In 1855 a new edition of his poems was published, and in 1863 appeared "Thirty Poems," a small volume of new productions. In 1864 the seventieth anniversary of his birthday was celebrated by the Century Club of New York, an event which brought together many of the prominent literary men of the country, and called forth eulogistic letters from many others who were unable to be present. These letters, with the proceedings of the festival, were afterward published in a volume. Mr. Bryant's translations into English blank verse of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," the former appearing in 1870 and the latter in 1871, at once put him in the foremost rank of the translators of those great epics. In 1876 a new and complete edition of his poems was published. His "Library of Poetry and Song has proved a popular holiday gift book. Besides being the active editor of the "Evening Post up to the time of his death, he was the editor of "Picturesque America," published by D. Appleton & Co., and was engaged with Sidney Howard Gay in the preparation of a popular history of the United States. Few literary men have been oftener called upon to pay public tribute to the memory of distinguished Americans than hias Mr. Bryant. He delivered a funeral oration on the artist Thomas Cole in 1848, and a discourse on the life and writings of James Fenimore Cooper in 1852, which was followed by a similar tribute to Washington Irving in 1860. He was the orator at the dedication of the statue of S. F. B. Morse in 1871, of Shakespeare and Scott in 1872, of Halleck in 1877, and of Mazzini in 1878, all of which are placed in Central Park in New York. His address on the last-named occasion, which was made but a short time before his death, was his last appearance in public, The presentation of the "Bryant " in 1876 was one of the many distinguished honors which the poet has received.

In 1845 Mr. Bryant bought an old Dutch mansion near what is now Roslyn, on Long Island. This continued to be his residence for a part of the year till the time of his death.

Mr. Bryant's poems are characterized by purity and elegance in the choice of words, a concise and vigorous diction, delicacy of fancy and elevation of thought, and a genial yet solemn and religious philosophy. He was an enthusiastic lover of nature, and a close observer of its phenomena. In pastoral beauty many of his poems are not excelled. His prose writings are marked by pure, manly, straightforward, and vigorous English. He was a person of delicate sensibilities, extreme purity and integrity, and of unflinching adherence to principle. So regular was Mr. Bryant in his habits of living, working, and taking exercise, that until his final illness his mental and physical vigor continued to be remarkable in one of his advanced age.

BULGARIA, a province of the Turkish Empire, which was constituted by the treaty of

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San Stefano, as modified by the treaty of Berlin, in 1878, an autonomous tributary principality. Area about 33,000 square miles, population 1,859,000, of whom about 1,100,000 are Christians, mostly of the Greek Church, and 700,000 are Mohammedans. The principality of Bulgaria nearly corresponds with the former vilayet of the Danube, and lies on the south side of the Danube River, extends to the Balkan Mountains, by which it is separated from the newly constituted Turkish province of Eastern Roumelia, and stretches from the coast of the Black Sea on the east to the borders of Servia on the west. The country nearest the Danube is a district of fertile plain lands; these are succeeded by a hill region, which is well adapted for habitation and for tillage except upon the crests of the hills; and beyond rise the mountains. An extensive marshy region between the lower Danube and the Black Sea, called the Dobrudja, bounded on the south by a line extending from east of Silistria on the Danube to south of Mangalia on the Black Sea, and containing a population of between one and two hundred thousand, consisting principally of Turks and Wallachs, which was formerly a part of Bulgaria, was given by the treaties of 1878 to Roumania. The plain lands of the valley of the Danube are well adapted to the cultivation of grass and wheat, and the hill regions furnish considerable forests and support large herds of cattle. The province has been regarded as one of the principal sources of grain-supply to Turkey, and has furnished the state with about one tenth of its revenues. The Balkan Mountains, although they constitute a formidable military barrier, form no natural ethnical or political boundary. The predominating population of Eastern Roumelia are as intensely Bulgarian in national feeling and as active in national enterprises as the people of the northern province, and have been identified with them in history and in all popular movements; and it is difficult to speak of Bulgaria and the Bulgarians without including the southern territory and its people.

The Bulgarians were originally of a race related to the Tartars and Turks, and are first mentioned in history as inhabitants of the regions of the Volga River, whence they made Occasional incursions into the Roman Empire. In the seventh century they crossed the Volga, and, mingling with the Slavic tribes, occupied the country north and south of the Danube, and built up a powerful state. Their language was replaced by a tongue almost purely Slavic, on account of which they have become classed with the Slavic peoples; but in physical traits their Tartar characteristics prevailed, and still endure. They were converted to Christianity in the ninth century, during the reign of King Boris, or Bogoris, under the ministrations of the so-called Slavic apostles, Cyril and Methodius. The Bulgarian nation attained great extent and power under the successors of Bo