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LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. 



Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo " 

 conies to us from John Whitehead, as u A Descriptive 

 Dictionary of British Malaya" did from N. B. Den- 

 nys, Ph. I). ; a memorial edition was issued of Sir 

 Richard F. Burton's u First Footsteps in East Africa," 

 edited by Lady Burton ; " Travel and Adventures in 

 the Congo Free State, and its Big Game Shooting," 

 by H. Bailey, termed by the natives Bula N'zau 

 (Elephant Smasher), was illustrated from his own 

 sketches ; Col. A. B. Ellis described " The Yoruba- 

 speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa " ; 

 " The British Mission to Uganda in 1893," by Sir 

 Gerald Portal, was edited, with a memoir, by Kennell 

 Rodd ; Lord Wolverton told of " Five Months' Sport 

 in Somaliland " ; and " Letters from the Western Pa- 

 cific and Mashonaland, 1878-1891," by Hugh H. Romil- 

 ly, were edited, with a memoir, by his brother, Samuel 

 H. Romilly. "On the Wallaby, or, Through the 

 East and across Australia," by Guy Boothby, was 

 eminently readable; Albert F. Caivert wrote upon 

 "The Aborigines of Western Australia" after an ac- 

 quaintance formed as a mining engineer among them ; 

 E. H. Canney entitled Australia " The Land of the 

 Dawnino-"; "In the Land of the Tui: My Journal 

 in New Zealand " was published by Mrs. Robert Wil- 

 son ; and A. Fraser Hill wrote upon u The Land and 

 Wealth of New South Wales." Mrs. Howard Vin- 

 cent journeyed from u China to Peru," and J. J. 

 Aubertin went "By Order of the Sun to Chile to see 

 the Total Eclipse, April 16, 1893." George E. Thomp- 

 son pictured " Life in Tripoli, with a Peep at Ancient 

 Carthage," and " Pioneering in Morocco " was a rec- 

 ord of seven years' medical mission work in the pal- 

 ace and the hut of Dr. Robert Kerr. The Egyptian 

 Exploration Fund published an "Atlas of Ancient 

 Egypt " and Parts T and II of " Beni Hassan " ; the 

 Palestine Exploration Fund issued " A Mound of 

 Many Cities," by Frederic Jones Bliss, describing the 

 excavation of Tell El Hesy ; while " Tell el Amarna," 

 by W. M. Flinders Petrie, contained chapters by 

 Prof. A. R. Sayce, F. LI. Gritfeth, and F. C. J. Spur- 

 rell. Mrs. Lewis gave " A Lady's Impression of 

 Cyprus in 1893 " ; Mrs. Louise Jordan Miln was in- 

 teresting in her description of " When we were 

 Strolling Players in the East"; and returning once 

 more to the Continent, we have the second and final 

 volume of" France of To-day," a survey, comparative 

 and retrospective, by M. Betham-Edwards, as well as 

 Vol. II of H. Sutherland Edwards's " Old and New 

 Paris," which contains more than 200 illustrations, 

 and completes a beautiful and admirably written 

 book ; " Two Summers in Guyenne," by Edward Har- 

 rison Barker ; " The Deserts of Southern France," to 

 which 2 volumes are devoted, by Sabine Baring- 

 Gould ; " The Peasant State," an account of Bulgaria 

 in 1894, by Edward Dicey ; " A Winter Jaunt to Nor- 

 way," by Mrs. Alec Tweedie ; " Cruising in the Neth- 

 erlands," by J. Christopher Davies; "The Gypsy 

 Road," which was followed on a bicycle, by Gren- 

 ville A. J. Cole, through Poland, Hungary, Moravia, 

 Bohemia, and Germany, in company with Edmund 

 H. New, who supplied the illustrations. " Scrambles 

 in the Alps," by Edward Whymper; "Dolomite 

 Strongholds," the last untrodden Alpine peaks, which 

 were successfully assaulted by Rev. J. Sanger Da- 

 vies ; and " Note's on Tobogganing at St. Moritz," by 

 Theodore Andrea Cook. "Sunrise Land," by Mrs. 

 Alfred Berlyn (Vera), described rambles in Eastern 

 England ; Edward Porritt informed Americans con- 

 cerning "The Englishman at Home"; George 

 Augustus Sala's latest book brought u London up to 

 Date " ; W. P. Haskett Smith was an authority upon 

 " Climbing in the British Isles"; J. J Hissey carried 

 us " Through Ten English Counties " ; " Twelve 

 Years' Residence on the West Coast of Scotland" 

 contained the shooting and fishing experiences of J. 

 Mason; John Bickerdyke spent "Days in Thule 

 with Rod, Gun, and Camera"; John Geddie went 

 around "The Fringes of Fife"; "Somerset High- 

 wavs, Byways, and Waterways" were followed by 

 C. R. B. 'Barrett: " Flamborough: Village and Head- 



land," the work of various writers, was edited by 

 Robert Fisher; " The Marches of Wales," by Charles 

 G. Harper, recorded notes and impressions on the 

 Welsh marches from the Severn Sea to the Sands of 

 Dee; and " Picturesque Old Chester," in 2 parts, 

 consisted of etchings by T. Piper and notes by Mrs. 

 H. Stanford and J. Taylor. " The Historical Geog- 

 raphy of the Holy Land " was written by Dr. George 

 Adam Smith with special reference to the history of 

 Israel and the early Church -and Vol. VI11 of "An 

 Historical Geography of the British Colonies," by C. 

 P. Lucas, was devoted to West Africa. 



The following are the figures of book produc- 

 tion in Great Britain during 1894, from the col- 

 umns of the " Publishers' Circular " : 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. To the 



usual list of the more important publications of 

 the year in Continental Europe have been added 

 short notes on South American and Japanese 

 literature. 



Belgium. In the department of history perhaps the 

 most important work is Charles Duvivier's " La Que- 

 relle des d'Avesnes et des Dampierre," a masterly 

 study of the French and Germanic influences at work 

 in Belgium in the thirteenth century. The same 

 topic has been touched upon by Felicien Cattier in 

 " Evolution du Droit penal germanique en Hainaut 

 jusqu'au 15 e Siecle." Vol. Ill of "Belgique illustree" 

 finishes that comprehensive and valuable work ; 

 " Jansenius, Eveque d'Ypres," published under the 

 auspices of the Catholic University of Louvain, is a 

 fresh attempt to settle the question of that prelate's 

 last moments and his submission to the Pope. There 

 have appeared also Vol. X of the correspondence of 

 Cardinal de Granvelle, edited by Ch. Piot, and Vol. 

 I of the "Cartulaire de 1'Eglise de St. Lambert a 

 Liege," edited by St. Bormansand E. Schoolmeesters. 

 A charming anonymous book on Emile de Laveleye 

 (the first series of whose " Essais et Etudes " has been 

 published) is based principally on valuable family 

 papers and letters; Mgr. Lamy has found a subject 

 in the Comte de M erode. Gen. P. Ilenrard in Baron 

 Kervvn de Lettenhove, A. Nyssens in Eudore Pirmcz, 

 and Mesdach de ter Kiele and A. Girpn in the Pr.- 

 cureur-Gene"ral Faider ; finally, Ferdinand van der 

 Haeghen has issued a bibliography of Erasmus. Books 

 of national interest in their field are E. Crnderlier'a 

 " L'Alcoolisme en Belgique," J. Moinmaert's " La 

 Sincerite clu Regime representatif en Belgique," and 



