, 1876-01-09
THE nD1T9 OF 1875

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The year that has just passed has been Il
bad one for Eastern publishers, One large
house has failed, and another has becu TEN
| porari1y embarrassed. The Chicago houses,
| on the other hand, have been less affected by
| the general depression. There has been q
marked decline in ths number and importance
| of Eastern publications., and an advance in
both respects here. On the whole, the year
has not been marked by many literary mile
/ stones, but review of what has been done
on the seaboard and here will be Of value
We conins ourselves exclusively to books
which have received the imprint of an Amer
lean publisher.
In pure literature, the five most notable
books have been TEsSrsoS's "Queen Mary"
LoNoFE1Iow's "Aasque Of Pandora" JoA~
oU1N Al11LER's "Ship in the Desert" EatER-
SONS "Letters and Social Aims" and the
novel By Henry JAMES, Jr., " Roderick Hud-
SON." We have, besides, SrrDMAx's "Victo-
rian Poets, DR.. HOLLANDS poor and popu-
lar Sevenoaks," ROBERT BRowS1so's linn
Album" RuSN1oSs translation of "Grazi-
ella" and books by BArAED TAr1on, JULIAN
HAWTHORNE, B. F. TAYLOR, and AhnoAzET
J. PRESTON.
The historical record is fuller. It contains
CARLYLE's misleading Early Kings of Nor
wsy," DRAPER's "History Of the Conflict
Between Religion and Sc,ence," another VOL
ume Of K1SoLAKE's History of the Crimean
War,-~a volume thnt tells the story OF
single battle,-the tenth volume Of BAN
cRoFr's History Of the United States,-
which brings that tedious author about
to the point where the United States began
to have history,-three Volumes of Fl. II.
BAscRoFT's admirable Native Races of the
Pacific Coast" and two Of the Count DE
PARIS 6 History OF the American War" For
details Of the whole which the Count writes
about, We have SnEENAS's "1fenoiry."
BoYNros's " "Sherman;s Historical Raid" VAN
HoRSE's @'Army OF the Cumberland" Dou-
BLEDAr's " "reminiscences Of Fcrt SUMTER
and CASsos's pamphlet on the Monitor-AIer.
rimac fight. Chasing biography as history,
we count rs the two most important works
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS memoirs of his
father, and FoRsTEs's Life of Swift" which
is less Of q biography of FORSTER than
most other works by this author. Pau
TON has published none OF his bio
graphical novelties, but has written q
lecture on the Centennial Congress Of a
hundred years ago, and is understood to have |
been busy on his forthcoming "Life OF |
Voltaire."
In travel and adventure, the especially
noticeable book is BAKRRs 50 Ismnilia."
though RoussELE7s ''India and Its Native
Princes" may perhaps be placed in this
category, md CAroa's Summer in Norway"
has much valuable information for the tray-
aler as well as the naturalist.
The art publications have been chiefly
periodical, but JAnvrs' "Japanese Art"
VIOLET LIE Dues Discourses on Architect
ure, and the new Boston book On "House-
hold Interiors" are exceptions.
Religious literature has consisted mainly
,f cyclope1io compilations There have
been published however, G1AnsrosE's pam-
phlets on Vaticanism and the replies of MANN
No, NEWMAN, and others to them, MATTHEW
AnSoLD's "God and the Biblc," and Dr.
JoHN HAL1's IS Yale Lectures"
Renders Of political economy have been
presented with JEvoSs' "AIoney and the
Mechanism Of Exchange" Some editions Of
CA1uSEs' works, notably "Principles of Po-
itical Economy" PnouDEos's "What Is
Property 7" the fifth volume of M111s IBIS
:ussions and Dissertations" BoN4Mx Pa1crs
Banking and Currency" and Mason and
ATOMS Primer Of Political Economy"
Thousands Of other books have been pub-
ished, some of which are quite as good as
hose mentioned above, but these may be
AIKEN as fair samples of the liter
~ work OF the year. Four among
hem-D. F. TArloa'a Songs Of Yestsr.
a5," nosnloS's "0saxiella," OAross