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Revue." vehement admirers of the French. German, 

 and English decadent s. though .-t riving for indi- 

 vidual freedom "1 expression. Or. again, the new 

 men standing aloof from both tliese .-clmols: < ). Bfe- 

 /ina, author of "The Dawn in the West" (poems), 

 Slejhar, with his stories - What Life passes by," and 

 author of " A Broken Soul.' Unsuccessful at- 

 tempts 10 bring these conlliuting elements to agree- 

 ment were the manifesto issued by a number of new 

 men under the name of "Moderna." and the " Al- 

 manac of the Secession," to which writers of all tend- 

 encies were asked to contribute by the " Modern] 

 Revue." But we are assured that while literary 

 effort is in consequence limited and scattered, the 

 increased and lively interest in literary matters 

 promises well for the future. Numerous collec- 

 tions of short stories again characterize the trend 

 of prose fiction. Such are " Kalibuv zlocin," by 

 Rais, and Stasek's " Blouznivci nasich hor," both 

 strong descriptions of Bohemian highland life ; Svo- 

 boda's " Short Tales " ; and Kaminsky's " Studies and 

 Tales." Stech's " Hlozi " and " Koleje " deal with 

 the social life of small towns. No special originality 

 marks the efforts of the female writers Bozena Vi- 

 kova Kuneticka ("Minulost " "The Past" inter- 

 esting novel of modern life), Gabriela Preiss ('' Stories 

 from Garinthia" and "Pictures without Frames"), 

 and Ruzena Svobodova ("On Sandy Ground" and 

 " An Overburdened Ear of Corn "). Xew poetry 

 is Klastersky's "Living Shadows"; Kaminsky's 

 " Two Tales in Verse " and " Motives from Sychrov " ; 

 the well-known story writer Simacek's successful 

 "A-wooing"; Kvapil's ''Oddanost"; and "Book 

 of the Parcae" and "Atropos," tinged with a mourn- 

 ful resignation, by the prolific Vrchlicky, a collected 

 edition of whose works is appearing. The new move- 

 ment referred to is felt in dramatic works by young 

 authors, notably Hilbert's "Vina" and Kvapil's 

 " Bludicka " (cleverly characterizing Prague society 

 and artist life), both very successful. 



Denmark. A new and enlarged edition of Trap's 

 useful statistical and topographical work on Den- 

 mark has appeared. The active Selskab for Ud- 

 givelse af Kilder til dansk Historic is publishing 

 a " Samling af Danmarks Lavsskraaer fra Middel- 

 alderen." E. Loventhal, a missionary, describes " In- 

 dien for og nu," and the Lithuanians are depicted 

 in A age Meyer's "A People that awakens." H. J. 

 Hansen reflects upon " Germanisirung af dansk 

 Videnskab." H. Hoffding considers " Jean Jacques 

 Rousseau og hans Filosofi." Alfred Lehmann con- 

 tinues his important work " Over Tro og Trolddom 

 fra de aeldste Tider til vore Dage." and V. Bang 

 writes of " Hexevaesen og Hexeforfolgelser isser i 

 Danmark." Of archaeological interest are J. Mag- 

 nus Petersen's " Beskrivelse og Afbildninger af 

 Kalkmalerier i danske Kirker" ; V. Boye's " Fund 

 af Egekister fra Bronzealdren i Danmark " ; and 

 J. Steenstrup's " Det store Solvfund ved Gunde- 

 strup i Jylland 1891." Vol. I of Konrad Gislason's 

 "Efterladte Skrifter" comprises " Forela>sninger 

 over oldnordiske Skjaldekvad." " Danmarks Lit- 

 eratur i Middelalderen. med Henblik til det ovrige 

 Nordens " forms the theme of J. Paludan. 



Reference was made last year to the gradual dis- 

 appearance of crass naturalism, and now Johannes 

 Jorgensen, writing of his conversion to Romanism, 

 charges his former literary partisans with loose 

 morals. The year's fiction 'includes Holger Drach- 

 mann's mediaeval novel " Kitzwalde " ; Peter Man- 

 ager's posthumous novel on Sparta ; Henrik Pon- 

 toppidan's " DommenS Dag " (completing a trilogy 

 of novels describing the Grundtvigian movement) ; 

 Peter Nansen's " Guds Fred " : " JEbelo," a fantas- 

 tic love idyl, by Sophus Michaelis ; Carl Evald's 

 " Den gamle Stue " ; J. Moller's " Tabte Toiler " ; 

 K. Larsen's " Doktor Ix " ; S. Schandorph's " Alice 



og mindre Fort;cllinger " ; and J. Sfhjor 

 "Svundne Dromnar." Ludvig Holstcin, a \ 

 writer, has made his mark with a volume of melo- 

 dious verse. Among new dramatic: publications 

 are Holger Drachmann's volume of short " Melo- 

 dramer," and E. Brandes's " Muhammed : Skue- 

 spil." 



Sigurdur Kristjansson, the Icelandic publisher, is 

 bringing out a cheap edition of the Icelandic sagas, 

 and a series of 20 biographies of noted Icelai. 

 the first 2 treated being the historian Jon Espolin 

 and the poet Magnus Jonsson. 



France. The stream of printed matter dealing 

 with the Revolution and the Empire still pours out 

 with unabated force. Thus we have Armand Dayot's 

 finely illustrated work on the revolution; Eugene 

 Spuller's " Homines et C hoses de la Revolution " ; 

 A. ChallamePs " Les Clubs contre-revolutionnaires " 

 and " Actes de la Commune de Paris pendant la 

 Revolution," by S. Lacroix, both in the " Collection 

 de Documents relatifs a PHistoire de Paris"; "La 

 Preparation de la Guerre de Vendee, 1789-'93 "and 

 ' La Vendee patriote, l?93-'94," by Ch. L. Chassin : 

 " Vie a Paris pendant une Annee de la Revolution," 

 vividly described by Isambert ; " Journal d'un Pre- 

 tre Parisien " during the revolution, published by 

 C. d'Hericault ; L. Sciout's " Le Directoire " ; G. 

 Lenotre's " Un Conspirateur royaliste pendant la 

 Ten-ear: le Baron de Batz, 1?92^'95; Albert Tour- 

 nier's attempts to rehabilitate '-Vadier, President du 

 Comite de Surete generale pendant la Terreur"; 

 the interesting " Memoires, 1771-1815 " of Madame 

 de Chastenay ; " Le Mariage de Madame Roland : 

 trois Annees de Correspondance amoureuse (1777- 

 1780)," edited by A. Join-Lambert (not telling much 

 that is new) : Geoffrey de Grandmaison's " Napoleon 

 et ses recentes Historiens" (studied from the stand- 

 point of a Christian moralist) ; Joseph Turquan's 

 "La Generale Bonaparte"; " L'Imperatrice Jose- 

 phine " (aiming at a true picture of the empress), 

 " Les Soeurs de Napoleon," and " La Reine Hor- 

 tense " ; Henri Bouchot's " La Toilette a la Cour de 

 Napoleon : Chiffons et Politique de graudes Dames, 

 1810-'15 " ; the Marquis de Sassenay's authoritative 

 " Les derniers Mois de Murat " : Huon de Penan- 

 ster's "Une Conspiration en PAn XI et en PAn 

 XII " ; " Operations du 3" Corps, 1806-'7 : Rapport 

 du Marechal Davout. Due d'Auerstaedt, public par 

 son Neveu, le General Davout," a literary document 

 of much value: the "Memoires" (1802-'32) of the 

 General Comte de Saint-( 'hamans ; Sebastien Blaze's 

 " Memoires d'un Aide-Major sous le l er Empire," an 

 account of the Spanish war, 1808-1814, supplement- 

 ing Thiebault : and Col. de Poyen's " Les Guerres des 

 Antilles de 1793 a 1815." " Les Complots militaires 

 sous la Restauration," by E. Guillon ; A. Calmon's 

 "HistoireparlementairedesFinancesde la Monarchic 

 de Juillet " ; Count d'Osmond's " Reliques et Impres- 

 sions " ; the letters of the Duchesse de Broglie ; Othe- 

 nin d'Haussonville's impartial and sympathetic < 

 on the Comte de Paris ; and Vol.1 of the " Memoires" 

 of the Baron d'Haussez. 1814-'24, cover the follow- 

 ing period. Napoleon III and the second empire 

 are dealt with from various standpoints in the Due 

 de Persigny's somewhat cynical " Memoires " : De- 

 normandie's "Notes et Souvenirs," of the siege of 

 Paris and the Commune, described also in A. Bar- 

 ren's "Sous le Drapeau rouge": Thirria's "Na- 

 poleon III avant PEmpire"; Pierre de Lano's 

 "L' Amour a Paris sous le Second Empire"; Etienne 

 Lamy's valuable " Etudes sur le Second Empire " 

 (" marked by a reaction against the violent attacks 

 on Napoleon III ") : Rouss.-i's military history, "La 

 seconde Campagne de la France : Histoire generale 

 de la Guerre franco-allemande " ; and Henri Roche- 

 fort's " Les Aventures de ma Vie." Still other works 

 dealing with various periods and phases of French 



