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and Walter Besant's " Fiftv Years Ago," gave 

 a graphic picture of life and times at the date 

 of the accession of Victoria. "Fifty Years of 

 European History," by Edward A. Freeman, 

 covers "Teutonic Conquests in Gaui." F. A. 

 Gasquet wrote "Henry Y1II and the E; 

 Monasteries," and the Rev. A. Jessopp " The 

 Coming of the Friars and other Historic Es- 

 says.'' u The Last of the Yalois and Act 

 ot Henry of Xavarre," by Catharine Charlotte 

 (Lady Jackson), and " The Bastille," by Capt. 

 D. Bingliam, were studies in French history. 

 From W. H. D. Adams we have "The Makers 

 of British India"; from Col. G. B. Matheson, 

 'Decisive Battles of India, 1740-1849"; and 

 " Two Chapters of Irish History " were written 

 by T. Dunbar Ingram. R. Hassencamp also 

 published " The History of Ireland, from the 

 Restoration to the Union." To history prop- 

 erly belong: " Hildebrand and his Times," by 

 "W. R. W. Stephens; "Simon de Montford and 

 his Cause," by the Rev. W. II. Hutton; 

 " Strongbow's Conquest of Ireland," by F. P. 

 Barnard; and. in the ''Twelve English States- 

 men Series," " William the Conqueror," by Ed- 

 ward A. Freeman; "Oliver Cromwell," by F. 

 Harrison; "William III," by II. D. Traill ; 

 "Henry II," by Mrs. J. R. Green; and "Car- 

 dinal Wolsey," by M. Creighton. G. M. Theal 

 wrote a " History of South Africa, 1486-1691," 

 and "The Story of the Nations Series " contains : 

 "The Story of Turkey," by Stanley Lane- 

 Poole, assisted by E. J. W. Gibb and Arthur 

 Gilman (the latter an American); "The Story 

 of Holland," by J. E. Thorold Rogers; "The 

 Story of Mediaeval France," by G. Masson ; 

 "The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia," 

 by Zenalde A. Ragozin; "The Story of the 

 Goths," by Henry Bradley; and "The Story 

 of Ireland," by Hon. Emily Lawless. " Impe- 

 rial Germany" was from the pen of Sidney 

 Whitman, and "The Fall of New France" 

 from that of G. E. Hart. To Epochs of Church 

 History were added: "The English Church of 

 the Middle Ages," by William Hunt; "The 

 Popes and the Hohenstaufen," by Ugo Bal- 

 zani ; and " The History of the University of 

 Cambridge," by J. Bass Mullinger. Vol. I 

 of " A New English Dictionary on Historical 

 Principles," edited by J. A. H. Murray, was 

 completed by the issue of Part IV. 



Essays To this class strictly belong: "Es- 

 says in Criticism : Second Series," by Matthew 

 Arnold ; " Essays on some of the Modern 

 Guides of English Thought in Matters of 

 Faith." by Richard H. Hutton; "Essays Chief- 

 ly on Poetry," by A. DeVere; "Ignorant Es- 

 says," by R. Dowling; and fugitive essays of 

 Prof. Dowden, collected under the title of 

 " Transcripts and Studies." " Roman Mosa- 

 ics " were " Studies in Rome and its Neighbor- 

 hood," by Hugh McMillan, D. D. Rev. Robert 

 Burn wrote on " Roman Literature in Relation 

 to Roman Art " ; and " Society in Rome under 

 the Caesars." by W. R. Inge, in its first essay 

 form took the Hare prize at Cambridge Univer- 



sity in 1886. J. P. Mahaffy published "Greek 

 Life and Thought, from Al'-xander to tl 

 man Conquest," and also "The Princip! 

 the Art of Conversation " : and from Max Mul- 

 ler we have "Biographies of Words, and the 

 Home of the Aryas." S. Kydd wrot 

 Sketch of the Growth of Public Opinion," and 

 Elliot Stock "How to write the History of a 

 Family." J. M. Barrie told '-Auld Licht 

 Idylls," Lady Wilde "Ancient Legends of 

 Ireland," and " Coaching Days and Coaching 

 Ways " were commemorated' by W. O. Tris- 

 tram. From Mrs. Oliphantcame "The Makers 

 of Venice," a companion-piece to " The Makers 

 of Florence." G. Maspero wrote on "Egyptian 

 Archaeology"; and from A. E. Waite we have 

 "The Real History of the Rosicrucians" and 

 " Lives of Alchemistical Philosophers." "Stud- 

 ies of the Holy Grail," with reference to the 

 hypothesis of their Celtic origin, were made 

 by Alfred Nutt. J. T. Davidson published 

 " Sure to Succeed " ; and Samuel Smiles, " Life 

 and Labor," a book somewhat on the same 

 lines. E. J. Hardy, late chaplain of Her Majes- 

 ty's forces, and author of "How to be happy 

 though married," produced " The Five Talents 

 of Woman." " The Book of Noodles." by W. 

 H. Clouston, gave the history of " Fools and 

 their Follies" in all times and lands. 



Biography. The leading work of this charac- 

 ter produced during the year, and indeed one 

 of the best that have appeared in some time, 

 is a "Life of the Right Hon. W. E. Forster," 

 by T. Weniyss Reid, which won earnest com- 

 mendation from high authorities. From Archi- 

 bald Forbes, the great war correspondent, we 

 have a "Biography of the late William I of 

 Germany," and from G. Barnett Smith " Will- 

 iam I," while "Frederick, Crown Prince and 

 Emperor," was the subject of a sketch by Ren- 

 nell Rodd. " What I remember " was told by 

 T. A. Trollope, a brother of the novelist, and 

 proved to be much delightful literary gossip, 

 more of which was supplied by the " Further 

 Reminiscences" of W. P. Frith. "The Earlv 

 Life of Samuel Rogers," by P. W. Clayden. 

 covers a ricli period of England's social, politi- 

 cal, and literary life, and contains valuable 

 correspondence, and " John Francis and the 

 Athenasum," by J. C. Francis, is an interest- 

 ing record of a literary career of fifty years. 

 " Princetoniana : Charles ar.d A. A. Hodge," 

 by a Scottish Princetonian, Rev. C. A. Sal- 

 mond, is of special interest to Americans as 

 the first attempt at biography of the younger 

 Hodire ; and it is a striking fact that the " Life 

 of Ralph Waldo Emerson." by Richard Gar- 

 nett. in "The Great Writer Series," has been 

 pronounced "the soundest biographical work 

 on Emerson yet written/' Other " Lives" in 

 the same series, which is edited by Prof. Eric S. 

 Robertson, are "Adam Smith " by R. B. Hal- 

 dane, "Oliver Goldsmith " by Austin Dobson, 

 "Robert Burns " by John Stuart Blackie, and 

 "William Congreve" by Edmund Gosse. Vol. 

 II of "English Writers," by Henry Morley, 



