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predecessors. Miss Edna Lyall tempted the 

 public with no fewer than three books " We 

 Two," "Won by Waiting," and "In the Gold- 

 en Days." Justin McCarthy "collaborated" 

 in "The Right Honorable " and "Our Sensa- 

 tion Novel." Mr. Mallock produced "The 

 Old Order Changes," Jean Ingelow "John 

 Jerome," and Mr. Norris three books "Her 

 Own Doing," "A Bachelor's Blunder," and 

 "My Friend Jim," not one of which will live, 

 save in the public libraries. Ouida's " House 

 Party " possessed all of the faults and none of 

 the merits of her works; Mrs. Craik's "King 

 Arthur " was found to be a very attractive 

 novel, based on rather a novel plot. Miss 

 Braddon's "One Thing Needful" was enor- 

 mously advertised, but attracted little atten- 

 tion. Christie Murray published " Cynic For- 

 tun*e," Miss Yonge " Chantry House," 

 " Astray," and "A Modern Telemachus," Mrs. 

 Oliphant "A House Divided against Itself" 

 and " A Country Gentleman and His Family," 

 Farjeon " Three Times Tried," Julian Corbett 

 "The Fall of Asgard," Mr. Sala "Captain 

 Dangerous," Mr. Payn "The Heir of the 

 Ages," Mr. Fenn " The Vicar's People," and 

 Mr. Shorthouse a weak book, " Sir Percival." 



Theology. The number of religious publica- 

 tions during the year was large. Farrar's 

 "History of Interpretation," and Briggs's 

 "Messianic Prophecy," Murphy (of Belfast) 

 on "Daniel," Kuenen's "Inquiry into the Ori- 

 gin and Composition of the Pentateuch and 

 Joshua," translated by Wicksteed, and Milligan 

 on the " Revelation of St. John " are the more 

 noteworthy explanatory works and commenta- 

 ries. Randall on the " Tabernacle," and Paine 

 on "The Temple of the Hebrews," are also 

 valuable for elucidation ; so are Dr. C. Taylor's 

 "Illustrations from the Talmud," and Tuck's 

 "Hand-Book of Biblical Difficulties." Joyce 

 has edited the Acts of the Church of England 

 from 1531 to 1585 ; Burbridge published a his- 

 tory of "The Liturgies of the Church," and 

 Cunningham his Hulsean Lectures on " St. 

 Austin, and his Place in the History of Chris- 

 tian Thought." Lechler's " Apostolic and Post- 

 Apostolic Times " was translated by Davidson, 

 and Dixon's " History of the Church of Eng- 

 land" reached its third volume. Perrin's 

 " Religion of Philosophy," Conn's " Evolution 

 of To-Day," Mendenhall's "Plato and Paul," 

 and Platt's " Philosophy of the Supernatural," 

 are of the nature of religio-philosophical works. 



Among collections of sermons were those of 

 Dean Church, of St. Paul's, London; Dean 

 Gpulburn, of Norwich, on "Holy Week"; 

 Bishop Alexander on "The Great Question" ; 

 and a volume by Haweis, of St. James's, Ma- 

 rylebone, London. Concluding this subject, 

 and on religions not Christian, were Hughes's 

 '' Dictionary of Islam," Legge's translation of 

 "The Texts of Confucianism," and Wherry's 

 " Commentary on the Quran," second and 

 third volumes. 



\oyages and Travels. The two notable books 



of travel for the year were Mr. Froude's 

 " Oceana," recounting his trip to Australia and 

 New Zealand ; and the account by the young 

 Princes Albert Victor and George, of "The 

 Cruise of her Majesty's Ship Bacchante." 

 South American journeying was described in 

 Mr. Wells's "Three Thousand Miles through 

 Brazil," and Mr. Dent's "A Year in Brazil." 

 Of America in general, Florence Marry at 

 wrote in "Tom Tiddler's Ground," and Mr. 

 Edward Money in " The Truth about Ameri- 

 ca," the latter of which has been sharply criti- 

 cised in the English reviews as belying its title. 



Baron Hubner published " Through the Brit- 

 ish Empire," Mr. Walker " The Azores," and 

 Mr. Clark Russell " A Voyage to the Cape." 

 Miss Colenso and Col. Tulloch wrote on " Natal 

 and Zululand," Mr. J. J. Aubertin on "Six 

 Months in Cape Colony and Natal," and Mr. 

 Farini "Through the Kalahari Desert," Mr. 

 Stutfield published a " Twelve Hundred Miles 

 Ride through Morocco"; William Tucker 

 "Life and Society in Eastern Europe" ; Rob- 

 ert Tennant "Sardinia and its Resources"; 

 Margaret Collier "Home by the Adriatic"; 

 Mrs. Walker " Eastern Life and Scenery " ; 

 De Amicis an account of Constantinople ; 

 and Edwin Arnold "India Revisited." Ro- 

 milly's " Western Pacific and New Guinea," 

 Sutherland's " Australia," and works by Gane, 

 Taylor, and Willoughby on "New South 

 Wales and Victoria," fully exploited the re- 

 gions of Australasia. Julian Thomas issued his 

 " Cannibals and Convicts of the Western Pa- 

 cific," G. A. Shaw "The Madagascar of To- 

 Day," and the Palestine Exploration Fund 

 published a " Survey of Western Palestine " 

 and " Across the Jordan," and reviewed its 

 " Twenty-one Years' Work in the Holy Land." 

 Several works on India appeared, by Wheeler, 

 Blunt, Cotton, and others, two on China by 

 Miss Gordon - Cumming and Mr. Henry, two 

 by Maclay and Pearson on Japan, and two on 

 Persia by Kerr and Bassett. 



Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Science. In this 

 department are included works on physics, 

 economics, and mental and moral philosophy, 

 subjects that have been somewhat volumi- 

 nously treated during the year. Prof. Milne's 

 "Earthquakes and other Earth Movements" 

 appeared in the early part of the year ; in hy- 

 draulics an important publication was Jack- 

 son's " Statistics of Hydraulic Works and Hy- 

 draulogy of England, Canada, Egypt, and 

 India" ; Wormell's " Electricity in the Service 

 of Man " was translated, and Knecht trans- 

 lated Benedikt's " Chemistry of the Coal-Tar 

 Colors." The " Report on the Scientific Re- 

 sults of the Voyage of the Challenger " reached 

 its twelfth and thirteenth volumes. Wood- 

 Martin published the "Lake-Dwellings of Ire- 

 land," Dr. Croll issued his "Discussions on 

 Climate and Cosmogony," and Lotze's " Micro- 

 cosmus " was translated by Elizabeth Hamil- 

 ton and Constance Jones. "The Flora of the 

 English Lake District " was published by Mr. 



