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' Essay on Shakespeare," by the late Cardinal 

 Wiseman ; " An Editor off the Line," by Mr. E. 

 B. Miall; " Pages in Waiting," and " The Busi- 

 ness of Pleasure," both by Mr. Edmund Yates ; 

 " People, Places, and Things," by the author 

 of Lost Sir Massingberd ; " Characters and Criti- 

 cisms," by Mr. Han way; "Soldiering in Sun- 

 shine and Storm," by William Douglas, private 

 ' in the 10th Hussars; " The Three Great Teach- 

 ers of our Time Carlyle, Tennyson, and Rus- 

 kin," by Mr. Alexander H. Japp ; " Sesame and 

 Lilies," and " Ethics of the Dust," both by John 

 ft Ruskin. 



In POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE there were 

 a few works of great value and importance. 

 Such were the following: " Our Convicts," by 

 Miss Mary Carpenter; "Journal of a Third 

 Visit to the Convict Jails, Refuges, and Reform- 

 atories in Dublin, and its Neighborhood," by 

 the Recorder of Birmingham (Hon. M. D. Hill) 

 and his daughter; "The Pauper, the Thief, and 

 the Convict, their Haunts and Habits," by Mr. 

 Thomas Archer ; " Principles of Reform, Politi- 

 cal and Legal," by Mr. John Boyd Kinnear; 

 " The Ideas of the Day on Policy," by Charles 

 Buxton, M. P. ; " Constitutionalism of the Fu- 

 ture ; or, Parliament the Mirror of the Nation," 

 by Prof. James Lorimer ; " Six Months among 

 the Charities of Europe," by Mr. John de Lief- 

 de ; u Three Years among the Working Classes 

 in the United States, during the War," by the 

 author of " The Autobiography of a Beggar 

 Boy ; " " Remarkable Convictions," by " A Wri- 

 ter to the Signet." 



In FINANCIAL SCIENCE, the most important 

 books were "The Economy of Capital; or, 

 Gold and Trade," by Mr. Patterson; "The 

 Bank of England and the Organization of 

 Credit," by an anonymous author ; " The Bub- 

 bles of Finance," by a writer in "All the Year 

 Round." 



In TECHNOLOGY AND MECHANICAL SCIENCE, 

 the principal works were "Wine and other 

 Fermented Liquors from the Earliest Ages to 

 the Present Time," by Mr. James Richmond 

 Sheen ; " The English Gentleman's House ; or, 

 How to Plan English Residences, from the Par- 

 sonage to the Palace, with Tables of Accommo- 

 dation and Cost, and a Series of Selected Plans," 

 by Robert Kerr, Architect ; " History of Archi- 

 tecture," vol. i., magnificently illustrated, and 

 " Lectures on the Holy Sepulchre and the Tem- 

 ple," both by Mr. Ferguson; "Astra Castra; 

 or, the Science of Ballooning," by Mr. Hatton 

 Turner; "The Book of Perfumes," by M. 

 Eugene Rimmel ; " Diamonds and Precious 

 Stones: their History, Value, and Distinguish- 

 ing Characteristics," by Mr. Harry Emanuel; 

 "Precious Stones," by Mr. C. W. King. 



In NATURAL HISTORY, "Homes without 

 Hands," by Rev. M. Wood, and " Strange Sto- 

 ries of the Animal World," by Mr. Timbs, are 

 the besb specimens of the popular treatment of 

 topics of physical science. 



In POETRY, amid the almost numberless as- 

 pirants for fame, a few have achieved works 



which will live. Among them are Mr. Al- 

 gernon Charles Swinburne, whose "Atalanta 

 in Calydon," and " Chastelard " (both reprint- 

 ed here), have created a decided sensation 

 in literary circles in England. Mr. Robert Bu- 

 chanan, a young Scotchman, whose " Idyls and 

 Legends of Inverburn," attracted great attention 

 in 1864, has made a still deeper impression by 

 his "Undertones," in 1865. These are both 

 reprinted in the United States. Mr. Alling- 

 ham, in his "Fifty Modern Poems," has given 

 evidence of great poetic ability. Miss Isa Craig 

 has published a drama called "Duchess Agnes," 

 which, though defective as a drama, contains 

 some extremely tender and beautiful writing. 

 Mr. Richard Hartwell Home, who for many 

 years has resided in Australia, has published a 

 drama, called " Prometheus the Firebringer," 

 characterized by great vigor and power of ex- 

 pression. Mi\ Arthur Munby has printed a 

 volume of verses, " New and Old," distinguished 

 by profound thought and emotion; and Mrs! 

 Frederick Prideaux, a name hitherto unknown 

 to fame, has published a poem entitled " Clau- 

 dia," of decided merit. There were also new 

 editions, many of them with considerable re- 

 vision and addition, of the poems of Mrs. Fanny 

 Kemble, Sir Bulwer Lytton, Mr. John Edmund 

 Reade, Dean Alford, the late Miss Adelaide 

 Anne Procter, Tennyson, Browning, and Words- 

 worth. Following Earl Derby's example, trans* 

 lations of the " Iliad " into English hexameters 

 have been made by Edwin W. Simcox and Mr. 

 J. H. Dart ; into the Spenserian stanza, by Mr. 

 Philip Stanhope Worsley, and into English blank 

 verse by Mr. Ichabod Charles Wright ; of the 

 " Odyssey " into English blank verse, by Mr. 

 George Musgrave ; the "Agamemnon," "Chco- 

 phori," and "Eumenides" of ^Eschylus, have 

 been rendered into English verse by Miss Anna 

 Swanwick; and the "Tragedies of Sophocles," 

 by Mr. E. H. Plumptre. Dante's "Inferno" 

 has been translated in the metre of the original, 

 by the Rev. Prebendary Ford; the "Divina 

 Commedia" into English in its own metre, by 

 Mr. John Dayman ; Tasso's " Jerusalem Deliv- 

 ered," by Sir John Kingston James, and Goethe's 

 "Faust," by Mr. Theodore Martin. 



In FICTION, the event of the year was the 

 completion of Mr. Dickens's " Our Mutual 

 Friend." Mr. Anthony Trollope's serial story, 

 "Can You Forgive Her?" was also completed 

 during the year, and Mr. Wilkie Collins's " Ar- 

 madale " nearly so ; Mr. Trollope also published 

 during the year " Miss Mackenzie," which, in 

 the opinion of the critics, ranked below most of 

 his novels ; Miss Muloch (since married) pub- 

 lished a novel entitled " Christian's Mistake," 

 which was exceedingly popular; Miss Annie 

 Thomas added to her reputation by her " Theo. 

 Leigh" and " On Guard; " Miss M. E. Braddon 

 contributed " Only a Clod," " Sir Jasper's Ten- 

 ant," and the first part of "The Lady's Mile" 

 to her already long list of novels ; Mrs. Henry 

 Wood, with remarkable reserve, furnished but 

 a single work, "Mildred Arkell;" all these 



