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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1892. 



Bible," by Joseph Parker, were issued, devoted 

 to the prophets Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea-Mala- 

 chi ; two additions to " The Sermon Bible " cov- 

 ered ' John IV to Acts VI," and "Acts VII to I Co- 

 rinthians XVI " ; and in the " Expositor's Bible 

 Series " we have " Epistles to the Thessalonians," 

 by Rev. J. Denney ; " Epistles to the Ephesians," 

 by Rev. G. G. Findlay ; the second volume of 

 " The Gospel of St. John," by Rev. M. Dods ; 

 the second volume of " The Acts of the Apos- 

 tles," by Rev. G. T. Stokes; and "The Book 

 of Job," by Rev. R. A. Watson. "The Dic- 

 tionary of Hymnology," edited by John J. 

 Julian, set forth the origin and history of not 

 less than 400,000 Christian hymns in 200 or 

 more languages and dialects. "Breaking the 

 Long Silence" was the title of two brief ad- 

 dresses delivered on the last evening of 1891 

 and the first morning of 1892 by the late Rev. 

 C. H. Spurgeon, and his " Scarlet Threads and 

 Bits of Blue " had a preface by Mrs. Spurgeon. 

 In the " Preachers of the Age Series," we have 

 "Verbum Crucis, with Other Sermons," by 

 Bishop W. Alexander, of Derby; "The Con- 

 quering Christ," by Rev. Alexander Maclaren ; 

 " Living Theology," by the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury; and "Ethical Christianity," by Rev. 

 Hugh Price Hughes. " Short Sermons," by Rev. 

 Stopford A. Brooke; " Dissertations on the Apos- 

 tolic Age," by Bishop J. D. Lightfoot ; "The 

 Natural History of Immortality," by Rev. Joseph 

 W. Reynolds; "Christ, the Light of all Scrip- 

 ture," and "Growth in Grace and Other Ser- 

 mons," by Archbishop W. Magee ; " Sermons," by 

 H. Scott Holland ; and " From Advent to Ad- 

 vent," by Aubrey L. Moore, deserve mention, as 

 do "Cathedral and University Sermons" of the 

 late Rev. R. W. Church, Dean of St. Paul. Works 

 which possess general or individual interest 

 which it is impossible to place under any of our 

 other classifications may as well find a place 

 here. They are : " The Printing Arts," by J. 

 W. Rowland ; " The Romance of Engineering," 

 by H. Frith ; " The Steam Navy of England," 

 by Harry Williams ; " The Atlantic Ferry," by 



A. J. Maginnis ; " The Industrial Arts of the 

 Anglo-Saxons," by Baron J. De Baye ; " Coal 

 Pits and Pitmen," by R. Nelson Boyd ; " The 

 Metropolitan Water Supply," by H. C." Richards 

 and W. H. C. Payne ; " Lightning Guards," by 

 Oliver J. Lodge, the author of " Modern Views 

 of Electricity " ; " The Encyclopaedia of Photog- 

 raphy," by W. E. Woodbury ; " The Optics of 

 Photography and Photographic Lenses," by J. 

 T. Taylor ; " The Mechanics of Architecture," a 

 treatise on applied mechanics especially adapted 

 to the use of architects, by E. W. Tarn ; and J. 



B. Lee's useful work " On Indigo Manufacture." 

 J. T. Arlidge made an interesting study of 

 " The Hygiene, Diseases, and Mortality of Occu- 

 pations " ; H. C. Burdette gave the o'rigin, his- 

 tory, etc., of " Hospitals and Asylums of the 

 World " ; and S. Wilks and G. T. Bettany wrote 

 "A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital." 

 " Suffering London," by A. Egmont Hake, traced 

 the hygienic, moral, social, and political relation 

 of our voluntary hospitals to society ; and Have- 

 lock Ellis wrote on "The Nationalism of 

 Health." The Croonian Lectures before the 

 Royal College of Physicians in London. June, 

 1889, were by T. Lauder Brunton, entitled " An 



Introduction to Modern Therapeutics." " The 

 London Daily Press " was an interesting record, 

 by H. W. Massingham. " Rod and River," by 

 A. T. Fisher ; a second series of " Letters to 

 Young Shooters," by Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey ; 

 a " Batch of Golfing Papers," by Andrew Lang 

 and others, edited by R. Barclay ; " On Seats 

 and Saddles, Bits and Bitting," by Francis 

 Dwyer ; and " Mountaineering," by C. T. Dent, in 

 the Badmington Library ; with " Card Tricks and 

 Puzzles," by "Berkeley" and T. B. Rowland, 

 met the requirements of the sporting world. 

 F. Anstey Guthrie reprinted a second series of 

 " Voces Populi " from " Punch," and J. Scott 

 Keltic sent out the twenty-ninth annual issue 

 of " The Statesman's Year Book," a most valua- 

 ble work of reference. 



Poetry. "The Death of CEnone, Akbar's 

 Dream, and Other Poems," and " The Forester, 

 Robin Hood, and Maid Marian," a drama of the 

 greenwood, were the last utterances of Tennyson 

 to the world, which he continued to charm to the 

 last; "Marah" was a volume of posthumous 

 poems by Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton); and 

 from poets still with us we have " Potiphar's 

 Wife, and Other Poems," by Sir Edwin Arnold ; 

 " The Sisters," a tragedy, by Algernon C. Swin- 

 burne, which disappointed some of his admirers ; 

 and " Poems by the Way," by William Morris. 

 W. E. Henley sang " The Song of the Sword " 

 alone, and with Robert Louis Stevenson wrote 

 " Three Plays," which were reckoned a " brilliant 

 exception to the usual failure of literary collabo- 

 ration." " Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other 

 Verses," proclaim Rudyard Kipling by their 

 title, as " Flowers o' the Vine " suggest at once 

 William Sharp. " The Collected Poems of Philip 

 Bourke Marston " were given to the world with 

 a sympathetic biographical sketch by Mrs. Louise 

 Chandler Moulton. Austin Dobson wrote " The 

 Ballad of Beau Brocade," and Alfred Austin, 

 " Fortunatus, the Pessimist " ; John Davidson, 

 the author of " Scaramouch in Naxos," " In a 

 Music Hall, and Other Poems " ; William Wat- 

 son, " Poems," and " Lachrymae Musarum " (for 

 the dead laureate) ; Richard Le Gallienne, ' Eng- 

 lish Poems"; and F. W. Bourdillon, "A Lost 

 God." Hugh Haliburton's " Ochil Idylls " had 

 all his old charm, and from Miss Jessie Barlow 

 we had " Bogland Studies," humorous and pa- 

 thetic." "The Violet Crown" and "Songs of 

 England " came from Rennell Rodd ; " Granite 

 Dust : Fifty Poems," from R. C. Macfie ; E. Car- 

 penter leaned "Toward Democracy" in imita- 

 tion of Walt Whitman ; and other volumes pos- 

 sessing merit were " Love's Victory : Lyrical 

 Poems," by J. A. Blaikie ; " A Country Muse," 

 by Norman R. Gale ; " The Ballad of" Pity, by 

 Gascoigne Mackie ; " Lays and Legends," by 

 E. Nisbet; "Poems," by Oscar Wilde; "Sight 

 and Song," by Michael Field : " Quo Musa 

 Tendis," a slight volume of humorous verse by 

 J. K. Stephen; "Occasional Rhymes and Re- 

 flections upon Subjects Literary and Political," 

 by G. H. Powell; "Poems," by William Cald- 

 well Roscoe ; " Bernard and Constantio, and 

 Other Poems." by C. J. Blake ; " Lyrical Stud- 

 ies," by S. C. Rickards : " Songs of an Exile," by 

 V. E. Marsden ; " Meditative Poems," by J. T. 

 Chapman ; and " Pilgrim .Songs, and Other 

 Poems, written during Forty Years," by Rev. 



