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"The Grouse" and " The Partridge," by Kev. H. A. 

 Macpherson, and others ; while in the " Badminton 



volumes which remain to be noticed are " Seven Love 

 Songs, and Other Lyrics," by Mrs. T. Percy Cotton ; 



Library" "Yachting" was handled by Sir Edward " A Monk's Love, and Other Poems," by J. D. Hosken; 

 Sullivan, Lord Brassey, and others; "Archery," by "Lyrics and Tales in Verse," by J. A. Goodchild; 



C. J. Longman and Col. H. Walrond ; and 2 volumes 

 were devoted to "Big Game Shooting," by Clive 

 Phillipps-Wolley, with contributions from the most 

 noted sportsmen ; " Ladies in the Field " was edited 



by Lady Greville ; " The Rugby Union Game " (foot- 

 ball) was described by C. J. Marriott and others: and 

 to the literature of cards were added " English Whist 

 and English Whist Players," by W. Prideaux Court- 

 ney "The Whist Table," edited by Portland; 

 "Modern Scientific Whist," by C. D. P. Hamilton; 

 and K. F. Foster's "Duplicate Whist," 



Poetry." Astrophel, and Other Poems," by Alger- 

 non Charles Swinburne, demand, of course, the first 

 rank among volumes of verse, though they had al- 

 ready been given to the public in magazines ; and a 

 warm welcome was extended also to " Odes, and Other 

 Poems," by William Watson. Lewis Morris pub- 

 lished characteristic " Songs without Notes," and 

 Edmund Gosse picturesquely termed his realizations 

 of the lengthening shadows "In Russet and Silver." 

 " Ballads and Songs " of John Davidson aroused en- 

 thusiasm among reviewers, and " A London Rose, 

 and Other Rhymes," by Ernest Rhys, suggested, as 

 did the author's name, a Welsh origin. Andrew 

 Lang displayed his airy fancy and exquisite com- 

 mand of verse in " Ban and Arriere Ban " ; Grant 

 Allen entitled his reminiscences of excursions round 

 the base of Helicon, undertaken for the most part in 

 early manhood, "The Lower Slopes"; May Kendall 

 sent out "Songs from Dreamland"; Norman Gale 

 celebrated a national game in " Cricket Songs," and 

 also published "A June Romance"; "Poems" ot 

 Thomas Gordon Hake were selected and published 

 with a prefatory note by Alice Meynell and J' Songs 



and " Mediaeval Records and Sonnets," by Aubrey 

 de Vere. Among collections are " Bards and the 

 Birds," selected and arranged by Frederick Noel 

 Patton ; " The Poets' Praise, from Homer to Swin- 

 burne," accompanied with notes by Estelle Daven- 

 port Adams ; " Ballads of Bairnhood," edited by 

 Robert Ford ; Vols. I and II of " Popular British 

 Ballads, Ancient and Modern," chosen by R. Brimley 

 Johnson, to be followed by two more; "Border Bal- 

 lads," with an introductory essay by Andrew Lang ; 

 the final part of Vol. VII of "The Roxburghe Bal- 

 lads," edited by J. Woodfall Ebsworth ; and Vols. V 

 and VI of "Scots Minstrelsie," which we owe to 

 John Greig. " Roundheads and Cavaliers, or the 

 Pretty Puritan" was a drama by Arthur Bridge; 

 and " Tiberius : A Drama," by Francis Adams, had 

 an introduction by W. M. Rossetti. " The Complete 

 Plays of Richard Steele" were issued for the first 

 time during the year, with an introduction and notes 

 by G. A. Aitken; Israel Gollanez edited "Charles 

 Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who 

 lived about the Time of Shakespeare," in 2 volumes ; 

 while the colossal work of Rev. Walter W. Skeat, in 

 editing " The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," 

 from numerous manuscripts, in 6 volumes, called 

 forth the highest commendation, and completed the 

 labor of love of a quarter of a century. 



Voyages and Travels. No part of the globe, habita- 

 ble or uninhabitable, seems to have escaped the ad- 

 venturous Englishman in 1894. " Glimpses of Four 

 Continents" were caught by Lady Plantagenet, 

 Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, and commem- 

 orated in letters ; Sir Edwin Arnold's " Wandering 

 Words " were rescued 



Poems, and Verses," by Helen (Lady) Dufferin, were' files ; Mrs. Archibald Dunn described " The World's 



edited, with a memoir and some account of the Sheri- 

 dan family (to which she belonged), by her son, the 

 Marquis of Duff'erin. She wrote the song of " The 

 Irish Emigrant." " Homeward : Songs by the Way," 

 by " A. E.," and " The Land of Heart's Desire," a 

 tiny drama by W. B. Yeats, are also of Celtic origin. 

 Laurence Binyon published "Lyric Poems," which, 

 with "Sonnets of the Wingless Hours," by Eu- 

 gene Lee-Hamilton, will please meditative minds; 

 "Poems and Carols," by Selwyn Image, appeared 

 toward the close of the year; Oscar Wilde unriddled 

 "The Sphinx"; the "Second Book of the Rhymers' 

 Club" contained some very good verse; Richard 

 Garnett and Lewis Brockman published, respectively, 

 volumes of " Poems " ; " Cuckoo Songs " came from 

 Katharine Tynan Hinkson ; "Poems, "Old and New," 

 from George Cotterell ; "Persephone, and Other 

 Poems," from K. McCosh Clark ; " Poems, Sonnets, 

 Songs, and Verses," from the author of " The Pro- 

 fessor, and Other Poems;" "The Feast of Cotytto, 

 and Other Poems," from C. T. Lusted ; " The Burden 

 of Belief, and Other Poems," from the Duke of Ar- 

 gyll ; " A Book of Song," from Julian Sturgis ; " The 

 Rescue, and Other Poems," from Henry Bellyse 

 Baildon : while " Adriatica," by Percy Pinkerton, 

 and "Idylls and Lyrics of the Nile," by H. D. 

 Rawnsley, were evidently suggested by foreign travel. 

 "The Odes of Horace and the Carmen Sixculare" 

 were translated into English by the Right Hon. W. E. 

 Gladstone, M. P., and promptly parodied as " The 

 Hawarden Horace," by Charles L. Graves. " Our 

 Poets" were rather roughly handled generally by 

 Arthur Lynch in satirical rhyme : while J. M. Bui- 

 loch's " College Carols " were superior to the ordinary 

 run of such. H. A. Morrah was also heard from 

 " In College Groves." Herbert Hailstone published 

 " Songs and Psalms " ; Clifford Brooks, " The Wan- 

 dererln the Land of Cybi, and Other Poems," writ- 

 ten between the years 1886 and 1893; and George 

 Anderson, " The Agnostic, and Other Poems," of 

 which the prevailing mood is philosophical, as was 

 that of " Two Lives," by Reginald Fanshawe. Other 



Highway," with some first impressions while jour- 

 neying along it; John Dale went " Round the World 

 by Doctor's Orders " ; and Clement Scott recorded 

 " Pictures of the World" seen by him on his round- 

 about route to the World's Fair. " Polar Gleams " 

 was an account of a voyage on the yacht "Blen- 

 cathra," by Helen Peel, which had a preface by the 

 Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, her godfather, and 

 "From Edinburgh to the Antarctic" recorded W. G. 

 Burn Murdock's notes and sketches during the Dun- 

 dee Antarctic Expedition of'1892-'93. Vice-Admiral 

 Lindesay Brine's " Travels among North American 

 Indians," though made during 1870, were not com- 

 mitted by him to paper until this year, but lost noth- 

 ing in interest by the delay; "Texan Ranch Life" 

 was described by a lady, Mary J. Jaques ; and Eden 

 Philpotts found himself at home " In Sugar-cane 

 Land," as he terms the West Indies. "Travels in 

 India a Hundred Years Ago," by Thomas Twining, 

 reissued during the year, included a visit to the 

 United States;' "India in Nine Chapters" was de- 

 scribed by A. M. O. Richards ; " Gold, Sport, and 

 Coffee Planting in Mysore," by R. H. Elliot, recorded 

 the experience of thirty-eight years ; " Eha " was " A 

 Naturalist on the Prowl " in the jungles of India ; 

 and Mrs. Tyacke told " How I shot my Bears " on its 

 frontiers. Edward G. Browne described the_ im- 

 pressions of " A Year among the Persians " ; " Climb- 

 ing and Exploration in the Karakorum-Himalayas " 

 were the theme of William Martin Con way, as 

 " Chin-Lushai Land " was of Col. A. S. Reid ; Capt. 

 Hamilton Bower kept the " Diary of a Journey across 

 Tibet"; and Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop found herself 

 " Among the Thibetans." Walter B. Harris made "A 

 Journey through the Yemen " ; Henry Lansdale, 

 D. D., visited " Chinese Central Asia " ; " Korea and 

 the Sacred White Mountain " was a brief account of 

 a journey made in 1891 by A. E. J. Cavendish ; Capt. 

 G. J. Younwhusband went *' On Short Leave to Ja- 

 pan "; Robert K. Douglas pictured "Society in 

 China"; and "Chin- Chin," by R. H. Sherard, de- 

 scribes the sports and pastimes of that country. Ine 



