424 LITERATURE, ETC., IN 1873. 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1878. 



cially M the causes of the present state of 

 things may be presumed to bo only temporary. 



In fiction, scarcely any thing worthy of note 

 appears on the other side which is not ut once 

 laid before American readers. The ]>>!- 

 hiiiiiuusly published novel of Lord Lytton, 

 "Kenelm Chillingly," Fargeon's "London's 

 Heart," and "Golden Grain," F. W. Robert- 

 son's tales, especially " Little Kate Kirby," Mi-s 

 Thackeray's masterpiece, "Old Kensington," 

 "Johannes Olaf " (a truncation from tin- (ior- 

 man), " Hero Oarthevr," by Louisa Parr (a very 

 fresh creation), are among the more important. 

 The visit of Wilkie Collins to this country 

 naturally gave an impetus to the sale of his 

 novels. Two or more editions were started 

 nearly at the same time; one of them under 

 his own sanction, and dedicated to the Ameri- 

 can people. Rhoda Broughkm has her ad- 

 mirers in this country. Her last is entitled 

 "Nancy." Mention should be made of Mrs. 

 Oliphant's "May; " of "Galama, or, The Beg- 

 gars," by Do Liefde (translated); of "The Fair 

 Saxon," by Justin McCarthy ; of " Madeleine," 

 by Julia Kavanagh, and of translations from 

 Turgenef, Cherbulier, Freytag, and other Ger- 

 man authors. The standard British novelists, 

 Scott, Dickens, etc., continue to be published 

 in all shapes. The "Pickwick Papers" have 

 been illustrated by our American caricaturist, 

 Thomas Nast 



Perhaps the department most largely rep- 

 resented among ns by English authors is that 

 of Science and Philosophy. Such worksas Her- 

 bert Spencer's " Psychology " and " Study of 

 Social Science ; " TyndalPs " Lectures on 

 Li --iit;" Bagehot's "English Constitution," 

 Lombiird Street," and "Physics and Poli- 

 tics;" Deschanel'B "Natural Philosophy;" 

 Helmholtz's "Popular Science L> -; uivs ; " the 

 ' Critiques and Addresses" of Huxley; Bain's 

 "The Body and Mind ; " Figuier's "The Ocean 

 World," and "Reptiles and Birds;" Win. 

 Thompson's " The Depth of the Sea ; " Hooker's 

 " General System of Descriptive Botany ; " 

 Lyoll's " Antiquity of Man," 4th edition ; "and 

 B. A. Proctor's -Half-Hours with the Tele- 

 scope " and " The Moon." 



In Poetry, the most noticeable works were 

 Browning's "Red Cotton Nightcap Country." 

 and the anonymous but remarkable " White 

 Rose and Rud." In Hiography, several works 

 of miiistiul importance came to us; the auto- 

 !>i"/ru|.hic9 of John Stuart Mill and of 



rville; a second volume of Forster's I .if.- 

 of Dickens; "The Story of Goethe's Life." l.y 

 i 11. Lewes; "The Oxford Methodists." l.y 

 Tyermin; Hare's "Records of a Quiet I 

 Lord Houghton's "Monographs, Personal mid 



1;" Morley's "Rousseau," ami II 

 H.i.'li.-Vn channing "Memoir of a Brother." 



.iys, a notable volume is "Li 1 

 Equality, and Fraternity," by James Fitziami s 

 Stephen. The ,,f Lite," and "Liter- 



ary and Social Judgment*," by W. R. < 

 have won the attention of thoughtful readers. 



"The Intellectual Life," by Philip Gilbert Ha- 

 im-rton, has been well received. 



In Theology, the greatest sensation was 

 made by Dr. Matthew's " Literature and Dog- 

 ma." A volume of Essays on the Revision of 

 the Authorized Version of the New Testumeiit, 

 by Prof. Lisrhttbot, Areiiliishop Trench and 

 Bishop Ellicott, has been issued, with tin Intro- 

 duction by Dr. Sclmff. Other works of inter- 

 est are, Dean Stanley's "Sermons mid Ti 

 in the East;" Prof. G. Ruwliiison's Histori- 

 cal Illustrations of the Old Testament ; " I lean 

 Howson, on " The Character of St. Paul ; " the 

 successive volumes of "The Speaker's Com- 

 mentary;" the Rev. J. R. F. Eaton's Kumpton 

 Lectures, on "The Permanence of Christiuui- 

 ty; " the Boyle Lectures on "Moral l)il!icultics 

 of the Bible," by the Rev. J. A. IK-s,;,, 1). C. 

 L. ; the volume of the Christian Evidence So- 

 ciety's Lectures, entitled "Faith and Free 

 Thought," with an Introduction by the lute 

 Bishop Wilberforce, and " Sermons on Eccle- 

 siastical Subjects," by Henry Edward Manning, 

 Archbishop of Westminster. 



Under the head of Travels, appeared " The 

 Land of Moab," by Canon Tristram; an ad- 

 mirable view of China, entitled "The For- 

 eigner in Far Cathay," by W. II. Medhnrst; 

 "Old Rome and New Italy," by Castclur ; 

 Taine's "Tour through the Pyrenees;" II. 

 Blackburn's pleasant volumes, " Nonnundy 

 Picturesque," and "Artists and Arabs;" and 

 a sumptuous volume, "Japan and the Japan- 

 ese," by Aiino Humbert, Envoy Extraordinary 

 of the Swiss Confederation, translated from 

 the French by Miss Cashel Hoey, with numer- 

 ous illustrations. A work of more than ordi- 

 nary interest is " French Home Life," a volnmo 

 of essays reprinted from Iliad-Hood's M<ty<i- 

 eine. 



The scries of " Ancient Clussics for EnplWi 

 Readers " is continued, and it would be pos- 

 sible, if it were worth while, to make a long 

 list of miscellaneous and juvenile works which, 

 in the absence of any law of copyright for the 

 benefit of foreign authors, are reproduced here 

 in endless succession. But it is I.elieveil that 

 an increasing proportion of the rending of 

 Americans is in the productions of American 

 authors, who, in turn, are finding every your 

 more readers in the mother-country. This 

 growing reciprocity of interest in each other's 

 literature Is a bond of peace between the best 

 minds of the two nations, and so, it may be 

 hoped, between the nations thcmsd 



LITERATURE, COXTIXKXTAI, ix 1ST:!. The 

 movements in Continental literature in 1873 

 will bo seen by the following extracts from 

 the correspondence of the London Athrnirnm: 



BEIXIIUM. This country, which escape.! nl- 

 most by a miracle the calamities of the Franco- 

 German War, now understands better than 

 ever the value of her national indepcii'l' 

 An important publication, which n|)j 

 early in 1873, proves her confidence in the 

 present, and her faith in the future. The 



