comedy. His little farces, the _Elevator_, the
_Register_, the _Parlor-Car_, etc., have a lightness and grace, with an
exquisitely absurd situation, which remind us more of the _Comedies et
Proverbes_ of Alfred de Musset, or the many agreeable dialogues and
monologues of the French domestic stage, than of any work of English or
American hands. His softly ironical yet affectionate treatment of
feminine ways is especially admirable. In his numerous types of
sweetly illogical, inconsistent, and inconsequent womanhood he has
perpetuated with a nicer art than Dickens what Thackeray calls "that
great discovery," Mrs. Nickleby.

1. Theodore Winthrop. _Life in the Open Air_. _Cecil Dreeme_.

2. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. _Life in a Black Regiment_.

3. _Poetry of the Civil War_. Edited by Richard Grant White. New
York. 1866.

4. Charles Farrar Browne. _Artemus Ward--His Book_. _Lecture on the
Mormons_. _Artemus Ward in London_.

5. Samuel Langhorne Clemens. _The Jumping Frog_. _Roughing It_. _The
Mississippi Pilot_.

6. Charles Godfrey Leland. _Hans Breitmann's Ballads_.

7. Edward Everett Hale. _If, Yes, and Perhaps_. _His Level Best, and
Other Stories_.

8. Francis Bret Harte. _Outcasts of Poker Flat, and Other Stories_.
_Condensed Novels_. _Poems in Dialect_.

9. Sidney Lanier. _Nirvana_. _Resurrection_. _The Harlequin of
Dreams_. _Song of the Chattahoochie_. _The Mocking Bird_. _The
Stirrup-Cup_. _Tampa Robins_. _The Bee_. _The Revenge of Hamish_.
_The Ship of Earth_. _The Marshes of Glynn_. _Sunrise_.

10. Henry James, Jr. _A Passionate Pilgrim_. _Roderick Hudson_.
_Daisy Miller_. _Pension Beaurepas_. _A Bundle of Letters_. _An
International Episode_. _The Bostonians_. _Portraits of Places_.

11. William Dean Howells. _Their Wedding Journey_. _Suburban
Sketches_. _A Chance Acquaintance_. _A Foregone Conclusion_. _The
Undiscovered Country_. _A Modern Instance_.

12. George W. Cable. _Old Creole Days_. _Madame Delphine_. _The
Grandissimes_.

13. Joel Chandler Harris. _Uncle Remus_. _Mingo, and Other Sketches_.

14. Charles Egbert Craddook (Miss Murfree). _In the Tennessee
Mountains_.

APPENDIX.

COTTON MATHER.

CAPTAIN PHIPS AND THE SPANISH WRECK.

[From _Magnalia Christi Americana_.]

Captain Phips, arriving with a ship and a tender at Port de la Plata,
made a stout canoe of a stately cotton-tree, so large as to carry eight
or ten oar