LiTKKATt'RF. IJIMTISII. IX 1896. 



LITERATURE, CONTIXF.NTAL. IN L896. 



Yukon river to (lie Bering Sea. " ( 'amping in the 

 Canadian Kockics," by Walter Ihvight Wilcox. was 

 superbly illustrated, with :?"> full-page photogravures 

 fend numerous text illustrations from photographs 

 taken bv the, author. " In the Northman's Land," 

 by .Major A. !'. Mockler-Ferryman, the author of 

 he Niger." described travel and folklore in 

 the Hardanger Fiord and Fjcld, wiiile William A. 

 Baillie Grohman wrote of "Sport in the Alps in the 

 Past and Present," and Kev. Walter Weston of 

 "Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese 

 Alps." Stuart Henry published " Paris Days and 

 Evenings," and ('apt. the Hon. D. Bingharn, " Rec- 

 ollections of Paris,'' in two volumes. "In tin; 

 Volcanic Kifel," by Katherine S. and Gilbert S. 

 Maequoid, told of a holiday ramble through some 

 of the grandest scenery of Germany, and H. Ellen 

 Browning described " A Girl's Wanderings in Hun- 

 gary." David G. Hogarth was " A Wandering 

 Scholar in the Levant." E. A. Bray ley Hodgetts 

 went " Round about Armenia," and James Wells, 

 D. D., gave ' Travel Pictures from Palestine." Sir 

 Edwin Arnold had a new volume on "East and 

 West.'' and " With the Yacht and Camera in East- 

 ern Waters'' was by the Earl of Cavan. Rev. G. 

 Cockburn described " John Chinaman : His Ways 

 and Notions": R. S. Gundry wrote on "China, 

 Present and Past ": and .Mrs. Archibald Little pub- 

 lished "My Diary in a Chinese Farm." "The 

 Heart of a Continent " was a narrative of travels in 

 Manchuria, across the Globi Desert, through the 

 Himalayas, the Pamirs and Chitral, 1884-'"94, by 

 Frank E. Younghusband, and two volumes on 

 "The Exploration of the Central Caucasus,'' by 

 Douglas W. Freshfield, were magnificently illus'- 

 trated. Walter B.Harris went "From Batum to 

 Baghdad via Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan ''; 

 Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon told of " Persia 

 Revisited " ; E. Treacher Collins was at home * In 

 the Kingdom of the Shah " ; and Major-Gen. Sir 

 Charles Wilson edited a " Handbook for Travelers 

 in Asia Minor, Trans-Caucasia, Persia, etc." "The 

 New Siberia." by II. de YVindt. was an account of a 

 visit to the penal island of Sakhalin and political 

 prison and mines of the Trans-Baikal District, 

 Eastern Siberia: F. St. J. Gore described "Lights 

 and Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu 

 Highlands of the Punjab '': as Samuel J. Stone did 

 "Travel and Sport in and beyond the Himalayas." 

 the last work being illustrated by Charles Whymper. 

 " Fifty Years' Reminiscences of India," by Col. 

 Pollok, " Leaves from a Diary in Lower Bengal." 

 by C. S. Retired, and "With 'the Jungle Folk." a 

 sketch of Burmese village life, by E. D. Cuming, 

 illustrated by a Burmese artist, may be classed 

 together, and from Mrs. Gwendolen Trench Gas- 

 coigne we have " Among Pagodas and Fair Ladies." 

 " Through the Buffer State " was a record of recent 

 travels through Borneo, Siarn, and Cambodia, by 

 Surgeon-Major Macgregor, and Henry Ling Roth 

 wrote of " The Natives of Sarawak and British 

 North Borneo," Andrew Lang contributing a pref- 

 ace to the two volumes. Henry Duff Traill jour- 

 neyed " From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier," and 

 Stanley Lane-Pool edited "Cairo Fifty Years Ago," 

 by E. W. Lane. " Hausaland : or, Fifteen Hundred 

 Miles through the Central Soudan" came from 

 Charles Henry Robinson, and G.F. Scott Elliot was 

 ' A Naturalist in Mid-Africa." Walter B. Harris 

 was again heard from in " Tafilet," the narrative of 

 a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains 

 and the oases of the northwestern Sahara ; " The 

 Great Rift Valley." by J. W. Gregory, gives the re- 

 sults of a new East African expedition ; Alice 

 Blanche Balfour traveled " Twelve Hundred Miles 

 in an Ox Wagon " through South Africa ; and A. H. 

 Iveane was the author of the second volume of 



"Africa" in Stanford's " Compendium of <!e<.-raphy 

 and Travel," being devoted to "Son! I: 



.lames Siltive pictured " .M;e 

 the Conquest." Edward A. Fit/.gcrald pub! 

 "Climbs in the New Zealand Alps." being B 

 count of travel and discovery; Albert T. ( 'alvert, 

 -The Exploration of Australia"; and "A Peripatetic 

 Parson" visited "Paris nf tin- Pacific." .1 

 Rodway was heard from on "The West Indies and 

 the Spanish Main." and British Guiana and its Re- 

 sources" were treated by the author of "Sardinia and 

 its Resources." "The Journal of the Right Hnn. Sir- 

 Joseph Banks during Captain Cook's FirM V 

 in II. M. S. 'Endeavor/ in 1768-'71 " was edited by 

 Sir Joseph D. Hooker, and a handsome volune 

 made of George Borrow's "The Bible in Spain," 

 edited, with notes and a glossary, by L lick Ralph 

 Burke. For young folks were written Sweetheart 

 Travelers," by Samuel R. Crockett, illustrated by- 

 Gordon Browne and W. H. C. Groome, and " How- 

 Dick and Molly saw- England," by M. II. Cornwall 

 Legh. " Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from 

 Early Times " came from John Guthrie Smith ; 

 " Rambles in Galloway,'' from Malcolm McL. Har- 

 per ; and "Scotland, Picturesque and Traditional " 

 from George Eyre-Todd ; while Edmund Bogg went 

 "From Edendale to the Plains of York"; David 

 Dippie Dixon described " Whittingham Vale, 

 Northumberland," and John Lloyd Warden Page, 

 " The Coasts of Devon and Lundy Island." A new 

 cheaper edition was issued of '' Walks in Florence 

 and its Environs," by Susan and Joanna Horner, in 

 two volun. 



The following are the figures of book-production 

 in England during the year, from the " Pub- 

 lishers' Circular " : 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. IN 1896. 



Though the restrictions of space necessarily in< 

 with increasing publishing activity, the following 

 summary is believed to represent with reasonable full- 

 ness the" literary record of the various lands, move- 

 ments, and writers, books of great momentary interest 

 as well as those of lasting importance being noted : 

 Belgium. Various phases of national history 

 and development are illustrated in Ed. van Even's 

 important "Louvain dans le Passe et le Present" 

 (now completed) ; the interesting " Pages d'Histoire 

 locale gantoise" (third series), by Prosper C: 

 Herman van Duyse's " Lea < '< -nquesa Gand (1814)"; 

 Rornberg's curious " Les Journaux a Gand pendant 

 ent Jours''; Demarteau's "historical study of 



