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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1896. 



covering the year 1891-'92. D. Byrne was the 

 author of a volume of critical and biographical 

 notices of living " Australian Writers." " Lord 

 Rosebery's Speeches, 1874-1896 " were collected in 

 book form, and " Archbishop Benson in Ireland : 

 Record of his Irish Sermons and Addresses, 1896 " 

 was edited by J. H. Bernard. " Eton in the For- 

 ties" was a book of school reminiscences, by Arthur 

 Duke Coleridge. " Camps, Quarters, and Casual 

 Places," by Archibald Forbes, contained the expe- 

 riences of the veteran war correspondent, and 

 Charles E. Ryan narrated what he saw "With an 

 Ambulance during the Franco-German War." 

 " Running the Blockade " was a personal narrative 

 of adventures, risks, and escapes during the Ameri- 

 can civil war by Thomas E. Taylor, to which 

 Julian Corbett contributed an introduction ; and 

 equally thrilling was " The Journal of a Spy in 

 Paris during the Reign of Terror," by Raoul Hes- 

 din. " The Autobiography of an English Game- 

 keeper (John Wilkins, of Stanstead, Essex)," edited 

 by Arthur H. Byng and Stephen M. Stephens, went 

 through a third edition, and Augustine Birrell was 

 the editor of a new six-volume edition of Boswell's 

 "Life of Johnson." Vols. XLIV, XLV, XLVI, 

 XLVII, XLVIII, and XLIX were issued of the 

 " Dictionary of National Biography," edited by 

 Sidney Lee, the last covering " Robinson-Russell." 

 Essays. Under this head fall books of miscella- 

 neous literary character also. Among essayists /<r 

 at simple, however, few have met with such popular 

 favor as Mrs. Alice Meynell, who published during 

 the year " The Color of Life, and Other Essays on 

 Things seen and heard," "The Rhythm of Life," 

 and some delightful short chapters on " The Chil- 

 dren." Austin Dobson contributed a third series 

 of "Eighteenth Century Vignettes," as Edmund \V. 

 Gosse did " Critical Kit-Kats " ; A. T. Quiller-Couch 

 made " Adventures in Criticism "; Sir Herbert Max- 

 well "Spent Rainy Days in a Library " to profit ; 

 Isaac Zangwill professed himself " Without Preju- 

 dice" ; E. H. Lacon Watson contributed "The Un- 

 conscious Humorous, and Other Essays"; "Essays 

 and Critical Reviews," by C. H. Pearson, the author 

 of " National Life and Character," were edited with 

 a biographical sketch by H. A. Strong; George 

 Saintsbury published " Essays in English Litera- 

 ture, 1780-1860," as well as " A History of Nine- 

 teenth Century Literature, 1780-1895," and W. II. 

 Crawshaw wrote on " The Interpretation of Litera- 

 ture." Vol. I of " The Intermediate Text-book of 

 English Literature," in the " University Tutorial 

 Series," came from A. J. Wyatt and W. H. Low. 

 " The Lute of Apollo " was an essay on music, 

 by Clifford Harrison. Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) 

 gave us " Renaissance Fancies and Studies," being 

 a sequel to " Euphorion " : Thomas Whittaker, "Es- 

 says and Notices, Philosophical and Psychological " ; 

 John Taylor, " Antiquarian Essays"; Mrs. Russell 

 Barrington, "A Retrospect, and Other Articles"; 

 Dr. Augustus Jessopp, "Frivola"; H. S. Wilson, 

 " History and Criticism" ; Richard Le Gallienne, a 

 second series of " Prose Fancies " ; and Frederick 

 Wedmore, " Orgeas and Miradou," a collection of 

 delicate sketches, hardly fiction. To the same class 

 belong " Gaston de Latour." an unfinished romance, 

 by Walter Pater, containing some of the deepest of 

 his thought and teaching, and " Old French Ro- 

 mances " done into English by William Morris, 

 with an introduction by Joseph Jacobs. "Among 

 the Untrodden Ways" was a volume of studies and 

 stories by M. E. Francis Blundell, and " Moorland 

 Idylls," by Grant Allen, may be mentioned with 

 " In the Garden of Peace," by Helen Milman Crof- 

 ton (Mrs. Caldwell Crofton), and " By Tangled 

 Paths," stray leaves from Nature's byways, by H. 

 Mead Briggs. " Riverside Letters," by George D. 



Leslie, continuing his "Letters to Marco" (Mr. 

 Stacy Marks), proved as delightful as their prede- 

 cessors, and were illustrated by the author. L. F. 

 Austin was heard from "At Random." "Father 

 Archangel of Scotland, and Other Essays," by G. 

 and R. B. Cunninghame Graham, and "Scholar Gyp- 

 sies," by John Buchan, were not altogether biograph- 

 ical. " The Works of Max Beerbohm " consisted of 

 essays on varieties of dandies, and other subjects; 

 " Essays Fin de Siecle " were by " An Optimist." 

 G. L. Dickinson contributed " The Greek View of 

 Life " to the " University Extension Series," another 

 issue of which was " English Poetry from Blake to 

 Browning," by William Macneile Dixon ; J. P. Ma- 

 haffy, D. D., wrote " A Survey of Greek Literature " 

 for the " Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature " ; 

 A. E. Haigh studied " The Tragic Drama of the 

 Greeks"; William Cranston Lawson discoursed of 

 "Art and Humanity in Homer"; "Socrates and 

 Athenian Society in his Day " was termed a bio- 

 graphical sketch by A. D. Godley ; Lewis Richard 

 Farnell examined " The Cults of the Greek States," 

 and F. W. Bussell wrote on " The School of Plato : 

 Its Origin, Development, and Revival under the 

 Roman Empire." "Summers and Winters at Bal- 

 mawhapple " was a second series of " The Ta- 

 bli- Talk of Shirley," in two volumes, by John 

 Skelton. William Macneile Dixon was again heard 

 from in "A Tennyson Primer with a Critical Es- 

 say": Morton Luce supplied " A Handbook to the 

 Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson " ; and Richard 

 Ilerne Shepherd was the author of "The Bibliog- 

 raphy of Tennyson." Prof. Henry Jones wrote of 

 " Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teach- 

 er," and" Browning and the Christian Faith " came 

 from Dr. Edward Berdoe. William A. Craigie was 

 the author of " A Primer of Burns." " The Age of 

 Dryden," by Dr. R. Garnett, appeared in the series 

 of " Handbooks of English Literature," edited by 

 Prof. Hales. " The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of 

 History" were examined by John Owen, and " The 

 Epic of the Fall of Man," by S. H. Gurteen, the au- 

 thor of "The Arthurian Epic," was a study of 

 Ca-dmon, Milton, and Dante. Thomas N. Orchard, 

 M. D., selected for his theme " The Astronomy of 

 Milton's 'Paradise Lost.'" " Shakspere and his 

 Predecessors" came from Frederick S. Boas in the 

 " University Series," John Pym Yeatman praised 

 " The Gentle Shakespeare," Edward W. Naylor treat- 

 ed of " Shakspere and Music," and Canon Henry 

 Nicholson Ellacombe of " The Plant Lore and Gar- 

 den Craft of Shakespeare." " Shakespeare's Town 

 and Times," by H. Snowden Ward and Catherine 

 Weed Ward, was richly illustrated from photo- 

 graphs. Jessie L. Weston told " The Legends of the 

 Wagner Drama," and Constance Maud dwelt on 

 "Wagner's Heroines: Brunhilda, Senta, Isolda." 

 Vol. Ill appeared of Edwin Sidney Hartland's 

 study of " The Legend of Perseus." John Ashcroft 

 Noble wrote on "The Sonnet in England." An- 

 drew W. Tuer devoted two volumes to a " History 

 of the Horn-Book " ; a series of facsimiles of " Ear- 

 ly English Printing " had an introduction by E. 

 Gordon Duff ; and " Rare Books and their Prices," 

 by W. Roberts, contained chapters on pictures, pot- 

 tery, porcelain, and postage stamps. " Relliquiae 

 Philologicie : or. Essays in Comparative Philology," 

 of Herbert Dukinfield Darbishire. were edited by R. 

 S. Conway, with a biographical notice by J. E. 

 Sandys. Charles William Heckethorpe produced 

 an interesting volume on " Lincoln's Inn Field, and 

 the Localities Adjacent," tracing their historical and 

 topographical association : and E. Brirnley Johnson 

 edited "Christ's Hospital: Recollections of Lamb, 

 Coleridge, and Leigh Hunt." " Soho and its Asso- 

 ciations, Historical, Literary, and Artistic," by the 

 late Dr. Rimbault, was edited by G. Clinch ; " Lon- 



