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son," by A. Jessopp ; " The Idle Thoughts of an 

 Idle Fellow " and " Told after Supper," by Je- 

 rome K. Jerome; "My Lady Nicotine," essays 

 on smoking and other subjects, by J. M. Barrie ; 

 and " Studies in Jocular Literature," by W. Ca- 

 rew Hazlitt. " Ink-Marks on Various Things " 

 was a quaint little book by John Jones, full of 

 dry humor. "The Children of the Mist," by 

 Lord Archibald Campbell, describes the Scottish 

 clansmen in peace and war, while from Lady 

 Wilde (Speranza) we have " Ancient Cures, 

 Charms, and Usages of Ireland." " Folk-Lore of 

 East Yorkshire " was collected by J. Nicholson, 

 and Rev. D. Maclnnes had two volumes of a 

 like nature, " Folk and Hero Tales of Argyll- 

 shire " and " Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradi- 

 tion." Andrew Lang edited " The Red Fairy 

 Book," a companion to the blue one of last year. 

 Talfourd Ely prepared a " Manual of Archaeolo- 

 gy." and Walter F. Rogers a " Manual of Bibli- 

 ography." James Stark touched on "Life's 

 Phases,'" in line with which are also " Insignia 

 Vita?," by C. H. Waterhouse, and " The Gain of 

 Life and other Essays," by William C. Coupland. 

 " Opposites " were " A Series of Essays on the 

 Unpopular Side of Popular Questions," by Lewis 

 Thornton, and Rev. Harry Jones lectured on 

 " Courtship and Marriage." W. J. Gordon told 

 " How London lives," while " How the Poor 

 live " and " Horrible London " came from George 

 R. Sims. 



Biography. Works of this class appeared 

 mostly in the several series that have multi- 

 plied greatly of late years. While many are 

 excellent of their kind, we miss the distinctive 

 characteristics of English biographies and auto- 

 biographies. Vol. II of "What I remember," 

 by T. A. Trollope, proved not so good as 

 the first. The " Life, Letters, and Diaries of Sir 

 Stafford Northcote, First Earl of Iddesleigh," 

 were edited by Andrew Lang, in two volumes, 

 and to T. Wemyss Reid we owe the " Life, Let- 

 ters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton 

 Milnes, Lord Houghton." " The Life of Thomas 

 Sidney Cooper, R. A.," was rich in reminiscences, 

 and the "Journal of Sir Walter Scott " was pub- 

 lished from the original manuscript at Abbots- 

 ford. " The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Ar- 

 blay (Fanny Burney) " filled three volumes, ed- 

 ited with notes by W. C. Ward, and the " Early 

 Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778 " was also 

 edited by Annie Raine Ellis. The " Correspond- 

 ence between the Right Hon. William Pitt and 

 Charles, Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of 

 Ireland, 1781-1787" had an introductory note 

 by the present Duke of Rutland. " Thomas Davis : 

 the Memoirs of an Irish Patriot, 1840-1846 " was 

 written by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. Speeches 

 of the Marquis Dufferin, delivered in London 

 from 1884 to 1888, were published, as were Sir E. 

 Clarke's " Public Speeches, 1880-1890," and Au- 

 gustus Jessopp edited, in three volumes, " Lives 

 of Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guildford, 

 Hon. Sir Dudley North, and the Hon. and Rev. 

 Dr. John North," by the Hon. Roger North, with 

 an autobiography of the author. The "Corre- 

 spondence on the French Revolution, 1789-1817 " 

 of William August Miles, was edited in two vol- 

 umes by Rev. C. P. Miles, and " Political and 

 Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Cent- 

 ury, 1721-1771," edited by Emily F. D. Osborn, 



were those of Sarah Byng, sister of the admiral, 

 and present a good picture of society of the time. 

 The "Diaries^' of Sir Moses and Lady Monte- 

 fiore were edited by Dr. L. Loewe, in two vol- 

 umes, and in literary biography we have " Rob- 

 ert Browning: Personalia," by Edmund Gosse, 

 and also "The Life of Philip Henry Gosse," his 

 father. "Gray and his Friends" consisted of 

 letters and lyrics, in great part hitherto unpub- 

 lished, edited by Duncan C. Tovey. " Mayne 

 Reid, a Memoir of his Life," was written by his 

 widow, and " Thomas De Quincey : his Life and 

 Writings," by Alexander H. Japp, enlarged from 

 th Q first edition, published thirteen years ago, is 

 to a great extent a new book. The work is of 

 special importance in view of the two new edi- 

 tions of the works of that famous author, " The 

 Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey," 

 edited by David Masson, and " The Uncollected 

 Writings of Thomas De Quincey," edited by 

 James Hogg. " Memorials of the Life of Rev. 

 George Elwes Corrie " were edited by Miss Hol- 

 royd, and "The Life and Letters of the Rev. 

 Adam Sedgwick," Professor of Geology in Cam- 

 bridge University, were given to the world in two 

 volumes, by John W. Clark and T. McK. Hughes. 

 " George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer," 

 was a biography by P. Hume Brown. " Epistola? 

 Ho-Elian'83, " the familiar letters of James How- 

 ell, were edited by W. H. Bennett. " Dante and 

 his Early Biographers " were treated by Edward 

 Moore, D. D., and " The Modern Novelists of 

 Russia" were the theme of six lectures by 

 Charles Edward Turner. " Oliver Cromwell, the 

 Protector" was an appreciation based on con- 

 temporary evidence, by Reginald F. D. Palgrave, 

 and two volumes contained " Shakespeare's True 

 Life," by James Walter, though it is impossible 

 to conceive whence he derived the material. In 

 the " English Men of Letters " we have " Sir 

 Philip Sidney," by J. A. Symonds, and " Keats." 

 by Sidney Colvin. In the " Great Writers," 

 "Milton," by Dr. Richard Garnett; "Arthur 

 Schopenhauer," by William Wallace ; " Robert 

 Browning," by William Sharp, rather a criticism 

 than a life ; " Jane Austen," by Goldwin Smith ; 

 " Balzac," by Frederick Wedmore ; and " George 

 Eliot " by Oscar Browning. Lucy M. Rossetti 

 contributed "Mrs. Shelley" to the "Eminent 

 Women Series," and " Four Frenchwomen," by 

 Austin Dobson, opened the " Giunta Series," be- 

 ing Charlotte Corday, Madame Roland, Madame 

 Genlis, and the Princess de Lamballe. In the 

 " Illustrated Biographies of Great Artists Series " 

 were "The Painters of Barbizon," in two vol- 

 umes, by J. W. Mollett, and " William Mulready," 

 by F. G. Stephens, while "From Handel to 

 Halle " was a series of biographical sketches by 

 L. Engel, which may be mentioned with " Fa- 

 mous Musical Composers," by Lydia T. Morris, 

 and "My Musical Experiences," by Bettina 

 Walker. In the " Great Musicians Series " were 

 " Cherubini," by F. J. Crowest, and " Beethoven," 

 by H. A. Rudall, while in the " Eminent Actors 

 Series " we have " William Charles Macready," 



betta," by Frank T. Marzials ; " The Earl of Der- 

 by," by T. B. Kebbel ; and " Charles James Fox, 

 by Henry 0. Wakeman ; and " William Pitt ' 



