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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1888. 



covers the period " From Casdmon to the 

 Conquest," and Vol. Ill " From the Con- 

 quest to Chaucer." J. Ross wrote " Three 

 Generations of English Women," and in "The 

 Famous Women Series " we have " Elizabeth 

 Barrett Browning," by John H. Ingram, the 

 first biography of the poetess, and " Hannah 

 More," by Charlotte M. Yonge. Adelaide Ris- 

 tori published "Studies and Memoirs, an Auto- 

 biography " ; and " Reminiscences of J. L. 

 Toole, the Comedian," were told by himself 

 and chronicled by Joseph Hatton. " The Life 

 and Adventures of Edmund Kean" were de- 

 tailed by J. Fitzgerald Molloy. C. R. Mark- 

 ham wrote " The Fighting Veres : Lives of Sir 

 Francis Vere and Sir Horace Vere," Stanley 

 Lane-Poole "A Life of the Right Honorable 

 Stratford Canning," and T. A. Nash a " Life of 

 Richard, Lord Westbury, Lord High Chancellor 

 of England." " The International Statesmen 

 Series" contain: u Lord Beaconsfield " by T. E. 

 Kebble, " Prince Metternich " by G. B/Malle- 

 son, and " Lord Palmerston " by Lloyd C. San- 

 ders. " Daniell O'Connell " WAS written byj. 

 A. Hamilton, and " The Correspondence of 

 Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator," was edited 

 by W. J. Fitzpatrick. W. Dillon was tlie au- 

 thor of a " Life of John Mitcliell." Dean Bur- 

 gon wrote "Lives of Twelve Good Men," who 

 were influential though comparatively un- 

 known ; and " Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop 

 of Lincoln " was the joint work of Canon Over- 

 ton and Miss Elizabeth Wordsworth. The 

 'Life of Bishop Colenso" was written by the 

 Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, and " Richard Chenevix 

 Trench, Archbishop," is the title of a volume 

 of letters and memorials. The " Correspond- 

 ence of Sir Henry Taylor" was edited by 

 Edward Dovvden, " The Letters from and to 

 Charles Kirkpa trick Sharpe " by A. Allardyce, 

 and other valuable "Letters" were those of 

 " General C. G. Gordon to his Sister," and from 

 "Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple," 

 the story of a seven years' courtship. Mrs. 

 Oliphant wrote " The Life of Principal Tul- 

 loch"; W. Knight, "John Campbell Shairp 

 and his Friends " ; Robert Louis Stevenson, a 

 "Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin," which accom- 

 panied "Papers Literary, Scientific, etc.," of 

 that professor, edited by S. Col van and J. A. 

 Ewing ; and Walter Besant, " The Eulogy of 

 Richard Jefferies." " Monarchs I have met " 

 is the title of a book by W. Beatty Kingston, 

 and " Life in the Confederate Army " was 

 described by W. Watson from experience. 

 " Reminiscences of W. Rogers," by R. W. Had- 

 den, appeared, as did the " Recollections " of 

 Dr. Westland Marston. " Robert Southey, the 

 Story of his Life written in his Letters " was 

 edited by John Dennis, and " The Letters of 

 Charles Lamb " were newly arranged by Canon 

 Ainger, with additions. " Emin Pasha in Cen- 

 tral Africa: a Collection of his Letters and 

 Journals," was translated from the German by 

 Mrs. R. W. Felkin, and " The Correspondence 

 between Liszt and Wagner, 1841-1SG1," by Dr. 



F. Hueffer. In the philosophical classics ap- 

 peared "Francis Bacon,'' by John Nichol, and 

 "Spinoza," by John Caird; the latter, however, 

 is rather a discussion of the " Ethics " of that 

 author than a life. " Elizabeth Gilbert and her 

 Work for the Blind" was told by F. Martin, 

 and "The Fatal Illness of Frederick the Noble," 

 by Sir Morell Mackenzie, was the reply to the 

 report of the German doctors. Vol. XVII of 

 the " Dictionary of National Biography," edit- 

 ed by Leslie Stephen, was reached. 



Poetry. Robert Browning made no contri- 

 bution to the poetry of 1888, but a popular edi- 

 tion of his works was begun, showing the in- 

 creasing interest that his genius has steadily 

 excited. The " Complete Poetical Works " of 

 William W T ordsworth, including a hitherto un- 

 published poem entitled "The Recluse," which 

 was also published separately, were edited with 

 an introduction by John Morley, and " Glen 

 Desseray, and other Poems, Lyric and Elegiac," 

 of the late Principal Shairp, by his successor in 

 the Oxford chair of Poetry, Prof. Palgrave. 

 " The Marriage of Shadows and other Poems," 

 by Margaret Veley, were also posthumously 

 published and warmly received. Edwin Ar- 

 nold wrote "With Sa'di in the Garden," in part 

 a translation from the Persian poet, and thor- 

 oughly Oriental, and " Lotus and Jewel." From 

 Robert Buchanan we have " The City of Dream, 

 an Epic." Andrew Lang wrote " The Gold 

 of Fairnilee " and " Grass of Parnassus " ; W. E. 

 Henley, " A Book of Verses," all of which pos- 

 sessed merit, and other authors who attained 

 some prominence were May Kendall in "Dreams 

 to sell," E. Nesbit in "Leaves of Life," and R. 

 St. John Tyrwhitt in " Free-Field Lyrics." 

 Miss A. M. F. Robinson wrote " Songs, Bal- 

 lads, and a Garden Play," and Rennell Rodd, 

 " The Unknown Madonna and other Poems." 

 The chief collections of merit are: "More 

 Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan 

 Age," by A. H. Bullen ; " The Music of the 

 Waters," a collection of sailor songs, by Laura 

 Smith ; and " In Praise of Ale," a specimen of 

 curious research by W. T. Marchant. Plays of 

 the old English dramatists were edited in "The 

 Mermaid Series." 



Fiction. Mrs. Humphry Ward (a grand- 

 daughter of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby) has the 

 credit of producing in " Robert Elsmere " the 

 most widely read" and variously discussed novel 

 of recent years, the circulation of which in 

 America has reached nearly 150,000 copies. 

 " A Counsel of Perfection," by Lucas Malet 

 (Mrs. Harrison), ranks perhaps next in power. 

 The work done by familiar authors was of the 

 usual average. William Black wrote " In Far 

 Lochaber " and " The Strange Adventures of a 

 House-boat"; Walter Besant, " Herr Paul- 

 us " and "The Inner House," both occult; and 

 George MacDonald, "The Elect Lady." W. E. 

 Norris wrote " Chris " and " The Rogue " ; J. 

 H. Shorthouse, " The Countess Eve " and " A 

 Teacher of the Violin and other Tales " ; and 

 Thomas Hardy, " Wessex Tales." From Grant 



