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in London,' 1 - A Creature of the Night," " The 



Island nl' Funta>y," and " When I lived in lio- 

 heinia." iinl uiic uf which, however, runic up \<> 

 the murk of " The Mystery of a Ilan-uin Cab." 

 Miss Charlotte Al. Yonge was represented by 

 "That Si irk"; Ada Cambridge by "Not all in 

 Vain " and " My Guardian " ; llnwley Smart by 

 " A Member of Tattersall's " ; Khoda Broughton 

 by "Mrs. Bligh"; Alan St. Aubyn by "The 

 Old Maid's Sweetheart"; George Manville Fenn 

 by "The King of the Castle" and "Nurse 

 Elisia"; Hume Nisbet by "The Bushranger's 

 Sweetheart, " ; Sarah Doudney by " Through 

 Pain to Peace " ; James Baker by " Mark Tillot- 

 son," about which Tennyson wrote the last let- 

 ter that he is believed to have penned ; The 

 DurhrssiMrs. Hungerford) by four novels, "The 

 O'Connors of Ballinahinchj" " A Conquering 

 Heroine," " Nor Wife nor Maid," and " Lady 

 Patty " ; and John Strange Winter (Mrs. II. E. 

 V. Stannard) by as many more, "Experiences of 

 a Lady Help, " Confessions of a Publisher," 

 "Only Human," and "Those Girls." "The 

 Tower of Taddeo " was another Italian story by 

 Ouida (Louise de la Rame) ; Tasma published 

 "The White Feather" and "The Penance of 

 Portia James" ; Mrs. J. H. Needell, " The Story 

 of Philip Methuen " and " Passing the Love of 

 Woman"; and Marchesa Lily Theodoli, " Un- 

 der Pressure." "Treason Felony," by J. Hill, a 

 new writer, achieved success, as did the anony- 

 mous author of " Through To-day." " A Tiger's 

 Club " was by Eden Philpotts ; " The Story of 

 Chris, "by Rowland Grey; "Miss Merewether's 

 Money," by T. Cobb ; " A Son of the Fens," by 

 P. H. Emerson : " The Medicine Lady," by Mrs. 

 Toulmin Smith ; and " The March of Fate," by 

 B. L. Farjeon. The younger Charles Dickens 

 carried on his edition of his father's works, a 

 handsome new library edition of Bulwer and 

 Scott were initiated, Charles Reade's " Cloister 

 and the Hearth " filled four exquisite volumes, 

 and Anthony Trollope's " Chronicles of Barset- 

 shire " thirteen. Two editions were offered of 

 Jane Austen's works, and that of William Black's 

 progressed to completion. 



History. Vol. Ill of Edward A. Freeman's 

 "History of Sicily from the Earliest Times" 

 covered the Athenian and Carthaginian inva- 

 sions, and, with his "Story of Sicily, Phoenician, 

 Greek, and Roman," in the " Story of the Na- 

 tions Series," possesses a sad interest, the latter 

 having been one of the last works upon which 

 the historian was engaged ; a fourth series of his 

 " Historical Essays " was also published. " The 

 Spanish Story of the Armada, and Other Essays," 

 came from James Anthony Froude, who received 

 his appointment to the chair of Modern History 

 at Oxford during the year ; Samuel Rawson 

 Gardiner wrote " A Student's History of England 

 from the Earliest Times to 1885," in one volume; 

 William Connor Sydney, the author of " Eng- 

 land and the English in the Eighteenth Century," 

 " Social Life in England from the Restoration 

 to the Revolution, 1660-1690"; C. S. Fearen- 

 side, "A History of England, 1640-1670"; H. 

 F. Wright, "The Intermediate History of Eng- 

 land from B.C. 55 to 1887"; E. A. W., skot. I,, > 

 of English history under the title of "Old Eng- 

 land " ; T. Dunbar Ingram, " England and 

 Rome : A History of the Relations between the 

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Papacy and the English State and Church '' from 

 the Norman Conquest to the revolution of 

 1068 : .1. Wuylen, "The House of Cromwell and 

 the Story of Dunkirk " ; F. A. Inderwick, "The 

 Stnrvof Kiii},< l-Mward and New Winchelsea: The 

 Edification of a Mediaeval Town"; and P. W. 

 Clayden, "England under the Coalition," a po- 

 litical history of Great Britain and Ireland from 

 the general election of 1885 to May, 1892. " Ire- 

 land under the Land League" was a narrative 

 of personal experiences bv C. Lloyd. George 

 Barnett's "History of the English Parliament" 

 filled two volumes, and was " the first complete, 

 consecutive record of the English Parliament as 

 a legislative institution from the earliest times to 

 the present day." It contained also an account 

 of the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland, and 

 was illustrated with facsimiles of numerous val- 

 uable historical documents connected with con- 

 stitutional history. The first volume of a new 

 illustrated edition of J. R. Green's "Short His- 

 tory of the English People," edited by Mrs. Green 

 and Miss Kate Norgate, appeared ; Macmillan's 

 " History Readers " covered " The Tudor Period, 

 1485-1603," and " The Stuart Period, 1603-1714," 

 with biographies of leading persons; Richard 

 Garnett edited the "Accession of Queen Mary: 

 Being the Contemporary Narrative of Antonio de 

 Guaras"; and George Saintsbury performed a 

 similar service for " Elizabethan and Jacobean 

 Pamphlets." " Mediaeval Scotland " occupied the 

 attention of R. W. Cochran-Patrick; Mrs. T. 

 Fielding Johnson published " Glimpses of An- 

 cient Leicester in Six Periods"; and Sir James 

 H. Ramsey,of Banff, Bart., " Lancaster and York : 

 A Century of English History, A. D. 1399-1485," 

 in two volumes. T. W. Shore wrote K A History 

 of the County of Hampshire," including the Isle 

 of Wight ; Alfred Beaver, " Memorials of Old 

 Chelsea : A New History of the Village of Pal- 

 aces," illustrated; John Hobson Matthews. "A 

 History of the Parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Tow- 

 ednack, and Zennor, in the County of Corn- 

 wall " ; and G. Crabbe's " History of the Parish 

 of Thompson (Norfolk) " was edited by Jessopp, 

 with drawings of the church by H. G. Green. 

 C. Taylor wrote on "The Huguenots in the Sev- 

 enteenth Century," including the history of the 

 Edict of Nantes from its enactment, in 1598, 

 to its revocation, in 1685; G. L. Dickinson, on 

 "Revolution and Reaction in Modern France"; 

 and H. Morse Stephens edited, with an introduc- 

 tion and notes, " The Principal Speeches of the 

 Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolu- 

 tion, 1789-1795," in two volumes. Matilda Be- 

 tham-Edwards took a comparative and retro- 

 spective survey of " France of To-day," and Col. 

 G. B. Malleson described " The Refounding of 

 the German Empire, 1848-1871." "The Bat ties of 

 Frederick the Great" were edited by Cyril Ran- 

 some from Carlyle's biography of the Prussian 

 monarch. In the "Story of the Nations Series," 

 " The Story of the Byzantine Empire " was writ- 

 ten by C. W. C. Oman. "Studies by a Recluse 

 in Cloister, Town, and Country " was a collection 

 of lectures and essays on historical subjects by 

 A. Jessopp; and from Oscar Browning we have 

 "The Flight to Varennes. and other Historical 

 Essays." "England's Sen Victories" were com- 

 memorated by C. R. Low. Evelyn Abbott, in 

 Part II of " A History of Greece," covered the 



