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editorial notes by Pr.f. .1. Reay Greene, and 

 The La>t Words of Thomas Carlyle " also saw 

 ill.' light for tin- iir>t time, including M Wotton 



Reinfred " (the only e>>ay in fiction ever made 

 liytln- -u<jv of Chelsea) his "Excursion (Futile 

 Enough) to 1'nri-." and letters from himself and 

 .Mr-. Carlyle. "Tin- History of Karly Knglish 

 Literature" was traced by Rev. Stopford A. 

 Brooke in t\\ 1 1 volumes, uniform with I'.rycc's 

 "American Commonwealth." and "The Litera- 

 ture of France," by 11. (i. Keene. formed one of 

 the " I'niversity Fxtension .Manuals." William 

 Wateon contributed " Kpigrams of Art, Life, and 

 Nature"; KdmuiTd Gosse, "Gossip in a Li- 

 brary " ; and Joseph I lat ton, " Cigarette Papers 

 tor Afternoon Smoking." " Meridiana : Noon- 

 tide K>says." by Sir Herbert Maxwell, were re- 

 print id in book form from Bluckwood's Maga- 

 zine. " Res Jndicatfe," by Augustine Birrell, was 

 another delightful collection of short studies 

 after the manner of " Obiter Dicta." W. T. 

 Stead was heard from as "A Journalist on Jour- 

 naliMii"; Vols. VIII and IX of Henry Morley's 

 " Knglish Writers" covered respectively "From 

 Surrey to Spenser" and "Spenser and his 

 Times"; and W. H. Low wrote a "History of 

 Knglish Literature from 1620 to 1670." A con- 

 cise introduction to " English Literature " was 

 supplied by H. W. Dulcken. "Eighteenth Cen- 

 tury Vignettes." by Austin Dobson, were at 

 once gossipy, picturesque, vivacious, and brief ; 

 W. A. Clouston noted " Literary Coincidences " ; 

 W. L. Courtney made "Studies at Leisure"; 

 Sir Arthur Helps offered " Essays and Apho- 

 risms " ; Malcolm C. Salaman saw " Woman 

 through a Man's Eyeglass"; and Barry Pain 

 published " Playthings and Parodies." (i The 

 Silver Domino ;" or, Side Whispers. Social and 

 Literary," was anonymous. Bernard Bosanquet 

 wrote "The History of ^Esthetics," and also up- 

 on " Knowledge and Reality " ; " The Beauties 

 of Nature and the Wonders of the World we 

 Live in " were lovingly portrayed by Sir John 

 Lubbock in a companion volume to "The Pleas- 

 ures of Life"; "The Toilers of the Field," by 

 Richard Jeffcries, contained much that proved 

 new to the majority of his readers. "Echoes of 

 Old County Life," by J. K. Fowler: "More 

 about. Wild Nature," by Mrs. Brightwcn. who 

 illustrated her own book: "Nature and Wood- 

 craft," by John Watson ; ' The Birds of Words- 

 wortli," by Mrs. W. H. Wintringham ; and 

 "Within an Hour of London Town: Among 

 Wild Birds and their Haunts," by' " A Son of the 

 Marshes," edited by J. A. Owen, proved each 

 delightful and characteristic; while bibliophiles 

 found especial charms in " Hooks condemned to 

 be burnt." by .lames Ansoii Farrer. and " Hooks 

 in Chains, and Other Bibliographical Papers." 

 by William Blades. The fifth serirs of "The 

 Bookworm " also was issued. J. B. Johnston 

 devoted his energies to " Place Names of Scot- 

 land": Hubert Hall explored " The Antiquities 

 and Curiosities of the Exchequer." T. F. This- 

 elton Dyer's "Church- Lore Gleanings" and 

 Croake James's ''Curiosities of Christian History 

 prior to the Reformation" may be classed to- 

 gether, and N. Dickson portrayed "The Auld 

 Scotch Minister " from anecdote and story. 

 "Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen, dealing chief- 

 ly with his Metrical Works," by Philip IL Wick- 



steed, were collected into a volume; W. F. 

 Kevell expounded "Browning*! Critici>m of 

 Life": Kdward Herdoe wa> the author of a 

 limwning Cyclopa-dia" ; H. S. Salt argued HS 

 to " Shelley's Principles: Has Time refuted or 

 confirmed them! " ; and William Clark gave a 

 critical exposition of the poetry of " Walt Whit- 

 man." "Our Knglish Homer '' was Shakespeare 

 historically considered by Thomas W. While; 

 Mr.-.. Henry Pott, was heard from ancnt "Fran- 

 cis Bacon and his Secret Society"; "A Cabinet 

 of Gems cut and polished by'Sir Philip Sid- 

 ney "were presented without their setting by 

 George MacDonald, "for the more radiance ": 

 and F. S. Ellis gave to the world a " Lexical 

 Concoidance to the Poetical Works of Percy 

 Bysshe Shelley" in the centenary year of the 

 poet. " The Art of Teaching of John Ruskin " 

 was set forth by W. G. Collingwood, and Mary 

 E. Cardwill selected "Cameos from Ruskin." 

 I. Bassett Choate drew from " Wells of Eng- 

 lish." reviewing the work of the minor writers 

 of England during the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries; John Marshall made a popular 

 presentation of the " History of Greek Philos- 

 ophy"; J. P. Mahaffy discovered " Problems in 

 Greek History." and also published the first vol- 

 ume of a " History of Classical Greek Litera- 

 ture": John Burnet, M. A., presented "Early 

 Greek Philosophy " ; as did Prof. S. H. Butcher 

 "Some Aspects of the Greek Genius." Agnes 

 M. Clerke, who has won distinction in astronom- 

 ical science, offered " Familiar Studies in Ho- 

 mer"; Prof. Lewis Campbell drew up "A Guide 

 to Greek Tragedy for English Readers" ; Rich- 

 ard Garnett compiled " A Chaplet from the 

 Greek Anthology "; while Charles Godfrey Le- 

 land illustrated his own work on " Etruscan 

 Roman Remains in Popular Tradition." The 

 third and last volume of Prof. W. Y. Sellar's 

 work on "The Roman Poets of the Augustan 

 Age" was devoted to Horace and the elegiac 

 poets. For " The History, Principles, and Prac- 

 tice of Heraldry" we are indebted to F. E. 

 Hulme ; and to Rev. J. Woodward and the late 

 G. Burnett, Lyon King at Arms, we owe " A 

 Treatise on Heraldry. British and Foreign," with 

 beautiful colored plates. W. Carew Hazlitt 

 drew up " A Manual for the Collector and Ama- 

 teur of Old English Plays," and also supplied a 

 volume of " Tales and Legends of National Ori- 

 gin," with a critical introduction to each. C. J. 

 Abbey traced " Religious Thought in Old Eng- 

 lish Verse"; J. A. K. Stuart visited "The Liter- 

 ary Shrines of Yorkshire" ; Smuggling Days 

 and Smuggling Ways" were the theme of Hon. 

 Commander H. N. Shore, who had many op- 

 portunities to make a study of what he terms a 

 "lost art": and similar experience led to - Some 

 Records of Crime," by Gen. Charles Ilervey. 

 C. B., "some time General Superintendent of the 

 Operations for the Suppression of Thuggee and 

 Dacoitie in India." W. S. Lillv was entertaining 

 on " Shibboleths." . " Bygone England," to Wil- 

 liam Andrews, and "Bygone Kent." by R. 

 Stead: " Edinburgh Sketches and Memories." 

 by David Masson. and a second scries of " Lan- 

 cashire Sketches" of F.dwin Waugh. edited by 

 George Milner; "The Brighton Road." 1- 

 Harper; "London," by \Valter Besant. giving 

 pictures of the city and its citizens from early 



