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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1892. 



times to the days of George II ; and " A High- 

 land Memory," by "An Old Colonial," entertained 

 many readers, as did "Rixae Oxonierises," by 

 Samuel F. Button ; Part VI of Vol. I of " Anec- 

 clota Oxoniensia," by F. C. Conybeare ; " Faces 

 and Places," by Henry W. Lucy, and " Number 

 Twenty," by H. D. Tr'aill, both in the " White- 

 friars Library of Wit and Humor"; and the 

 anonymous "In the Temple." Theodore Comp- 

 ton's " A Mendip Valley " was beautifully illus- 

 trated. " The Inns of Court and Chancery," 

 visited by W. J. Loftie, were illustrated by Her- 

 bert Railton. "Ethnology in Folklore " came 

 from G. L. Gomme in the " Modern Science 

 Series " ; G. F. Northall collected " English Folk 

 Rhymes, and M. Tait " Stories from Northum- 

 bria," while to J. Jacobs we owe " Fairy Tales 

 of India." " Lectures on the English Poets," 

 by William Hazlitt, appeared in the " Giunta 

 Series," and "Best Letters of Charles Lamb" in 

 the " Laurel Crowned Letters." " Selections 

 from Isaac Pennington " were made by Mary 

 W. Tileston. 



Fiction. Among the numerous English nov- 

 els of 1892 are to be found several displaying 

 marked ability, though not one claims especial 

 prominence. Mrs. Humphrey Ward published 

 " The History of David Grieve," while Thomas 

 Hardy did some of hrs best work in his faithful 

 presentation of that pure woman, " Tess of the 

 D'Urbervilles." Mrs. W. K. Clifford created 

 some sensation by her " Aunt Anne," and two 

 other products of her facile pen are to be noted, 

 " Love Letters of a Worldly Woman " and " The 

 Last Touches," with which other shorter stories 

 are included. Walter Besant was represented 

 by one novel, " The Ivory Gate," and " Verbena 

 Camellia Stephanotis, and Other Stories " ; Ma- 

 tilda Betham Edwards by " The Romance of a 

 French Parsonage " and " A North-Country 

 Comedy." " Esther Vanhomrigh " was the sad 

 heroine of Margaret L. Woods (the author of 

 " A Village Tragedy " ), who founded her story 

 on facts in the life of Dean Swift, Miss Van Hom- 

 righ being Dean Swift's " Vanessa," and Maarten 

 Maartens (J. Van der Poorsen Schwartz) told 

 the powerful and touching story of " God's 

 Fool, ' which enters deep into the study of char- 

 acter and psychology; he also published "A 

 Question of Taste," in another and lighter vein. 

 " The Last Confession " and " Capt'n Davy's 

 Honeymoon " were by Hall Caine ; I. Zangwill 

 described the Jews of the East End of London 

 in his " Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures 

 of a Peculiar People," which filled two volumes, 

 while he also chronicled " The Old Maids' Club " 

 in a bright and humorous fashion. Hon. Emily 

 Lawless, the author of " Hurrish," found an en- 

 tirely new scene for her story of " Grania " ; from 

 James Payn came " A Stumble on the Thresh- 

 old " and " A Modern Dick Whittington " ; from 

 Adeline Sergeant, " Sir Anthony's Secret " and 

 " The Story of a Penitent Soul." Frank Barrett 

 wrote " Out of the Jaws of Death " ; Mrs. Alex- 

 ander was at her best in " Mammon." " For his 

 Sake," and " The Snare of the Fowler " ; W. E. 

 Norris had but one book, " His Grace " ; and Paul 

 Gushing also published but one, "The Black- 

 smith of Voe. Hamilton Aide made "A Voy- 

 age of Discovery " through American society ; 

 "A Queen of Curds and Cream," by Dorothea 



Gerard, was followed by " Etelka's Vow " ; Miss 

 M. E. Braddon (Mrs. J. Maxwell) shifted the 

 scene of " The Venetians " to England and back 

 again ; H. Merriman Seaton portrayed the Lon- 

 don journalist as " The Slave of the Lamp " ; 

 Richard Dowling made a happy hit with " Cat- 

 mur's Cares " ; Mrs. Oliphant proved that she 

 still retains her hold on the public heart by the 

 reception of her " Diana" and " The Cuckoo in 

 the Nest " ; Robert Buchanan portrayed a charm- 

 ing " Squire Kate " ; art and France in the six- 

 teenth century formed the theme of " The Secret 

 of Narcisse," by Edmund Gosse ; "Nada, the 

 Lily " of H. Rider Haggard, grew in Africa ; and 

 " An Idle Exile " found himself at home and par- 

 ticularly entertaining " By a Himalayan Lake " 

 and " In Tent and Bungalow," in India ; he also 

 collected " Indian Idyls." A. Conan Doyle had 

 three books, " The Great Shadow," " The Ad- 

 ventures of Sherlock Holmes," and " The Doings 

 of Raffles Haw." " The Naulahka," in the writ- 

 ing of which Rudyard Kipling was assisted by 

 Wolcott Balestier, the American, had its scene 

 laid in Colorado and India ; that of " The Duch- 

 ess of Powysland," by Grant Allen, lay between 

 England and America ; and " The Princess Ma- 

 zaroff," by Joseph Hatton, found many admirers. 

 F. Anstey Guthrie's latest, " The Talking Horse," 

 was humorous, with the indispensable dash of 

 pathos ; " In the Roar of the Sea," a tale of the 

 Cornish coast in the days of the Georges, and 

 " Margery of Quether, and Other Stories," came 

 from Sabine Baring-Gould ; W. Clark Russell 

 was unusually prolific, with four books, all about 

 the sea, viz., ' A Strange Elopement," " Mrs. 

 Dine's Jewels," " A Marriage at Sea," and 

 " Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea." J. M. Barrie, 

 whose successful novel of last year, " The Little 

 Minister," went through a handsome American 

 edition, limited to 260 copies, with illustrations 

 from etchings by G. W. H. Ritchie, spent " A 

 Holiday in Bed " ; and " I saw Three Ships, and 

 Other Winter Tales," were from the fascinating 

 pen of Arthur T. Quiller-Couch. " The One 

 'Good Guest," by Mrs. L. B. Walford, received a 

 hearty welcome ; as did " T'Other Dear Charmer," 

 by Helen Mathers. Florence Marryat (Mrs. 

 F'rancis Lean) was the author of " The Nobler 

 Sex," "A Fatal Silence," and "The Little Ma- 

 rine and the Japanese Lily," the last a book for 

 boys ; Mrs. Otto Booth (Rita) wrote " Asenath of 

 the Ford " and " The Man in Possession " ; Mrs. 

 E. Lovett Cameron " A Loyal Lover," " A Sis- 

 ter's Sin," and " A Daughter's Heart " ; Mrs. 

 Frances Eleanor Trollope, " That Wild Wheel " ; 

 Christabel R. Coleridge, " Amethyst " ; Rosa N. 

 Carey, "Sir Godfrey's Granddaughters"; W. 

 Westall, "The Princes of Peele"; Mrs. Camp- 

 bell Praed, " December Roses " ; and Mrs. Louisa 

 Parr, " The Squire." Violet Paget (Lee Vernon) 

 aimed some home thrusts at the woman of fash- 

 ion in "Vanitas"; E. Chilton narrated "The 

 History of a Failure"; Morley Roberts was re- 

 sponsible for " The Reputation of George Sax- 

 on " and " The Mate of the ' Vancouver ' " ; and 

 Florence Warden (Mrs. G. E. James) published 

 two dissimilar books, " Sea Mew Abbey," which 

 tells of Yorkshire smugglers and their doings, 

 and " Ralph Ryder of Brent," a story of mis- 

 taken identity. Fergus Hume was mysterious, 

 by necessity, in " The Fever of. Life," " Aladdin 



