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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1893. 



" Familiar Letters" of Sir Walter Scott, in two vol- 

 umes, edited by David Douglas, and yet another of 

 surpassing interest was " The Life and Work of John 

 Euskin," by W. G. Collingwood, which also filled 

 two volumes, handsomely illustrated. " Three Letters 

 and an Essay " of Kuskin were issued, the former 

 written in 1836-'41, and the last at the age of sixteen. 

 J. Gumming Walters gave us studies of " Tennyson, 

 Poet, Philosopher, Idealist"; and William Wright 

 narrated facts stranger than fiction of " The Brontes in 

 Ireland." In the " Great Writers " series W. J. Linton 

 published "The Life of John Greenleaf Whittier"; 

 " Recollections of Dr. John Brown," by Alexander 

 IVldie, were accompanied with selections from his 

 correspondence, and John Churton Collins contrib- 

 uted a biographical and critical study of "Jonathan 

 Swift." "Horace Walpole" was the subject of a 

 memoir by Austin Dobson, and W. Ernest supplied 

 " Memoirs of the Life of Philip Dormer, Fourtn Earl 

 of Chesterfield." " Footprints of Statesmen during 

 the Eighteenth Century in England " were followed 

 by Eeginald Baliol Brett, and W. McCullagh Ton-ens 

 told of his " Twenty Years in Parliament." The 

 " Life and Letters of the Eight Hon. Robert Lowe, 

 Viscount Sherbrooke," by A. Patchett Martin, filled 

 two volumes, as did the "Life and Times of the 

 Eight Hon. William Henry Smith," by Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell. " Letters, Eemains, and Memoirs of Ed- 

 ward Adolphus Seymour, Twelfth Duke of Somer- 

 set," were edited and arranged by W. H. Mallock and 

 Lady Guendolen Eamsden : " Some Further Recol- 

 lections of a Happy Life " were edited from the 

 journals of Marianne North by her sister, Mrs. John 

 Addington Symonds, and other volumes full of in- 

 terest were : "The Diary of Col. Peter Hawker, 1802- 

 1853 " ; "A Sketch of the Life of Georg_iana, Lady De 

 Eos," by her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Swmton; "Hie et 

 Ubique," by Sir W. Fraser; and "The Letters of 

 Lady Burjjhersch," from Germany and France during 

 the campaign of 1813-'14. " Some Notes of the Past, 

 by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, related events of the 

 Franco-German War. A. J. C. Hare told " The 

 Story of Two Noble Lives," those of Charlotte, Coun- 

 tess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, 

 in three volumes, while two were tilled with " The 

 Lite of Capt. Sir Eichard F. Burton," by his wife, 

 Isabel Burton, who also edited the memorial edition 

 of his works. To Clarence Ford we are indebted for 

 the " Life and Letters of Madame de Kriidener." 

 Francis Espinasse published " Literary Eecollections 

 and Sketches"; Henry Vizetelly, "Glances Back 

 through Seventy Years "j John Cordy Jeaflreson, 

 " A Book of Eecollections ' ; James Bertram, " Some 

 Memories of Books, Authors, and ' Events," be- 

 longing to Edinburgh ; while " Lights and Shadows 

 in the Life of an Artisan " was a rather unique vol- 

 ume by Joseph Gutteridge. The second volume of 

 " Annals of my Life," by Bishop Wordsworth, covered 

 the period 1847-'56; two volumes were issued of a 

 " Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey," written by Canon 

 Liddon, and to the same period belongs " William 

 George Ward and the Catholic Eevival," by Wilfrid 

 Ward, as signal a success as his previous volume on 

 the Oxford movement, and " Memorials of Mr. Serjeant 

 Bellasis," by Edward Bellasis. Eev. Walter Lock 

 contributed "John Keble"(in this the centennial 

 year of his birth) to the series of " English Eeligious 

 Leaders," another volume of which was " Thomas 

 Chalmers," by Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant ; Eoland E. 

 Prothero gave us " The Life and Correspondence of 

 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D. D. " ; and Eev. John 

 Owen treated of" The Skeptics of the Italian Eenais- 

 sance," and also of those of the French Eenaissance 

 in a companion volume. Archdeacon Denison pub- 

 lished a " Supplement to Notes of my Life," and Sir 

 Monstuart Grant Duff a tribute to " Ernest Eenan." 

 John Milum added " Thomas Birch Freeman, Mis- 

 sionary Pioneer to Ashanti, Dahomey r and Egba," to 

 the " Missionary Biography Series " ; a cousin of A. M. 

 Mackay of Uganda was commemorated in " A. Mac- 

 kay Ruthquist ; or, Singing the Gospel among Hindus 



and Goncls," by J. W. II. ; and " Baroness Burdett- 

 Coutts," was the title of a sketch of the public life 

 and works of that philanthropist prepared for the 

 lady managers of the World's Columbian Exposition 

 by command of Her Eoyal Highness the Duchess of 

 Teck. Mrs. Annie Besant's " Autobiography " was 

 welcomed by her admirers. In the " Great Educa- 

 tors " series, " Froebel, and Education by Self-Activ- 

 ity " was by Henry Courthope Bowen, and " AWlard 

 and the Origin and Early History of Universities," 

 by Gabriel Compayre. "Napoleon, Warrior and 

 Euler," by W. O'Connor Morris, belonged to the 

 "Heroes of the Nations" series, as did "Henry of 

 Navarre, and the Huguenots of France," by P. F. 

 Willert ; while in the " Eulers of India " series " Lord 

 Hastings " and " Aurangzib " were by Sir W. Wilson 

 Hunter ; " The Marquess of Hastings," by Major 

 Eoss-of-Bladensburg, C. B., " Haidar AH and Tipii 

 Sultan," by Lewin B. Bowring ; " The Marquis of 

 Wellesley," by Eev. W. H. Hutton; "James Thonia- 

 son," by Sir Eichard Temple: " The Earl of Auckland,'' 

 *by L. J. Trotter ; and " Lord Clive," by G. B. Malle- 

 son. " The Earl of Aberdeen " was the subject of a 

 monograph by Hon. Sir Arthur Gordon in the 

 "Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria" series. "Ed- 

 ward the First " was ranked among the " Twelve 

 English Statesmen," by T. F. Tout. " Charles Dar- 

 win : His Life told in an Autobiographical Chapter " 

 was in reality an abbreviation of the " Life and Let- 

 ters " of the great naturalist, by his son Francis Dar- 

 win. Whitley Stokes edited the " Life and Speeches 

 of Sir Henry Maine," and Eev. T. T. Carter, "Nicho- 

 las Ferrar, his Household and his Friends." Cathe- 

 rine J. Hamiltion gave us a second series of" Women 

 Writers," and F. Forster Buft'en another of " Musical 

 Celebrities," and Vols. Ill and IV of biographies of 

 " Eminent Persons " were reprinted from the Lon- 

 don " Times." Eaymond Blathwayt collected " Inter- 

 views" with various distinguished persons. Arthur 

 Hill Hassall volunteered the " Narrative of a Busy 

 Life"; Mrs. Newton Crosland (Camilla Toulmin), 

 " Landmarks of aLiterary Career. 1820-'92 " ; and W. 



E. Le Fanu, "Seventy Years of Irish Life." Four 

 volumes contained the " Diary and Letters of Madame 



F. B. d'Arblay," edited by her niece, Charlotte Bar- 

 rett, and Henry B. Wheatley edited " The Diary of 

 Samuel Pepys," with additions. G. Barnett Smith 

 was the author of a " Life of Ferdinand de Lesseps," 

 and H. E. Haweis selected " Sir Morell Mackenzie " 

 for the theme of a controverted memoir. Thomas 

 and Paul Sandby gave us " Biographies of British 

 Artists," illustrated; Alfred T. Story, "William 

 Blake : His Life, Character, and Genius " ; the " Life 

 and Works of Jean L6on Gerome," by Fanny Field 

 Hering, was published in an expensive edition de luxe: 

 while to a remoter period belong " Madame : A Life 

 of Henrietta, Daughter of Charles I, and Duchess of 

 Orleans," by Julia Cartwright ; a biography of " Joan 

 of Arc," by Lord Eonald Gower ; and " Mary Stuart," 

 by John Skelton. The thirty-seventh volume of 

 the " Dictionary of National Biography," edited by 

 Sidney Lee, was reached, and " Cassell's New Bio- 

 graphical Dictionary " was issued. " Historic Per- 

 sonality," by Francis Seymour Stevenson, M. P., 

 contained many clever, quotable things about biog- 

 raphies and biographers. 



Essaysi Under this head, which includes more 

 than is properly implied by the title, belong Walter 

 Pater's lectures on " Plato and Platonism," and Cov- 

 entry Patmore's twenty -three short essays entitled 

 " Eeligio Poetse," both of which won the highest com- 

 mendation from all critics, the former having been 

 pronounced the most beautiful prose book of the year. 

 Edmund Gosse discussed " Questions at Issue " in 

 the literary life of to-day; William Watson aban- 

 doned poetry for a time to'make " Excursions in Criti- 

 cism"; Andrew Lang gave himself with delightful 

 enthusiasm to a defense of " Homer and the Epic " ; 

 John Addington Symonds, whose death during the 

 year is to be regretted, published " In the Key of 

 Blue, and Other Prose Essays," and an exhaustive 



