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ti. >ns of the large work on Denmark, edited by 

 M. (,.il-( hii'ii ; C. K. Brioka's " Dansk btografltt 

 Lexikmi"; the" Corpus Constitutiniinm Duniae" 

 (a selection of royal ordinances, etc.), edited by 

 V. A. Secher ; " Kong Christian den Fjerdes 

 egenhaendige Breve" (188-'U1); and P. Niel- 

 sen's " llanndbog i Kirkuns Historie." 



.1. Bondesen's ''Jorden rundt," D. Bruun's 

 " Airier <>x Sahara," and H. Scharling's "Reise- 

 studier fra Aegypten og Palaestina " are among 

 tin- books of travel; " Daekningsadgang eller 

 Pordringsret," by E. Mo'ller, and V. Richter's 

 "Juridisk Stat" are among the legal tomes of 

 the year; and II. Trier's " Paedagogiske Strei- 

 11\-" belongs to the literature of education; 

 while Vols. II-IV of " Det videnskabelige Ud- 

 bytte af Kanonbaaden 'Hauchs' Togter i de 

 danske have og indenfor Skagen in aarene 1883- 

 '86," edited by G. C. Job. Petersen, contain im- 

 portant contributions to the science of natural 

 history. 



In literary history there have appeared : A. 

 Hansen's "En engelsk Forfattergruppe"; T. Bier- 

 f mind's "Kulturbaerere: Studieri MiddelaJder- 

 ens Digtning " ; J. Clausen's " Kulturhistoriske 

 Studier over Heiberg's Vaudeviller " ; H. Ras- 

 mussen's " Studier over 1 1 ;i li/ . . ." ; P. Han- 

 sen's "Den Skueplads" (continued); and mono- 

 graphs on Dante by H. Vedel, on Carl Joakim 

 Brandt by F. Ronning, on Peter Andreas Hei- 

 berg by II. Schwanenfliigel, and on Samuel 

 Richardson by J. Magnussen. "Bibliotheca Da- 

 nica," covering Danish literature from 1482- 

 1830, is continued under the editorship of Chr. 

 V. Brunn, and A. Hammerich's " Musiken ved 

 Christian den Fjerdes Hof "; H. R. Baumann's 

 " Frans Hals " ; Vols. I and II of H. V. Schytte's 

 "Nordisk Musik Lexikon " are contributions to 

 the history of the arts. 



Finally, among the newest productions in 

 prose fiction, poetry, and the drama, we have : 

 II. Hang's "Teatret"; L. Budde's " Historier " ; 

 C. Dalsgaard's " Tre Fortasllinger"; H.F. Ewald's 

 "Clara Bille"; C. Ewald's "Fru Johanne"; 

 H. Jensen's " Pastor Dahlberg " ; 0. Madsen's 

 " Glade Ungdom " ; A. Prydz's " Arnak " ; J. 

 Schjorring's " En Krise " ; F. Suenssen's " Han 

 er Jflde"; I. C. H. R. Steenstrup's "Fra Fortid 

 og Nut id " ; K. A. Tavastjerna's " Unga ar " ; V. 

 ( '. s. Topsoe's " Stagne Folk," etc. 



France. There has been a marked increase 

 in literary productiveness in this country, and 

 that, it seems, in all branches of literature. Con- 

 temporary history has received a number of ad- 

 ditions. The Comte d'Herisson, in his " Les 

 usabilities de 1'Annee Terrible," attempts a 

 defense of Marshal Bazaine, whom he regards as 

 a sort of scapegoat, while the ' Souvenirs du 

 General Jarras" form incontrovertible evidence 

 for the other side of the question. Georges Bas- 

 tard, a thorough and erudite historian, has de- 

 scribed another episode of the Franco-Prussian 

 War in a work on the heroic cavalry charges made 

 on the terrible 1st of September;* and the Abbe 

 Lanusee recalls the splendid stand mnde by 62 

 men of the Foreign Legion against 2,000 Mexi- 

 cans at the ruins of Camaron, in his " He>os de 

 Camaron." An interesting composite monograph 

 on the ''Palais de Justice de Paris," furnished 

 with a preface by Alexandre Dumas, is the joint 

 work of a number of writers. Francois Bour- 



nand's " La Terreur a Paris " is one of the many 

 monographs which, we are told, were called fortn 

 by Sardou's "Thermidor"; " Les Rapport- du 

 Lieutenant de Police d'Argenson" (1697-1715) 

 form a chronicle of crimes and scandals in the 

 reign of Louis XIV; and in the memoirs of 

 Gen. de Ricard, a fervent Bonapartist. published 

 by L. Xavier de Ricard under the title " Autour 

 de Bonaparte," we find a most unflattering por- 

 trait of tne King of Westphalia, old Jerome. The 

 exhuming of all sorts of memoirs and recollec- 

 tions is a characteristic illustration of the exact- 

 itude and thoroughness exercised by those en- 

 gaged in historical research. In many, of these 

 private papers and diaries, which were, of course, 

 not written for publication, contemporary per- 

 sons and events are described without the least re- 

 serve. Thus the memoirs of Madame du Haus- 

 set, a lady-in-waiting of Madame de Pompadour, 

 which have been carefullv re-edited by Hippolyte 

 Fournier, are replete with details concerning the 

 villainous scandals in the court of Louis XV. 

 Again, in the " Memoires d'un Conscrit de 1808," 

 edited by Philippe Gille, the dark side of the 

 Spanish campaign is described with the most 

 unrestrained frankness by a humble baker. To 

 the innumerable personal recollections of the 

 revolution and the wars under the first em- 

 pire which have already been published, have 

 been added the " Memoires du General de Mar- 

 bot." A. Mezieres has published an excellent 

 and exceedingly impartial though sympathetic 

 "Vie de Mirabeau," and the great Tribune is 

 also described from the political standpoint by 

 Rousse, in the important set, "Grands Ecrivains 

 Francais." In literary biography there is also 

 much new material. Leon Chasles has published 

 in the "Revue Encyclopedique" the biograph- 

 ical notes on Victor Hugo found in some note- 

 books left by Alexandre Dumas to the father of 

 Chasles. They deal mostly with the poet's in- 

 fancy, and many of the details were already 

 known through the " Temoin de la Vie de Vic- 

 tor Hugo." but Dumas's version (taken down in 

 1833) sometimes varies from the other (dictated 

 in 1863) in a perplexing manner, though both 

 were obtained directly from Hugo. News comes 

 to us also of a very interesting trouvaille, a 

 hitherto quite unknown MS. journal of the early 

 years (1852-'56) of Hugo's exile, discovered by 

 Octave Uzanne and published by him in parts. 

 The memoirs of an almost forgotten litterateur, 

 Hippolyte Auger, have been published by Paul 

 Cottin; Andre Monselet has written a critical 

 biography of his father, Charles Monselet (M. 

 de Cupidori), a volume of whose fragmentary 

 "cssats" he has also issued; "Souvenirs litte- 

 raiivs." by Maxime du Camp, has appeared; 

 and Edouard Rod is the author of a monograph 

 on Stendhal (Henri Beyle}. Here may be men- 

 tioned also the correspondence of Madame Acker- 

 man (" The Sappho of Atheism "). edited by the 

 <'<>nitc d'Haussonville. Louis Gallet has repub- 

 lislied, in one volume, the sketches, which came 

 out in the " Menestrel." dealing with various 

 musicians whom he has furnished with librettos; 

 L. Henry Lecointe has devoted a monograph to 

 Virginie Deja/et, the actress; and Grand-Car- 

 teret has added to his caricature histories of Bis- 

 marck and Crispi an exceedingly interesting one 

 on Richard Wagner. Hugues Le Roux's vivid 



