Contemporary Literature [pp. 72-75]

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every day. In nearly every department of science, I873. (New York: Harper& Brothers. Cincinnati:
as much is now achlieved in a single year as ill a cent- Robert Clarke & Co.)
ury prior to our War of Independence. Original PAMPHLs.-G or Send; a Pleafor Missions, by
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investigation takes the l)lace of easy acquiescence, Atticus G. Haygood, D.. A capital argument,
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and scientists are not satisfied until they examine and well put and well sustained. dvertisers'a alfor
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test for themselves. But it is not alone the discovery 1874, by E. N. Fesa, containing classified lists
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of new facts, or the exploding of old errors, that in- of pp with locality and circulation. Fy-seventh
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terests us, b)ut the economic results of these inves,,,,.. Atl~~~,4uual'eiport of thze,4o ericnn Colontization Society.
tigations. We thank the man who gives us light for Aotofsa4ctrelrofhe inSnto
... ~~~~~~A fidll an~d satisfactory revort of tle doinges and onour houses every night at a'merely nominal cost; but i
for himi who will wa rm our apartments in cold dition of this Society. Much valuable information
for him wh lo will wvarm our apeartmenlts in cold
weather, or will clothe our bodies, or supply our tables is to be had fi-om its contents Catalogueof Aorth.,,,z'v.aestern University; C. H. Fowler, D. D., Presid6nt,
with food, or transport us safely and rapidly fiom wit U esity C H F er d D redn,
........ ~~~~~~with ovter sixtv teachlers anld eighlt huuldred anld
place to place, or build our houses securely against it ve sty tahs o i. d e
~ l * t a,.! ~~~~~~sixty-five studenlts. Minutes of 2ahiadelphia Ushefr.
fire, at such a price that the pauper can live as com-phia Coer
fortably as the millionaire, the world will build the ecefor 874. Rport of the State Commissioitr of
proudest monument yet erected. Hlow near we are Cot o Schools, i Ohio.
to such a consummation may be guessed at from TIlE Methodist Quarterly for April has some fine
7he A4nnual Record of Scirnce and Indutstry for articles, and the usual racy and full Booklc-table,
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BOSTON LITERARY NOTES.-The Boston publish ilg business has suffered greatly for the year past.
First, by the terrible fire; then, the financial crisis
came with its crushinig weight; but it survived nobly,
and is now rising to life, as fresh and vigorotis as if
nothing had happened. The p)ublishinig trade has
always been one of the prominent feattires in the
business of the moderni Athilens, and will continue so
to be for a long time to come. Some of the oldest
publishinilig-hlouses-titheir names familiar to our boy hood-still continue, but have changed their l)laces
of business and their titles. Among these is the
firm of James R. Osgood & Co. More tlhan hlalf a
century ago, it was located on the corner of Wasihingtoni and Bromfield Streets, and was known as the
"Old Corner Store," under the name of Allen &
Ticknior.'lThe next change in the title was to "Tlicknor, Reed & Fields;" then to "Tlickinor & Fields;"
then "Fields, Osgood & Co.;" then to its present
name, James R. Osgood & Co. For some years,
their place of business has been known to all the
literary world; on Tremont Street, overlooking that
magnificent park called the " Boston Common," and
in their beautiful, spacious reception-room, have
gathered the literary fraternity whose names are associatecl with our literature for the last half century,
for a social chit-chat, enlivened and sl)iced by the
sparklinig wit and genius of the leading minds of our
American literature. It would have been a rare treat
to listen to Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whlittier,
Whipple, Emerson, Peabody, Norton, Fields, Thloreau, Aldiich, and a host of others, and women not
a few, whose lpeis have added great luster to our
literature, as they discoursed on the current literary
topics of the day.
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But this favorite literary resort has been aban doned for another on Franklin Street-a most desira ble locatioll, with ample accommodationis-whiithier
the Company have removed, and where they will
transact their extensive business, and where they
will receive their fiiends as usual. In disposing of
the 4tlantic Monthly and Every Saturdiy, they have
only coml)leted a cherished plan to devote themselves more fully to the pulblicatiou of books. They
will continue, however, the publication of the North
,4Aer-ican leeview, the oldest quarterly in this counitry, the l)resent volume being the one hundred and
eighteenth. The names of its former editors-Professor Chaniinig, Edward Everett, John G. Palfrey,
Alexander H. Everett, Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen,
Rev. A. P. Peabody, James Russell ILowell, and
Charles Eliot Norton-will ever give it the highest
literary character in our periodical literature.
Their book-list is very large, and in the poetic de.
partmenit is perhaps the largest of any publishing.
house in this country. They have issued in beautiful
editions the poetical works of Burns, Lowell, Tennyson, Longfellow, Scott, Saxe, Proctor, lIarte,
Stedman, Tuckermana, Lanidor, Howells, Meredith,
Hucidson, Rledden, Whittier, and others; and this list
is to be enlarged within a short time. Thleir list of
prose works has assumed large proportions, and is
to grow ral)idly during the Spring and Summer
months. The following are among its latest or
promised additions: "Fables in Song," a volume
by Owen Meredith, consisting of poems whichi have
attracted considerable attention in some of the Britishi magazines, but few of which have bees l)ublished
in this country, andl will be new to American readers.
A new Life of llThomas Jefferson, by Mr. Parton, parts
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