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and " 'Round the Compass in Australia," by Gil- 

 bert Parker, with " Hard Life in the Colonies, and 

 Other Experiences by Sea and Land," now first 

 printed, compiled by C. Carlyon Jenkins in thu 

 " Adventure Series," exhaust this part of the 

 globe and we turn to " A Ride across Iceland 

 in the Summer of 1891," by W. T. McCormick 

 for novelty. On the Continent, John Adding- 

 ton Symonds and his daughter Margaret were 

 delightful in "Our Life in the Swiss High- 

 lands " ; E. J. Goodman recommended " The 

 Best Tour in Norway " ; C. P. Keary described 

 "Norway and the Norwegians": M. Stokes 

 spent " Six Months in the Apennines " ; " The 

 Land of Flowers," by Clement Scott, described 

 the Riviera ; W. M. Conway and W. A. B. Coo- 

 lidge were joint authors of a " Climber's Guide " 

 to the Lepantine Alps ; " The Realm of the Haps- 

 burgs," by S. Whitman, gave a descriptive account 

 of the present conditionof Austria and Hungary, 

 and Margaret Fletcher contributed " Sketches 

 of Life and Character in Hungary." Miss Mar- 

 garet Thomas illustrated her own book of " A 

 Scamper through Spain and Tangier " ; Mrs. 

 E. R. Whitwell described " Spain as we found 

 it in 1891 " ; and from Henry Blackburn we had 

 a record of " Artistic Travel " in Normandy, 

 Brittany, the Pyrenees, Spain, and Algeria, with 

 130 illustrations. H. M. Doughty carried " Our 

 Wherry in Wendish Lands: From Friesland 

 through the Mecklenburg Lakes to Bohemia"; 

 and John Wallace illustrated " Across France in 

 a Caravan," by the author of " A Day of my Life 

 at Eton." A volume on " Russian Character- 

 istics " came out under the collective signature 

 of E. B. Lanin, reprinted from the " Fortnightly 

 Review " ; W. Barnes Steveni, the special cor- 

 respondent of the " Daily Chronicle," went 

 " Through Famine-Stricken Russia," and E. A. 

 B. Hodgetts followed " In the Track of the Rus- 

 sian Famine." A. E. W. Marsh chronicled his 

 " Holiday Wanderings in Madeira" ; W. M. F. Pe- 

 trie, " Ten Years' Digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 " 

 (for archaeologists) ; from Stanley Lane-Poole 

 we have sketches of the history, monuments, and 

 social life of " Cairo " ; and from Martin Brimmer, 

 " Egypt." " New Light on the Bible and the 

 Holy Land," by B. T. A. Evetts, was an account 

 of some recent discoveries in the East, and Hard- 

 wicke D. Rawnsley drew up " Notes for the Nile." 

 ' Capitals of the World," in two volumes, were 

 edited by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers) and H. 

 D. Traill, and Rev. G. E. Mason went " Round 

 the World on a Church Mission." " Flying 

 Visits " of Harry Furniss to various cities of the 

 British Isles were decidedly entertaining, and 

 had 192 illustrations, by the author; C. W. 

 Methven furnished " Sketches of Durban and 

 its Harbour in 1891 " ; J. Leyland was at home 

 on " The Yorkshire Coast and the Cleveland 

 Hills and Dales " ; Leo H. Grindon described 

 " Lancashire, England " ; as did C. R. B. Bar- 

 rett, " Essex Highways, Byways, and Water 

 Ways " ; while " Swin, Swale, and Swatch way ; 

 or, Cruises Down the Thames, the Medway, and 

 the Essex Rivers," was by H. L. Jones and C. B. 

 Lockwood. " Round London : Down East and 

 up West," by M. Williams, was reprinted from 

 " Household Words." and Part I of Frank Cow- 

 per's "Sailing Tours" was devoted to "The Coasts 

 of Essex and Suffolk." " Sketches in Sunshine 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. 



and Storm." by W. J. Knox Little, and " Camp- 

 ing Sketches," by G. R. Lowndes, found read- 

 ers ; and Hew Ainslie's " Pilgrimage to the Land 

 of Burns " was printed in the first complete col- 

 lection of that author's writings that has been 

 made since 1822. 



The following are the figures of book-produc- 

 tion in England in 1892, compared with those 

 of 1891, as given by the " Publishers' Circular '' 

 (London) : 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. The pro- 

 digious and ever-increasing number of volumes 

 now published annually makes even an enu- 

 meration of simply all that have been well re- 

 ceived by critics and the public almost an impos- 

 sibility here. Still, we believe that the following 

 resume of the year's doings in literary circles 

 (arranged, as usual, by countries placed in alpha- 

 betical order) will be found to make mention of 

 those publications which are of most importance, 

 or which specially illustrate the drift of literary 

 taste in the various countries, or which show 

 specially interesting by-paths entered into in 

 notable individual cases. 



Belgium. History, especially national his- 

 tory, is, as ever, assiduously cultivated in Bel- 

 gium. The publication of documents inedits on 

 the history of the country is diligently continued, 

 the works of this kind including an edition, by 

 M. H. Pirenne, of the famous Latin chronicle of 

 Galbertus of Bruges, in which is related the story 

 of the murder of Charles the Good, Count of 

 Flanders (1127-'28), and the memoirs of Martin 

 del Rio, a Spaniard, dealing with the Nether- 

 lands in the sixteenth century,and brought out by 

 Canon Delvigne. Of continuations, there are the 

 tenth volume of the late Baron Kervyn de Letten- 

 hove's " Relations Politiques des Pays-Bas et de 

 1'Angleterre sous le Regne de Philippe II " ; the 

 third volume of Marneffe's documents relating to 

 " La Principaute de Liege et les Pays-Bays au 

 XVI 6 Siecle " ; the second part of Abbe Cauchie's 

 learned work, " La Querelle des Investitures 

 dans les Dioceses de Liege et de Cambrai (1092- 

 1107) " ; Vol. II of the late E. Poullet's " Histoire 



