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The article presents developments in the field of literature and its publishing, as of December 25, 1879. The second number of the American Art Review confirms the impression produced by the first one, and makes it evident that there will be a great deal of solid information, and that of a sort which public needs, in the new periodical. The more permanent matters are treated of in the body of the number, the more temporary in the different "Chronicles" at the end. Thus, the American Art Chronicle, which occupies five of these large pages, and in smaller type, too, than that of the body, gives a long account of the Springfield monument to Abraham Lincoln, its present condition, how much it is costing, whence the money comes, and the like; fourteen other monuments finished, begun, or proposed are described and discussed.