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able, bat among the other important historical 

 works were : Mr. Fronde's " History of the Tu- 

 dors;" Vaughan's "Revolutions in English 

 History ; " the Calendar* of .State Papers collect- 

 ed and arranged by Mrs. Everett Greene, Mr. 

 \V. X. Sainsbury, and others, the former refer- 

 ring to the time of Charles II. ; " Annals of 

 the Wars of the Eighteenth Century," by lion. 

 Sir Edward Gust ; " Domestic Annals of Scot- 

 land, 1688-1745," by Robert Chambers ; a large 

 class of historic biographies and correspondence 

 of persons either themselves eminent, or asso- 

 ciating with persons of distinction ; among these 

 were Lord Colchester's ''Diaries and Corre- 

 spondence ; " Mrs. Delauy's (Mary Granville) 

 "Autobiography and Correspondence," con- 

 taining reminiscences of George III. and Queen 

 Charlotte ; Lord Stanhope's " Life of William 

 Pitt ; " Dr. Doran's " Memoir of Queen Ade- 

 laide ; " J. S. Watson's " Life of Person ; " 

 " Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, Lady 

 Companion to the Princess Charlotte ; " " Life 

 of Mrs. Cameron ; " " Life and Letters of Lady 

 Mary Wortley Montagu," by W. M. Thomas 

 (vol. II.) ; Miss Strickland's " Bachelor Kings 

 of England ; " Napier's " Life of Sir Charles 

 Napier ; " k% Memoir of the Life and Times of 

 A. De Tocqueville ; " Dr. Thomas Somerville's 

 "My own Life and Times, 1741-1814;" T. 

 Macknight's '-Life and Times of Edmund 

 Burke ; " Burton's " Lectures on Archbishop 

 Cranmer; " Martha W. Freer's " Henry IV. 

 and Marie di Medici ; " Froude's republication 

 of " The Pilgrim ; a Dialogue relative to the 

 conduct of Henry VIII.," by a Welshman, 

 named Thomas, contemporary of that king ; 

 Dean Ramsay's second series of " Reminiscences 

 of Scottish Life and Character ; " Lord Brough- 

 am's " History of England under the House 

 of Lancaster ; " Rev. B. W. Savile's " Introduc- 

 tion of Christianity into Britain." Besides these 

 there were monographs, such as " Arminius ; 

 a History of the German People," by the late 

 Thomas Smith ; " Malta under the Phoenicians, 

 Knights, and English," by W. Tullock ; " Pri- 

 vate Diary of General Sir Robert Wilson, 1812- 

 1814 ; " " History of Manchester ; " " Secret 

 History of France under Louis XV. ; " Muir's 

 " Life of Mahomet ; " Dicey's " Memoir of 

 Count Cavour ; " J. Hepworth Dixon's " Life 

 of Francis Bacon ; " Ellis' " Armenian Origin of 

 the Etruscans ; " Black's " Guide to Surrey ; " 

 MacFarlan and Thompson's " Comprehensive 

 History of England; " Rev. P. Jones' "History 

 of the Ojibway Indians ; " " The Twelve Great 

 Battles of England, from Hastings to Water- 

 loo ; " Pearson's " Early and Middle Ages of 

 England ; " J. Goldwin Smith's " Irish History 

 and Irish Character ; " G. Smith's " History of 

 Wesleyan Methodism ; " the " Memoirs of Jo- 

 seph Alleine, Samuel Drew, &c. ; " Mrs. Jane 

 Williams' " Literary Women of England ; " an 

 anonymous but wretchedly compiled volume of 

 "Contemporary Biography," and George Cou- 

 tie's " Annals of Eminent Living Men," also 

 belong to this department. 



In the department of belles-lettres the year 

 was remarkably prolific ; all the English novel- 

 ists of high reputation have furnished their 

 quota of fiction. Mr. Dickens' " Great Expec- 

 tations " was received with much favor ; Mr. 

 Thackeray's " Lovell, the Widower," first pub- 

 lished in the " Cornhill Magazine," enhanced 

 his popularity ; " George Eliot" (Miss Evans) 

 followed her " Mill on the Floss " by tk Silos 

 Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe," a tale of 

 great power ; Shirley Brooks published " Tho 

 Silver Cord ; " the Trollope brothers, " Fram- 

 ley Parsonage," and " La Beata ; " Mrs. Henry 

 Wood, " East Lynne ; " Wilkie Collins, " Hide 

 and Seek ; " Walter Thornbury " Cross Coun- 

 try ;" W. G. Wills "Notice to Quit;" J. F. 

 Corkran, "East and West, or Once upon a 

 Time ; " Edward Copping, " The Home of Rose- 

 field ; " Garth Rivers, "Miss Gwynneof Wood- 

 ford ; " Mary C. Hume, " The Wedding Guests, 

 or the Happiness of Life ;" Philip Ireton, " The 

 Broken Troth," a tale of village life in Tuscany, 

 from the Italian ; J. Blagden, " Agnes Tre- 

 morne ; " John Saunders, " The Shadow in the 

 House;" 'Holme Lee,' "Legends from Fairy 

 Laud ; " Mr. E. Peacock, " Gryll Grange ; " F. 

 C. Armstrong, " The Frigate and the Lugger, a 

 Nautical Romance." Several anonymous novels 

 of merit appeared during the year; among 

 them were " Memoirs of an Unknown Life ; '* 

 "My Heart's in the Highlands;'.' "Tilbury 

 Nogo, or Passages in the Life of an Unsuccess- 

 ful Man ; " " The Anchoret of Montserrat ; " 

 and " Wild Dayrell, a biography of a Gentle- 

 man Exile." 



In the way of essays, the second series of 

 " Recreations of a Country Parson " and " The 

 Country Parson in Town," by Rev. A. K. H. 

 Boyd, and " Hora3 Subsecivse, or Spare Hours," 

 by Dr. John Brown, author of " Rab and his 

 Friends," were received with great favor. 

 " Three Lectures on Translating Homer," by 

 Matthew Arnold, show very clearly how the 

 Greek poet should not be translated. The late 

 Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby published, just before his 

 death, an exquisitely illustrated work entitled 

 " Ramblings in Elucidation of the Autograph 

 of Milton ; " and Mr. J. R. Wise gratified the 

 lovers of Shakspeare by the publication of an 

 admirable guide-book to Stratford-on-Avon, 

 adorned with some of Linton's best drawings, 

 under the title of " Shakspeare ; his Birthplace 

 and Neighborhood." Two translations of Hin- 

 doo works deserve notice : Mr. Edward Ar- 

 nold's "Book of Good Counsels," translated 

 from the Hitopadesa, and Father Beschi's " Ad- 

 ventures of Gooroo Simple and his Five Disci- 

 ples," a collection of Hindoo satires, illustrated 

 by Alfred Crowquill. Mr. (Dr. ?) J. H. Bren- 

 ton, in his " Tragedy of Life ; Reminiscences of 

 some Phases of Lunacy in a Physician's Prac- 

 tice," worked with considerable success the 

 vein struck many years ago by Samuel Warren 

 in his " Diary of a Physician.'' Miss Strick- 

 land, leaving "for awhile the statelier walks of 

 history, gave some pleasant sketches of East 



