Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative;" Dr. Frank H. Hamilton's admirable "Treatise on Military Surgery; Military, Medical, and Surgical Essays, prepared for the Sanitary Commission, and edited by William A. Hammond, late Surgeon General United States Army; "Dr. J. M. Scudder's "Eclectic Practice of Medicine; "The Homœopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine," by Drs. E. E. Marcy and F. W. Hunt; "Manual for Medical Officers of the United States Army," by C. R. Greenleaf, M. D.; a new edition of Dr. Alfred Stillés's "Therapeutics and Materia Medica; " T. H. Tanner, M. D., "Manual of the Theory and Practice of Medicine" (a reprint); Dr. W. W. Hall's Essays on "Health and Disease," and on "Sleep; " Dr. John B. Beck's "Essays on Infant Therapeutics and other subjects; Dr. William Grace's "Army Surgeon's Manual;" Dr. John King's "American Dispensatory," sixth revised edition; Dr. Hugh S. Hodge's "Principles and Practice of Obstetrics," a new and enlarged edition; Dr. R. S. Trall's "Hand-book of Hygienic Practice, intended as a Practical Guide for the Sick Room." The principal monographs were: Dr. Austin Flint's "Compendium of Percussion and Auscultation;" Dr. H. H. Salter's "Asthma: its Pathology and Treatment; Dr. Louis Elsburg's "Laryngoscopal Medication; " Dr. A. Troltsch's "Diseases of the Ear; their Diagnosis and Treatment;" D. F. A. Von Moschzisker's "The Ear: its Diseases and their Treatment; " Dr. C. Both's "Sketch of the Theory and Cure of Phthisis;" Dr. W. H. Byford's "Treatise on the Chronic Inflammation and Displacement of the Unimpregnated Uterus;" Dr. F. J. Bumstead's "Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases;" Dr. C. Fayette Taylor's "Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature; or, Pott's Disease of the Spine," and his "Spinal Irritation; or, the Causes of Backache among American Women;" Dr. W. H. Fuller "On Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, and Sciatica; their Pathology, Symptoms, and Treatment;" Dr. J. O'Reilly's "The Nervous and Vascular Connection between the Mother and the Foetus in Utero;" Dr. H. F. Damon's "Leucocythemia; " a Boylston medical prize essay; Dr. Silas Durkee's "Treatise on Gonorrhea and Syphilis," a second revised edition; Dr. S. R. Percy's "Inquiry into the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of the Veratrum Viride," a prize essay; Dr. E. J. Tilt's "Handbook of Uterine Therapeuties;" W. A. Hammond, M. D., "Lectures on Venereal Diseases " Dr. T. H. Tanner's Memoranda on Poisons" (a reprint); William Acton, M. R. C. S., "Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life; " Dr. J. C. Dalton's "Observations on Trichina Spiralis," and Dr. Peter D. Keyser's "Glaucoma: its Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment." The Homœopathists, besides their work on the theory and practice of medicine already named, have published a

"Monograph on Diphtheria: its Nature, Pa thology, and Homœopathic Treatment," by W. T. Helmuth, M. D.; John Ellis's "Family Homœopathy; a work on "New Remedies in Homœopathic Practice," by Dr. E. W. Hall, and a "Homoeopathician's Medical Diary," by Dr. E. P. Mosman. The only other medical works of importance are the reprint of "Braithwaite's Retrospect," still maintained; a third edition of Dr. Edward Parish's "Treatise on Pharmacy;" Dr. E. Small's "Anatomy and Physiology rendered Attractive; " Mrs. C. H. Dall's "Sunshine: a New Name for a Popular Lecture on Health;" Dr. J. Thomas' "Comprehensive Medical Dictionary;" a new edition of Dr. Henry Beasley's "Book of Prescriptions; " Dr. J. H. Wythe's "Physician's Dose and Symptom Book;" several "Medical Diaries, Visiting Lists and Hand-books," and Mr. Edward Mayhew's "Illustrated Horse Management."

In Legal Literature there were the usual number of State reports of the cases in the higher courts; reports of cases in the United States Courts, and in the English exchequer and common law courts, amounting in all to about thirty volumes; but aside from these the year was remarkably prolific in treatises on great law questions, as well as in the productions of those standard authorities and textbooks which are so constantly required both in the courts and in the law schools. Of the former class were Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr.'s "Enemy's Territory and Alien Enemies; "Mr. Theodore W. Dwight's "Argument in the Rose Will Case," and his collection of "Cases in England of Disposition of Property for Charitable and Public Uses; " Mr. George Bemis's "Precedents of American Neutrality, in reply to Sir Roundell Palmer;" Mr. R. S. Blackwell's "Practical Treatise on the Power to Sell Land for the Nonpayment of Taxes, embracing decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Judicial Tribunals of the several States;" ex-Governor Washburn's "Treatise on the American Law of Property;" Chief Justice Redfield's Law of Wills, embracing not only the Jurisprudence of Insanity in that connection, but all other points affecting their validity; Mr. Francis Hilliard's revised edition of his "Law of Mortgages and Personal Property;" Mr. Charles C. Bonney's "Rules of Law for the Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by Railway," with statutes and decisions; a new edition by Mr. G. S. Hutchinson of Cleveland's "Banking System of New York, with notes and references to adjudged cases;" Mr. William Whi ting (Solicitor General United States) "War Powers under the Constitution of the United States."

Among the text and reference books may be mentioned: Mr. C. H. Scribner's "Treatise on the Law of Dower;" Mr. Pomeroy's "Introduction to Municipal Law;" President Woolsey's "Introduction to the Study of Interna

tional Law;" Judge Parsons's "Law of Contracts," fifth edition; Mr. J. B. Ecclesine's "Compendium of Laws and Decisions relating to Mobs, Riots, Invasions, &c., as affecting Fire Insurance Companies in the United States;" Judge Stanley Matthews "Summary of the Law of Partnership for Business Men;""Commentaries on the law of Marriage and Divorce," by J. P. Bishop, fourth edition; Bernard Roelker's "Manual for the use of Notaries Public and Bankers;" Mr. George W. Raff, "On the Law relating to Roads and Highways in the State of Ohio;" Mr. Henry Sumner Maine's "Treatise on Ancient Law: its Connection with the Early History of Society, and its relation to Modern Ideas," with an Introduction by Professor Dwight. To this class also belong the numerous volumes on the Pleading and Practice of different States and of different courts in the same State, and the treatises on the law relating to the powers and duties of Justices of the Peace and Constables in Indiana and Kentucky, as well as "The Forms of Practice and Pleadings in Actions," by Messrs. Abbott Brothers; 66 The Tax-payer's Guide " of Mr. Thompson Westcott; Messrs. Tiffany & Smith's "New York Practice," and "The New York Code of Procedure amended to 1864," by John Townsend. Among the laws and proposed laws published during the year we find, "The United States Statutes at large for the first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress," edited, as usual, by Mr. George P. Sanger; "The United States Digest," vol. 15, edited by H. Farnam Smith; "The Tax and the Tariff Laws," each alphabetically arranged; "The Act authorizing the Formation of Corporations for Manufacturing, Mining, Mechanical, and Chemical Purposes," with all the subsequent amendments thereto; and the "Draft of a Penal Code for the State of New York," prepared by the Commissioners of the Code, and submitted to the Judges for examination before final revision.

We have also two legal documents apper taining rather to the antiquarian than the jurist. These are: A Calendar of New York Colonial Manuscripts, endorsed "Land Papers," in the office of the Secretary of State; and a reprint (on large paper) of the proceedings of a court-martial held at New Brunswick in 1778, for the trial of General Charles Lee.

In Educational Literature but little has been done, except in the way of Text-books for colleges, academies, seminaries, and public schools. Rev. Asa D. Smith, D. D., has pub lished his inaugural on assuming the Presidency of Dartmouth College, and Governor J. A. Andrew his address to the graduating class of the Medical College of Harvard University, and both are replete with sound and useful suggestions on the subject of education. Mr. J. P. Wickersham, Principal of one of the Pennsylvania Normal Schools, has prepared a volume of great value entitled "School Economy: a treatise on the Preparation, Organization, Em

ployment, Government, and Authorities of Schools;" Mr. James E. Murdoch, the actor, who has given his whole time and talents to the cause of his country during the war, has collected some of the poems, &c., he has been in the habit of reading at his public readings and recitations, in behalf of the soldiers, under the title of "Patriotism in Poetry and Prose." Among the Text-books, the most noteworthy are: Prof. J. E. Boise's "First Three Books of Xenophon's Anabasis," with notes, vocabulary, and Kiepert's excellent map; Prof. Albert Harkness' "Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges;" Prof. Francis Bowen's "Treatise on Logic; " Prof. Hiram Corson's "Elocutionary Manual;" Prof. R. R. Raymond's "Patriotic Speaker;" Prof. J. W. S. Hows' "Ladies' Book of Readings and Recitations; " Prof. N. C. Brooks' "Vita Virorum Illustrium America;" Prof. W. B. Silber's "Progressive Lessons in Greek;" Rev. J. W. French's "Grammar," part of a course on language prepared for the Cadets at West Point; Messrs. Benjamin F. Shaw and Fordyce A. Allen's "Comprehensive Geography, combining Mathematical, Physical, and Political Geography, &c.;" Prof. A. E. Church's "Elements of Descriptive Geometry, with its application to Spherical Projections; " Prof. J. Madison Watson's "Manual of Calisthenics; " Prof. E. C. J. Krauss's "German Manual, or First Instruction in the German Language; " and several readers and other elementary text-books in French and German. Mr. G. P. Quackenbos, well known as an author of successful school books, has prepared a "First Book in English Grammar," as a part of his course on Grammar, and a "Priinary and Elementary Arithmetic," based on the works of G. R. Perkins, LL. D. Mr. Nelson M. Holbrook has continued the series of Towne and Holbrook's Progressive Readers by the publication of a "Fourth Reader;" and Messrs. Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co. have done good service to the higher schools by the publication of Arithmetical Examples; or, Test Exercises for the use of Advanced Classes."

The publication of Barnard's "American Journal of Education" (quarterly), and of the "American Educational Monthly," has been continued during the year, and both journals, as well as the numerous local ones of which there are one or more in almost every Northern State, have contributed powerfully to promote the cause of education, in its relations to teacher, scholar, and parent. Notwithstanding the large number of teachers who have joined the army, impelled often by the most patriotic motives, there has been no retrogression in educational effort in the Northern States; the schools have generally been better sustained and taught than before, and though in some of the colleges there has been a little falling off in numbers, yet it has been made up in others.

In Geography and Travel, the event of the year was the publication of Capt. Charles Fran

cis Hall's "Arctic Researches and Life among the Esquimaux," a work of great interest, and creditable to its author both as an explorer and narrator; the "Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile," by Captain John Hanning Speke, and of Mr. W. Winwood Reade's "Savage Africa: a Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern, and Northwestern Africa," both reprints, were also important additions to our geographical literature. Among other original American works of this class we notice "Man and Nature," by IIon. George P. Marsh; Mr. Edward L. Clark's "Daleth; or, the Homestead of the Nations, Egypt. Illustrated;" "A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England," by Mr. Robert Carter; "The Hawaiian Islands: their Progress and Condition under Missionary Labors," by Rufus Anderson, D. D.; "From Dan to Beersheba; or, the Land of Promise as it now appears," by Rev. J. P. Newman, D. D.; "Arizona and Sonora; the Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Regions of North America," by Sylvester Mowry; Mr. J. Ross Browne's "Crusoe's Island, Washoe, &c.;" Mr. Edward II. Hall's "The Great West: Emigrants, Settlers, and Traveller's Guide and Hand-book of the Pacific States and the Territories;" Rev. Lewis Grant's "Zulu-Land; or, Life among the Zulu-Kafirs of Natal and Zulu Land;" Mr. J. S. Campbell's "Idaho: Six Months in the New Gold Diggings; ""The Silver Mines of Nevada, with Map;" Rev. G. S. Bailey's "The Great Caverns of Kentucky-Diamond Cave, Mammoth Cave, and Hundred Dome Cave;" Mr. John Austin Stevens, Jr., “The Valley of the Rio Grande: its Topography and Resources;" Rev. Joshua Leavitt, D. D., "Denmark and its Relations;" Mr. J. Milton Mackie's "From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics; " Mrs. H. Dwight Williams' "A Year in China: and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, when Homeward-bound, on board the Rebel Pirate Florida;" a new and enlarged edition of Mr. P. McD. Collins's “Overland Explorations in Siberia, Northern Asia, and the Great Amoor River Country;" a condensed narrative of Moffatt's "Adventures as a Missionary in South Africa; a compilation of great interest, entitled " Treasury of Travel and Adventure; " and Miss S. W. Lander's "Spectacles for Young Eyes, Zurich." In the way of Maps, Guide, and Hand-books, we have Colton's condensed 8vo "Atlas of the Union;" the third year of Harper's "Hand-book for Travellers in Europe and the East, prepared by Mr. W. P. Fetridge; "A Guide Book of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and its Connections through the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania; " Mr. J. Disturnell's "Traveller's Guide to the Hudson River, Saratoga, Lake George, the Saguenay River," &c.; and "The Washington Sketch Book," by Viator. The Essays were quite numerous. We have already enumerated the principal ones on topics connected with the war. Those on other subjects may be classified into those discussing religious and moral questions, literary or scien

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tific, and reprints. Of the first class are Rev. T. L. Cuyler's "Cedar Christian and other Sketches;" Mary G. Ware's "Death and Life;" Rev. Orville Dewey's "Problem of Human Destiny; " Gail Hamilton's (Miss A. Dodge) "Stumbling Blocks" and "New Atmosphere;" Miss Frances Power Cobbe's "Broken Lights," an inquiry into the present condition and future prospects of religious faith, which though written the other side of the Atlantic was primarily intended for American readers; Fenelon's "Reflections and Meditations," with a memoir by Mr. John R. G. Hassard; Mrs. L. Maria Child's "Looking Toward Sunset; " Mr. A. B. Muzzey's "The Blade and the Ear: Thoughts for a Young Man;" "A Pastor's Jottings; "St. John's Land, a Retro-Prospectus; "Mr. Frank W. Ballard's "The Stewardship of Wealth, as Illustrated in the Lives of Amos and Abbott Lawrence." Of the literary, scientific, and philosophic essays, the most important were Mr. W. W. Story's "Roba di Roma; " Miss Henrietta's Wilson's "Chronicles of a Garden: its Pets and its Pleasures;" Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell's "Work and Play; or, Literary Varieties; " Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's Campaner Thal and other Essays," translated by C. T. Brooks; Mrs. Eliza W. Farnham's "Woman and her Era;" T. Starr King's "Patriotism and other Papers;" Mr. Howard Payson Arnold's "European Mosaic; """ Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors;" Ik Marvel's (Mr. Donald G. Mitchell) "Seven Stories with Basement and Attic; " Mr. J. J. Jarves's "The Art Idea; " Mr. H. D. Thoreau's "The Maine Woods; ""Jennie June's; " "Jennie Juneiana: Talk on Women's Topics; " Mr. James Russell Lowell's "Fireside Travels; "Eliana;" hitherto uncollected writings of Charles Lamb; Mr. S. B. Ruggles's "Semicentennial Address to the Class of 1814 and the Society of Alumni of Yale College, on the Past and the Present; President Felton's "Familiar Letters from Europe; "Autumn Leaves," by the late Samuel Jackson Gardner; "Wet Days at Edgewood," by Ik Marvel; Mr. Charles D. Drake's "Union and Anti-Slavery Speeches delivered during the Rebellion; " Mrs. H. B. Stowe's "House and Home Papers; and new editions of Irving's "Sketch-Book;" Headley's" Adirondack; "Hawthorne's "Thrice Told Tales;" and Longfellow's prose works. A few of the reprints were of some importance; among them were Sir E. B. Lytton's "Caxtoniana; "two volumes of Francis Bacon's Works; the interminable A. K. H. Boyd's "Counsel and Comfort Spoken from a City Pulpit; " Mr. Herbert Spencer's "Illustrations of Universal Progress," and "Essays: Moral, Political, and Esthetic; " Madame D'Hericourt's "A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or, Woman Affranchised; a new edition of D'Israeli's "Amenities of Literature; " Edmund About's "Les Progres;" "Essays on Social Subjects," from the "Saturday Review;" "The Gentle Life;" "Essays in Aid of the Formation of

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Character;" Mrs. Jameson's "Sacred and Legendary Art," and "Legends of the Monastic Orders;" Mr. E. M. Whitty's "Bohemians of London; " Leigh Hunt's "The Seer; or, Common Places Refreshed; " Guizot's "Love in Marriage, a Historical Study; " "Lady Rachel Russell;" Hugh Miller's Essays, Historical Biographies, &c., edited by Peter Bayne; "Pearls from Heine."

In Poetry there was an alarming increase of the number of new poets, who for the most part had come before the American public for the first time in a collected volume of their own poems. Forty of these adventurous spirits have thus laid claim to a literary immortality, and there is a slight possibility that some one of the forty may possibly attain to it. The poetry of most of these volumes is respectable, while three or four exhibit abilities above mediocrity; and while none as yet have given marked evidence of the possession of the divine afllatus, they may yet develop into something beyond their present condition.

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We name a few of the most promising: Mr. Harvey Rice's "Mount Vernon and other Poems," has sold sufficiently to require a second edition; Mr. Edward Hopper's "Fire on the Hearth in Sleepy Hollow," has passages of great merit; Utterances," by Col. A. J. H. Duganne, contains some songs and ballads which had already attained high reputation in the newspaper columns; "Idylls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion," by Miss Laura C. Redden, a lady who is a semi-mute, exhibits harmony, grace of versification, and in a few of the pieces a poetic fire worth cultivating; "Faith and Fancy," by John Savage, is a volume of which its author has no occasion to be ashamed. The little volumes of Mr. F. G. Tuckerman and Mr. Henry F. Tuckerman, are worthy of the reputation of those gentlemen as elegant belles lettres scholars. Bishop Coxe's "Christian Ballads," and Messrs. Bayard Taylor, John G. Saxe, N. P. Willis, and Robert Lowell's collections of poems, now published in new forms, have been for some years before the public. One of the most remarkable volumes of poetry published during the year was a little collection printed in Germany, though nominally published in Milwaukie, from the pen of an American lady (Mrs. Mary H. C. Booth), since deceased at the early age of thirtyfour; it bore the title of "Wayside Blossoms among Flowers from German Gardens," and some of the poems exhibited rare poetic genius. Mr. George II. Boker has published a volume entitled "Poems of the War," containing a number of lyrics which are favorites with the army. Other volumes of original poems issued during the year were: "Poems from the Inner Life," by Lizzie Doten; "Poems," by Henry Peterson; "Poems," by Una; "Secession, or Prose in Rhyme, and East Tennessee, a Poem,' by an East Tennessean; "Sacred Poetical Paraphrase, and Miscellaneous Poems," by Rev. J. B. Steele; "The Book of Job in Poetry" (more correctly in rhyme), by Rev. H. W.

Adams; "Voices from the Hearth; or, a Collection of Poems," by Isidor (Isidor G. Ascher), a Montreal book; "Lyrics of a Day; or, Newspaper Poetry," by a United States Volunteer; "A Tribute to the Fair; a Collection of Vers de Société; "Poems of the Republic," by William Oland Bourne;" "Hymns of the Spirit," by Rev. S. Longfellow and Rev. S. Johnson; "Memorial Poems and Hymns," by Prof. E. Turney; "The Wind Harp, and other Poems," by Ellen C. Howarth; "The Burden of the South," in verse, by Sennoia Rubek; "The Poet, and other Poems," by Achsah W. Sprague; "War Songs for Freemen;" "First and Last; a Poem, intended to illustrate the Ways of God to Man; "A Poetical Cook Book; "Cabiro," a poem, by George H. Calvert; "Marble Isle, and other Poems," by Sallie Bridges; "Chimasia:

Reply to Longfellow's Theologian and other l'oems," by Orthos; "Visions and Verses," by Charles Dexter; "Elim; or, Hymns of Holy Refreshment," by Rev. F. D. Huntington; “Young America; a Poem," by Fitz Greene Halleck; "The Palace Beautiful and other Poems," by Orpheus C. Kerr (Newell); "Rosa Mystica, Mary of Nazareth, the Lily of the House of David," by Maria Josephine; "Real and Ideal," by John W. Montclair; "Poems," by Astarte. Among the collections of poems by different authors, were three little volumes arranged and edited by Frank Moore; "Rebel Rhymes and Rhapsodies;" "Songs of the Soldiers;" and "Personal and Political Ballads; "Poetry of the Age of Fable," by Thomas Bul finch, a new edition; "Golden Leaves from British Poets," and "Golden Leaves from American Poets," both selected and arranged by Prof. John W. S. Hews; "Lyra Anglicana," and "Lyra Americana," both edited by Rev. George T. Ryder; "A Selection of War Lyrics," illustrated by F. O. C. Darley; Rev. W. D. Potts' "Campaign Songs for Christian Patriots and True Democrats;" Ballads of the War and Ballads of the South;" "Hymns of the Ages," third series; "Sacred Poetry, selected from the Writings of Charles Wesley;" four American Poems, metrically translated into German by Charles Theodore Eben; twenty Hymns with Music; and three or four Selections of the Psalms, with Chants for Responsive Service. The reprints, though few in number, were important in character. Among them were Tennyson's "Enoch Arden and other Poems," of which seven editions appeared in as many different styles; Robert Browning's "Sordello, Strafford," &c., and his "Dramatis Persona; Adelaide Procter's Poems; "An Artist's Poems, written and illustrated by Carl Heinrich Schurze," and translated by Chas. G. Leland; a beautiful edition of Schiller's Poems and Ballads; Poems by David Gray, with a Memoir and an Introduction by Lord Houghton. An elegant uniform edition of the Poems of Byron, Moore, Scott, Burns, Keats, and Gray, has been issued by a Boston publishing house. A new edition of Keble's "Christian Year," and one

of Milton's Poetical Works, by Prof. C. D. Cleveland, has also appeared. Mr. Benson J. Lossing has done a good service to the public in editing, with abundant historical and biographical notes, Trumbull's Revolutionary Poem, "McFingal;" and for the first time we have a good translation of the German political and humorous ballad, "Reynard the Fox." We are obliged, for want of space, to omit all reference to works on Music, and to collections of music, either sacred or secular, as well as to the musical periodicals, some of which are edited with great ability.

Of the 233 Works of Fiction, not of a specially religious character, published during the year, 164 belonged to the cheaper class in paper bindings, and of these 65 were sold at prices ranging from ten to fifteen cents, and the remainder at from twenty-five to seventy-five cents each. Of these cheapest novels we shall have more to say further on. Twenty-six were French and German works reprinted here in their original language. Less than fifty were bound volumes; and of these, several were new editions of popular favorites, Dickens, Thackeray, Le Sage's Gil Blas, etc. Of the original novels of a higher class published during the year the most important were: "John Godfrey's Fortunes," by Bayard Taylor; "Cudjo's Cave,” by J. T. Trowbridge; "The Three Scouts," by the same author; Azarian, an episode," by Harriet E. Prescott; "Emily Chester, a novel," "My Own Story," by Marian Leigh; "The Morrisons," by Margaret Hosmer; "Eliza Woodson; or, the Early days of one of the World's Workers, a story of American Life;" "Honor; or, the Slave Dealer's Daughter," by Stephen G. Bulfinch; "Sophia; or, the Reign of Woman," "Woodcliff," by Harriet B. McKeever; Waifwood, a novel; " "Chateau Frissac," by Oliver Logan; four volumes of Novelettes, by T. S. Arthur; "Hassan Abdallah; or, the Enchanted Keys and other Tales; a republication of Robert Lowell's "The Story of the New Priest in Conception Bay," and of H. L. Barnum's "The Spy Unmasked; or, the original of Harvey Birch, Cooper's Spy." Among the reprints of foreign novels, not in pamphlet form, were "The Gypsies of Dane's Dike," by George T. Phillips, (January Searle); "Justice and Mercy, a tale of All Hallows E'en," by Mrs. Am. Stewart; several volumes of the household edition of Dickens; a fine edition of "Le Sage's Gil Blas;" Thackeray's "Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry." A charming little German story, "Annie and her Master," was also reprinted during the year

Of the Religious fictions of the year, the most remarkable, both in their merit and success, were the books of Mrs. Charles, an English writer, who as a delineator of the scenes, customs, and manners of past ages, has had no Her first work superior in modern times. which attained to a high popularity (although she had written several previously), was "The Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family, by two of themselves." This, the scene of which

was laid in Germany in the time of Luther was published in two rival editions late in 1863, and à subsequent illustrated edition of it in the summer of 1864, and all enjoyed a remarkable popularity. In the summer of 1864 this was followed by "The Early Dawn;" a series of sketches of Christian life in England, at different periods of the Christian centuries: and several of her earlier works, such as the "Cripple of Antioch," the "Martyrs of Spain," etc., etc., written in the same vein, were also republished and had an extensive sale. Late in the autumn of 1864 appeared her "Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan," a story of the Great Revival in the times of Whitfield and the Wesleys, which in its creative power and its graphic delineation of character surpassed all her previous works. The sale of these works has been very large, and is still maintained. Other religious novels of high character, published during the year, were "The Trial; or, More Links in the Daisy Chain," by Miss Yonge, author of the "Heir of Redclyffe;" "Melbourne House," by Miss Susan Warner, author of the "Wide Wide World; " "The Grahams," by Jane Gay Fuller; "Margaret's Secret and its Success," by Miss Carey Buck. A republication of Sargent's "Temperance Tales," by the American Tract Society, Boston, belongs also to this class of books.

The number of juvenile publications is so large, 428 distinct works having been issued during the year, and many of these in several volumes, that we can only indicate the authors, without attempting to specify the books themselves. Indeed, the task of naming all the authors of these books would itself be a laborious work, since they number 264, were it not that 154 are anonymous, and 14 others conceal their identity under initials or a nom de plume. Among these writers for the young the English writer A. L. O. E. still maintains her preeminence in the number of her books, having issued twelve during the year. She is followed closely, however, by Aunt Fanny (Mrs. Fanny Barrow), who has published eleven, and "Mrs. Madeline Leslie," who has brought out ten. "Nellie Grahame" comes next with seven, Mrs. Charles with six, Uncle John and Jacob Abbott with six, R. M. Ballantyne and Hans C. Anderson with five; an anonymous writer (author of Weldon Woods) with the same number; "Maxwell" with four; Mayne Reid, F. M. S., and two anonymous writers, with the same number; while John S. Hart, "Sophie May," T. S. Arthur, S. J. Donaldson, Jr., Rev. P. C. Headley, Rev. Daniel C. Eddy, “Oliver Optic," Susie M. Waring, and Harriet B. McKeever published three cach, and Mrs. Jane D. Chaplin, Aunt Friendly, W. H. G. Kingston, Mrs. Phebe Harris Phelps, Alice A. Dodge, Fluta," Mary Howitt, Rose Ellenwood," "Aunt Susan," "Cousin Kate," "Laurens," Mrs. H. E. Brown, Mary Harvey Gill, Rev. W. Blackburn, Rev. Ashton Oxenden, Miss Yonge, Josephine Franklin, Sir C. F. Lascelles Wraxall

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