I.ITKILUTKK ANN I ITKIIAUY PROGI: 



Lectures" of 1858, Inn coino to tlio rescue of 



Villiam Hamilton in a criticism on Mr. 



animation.'' originally pulmMied in 



:r;f AVr/W, and 



rvpiiMMiol in a small volume, with addi- 

 under tin- designation of " Tho Phi 1 080- 

 :' tin- Condition 



ler I'H- head of AvrnjrAitiAMsM, TOPOGRA- 

 PHY, ;i!nl FOLK I.OI:K, M>me works of great inter- 

 eat wore published. ' Physical Geography and 

 l bounty of Leicester," istho title 

 of a work l.y 1 'rofessor Ansted. Dr. Ginsburg 



A i it ten an essay on " The Kabbalah, its 



Development, and Literature," from 



.tion of which ho derives certain rules 



the interpretation of the Old Testament. 



: the editorship of Dr. Herman Oesterley, 

 we iiavo had a republication of the " Hundred 

 mentioned by Shakespeare in 

 i Ado about Nothing." Messrs. George 

 E. J. Powell and Eirikr Magnusson have 

 translated and published a second series of their 

 " Icelandic Legends," collected by Jon Arnason. 

 Tho first scries was issued in 1864, and to this 

 second instalment i.s prefixed an Introductory 

 Essay on Icelandic Superstition. " The History 

 of Signboards from the Earliest Times to the 

 Present Day," by Messrs. Larwood and Hotten, 

 is a highly curious work, accompanied by 

 copies of some of the most memorable and re- 

 markable of the signs of London and other 



-, and is altogether a treasure of anti- 

 mjaries. The "Remains of the Early Popular 

 Poetry of England," collected and edited, with 

 Introductory Notes, by Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, 

 is another work appealing especially to the an- 

 tiquary. Mr. Henry B. Wheatley has made a 

 (piaint collection of odd expressions, such as 

 " mingle-mangle," " splish-splash," "hugger- 

 mutr^er," etc., under the title of " A Dictionary 

 of Reduplicated Words in the English Lan- 



." Mr. Wheatley has mustered nearly 

 MX hundred of these, gathered from various 

 parts of the country. Mr. S. Baring-Gould's 

 -% Curious Myths of the Middle Ages" is a col- 

 lection of remarkable narratives, once forming 

 part of the popular belief, and still holding 

 their place in poetry and legend. A similar 

 work is Mr. William Henderson's "Notes on 

 the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of 

 England and the Borders;" to which Mr. Bar- 

 ing-Gould has added an Appendix on House- 

 hold Stories. "English Clairch Furniture, 

 Ornaments, and Decorations, at the Period of 



: formation, as exhibited in a List of the 

 is Destroyed in Certain Lincolnshire 

 Churches, A. D. 1566," is the title of a labo- 

 rious work, published under the editorship of 

 -Mr. Edward Peacock, F. S. A. 



In the department of ESSAYS, there are 

 two works from Mr. Ruskin. "The Ethics 

 of the Dust" is described on the title-page as 

 a collection of " Ten Lectures to Little House- 

 Vives on the Elements of Crystallization," and 

 is to some extent a scientific book ; yet the 



-writing manner is so constantly pre- 



served, nnd the work is so little technical and BO 



thoroughly literary, that it is more fitly placed 

 under tliis head. Mr. Ruskin'a other voltimo 

 it led "The Crown of Wild olive." The 

 hook consists of three lectures on Work, Traffic, 

 and War. Art criticism has found an expon. -<\t 

 in Mr. Henry O'Neil's "Lectures on'Painting, 

 delivered at the Royal Academy." Literary 

 criticism has been made the subject of a book 

 by Mr. E. S. Dallas, bearing the very fan- 

 tastic title of " The Gay Science." " A* Man- 

 chester Man" reprints from Prater's Maga- 

 zine certain "Free Thoughts on Many Sub- 

 jects." Of quite another order is the volume 

 by Mr. Matthew Brown, called " Views and 

 Opinions ; " while in the " Priest and Parish " 

 of the Rev. Harry Jones, Incumbent of St. 

 Luke's, Berwick Street, Soho, we have an ac- 

 count of what a clergyman in the pursuit of his 

 calling and in the conduct of his daily life may, 

 should, and should not do. The Duke of Argyll 

 has reprinted, with the title of "The Reign of 

 Law," some of his periodical papers and Ad- 

 dresses to the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; and 

 under this heading of " Essays " we should per- 

 haps include a charming production by Mr. 

 Charles Knight, " Half-hours with the Best Let- 

 ter-writers and Antobiographers," a companion 

 to the " Half-hours with the Best Authors." 



The leading work in FICTION, which the year 

 1866 brought forth, was Miss Evans's "Felix 

 Holt, the Radical." Perhaps the next novel of 

 importance to "Felix Holt " is Mr. Wilkie Col- 

 lins's " Armadale." In strong contrast with 

 this highly-wrought tale is the quiet, simple 

 story of every-day life, " Wives and Daughters " 

 the last work of the lamented Mrs. Gaskell. 

 " The Belton Estate," by Mr. Anthony Trollope, 

 was reproduced, early in the year, from the 

 pages of the Fortnightly Review, where it had 

 appeared in successive numbers; and toward 

 the close of 1866 Mr. Trollope commenced a 

 serial storv in sixpenny weekly numbers, called 

 " The Last Chronicle of Barset," Mr. T. Adol- 

 phus Trollope has published a novel of Italian 

 life, entitled " Gemma ; " and Mr. Shirley Brooks 

 has begun a story in monthly parts, with the 

 designation of "Sooner or Later." Mr. Alex- 

 ander Smith, the poet, favored us with "Alfred 

 llairart's Household." The latest work of Mrs. 

 Craik (Miss Mulock), " A Noble Life," is in- 

 tensely moral in its character. Mr. E. Yates 

 h.is given us " Land at Last " and " Kissing 

 the Rod," and Mr. Whyte Melville has published 

 a tale of French life in the last century, called 

 " Cerise." "The Lady's Mile " is one of Miss 

 Braddon's fictions; and the authoress has al- 

 ready commenced another in her own magazine, 

 Belgravia. Mrs. Oliphant has added a new sec- 

 tion to her admirable series of fictions, "The 

 Chronicles of Carlingford," and from the same 

 authoress we have also " Madonna Mary." Mr. 

 J. Sheridan Le Fanu has published a story 

 called "All in the Dark." Mi& Sarah Tytler, 

 author of "Citoyenne Jacqueline," has gathered 

 together, under the title of "Days of Yore," 



