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naiiu-d, oar novel-readers have 

 taleiby Mrs. Alexander, Miss 

 Rhoda Broughton, Uolirrt Buchanan, Bra- 

 \1 ty 15 11 tts, II. M. Cadell, Mrs. Annie Ed- 

 \vnnl.-4, Juliana lloratia Ewing, B. L. Fargeon, 

 M i\ A Dili's Fleming, R. E. Francillon, C. 0. 

 ; I'ytler, P. G. Hamerton, Mary Cecil Hay, 

 Ellice Hopkins, Mrs. Linn Linton, Lord Lyt- 

 ton (a posthumously published fragment), Jus- 

 tin McCarthy, George Macdonald, F. Marryat, 

 SIH m Morley, James Payn, F. W. Robertson, 

 John Saunders, Anthony Trollopo, Edmund 

 Yates, and several anonymous fictions. 



In history and biography, we have received 

 n Lord Macaulay's Lifo and Letters " (Harpers) ; 

 " History of the United States," by John A. 

 Doyle, with a statistical map by Francis A. 

 Walker (Holt); 0. K. Paul's "William God- 

 win, his Friends and Contemporaries " (Rob- 

 erts) ; Rev. G. W. Cox's " General History of 

 Greece " (D. Appleton <fe Co.) ; " King and 

 Commonwealth: a History of the Great Rebel- 

 lion,' 1 by B. Meriton Cordery and J. S. Phil- 

 potts (Ooates) ; " Memoir of Norman Macleod, 

 D. D. " (Scribner) ; " Memoir and Correspond- 

 ence of Caroline Herschel " (D. Appleton & 

 Co.); "Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of 

 France," by Charles Duke Yonge (Harpers); 

 the volumes, for the most part admirably com- 

 piled, of a series entitled " Eposhsof History," 

 "Epochs of Ancient and of Modern History" 

 (Scribner), and the compact and lucid History 

 Primers (D. Appleton & Co.) ; " Fifty Years 

 of -My Life," by the Earl of Albemarle (Holt) ; 

 the seventh and concluding volume of D'Au- 

 bi^m'-'s " History of the Reformation in the 

 Tim.- of Calvin" (Carter); " Village Commu- 

 nities in the East and West," and other es- 

 says, by Sir Henry Sumner Maine (Holt); 

 " Life," etc., of Benjamin Robert Haydon (Gill) ; 

 "History of French Literature," by Henri 

 Van Laun (Putnams) ; History of English 

 Thought in the Eighteenth Century," by Leslie 

 Stephen (Putnams) ; " Brief History of Paint- 

 ers of All Schools," by Louis Viardot and 

 others (Lippincott) ; H. R. Fox Bourne's " Life 

 of John Locke " (Harpers). 



Of books of travel, poetry, art, and gen- 

 eral literature, may be mentioned "Etching 

 and Etchers," and " Round My House in Peace 

 and War-Time," by Philip Gilbert Hamerton 

 (Roberts); "The Orphan of Pimlico, and 

 Other Sketches, Fragments, and Drawings," 

 by Thackeray (Lippincott); "Songs of Reli- 

 gion and Life," by J. S. Blackie (Scribner) ; 

 "The Habitations of Man in All Ages," by 

 Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, translated by B. Buck- 

 nail (Osgood) ; " The Sylvan Year," and " The 

 Unknown River," by Hamerton (Roberts) ; 

 "Stray Studies from England and Italy," by 

 John Richard Green (Harpers) ; new edition, 

 revised to date, of Chambers's "Cyclopaedia 

 of English Literature, edited by R. Chambers 

 and R. Carruthers, Volume I. (Lippincott); 

 Gladstone's "Homeric Synchronism" (Har- 

 pers); "Philosophy of Law: being Notes 



ab- of Lectures delivered during Twenty-three 



Years in the Inner-Temple Hall," by 11 

 Broom, 1,1.. I). (Baker, Voorhio dc Co.); Lord 

 Duft'erin's "Letters from High Latitude*, a 

 Yacht Voyage to Iceland," etc. (Lovell); 

 "Essays in Literary Criticism," by Richard 

 Holt Hutton (Coates); "The Comedy of the 

 Noctes AmbrosiansB," selected by John Skel- 

 ton (Lovell); "Speeches of Lord Erskin.-. ' 

 with memoir, etc., four volumes (Callaghan) ; 

 Tennyson's " Harold " (Osgood), and .Morris's 

 "Story of Sigard" (Roberts); "Animals 

 Painted by Themselves," adapted from tlu 

 French of Balzac, Louis Baude, and others, 

 with upward of 200 illustrations from Grand- 

 ville, edited by James Thompson, F. R. G. S. 

 (Lippincott) ; the instructive and entertaining 

 series entitled " The Library of Wonders " 

 (Seribner) ; and the supplementary series of 

 " Ancient Classics for English Headers" (Lip- 

 pincott). 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1876. The 

 activity in Continental literature in 1876 will 

 be seen by the following extracts from the cor- 

 respondence of the London Athenaum: 



BELGIUM. French literature in Belgium has 

 been abundant during the past year. It has 

 been especially rich in works of fiction. 



In poetry we have had several works which 

 show good powers of versification, among 

 which the most worthy of mention are " Lea 

 Vingt-quatre Coups de Sonnet," by Th. Han- 

 non ; " Pechers Nouveaux," by Adolphe Muny, 

 an officer in the Belgian army; and "Les Ta- 

 lismans de Stamboul," a Servian legend, by Ed. 

 de Linge. 



Two works in French philology have been 

 published this year, by Auguste Scheler, the 

 royal librarian "La Mort de Gonnand," a 

 unique fragment of a hitherto unknown chan- 

 son de geste, discovered in the Royal Library at 

 Brussels, and " Les Trouveres Beiges da 12 m * au 

 14 me Siecle." Scheler has, in this latter work, 

 comprised songs of love, jeux-parties, pasto- 

 rals, ditties, and fables, by Quenes de Bethune, 

 by Henry III., Duke of Brabant, by Gilbert de 

 Berneville, by Mathieu de Gand, and by other 

 troubadours who are less known. 



In the literature of the fine arts, the past 

 year has seen the publication of the tenth and 

 last volume of Alfred Michiel's brilliant " Ilis- 

 toire de la Peinture Flamande," a work al- 

 together worthy of its subject, in spite of cer- 

 tain imperfections which critics have pointed 

 out, while, at the same time, rendering ample 

 justice to the great qualities and merits of the 

 work. 



The history of music has been by no mean* 

 neglected. The discourse of the musical com- 

 poser, F. A. Gevaert, upon the origin, the prog- 

 ress, and the necessity of conterratoire* of 

 music, deserves to be specially mentioned ; as 

 also does the work in four volumes by E. G. J. 

 (uviroir, entitled "Documents relatifs a TArt 

 Musical et aux Artistes Musiciens." 



The history of the sixteenth century, which 



