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may be added, was for the first time given this year 

 in a limited edition. " Letters addressed to a College 

 Friend during the Years 1840-1845," by John Kuskin, 

 were also published ; as was a narrative of the events 

 of the life of " Samuel Taylor Coleridge," by James 

 Dykes Campbell; and Bailey Saunders gave the 

 " Life and Letters of James Maepherson," with an 

 account of his famous quarrel with Dr. Johnson and 

 a sketch of the origin and influence of the Ossianic 

 poems. H. S. Salt contributed a study of " Richard 

 Jefferies"; Mackenzie Bell characterized "Charles 

 Whitehead," the author of "Richard Savage," as a 

 ^forgotten genius," and Louise Chandler Moulton 

 gave us " Arthur O'Shaughnessy : His Life and his 

 Work, with Selections from his Poems." " William 

 Henry Widgery, Schoolmaster" was the theme of 

 William K. Hill, and a "Life of George Herbert of 

 Bernerton " appeared anonymously. The " Life and 

 Reminiscences of Sir George Elvey," the celebrated 

 organist, were by Lady Elvey; " Masters of English 

 Music," by Charles \V illeby ; and " Masters of Ger- 

 man Music," by J. A. Fuller Maitland ; while A. 

 Ehrlich was the biographer of " Celebrated Pianists 

 of the Past and Present Time." " The Early Public 

 Life of William Ewart Gladstone " was traced by 

 Alfred F. Robbins, and the ninth volume of " The 

 Speeches and Public Addresses of the Right Hon. W. 

 E. Gladstone, M. P.," edited, with notes and an in- 

 troduction, by A. W. Hutton, was published, the sec- 

 ond really of the whole series, but issued at this time 

 because of the interest attaching to the subjects dis- 

 cussed which have transpired during the last six years. 

 A second series of " Speeches by Sir Edward Clarke," 

 chiefly forensic, appeared, and 2 volumes contain the 

 " Speeches and Addresses of Edward Henry, Fifteenth 

 Earl of Derby," edited by Sir T. H. Sanderson and E. 

 S. Roscoe, with a prefatory memoir by W. E. H. Lecky. 

 "Papers and Addresses*" of Lord Brassey saw the 

 light, those classed as "Naval and Maritime" cover- 

 ing the period from 1872 to 1893, arranged and edited 

 by Capt. S. Eardley-Wilmot, filling 2 volumes, while 

 to J. Potter we are indebted for those on " Work and 

 Wages." " Charles Bradlaugh : A Record of his Life 

 and Work" was written by his daughter, Hypatia 

 Bradlaugh Bonner, in 2 volumes ; " Frederic Hill : An 

 Autobiography of Fifty Years in Times of Reform " 

 was edited by his daughter, Constance Hill ; and Ed- 

 win Hodder chronicled the philanthropist and ex- 

 traordinary genius " John MacGregor, ' Rob Roy. 1 " 

 "The Life of Sir Henry Parkes, Some Time Her Majes- 

 ty's Minister to China and Japan " filled 2 volumes 

 by Stanley Lane-Poole and F. V. Dickins. The year 

 was rich in volumes bearing on the Sepoy Rebellion ; 

 2 contained the " Life of General Sir Hope Grant, 



with Selections from his Correspondence," edited by 

 Col. Henry Knollys, his former A. D. C. : Francis 

 Cornwallis Maude published "Memories of the Mu- 

 tiny," and " An Unrecorded Chapter of the Indian 

 Mutiny " was the title given to personal reminiscences 

 of Reginald G. Wilberforce, compiled from a diary 

 and letters written on the spot. " The Diary of a 

 Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo 

 Campaigns^ 1809-1815," by the late Lieut.-Col. Wil- 

 liam Tomkinson, was edited by his son ; " Reminis- 

 cences of the Crimean Campaign," by Maj.-Gen. 

 John Hume, are supplemented by "Letters from 

 Camp to his Relatives during the Siege of Sebastopol," 

 by Colin Frederick Campbell, with a preface by Lord 

 Wolseley. " More about Gordon " came to us from 

 a lady who knew him well ; while " A King's Hussar" 

 contained the military memoirs for twenty -five years 

 of a troop sergeant major, collected and condensed by 

 Herbert Compton. "Man Hunting in the Desert" 

 was a narrative of the Palmer Search Expedition 

 (1882-1883), _by Capt. Alfred K. Ilaynes, which had 

 an introduction by Walter Besant. In the " Rulers 

 of India Series ""Sir Thomas Munro" was by John 

 Bradshaw, and " Lord Amherst" by Anne Thackeray 

 Ritchie and Richardson Evans; a quarto of almost 

 Oriental splendor was devoted to " India's Princes," 

 short life sketches of the native rulers of India, by M. 



Griffith, and " The Protected Princes of India" were 

 chronicled by William Lee-Warner. " The Life and 

 Letters of Erasmus " were the subject of lectures de- 

 livered at Oxford in 1893-'94 by James Anthony 

 Froude ; " Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Re- 

 public," by J. L. Strachan Davidson, appeared in the 

 "Heroes of the Nations Series"; "The Life of John 

 Churchill, Duke of Maryborough, to the Accession of 

 Queen Anne," by Lord Wolseley, filled 2 volumes. 

 and in connection with it may be mentioned the ad- 

 mirable review of " Historical Characters of the Reign 

 of Queen Anne," by Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant. " Mem 

 oirs of Edmund Ludlow, Lieutenant General of tin- 

 Horse in the Army of the Commonwealth of England. 

 1625-1672," were edited, with appendices of letters and 

 illustrative documents, by C. II. Firth, in 2 volumes : 

 Samuel Harden Church undertook a new biography 

 of" Oliver Cromwell "; "Fra Paolo Sarpi, the Great- 

 est of the Venetians," and, as Gibbons calls him, the 

 "incomparable historian of the Council of Trent." 

 found a chronicler in Rev. Alexander Robertson, and 

 Mrs. Gabriela Cunninghame Graham was no less en- 

 thusiastic in her admiration of " Santa Teresa." 

 "Giovanni Bocaccio as Man and Author" was pub- 

 lished posthumously from the writings of John Ad- 

 dington Symonds, who himself found an able biog- 

 rapher in Horatio Brown, and was made to tell his 

 own life story. "Marie Charlotte Anne de Cord ay " 

 was the subject of a centenary monograph by Mary 

 Jeaffreson ; and " The Story of Louis XVII of France." 

 as told by Elizabeth E. Evans, revived the claim of 

 Eleazer Williams, of Green Bay, Wis., to the French 

 throne. " The Life of Daniel Defoe " was written 

 again by Thomas Wright; Joseph Knight revived 

 " David Garrick"; and James Boaden supplied "Mem- 

 oirs of Mrs. Siddons." A strong interest attaches to 

 " George Washington," by Cooper King ; " Moltke," 

 by William O'Connor Morris; "Alexander III of 

 Russia," by Charles Lowe ; and " A Life of Benito 

 Juraez, Constitutional President of Mexico," by Ulick 

 Ralph Burke ; and to " Sir Henry Layard : His Ad- 

 ventures and Discoveries," by Alfred E. Lomax, in 

 the " Splendid Lives Series." " The Life of Richard 

 Owen," by his grandson, Rev. Richard Owen, had the 

 scientific portions revised by C. Davies Sherborn, and 

 contained also an essay on Owen's position in anatom- 

 ical science by Thomas H. Huxley; "Two Great Scots- 

 men," by George R. Mather, M. D., commemorated 

 the brothers William and John Hunter, " the greatest 

 of the many great anatomists of Scotland," and late, 

 though welcome to geologists, appeared " The Life 

 and Correspondence of William Buckland, D. D.," 

 one of the founders of the science, by his daughter, 

 Mrs. Gordon. " The Life of Frances Power ( ol.be '' 

 was written by herself, in 2 volumes; A. J. ('. Hare 

 edited the "Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth," a 

 remarkable woman who fully deserved this tardy rec- 

 ognition ; and from Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie 

 we had "Chapters from Some Unwritten Memoirs." 

 which make us better acquainted with Thackeray in 

 his home life and with the literary friends by whom 

 he was surrounded. Chai'les I. Elton wrote "An Ac- 

 count of Shelley's Visits to France, Switzerland, and 

 Savoy in the Years 1814 and 1816," with extracts 

 from the " History of a Six Weeks' Tour." William 

 Hazlitt's "Conversations of James Northcote " were 

 edited by Edmund Gosse, with an essay on Hazlitt as 

 an art critic, and a note on Northcote; and the same 

 author also edited " The Letters of Thomas Lovell 

 Beddoes." "Junius revealed," by his surviving grand- 

 son, H. R. Francis, did not prove as convincing as the 

 latter hoped. R. Barry < )'Hrien edited, with an intro- 

 duction, the " Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 

 1763-1798," in 2 volumes, which had a preface by 

 Augustine Birrell. "John Russell, the Primv of 

 Crayon Portrait Painters," by George C. Williai- 

 had an introduction by Lord Ronald Gower; "A 

 Memoir of Edward Calvert, Artist," by Samuel, his 

 third son, was pronounced one of the choicest and 

 best art biographies produced in England for many 

 years. Samuel Smiles told the personal history of 



