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represented nearly as usual William Black, by 

 "Prince Fortunatus " and "Stand-Fast, Craig- 

 Royston," which was a Scotch story, as was 

 "Kirsteen," by Mrs. Oliphant, Walter Besant 

 published "The Demoniac" and " Armorel of 

 Lyonesse," an idyl of the Scilly Islands ; W. E. 

 Norris, "Marcia" and "The Baffled Conspira- 

 tors " ; II. Rider Haggard, " Beatrice " and " The 

 World's Desire," the last written in collabora- 

 tion with Andrew Lang ; W.Clark Russell, "My 

 Shipmate Louise " ; George Manville Fenn, " A 

 Fluttered Dove-Cote" and "Ely's Children"; 

 Mrs. Kingsley Harrison (Lucas Malet), ''The 

 Wages of Sin " ; and Mrs. Alexander, " A Wo- 

 man's Heart " and " Blind Fate." The scene of 

 " The Bondman," by Hall Caine, was laid in Ice- 

 land and the Isle of Man; that of "Frozen Hearts," 

 by G.Webb Appleton, in Paris ; while " The Sin of 

 Joost Aveling," by Maarten Maartens, was writ- 

 ten in English and by an Englishman, although 

 at first believed to be a translation from the 

 Dutch. " With Essex in Ireland," by Lady Emily 

 Lawless, and " When we were Boys," by William 

 O'Brien, were Irish stories of different periods, 

 and " News from Nowhere," by William Morris, 

 was a Utopian romance of 1971. " The Won- 

 derful Adventures of Phra, the Phoenician," by 

 Edwin Lester Arnold, and " Toxar." by J. 

 Shields Nicholson, are marvelous and mysterious 

 in tone, while Helen F. Hetherington and Rev. 

 II. Darwin Burton were together responsible for 

 " Paul Nugent Materialist," a reply to " Robert 

 Elsmere." Rev. A; Church and Richmond Seeley 

 were joint authors of " The Hammer," a Jewish 

 story, B. C., and Adeline Sergeant had two nov- 

 els, " The Great Mill Street Mystery " and " A 

 True Friend." Jessie Fothergill wrote " A 

 March in the Ranks," while from Mrs. M. 

 Betharn-Edwards came " For One and the 

 World " and " A Romance of the Wire." " A 

 Rough Shaking," by George MacDonald, was a 

 book for boys. Ouida published " Syrlin " and 

 " Ruffino " ; The Duchess (Mrs. Hungerford), 

 " Her Last Throw " and " April's Lady " ; Rhoda 

 Broughton, " Alas ! " ; and John Strange Win- 

 ter (Mrs. H. E. V. Stannard), three military 

 volumes, " The Other Man's Wife," " Dinna 

 Forget," and " He went for a Soldier." Mary 

 E. Braddon (Mrs. John Maxwell) was again 

 heard from in " Whose was the Hand 1 " and 

 ' Married in Haste." 



Voyages and Travels. Africa naturally 

 takes the first place in works of this class, 

 "Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equa- 

 tor," by A. J. Mounteney Jephson, and " With 

 Stanley's Rear Column," by J. Rose Troup, sup- 

 plementing the great work of Stanley himself, 

 while " Five Years with the Congo Cannibals," 

 by Herbert Ward and D. D. Bidwell, makes us 

 thoroughly acquainted with the Congo country 

 and people, in addition to telling the story of the 

 rear guard, over which controversy has been 

 rife. " Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition," by 

 A. J. Wauters, and " Stanley and Africa," by the 

 author of the ' Life of General Gordon," relate 

 to the same theme, while " Great African Trav- 

 elers from Bruce and Mungo Park to Living- 

 ston and Stanley " was the joint work of W. H. 

 G. Kingston and C. R. Low. R. P. Ashe described 

 ' Life in Uganda," P. Gilmore went " Through 

 Gaza Land and the Scene of the Portuguese Ag- 

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gression," and " Travel Sketches in Our New Pro- 

 tectorate," by Henry Drummond, consisted of se- 

 lections from his " Tropical Africa." Pearse 

 Morrison made " A Visit to the Transvaal, Bar- 

 berton, the Johannesberg, and Back " ; Sir F. 

 Young, " A Winter Tour in South Africa " ; and 

 Annie Martin described " Home Life on an Os- 

 trich Farm." * Madagascar," or Robert Drury's 

 journal during fifteen years' captivity on that isl- 

 and, first published in 1760, was edited by Capt. 

 Pasfield Oliver, and " Life in Africa " was from 

 the pen of Rev. James Macdonald, for twelve 

 years a missionary in that country. Other mis- 

 sionary records are " Ten Years' Church Work in 

 Natal," by A. W. L. Rivett, and " The New World 

 of Central Africa," by Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness. 

 " A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa," by F. C. 

 Selous, and " Kloof and Karroo," or Sport, Le- 

 gend, and Natural History in Cape Colony," by 

 H. A. Bryden, found readers of another order of 

 rnind, while " Wild Beasts and their Ways," by Sir 

 Samuel W. Baker, in two volumes, was the record 

 of fifty years' sport and reminiscences of Europe, 

 Asia, Africa, and America. " The Prisoner of 

 Chiloane," by Willis Mackay, had as secondary 

 title " With the Portuguese in Southeast Africa,'" 

 and F. Harrison Smith wrote " Through Abys- 

 sinia: an Envoy's Ride to the King of Zion." 

 " Russia's Railway Advance into Central Asia " 

 was the title of notes of a journey from St. Pe- 

 tersburg to Samarcand . made by George Dob- 

 son, and " The Cruise of H. M. S. Calliope in 

 China, Australia, and East African Waters, 1887- 

 1890 " was described by E. A. Evans. Hon. John 

 Abercromby took " A Trip through the Eastern 

 Caucasus," Alexander Hosie spent " Three Years 

 in Western China," and " Fifty Years in Cey- 

 lon," by Maj. Thomas Skinner, was edited by his 

 daughter Annie Skinner. Other books on the 

 East are " Kurrachee (Karachi) Past, Present, 

 and Future," by A. F. Baillie ; " Calabar and its 

 Mission," by Hugh Goldie ; " A Friend of Mis- 

 sions in India," by Henry S. Lunn, M. D. ; " Na- 

 tive Life in South India," by Rev. Henry Rice ; 

 " With the Bedouins," by Gray Hill ; " Oxford to 

 Palestine," by Rev. J. L. Thomas ; and " A Thou- 

 sand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States," 

 by Holt S. Hallett. " Picturesque Australia " 

 was edited by E. E. Morris, in four volumes ; 

 Theodore F. Bevan was the author of " Toil, 

 Travel, and Discovery in British New Guinea " ; 

 and " A Naturalist among the Head-Hunters" 

 by Charles M. Woodford, was an account of three 

 visits to the Solomon Islands in the years 1886- 

 '88. " The Journal of H. M. S. Enterprise in 

 the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's 

 Ships by Behring Strait, 1850-'55," kept by Capt. 

 Richard Collington, Was given to the public, ed- 

 ited by his brother, and a new edition was made 

 of the " Journal " of Charles Darwin during his 

 voyage round the world in H. M. S. " Beagle." 

 William Spotswood Green spent some time 

 " Among the Selkirk Glaciers" of British Colum- 

 bia, and W. G. Blaikie, D. D., saw "Summer 

 Suns in the Far West." A particularly bright 

 book of travel was " A Social Departure," by 

 Sara Jeannette Duncan, and B. Kroupa chron- 

 icled " An Artist's Tour." W. H. Rus'sell made 

 "A Visit to Chili and the Nitrate Fields of 

 Tarapaca." Augustus J. C. Hare had three 

 books, " Southeastern," " Northeastern," and 



