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of our own "Walt Whitman," who was again 

 tin- "tliciii.- of Oscar L. Twigg in "Browning ami 

 Whitman: A Study in Democracy." " Kssavs and 

 Addresses" of tin- (l\. linn. A. .). Balfour, .Ni. i''., were 

 welcomed iii a collected form, and C. 11. Pearson, in 

 ". National I. il'r niiil Cliaractcr : A Forecast," reached 

 eoncliiMoiis which HIT nut encouraging, it ably set 

 fnrtli. "Tlii- Australians: A Social Sketch" was 

 from tin- pen nt' Francis Adams. Cardinal Man- 

 ning's " Pastime Papers," Mr. Goschcn's book on The 

 Cultivation and I'M- of tin: Imagination," Seers and 

 Singers," l>y Arthur 1). limes, and "Studies in Life 

 and Literature," by C. II. Lusted, found many readers, 

 while to Ucv. Alfri-d .1. Church we. owe. " Pict'uivs from 

 Greek Life and Story." Stoplbrd A. Brooke devoted 

 two volumes to "'Flu- History of Early English Lit- 

 erature: Being the History of English Poetry" from 

 its Beginnings to tin- Accession of King Alfred, and 

 "The Vietnrian Age of English Literature," by Mrs. 

 M. O. W. Oliphant and F. K. Oliphant, filial two 

 more. Vol. A of Henry Morley's " English Writ- 

 ers" was given to "Shakespeare and his Time: Un- 

 der Elizabeth"; "Essays on Lord Tennyson's Idylls 

 of the King" were written for British Indian students 

 by Prof. Harold Littledale, but proved a valuable 

 contribution to Tennysonian literature at home and 

 in America; "Folia Litteraria," by John W. Hales, 

 consisted of essays and notes on English literature ; 

 William Kenton furnished " Outlines of English Liter- 

 ature " for the " University Extension Manuals " and 

 Frederic Harrison was heard from on " The Choice 

 of Books." " The Sonnet in England, and Other 

 Essays" were welcomed from J. Ashcroft Noble, 

 Vol. VI of " The Bookworm " was issued, Leopold 

 Wagner treated of " The Significance of Names," 

 A. C. Champncys wrote a " History of English," trac- 

 ing the origin and development of the language, and 

 K. F. Brewer added to his " Orthometry " what he 

 termed a new and complete rhyming dictionary. B. 

 II. Wheatley's "Literary Blunders." in the "Book- 

 Lovers' Library," was a delicious chapter in the his- 

 tory of human error, and " Books about Books" con- 

 tained " Book-Plates," by W. J. Hardy, and " The 

 Great Book Collectors," by C. I. and Mary A. Elton, 

 while E. Gordon Duff told of " Early Printed Books " 

 and Falconer Madan of "Books in Manuscript." W. 

 Roberts contributed a chapter on the history of ty- 

 pography entitled " Printer's Marks." " The High- 

 way of Letters and its Echoes of Famous Foot- 

 steps,'' by Thomas Archer, is full of delicious remi- 

 niscences of Fleet Street, Rev. W. Tuckwell told of 

 "The Ancient Ways" of Winchester and its college, 

 " Aspects of Modern Oxford " wore presented by A 

 Mere Don, and from Mr. Frederic Harrison we had 

 "Annals of an Old Manor House" (Sutton Plaee. 

 Guilford). "The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells 

 of England" was explored by R. C. Hope; G. F. 

 Northall gave us " English Folk-Rhymes " ; Augustus 

 Jessopp was charming as ever in " Random Koani- 

 iiii:"; Jane Barlow's "Irish Idylls "are full of sym- 

 pathetic insight into the life and character of the na- 

 tion ; I'hil Robinson recorded " Some Country Sights 

 and Sounds." and in u The Poet* and Nature " tells 

 of reptiles, fishes, and insects, having already told of 

 1'oets' Birds" and "Poets' Beasts": Alexander II. 

 Japp wrote of" Hours in my Garden," with other na- 

 ture sketches, and much of the same delicate percep- 

 tion of her beauties is found in " An old Woman's 

 Outlook in a Hampshire Village," by Charlotte M. 

 Yonge, and " Letters to Marco," by George D. Leslie. 

 " Life in a North Country Village" was described by 

 M. E. Francis. David Masson followed " In the 

 Footsteps of the Poets." Jerome K. Jerome vouch- 

 safed " Novel Notes," and other works of humor were 

 "From Wisdom Court," by Henry Seton Merriman 

 and Stephen Tallentyre, u Mr. Punch's Prize Novels," 

 and F. Anstey Guthr'ic's" Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen." 

 " The Sunny Days of Youth," by Edward J. Hardy, 

 " Towards the Sunset," by A. K. H. Boyd (the Coun- 

 try Parson) and " Windfalls of Observation," by E. 

 s. Martin, may be classed together. Prof. A. II. Saycc 



threw " Fresh Light on Biblical Racea" in six vol- 

 umes, and in "By-Paths of Bible Knowli.l^. 

 scribed social life among the Assyrian* and Babylo- 

 nians, while W. A. Clouston Mtoowd "Five Hi 

 and F.i|_'ht\ nine Wise Sayings." largely from KaMcrn 

 sources. E. Maunde Thompson prepared a "Hand- 

 book of (in-ek and Latin Palaeography." " Repn- 

 sctitativtt English Literature from Chaucer to Tenny- 

 son" was arranged by Henry S. Pancoast, and Henrx 

 Craik supplied critical introductioiih to his Knglihh 

 >elt -ciion*," of whii-h Vol. I appeared. John 

 Veiteh was an authority on "The History and po 

 etry of the Scottish Bonier,'' and "Three Centuries of 

 Scottish Literature" were reviewed by Hugh Walker. 

 "The Rest Letters of William Cowper were issued 

 in the "Laurel-Crowned Letters Series," Augustus 

 .! --< 'pp prefaced a selection of the Wise Words and 

 Quaint Counsels of Thomas Fuller" with a life of 

 their author, and " Selections from the Writings of 

 William Blake," the painter and poet, were in;; 

 handsome tercentenary edition was also issued of 

 Isaak Walton's "Complete Angler," in two volumes, 

 illustrated. 



fiction. A stronger tendency toward "realism" 

 and an increase in the number of "short stories" 

 are lamented by critics across the water in their com- 

 ments on the fiction of the year. "The Heavenly 

 Twins," by "Sarah Grand," attained a larger sale 

 than anv English novel since "Robert Elsmere," and 

 " Dodo," a Jin de ritcle heroine of an unattractive 

 type, was portrayed by E. F. Benson. Walter Besant, 

 in " The Rebel Queen," depicted Hebrew life, and 

 dealt with the problem of woman's position and 

 rights, and William Black wrote "The Handsome 

 Humes" and " Wolfenberg," the latter " wholesome, 

 picturesque, and breezy " as ever. J. M. Barrie pub- 

 lished three books, " Two of Them," "An Auld Licht 

 Manse," and a "Tillyloss Scandal," while " The 

 Stickit Minister, and Some Common Men," by S. R. 

 Crockett, was a warning to him to look to his laurels 

 as the delineator of Scottish life and character. Rud- 

 yard Kipling returned to the field in which he 

 showed himself a master in his 15 short stories en- 

 titled "Many Inventions"; Olive Schreiner (Ralph 

 Iron) contributed a little African story, "Dream 

 Life and Real Life," and from A. Conan Doyle we 

 had three books, " The Refugees," a tale of two con- 

 tinents and the Huguenot persecution in France, 

 " The Sign of the Four," and " The Finn of Girdle- 

 stone," a romance of the unromantic. I. Zangwill 

 wrote "Merely Mary Ann"; Mary Angela Dickens. 

 "A Mere Cipher"; "The Last Sentence" sustained 

 the reputation won by Maxwell Gray) Mrs. M. G. 

 Tuttiett) in "The Silence of Dean Maitland"; and 

 somewhat akin in theme to this last was " The Trans- 

 gression of Terence Clancy," by Harold Vallings. 

 " The Highland Nurse," by the Duke of Argyll, re- 

 calls the author of Waverley ; Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant 

 wrote "The Sorceress " and " The Marriage ot Eli- 

 nor," and contributed, with Thomas Hardy, W. K. 

 Norris, J. M. Barrie, and others, to " Stories in Black 

 and White " ; S. Baring-Gould wrote "Mrs. Curgen- 

 ven of Curgenven " and "Cheap Jack Zita"; W. 

 Clark Russell, " List, Ye Landsmen " and " The 

 Tragedy of Ida Noble " ; W. E. Norris, "A Deplorable 

 A Hair"*; Grant Allen, "Blood Royal," " The Scally- 

 wag," " Michael's Crag," and "Ivan Grect's Master- 

 piece''; Beatrice Whitby, "In the Suntime of her 

 Youth"; F. W. Robinson, "The Wrong that was 

 done"; Jessie Fotheruill, in " Oriole's Daughter,'' 

 dealt with art life in Rome with all the charm that 

 made "The First Violin" so marked a success; George 

 Gissing, in " The Odd Women," made a pessimistic 

 study of the " woman question"; Hubert Crackan- 

 thorpe painted powerful pictures in " Wreckage," a 

 collection of short stories on the seamy side of life, 

 with which may be mentioned " Kevnotes," by 

 George Egerton (Mrs. Clainnontc), and "A Book 

 of Strange Sins," by C'oulson Kernahan. "Pastorals 

 of France " and " Renunciations," by Frederick Wetl- 

 morc, in one volume, deal with gentler scenes, as did 



