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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1893. 



Bishop of Durham, we had u The Gospel of Life." 

 and also a charge to the clergy of his diocese upon 

 " The Incarnation " as a revelation of human duties ; 

 Dr. Cheyne named " Founders of Old Testament 

 Criticism"; and the Kev. J. A. McClymont dwelt 

 upon " The New Testament and its Writers." Dr. 

 Clifford spoke on " Christian Certainties " ; Dean 

 Church preached " Cathedral and University Ser- 

 mons"; the last work upon which Charles H. Spur- 

 geon was engaged, " The Gospel of the Kingdom : A 

 Popular Exposition of the Gospel according to Mat- 

 thew," was given to the world during the year with 

 introductions by Mrs. Spurgeon and the Eev. Arthur 

 T. Pierson ; Henry Drummond published an address 

 upon " The City without a Church " ; Arthur Wil- 

 link argued for " The World of the Unseen" ; Hugh 

 Macmillan and Canon Faber issued volumes of " Ser- 

 mons"; the Hulsean Lectures of 1871, by Dr. Fenton 

 J. A. Hort, upon " The Way, the Truth, the Life," 

 were published, and Dr. Alexander MacLaren, in ad- 

 dition to " Paul's Prayers, and Other Sermons," con- 

 tributed a volume to the new sixth series of the 

 " Expositor's Bible," selecting " The Psalms, I- 

 XXAVIII." for his theme. Other volumes were 

 " Ezra, Nenemiah, and Esther," by Walter F. Ade- 

 ney; "The Book of Joshua." bv Dr. William G. 

 Blaikie; "The First Book of Kings," by Canon 

 Farrar; and the "Epistle to the Philippians," by Dr. 

 Robert Rainy. " Joshua and the Land of Promise," 

 by Rev. F. B. Myer, appeared in the " Old Tes- 

 tament Heroes " series. The second of twenty con- 

 templated volumes of the " Preacher's Complete 

 Homiletic Commentary " was issued, devoted to " The 

 Book of Exodus"; "The People's Bible" of Dr. 

 Joseph Parker reached its twenty-second volume; 

 and " II Corinthians-Philippians " and " Colossians- 

 James"were the additions to " The Sermon Bible." 

 R. M. Benson gave three volumes to the " Final Pass- 

 over," and a fourth is to be expected. Of exceptional 

 interest was J. Jtendel Harris's story of" The Newly 

 Recovered Gospel of St. Peter," with a full account 

 of the same, and J. Armitage Robinson and Mon- 



was the latest expression of Congregationalism. In 

 conclusion, it remains to mention the Rev. F. D. 

 Maurice's " Patriarchs and Lawgivers" and " Proph- 

 ets and Kings," both of the Old Testament. The 

 last hours of Prof. Minto were spent upon his " Logic : 

 Inductive and Deductive," in the " University Exten- 

 sion Manuals," and Alfred Sidgwick followed with 

 " The Process of Argument." " fheosophy ; or, Psy- 

 chological Religion," was the theme of F. Max Miil- 

 ler's Gifford Lectures for 1892 ; Mrs. Besant asked 

 " Death and After ? " and " Hypnotism, Mesmerism, 

 and the New Witchcraft " were explained by Ernest 

 Hart. Volumes of a miscellaneous character, which 

 may be as well included under this head as any other, 

 were " Electrical Papers," by O. Heaviside, in two 

 volumes ; " Short Stalks ; or, Hunting Camps North, 

 'South, Last, and West," by Edward North Buxton, 

 illustrated by Whymper, Lodge, Wolf, and others; 

 " Fishing Experiences of Half a Century," by F. 

 Ilowell Hopkins ; " The Art of Golf," by Sir W. G. 

 Simpson, and the two contributions to the "Bad- 

 minton Library " of " Coursing and Falconry " and 

 " Swimming." " Agricultural Analysis" was a man- 

 ual of quantitative analysis for students of agricul- 

 ture, by Frank T. Adclyman. " The Statesmen's 

 Yearbook " for 1893, edited by J. Scott Keltic, reached 

 its thirtieth year of issue. 



Poetry. More poetry was written in 1893 than in 

 the preceding year, and, indeed, the present may be 

 termed the golden age of poets, inasmuch as their 

 verses are actually sold and " new discoveries " are 

 being constantly made of genius. But the younger 

 generation alone was mostly represented. Miss 

 Christina Rossetti published a volume of "Verses," 

 pronounced the best of the year, and " King Poppy," 

 " for years the cherished literary offspring of Lord 



Lytton's brain," which was first conceived in 1872, 



Eut into verse in 1874, and rewritten and retouched 

 etween 1887 and 1890, at last given to the world in 

 1893, proved to be " that rare thing in poetry 

 a novelty." William Watson published " The Elop- 

 ing Angels: A Caprice"; Michael Field, " Under- 

 neath the Bough : A Book of Verses," and a play in 

 prose, " A Question of Memory " ; and Robert 'Bu- 

 chanan "The Wandering Jew," which gave rise to 

 considerable controversv. We have volumes of 

 " Poems " from Fruncis Thompson, Mrs. Meynell, and 

 Arthur Christopher Benson; Norman R. Gale wrote 

 "A Country Muse" (new series) and "Orchard 

 Songs"; W. B. Yeats, " The Countess Kathleen"; 

 John Davidson. "Fleet Street Eclogues"; Maude 

 Egerton King, " A Book of Songs and Sonnets " ; 

 Aubrey De Vere, " The Forming of Queen Mearc, 

 and Other Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age " ; W. 

 H. Mallock, "Versus"; F. W. Bourdillon, " Sursum 

 Corda"; Theodore Wratislaw, "Caprices," fervent- 

 ly Jin-de-siecle in tone: Miss Evelyn Douglas, 

 "Songs of a Bayadere"; William Allan, M. P., "A 

 Book of Poems," "Rose and Thistle," "After 

 Toil Songs," and " Northern Lights " ; Mrs. Augusta 

 Webster, " Selections " and " Portraits " : Miss Mary 

 F. Robinson (Mme. Darmesteter), " Retrospect " ; 

 Bryan C. Waller, " Perseus in the Hesperides "; ( '. 

 Weekes, " Reflections and Refractions" ; Hon. Roden 

 Noel's " Poems " had an introduction by Robert Bu- 

 chanan; "Under the Hawthorn, and Other Verses" 

 of Mrs. de Grachy were published posthumously ; 

 Lord Iloughtou's " Stray Verses, 1889-'90 " deserve 

 mention; "Echo and Narcissus" came from J. W. 

 Aizlewood," Spreta? Carmiua Musae " from Pakenham 

 Beatty, and " Ballads of a Bohemian " from S. J. 

 Adair Fitz-Gerald. " Poems Dramatic and Lyrical " of 

 Lord de Tabley were reissued from former volumes of 

 his verse. A handsome American edition of" The City 

 of Dreadful Night," by James Thomson, had an in- 

 troduction by Elizabeth Cavazza, and Austin Dob- 

 son's " Proverbs in Porcelain," to which was added 

 " Au Revoir," a dramatic vignette, formed one of the 

 holiday volumes. Sir John Croker Barrow was the 

 author of " The Seven Cities of the Dead, and 

 Other Poems," and Count Stenbock of" The Shadow 

 of Death." The sole work of Sir Edwin Arnold was 

 " Adzuma ; or, The Japanese Wife," a play in four 

 acts, and two comedies were written by Robert 

 Bridges and Henry Arthur Jones, entitled " The 

 Humors of the Court" (with which were included 

 other poems) and " The Crusaders." The final vol- 

 ume of " The Poets and the Poetry of the Century," 

 edited by Alfred H. Miles, includes selections from 

 Mr. Bridges and from Kipling's " Barrack-Room Bal- 

 lads"; and among other collections of value may be 

 mentioned " The Love Songs of Connacht," by Doug- 

 las Hyde, " The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland " and 

 " Scottish Ballad Poetry," edited by G. Eyre Todd. 

 Richard Le Gallieune contributed an introduction to 

 the " Poems of Arthur Henry Hallam," which he 

 edited,, and in the " Book-Lovers' Library," Gleeson 

 White edited " Book Song," an anthology of poems 

 of books and bookmen from modern authors. An 

 especially valuable edition of " The Poetical Works 

 of Milton " was that edited by Prof. Masson with a 

 memoir, introduction, noteb, and an essay on Milton's 

 English and versification. " Selected Poems of Mat- 

 thew Arnold" appeared in the "Golden Treasury 

 Series," and " Poems by the Brontes " were collected 

 into a volume. 



Voyages and Travels." Studies of Travel," by the 

 late historian Edward A. Freeman, in two volumes, 

 one devoted to Greece and the other to Italy, we owe 

 to his daughter; and " Artistic Travel," by Henry 

 Blackburn, covered a thousand miles toward the sun 

 through Normandy, Brittany, the Pyrenees, Spain, 

 and Algeria. F. W. W. Ilowell contributed "Ice- 

 landic Pictures" to the "Pen and Pencil Series"; 

 William Bement Lent went "Gypsying beyond the 

 Sea "from English fields to Salerno shores ; Edward 

 Harrison Barker's " Wanderings by Southern Waters '' 



