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Josiuli Wedgwood, F. R. S.," and II. S. Marks con- Fancies" 

 tributetl charming " Pen and Pencil Sketches " in 2 

 volumes, which were largely autobiographical. Robert 



C. Leslie, another artist, gave us " A Water Biog- 

 raphy " of his lite afloat, written con amore and illus- 

 trated by himself. "Nigh on Sixty Years at Sea" 

 was the record of Capt. Robert Woolward ; " Sir Victor 

 Brooke, Sportsman and Naturalist" was the title of a 

 memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and 

 journals, edited by Oscar Leslie Stephen, with a 

 chapter on his researches in natural history, by Sir 

 William II. Flower; and Capt. M. Horace Hayes 

 found himself equally at home " Among Men and 

 Horses." II. Rider Haggard contributed an introduc- 

 tion to the u Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn 

 Jebb," written by his widow. " My Paris Note- 

 book," by Albert D. Vandam, the "acknowledged 

 author of " An Englishman in Paris," was described 

 as a delightful literary rag-bag, and Frank Frankfort 

 Moore offered u A Journalist's Notebook," more en- 

 tertaining, perhaps, than strictly accurate. In reli 

 I'ious biography appeared Ladv Ferguson's " Life of 

 the Right Rev. William Reeves, D. D., Lord Bishop 

 of Down, Connor, and Dromore"; the third volume 

 of Canon Liddon's " Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey, 



D. 1).," edited and prepared by Rev. J. O. Johnston, 

 M. A., and Rev. Robert J. Wilson, D. D. ; the " Life 

 and Letters of Dean Church," by his daughter; and 

 the " Life and Letters of Thomas Pelham Dale," 

 famed for his imprisonment in the days of the ritualist 



ion, for which we are incle.bted to his daughter. 



persecution. 



" Lancelot Andrewes " was contributed to the 



"Eng- 



lish Leaders of Religion Series," by Robert L. Ottley ; 

 " Bishop Lightfoot " found an anonymous biographer ; 

 "Cardinal Manning" was ably portrayed by A. W. 

 Button ; " A Forgotten Great Englishman," according 

 to James Baker, was Dr. Peter Payne, the Wycliffite. 

 C. II. Simpkinson wrote on the " Life and Times of 

 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury " ; Princi- 

 pal Wordsworth offered memorials of " Henry William 

 Burrows " ; and in missionary biography we have 

 " Alexander Mackay, Missionary Hero of Uganda," 

 by the author of "The Story of Stanley"; "Regi- 

 nald Ileber, Bishop of Calcutta," by Arthur Monte- 

 tiore ; " Among the Maoris," by Jesse Page, a record 

 of the labors of Samuel Marsden, Bishop Selwyn, and 

 others in New Zealand ; " The Story of James Gil- 

 mour and the Mongol Mission," anonymous; and 

 " The Heroic in Missions," by Rev. A. R. Buckland. 

 W. II. Davenport Adams gave a series of chapters 

 on the " Child Life and Girlhood of Remarkable 

 Women." Mrs. G. T. Mayer filled 2 volumes with 

 " Women of Letters" ; George Barnet Smith portrayed 

 " Noble Womanhood " and" " Leaders of Industry " ; 

 and " Essays in Historical Chemistry " consisted of 

 biographical essays on some of the greatest masters of 

 the'science from the time of the founding of the Royal 

 Society of London to the present time. " Stoics and 

 Saints " were the theme of lectures by James Bald- 

 win Brown, and Thomas Seccombe edited " Lives of 

 Twelve Bad Men." Vols. XXXVII to XL were issued 

 of the u Dictionary of National Biography," edited by 

 Sidney Lee. 



Essays. Many choice works are included in this 

 department, foremost among which are " Studies in 

 Prose and Poetry," by Charles Algernon Swinburne, 

 who seems as much at home with the one method of 

 expression as the other ; " The Garden that I love " 

 and a second series of " Eighteenth Century Vi- 

 gnettes," by Alfred Austin, both of striking merit ; a 

 collection of essays by John Addington Symonds bear- 

 ing the title "Blank Verse"; and "'Verona, and 



Grant Allen was heard from on " Post- 

 prandial Philosophy"- Augustine Birrell published 

 "Essays about Men, Women, and Books"; Sir E. 

 Strachey's " Talk at a Country House " covered fact 

 and fiction ; G. S. Street published " Miniatures and 

 Moods " ; and Richard Holt Hutton selected from the 

 "Spectator" "Criticisms on Contemporary Thought 

 and Thinkers," which filled 2 volumes. " Varia," by 

 John Ashton, dealt with out-of-the-way but interest- 

 ing themes, and the collected edition of William Al- 

 lingham's prose writings, entitled " Varieties in Prose," 

 filled 3 volumes. F. Max M idler delivered " Three 

 Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy " at the Royal In- 

 stitution, March, 1894; John Campbell Oman told of 

 " The Great Indian Epics, the Stories of the Ramayana 

 and the Mahabharata "; S.H. Butcher presented "Some 

 Aspects of the Greek Genius "; and Maria Milling- 

 ton Evans volunteered " Chapters on Greek Dress." 

 Part II appeared of Prof. William Knight's " Phi- 

 losophy of the Beautiful" ; Hon. W. Warren Vernon 

 followed his " Readings on the Purgatorio of Dante," 

 published five years since, with an equally appreciated 

 series of "Readings on the Inferno "; "and Charles 

 Tomlinson condensed much matter into small space 

 in his " Dante, Beatrice, and the Divine Comedy." 

 " Tennyson, his Art and Relation to Modern Life," 

 were 'the theme of Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, and 

 from M. W. Maccallum, Professor of Modern Litera- 

 ture in the University of Sydney, came " Tennyson's 

 Idyls of the King and Arthurian Story." " Milton's 

 Prosody " was investigated by Robert Bridges ; " A 

 Short History of the Renaissance in Italy " was taken 

 from the work of J. A. Symonds by Alfred Pear- 

 son ; W. P. Ryan wrote on " The Irish Literary Re- 

 vival," its history, pioneers, and possibilities; Wil- 

 liam O'Brien advanced " Irish Ideas " ; and a second 

 enlarged edition was issued of " Bog-land Studies," 

 by Jane Barlow. " The Celtic Twilight," by W. B. 

 Yeats, contained necessarily more or less of the 

 supernatural ; and Andrew Lang treated of " Cock 

 Lane and Common Sense," with a little less than his 

 customary ability. Sir John Lubbock questioned 

 " The Use of Life "; William Jolly was responsible 

 for " Ruskin on Education " ; Hugh Black wrote upon 

 " The Dream of Youth " for young men ; and " Side 

 Lights," by James Runciman,'were accompanied by a 

 memoir by Grant Allen and an introduction by W. 

 T. Stead. Eleven prominent authors contributed 

 their advice " On the Art of Writing Fiction," and 

 " My First Book " contained the experience of Walter 

 Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, 

 Hall Caine, and others. " The Art of Thomas Hardy " 

 was reviewed by Lionel Johnson, and " Early Edi- 

 tions," by J. II. Slater, was a bibliographical survey of 

 the works of some popular modern authors. Frank 

 Lockwood lectured on " The Law and Lawyers of 

 Pickwick," and W. G. Thorpe's "Middle Temple 

 Table Talk " found interested readers who did not 

 belong to the bar. " Recollections of Old Country 

 Life," by J. K. Fowler, and " Oor Ain Folk," by 

 James Inglis (Maori), may be classed together, while 

 from David Macritchie we have a study of " The 

 Scottish Gypsies under the Stewarts." No more 

 charming subject could have been chosen than the 

 "Literary Associations of the English Lakes," by 

 Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, which fill 2 volumes, and a 

 keen appreciation is shown in " Studies of Nature on 

 the Coast of Arran," by George Milner. Other charm- 

 ing volumes were : " With the Woodlands and by the 

 Tide," by "A Son of the Marshes " ; " By Moorland and 

 Sea," illustrated by the author, Francis A. Wright; 

 " Woodside, Burnside, Hillside, and Marsh," by J. W; 



Other Lectures," hitherto unprinted, by John Ruskin, Tutt ; " A Random Itinerary," by John Davidson ; 



put together with an introduction by W. H. Colling- 

 wood ; and here may be mentioned the reissue of 

 " The Oxford Museum," by Henry W. Acland, M. D., 

 and John Ruskin, published "in 1859. Coulson 

 Kernahan traced the intimate connection that appears 

 to exist between " Sorrow and Song " ; Richard Le 

 Gallienne expounded " The Religion of a Literary 

 Man (Religio Scriptoris) " and also proffered " Prose 



Pictures in Prose, of Nature, Wild Sport, and 

 Humble Life," by Aubyn Trevor-Battye ; and '| The 

 Country Month by Month," which appeared serially, 

 by Prof. G. S. Boulger and Mrs. J. A. Owen. Dr. 

 A. Jessopp bade us ~ tl Pity the Poor Birds." A third 

 series appeared of " Anglers' Evenings," and R. B. 

 Marston discoursed of " Walton and Some Earlier 

 Writers on Fish and Fishing." "Scottish Land 



