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Rowbotham told of "The Private Life of the 



(ircal ( 'oni|io.-er-." " Frederic ( 'Impiii " was com- 

 memorated liy Charles Willeby, and Ferdinand 

 r described " Wagner as I knew him." 

 i 'liililhiiuil and Youth of Charles l)icken>." 

 h\ i;. Lunuton, poessed interest \r all lovers 

 ui i!u- great novelist, and not a few were grati- 

 fied th.-it the "Literary Remains" of Charles 

 Stuart Calverley wen- jnvl'aeid with a sympa- 

 l hei ic ineinoir by Sir Waller J. Sendull. Calver- 

 ley's translation of " Theocritus " was also pub- 

 lished, lie it remarked, and contained some of his 

 he-i and most earnest work. Gerald !'. Moriarty 

 devoied himself to "Dean Swift and his Writ- 

 ings," and the late laureate was the subject of 

 two volumes, "Alfred Lord Tennyson," a study 

 of his life and work by A. Waugh, and "Alfred 

 Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate," by Rev. A. 

 flenkinson. "Homes and Haunts of Alfred, 

 Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate," by G. G. Napier, 

 was beautifully illustrated. "Records of Tenny- 

 >nn. lluskin, and Browning," by Mrs. Anne 

 Thackeray Ritchie, was an opportune volume of 

 surpassing interest. " Letters of Jane Austen," 

 selected by Sarah C. Woolsey, were published 

 for the first time (as was her posthumous novel, 

 "The Watsons") in an American edition of her 

 works. "An Edinburgh Eleven," by J. M. 

 Barrie, supplied pencil portraits from his college 

 life of fellow-students who have attained distinc- 

 tion ; ' Recollections of a Happy Life" was the 

 title of the autobiography of Marianne North, 

 edited by her sister, Mrs. John Addington Sy- 

 monds: Cornelia A. H. Crosse filled two volumes 

 with the record of "Red-Letter Days of my 

 Life," and Mrs. F. Hughes told for her children 

 of "My Childhood in Australia." "Sir Henry 

 Sunnier Maine" was the subject of a brief mem- 

 oir by Right Hon. .M. F. Grant-Duff. Charles 

 Lowe published an historical biography of 

 " Prince Bismark," reduced and reconstructed 

 from his larger work of five years since. "Ten 

 Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp" was trans- 

 lated from the original manuscripts of Father 

 .1. ohrwalder by Major F. R. Wingate. " Doro- 

 thy Wallis," the autobiography of a poor but am- 

 bitious girl, had a preface by Walter Besant. 

 Catherine J. Hamilton published the first series 

 of " Women Writers, their Works and Ways," 

 and Mrs. L. B. Walford chronicled "Twelve 

 English Authoresses." " Harvey and his Suc- 

 cessors " was the theme of the Harveian Oration, 

 October, 1892, by J. II. Bridges. In the several 

 Briefl which have proved so successful, "Lord 

 Lawrence," by Sir C. Aitchison, " Albuquerque,*' 

 by II. M. Stephens, " Madhava Rao Sindhia. 

 otherwise called Madhoji," by II. G. Keene, " Earl 

 Canning." by Sir H. S. Cunningham, " Mont- 

 slnart, Elphinstone," by J. S. Cotton, '-Lord 

 William I'.entinck," by D. C. Boulger, and " Ran- 

 jit Singh," by Sir Lcpel (JrilTin, continued the 

 " Rulers of India;" " Viscount Palmerston, K. 

 G.," by the Marquis of Lome, "The Marquis of 

 Salisbury," by II. I). Traill. and the "Earl of Der- 

 by." by George Saintsbury, ;i The Queen's Prime 

 Ministers"; "Pitt." by Lord Rosebery, and 

 "Queen Elizabeth." by Edward S. Beasly, were 

 the additions to the" Twelve English Statesmen." 

 while the" English Men of Action" received but 

 one contribution, " Mont rose." from the pen of 

 Mowbray Morris. " Heroes of the Nations " were 



represented by " John Wycklif," from the pen of 

 Louis Sergeiint, and "Julius Csar," by W. W. 

 Fowler. Arthur Wollaston Hulton wrote. " Car- 

 dinal Manning" for the " Religious Ixjaders" 

 scries, and from Edwin A. Abbott we have "The 

 Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman," in two 

 volumes. J. J. Ellis added " I >a\ id Livingston" 

 to "Men with a Mission" and "Charles II addon 

 Snurgeon " to " Lives that Speak." " Florence 

 Nightingale," bv Eliza F. Pollard, and " Michael 

 Faraday," by W. Jerrold, appeared among "The 

 World's Benefactors." " I* our Heroes of India," 

 portrined by !'. M. Holmes, were Clive, Warren 

 Hastings, Havelock, and Lawrence; II. de B. 

 Gibbins devoted himself to " English Social Re- 

 formers " in the " University Extension Series," 

 and " Famous British Explorers and Navigators 

 from Drake to Franklin" received attention 

 from R. Rowe. "Robert Browning's Prose Life 

 of Strafford " was accredited to the real author 

 for the first time, the poet having written it for 

 John Forster during an illness of that writer, 

 under whose name it originally appeared. J. J. 

 Jusseraud outlined " A French Embassador at 

 the Court of Charles II, Je Comte de Cominges," 

 from his unpublished correspondence ; Violet 

 Fane translated the " Memoirs of Marguerite 

 de Valois, Queen of Navarre " ; while another vol- 

 ume of great interest was the " Recollections of 

 Marshal Macdonald, Duke of Tarentura." W. 

 H. Davenport Adams supplied lives of " War- 

 riors of the Crescent " ; Grace Johnstone of 

 'Leading Women of the Restoration"; "In 

 Ladies' Company," by Mrs. Fenwick Miller, pre- 

 sented sketches of six interesting women : W. 

 J. Linton furnished recollections of Mazzini and 

 his friends under the title of " European Re- 

 publicans." " Queen Joanna I of Naples," by St. 

 Clair Baddeley, " Elisabeth Farnese, the Ter- 

 magant of Spain," by E. Armstrong, and "The 

 Story of Gaspar Hauser," by Elizabeth E. Evans, 

 belong to history ; " Bramwelliana, or Wit and 

 Wisdom of Lord Bramwell," we owe to Edward 

 Manson ; and Sidney L. Lee supplied notes, appen- 

 dices, etc., to the "Autobiograny of Edward Lord 

 Herbert of Cherbury." "The Life of Lieut.- 

 Gen. Sir Henry Evelyn Wood came opportunely 

 from Charles Williams, and " Admiral of the 

 Fleet Sir Provo W. P. Wallis " was the subject 

 of a memoir by J. G. Brighton. " Letters of 

 James Smetham were edited by Sarah Smetham 

 and William Davies, and "George Gilfillan's 

 Letters and Journals " received similar service at 

 the hands of R, A. and Elizabeth S. Watson. 

 " Letters of Archbishop Ullathorne " formed a 

 valuable supplement to his " Autobiography " 

 published last year. W. L. and L. Rees wrote to- 

 gether the " Life and Times of Sir George (J rev." 

 which was eagerly welcomed. Walter Stel-bing. 

 M. A., produced a new biography of "Sir \\altt r 

 Raleigh." The " Autobiography of an English 

 Gamekeeper," edited by Arthur H. Byngs and 

 Stephen M. Stephens, may be mentioned with 

 the "Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck, 

 M. P.," by John Kent, edited by Hon. Francis 

 Lawley ; while photographers were especially 

 interested in " Vernon Heath's Recollections. ' 

 " Twenty-five Years of St. Andrews," by 1: 

 K. II. Boyd, the genial author of " Recreations 

 of a Country Parson," and " Memories of Dean 

 Hole " are deserving of special mention ; and in 



