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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1891. 



E. Hake; "Consequences," by Egerton Castle; 

 " The Roll of Honor," by Annie Thomas ; " The 

 Mischief of Monica " and " A Pinch of Experi- 

 ence," by Mrs. L. B. Walford; "A Divided 

 Duty," by Ida Lemon ; " A Man's Conscience," 

 by Avery Macalpine; and "The Nugents of 

 Carriconna," a delightful Irish story, by Tighe 

 Hopkins. "Cross Currents" was by Mary An- 

 gela Dickens, a granddaughter of the great novel- 

 ist ; Miss Kettle dwelt upon " The Magic of the 

 Pine Woods " ; and " The Three Miss Kings " was 

 an Australian story by Ada Cambridge. " From 

 Shadow to Sunlight " came from the pen of the 

 Marquis of Lome ; Rhoda Broughton, with the 

 assistance of Elizabeth Bisland, described "A 

 Widower Indeed " ; Ouida's sole book was " Santa 

 Barbara." Mrs. Hungerford (the Duchess) wrote 

 "Little Rebel"; F. W. Maude, "A Merciful 

 Divorce " ; and Mona Caird, " A Romance of the 

 Moors." " The Pilots of Pomona," by Robert 

 Leighton, was an exceptionally fine contribution 

 to juvenile literature, intended for boys. 



Fine Arts. In the "University Extension 

 Manuals " the " Fine Arts " were exhaustively 

 treated by Prof. G. Baldwin Brown, covering the 

 whole field of painting, sculpture, and architect- 

 ure, their philosophy, function, and historic ac- 

 complishment. The fourth number of the 

 " Manuals " was " The Philosophy of the Beauti- 

 ful," by William Knight. Philip Gilbert Ham- 

 erton described " The Present State of the Fine 

 Arts in France," and L. F. Day studied " Na- 

 ture in Ornament." " Hints to Amateurs : a 

 Hand-book on Art," by Mrs. Louise Jopling, of- 

 fered many useful suggestions. " Architectural 

 Perspective " was by F. 0. Ferguson ; " Archi- 

 tecture of the Renaissance in England," illus- 

 trated by views and details from buildings 

 erected between the years 1560-1630, by J. Alfred 

 Gotch and W. Talbbt Brown ; while the " His- 

 tory of Indian and Eastern Architecture," for- 

 merly the third volume of the second edition of 

 a " History of Architecture," by James Fergus- 

 son, was expanded into an independent and 

 original work, in two volumes. A third revised 

 edition of the " History of the Modern Styles of 

 Architecture," by the same author, was also is- 

 sued, a large additional space being given to the 

 architecture of England and America. Vol. Ill 

 appeared of " The Castellated and Domestic 

 Architecture of Scotland," by David Macgibbon 

 and Thomas Ross, the first two of which came 

 out two years ago, and a fourth is to be expected. 

 " An Inventory of the Church Plate of Leices- 

 ter," by Rev. Andrew Trollope, filled two vol- 

 umes, and was pronounced the most complete 

 work of the kind that has yet appeared, the 

 work on which occupied six years. " Engravings 

 and their Value " was a guide for the print col- 

 lector by J. H. Slater, and " The Masters of 

 Wood Engraving," a magnificent volume, by W. 

 J. Linton, admirably illustrated. A second edi- 

 tion, in one volume, of " A Century of Painters 

 of the English School," by Richard and Samuel 

 Redgrave, was welcomed, and " William Ho- 

 garth," by Austin Dobson, was filled with photo- 

 gravures of the artist's masterpieces. " G. G. 

 Clivio (Miniaturist) : Life and Works," with no- 

 tices of his contemporaries and of the art of book 

 decoration in the sixteenth century, by John W. 

 Bradley, had 18 plates. In the " Illustrated Bi- 



ographies of Great Artists Series " the " Land- 

 scape and Pastoral Painters of Holland " were 

 treated by Frank Cundall, as were " David Cox 

 and Peter De Windt," by Gilbert R. Redgrave 

 (who also supplied a " History of Water-color 

 Painting in England," in the " Series of Illus- 

 trated Art Hand-books "), and F. G. Stephens 

 wrote a " Memoir of George Cruikshank." Ed- 

 ward Gilpin Johnson edited " Reynolds's Dis- 

 courses on Art," fifteen addresses of Sir Joshua, 

 with a biographical and historical introduction. 

 G. Wooliscroft wrote on " Etching," supplying 

 original illustrations, and W. H. May edited 

 Vol. VIII of " English Etchings." For students 

 of art J. Spencer prepared " Practical Perspect- 

 ive " ; and R. Pratt, " Sciography, or Parallel 

 and Radial Projection of Shadows." As in our 

 own country, handsome gift-books were rare. 

 " The Warwickshire Avon," by A. T. Quiller- 

 Couch, with illustrations by Alfred Parsons ; 

 " The British Seas," with picturesque notes by 

 W. Clark Russell and other writers, and the etch- 

 ings and engravings after J. C. Hook, Colin 

 Hunter, etc. ; " The Flowers of Japan," by Jo- 

 siah Conder ; " By Seashore, Wood, and Moor- 

 land " peeps at nature, with 145 illustrations, by 

 Edward Step ; and " United States Pictures 

 drawn with Pen and Pencil," by Richard Lov- 

 ett, are among the best. "Players of the Pe- 

 riod," by Arthur Goddard, was the title of a first 

 and second series of anecdotal, biographical, and 

 critical monographs on the leading English act- 

 ors of the day. 



History. "The Imperial History of Eng- 

 land," in three volumes, by William Cooke Staf- 

 ford and Henry W. Dulcken, reaches from the 

 earliest records to the present time ; and from 

 George Carter we have " Outlines of English 

 History from 1066-1815." Part I of Vol. Ill 

 appeared of " Annals of our Time," by H. Ham- 

 ilton Fyfe, covering the period from the acces- 

 sion of Queen Victoria to the end of the year 

 1890; also Vol. IV of " Cassell's History of Eng- 

 land," Jubilee edition. S. R. Gardiner's " His- 

 tory of the Great Civil War 1642-1649 " and 

 "The Interregnum (A. D.. 1648-1660)," by F. A. 

 Inderwick, approach each other closely in point 

 of time. Osmund Airy wrote a " Text-book of 

 English History for Colleges and Schools " ; J. 

 H. Anderson, a " History of George the Third's 

 Reign " ; while " The Industrial and Commercial 

 History of England," traced in lectures delivered 

 to the University of Oxford by the late James E. 

 Thorold Rogers, was edited by his son, Arthur 

 G. L. Rogers. " The Divorce of Catherine of 

 Aragon," intended by James Anthony Froude 

 as a supplementary volume to his " History of 

 England," possesses all the brilliancy which 

 marks the larger work, and was one of the 

 marked contributions to literature of the year. 

 " Body, Parentage, and Character in History : 

 Notes on the Tudor Period " came from F. Jor- 

 dan. Vol. II of "The History of Sicily from 

 the Earliest Times," by E. A. Freeman, brought 

 the work from the beginning of Greek settle- 

 ments to the first intervention of the Athenians ; 

 Stephen A. Morse published Vol. II of "A His- 

 tory of the French Revolution," and also wrote 

 " The Story of Portugal " for the " Story of the 

 Nations Series " ; " Waterloo Letters," hitherto 

 unpublished, by officers who served in the cam- 



