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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1891. 



being the Life of David Robertson," by his 

 friend the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing, was full 

 of interest to admirers of the scientist. " Letters 

 and Correspondence of John Henry Newman 

 during his Life in the English Church" were 

 edited by Annie Mozley, prefaced by a brief 

 autobiography of the cardinal, whose brother, 

 F. W. Newman, published " The Early History 

 of the Late Cardinal Newman " in anything but 

 a brotherly spirit. Edith C. Kenyon wrote a 

 " Centenary Life of John Wesley," and " Wesley 

 and his Successors " was a centenary memorial 

 of the death of the founder of Methodism, from 

 an unknown source ; " Wesley : the Man,' his 

 Teaching, and his Work " was the title of ser- 

 mons and addresses delivered in City Road 

 Chapel at the centenary commemoration of John 

 Wesley's death, and in the " Series of English 

 Leaders in Religion" we have " John Wesley," 

 by Canon Overton, and "Bishop Wilberforce," 

 by G. W. Daniell. "The Life of Archibald 

 Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury," was 

 carefully and conscientiously written by Randall 

 T. Davidson, Bishop of Rochester, and Canon 

 Benham. " The " Autobiography of Archbishop 

 Ullathorne " was edited, with selections from his 

 letters, by Augusta Theodosia Drane. Elizabeth 

 R. Vermilye attempted " The Life of Alexander 

 Duff " in the " Missionary Annals Series " ; "A 

 Modern Apostle : Alexander N. Somerville " was 

 treated by Dr. George Smith, and the story of 

 "John Kenneth MacKenzie, Medical Missionary 

 to China," was told by Mary F. Bryson. Bishop 

 Oxenden wrote the " History of my Life," and 

 " General Booth " was an historical sketch by W. 

 T. Stead. " Memorials of Robert T. Cunning- 

 ham," edited by Rev. David Miller, " Thomas 

 Sopwith," by B. W. Richardson, and " George 

 Fife Angas : Father and Founder of South 

 Australia," by Edwin Hodder. are lives of good 

 if not illustrious men. " Speaking Years " was 

 a memory of Rev. William Carus, formerly Canon 

 of Winchester, by Rev. C. Bullock, and " Bishop 

 Vesey of Sutton, Coldfield, and Exeter " came 

 from J. R. Willington. " The Memoirs of the 

 Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) " 

 were collected and arranged by Col. R. S. Lid- 

 dell, late their commander, and Vol. I was is- 

 sued of " Heroes of Britain in Peace and 

 War," by E. Hodder. " Some Historic Women " 

 were chronicled by W. Davenport Adams, and 

 among their number is to be reckoned " Emma, 

 Lady Hamilton," by Hilda Gamlin. In the 

 " English Men of Action Series " we have " War- 

 wick, the King-maker," by C. W. Oman ; " Sir 

 Francis Drake," by Julian Corbett ; and " Rod- 

 ney," by David Hanney. In the "Rulers of India " 

 " Clyde and Strathnairn," by Sir Owen Tudor 

 Burne ; " The Marquis Cornwallis," by W. S. 

 Seton-Karr; "The Earl of Mayo," by Sir W. 

 Wilson Hunter : and " Viscount Hardinge," by 

 his son and private Secretary in India, Charles 

 Viscount Hardinge. The " Life and Writings 

 of Sir Thomas More," by Rev. T. E. Bridgett, is 

 by far the most substantial and scholarly biog- 

 raphy of the chancellor that has ever been 

 written, and appeared opportunely. Albert 

 Hastings Markham supplied the " Series of Great 

 Explorers " with the " Life of Sir John Franklin, 

 and the Northwest Passage." " Heroes of the 

 Nations " who were chronicled in 1891 were : 



" Pericles," by Evelyn Abbott ; " Theodoric the 

 Goth," by Thomas Hodgkin; and "Sir Philip 

 Sidney," by H. R. Fox Bourne. " Thomas Bet- 

 terton," by Robert W. Low, and "Charles 

 Macklin," by Edward A. Parry, were the two 

 contributions to the " Series of Eminent Actors " ; 

 and from J. R. Robinson and H. Hunter came 

 "The Life of Robert Coates." Two volumes 

 were devoted by (Canon) H. S. Holland and W. 

 S. Rockstro to " Jenny Lind, the Artist, 1820-51." 

 " Randolph Caldecott " was a personal memoir by 

 H. Blackburn, and " The Life of Henry Dawson, 

 Landscape Painter, 1811-'78 " was written by 

 his son, Alfred Dawson. " Watts Phillips : Play- 

 wright and Artist " was contributed by his sister, 

 Miss Watts Phillips, and a sketch of " Maria 

 Drummond " came from C. Kegah Paul. " Col- 

 lingwood" was the subject of a volume by W. 

 Clark Russell, and Admiral Sir Augustus Phil- 

 limore dubbed Admiral Sir William Parker " The 

 Last of Nelson's Captains." "Heroes of the 

 Telegraph " were immortalized by J. Munro, and 

 to close this long but always interesting de- 

 partment, Vols. XXV, XXVI, XXVII, and 

 XXVIII were issued of the " Dictionary of Na- 

 tional Biography," edited by Leslie Stephen and 

 Sidney Lee. 



Essays. Among the best books falling under 

 this classification, which includes general literary 

 miscellany, may be mentioned "Studies in Lit- 

 erature," by John Morley, covering a space of 

 twenty years in date, and ranging from Words- 

 worth to " Maine on Popular Government " in 

 theme, collected for the first time from various 

 magazines and other sources. George Moore 

 published his " Impressions and Opinions," and 

 Oscar Wilde his " Intentions," a volume of essays 

 containing the one on " The Decay of Lying " ; 

 Andrew Lang's " Angling Sketches " were illus- 

 trated by W. G. Burn-Murdock. and he also sent 

 out "Essays in Little." "A Characteristic of 

 Modern Life" was studied by A. Jessopp, in five 

 essays ; while Robert Buchanan was the author 

 of " The Coming Terror and other Essays and 

 Letters." Lady Wilde's " Notes on Men,Women, 

 and Books," the first series of selected essays, and 

 " A Few Impressions from the Poems of Robert 

 Browning," by Emily Atkinson, were received 

 with favor, as were Joseph Jacobs's " Essays and 

 Reviews from the ' Athena?um ' " ; " Essays in 

 English Literature" and "Essays on French 

 Novelists," by George Saintsbury ; " Writers and 

 Readers," by G. Birbeck Hill ; " Boethius : an 

 Essay," by H. F. Stewart; "With Poet and 

 Player," essays on literature and the stage, by 

 W. Davenport Adams; and "On the Stage and 

 Off," by Jerome K. Jerome, who also kept the 

 " Diary of a Pilgrimage." Cardinal Newman's 

 " Poetry with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics " 

 was edited with an introduction and notes by 

 Albert S. Cook, while the essay of the same prol- 

 ate upon ecclesiastical miracles was discussed, 

 not to say dissected, in " Philomythus : an Anti- 

 % dote against Credulity," by Dr. Edwin A. Abbot. 

 " Forty Years in a Moorland Parish," by Rev. J. 

 C. Atkinson, proved excellent reading, and con- 

 tained much curious and antiquarian lore ; some- 

 what in line with which was " Parson and Peas- 

 ant: Some Chapters of their Natural History," 

 by J. B. Burne. " Old Time Punishments " were 

 the theme of William Andrews. Andrew Wilson 



