472 



LITEEATUEE, BEITISH, IN 1882. 



CLASS. 



Juyenile works and tales 



Theology, sermons, etc 



Miscellaneous (year-books, serials in volunles, etc.). . . 



Educational 



History, biography, etc 



Novels, tales, and other fiction 



Arts, sciences, etc 



Voyages, travels, etc 



Political and social science 



Poetry and the drama. . . 



No. of works. 



987 



6S9 

 625 

 525 

 452 



344 

 244 



181 



Medicine, surgery, etc 177 



Belles-lettres, essays, etc 106 



Law and jurisprudence 75 



Total .' 5,124 



NOTE. Of these, 3,978 are new books, and 1,146 are new 

 editions. 



In THEOLOGY and EELIGIOUS LITERATUEE in 

 general, there is not much of special value or 

 importance to be noted. Exegetical works 

 number about as usual. The " Speaker's Com- 

 mentary," under the able editorship of Canon 

 Cook, has reached its completion, and contains 

 much of the ablest talent and profound learning 

 in the Established Church. Eev. W. F. Deane's 

 " The Book of Wisdom ; the Greek Text, the 

 Latin Vulgate, and the Authorized Version," 

 with introduction, commentary, etc., is a work 

 of much value (Oxford, University Press). A 

 number of other works in this department, 

 some covering the whole Bible, others devoted 

 to separate books of the Old and New Testa- 

 ments, have been published ; as, " The Bible 

 Commentary for English Eeaders," edited by 

 Bishop Ellicott, with the aid of a number of 

 scholars and divines, three volumes on the New 

 Testament, two volumes on the Old (Cassell, 

 Fetter, Galpin & Co.) ; Eev. M. F. Sadler's " St. 

 Matthew's Gospel," with notes (George Bell & 

 Sons) ; a new and rather striking work entitled 

 "The Apostolic Liturgy and the Epistle to the 

 Hebrews, being a Commentary on the Epistle 

 and its Eelation to the Holy Eucharist, with 

 Appendices on the Liturgy of the Primitive 

 Church," by John Ed ward Field (Eivingtons). 

 New and revised editions of standard works 

 devoted to exegesis of Holy Scripture have 

 been issued ; as, Adam Clarke's Commentary 

 on the Bible, six volumes ; Archbishop Trench's 

 "Notes on the Miracles and on the Parables, 

 Studies in the Gospels," etc. ; Davidson's " In- 

 troduction to the New Testament " (Longmans 

 & Co.). Much attention has been given to 

 CHURCH HISTORY. Eev. J. H. Blunt has pub- 

 lished the second volume of his elaborate work, 

 " The Eeformation of the Church of England, 

 its History, Principles, andEesults," 1547-1662 

 (Eivingtons). The first volume was published 

 in 1870, covering from 1514-1547. Eev. M. 

 Creighton's " History of the Papacy during the 

 Period of the Eeformation, 1378-1464 " (Long- 

 mans & Co.) is a valuable contribution. Canon 

 Farrar's " Early Days of Christianity " (Cassell 

 & Co.) has all the charms of style and liveliness 

 of narration of his previous works. " Ecclesia 

 Anglicana," by Eev. A. C. Jennings (Eiving- 

 tons), is a concise history of the Church of 

 Christ in England from the earliest to the pres- 

 ent times, and is a work of passable merit. 



" Notes on the Canons of the First Four Gen- 

 eral Councils," (H. Frowde, Oxford, Clarendon 

 Press), by Dr. Bright, is a very valuable little 

 volume. In EELIGIOUS BIOGRAPHY may be 

 noted Dr. Cutts's "Constantine the Great, the 

 Union of the State and the Church " (Society 

 for Promoting Christian Knowledge) ; Mr. M. 

 Eule's "Life and Times of St. Anselm, Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Brit- 

 ains " (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) ; Eev. S. 

 Kettlewell's "Thomas & Kempis, and the 

 Brothers of Common Life " ; and the third and 

 concluding volume of the " Life of Bishop Wil- 

 berforce, by his Son " (John Murray). The 

 mooted subject of eternal punishment received 

 much attention this year from Canon Farrar, 

 Eev. F. N. Oxenham, and Eev. A. Jukes (new 

 editions). As to EELIGIONS of the world (non- 

 Christian), it suffices to name Kuenen's "Na- 

 tional Eeligions and Universal Eeligions "; Hib- 

 bert Lectures, 1882 (Williams & Norgate) ; 

 A. Earth's " Eeligions of India " (Trubner & 

 Co.) ; and " The Faiths of the World " (Black- 

 wood & Sons), being the St. Giles's Lectures, 

 by Caird, Flint, Milligan, etc., and giving a 

 concise history of the great religious systems 

 of the world. 



In BIOGRAPHY and HISTORY combined, there 

 has been about the usual activity. The elab- 

 orate work of C. Yriarte, entitled " Florence : 

 its History ; the Medici, the Humanists, Let- 

 ters, Arts," has been translated by Mr. C. B. 

 Pitman (Sampson Low, Marston & Co.) ; it is 

 splendidly illustrated, and quite equals the 

 "Venice" by the same author. Professor 

 Max Duncker's "History of Antiquity," 

 translated by Evelyn Abbott, has been com- 

 pleted in the sixth and concluding volume 

 (Bentley & Son). Sir A. Alison's " Some Ac- 

 count of my Life and Writings" (Blackwood 

 & Sons) is lively and valuable. "Memoir of 

 Augustus De Morgan," by his wife (Longmans 

 & Co.), is well worth reading ; as are also " The 

 Friendships of Mary Eussell Mitford, as re- 

 corded in Letters from her Literary Corre- 

 spondents," edited by Eev. A. G. L'Estrange 

 (Hurst & Blackett) ; volume iii of the " Foreign 

 Secretaries of the Nineteenth Century" (W. 

 H. AUen & Co.) ; " Memories of Old Friends, 

 being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of 

 Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick," edited by Horace 

 N. Pym (Smith, Elder & Co.) ; the "Autobi- 

 ography of Prince Metternich," edited by his 

 son (Bentley & Son); "Eaphael, his Life, 

 Work, and Times," from the French of Eugene 

 Muntz (Chapman & Hall) ; " Eecollectious of 

 Dante Gabriel Eossetti," by T. H.Caine (Stock), 

 " The Salon of Madame Necker," by Vicomte 

 d'Haussonville, from the French, by H. M. 

 Trollope (Chapman & Hall). 



In the way of TRAVEL and ADVENTURE Eng- 

 lish men and women show themselves as act- 

 ive and persevering as ever. A few volumes 

 only can here be named ; as, Laurence Oli- 

 phant's "The Lands of Khemi ' (Blackwood & 

 Sons); "Magyarland," a lady's charming nar- 



