The New York herald., 1878-11-29
LITERATURE.
SCENES IN Ell DORADO.

DCENES IN Ell DOhADO.
Samuel G. Upham has published q book Of Ss4
pages. in twenty-five chapters. OF Notes of Voyage
to California via Cape Horn together with Scenes in
Ell Dorado. in the years lS49-50." with an appendix
containing "Reminiscences of Pioneer journalism in
California; California Day at the Centennial Exhib
ton. Philadelphia. September Q, 1876; Reunions
and Banquets of the Associated Pioneers of Cal
ifornia in New York. January. 49, 1877 and 1875
Celebration OF Admission Day at Long Branch.
n. j.. September 3, 1877; also Reception or
General John G, Fremont August l. ls7s and to Hon.
Philip A. Roach, June d. 1876; Dedication OF the
Lick Monument at Fredericksburg. Pa. April -.
1878; Extracts from the Manuscript Journal Of the
'King's Orphan. in the year 1913; Pioneer and Kin
dred Organizations together with the Articles Of As
sociation and Roll Of Members of '"The Associated
Pioneers OF the Territorial Days Of California"
Forty-fye illustrations are interspersed throughout
the work. the author says. "A Of which saw, and
part of which I was" Tho work throughout
from the departure from the port OF New
York. the cruise in the tropics. the stoppage
at the city of Rio Janeiro. the passage around Cape
Horn. with the accounts Of various stopping places,
and the queer and comic incidents that took place
tho way until the pass through tho Golden Gate was
made and the anchor cast at San Franciscois highly
entertaining. Then Mr.. Upham's perambulations
through the diggings graphically related besides
his account Of his return to the East The author
gives an interesting account Of pioneer journalism
in tho land Of gold The illustrations to the work
comprise portrait Of the author, portrait Of Cen
eral Suffer- harbor of Rio Janeiro, mode Of nursing
children in Ro general view Of Rio Janeiro, portrait
OF Dom Pedro H., Emperor Of BRAZIL the Osceols in
gale off Cape Horn, portrait and autograph OF Horny
Meiggs; entrance to the Golden Gate beach of Yerba
Buena Cove. ls49; the Hounds on the rampage;
;~xn~
Of FL Dorado saloon 1850; Suffers sawmill. Cooma
1S49 City of Stockton. fall Of 1s49. and the road
to the mines From the title-page to the fnis the
book is highly interesting and will do to append to
a that has previously been written OF FL Dorado Tho
work is dedicated ITO the Pioneers Of California who
encountered dangers by hoed and field, and whose
brave hearts and willing hands have caused the arid
plain and the wilderness to blossom the rose'"
"A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Following close upon the heels of Professor Tylcr's
History Of American Literature comes "A Century
of American Literature by H. A. Beers. which forms
the hundredth volume Of Henry Holt Co.'s Leisure
Hour" series. Mr.. Beers begins where Professor
Tyler leaves of and gives series Of selections from
some forty or fifty authors no longer living. illustra-
tive Of the growth OF American literature from l776
to 1876 The design of the volume is to represent
only polite literature in the sense-poetry.
fiction, humor, satire and sketches Of life and char
acter In the introduction he gives RESUME Of the
colonial period elaborated in Professor Tylcrs book
In speaking Of the Purans he says that their witch
killings. Quaker slittings and suppressing Of May
poles have become picturesque at this distance Of
time, and the tough Puritan stock has put forth a
late blossom in the genius of Hawthorne This is q
way of looking at the question. The century Of
American literature begins in this volume with Philip
French. who born in New York in 1852. and ends
with Robert Kelley Weeks. born in the same city in
1910, who died at Harlem in 1876 The range Of the
book is somewhat limited but it is good as far as it
goes and is excellent continuation Of earlier works
on he axnas sl1h