "The Burglar who Moved Paradise"; and "Susan's Escort, and Others,” by Edward Everett Hale, were collected into a volume from various periodicals and illustrated by W. T. Smedley. Dr. Charles C. Abbott had two novels, "The Hermit of Nottingham" and "When the Century was New"; outdoor life is portrayed in Uncle Lisha's Outing," by Rowland E. Robinson: "A Question of Damages" was settled by J. T. Trowbridge; Elizabeth Phipps Train wrote "A Queen of Hearts" and "A Marital Liability"; Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart, "In Simpkinsville," a series of character tales; Alice Brown, the author of "Meadow-Grass," "The Days of his Youth"; Mrs. Eva Wilder Brodhead (formerly Eva Wilder McGlasson), "Bound in Shallows"; and Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk (Henry Hayes), "The Revolt of a Daughter." An Old-Field School-Girl," by Marion Harland (Mrs. M. V. H. Terhune), pleased young and old readers, and two other familiar authors were represented, Amanda M. Douglas by "Her Place in the World," and Christian Reid (Mrs. Frances C. F. Tiernan) by "The Man of the Family." Miss Archer Archer " was a novel by Mrs. Clara Louise Root Burnham, and "Boss and Other Dogs" was a collection of stories by Maria Louise Pool. Stories of a distinctly local flavor were "The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock," by Thomas Nelson Page; Opie P. Read's "Bolanyo," "Old Folks," and "An Arkansas Planter"; "Old Times in Middle Georgia," by Richard Malcolm Johnston (Philemon Perch); "Sketches from Old Virginia," by A. G. Bradley: "The Kentuckians" and "Hell fer Sartain, and and Other Stories," by John Fox, Jr.; "Chronicles of a Kentucky Settlement," by William Courtney Watts; "Down our Way," stories of Southern and Western character, by Mary Jameson Judah; "Jasper Fairfax," by Margaret Holmes; "The Regeneration," by Herbert Baird Stimpson; "Middleway," tales of a New England village, by Kate Whiting Patch, "The Secret of the Black Butte"; by William Shattuck; and "The King of the Broncos" and "The Enchanted Burro," by Charles Fletcher Lummis. "Lin McLean," was by Owen Wister. "From the Land of the Snow Pearls" was the title of tales from Puget Sound by Mrs. Ella Higginson. Charles Fleming Embree wrote "For the Love of Tonita, and Other Tales of the Mesas," and Frederick Thickstun Clark (Frederick Thickstun) "The Mistress of the Ranch." Ellen Hodges Cooley described "The Boom of a Western City," and Annette Lucile Noble "The Professor's Dilemma." "Yellow Pine Basin " was the story of a prospector, told by Henry G. Catlin; "Wolfville," by Alfred H. Lewis ("Dan Quin") was illustrated by Frederick Remington. Oregon was the scene of "Leonora of the Yawmish," by Francis Dana, and Nebraska of "Like a Gallant Lady," by Kate M. Cleary. "The Golden Croco

dile". was a mining story by F. Mortimer Trimmer, and "The Big Horn Treasure" a tale of Rocky mountain adventure by John F. Cargill. "The Voyage of the 'Rattletrap,'" by Hayden Carruth, traces the path of a prairie schooner across Dakota twenty years ago; lynch law is the theme of "Smoking Flax," by Hallie Erminie Rives, a sister of Amélie Rives and "Mr. Peters," by Riccardo Stephens. Countess Cora Slocomb di Brazza-Savorgnan was responsible for " An American Idyll," the scene of which is laid among the Pima Indians of northern Mexico. "My Spanish Sweetheart" was the title of a short international romance by Frederick Albion Ober, who told at greater length of what transpired "Under the Cuban Flag," and from Lillian Hinman Shuey we had another romance of_the West Indies, entitled "Don Luis' Wife." "Lorraine," by Robert W. Chambers, belonged to the days of the Franco-Prussian War; Arnaud's Masterpiece" was a mediæval romance of the Pyrenees, by Walter Cranston Larned; and "A Modern Corsair," a story of the Levant, by Richard Henry Savage, who also published "For her Life," a story of St. Petersburg. "An Emperor's Doom; or, The Patriots of Mexico" was by Herbert Hayens, and the same country is the scene of "Tales of the Sun-Land," by Verner Z. Reed. The trilogy of Katharine Pearson Woods, begun with "John: Å Tale of the Messiah," was continued with "The Son of Ingar," which carries on the study of the social message of Christianity in the first century. "The First Christmas Tree" was the theme of Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr., and to religious fiction belong "The Lowly Nazarene," a story of Christ, by J. Leroy Nixon, and "Lazarus," a tale of the world's great miracle, by Lucas Cleeve, while “Fabius the Roman came from Enoch Fitch Burr, D. D. "Two Noble Women were described by Susan Parkman, and Annie E. Wilson told the "True Story of a Jewish Maiden." His First Charge' was by Mrs. Isabella H. Foster (Faye Huntington), and from Marie E. Richard came suggestions under the title of "The Country Charge." The Daughters of the Parsonage was by Belle V. Chisholm, and "The King's Daughter, and the King's Son; A Fairy Tale of To-day," by Agatha Archer. "Dead Selves" was Julia Magruder's latest novel, and from Clara Sherwood Rollins, the author of "A Burne-Jones Head, and Other Sketches," we had "Threads of Life"; Helen Davies confided "The Reveries of a Spinster" to print, and Max Pemberton gave us two books,

Christine of the Hills" and "Queen of the Jesters." In the "Hearthstone Series" we had the story of a French family "Exiled from Two Lands," told by Everett T. Tomlinson, and that of "The Champion Diamonds," by Rebecca Sophia Clarke (Sophie May). "The Pride of the Mercers," with all its consequences, was portrayed by Thomas Cooper De Leon, the author of a clever travesty of "The Quick and the Dead" entitled "The Rock and the Rye," and Charles Peale Didier, the author of

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"Twixt Cupid and Croesus," illustrated his own novelette, R. S. V. P." Fashionable New York life is the theme of " A Fiancé on Trial," by Francis Tillou Buck, and Washington life of "The Vice of Fools," by Hobart C. Chatfield Taylor. atlantic Chatelaine was chronicled by Mrs. Helen Choate Prince; "Up the Matterhorn in a Boat" was a humorous extravaganza by Mrs. Marion Manville Pope; Louis Tracy in "An American Emperor" told the story of the fourth empire of France; while "Perfection City" was amusingly described by Mrs. Adela E. Orpen. "On Loneman's Island" was from the pen of Mary Hubbard Howell; "Bubbles" and A Son's Victory," from that of Fanny E. Newberry; "Rich Enough," by

"The Lady of the Violets," by Frank West Rollins;
"The End of the Journey," by Marie Florence
Giles; "A Questionable Marriage," by Mrs. A.
Shackleford Sullivan: "Then, and not till then,"
by Clara Nevada McLeod; "The Invasion of New
York; or, How Hawaii was Annexed," by J. H.
Palmer; "True Detective Stories," culled from the
archives of the Pinkertons by Cleveland Moffett ;
and "When Desire cometh," by G. Embe. A new
edition was printed, from new plates, with the orig-
inal plates of " "Georgia Scenes," by "A Native
Georgian," originally published in 1840, and the
"Autobiography of a Pocket-handkerchief," by
James Fenimore Cooper, which has been out of
print since 1843, and which, though published in
that year in serial form, was never included in a
collected edition of his works, was issued in book
form. The memorial edition of "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" contained a sketch of the life of Mrs. Stowe
and was profusely and handsomely illustrated from
original drawings by celebrated artists, and the
Tacoma edition of Washington Irving's "Astoria,"
in two superb, illustrated volumes deserves mention.
Among collections of short stories not included
above are to be recorded "Outlines in Local Color,"
by Brander Matthews; "Seven on the Highway,"
by Blanche Willis Howard; "Harvard Episodes,"
by Charles Macomb Flandrau, histories of college
life, which possess unusual merit; "Mrs. Knollys,
and Other Stories," by F. J. Stimson; "A Willing
Transgressor, and Other Stories," by A. G. Plymp
ton; "The Mystery of Choice," by Robert W. Cham-
bers; "A Browning Courtship, and Other Stories,"
by Eliza Orne White: "Literary Love-Letters, and
Other Stories," by Robert Herrick; "Near a Whole
and Other Fancies," some of which are in verse, by
City-Full," by Edward W. Townsend; "" 'Bobbo,'
Thomas Wharton, which had an introduction by
Owen Wister; Camp and Lamp," rambles in
realms of sport, story, and song, by Samuel Mathew-
son Baylis; "Pippins and Cheese," by Mrs. Elia W.
Peattie; "A Book of True Lovers," collected short
stories of Octave Thanet (Alice French); "Chimes
from a Jester's Bells," by Robert Jones Burdette;
"Wayside Courtships," by Hamlin Garland; "Tales
of the Real Gypsy," by Paul Kester; "Jimty and
Others," by Margaret Sutton Briscoe; "The Merry
Maid of Arcady, His Lordship, and Other Stories,"
by Mrs. Burton Harrison; Reminiscences of an
Old Westchester Homestead," by Charles Pryer;
"Pine Valley," by Louis B. France (Bourgeois),
descriptive of life in Colorado; "Ocean Sketches,"
tales of transatlantic travel, by Frederick W. Wendt;
"A Night in Acadie," by Kate Chopin, being stories
of Creole life in Louisiana; "The Wisdom of Fools,"
by Mrs. Margaret Wade Campbell Deland; "One
Man who was Content; Mary; The Lustigs; Co-
rinna's Fiammetta," four short stories in one vol-
ume, by Mrs. Marianna Griswold Van Rensselaer
(Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer); "The Ape, the
Idiot, and Other People," by W. C. Morrow: "An
Itinerant House, and Other Stories," by Emma
Frances Dawson; "The Express Messenger, and
Other Tales of the Rail," by Cyrus Warman. "Lo-
To-Kah" was the title of six stories of Indian folk-
lore, chiefly of the Ute and Navajo Indians, by
Verner Z. Reed; "In Indian Tents," stories told by
Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Micmac Indians to
Abby Langdon Alger, are not to be forgotten; and
in conclusion we have "The Comprehensive Sub-
ject Index to Universal Prose Fiction," compiled
and arranged by Zella Allen Dixson.

Leigh Webster; "Peg Bunson," by John W. Spear;
"Not in It," by Mrs. Anna Olcott Commelin;
"The Man who was Good," by Leonard Merrick;
"Lost Lineage," by Carrie Goldsmith Childs;
"John Leighton, Jr.," by Katrina Trask; "Paul
Ralston," by Mrs. Mary J. Holmes; "The Evolu-
tion of Dodd's Sister," by Charlotte Whitney East-
man; Horace Everett," by Marquise Clara Lanza;
and "The Copy-maker," by William Farquhar Pay-
son found interested readers, as did "A Romance
in Transit," by Francis Lynde, and "The Right
Side of the Car," by J. Uri Lloyd, the author of
"Etidorpha," but in no wise following the lines of
that work. "Stephen Hardee" was by Katharine
Neely Festetits, and "On Many Seas" by Herbert
E. Hamblen (Frederick Benton Williams). "The
Federal Judge," by Charles K. Lush, broaches the
question of the influence of corporations, and
Henry Cadavere," by Henry Wentworth Bell-
smith, was a study of life and work from the stand-
point of co-operation. "The New Man" declares
in favor of existing social conditions. "The
Daughter of a Hundred Millions" was by Virginia
Miles Leeds, and "The Stand-by," by Edmund P.
Dole. "Evangelica," by Katherine Russell (Apollo
Belvedere), opposes the theory of the inheritance
of vice. "In Plain Air" was by Mrs. Elizabeth
Lyman Cabot; "Scarlet, or White?" by Willis
Mills, M. D.; and "The Tragedy of Ages," by
Mrs. Isabella M. Witherspoon. "The Philosopher
of Driftwood" is by Mrs. Anna Jenness Miller.
Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwin left colonial themes
to tell of Flint: His Faults, his Friends, and his
Fortunes"; A Capital Courtship" was by Alex-
ander Black: Florence Converse laid the scene of
her novel "Diana Victrix" in New Orleans aics
Creoles of the French quarter; "Gloria Victis
was by John A. Mitchell; and "The Man of Last
Resort," by Melville Davidson Post. "Bob Cov-
ington was from Archibald Clavering Gunter.
From Mrs. Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Frank
Lin) we had "His Fortunate Grace" and "Pa-
tience Sparhawk and Her Times." "His Foster-
Sister." by Linn Boyd Porter, appeared in the " Al-
batross Novels," and "Montresor " was an Eng-
lish-American love story, 1854-'94, by "Loota."
"The Eye of the Sun' was by Edward S. Ellis;
"Koheleth" was by Louis Austin Storrs; Arthur
H. Veysey wrote "A Cheque for Three Thousand";
Robert Herrick, "The Man who Wins"; Fannie
E. Ostrander, "When Hearts are True"; and
James Knapp Reeve, "The Three Richard Wha-
lens," a story of adventure. "The Invisible Man
was a grotesque romance by Henry G. Wells, and
B. West Clinedinst illustrated "The Last Three
Soldiers," by William Henry Shelton. "Spanish
Castles by the Rhine" was by David Skaats Foster,
To the realm of the improbable belong also "The
Fourth Napoleon," by Charles Benham; "The Day
of Resis," by Lillian Francis Mentor; Yermah
the Dorado," by Frona Eunice Wait; "At the
Queen's Mercy," by Mabel Fuller Blodgett; "Kings
in Adversity," by Edward S. Van Zile; "Loma: A
Citizen of Venus," by William Windsor; "A Jour-
ney to Venus," by Gustavus W. Pope, M. D., the
author of "A Journey to Mars"; "Keef: A Life
Story in Nine Phases," by Timothy W. Coakley;
and "John Harvey," a tale of the twentieth cen-
tury, by "Anon Moore." "Through the Invisible"
was a theosophical love story by Paul Tyner, and
"The Touch of a Vanished Hand," by Annie Rus-
sell Dyer, suggests spiritualism. "The Story of
Ab," by Stanley Waterloo, was a scientific novel of
the time of the cave men, and " Nirvana," a story
of Buddhist philosophy by Paul Carus. "Tim and
Mrs. Tim," a story for the club and society man
and the new woman was by Richard T. Lancefield;

Fine Art.-Among the books that are creations of art are to be numbered "A History of Dancing from the Earliest Age to our own Times," by Gaston Vuillier, superbly illustrated, with 25 full-page photogravure plates and over 400 illustrations in the

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