LlTKimTKK. mtlTlSlI, IX 1896. 





wa- an illustrated handbook for collet-tors and 



book lovers, by Norna Labouchcre. Frank G. 



Theory and Prat-lice of Design " was an 



advanced lexl-l)Ook on decorative art. Works on 



jiiusi \ceptionally numerous during the 



The Evolution of" the Art of .Music." by ('. 



Hubert Hastings Parry, formed Vol. LXXVI of the 



'International Scientific Series"; It. A. Sm-atfield 



The Development of the Opera": Sir 



_e Grove wrote of " Beethoven and his Nine 

 Symphonies." and contributed an introduction to 

 'The History of Mendelssohn's 'Elijah,'" by T. (i. 

 Edwards; "Famous Violinists and Fine Violins'* 

 came from T. L. Phipson ; and A. J. Hipkins wrote 

 a " 1 1- i-'-ription and History of the Pianoforte, and 

 of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments"; 

 James E. Matthew reviewed "The Literature of 

 Music." in the '-Book Lover's Library." and the 

 V.nal Portrait Gallery of British Musician-." 

 edited by John Warriner. was illustrated with :") 

 plates. Among illustrated books may be men- 

 tioned "A Breath from the Veldt," a magnificent 

 and epoch-marking work, by John Guille Millais, 

 illustrated by the author, and with a frontispiece 

 by Sir John E. Millais. portraying the animals of 

 South Africa: "The Book of Beauty (Late Victo- 

 rian Erai." containing portraits mostly of cele- 

 brated artists, edited by Mrs. F. Harcourt William- 

 son, in two volumes : Du Manner's " English 

 Society " ; Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations of " The 

 Rape of the Lock" ; "The Xude in Art," by II. S. 

 Nichols ; " Pictures of People," by Charles Dana 

 :i : "John La Farge. Artist and Writer." by 

 Cecilia Waern in " The Portfolio " ; and " Phil May's 

 Gutter Snipes.' 7 oO original sketches in pen and ink. 

 History. The history of " The Rise and Growth 

 of the English Nation," by William Hickman Smith 

 Aubrey, was completed by the issue during the year 

 of the third volume, covering the period 1658-1895 : 

 Arthur Hassall added "The Making of the British 

 Empire" (A. D. 1714-1832) to the "Oxford Manuals 

 of English History": another issue of which 

 " King and Parliament " (A. D. 1603-1714). by G. 

 II. Wakeling: and Montague Burrows traced "The 

 History of the Foreign Policy of Great Britain." 



I II appeared of James Hamilton Wylie's " His- 

 tory of England under Henry the Fourth." com- 

 pleting that work, and covering the period 1407- 

 1410. Edsrar Powell gave a volume to " The Rising 

 in East Anglia in 1381"; James Gairdner fought 

 airain "The Battle of Bosworth." and. with the as- 

 sistance of R. H. Brodie, arranged and catalogued 

 Parts I and II of the fourteenth volume of ' Letters 

 and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of 

 Henry VIII." while a new edition was made of the 

 '* Past on Letters." edited by him. in three volumes. 



-t George Atkinson e'dited the "Calendar of 

 the State Papers relating to Ireland of the Reiirn of 

 Queen Elizabeth: loijS. January-1599. March"; 

 John Gerard. S. J.. asked "What was the Gunpow- 

 der Plot t 1 " testing the traditional story by original 

 evidence, and "The Jacobite Attempt of 1719 " was 

 the title given to letters of James Butler, second 

 Duke of Ormonde, edited, with an introduction and 

 an appendix of documents, by W. K. Dickson. 

 George Washington Prothero edited " Ireland. 1494- 

 1868," with two introductory chapters by William 



.nor Morris, in the " Cambridge Historical S 

 ries." to which Edward C'hanning, an American. 

 but.-d "The United States of America. 17<>.V 

 In the "Cambridge Historical Essays" ap- 

 peared "The Reign of Antoninus Pius." by E. E. 

 Bryant, and "The Theory of the Divine Right of 

 Kine:-." by .T. Nelville 1 The Union of 



England and Scotland " was a study of interna- 

 tional history by James Mackinnon : Vol. V of 

 " Social England," edited by H. D. Traill, embraced 



the period from the accession of George I to the 



battle of Waterloo: and John .' 



us the condition of England " \\ : _ IV 



was Kin::." Arthur T. 1' '--d Vol. ! 



"The Diary and Consultation P>o<>: 



dent. Governor, and Council at Fort St. George, 



" which gives much light <-n the early hi- 1 

 England in Madras. "The Early Chartered Com- 

 panies, 1', found historians in ( 

 Cawsion and A. II. Keane. and "The P 

 Empire." by an anonymous " Imperialist." vindi- 

 cated the principle of these companies, with special 

 reference to the British South Africa Company. 

 "The Great Irish Famine " was the title of a retro- 

 spect of fifty year- by W. P. O'Brien. 

 "The 'Black Watch': The Record of an Historic- 

 Regiment" came from no less an authority than 

 Archibald Forbes, and "A Hi-t"ry of the 17th Lan- 

 cers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)" was written by 

 Hon. J. W. Fortesque. "With Kelly to Chitral," 

 by W. G. L. Beynon. and " Fire and Sword in the 

 Sudan." by Slatin Pasha, translated by F. R. Win- 

 gate, belong to the history of recent days, as do 

 " The Downfall of Prempeh." a diary of life with 

 the native levy in Ashanti. 1895-*96, by It. - 

 Baden-Powell ; " Madagascar in War Time." by 

 E. F. Knight : "Two Campaigns: Madagascar and 

 Ashantee." by Bennet Burleigh : "Sunshine and 



m in Rhodesia." by F. < and "Dr. 



Jameson's Raid." by Rev. James King. " A Diary 

 of the Home-Rule Parliament. " was pub- 



lished by Henry W. Lucy. ' Lectures on the 

 Council of Trent'." delivered" at Oxford in ls92-'!io 

 by James Anthony Fronde, were collected into a 

 volume ; " Documents Illustrative of English 

 Church History " were compiled from original 

 sources by Henry Gee and William John Hardy; 

 Dr. Clinton Locke contributed "The Age of the 

 Great Western Schism " to the "Epochs of Church 

 History Series " : and " The Life and Times of John 

 Kettlewell." by the author of "Nicholas Ferrar." 

 edited by Canon Carter, was a valuable addition to 

 English Church history. Rev. W. Stephen wrote a 

 " History of the Scottish Church." in two volumes. 

 In the " Story of ihe Nations Series " we had " The 

 Story of Bohemia." by Charles Edmund Maurice, 

 and " The Balkans : Roumania. Bulgaria. Servia, 

 and Montenegro." by William Miller. " Undercur- 

 rents of the Second Empire" was the title of notes 

 and recollections of Albert D. Vandam. and from 

 Thomas March we have "The History of the Paris 

 Commune of 1871." .T. D. B. Griddle published 

 Vol. I of "A History of the Dec-can": "Studies in 

 Ancient History : The Second Series." by the late 

 John Ferguson McLennan, comprising an inquiry 

 into the origin of exogamy, were edited by his 

 widow and Arthur Platt. "The Empire of the 

 Ptolemies" was from the pen of J. P. Mahaffy ; 

 W. M. Flinders Petrie covered the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth dynasties in the second volume of " A 

 Ili-T'.rv of Firypt": and the second of James F. 

 McCurdy's work on "History, Prophecy, and the 

 Monuments " carried us to "To the Fall of Nine- 

 veh." A "Historical Sketch of Armenia and the 

 Armenians in Ancient and Modern Times " was 

 written, with special reference to the present crisis, 



An Old Indian." Major-Gen. W. C. F. Moly- 

 neux described " Campaigning in South Africa and 

 Egypt " : Georsre McCall Theal wrote of " The 

 Portuguese in South Africa "; and \V. E. G. Fisher, 

 a brief history of The Transvaal and the B< 

 "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" was the theme 

 of Israel Abrahams, and - The Story of Extinct 

 Civilizations of the East " was written by Robert 

 K. Anderson for the "Library of Useful Stories." 

 The " Modern History of the City of London." 

 tracing its municipal and social progress from 1760 



