LITKKATUKK, IHUTISII, IN 1893. 



LITKI:ATI-I:K. CONTINENTAL. 451 



carried him to eastern Aquituitic ; tin- author of "A 

 l>uy in m\ I. il'i- a! Kt'iii " cave an account of hi* trip 

 .nee. ill a < ara\ an '' ; K. U. Soiiicrvillc and 

 Martin |{. .-* wandered "In the \'iiu- Country" "f 

 Miinlicrn France; .1. Warnn Berry made u Btodiei 

 in Cor.Mea"; Al>cl Chapman and Walter J. Buck re- 

 corded their .-.port with rille, roil, anil LTUII in " Wild 

 Spain"; Wilmot Harrison described Mi rnorablc 

 Paris Houses"; and A. K. Hope Moncricff edited 

 " Where to ^"> abnmd " as a guide to the henlth re- 

 sorts. Mrs. Frances Mouto Elliot published "The 

 Diary of an Idle Woman in < 'oiistantinopl.- " . 

 of Doors in Tsarland," by Frederick .J. \Vhishaw, 

 told of the seeintrs and doings of a wanderer in Rus- 

 sia; while Kate Marsdeii narrated the adventures of 

 her journey -Un Sledge ami Horseback to the Out- 

 cast Siberian Lepers." Fully as miserable as these 

 last were the " Trans-Siberian Savages " B. Douglas 

 Howard visited in Sairhalicn, and who are again de- 

 scribed in "Alone with the Hairy Ainu: or, :;,NM) 

 Mile.- on a Pack Saddle in Yezo, and a Cruise to the 

 Kurile Islands," by A. H. Savage Landor. Miss M. 

 Biekersteth's "Japan as we saw it" had a preface 

 by her father, the Bishop of Kxeter, and Edward G. 

 l'r. >\\ ne registered his impressions gaiued in " A Year 

 amongst the Persians." Two volumes contain the 

 results of the Earl of Dunmore's visit to "The 

 Pamirs " ; while " Where Three Empires meet," by 

 K. F. Knight, is a narrative of recent travel in Cash- 

 mere, western Tibet, (Jilgit, and the adjoining coun- 

 tries. "The Simple Adventures of a Memsahih," 

 from the pen of hara Jeannette Duncan (now Mrs. 

 E. C. Cpates), have all the freshness and charm of 

 "A Social Departure" and "An American Girl in 

 London." E. D. Cumiug saw Burmese life " In the 

 Shadow of the Pagoda." Jeannette A. Grant went 

 "Through Evangeline's Country," and in "Miss 

 Gray's Girls" described summer days in the Scotch 

 Highlands. C. II. Hudson spent anything but "Idle 

 Days in Patagonia," and Nehemiah Bartley, in 

 "Opals and Agates; or, Scenes Under the Southern 

 <'ns and the Magclhans," vouchsafed memories of 

 fifty years of Australia and Polynesia. Eyre Crowe 

 tola of what he saw "With Thackeray in America" 

 when he acted as secretary to the great novelist. 

 " Travel and Adventure in Southeast Africa," by F. 

 Courtney Selous, was the narrative of eleven years 

 spent on the Zambezi and its tributaries, with an ac- 

 count of the colonization of Mashonaland and the 

 progress of the gold industry in that country; "Ad- 

 ventures in Mashonaland" were related by two hos- 

 pital nurses, Rose Blcnnerhassett and Lucy Sleeman ; 

 James Johnston, M. D., gave us " Reality versus 

 Romance in South Centra) Africa"; D. J. Rankin 

 described "The Zambesi Basin and Nyassaland " ; 

 and Dr. J. A. Moloney went as medical o'fficer of the 

 expedition "With Captain Stairs to Katanga." H. 

 Anderson Bryden was at home with "Gun and 

 Camera in Southern Africa"; "Letters from South 

 Africa," by a special correspondent of the " London 

 Tiines," had a vivid freshness and realism; "On 



Lagoons" contained the voyage of two 

 wherrymcn on the Norfolk Broads; J*. LI. W. Page 

 traced "The Rivers of Devon from Source to Sea"; 

 and Rev. S. F. Hotchkin wrote of "The York Road, 

 Old and New, Fox Chase, and Bustleton." "Travels 

 in America One Hundred Years Ago," by Thomas 

 Twining, and "Captain Cook's Journal during his 

 First Voyage Round the World," were interesting 

 reprints. To exploration belong "The City and the 

 Land," seven lectures by Major Conder, CoL Wilson, 

 Walter Besant, Mr. Flinders ' Pi-trie, and others, pub- 

 lished by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and "How 

 the Codex was found," a narrative of two visits to 

 Sinai, from Mrs. Lewis's journals, 1892-'93, by Mar- 

 garet Dunlop Gibson. 



The following are the figures of book-produc- 

 tion in England during 1893, compared with 

 those of 1892, from the London " Publishers' Cir- 

 cular " : 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. The 



usual summary of the most important additions 

 to the literature of Continental Europe is given 

 herewith. Complete lists of publications in Ger- 

 many, France, Italy, etc., are issued in those 

 countries, in the form of special annual bibliog- 

 raphies similar to those published in England 

 and in the United States. 



Austria. See Bohemia, Germany, and Hungary. 



Belgium. In the domain of history this country's 

 pres> is, as ever, prolific, national history receiving 

 an especially generous share of attention. The Abb? 

 A. Cauchie has published a monograph on u La 

 grande Procession de Tournai " ; Prosper Claeys de- 

 scribes the office of " Lc Bourreau de Gand " ; the 

 Chevalier Camille de Borman writes of " Les Kohe- 

 vins de souveraine Justice a Lie*ge"; Charles Kahl- 

 enbeek has made a study of the " Trois Rdgentes des 

 Pays-Bas"; and Ernest Discailles has issued works 

 on " Charles Rogier," a prominent leader in the Bel- 

 gian revolution of 1830, and another remarkable Lib- 

 eral, "Adelson Castiau." Discailles, and even more 

 so Godefroid Kurth (author of "L'Histoire Po<5tique 

 des Mdrovingiens"), appear to form notable excep- 

 tions in animation and warmth of style among Bel- 

 gian historians, who are accused of a lack of literary 

 qualities. Ecclesiastical history has received note- 

 worthy additions in " Le Diocese de Liege 



issued a valuable "BibUoffraphia de 1'Ilistoire de 

 Beliriiiue," and a number of inedited documents have 

 l>een issued, as well as continuations. Mgr. Numdchc's 

 great and scholarly "Cours d'Histoire Nationalc." 

 which was In-trim forty years ago, was finished by the 

 publication of the twenty-ninth volume, some months 

 alter the death of the author. Other contributions in 

 the field of history and biography include "Souvenirs 

 duMexiijuc" (iMii-MT). |, v (Jen. V an der Smissen, of 

 the Belgian Lctrimi under Maximilian, and " Portraits 

 et Silhouettes." l.y Baron Prosper de Hauttcvillc. 

 Among the books of travel, Jules Leclercq's "Le 

 Voyage an Mont Ararat" is worthy of note. Tin- 

 year's contributions to jxilitical and social science in- 

 clude valuable works like Kd. Vander Smissen 's 

 " La Population," Maurice llcir>V l.es i|uatre^rrandw> 

 Villes de la Beli:i'|Ue" (ttnancial and administrative 

 statistics of Brussels, Antwerp, Client, and Liege >n 

 1890), and Louis Franck's timely La Fein me dan* 



