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.1. l':i-'- llopps. C. Amy Duwson wrote " Idylls 

 manhood": A. Dillon, " Gods and Men," 

 dniiiiatic poems; "The Secrets of tin: South," 

 Jephcott, were Australian poems; Philip 

 and Cyril Haviland published "Voices 

 from Australia"; and W. 11. 11. Yarringtou, 

 "Australian Verses." Mathilde Blind sent out 

 Dramas in Miniature," and George Meredith, 

 Poems : The Kni|ity Purse; with Odes to the 

 Comic Spirit, to Youth in Memory, and Verses." 

 In " 1 'IK-IS and Poetry of the Century," edited by 

 Alfred II. Mih's, we had "Frederick Tennyson 

 to Arthur Ihiirh Clough " and "Charles Kinjr>- 

 li-y t<> .lames Thomson." " Love Songs of Eng- 

 lish Poets, 1500-1800," were compiled, with 

 noti-s liy Ralph Caine, and William Watson ed- 

 ited " Lyric Love." " A Paradise of English 

 Poetry," selected bv H. C. Beeching, filled two 

 volumes. Graham R. Thomson compiled a book 

 " Concerning Cats," and George Eyre Todd ed- 

 ited " Mediaeval Scottish Poetry," in the " Ab- 

 botsford Series of Scottish Poetry." A centenary 

 edition of Shelley's works was issued by an 

 American publishing house, edited by Prof. 

 George E. Woodberry, and George Meredith's 

 " Modern Love " came from another, in an edi- 

 tion de luxe with a " Foreword " by Mrs. E. 

 Cavazza. 



Voyages and Travels. British travelers 

 were as numerous and adventurous in 1892 as 

 ever, and wrote more voluminous if not more 

 entertaining records of where they wandered 

 and what befell them. In "America and the 

 Americans" A. Craib gave his narrative of a 

 tour through the United States and Canada, not 

 venturing out of the beaten track, and Irving 

 Montagu illustrated " The Land of the Almighty 

 Dollar " as seen by H. P. Gordon. " By Track 

 and Trail " was the account of a journey through 

 Canada by Edward Roper, and " The Barren 

 Ground of Northern Canada," by Warburton 

 Pike, told the storv of two years of sport and 

 adventure : while FJdward Whymper's " Travels 

 amongst the Great Andes of the Equator," with 

 its Supplementary Appendix," with contribu- 

 tions by numerous authors, was reckoned by 

 many the best book of travels of the year. An 

 anonymous " Gringo " went " Through the Land 

 of the Aztecs " ; Villiers Stuart chronicled " Ad- 

 ventures amidst the Equatorial Forests and 

 Kivi-rs of South America; also in the West 

 Indies and the Wilds of Florida," and told of 

 "Jamaica revisited"; Thomas A. Turner gave 

 his notes and impressions of " Argentina and 

 the Argentines" acquired during a five years' 

 sojourn, 1885-'90 ; W. H. Hudson visited " The 

 Ama/ini in La Plata "; G. C. Morant, " Chili and 

 the River Plate in 1891 " : while " A Ride 

 through Wonderland," by Georgina M. Synge, 

 described the Yellowstone region. Edward Car- 

 penter entitled his sketches in Ceylon and India 

 "From Adam's Peak to Elephanta " ; Sir Joseph 

 Dalton Hooker published " Himalayan Jour- 

 nals," the notes of a naturalist: J. D. Rees, 

 "Lord Coimemara's Tours in India, 1886-1890": 

 W. R. Winston. " Four years in Upper Burmah " : 

 Mis. C. F. Gordon-dimming, "Two Happy 

 Years in Ceylon," in two volumes ; Walter ,f. 

 Clutterbuck told " About Ceylon and Borneo " ; 

 Maj.-Gen. A. Ruxton MacMahon.of " Far Cathay 

 and Farther India"; Gen. D. Hamilton's 



"Records of Sport in Southern India" were 

 edited by his brother, Edward Hamilton ; and 

 " .M yanima : A Retrospect of Life and Travel in 

 Lower Burmah," by C. F. Paske, was edited by 



F. (i. A Halo. J. J. Aul>ertin'8 "Wanderings 

 and Wonderings " extended over India, Burmah, 

 Cashmere, Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Siam, Japan, 

 Manila, Formosa, etc., while two volumes con- 

 tained the stray papers, maps, and plans of J. 

 Douglas in " Bombay and Western India." Mrs. 

 Howard Vincent went from " Newfoundland to 

 Cochin-China, by the Golden Wave. New Nippon, 

 and the Forbidden City"; A. E. Pratt, " To the 

 Snows of Thibet through China " ; and Julius M. 

 Price, " From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow 

 Sea." " Siberia as it is," by H. de Windt, had 

 an introduction by Madame Olga de Norikoff. 

 J. Dyer Ball saw " Things Chinese " ; Henry 

 Norman devoted his best energies to portraying 

 " The Real Japan," with happy results ; A. 

 Tracy described " Rambles through Japan with- 

 out a Guide " ; and Douglas Slader kodaked 

 with a camera and pen " The Japs at Home." 

 "Japanese Letters," giving Eastern impressions 

 of Western men and manners, by Tokiwari and 

 Yashiri, were edited by Commander Hastings 

 Berkeley, and possess value as the earnest and 

 philosophic study of the civilization which the 

 Japanese are accepting, by two cultivated natives 

 of different minds. E. J. Glave's " In Savage 

 Africa; or. Six Years of Adventure in Congo- 

 Land," had an introduction by Henry M. Stanley, 

 and " Stories told in an African Forest." by A. 

 J. Mounteney Jephson, impress us strongly, 

 coming from the pen of one of the heroes 

 of the Kinin Relief Expedition. Rev. William 

 Parr Greswell outlined the " Geography of 

 Africa South of the Zambesi," with notes on 

 the industries, wealth, and social progress of 

 the states and peoples, and Stephen Bonsai, 

 Jr., pictured " Morocco as it is." J. E. 

 Ritchie pictured life at the Cape and Natal 

 in "Brighter South Africa"; A. F. M. Ferry- 

 man's "Up the Niger" contained the narrative 

 of Major Claude Macdonald's mission to the 

 Niger and Benin rivers, West Africa; Lord 

 Randolph Churchill wrote up " Men, Mines, and 

 Animals in South Africa," in line with which is 

 Lockwood Kipling's " Beast and Man in India " ; 

 J. A. Nicolls was "The Sportsman in South Af- 

 rica " ; W. L. Distant, " A Naturalist in the Trans- 

 vaal "; while A. Groser's "South African Expe- 

 riences "were illustrated with forty engravings 

 and maps. Reunert's " Diamond Mines of South 

 Africa contained much interesting information. 

 " The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland " was a rec- 

 ord of excavation and exploration in 1891 by J. 

 Theodore Bent, and " Tanganyika : Eleven Years 

 in Central Africa," came from ('apt. K. C. More. 

 Romolo Gessi's " Seven Years in the Soudan " was 

 edited by his son Felix. Hon. George N. Curzon 

 filled two volumes with " Persia and the Persian 

 Question"; "Homeward Bound after Thirty 

 Years," by Edward Reeves, pive a colonist's im- 

 pressions of New Zealand, Aust ralia. Tangier, and 

 Spain; J. P. Thompson wrote on " British New 

 Guinea," and W. E. Swanton " Notes on New Zea- 

 land." B. F.S. Baden-Powell gave his jH-rsonal ex- 

 periences "In Sava ire I>lcs and Settled Lands." 

 "Shall I try Australia? or. Health, Business and 

 Pleasure in New South Wales." by G. L. James, 



