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Ward in Chancery " and " Broken Links," by Mrs. 

 Alexander (Mrs. Annie F. Hector); U A Gray Eye 

 or so " and u One Fair Daughter," by Frank i rank- 

 fort Moore ; "A Victim of Good Luck," " Matthew 

 Austin," " St. Ann's," and " The Countess Radna," 

 by W. E. Norris; U A Bundle of Life," by John 

 Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie) ; U A Flash of Sum- 

 mer," by Mrs. W. K. Clifford; " With Edged Tools," 

 by Henry Seton Merriman ; " The Eich Miss Kid- 

 dell " and " Lot 13," by Dorothea Gerard ; " The Old, 

 Old Story," by JRosa Nouchette Carey ; " The Sur- 

 render of Margaret Bellarmine " and " Dr. Endicott's 



Edna Lyall ; "An Interloper " and "The Swing of 

 the Pendulum," by Frances Mary Peard ; u For Honor 

 and Life," by William Westall ; "A Soldier and a 

 Gentleman " and u The Red Sultan," by J. Maclaren 

 Cobban; "A Modern Buccaneer," by Rolf Boldre- 

 wood ; " The Iron Pirate " and " The Sea Wolves," 

 by Max Pemberton ; u The Potter's Thumb," u Tales 

 of the Punjab," and " The Flower of Forgiveness," 

 by Mrs. F. A. Steele, who is not to be confounded 

 with Mrs. Anna C. Steel, the author of u Clove 

 Pink." Thomas Hardy entitled a collection of his 

 short stories, written between 1882 and 1893, " Life's 

 Little Ironies," while " The Story of Dan " was writ- 

 ten by M. E. Francis, the scene being laid in Ireland. 

 Walter Raymond, writing as Tom Cobbleigh. pro- 

 duced "Young Sam and Sabina," and a collection of 

 Somerset idyls, entitled "Love and Quiet Life"; 

 "George Mandeville's Husband," by C. E. Raymond, 

 and " A Husband of No Importance," by Rita, may 

 be classed together. S. Baring-Gould wrote 2 novels, 

 " The Queen of Love " and " Kitty Alone " ; Grant 

 Allen but 1, "At Market Value "; and 2 are to be 

 noted from Miss M. E. Braddon, " Thou art the Man " 

 and " The Christmas Hireling." Clementina Black 

 wrote "An Agitator" ; Florence Warden, "A Perfect 

 Fool "; Gertrude Warden, " The Secret of a Letter"; 

 Mary Angela Dickens, "A Valiant Ignorance " ; Eftie 

 A. Rowlands, " My Pretty Jane" and " The Spell of 

 Ursula"; "Mr. Jervis" was by B. M. Croker; and 

 The Duchess (Mrs. Hungerford) was represented 

 by " Peter's Wife " and The Red House." " The 

 Maiden's Progress" was traced by Violet Hunt, and 

 " Struthers " and " The Comedy of the Masked Mu- 

 sicians," by Anna Bowman Dodd, appeared in 1 

 volume. " The Untempered Wind " came from 

 Joanna E. Wood ; "A Bread-and-B utter Miss," from 

 George Paston ; " The Mystery of the Patrician 

 Club," from Albert D. Vandam ; and u John Inger- 

 tield, and Other Stories," from Jerome K. Jerome. 

 " Under the Rose," by F. Anstey ; " Mrs. Bouverie," 

 by F. C. Philips; " Sybilla," by Sir H. S. Cunning- 

 hame ; episodes in the life of a Scottish village, en- 

 titled " Barncraig," by Gabriel Sutton ; " ' Lisbeth,'" 

 by Leslie Keith ; u The Green Bay Tree," by W. H. 

 Wilkins and Vivian Herbert ; Percy White's portrait 

 of a snob in " Mr. Bailey-Martin " ; " Major Joshua," 

 by Francis Forster; "A Country Sweetheart," by 

 Dora Russell ; " By Reef and Palm," by Louis Becke ; 

 " For Love and Liberty," by Alfred Harcourt ; " The 

 Story of a Modern Woman," by Ella H. Dixon ; "A 

 Man of To-day," by Helen B. iMathers ; " The Scor- 

 pion," by E. A. Vizetelly ; and " The Unbidden 

 Guest," by E. W. Hornung, found readers also, as 

 did " The Kindness of the Celestial, and Other Stories," 

 bv Barry Pain, with which may be coupled " The 

 Shen's Pigtail," by Mr. M. ; "A Study in Color," 

 by Alice Spinner; "A Woman's Whim," by Mrs. 

 Diehl; "Some Everyday Folks," by Eden Phill- 

 pots ; " Helen," by Oswald Valentine ; u A Marriage 

 Ceremony," by Ada Cambridge ; " Winifred Mouatt," 

 by Richard Pryce; "Jack Doyle's Daughter," by 

 R. E. Francillon ; " The Daughters of Danau's," by 

 Mrs. Mona Caird ; " The Justification of Andrew Le- 

 brun," by Frank Barrett; " Earlscourt," by Alex- 

 ander Allardyce ; "The Great God Pan "and "The 

 Inmost Light," 2 stories in 1 cover, by Arthur Mac- 



hen ; " Red Cap and Blue Jacket," a story of the 

 Ireuch Revolution, by George Dunn; "All that was 

 Possible," by Howard Sturgis; Two Offenders "and 

 " The Silver Christ " and " A Lemon Tree " by 

 "Ouida" (Louise de la Ratne), the 2 last in 1 vol- 

 ume ; and " Every Inch a Soldier " by John Strange 

 Winter (Mrs. II. E. V. Stannard). Rudyard Kip- 

 ling made but 1 contribution, " The Jungle Book," 

 for juveniles, who were also delighted with "In the 

 Days of the Mutiny," " In the Heart of the Rockies," 

 " When London burned," and " Wulf, the Saxon," 

 by G. A. Henty ; " Czar and Sultan," by the famous 

 war correspondent, Archibald Forbes ; and " Olaf the 

 Glorious," by Robert Leighton. The reissue of Henry 

 Kingsley's novels was begun during the year, and a 

 new illustrated edition of those of A. Conan Doyle 

 was also initiated. 



Fine Arts. Commencing with architecture, we have 

 " Renaissance Architecture and Ornament in Spain," 

 a series of examples selected from the purest works 

 executed between the years 1500-'60, measured and 

 drawn, together with short descriptive text, by-An- 

 drew N. Prentice ; 2 illustrated volumes of " Archi- 

 tecture of the Renaissance in England," by J. A. 

 Gotch and W. T. Brown; "The Poetry of Architec- 

 ture," a series of essays written by John Ruskin in 

 1837, when a lad of eighteen, illustrated by himself; 

 Vol. I of a new series of " Academy Architecture," 

 " Our English Ministers," by Frederic W. Farrar, 

 D. D., and others, illustrated; and " An Architectural 

 History of the Cathedral Church of Manchester," by 

 J. S. Crowther, edited by Frank Reuaud, M. D. " The 

 Art of Illustration," by Henry Blackburn, was itself 

 illustrated; and from the same authority we have 

 " Academy Notes, '9p-'94." " Greek Vase* Painting " 

 was the theme of Miss J. E. Harrison and D. S. Mac- 

 Coll, and " Persian Ceramic Art belonging to Mr. F. 

 D. Godman, with Selections from Other Collections," 

 was continued bv H. Walls with "Thirteenth Cen- 

 tury Lustered Wall Tiles." " The Monumental Brasses 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire " were studied by James 

 L. Thornely, and " A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Her- 

 aldry," by John Woodward, was illustrated with 36 

 colored plates. Music was extensively treated. A. 

 M. Wakefleld edited " Ruskin on Music:" C. Hubert 

 H. Parry contributed "The Art of Music"; Richard 

 Wallaschek, " Primitive Music " ; D. B. Monro, 

 "Modes of Ancient Greek Music"; R. C. Hope, 

 " Mediaeval Music," an historical sketch ; and " Old 

 English Popular Music," by William Chappell, filled 

 2 volumes ; while " Musical Scotland. Past and Pres- 

 ent," was a dictionary of Scottish musicians from 1400 

 to the present time, compiled and edited by David 

 Baptie. " Musicians and Music Lovers " were the 

 theme of essays by W. Foster Apthorp. " The Savoy 

 Opera and the Savoyards," by Percy Fitzgerald, had 

 60 illustrations, and from the' same authority we had 

 " The Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan described." 

 T. F. Ordish made an able if somewhat rough study 

 of " Early English Theaters." The best of "Hazlitt's 

 "Dramatic Essays" were edited by William Archer 

 and R. W. Lowe. A volume was printed of " Arts 

 and Crafts Essays," by members of the Arts and 

 Crafts Exhibition Society ; " Early Illustrated Books," 

 by Alfred W. Pollard, was a history of the decoration 

 and illustration of books in the fifteenth and sixteenth 

 centuries ; " Leadwork, Old and Ornamental, and for 

 the Most Part English," was by W. R. Lethaby; 

 Vol. II of " A Catologue of the English Coins in the 

 British Museum Anglo-Saxon Series" was issued, 

 as well as a handsome brace of volumes devoted to 

 " Greek Papyri " in the same museum, the one con- 

 taining the catalogue with texts, and the other fac- 

 similes. " Arabic Papyri of the Bodleian Library," 

 reproduced by collotype, we owe to D. S. Margoliouth ; 

 " Ninety-three Drawings by Albert Diirer, repro- 

 duced in Facsimile from Originals in the British 

 Museum," had the text supplied by S. Colvin ; and 

 among handsome illustrated works are to be included 

 " Pictures from Bohemia drawn with Pen and Pen- 

 cil," by J. Baker ; " Tennyson and his Pre-Raphaelite 



