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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1896. 



Helen Findlater ; " When Hearts are Young," an 

 idyl, by Deas Cromarty; "Andria," by Percy 

 White; "The Great Jester" and "The Earth 

 Mother," by Morley Roberts; " On the Face of the 

 Waters," by Mrs. Flora Annie Steel; "A Spoilt 

 Girl," by Florence Warden : " Xephele." by Francis 

 W. Bourdillon, a weird, musical novel; "Behind 

 the Magic Mirror," by Miss 0. Birrell ; " In the Val- 

 ley of Tophet," by Henry W. Nevinson ; "The Sen- 

 timental Sex. "by Gertrude Warden ; and "A Flash 

 of Summer," the story of a simple woman's life, by 

 Mrs. W. K. Clifford, found readers, as did - A Clever 

 Wife," "An Important Man and Others." and "The 

 Second Opportunity of Mr. Staplehurst," by W. 

 Pett Ridge : " Kriegspiel," pronounced an unrivaled 

 novel in its portrayal of gypsy life, "A Bubble 

 Fortune,'' " Kincaid's Widow," and " Rachel Lang- 

 ton," by Sarah Tytler (Henrietta Keddie) ; "Lady 

 Val's Elopement." by John Bickerdyke, and "A 

 Faithful Traitor," by Effie Adelaide Rowlands. 

 "Lancashire Idylls," by J. Marshall Mather, re- 

 ceived much Commendation, and were followed by 

 a novel, "The Sign of the Wooden Shoon." The 

 Duchess (Mrs. M. II. Ilungerford) sent out "A 

 Lonely Maid," " An Unsatisfactory Lover." and 

 "A Point of Conscience," and John Strange Win- 

 ter (Mrs. II. K. V. Stannard) wrote"! married a 

 Wife" and "The Truth Tellers." Thomas Hardy 

 collaborated with Florence Henniker upon a volume 

 of short stories, - In Scarlet and Gray," which ap- 

 peared in the "Keynote Series," other issues of 

 which were "Ugly Idol," by Claude Nicholson: 

 "Maris Stella," by Marie Clothilde Balfour. who 

 wrote also " White Sand"; "Nobody's Fault," by 

 Netta Syrett ; "Platonic Affections," by John 

 Smith; "Where the Atlantic meets the Land," 

 stories of the Irish coast, by Caldsvell Lipsett; 

 " Nets for the Wind," by Una Taylor; "In Home- 

 spun," by Edith Nesbit; "Day Books," by Mabel 

 E. Wotton ; " Shapes in the Fire," by M. 1'. Shiel; 

 and "Dust in the Balance," by George Knight. 

 ' Life the Accuser " was by Emma F. Brooke ; 

 " Persis Yorke " came from Sydney Christian; 

 Francis Gribble wrote of " The Things that Mat- 

 ter " and "The Lower Life"; while from Martin 

 J. Pritchard (Mrs. Augustus Moore, a daughter of 

 Lady Monckton) we had " Without Sin.'' audacious 

 and revolting as impossible in theme. Volumes of 

 short stories include Rudyard Kipling's "Soldier 

 Stories" collected into book form; "Wandering 

 Heath," by T. Quiller-Couch ; "Old Count rv Idyls," 

 by John Stafford; " Lancaster Idyls." by Marshall 

 Mather ; " Vignettes," by Hebert Crackanthorpe ; 

 " Tyne Folk : Masks, Faces, and Shadows," by Dr. 

 Joseph Parker ; and several volumes of " Stories by 

 English Authors " concerning Africa, England, 

 France, Ireland, Italy, London, Scotland, Germany, 

 and the Orient. In conclusion, last, but not, by 

 any means, least, we have "The Well at the World's 

 End," the last romance of William Morris. 



Fine Arts. Two superb volumes were devoted 

 by Sir James D. Mackenzie to " The Castles of 

 England: Their Story and Structure," illustrated 

 with 40 full-page plates, 158 other illustrations, and 

 70 plans, about 300 castles being treated in each 

 volume, and " The Ecclesiastical Architecture of 

 Scotland from the Earliest Christian Times to the 

 Seventeenth Century" came from David Macgib- 

 bon and Thomas Ross, the authors of " The Castel- 

 lated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland." 

 "The Sculptures in the Lady Chapel at Ely.'' by 

 Montague Rhodes James, were illustrated with 55 

 collotype plates. E. P. Evans wrote on " Animal 

 Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture," and 

 Fletcher Banister and Fletcher F. Banister were 

 the joint authors of a " History of Architecture for 

 the Student, Craftsman, and Amateur," giving a 



comparative view of the historical styles from the 

 earliest period. " Renaissance Architecture and 

 Ornament in Spain "was a series of examples se- . 

 lected from the purest works executed between the 

 years 1500 and 1560, measured and drawn together 

 with short and descriptive text, by Andrew N. 

 Prentice. Four volumes contain "A History of 

 Design in Painted Glass." by X. H. J. Westiake, 

 and " Maiolica " was the title of an historical treatise 

 on the glazed and enameled earthenwares of Italy, 

 by C. Drury E. Fortnum. superbly illustrated, with 

 some notice also of the Persian, Damascus, Rhodian 

 and Hispano-Moresque wares. Vols. Ill and IV 

 were issued of the "Catalogue of the Greek and 

 Etruscan Vases in the British Museum," the former 

 covering " Vases of the Finest Period," by Cecil II. 

 Smith, and the latter "Vases of the Latest Period," 

 by H. I!. Walters. The translation was completed 

 of "The History of Modern Painting," by Richard 

 Muther, the first volume of which was issued in 

 ls!)5, the three containing 1,300 illustrations and 

 constituting one of the handsomest art works of 

 the year, and another book of the same order was 

 the rendition into English of Vallery C. 0. Greard's 

 "Meissonier: His Life and Art," by Lady Mary 

 Loyd and Miss Florence Simmons, with 40 full- 

 page plates and upward of 200 illustrations in the 

 text. Two of the three volumes which will contain 

 " Painters and their Works." by R. X. James, a dic- 

 tionary of great artists not now alive, were issued, 

 bringiiiLr the work down to " Ibbetson to Rys- 

 -." and a new enlarged edition was sent out of 

 " A Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited 

 Works in the Principal London Exhibitions, from 

 1 TOO to 1 s<)3," compiled by A. Graves. " In the Xa- 

 tional Gallery," by Cosmo Monkhouse, gave us the 

 opinions of that author on the Italian Pre-Raphael- 

 ites contained therein ; and the first of a series of 

 ten volumes was issued of " Pictures in the National 

 Gallery, London," with notes by C. L. Eastlake, 

 keeper and secretary of the gallery. Rev. E. L. 

 ( 'ut ts was t lie author of a " History of Early Chris- 

 tian Art." "Addresses delivered to the Students 

 of the Royal Academy,'' by the late Lord Leighton^ 

 were collected into a volume. Arthur Thomson 

 prepared "A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Stu- 

 dents" and Ernest E. Thompson made "Studies 

 in the Art of Anatomy of Animals," for sculptors, 

 painters, etc., illustrated with 100 drawings by the 

 author. "A Book of Studies in Plant Form, "with 

 some Suggestion for their Application to Design " 

 came from A. K. V. Lilley and W. Midgley. "The 

 London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Cen- 

 tury" were the subject of a volume by Warwick W. 

 and Arthur E. Wroth: "Choir Stalls and their 

 Carvings," by Emma Phipson, contained examples 

 of misericords from English cathedrals; "The 

 Carved Stones of Islny." by R. C. Graham, were 

 illustrated: P. Romilly Allen contributed a chap- 

 ter to A. J. Langdon's work on " Old Cornish 

 Crosses." with 29T illustrations; and Percy Gardner 

 gave his attention to " Sculptured Tombs of Hel- 

 las." "Old Cambridge Plate," by J. E. Foster and 

 F. D. Atkinson, was an illustrated catalogue of the 

 Loan Collection of plate exhibited in the Fit/wil- 

 liam Museum. May, 1895. "The Coin Collector," 

 by W. Ciirew lla/litt. appeared in the "Collector 

 Series"; Part II was issued of G. Coffey's "Cata- 

 logue of Irish Coins in the Collection of the Royal 

 Irish Academy"; a "Catalogue of the Great Coins 

 of Troas, yEolis, and Lesbos." by Warwick Wroth, 

 with a map and 43 autotype plates, was printed by 

 order of the British Museum : and W. de Gray Birch 

 was the author of Vols. II-IV of a "Catalogue of 

 Seals in the Department of MSS. in the British Mu- 

 seum." W. Y. Fletcher wrote on "Bookbinding in 

 England and France," and " Ladies' Book-plates " 



