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and various publications on Persian and Cha- 

 gattai philology and ethnography by Vambery. 

 The death of two noted philologists is here to be 

 recorded Joseph Budenz, whose specialty was 

 Altaic languages, and Paul Hunfalvy, who also 

 established an enviable reputation among eth- 

 nographers. Literary history and cognate sub- 

 jects have received interesting contributions in 

 the shape of Albert Kardos's " History of Hun- 

 garian Literature," G. Ele's " Hungarian Print- 

 ing House in the Eighteenth Century," and the 

 continuation of G. Petrik's " Hungarian Bibliog- 

 raphy, 1712 to 1860." 



In the department of fiction the outlook is de- 

 cidedly cheering, for Hungary harbors not a few 

 novelists of ability. Jokai, the most renowned 

 of all, has again added several titles (" There's 

 no Devil," " The Son of Rakocy ") to the list of 

 his novels. " Our Comrades'" and " Useless 

 Work " are novels by the late Gregor Csiky, a 

 dramatist of much renown ; and another noted 

 writer, Karoly Vadnai, has published a volume 

 of short stories, " Eve's Daughters." Antal^ Va- 

 radi has written a novelette, " Festett Vilag " ; 

 Kalman Mikszath (whose collected works are in 

 course of publication, Vol. VII having already 

 appeared), a volume of " Sketches of Life in Par- 

 liament," in which he has occupied a seat ; and 

 Robert Tabori a couple of novels, " In the Land 

 of the Crooked Mountains" and "Transforma- 

 tions." The novelette and the short story seem 

 to have been cultivated by preference and with 

 success by the younger authors. Among collec- 

 tions of stories and sketches are " The Hidden 

 Nest," by Victor Rakosi (Si palusz), who is de- 

 scribed as possessing a vein of delightful humor; 

 " Mutamur," by Ferencz Herczeg, whose style has 

 been found to resemble the unfortunate De Mau- 

 passant's; an interesting " Book of the Hungarian 

 Lowland," by Zsigmond Justh; and productions 

 of promising and talented young men like Joseph 

 Hevesi, Sandor Brody, Zoltan Ambrus, and Bela 

 Toth. And then there is Hungaria's noted 

 humorist, Dr. Adolf Agai (Porzo), the popular 

 writer of feuilletons, whose " Dust and Ashes " 

 has entered upon a second edition, and whose 

 sparkling humor always shows an undercurrent 

 of serious thought. In lyric poetry, high praise 

 has been accorded to the productions of Michael 

 Szabolcska and A. Kosma, who have been com- 

 pared to Petofi and Janos Arany, respectively. 

 Noteworthy additions to dramatic literature are 

 " Countess Vera," a tragedy, by L. Doczy, and 

 " Demon," a drama by A. Varadi. and a collected 

 edition of the dramatic works of Jeno Rakosi has 

 also been issued. Altogether, we may echo the 

 opinion of a noted critic, that the literary publi- 

 cations for the past year in Hungary include 

 very good works, while there is nothing that 

 rises, by absolute excellence, above the general 

 satisfactory average. 



Italy. Beginning with history, we note 

 among numerous recent publications the fol- 

 lowing : Two important works brought out by 

 the Italian Historic Institute, i. e., G. Monti- 

 colo's " La Cronaca del Diacono Giovanni " and 

 Vol. I of the letters of Coluccio Salutati, col- 

 lected by F. Novati ; " Autobiografia di P. 

 Giannone " ; Salvatore Lupia's monograph on 

 Arnoldo da Brescia ; A. Marchesan's " L'Univer- 

 sita di Treviso nei Secoli XIII. e XIV." ; E. Co- 



stantini's " II Cardinale di Ravenna " ; B. Felici- 

 angeli's " Caterina Cibo da Varano " ; "I Teatri 

 di Napoli," by B. Croce; A. Oriani's "Lotta 

 Politica in Italia " ; A. V. Vecchi's " Storia della 

 Marina Italia " ; " La Reazione in Toscana nel 

 1799," by Apollo Lumini: L. A. Ferrai's "Studi 

 Storici " ; D. Berti's " Scritti Vari " ; " Studi Stori- 

 cie Critici," by P. Villari : 0. Tommasini's " Scrit- 

 ti di Critica e Storia " ; Giuseppe Stocchi's "Aulo 

 Gabinio e i suoi Processi " ; L. Chiala's " Pagine 

 di Storia Contemporanea " (1858-'92) ; A. Bian- 

 chi's volume on Garibaldi; L. Pianiani's "La 

 Roma dei Papi," Vol. 1, etc. " Toscanelli " is a 

 new periodical (in French) devoted to historical 

 research. The four hundredth anniversary of 

 the discovery of America has naturally called 

 forth a number of publications, like the works 

 on Columbus by V. Prinzivalli, M. A. Lazzaroni 

 (two vols.), de Lollis, and Monsignor Rocco Coc- 

 chia, or those dealing with later discoverers, 

 such as Tarducci's " Di Giovanni e Sebastiano 

 Caboto ; " besides which, the Italian Government 

 is bringing out a great memorial publication of 

 Columbian documents. Among the contribu- 

 tions to various departments of science are E. 

 Morselli's " Carlo Darwin e il Darwinismo . . . ." 

 and Q. Bianchi's "L'Ipnotismo e la Giustizia 

 Penale," while we note also a number of publi- 

 cations on legal topics, and two new books by P. 

 Mantegazza, " Dizionario delle cose Belle," and 

 "L'Arte di prender Moglie." There are two 

 books of travel that deserve special mention : 

 Adolf o Rossi's " Un Italiano in America," in 

 which the checkered career of the author (now a 

 noted journalist) in the New World and his ob- 

 servations on men and manners there are de- 

 scribed, and Ferdinando Martini's " Nell' Africa 

 Italiana," a work for which he was peculiarly 

 fitted by his observations made as member of a 

 Government commission of inquiry to Massowah. 

 The latter author has also reprinted some of the 

 best of his articles in the Fanfulla della Do- 

 menica under the title " Di Palo in Frasca." It 

 seems that Martini has done much to inaugurate 

 the specialty of literary journalism in Italy, re- 

 sulting in a popularizing of culture. 



In the department of literary history, the con- 

 tributions to Dante literature always hold a prom- 

 inent place. First of all, there is the Frate 

 Giovanni da Serravalle's Latin commentary on 

 Dante, written early in the fifteenth century, 

 from the Guelph point of view, and now edited, 

 by order of Pope Leo XIII, by Father Marcellinp 

 da Civezza and Father Teofilo Domenichelli, 

 two Franciscan scholars. Other works concerned 



A. Buscaino Campo's "Studi danteschi," Cor- 

 rado Ricci's " L'Ultimo Rifugio di Dante Ali- 

 ghieri," Dr. G. A. Sartazzini's " Dante Hand- 

 buch " (written in German and published in Ger- 

 many), and " Beatrichi nella Vita e nella Poesia 

 del Secolo XIII," by Isidoro del Lungo, who 

 shows that Beatrice was the daughter of Folco 

 Portinari. Other contributions to literary his- 

 tory are the following, placed in chronological 

 order according to the periods covered : " La 

 Patria di Guido Colonna" and "Aneddoti per 

 la Storia dei Laudesi," both by E. Monaci ; Pe- 

 trarch's "Trionfi," first edition in facsimile; 



