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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1896. 



ers," containing 200 illustrations ; W. Smith wrote 

 " The Life of a Fox " for the ' Sportsman's Library " ; 

 "Red Deer," in the " Fur and Featlier Series," had 

 the "Natural History" written by II. A. Macpher- 

 son ; " Deer-Stalking," by Cameron of Lochiel ; 

 'Slag Hunting," by Viscount Ebrington ; and 

 "Cookery," by Alexander Innes Shan. Theodore 

 Taunton chronicled " Famous Horses," and Nat 

 Gould was at. home "On and Off the Turf in Aus- 

 tralia." "The Hastings Chess Tournament, lWi."i " 

 was edited by Horace F. Cheshire, and E. Freebo- 

 rough edited "Chess Endings," a companion to 

 " Chess Openings.'' " The Feasts of Autolycus," 

 by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, appeared in the " May- 

 fair Series," to which Julia Constant Fletcher 

 (George Fleming) contributed " For Plain Women 

 only." l% A Book of Scoundrels," by Charles Whib- 

 ley, presented the novel view of the artist as a 

 thief. 



Poetry. Noble and beautiful has been pro- 

 nounced " The Tale of Balen," by Algernon Charles 

 Swinburne, who again selected a British subject for 

 a poem, and the "New Poems, Hitherto Unpub- 

 lished or Uncollected " of Christina Unssetti were 

 edited by William Michael Rossetti, and accompa- 

 nied with a portrait from a pencil drawing by Dante 

 Gabriel Rossetti; "The Rossetti Birthday Book" 

 was also edited by Olivia Rossetti ; Sir Lewis Mor- 

 ris published " Idyls and Lyrics " ; and Frederick 

 Tennyson, "Poems of the Day and Year." " Selec- 

 tions from the Poems of George John Romanes " 

 were accompanied with an introduction by T. Her- 

 bert Warren ; and the " Poems " of Cecil Frances 

 Alexander were edited with a preface by William 

 Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of 

 Ireland. To a younger generation belong " New 

 Ballads," by John Davidson ; "The Purple East." a 

 series of sonnets on England's desertion of Ar- 

 menia, by William Watson ; and " England's Dar- 

 ling, and other Poems," by the poet laureate, Al- 

 fred Austin. "From the Hills of Dream: Moun- 

 tain Songs and Island Runes " was by Flora 

 Macleod ; " Poems and Ballads " came from Q ; 

 " Under Quicken Boughs," from Nora Hopper ; 

 "Spring's Immortality, and other Poems," from J. 

 Mackenzie Bell; "Songs and Rhymes," from B. 

 W. J. Trewaldwyn ; " Poems," from Jennings Car- 

 michael (Mrs. Francis Mullis) ; " Under Cross and 

 Crescent," from Violet Fane ; " Sonnets and 

 Songs," from May Bateman ; " A Lover's Breast- 

 knot " and " Miracle Plays : Our Lord's Com- 

 ing and Childhood," from Katharine Tynan Hink- 

 son ; " Piccadilly Poems," from J. L. Owen ; 

 "More llawarden Horace," from C. L. Graves; 

 " Song Favors," from C. W. Dalmon ; " Verses," 

 from J. A. Nicklin " Random Rhymes," from 

 Sam Wood ; " Aeromancy," from Margaret L. 

 Woods, who also published "Wild Justice," a 

 dramatic poem ; and " The Christ upon the Hill," a 

 ballad by Cosmo Monkhouse, was illustrated with 

 etchings by W. Strang. " Christ in Hades," by 

 Stephen Phillips, the author of "Eremus," and a 

 first book of " London Visions," by Laurence Bin- 

 yon, " Post-Mortem, and Other Poems " by Reginald 

 A. Beckett, deserve mention, as do " The Flower 

 Seller, and Other Poems" of Lady Lindsay and 

 " Day Dreams," by Rev. Alfred Gurney. " A Sex- 

 tet of Singers," who were respectively George Bar- 

 low, J. II. Blaikie, Paganus (L. Cranmer Byng), 

 Vincent O'Sullivan, Walter Herries Pollock, and 

 Sidney R. Thompson, provoked another volume, 

 " Sung by Six," namely, S. K. Cowan, J. H. Cousins, 

 W. M. Knox, L. J. McQuilland, W. T. Anderson, 

 and J. J. Pender. Arthur Munby told of " Ann 

 Morgan's Love " ; James Dryden Hosken published 

 " Christopher Marlowe and Belphegor," two short 

 poems ; Frederic Langbridge, " The Scales of 



Heaven " ; Gustav Kobbe, " My Rosary, and Other 

 Poems"; Vincent O'Sullivan,"" Poems "; T. W rat- 

 Haw. "Orchids"; Arthur Christopher Benson, 

 "Lord Vyet, and Other Poets'"; Mrs. G. Colmore, 

 "Poems of Love and Life''; Norman It. Gale, 

 " Songs for Little People," which were supple- 

 mented by Gabriel Setoun's (Thomas Hepburn) 

 -Child World " and William Canton's " W. V., her 

 Book, and Various Verses." Louisa Shore's 

 "Poems" were accompanied with a memoir by her 

 sister and an " appreciation " by Frederic Harrison ; 

 Winifred Lucas contributed " Units " to the poetry 

 of the year, as F. B. T. M. Coutts did " Poems "; 

 Charles \V. Cayzer, " Poems of Love and Nature"; 

 K. W. Kingston, " Julian's Vision, and Other 

 Poems"; Eleanor Foster, "With the Tide, and 

 Other Poems"; Percy Hemingway, " The Happy 

 Wanderer"; and A. E. Housman. ' A Shropshire 

 Lad." Robert Bridges wrote the " Ode for the Bi- 

 centenary Commemoration of Henry Purcell, and 

 Other Poems " ; " The Poems of Joseph Le Fanu " 

 were edited by Alfred Percival Graves ; and among 

 volumes of collections may be mentioned " West 

 Country Poets," edited by W. H. K. Wright; 

 " Lyra Celtica," edited by Elizabeth A. Sharp, with 

 an introduction and notes by William Sharp : " Lyr- 

 ical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria," selected 

 and edited by Oswald Crawfurd ; two volumes oi 

 ' Klizabethan Sonnet Cycles," edited by Martha 

 Foote Crow ; " A London Garland," selected from 

 five centuries of English verse, by William Ernest 

 Henley, with pictures by members of the Society of 

 Illustrators; Vol. V of "English Minstrelsie," 

 edited by S. Baring-Gould ; Vol. II of " Lyrical 

 Poetry from the Bible," edited by Ernest Rhys ; 

 l!o-~ Itosarum ex Horto Poetarum," by E. V. B. 

 (Mrs. Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle); "Poetry of 

 Sport." selected and edited by Hedley Peek, in the 

 Badminton Library"; and "Book Verse," an an- 

 thology of poems of books and bookmen from the 

 earliest times to recent years, edited by W. Roberts. 

 The Burns centenary called forth numerous edi- 

 tions of the works of the poet, among which that 

 edited by Andrew Lang, with the assistance of 

 W. A. Craigie, may be mentioned ; nor is the 

 Eversley " Wordsworth." edited by Prof. Knight, 

 to be overlooked. Vol. I was also 'issued of " The 

 Works of Lord Byron," edited by W. E. Henley ; 

 Robert Bridges contributed an introduction to the 

 "Poems" of John Keats, ed ; ted by G. Thorn Drew- 

 ry ; and in the series of "Nineteenth Century Clas- 

 sics," edited by Clement K. Shorter, we had Matthew 

 Arnold's " Alaric at Rome, and Other Poems," with 

 an introduction by Richard Garnett, and " The 

 Strayed Reveler, Empedocles on Etna." and other 

 poems, to which William Sharp supplied an intro- 

 duction. Among the dramatic words of the year 

 are to be noted " Attila. my Attila ! " by Michael 

 Field: " Charlecote; or, The Trial of William Shakes- 

 peare," by John Boyd Thatcher ; and " The Hus- 

 band of Poverty," who was St. Francis of Assisi, 

 according to Henry Neville Maughan. The " Se- 

 lected Works " of Sir John Vanbrugh were edited 

 in the series of " The Best Plays of the Old Drama- 

 tists," and T. Donovan gave us a volume of " Eng- 

 lish Historical Plays." 



Voyages and Travels. Hugh R. Haweis filled 

 two volumes with " Travel and Talk, 1885-'93-'95," 

 detailing the 100,000 miles traversed by him in 

 visiting all quarters of the globe; " Across Green- 

 land's Ice Fields," by M. Douglas, told of the ad- 

 ventures of Nan sen and Peary on the great ice 

 cap ; and " The Cruise of the ' Antarctic,' " by H. J. 

 Bull, of a voyage to thesouth polar regions in 1895 ; 

 while " Through the Subarctic Forests " was the 

 record of a canoe journey made by Warburton Pike 

 from Fort Wrangel to the Pelly lakes and down the 



