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January and February, 1872.

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FEBRUARY, 1872.

LITERATURE IN AMERICA IN 1871.
Introduction to the American Catalogue for 1871.
I.

try seem very bright, to which also the literary results of the year past may be in great measure traced. A great war, especially a home war, which goes straight to the heartnature of a people, has commonly given birth to a revival in literature, and ours has been doubly effective in this direction. It has permeated our whole people with that glow of patriotism, that enthusiasm for truth and right THE year 1871 has been one prolific of Eng- and all that is glorious and Godlike, which is lish literature, on both sides of the ocean the very mother-heat of great deeds in literawhich at once divides and unites the two ture as in life, formative in writers, sympathetgreat English-speaking peoples. Perspective ically receptive in the reading public; and it demands distance, nor is the pattern of events has also brought to the surface that scum of rightly discernible at close sight; and years society, the shams and shoddyites, which tomust go by before the relative importance of day reawakens righteous indignation, and in books and writers of to-day can be thoroughly both politics and literature leads to a second determined. But so far as can be judged at great uprising against the wrong and the false. the end of a year, it is one whose works will Activities are quicker than in the former days, be remembered. All the great poets and and we already feel the moulding results of most of the other great thinkers of the pass- our war in the world of thought. Simultaneing generation still remain to us, and have ously, our far West has reached that stage of been during the year representatively pro- progress, when men have rest from their first ductive, and there have been further develop-life-struggles with rough Nature, without forments of the "new school," if such it shall getting what they have learned from the prove to be. Tennyson, Robert Browning, friendly foe, which is the genesis of fresh, William Morris, Swinburne, Robert Buchan- strong, untrammelled thought, such as first an, Marston, Bickersteth, and Dr. Hake; finds expression as a rule in poetry and storyBryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Ellery Chan- telling-the literature of observation, as that ning, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, Walt White of a further progress is the literature of reflecman, and John Hay have published, in one tion. In short, it seems the time when the shape or another, and these names include triumphs of two great wars-the one with Nanearly all those of repute or disrepute in poetry.ture, the other with man-unite in a strong Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, Mrs. Muloch formative influence upon the literary activity Craik, the Trollopes, Charles Lever, Miss of this new country, while the present peace Marryat, and Farjeon; Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. and security of most of our land, with the Whitney, Miss Phelps, and Miss Alcott cover very highly developed culture of a large part the fictional ground; and the year has also of our people-evidenced by the wide sales of seen the beginning of Hawthorne's great post- such scholarly and costly works as Jowett's humous romance and of a new novel from "Plato" and Taine's "English Literature," George Eliot. Darwin, Tyndall, and Huxley; and the fact that the pianoforte trade is now the Ruskin, Lowell, Holmes, Herbert Spencer, third manufacturing interest of the United Froude, Beecher and most of the great theolo- States-receptive of the highest order of work, gians, with Jenkins, the great satirist of the cen- unite on their part to produce appreciation, entury, complete a list such as it will be found couragement, and reward for all meritorious difficult to rival from any year of the past. literary work. It is seldom in the history of Carlyle also has been busy at an improtant any literature that so many favoring conditions revision of his works, and a new volume from thus conjoin. Emerson 1871 has but just missed. Curtis, our most graceful essayist, has been writing continuously, but not in book form. In fact, the literary activity of the past year has been exceptional. It may be that some day posterity will pronounce ours also to have been a golden age-yet lacking the glory of an one greatest name-though we know it not. For it is yesterday or to-morrow, always, that is to us most splendid.

It will be noticed that the year is further remarkable for this, that America has given to the mother country, in several departments or literature, not so much less than she has received. Indeed, the veer-about of English sentiment and the copyright muddle have been combining to produce a curious result that American books should be first published and new American writers first find favor and fame on English soil, the rule holding also vice versa to a degree. There are causes which make the immediate future of literature in this coun

To attempt some brief and necessarily imperfect review of the chief accomplishments in each department, giving as nearly as may be the tenor of the general critical estimate thereupon: In poetry the event which is perhaps of first importance is the totally unexpected publication of Longfellow's "The Divine Tragedy," the first portion of a trilogy upon which he had been twenty years at work, of which "The Golden Legend" and "The New England Tragedies' are respectively second and third. It is a reverent and noble rendering into elevated verse, preserving almost the very gospel diction, of the life of the Saviour, with the addition of traditionally suggested minor characters who throw light upon the main figure. The careful repression of self in the first part, and the characteristic beauties of this poet given in the second, are equally admirable. Bryant has given us the first volume of his translation of the Odyssey, a work worthily and gloriously successful, both