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poraries, Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and 

 Fynes Moryson, was edited by Henry Morley. 

 " Striking Events in Irish History " were chron- 

 icled by C. F. Dowsett, and " The Stuart Dy- 

 nasty " by P. M. Thornton. " Court Life under 

 the Plantagenets," by Hubert Hall, and " Social 

 England under the Regency" (1811-'19), by 

 John Ashton, present especial periods, and from 

 Capt. D. Bingham came " The Marriages of the 

 Bourbons," in two volumes. " Feudalism " was 

 the theme of lectures delivered at Gresham Col- 

 lege by J. T. Abdy, and " Outlines of the World's 

 History," in four parts, were given by E._San- 

 derson. Lewis Jackson wrote " Ten Centuries of 

 European Progress " ; J. E. Symes, " The Prelude 

 to Modern History"; W. Beale, "The Light of 

 Other Days, seen through the Wrong End of an 

 Opera Glass," in two volumes; and Emil Reich 

 published in a volume four lectures before Oxford 

 University on "The History of Civilization." A 

 second revised edition was' published of James 

 Bryce's " American Commonwealth," and in 

 colonial history we have : " A History of New 

 South Wales from the Records," Vol. I, by G. B. 

 Barton ; " Nation-Making, a Story of New Zea- 

 land Savagism and Civilization," by J. C. Firth ; 

 " New Zealand," in " Colonial Church Histories," 

 by Very Rev. Henry Jacobs ; and a " History of 

 the Dominion of Canada," by Rev. William P. 

 Gresswell. Vol. Ill of a " History of Canada," 

 by William Kingsford,was also published. J.Tal- 

 boys Wheeler wrote an " Indian History " in the 

 " History Primers," and in the " Events of our 

 Own Time " appeared " The Indian Mutiny of 

 1857," by Col. G. B. Malleson, and " The War in 

 the Crimea," by Gen. Sir Edward Hamley. " Eng- 

 lish Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth 

 Century " was described by John Anderson, M. 

 D., and " The Presidential Armies of India " by 

 the late Col. S. Rivett-Carnac. In the " Story of 

 the Nations Series," " The Story of the Barbary 

 Corsairs " was told by Stanley Lane-Poole and 

 Lieut. J. D. Jerrold Kelley, U. S. N.; "The Story 

 of Russia," by W. R. Morfill ; "Switzerland," by 

 Lina Hug and Richard Stead ; " Scotland from 

 the Earliest Times to the Present Century," by 

 John Mackintosh, being the twenty-fifth of the 

 series ; and " The Jews under Roman Rule," by 

 W. D. Morrison. " The Greek World under Ro- 

 man Sway " was an important volume by J. P. 

 Mahaffy, D. D., and Guy Le Strange described 

 " Palestine under the Moslems." To Church 

 history belong : " The Monumental History of 

 the Early British Church," by L. Romilly Al- 

 len ; " Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood," by 

 Thomas W. Allies ; and " The English Reforma- 

 tion of the Sixteenth Century," by W. H. Beck- 

 ett ; while " England's Battles by Sea and Land " 

 filled two anonymous volumes, and "Scenes 

 through the Battle Smoke " were given by Rev. 

 A. Male, army chaplain at Lucknow. " Pa- 

 per and Parchment " was the title of historical 

 sketches by Alexander C. Ewald, and " Blunders 

 and Forgeries " of historical essays by Rev. T. 

 E. Bridgett, while a second series was also pub- 

 lished of " Historic Oddities and Strange Events," 

 by S. Baring-Gould. 



"Essays. Essays proper, for general literary 

 miscellany falls under this head also, include : 

 " Views and Reviews : Essays in Appreciation : 

 Literature," by W. E. Henley ; " Essays Specu- 



lative and Suggestive," by J. A. Symonds, in 

 two volumes ; " Essays on Subjects of Moral and 

 Social Interest," by John Stuart Blackie, with 

 which belongs of right "Joints in our Social 

 Armor," by James Runciman ; " Induction and 

 Deduction, and other Essays," scientific in tone, 

 by Constance C. W. Naden, a woman of remark- 

 able mental endowments, posthumously edited 

 by R. Lewins, M. D. ; " Idle Musings,'" by E. 

 Conder Gray, essays in social mosaic ; two vol- 

 umes of " Essays and Reviews," by James Mar- 

 tineau, selected and revised by himself ; " The 

 New Spirit," essays biographical and critical, by 

 Havelock Ellis ; and " The Literary Antecedents 

 of the French Revolution," the Chancellor's es- 

 say for 1890, by H. Ward. " English Writers," 

 of^Henry Morley, reached Vol. VI, Vol. V being 

 in two parts and covering the fourteenth cent- 

 ury ; and " Landmarks of Homeric Study " came 

 from the pen of Hon. William E. Gladstone. 

 " The Poets and Peoples of Foreign Lands " 

 were the theme of J. W. Crombie, and " The 

 Makers of Modern English" were handled by 

 W. J. Dawson ; while from Andrew Lang we 

 had a lecture upon " How" to fail in Literature " 

 and " Old Friends," delightful essays in episto- 

 lary parody. " The Art of Authorship " was 

 compiled by George Bainton, mainly from an- 

 swers to direct questions put to well-known 

 writers. J. A. Steuart embodied his criticisms 

 in " Letters to Living Authors," and from Walter 

 Pater we had " Appreciations, with an Essay on 

 Style." Essays in press history and work, pres- 

 ent and past, were entitled by Alfred Baker 

 " The Newspaper World," and from John Pen die- 

 ton, in the " Book-Lover's Library," came " News- 

 paper Reporting in Olden Time and To-day." 

 " Notes from the News " by James Payn, and 

 "London Letters," by George W. Smalley, in 

 two volumes, are essentially modern in tone, 

 while "The English Novel in the Time of Shake- 

 speare " was treated by J. J. Jusseraud, and trans- 

 lated from the French by Elizabeth Lee. " Eng- 

 lish Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes " 

 were edited by Alfred W. Pollard as specimens 

 of pre-Elizabethan drama, and A. C. Swinburne 

 discovered " Sacred and Shakesperean Affini- 

 ties." " Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots," 

 out of the beaten path of such, were made by 

 Cyril Ransome. Vol. VIII completed the Henry 

 Irving edition of Shakespeare, and " Hermes 

 Stella," by W. F. C. Wigston, consisted of notes 

 on the Bacon cipher. From Edward T. Cook 

 we have " Studies in Ruskin." " George Mere- 

 dith : Some Characteristics," was by Richard Le 

 Gallienne, and for it John Lane made a bibliog- 

 raphy of the writings of the same author. "Rob- 

 ert Browning's Message to his Time " was from 

 the pen of Edward Berdoe, and Joseph Forster 

 designated "Four Great Teachers: Ruskin, Car- 

 lyle, Emerson, Browning." " Flowers from a 

 Persian Garden " were culled by W. A. Clouston 

 and accompanied with other papers. " Old Coun- 

 try Life " was described alluringly by S. Baring- 

 Gould, and " Idyls of the Field " by Francis A. 

 Knight. " In Scottish Fields," by Hugh Halibur- 

 ton, and "Blossom Land and Fallen Leaves," 

 by Clement Scott, are the best of numerous pub- 

 lications descriptive of nature. Constance E. 

 Howell took " A Peep into Cat-Land." Humor- 

 ous works include : " The Trials of a Country Par- 



