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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1894. 



Names" were examined as to their origin and 

 meaning by Sir Herbert Maxwell. M. P., and " British 

 Family Names," by Henry Barber, M. I). Part I of a 

 " Dictionary of British Folklore," edited by G. L. 

 Gomme, was given to u Traditional Games of Eng- 

 land, Scotland, and Ireland," collected and annotated 

 by Alice B. Gomme ; Rev. J. Edward Vaux wrote on 

 "Church Folklore"; and W. A. Clouston on the 

 origin and history of " Hieroglyphic Bibles." Two 

 books which may be classed under this department as 

 well as anywhere else are u Vistas," by William Sharp, 

 and " The Invisible Playmate," by William Canton, 

 the last full of the poetry of fatherhood. " Aspects of 

 Modern Study " was the title given to University Ex- 

 tension Addresses by Lord Browne Playfair, Canon 

 John Morley, and others ; " Great Public Schools " 

 were the theme of various authors who combined 

 to form a volume ; " Harvard College, by an Oxonian " 

 emanated from George Birbeck Hill ; " Memorials of 

 Old Haileybury College " was a history of the East 

 India Company's College for the education of their 

 civil servants, to which Frederic Charles Danvers, 

 Sir Monier Williams, Sir Steuart Colvin Baylev, and 

 others contributed ; and "Addiscombe : Its Heroes 

 and Men of Note," by Col. H. M. Vibart, described 

 a famous military seminary. u The First Technical 

 College " (Andersonian Institution, Glasgow) was 

 commemorated by Prof. A. H. Sexton, and E. Court- 

 ney Welch published " Harrow School Register. 1801- 

 1893." W. Salt Brassingham edited u A History of 

 the Art of Bookbinding," with some account of the 

 books of the ancients, and in the series of u Books 

 about Books" Herbert P. Home wrote " The Bind- 

 ing of Books," an essay in the history of gold-tooled 

 bindings. " A History of English Literature " was 

 written for secondary schools by J. Logic Robertson ; 

 Vols. II and III of W. II. Low's " Intermediate Text- 

 Book of English Literature " covered respectively the 

 periods of 1558-1660 and 1660-1798 ; William Mac- 

 Neile Dixon reviewed " English Poetry from Blake to 

 Browning";" The EnglisliNovel," by Walter Raleigh, 

 was an admirable summary of the development of prose 

 fiction in England from the earliest time to the ap- 

 pearance of u Waverley " ; Edward Dowden 'wrote an 

 "Introduction to Shakespeare"; Prof. Thomas Spen- 



warmer reception in America than at home ; Hall 

 Caine's masterpiece of "The Manxman"; "Esther 

 Waters," by George Moore, a work of art terrible in 

 its power, " the most widely Discussed and in some 

 ways the most interesting book of the year " ; " Lord 

 Ormont and his Aminta," by George 'Meredith, full 

 of that author's best ; u Ships that pass in the Night," 

 by Beatrice Harraclen, a new writer who took nil 

 hearts by storm with her sad little pessimistic story, 

 followed by "In Varying Moods"; and "The Vao-ii- 



" Shylock and Others " were 8 studies by G. H. 

 Radford; and John Bartlett was the author of "A 

 New and Complete Concordance" to the dramatic 

 works of Shakespeare with a supplementary concord- 

 ance to the poems. Edmund Gosse introduced us 

 to "The Jacobean Poets," as G. A Greene did to 

 " Italian Lyrists of To-day " ; John Dennis opened a 

 new series of " Studies in English Literature " with 

 " The Age of Pope " ; Vol. II of ' English Prose Se- 

 lections," edited by Henry Craik, covered the six- 

 teenth century to the Restoration ; " Libraries in the 

 Mediaeval and Renaissance Period " were the subject 

 of the Rede lecture (June 13, 1894) by J. W. Clark; 

 and James Bonar compiled " A Catalogue of the 

 Library of Adam Smith."- "Selections from the 

 Essays of Francis Jeffrey " were edited with an intro- 

 duction arid notes by Lewis E. Gates, and " Essays 

 Selected from ' The Spirit of the Age ; or, Contem- 

 porary Portraits '" of William Hazlitt were accom- 

 panied by an introduction by Reginald Brimley 

 Johnson. The first issue since 1889 of " The Refer- 

 ence Catalogue of Current English Literature," com- 

 piled by John Whitaker & Sons, appeared ; also Vols. 

 Ill and IV of " A New English Dictionary on Histor- 

 ical Principles," edited by James A. H. Murray. "A 

 Hero of Esthonia," by W. F. Kirby, and ' From Dark- 

 ness to Light in Polynesia," by Rev. W. W. Gill, be- 

 long to the domain of anthropology. 



Piction. Several notable novels are to be recorded 

 in 1894. " Marcella," by Mrs. Humphry Ward, which 

 dealt with social questions and possessed, as it was 

 said, every excellence but that of fiction proper ; 

 "Trilby," by G. I)u Maurier, which met with a 



bonds," by Mrs. Margaret L. Woods. S. R. Crockett, 

 whose " Stick.it Minister, and Some Common Men" 

 introduced him favorably to the British public last 



Eear, wrote 4 striking stories, " The Raiders," " The 

 ilac Sunbonnet," " Mad Sir Uchtred of the Hills,' 1 

 and " The Play-Actress" ; and yet another collection 

 of studies of Scotch life was "Beside the Bonnie 

 Brier Bush," by Rev. John Maclaren Watson, who 

 chose for a pseudonym Ian Maclaren. " Perly- 

 cross," by R. D. Blackmore, attained a wide popu- 

 larity ; William Black portrayed " Highland Cous- 

 ins"; Anthony Hope, whose full name is Anthony 

 Hope Hawkins, scored a success with " The Prisoner 

 of Zenda," which called for the publication of "A 

 Change of Air," " The Indiscretion of the Duchess," 

 " The'God in the Car," and " The Dolly Dialogues " ; 

 Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant with unflagging energy 

 achieved 3 books, "A House in Bloomsbury," " Sir 

 Robert's Fortune," and " Who is Lost and is Found " ; 

 Stanley J. Weyman was represented by " The Man 

 in Black," " Under the Red Robe," and " My Lady 

 Rotha " ; A. Conan Doyle by "The Parasite," " Mem- 

 oirs of Sherlock Holmes," and 2 volumes of short 

 stories, " Round the Red Lamp " and " The Great 

 Keinplatz Experiment " ; W. Clark Russell by " The 

 Emigrant Ship" and "The Romance of a" Trans- 

 port " ; Maarten Maartens (J. Van der Poorsen 

 Schwartz) by ' The Greater Glory " ; and I. Zang- 

 will by " The King of Schnorrers " ; while a younger 

 brother, Louis Zangwill, is supposed to be Z. Z., 

 the author of "A Drama in Dutch." Sara Jeannette 

 Duncan (Mrs. E. Cotes) was as entertaining as ever 

 in "A Daughter of To-day." Jane Barlow published 

 " Kerrigan's Quality," and another portray er of Irish 

 character was found in Katharine Tynan llinkson, 

 whose 17 short stories were entitled " A Cluster of 

 Nuts." "Red and White Heather" was u miscel- 

 lany of Scottish pieces in prose and verse, by Robert 

 Buchanan, who also published " Rachel Dene " ; and 

 the Celtic genius is again brought to the front in 

 " Pharais," by Fiona Macleod. " Joanna Traill, 

 Spinster," by Annie E. Holdsworth, deserves men- 

 tion, as does " The Story of Margredel," by David 8. 

 Meldrum ; " Mary Fenwick's Daughter," by Beatrice 

 Whitbv : " Catharine Furze," by Mark' Ruther- 

 ford (W. Hale White); and "The Curb of Honor," 

 by M. Betham-Edwards. II. Rider Haggard pub- 

 lished " The People of the Mist": Edward F. Ben- 

 son followed " Dodo " with " The Rubicon " and "A 

 Double Overture"; Sarah Grand attempted to fath- 

 om the perplexities of " Our Manifold Nature " ; 

 and to the evanescent literature of the hour belong 

 also "Discords," by the author of " Keynotes," who 

 is said to disguise her identity as Mrs. Clairmonw 

 under the pseudonym of George Egerton ; " The 

 Yellow Aster " and " Children of Circumstances," 

 by Iota (Mrs. Mannington Catfyn) ; "The Wings of 

 Icarus," by Miss Lawrence Alma-Tadema ; " 1 'la- 

 tonics," by Ethel M. Arnold, a sister of Mrs. Hum- 

 phry Ward; "A Sunless Heart" and "A Superfluous 

 Woman," both anonymous ; " The Green Carnation." 

 a clever satire on the fin </< .-/'<>/< -hero and heroine; 

 "A Daughter of Music," by G. Colmore ; and "At 

 the Gate of Samaria," by William John Locke. Fr-mi 

 these it is a refreshing change to " Maelcho," by the 

 Hon. Emily Lawless, the author of " Hurrish " and 

 " Grania," with its scene in Ireland during the six- 

 teenth century. Space forbids more than a mention 

 of "Red Diamonds," by Justin McCarthy ;" Chris- 

 tina Chard," by Mrs. Campbell-Praed ; "A Costly 

 Freak," by Maxwell Gray (M G. Tuttiett) ; "A 



