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A Checklist of the Writings of John William De Forest (1826-1906)
by
E. R. Hagemann

John William De Forest was born in Seymour (Humphreysville), Connecticut, on 31 March 1826. He attended private schools until ill-health forced him to depart from the United States in January, 1846, for a sojourn in the Near East where he resided with his brother, Henry, a medical missionary, in the Levant. De Forest returned to his native Connecticut in the autumn of 1847.

After completing his first book, History of the Indians of Connecticut, he journeyed to Europe in the winter of 1850 and remained on the continent, living in Italy, central Europe, and France, until the spring of 1855, when he once again returned to the United States.

On 5 June 1856 De Forest married Harriet Silliman Shepard, daughter of Charles Upham Shepard, professor of chemistry in the Charleston (S. C.) Medical College and Amherst College. Their only child, Louis, was born 23 February 1857. In 1859, Amherst awarded De Forest an honorary M.A.

In the autumn of 1861, De Forest volunteered his services to the Army of the United States and was commissioned captain in the Twelfth Connecticut Volunteers on 1 January 1862, the unit he was to serve with for most of his Civil War service. De Forest saw combat in Louisiana from March, 1862, until 30 January 1864, and took part in the sharp and bloody attacks on Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. From August, 1864, until his discharge from federal service on 2 December 1864, De Forest served in Virginia.

He was not done with military duty, however, and early in 1865, he was nominated for a captaincy in the Veteran Reserve Corps. He served for a time in Washington, D. C., then was transferred to the Freedmen's Bureau and sent to Greenville, South Carolina, where he took charge of the subdistrict, with the title of Acting Assistant Commissioner, on 1 October

1866. He remained there until 1 January 1868, when he was finally mustered out of military service.

De Forest settled in New Haven and began his long, frustrating, and often disappointing career as writer. For over thirteen years, from 1868 to 1881, he published novels, short stories, essays, and poems, but gained little in the way of recognition from the reading public of the day, although he did gain some critical success. The publication of The Bloody Chasm in 1881 brought to a close this busy period in his life, and he was silent, although actively engaged, to some extent, with writing, until 1898, the year his last novel appeared.

In the summer of 1884, De Forest once again went to Europe and lived in France until his return in the spring of 1886. He made at least two attempts to issue a collected edition of his works, but they came to naught. His health, always a serious problem with him, plagued him in the 1890's, and he struggled to remain alive.

The vogue for historical romances which developed in the late years of the nineteenth century brought De Forest out of enforced retirement, and his A Lover's Revolt, a tale of the American Revolution, appeared in the autumn of 1898. He subsequently issued a family history in 1900 and two collections of his poems in 1901 and 1902.

The end was quiet for him, and he died on 17 July 1906 in New Haven. He was buried two days later in the Grove Street cemetery.

There has long been a need for a checklist of De Forest's writings, many of which, especially his short stories, are uncollected and scattered in various periodicals of his day. No foolish claim will be made that this list is exhaustive; indeed it is my hope that other scholars interested in De Forest will add to my efforts. It is just possible that his two manuscript novels, The Senator, lost while De Forest was traveling to New York in 1867, and A Daughter of Toil, written in the 1880's and rejected by Century Magazine and Harper's, will some day be found.

The checklist is divided into (1) book publications, (2) periodical publications. Part III is a list of contemporary reviews.

Acknowledgement should be made to Professor James H. Croushore, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, for his pioneer work on De Forest. His unpublished doctoral dissertation, John William De Forest; A Biographical and Critical Study to the Year 1868 (Yale, 1944) and editions of A Volunteer's Adventures (New Haven, 1946) and A Union Officer in the Reconstruction (New Haven, 1948) are invaluable to the student of American letters.

PART I. BOOKS

A. Novels

• "Witching Times. A Novel in Thirty Chapters." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VIII-X (December, 1856-September, 1857), VIII, 570-594; IX, 11-28, 188-207, 297-317, 394-413, 515-524, 621-630; X, 62-74, 218-231, 393-404. [This novel did not receive volume publication.]
• Seacliff; or, The Mystery of the Westervelts. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. 466 pp.
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 521 pp.
• "Overland." The Galaxy, X-XII (August, 1870-July, 1871), X, 149-175; 293-320, 483-497, 638-656, 785-802; XI, 53-65, 205-218, 387-400, 535-547, 662-675, 801-816; XII, 41-56. [Frontispiece to Volume XII (bound) is a portrait of De Forest.]
• Overland. New York: Sheldon and Company, [1871]. 209 pp. [Frontispiece to book is a portrait of De Forest.]
• "Kate Beaumont." The Atlantic Monthly, XXVII-XXVIII (January, 1871-December, 1871), XXVII, 70-92, 184-201, 298-321, 446-462, 573-589, 726-743; XXVIII, 45-63, 189-206, 289-306, 483-499, 546-563, 660-677.
• "Kate Beaumont." New Monthly Magazine (London), N.S. V-VI (June, 1874-December, 1874), N.S. V, 639-652; N.S. VI, 42-56, 161-174, 273-288, 408-426, 521-533, 692-699. [Appeared anonymously. This is the only instance, so far as I have been able to determine, that De Forest was serialized in an English periodical.]
• Kate Beaumont. Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 165 pp.
• "The Wetherel Affair." The Galaxy, XIV-XVII (December, 1872-January, 1874), XIV, 727-740; XV, 15-29, 149-163, 293-307, 437-451, 590-604, 735-750; XVI, 16-32, 157-173, 305-323, 456-471, 615-630, 735-746; XVII, 15-30.
• The Wetherel Affair. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1873. 222 pp.
• "Honest John Vane." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXII (July-November, 1873), 66-76, 150-164, 285-296, 438-447, 574-590. [In five parts, twelve chapters.]
• Honest John Vane. New Haven, Conn.: Richmond and Patten, 1875. 259 pp. [The five parts are dropped and the twelve chapters of serialization are expanded into twenty-four.]
• "Playing the Mischief." Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner, XX-XXI (November 21, 1874-May 22, 1875), XX, 2-4, 17-20, 33-35, 51-54, 67-70, 85-86, 101-102, 118-119, 131-133, 147-149, 164-166, 181-182, 195-196, 211-212, 227-229, 245-246, 260-262, 275-278, 291-294, 306-308, 324-326, 351, 359-361, 382-383, 397-399, 413-415; XXI, 14-15.
• Playing the Mischief. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875, 185 pp.
• Justine's Lovers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 135 pp. [Appeared anonymously. The pen-name "Jane L. Howell" is given in The Cumulative Catalog of Library of Congress Cards (1948); nowhere else have I been able to find this name. The R. B. Hayes' Copy in The Hayes Memorial Library, Fremont, Ohio, does not have this name.]
• "Irene the Missionary." The Atlantic Monthly, XLIII-XLIV (April, 1879-November, 1879), XLIII, 426-442, 587-601, 759-774; XLIV, 64-80, 172-190, 311-325, 417-434, 598-611. [Serialized anonymously.]
• Irene the Missionary. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. 390 pp. [Appeared anonymously.]
• The Bloody Chasm. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 301 pp.
• The Oddest of Courtships; or, The Bloody Chasm. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. 301 pp.
• A Lover's Revolt. New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1898. 417 pp.
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. Intro. by Gordon S. Haight. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 467 pp.
• Haight, Gordon S., ed. Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955. 485 pp. [Printed from the 1867 edition; the numerous typographical errors have been corrected.]

B. Travel Books

• Oriental Acquaintance; or, Letters from Syria. New York: Dix, Edwards & Company, 1856. 285 pp.
• European Acquaintance; Being Sketches of People in Europe. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 276 pp.

C. Poetry

• The Downing Legends; Stories in Rhyme. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1901. 206 pp. [Contents:

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  "Prelude," "The Witch of Shiloh," "The Last of the Wampahoags," "The Gentle Earl," and "The Enchanted Voyage."]
• Poems; Medley and Palestrina. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1902. [Some of De Forest's fugitive verses, rewritten or revised, were included here. See under "Poems" for bibliographical data. Also included here were "The Deliverer," first printed in Justine's Lovers, p. 72; "The Human," first printed in Justine's Lovers as "Man," p. 119; "Pickett's Charge," first printed in The Bloody Chasm, pp. 235-236; and "Raven Van Ross," first printed in The Bloody Chasm, pp. 284-285.]

D. History and Genealogy

• History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Hartford, Conn.: W. J. Hammersley [sic], 1851. 504 pp. [Hamersley published two subsequent editions in 1852 and 1853. In 1871, Joel Munsell (1808-1880) published a fourth edition in Albany, N. Y., from a remainder he had purchased, and added a new title-page.]
• The De Forests of Avesnes (and of New Netherland) a Huguenot Thread in American Colonial History. 1494 to the Present Time. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1900. 288 pp.

E. Autobiographical Writings

• Croushore, James H., ed. A Volunteer's Adventures. Introd. by Stanley T. Williams. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1946. 237 pp. [Seven of fourteen chapters appeared in periodicals; see under "Articles."]
• Croushore, James H., and David M. Potter, eds. A Union Officer in the Reconstruction. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1948. 211 pp. [The ten chapters appeared in periodicals; see under "Articles."]

PART II. PERIODICALS

A. Short Stories

• "The Hashheesh Eater." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VIII (September, 1856), 233-239. [Anonymous; credit for authorship given in Croushore, John William De Forest, (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, 1944), p. 141.]
• "Maria and Her Stories." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VIII (October, 1856), 422-427. [Anonymous; credit for authorship given in Croushore, p. 143.]
• "The Isle of the Puritans." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XIV (March, 1857), 512-518. [Anonymous; authorship given in Charles A. Durfee, compiler, Index to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volumes I to LXX Inclusive (New York, 1886), p. 173.]
• "The Baby-Exterminator." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, X (July, 1857), 50-58. [Anonymous; credit for authorship in Croushore, p. 154.]
• "Henry Gilbert." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXI (August, 1860), 359-366. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXI credits De Forest.]
• "My Neighbor, the Prophet." The Atlantic Monthly, VI (September, 1860), 309-323. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, 1857-1888 (Boston, 1889), p. 61.]
• "Doctor Hawley." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXVI (February-March, 1863), 312-322, 468-477. [Anonymous; authorship given in Index to Harper's, p. 173.]
• "Tom Mallory's Revenge." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI (September, 1865), 443-453. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXI credits De Forest.]
• "Visit to the Isle of the Puritans." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI (October, 1865), 561-570. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXI credits De Forest.]
• "Fate Ferguston." The Galaxy, III (January 1, 1867), 87-100. [Signed "J. W."; letter from De Forest to The Galaxy, dated 1 February 1867, establishes authorship.]
• "'Rum Creeters Is Women.'" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXIV (March, 1867), 484-491. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIV credits De Forest.]
• "Mrs. Pullet's Perversion." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXIV (April, 1867), 646-656. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXIV credits De Forest.]
• "Mr. Pullet's Mistake." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXV (August, 1867), 359-365. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXV credits De Forest.]
• "A Gentleman of an Old School." The Atlantic Monthly, XXI (May, 1868), 546-555. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXI credits De Forest.]
• "Parole d'Honneur." Harper's New Monthly

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• "Love in Mount Lebanon." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIII (February, 1869), 228-240. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIII credits De Forest.]
• "A Strange Arrival." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIII (April, 1869), 427-437. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIII credits De Forest.]
• "The Duchesne Estate." The Galaxy, VII (June, 1869), 823-835.
• "The Drummer Ghost." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIV (July, 1869), 1-13. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIV credits De Forest.]
• "A Night at Sea." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXIX (July, 1869), 195-202. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXIX credits De Forest.]
• "The Taillefer Bell-Ringings." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIV (August, 1869), 129-140. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIV credits De Forest.]
• "Marcus and Hildegarde." Appletons' Journal, II (September 18, 1869), 130-134. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume II credits De Forest.]
• "The City of Brass." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIV (October, 1869), 389-398. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIV credits De Forest.]
• "Lieutenant Barker's Ghost Story." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXIX (October, 1869), 713-720. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXIX credits De Forest.]
• "The Oversoul of Manse Roseburgh." The Galaxy, IX (February, 1870), 214-231. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume IX credits De Forest.]
• "A Queen of Society." Putnam's Magazine, N.S. V (April, 1870), 393-406. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume V credits De Forest.]
• "The Lauson Tragedy." The Atlantic Monthly, XXV (April-May, 1870), 444-455, 565-575. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXV credits De Forest. Reprinted in Rossiter Johnson, ed., Little Classics (Boston, 1875), III (Tragedy), 56-107.]
• "Chanet." The Galaxy, IX (May, 1870), 632-645.
• "The Hungry Heart." Lippincott's Magazine, VI (August, 1870), 189-199.
• "The Story of a Handkerchief." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XLIII (July, 1871), 268-275. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XLIII credits De Forest.]
• "Captain Horsfall's Romance." The Galaxy, XII (December, 1871), 788-803.
• "The Man with a Nose Like an Owl." Hearth and Home, IV (February 24, 1872), 148-149. [Illustrated.]
• "A Case of Vitrification." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XLIV (March, 1872), 561-570. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XLIV credits De Forest. The last of three stories which have as their main characters Mr. and Mrs. Pullet; the other two are "Mrs. Pullet's Perversion" and "Mr. Pullet's Mistake."]
• "The Colored Member." The Galaxy, XIII (March, 1872), 293-302.
• "An Independent Ku-Klux." The Galaxy, XIII (April, 1872), 480-488.
• "Father Higgins' Preferment." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XLIV (May, 1872), 918-922.
• "Cap'n Phin Glover As President." The Christian Union, VI (August 14-21, 1872), 141-142, 164-165. [The second, and last, story in which Phin Glover appears; the other was "A Strange Arrival." Phin Glover also was a character in Overland.]
• "An Inspired Lobbyist." The Atlantic Monthly, XXX (December, 1872), 676-684. [Reprinted in Stories By American Authors (New York, 1884), IV, 137-161.]
• "Old John Raddle." Sunday New York Times, August 16, 1874, p. 2.
• "The Brigade Commander." Sunday New York Times, November 22, 1874, pp. 3-4. [Reprinted in Stories By American Authors, VIII, 5-47.]
• "Was It a Ghost?" Sunday New York Times, January 17, 1875, p. 3.
• "Yesebel." The Galaxy, XXI (March, 1876), 343-356.
• "Jenny Gridley's Concession." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LVII (August, 1878), 449-460. [Anonymous; authorship is given in Index to Harper's, p. 173, although incorrectly entitled "Jenny Gridley's Mistake."]
• "The Other Fellow." The Atlantic Monthly, XLII (December, 1878), 669-682. [Reprinted in Bret Harte's Great Deadwood Mystery (London, 1879), pp. 71-104.]
• "The Black Huntsman." Harper's Bazar, XVII (September 20-October 11, 1884), 602-603, 614-615, 634-635, 650-651.

B. Short Novels

• "Della." Hearth and Home, II (February 5-March 19, 1870), 105-106, 121-122, 137-138, 153-155, 169-170, 185-186, 203. [Six chapters; illustrated.]
• "Annie Howard." Hearth and Home, II (March 19-May 21, 1870), 201-203, 217-219, 233-234, 249-251, 265-267, 281-282, 297-299, 313-314, 329-330, 347. [Twenty-five chapters; illustrated.]

C. Articles

• "Experiences in Mount Lebanon." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VI (October, 1855), 396-401. [Anonymous; reprinted in Oriental Acquaintance as Letter VII, "Acquaintance in Mount Lebanon," pp. 122-144.]
• "Notes in Syria." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VI (November, 1855), 493-500. [Anonymous; reprinted, with the addition of one paragraph, pp. 156b-158m, in Oriental Acquaintance as Letter VIII, "Syrian Manners and Conversation," pp. 145-179.]
• "A Visit to the Druzes." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VI (December, 1855), 613-617. [Anonymous; reprinted, with additions, pp. 193m-195t and 196b-197b, in Oriental Acquaintance as Letter IX, "Nobles, Geese, and Sheep," pp. 180-201.]
• "Abu Hamood's Mule: and the Cedars of Lebanon." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VII (March, 1856), 264-268. [Anonymous; reprinted, with the addition, pp. 213m-214m, in Oriental Acquaintance as Letter X, "Beirut Tales and Lebanon Cedars," pp. 202-223.]
• "Some Oriental Acquaintance." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VII (April, 1856), 415-419. [Anonymous; reprinted, with slight revisions, in Oriental Acquaintance as Letter XII, same title, pp. 248-266.]
• "Charleston Under Arms." The Atlantic Monthly, VII (April, 1861), 488-505. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "The First Time Under Fire." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXIX (September, 1864), 475-482. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXIX credits De Forest. This was the first draft of Chapter IV, same title, A Volunteer's Adventures (New Haven, 1946), pp. 53-71.]
• "Sheridan's Battle of Winchester." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXX (January, 1865), 195-200. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXX credits De Forest. This was the first draft of Chapter XI, "Sheridan's Victory of the Opequon," A Volunteer's Adventures, pp. 171-190.]
• "Sheridan's Victory of Middletown." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXX (February, 1865), 353-360. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXX credits De Forest. This was the first draft of Chapters XIII-XIV, "The Battle of Cedar Creek," A Volunteer's Adventures, pp. 204-232.]
• "Port Hudson." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXV (August, 1867), 334-344. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXV credits De Forest. This was the first draft of Chapters VII-VIII, same title, A Volunteer's Adventures, pp. 104-147.]
• "The Great American Novel." The Nation, VI (January 9, 1868), 27-29. [Anonymous; authorship given in Daniel C. Haskell, compiler, The Nation, Volumes 1-105, New York, 1865-1917; Indexes of Titles and Contributors (New York, 1951), I, 13.]
• "Two Girls." The Nation, VI (February 6, 1868), 107-109. [Anonymous; authorship given in Haskell, I, 13.]
• "The 'High-Toned Gentlemen.'" The Nation, VI (March 12, 1868), 206-208. [Anonymous; authorship given in Haskell, I, 13.]
• "Drawing Bureau Rations. I. The Applicants." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXVI (May, 1868), 792-799; "II. The Distribution." Ibid., XXXVII (June, 1868), 74-82. [Anonymous; Tables of Contents for Volumes XXXVI-XXXVII credit De Forest. Part I was reprinted, with the addition of sub-titles, as Chapter III, "Applicants for Bureau Rations," A Union Officer in the Reconstruction (New Haven, 1948), pp. 49-68. Part II was reprinted, with the addition of sub-titles, as Chapter IV, "Drawing Bureau Rations," Ibid., pp. 69-90.]
• "Forced Marches." The Galaxy, V (June, 1868), 708-718. [Reprinted as Chapter VI, same title, A Volunteer's Adventures.]
• "The Low-Down People." Putnam's Magazine, N.S. I (June, 1868), 704-716. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for N.S. Volume I credits De Forest. This was the first draft of Chapter VII, same title, A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 135-158.]
• "The Man and Brother." The Atlantic Monthly, XXII (September-October, 1868), 337-348, 414-425. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXII credits De Forest. Part I was the first draft of Chapter V, same title, A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 91-111. Part II was the first draft of Chapter VI,

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• "A Bureau Major's Business and Pleasures." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXVII (November, 1868), 766-775. [Reprinted as Chapter II, same title, A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 25-48.]
• "A Report of Outrages." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXVIII (December, 1868), 75-84. [Reprinted as Chapter I, same title, A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 1-24.]
• "Chivalrous and Semi-Chivalrous Southrons." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXVIII (January-February, 1869), 192-200, 339-347. [Pp. 341-346, Part II, was reprinted as Chapter VIII, "Semi-Chivalrous Southrons," A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 159-172. Pp. 192-197, Part I, was reprinted as Chapter IX, "Chivalrous Southrons," A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 173-188. Pp. 197-200, Part I, and pp. 339-341, 346-347, Part II, was reprinted as Chapter X, "More Chivalrous Southrons," A Union Officer in the Reconstruction, pp. 189-204.]
• "A Revival of the Papacy." The Galaxy, XIV (October, 1872), 483-494.
• "Gregory VII-King of Kings." The Galaxy, XIV (November, 1872), 604-617.
• "The Growth of 'Giant Pope.' I. From Pastor to Pontiff." The Galaxy, XIV (December, 1872), 764-776; "II. From Pontiff to Prince." Ibid., XV (January, 1873), 41-53. [This completes a series of four historical articles on the Roman Catholic Church.]
• "The Cats of Antiquity." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXIII (May, 1874), 556-563.
• "Modern Cats." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXIII (June, 1874), 737-744.
• "Crumbs of Travel." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXVIII (December, 1876), 696-705.
• "A Turko-Russian War." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LVI (January, 1878), 261-271. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume LVI credits De Forest.]
• "The Cradle of the Human Race." The Atlantic Monthly, XLI (February, 1878), 145-157. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "The Turkish Wars with the Hospitalers." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LVI (February, 1878), 430-441. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume LVI credits De Forest.]
• "The Russians on the Bosphorus." The Atlantic Monthly, XLI (April, 1878), 502-512. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "Caesar's Art of War and of Writing." The Atlantic Monthly, XLIV (September, 1879), 273-288. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "Our Military Past and Future." The Atlantic Monthly, XLIV (November, 1879), 561-575. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "The Founder of New York." American Historical Register, II (May and July, 1895), 881-890, 1172-1180.

D. Poems

• "Our Skater Belle." The Atlantic Monthly, III (April, 1859), 491. [Anonymous; authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61. Revised and printed as "The Skater" in Medley and Palestrina, p. 39.]
• "In Louisiana." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXVI (May, 1863), 791. [Revised and printed as "The Combat" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 4-6. Reprinted in Richard Grant White, ed., Poetry; Lyrical, Narrative, and Satirical of the Civil War (New York, 1866), pp. 151-153.
• "Battle Memories." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXII (March, 1866), 503. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume XXXII credits De Forest. Three short poems, "Before the War," "Port Hudson," and "Gettysburg," are grouped under the general title, "Battle Memories." "Before the War" and "Gettysburg" were revised and printed together as "After the War" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 19-21. "Port Hudson" was revised and printed as "The Storming Column" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 11-13.]
• "A Sigh." The Galaxy, X (July, 1870), 96. [Annexed to the poem is the inscription, "Imitated from the French of Sully Prudhomme." Revised and Printed as "Separation" in Medley and Palestrina, p. 43.]
• "An Old Story." The Galaxy XVI (November, 1873), 598. [Revised and printed as "The Same in the Ending" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 68-69.]
• "The King of the Cannibal Islands." Scribner's Monthly, IX (March, 1875), 645. [In the department "Etchings"; the poem is not listed in the Table of Contents for Volume IX. Revised and printed as "The Cannibal Conquest" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 96-97.]
• "The Fastidious Goblin." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXV (May, 1875), 601-602. [Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 82-84.]

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• "The Jack in Office." Scribner's Monthly, X (June, 1875), 263. [In the department "Brica-Brac"; the poem is not listed in the Table of Contents for Volume X. Revised and printed as "The Goat" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 73-74.]
• "A Ballad of Salem." The Galaxy, XX (October, 1875), 486. [Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, p. 75.]
• "Happy Islands." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LI (October, 1875), 712. [Two short poems, "United" and "Parted," are grouped under the general title "Happy Islands."]
• "Romance." The Galaxy, XXIII (January, 1877), 61. [Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 34-36.]
• "A Sea-Side Story." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LIV (May, 1877), 791. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume LIV credits De Forest. Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 57-60.]
• "The Battalion." The Galaxy, XXIII (June, 1877), 817. [Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, p. 3.]
• "The Burden of Istamboul." Appletons' Journal, N.S. III (August, 1877), 138. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume III credits De Forest. Revised and printed as "The Warning" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 169-171.]
• "Forward." The Atlantic Monthly, XL (August, 1877), 173. [Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, p. 11.]
• "Quatrains." The Atlantic Monthly, XLII (October, 1878), 403-404.
• "The Solo." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LXIV (February, 1882), 400. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume LXIV credits De Forest. Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, p. 40.]
• "The Sea-Maiden. A Tile Picture." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LXIV (April, 1882), 716. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume LXIV credits De Forest.]
• "The Phantom Ship." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LXVI (March, 1883), 519. [Anonymous; Table of Contents for Volume LXVI credits De Forest. Revised and printed, with same title, in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 29-30.]
• "The Archer's Prayer." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LXXIII (June, 1886), 106. [Revised and printed as "The Archer's Plea" in Medley and Palestrina, pp. 37-38.]

E. Reviews

• "Olimpia Morata." The New Englander, XIII (May, 1855), 216-234. [Anonymous; authorship is given in Index to The New Englander (New Haven, 1862), p. 4. This is a review of Vie d'Olympia Morata. Par Jules Bonnet. (Paris, 1851).]
• "Recent Literature." The Atlantic Monthly, XLIV (September, 1879), 405-407. [Anonymous; authorship is given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61. This is a review of James A. Froude, Caesar. A Sketch (New York, 1879).]
• "Farragut." The Atlantic Monthly, XLV (May, 1880), 688-691. [Anonymous; authorship is given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61. This is a review of Loyall Farragut, The Life of David Glasgow Farragut (New York, 1879).]

F. Letter to Editor

• "An Independent's Glance at the South." The Nation, XXIII (September 28, 1876), 196-197.

G. Marginalia

• [Howells, William Dean.] "Editor's Study." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LXXIV (May, 1887), 987. [Anonymous; authorship is given in William M. Gibson and George Arms, "A Bibliography of William Dean Howells," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, LI (April, 1947), 241. De Forest's appreciation of Tolstoi in a letter to Howells is quoted by the latter.]
• [---.] "Editor's Study." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LXXV (October, 1887), 803. [Anonymous; authorship given in Gibson and Arms, p. 241. Howells quotes from a letter from De Forest, written to "the press," in which the latter discusses the International Copyright. I have not been able to locate this letter.]

PART III. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF DE FOREST'S WRITINGS

A. Novels

• Seacliff
• "Reviews and Literary Notices." The Atlantic Monthly, IV (July, 1859), 131-132. [The only review, so far as I have been able to determine, of the novel.]
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty.
• "Literary." Harper's Weekly, XI (June 8, 1867), 355.
• "Miss Ravenel's Conversion." The Nation, IV (June 21, 1867), 491-492.
• [Howells, William Dean.] "Review and Literary Notices." The Atlantic Monthly, XX (July, 1867), 120-122. [Authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "Literary Notices." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXV (August, 1867), 401.
• Overland
• "Literary Notes." Appletons' Journal, VI (November 11, 1871), 555.
• "Recent Publications." The Nation, XIII (December 28, 1871), 423-424.
• "Recent Literature." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIX (January, 1872), 111.
• Kate Beaumont
• [Howells, William Dean.] "Recent Literature." The Atlantic Monthly, XXIX (March, 1872), 364-365. [Authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• The Nation, XIV (March 21, 1872), 189-190. "Current Literature." The Galaxy, XIII (May, 1872), 713-714.
• The Wetherel Affair
• Perry, Thomas S.] "Recent Novels." The Nation, XVIII (May 21, 1874), 336. [Authorship given in Haskell, I, 39.]
• [Howells, William Dean.] "Recent Literature." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXIV (August, 1874), 229-230. [Authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• "Culture and Progress." Scribner's Monthly, IX (December, 1874), 258-259.
• Honest John Vane
• [James, Jr., Henry.] "Honest John Vane." The Nation, XIX (December 31, 1874), 441-442. [Authorship given in Haskell, I, 43.]
• "Recent Literature." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXV (February, 1875), 238.
• Playing the Mischief
• "New Novels." The Nation, XXI (August 12, 1875), 106.
• "Literary." Appletons' Journal, XIV (August 14, 1875), 215.
• "Editor's Literary Record." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LI (September, 1875), 602.
• [Lathrop, George P.] "Recent Literature." The Atlantic Monthly, XXXVII (February, 1876), 238-239. [Authorship given in The Atlantic Index, p. 61.]
• Justine's Lovers
• "Some New Books." Harper's Weekly, XXII (June 22, 1878), 495.
• "Editor's Literary Record." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, LVII (August, 1878), 468.
• Irene the Missionary
• "Recent Novels." The Nation, XXIX (December 25, 1879), 442.
• "Recent Novels." The Atlantic Monthly, XLV (May, 1880), 680-681.
• The Bloody Chasm
• "Briefs on New Books." The Dial, II (November, 1881), 150.
• [Sedgwick, Arthur G.] "A Novel of the Rebellion." The Nation, XXXIII (November 10, 1881), 376-377. [Authorship given in Haskell, I, 124.]
• "Literature." The Century Magazine, XXIII (February, 1882), 627.
• A Lover's Revolt
• [Matthews, James Brander.] "Chronicle and Comment." The Bookman, VIII (October, 1898), 99. [Authorship given in Croushore, p. 392n.]
• [Ireland, Emma N.] "Recent Fiction." The Nation, LXVII (December 15, 1898), 453. [Authorship given in Haskell, I, 274.]
• Howells, William Dean. "American Letter. Some Recent Novels." Literature, III (December 17, 1898), 578-579.
• "The Rambler." The Book Buyer, XVII (January, 1899), 572-573.
• "Novel Notes." The Bookman, VIII (February, 1899), 588.
• Howells, William Dean. "The New Historical Romances." The North American Review, CLXXI (December, 1900), 947, 948.

B. Travel Books

• Oriental Acquaintance
• "Editorial Notes." Putnam's Monthly Magazine, VIII (November, 1856), 544-545.

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• "Literary Notices." The New Englander, XIV (November, 1856), 622-624.
• "Literary Notices." Godey's Lady's Book, LIV (February, 1857), 182.
• European Acquaintance
• "Literary Notices." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XVI (March, 1858), 547-548.
• "Literary Notices." Graham's Magazine, LII (April, 1858), 374.
• "Literary Notices." The Knickerbocker Magazine, LI (April, 1858), 403-407.
• "Critical Notices." The North American Review, LXXXVI (April, 1858), 591.
• "Review of New Books." Peterson's Magazine, XXXIII (April, 1858), 324.
• "Notices of Books." The New Englander, XVI (November, 1858), 929-930.

C. Poetry

• The Downing Legends
• Duluth (Minn.) Herald, July 27, 1901.
• Denver Times, July 28, 1901.
• Detroit News Tribune, July 28, 1901.
• Literary World (Boston), August 1, 1901.
• Seymour (Conn.) Record, August 1, 1901.
• American Art Journal (New York), August 10, 1901.
• Baltimore American, August 13, 1901.
• Minneapolis Tribune, August 18, 1901.
• Philadelphia Enquirer, August 25, 1901.
• Baltimore Sun, August 29, 1901.
• Southern School Journal (Lexington, Ky.), August, 1901.
• Hartford (Conn.) Times, September 10, 1901.
• Utica (N.Y.) Observer, September 11, 1901.
• Poems; Medley and Palestrina
• Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, February 6, 1902.
• Louisville Courier-Journal, February 8, 1902.
• Louisville Post, February 8, 1902.
• New Orleans Daily Picayune, February 9, 1902.
• Pacific Churchman (San Francisco), February 15, 1902.
• Cleveland Leader, February 16, 1902.
• Boston Home Journal, February 22, 1902.
• Indianapolis Sentinel, February 23, 1902.
• Providence (R. I.) Journal, February 23, 1902.
• Richmond (Va.) Times, February 23, 1902.
• Boston Pilot, March 8, 1902.
• Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier, March 23, 1902.
• Los Angeles Herald, March 23, 1902.
• The Living Church (Milwaukee, Wis.), April 4, 1902.
• Boston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1902.
• New Haven (Conn.) Journal and Courier, May 5, 1902.
• Boston Pilot, May 17, 1902.
• [Higginson, T. Wentworth.] "Recent American Poetry." The Nation, LXXIV (May 29, 1902), 430. [Authorship given in Haskell, I, 334.]
• New York Evening Post, June 4, 1902.
• Chicago Tribune, June 30, 1902.
• The Catholic World (New York), August, 1902.