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LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL. 



van den Godsdienst." (). Zilcken writes of" IVmtres 

 Hollandais modernes." Vol. 1\' has appeared of 

 *' Bijdragen tot eene Nederhmdsche Bibliographic, 

 uitgegeven door het Frederik Muller-Fonds." "Lit- 

 erary criticism and the study of the history of litera- 

 ture are extinct,'' 1 says a Dutch critic. Two note- 

 worthy literary biographies have appeared the life 

 of .1. 'A. AlberdingK Thijm, the father of Koimin 

 Catholic literature in Holland, by his son, Karel Alber- 

 dingk Thijm (characterized as the u apostle of Dutch 

 <l< : ca<ltntix>i<f" the "leading spirit in the revolution 

 that has taken place in Dutch letters," who uses the 

 inn, i <le j>/um<- \ an Deyssel >, and J. II. Groenewegen's 

 biography of " K\ erhardus .Johannes Potgieter," 

 which, though elaborate, met with little favor. The 

 correspondence of the late E. Douwes Dekker has 

 been published, as has also that of Huet. 



The novel is considered by some the only living 

 feature in Dutch literature, but the complaint comes 

 iit the same time that literature does not prosper. 

 However, some of the older authors (many of them 

 women) are seeing their works pass through 5 and 6 

 editions a remarkable number lor Holland. Among 

 the new works of these older authors, the most note- 

 worthy is Mine. La Chapelle-Roobol's " Ydelheid," a 

 careful character-study of a coquette. " Marie Hudde," 

 by Capt. Fabius, is clever and amusing. " The Greater 

 Glory," by Maarten Maurtens (whose real name is 

 J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz), which, like his 

 former books, is written in English and published by 

 D. Appleton & Co., has increased the author's reputa- 

 tion. It is pleasant to hear that the feud between the 

 representatives of the old literary current and the 

 new has ceased, and that litterateurs are beginning 

 to stop their quarrels, and turn their efforts more to 

 supplying those who hunger for works of imagination 

 in spite of the national system of education which 

 continues to promote science more or'less exclusively. 

 An event of importance was the publication of "Ma- 

 jesteit," by Louis Couperus, the most conspicuous of 

 the " somewhat morbid sensitivists " who have been 

 infusing new blood into the lU'e ot Dutch literature ; 

 the work, we are told, is elaborate neither in plot nor in 

 characterization, and " the hero is so absorbed in psy- 

 chological analysis of himself that he has no strength 

 left for acting.*' Another writer of the young school, 

 Frits Lapidoth, shows promise in his " Goetia," a 

 novel dealing with the nihilists, essentially modern 

 in style, and marked in part by intense 'dramatic 

 power. Miss Louise Stratenus, a most voluminous 

 writer, has issued "Roofvogels" (dealing with the 

 Panama scandal), "Slavenketenen," " Eene Coquette," 

 etc., apparently showing a preference for utilizing 

 scandals in high life as topics. The Dutch Indies 

 no longer furnish as much material as formerly for 

 novels. P. A. Daum (Maurits) is the author of 

 "Nummcr Elf" and " Aboe Bakar"; and "Blank 

 en Bruin," by the late Miss M. C. Frank, and W. A. 

 Terwogt's " Corrie's Tijsai, of Tafereelen uit het 

 Leven van een Indischen Planter," are also concerned 

 with colonial life in the tropics. " Op Leven en 

 Pood, 1792-'93," a historical novel by W. P. Kops, 

 Is a tale of the French Revolution, showing careful 

 study but a not remarkable plot. The periodicals 

 are being well supplied with short stories by the 

 younger generation, and some noteworthy examples 

 of this form of fiction have appeared in book form. 

 *' Een Jodenstreek," " Fleo," and " Trinette," by Hey- 

 ermans, are good in action and dramatic force, al- 

 though the Language of his characters is at times 

 objectionable. Seipgens and Lamberts Hurrelbrinck 

 have written tales of village life in Limburg; Erens 

 has made his <l,'hnt in " Dansen en Khytmen"; "In 

 en om de Kazernc," a military story by C. J. Leen- 

 <lertz, deserves attention ; and G. Slothouwer displays 

 artistic ability in his pessimistic and melancholy "In 

 eene ffroote Stad." Other new fiction : R. Koopmans 

 van Boekeren's " Nondurn " ; M. Alt's >L Ken .luweel"; 

 C. Vosnucr's "Amazone"; Leo Luttel's "Een Pro- 

 fessors vrouwtje" ; P. v. Ilaamstede's "Sascha"; A. 

 S. Carpentier Alting's "Ken Oiler"; T. Iloveifs 



"Ken Klaverblad vanVijf"; M. van Waldrichem'g 



"Nelly"; M. Gissen's " Geheiligd Vuur"; W. Ben- 

 sc hop's "Bertha"; Conradine's " Misbruikt Vertrou- 

 wen"; t and C. E. van Ka-tsveld's " Losse Bhiden 

 uit mijn Pastoral bock." There is very little new 



f)oetry. Van Hoogstraten, a Roman Catholic priest, 

 las displayed piety rather than inspiration in a vol- 

 ume of poems; Edw. B. Koster shows promise in his 

 narrative poem " Niobe" (marked by fine finish and 

 beauty of language i, as well as in his studies on mod- 

 ern, especially English, literature; and reprints ..f 

 Seliaepmann's "Aya Sophia" and Goiter's master- 

 piece, " Mei," have been issued and proved success- 

 ful. There is likewise a dearth of dramatic literature. 

 Marcellus Emants's " Artist " glorifies the nervous 

 ftii-de-si(-cle young man, and Madame Snyder's drama 

 "Lucy" was not particularly successful. 



For Flemish authors, such as V. Loveling, Heleiie 

 Swarth, Cyriel Buysse, Pol de Mont, etc., set; Bel- 

 gium. 



Hungary. The new historical publications include 

 Janos Pap's "The Hungarian Emigrants in Turkey, 

 1849-'61"; G. Pauler's "History of the Hungarians 

 under the Kings of the House of Arpad " ; Mr. Szecsi's 

 " The Austro-Italian War, 1866 " ; V. Fraknoi's " ( 'or- 

 respondence of King Matthias." Several volumes of 

 the"Ethnologische Mittheilungen aus Ungarn"have 

 appeared ; the contributions in this work, as well as in 

 the " Ungarische Revue " (now in its thirteenth year), 

 both printed in German, are mainly by Hungarians. 

 In the domain of biography we have a "life of George 

 Rakoczy 1, by S. Szilagyi, and a number of works on 

 Kossuth (the fourth volume of whose " Memoirs of 

 my Exile," edited bv I. Helfy, appeared in 1894\of 

 which the best is that by Lajos Hentaller. P. Ko- 

 vacs's "Amerikai tanulmanyutam " and Osc. Vojnich's 

 "From Budapest to Sitka" are new books of travel. 

 F. Levai, E. Morlin, and V. Szuppan are the authors 

 of " Organization of the Popular School, Commercial. 

 and Trade Education in Hungary," while " National 

 Education" has been treated by Lajos Felmeri, an 

 authority (died May, 1894). Vol. I of Count I.Szech- 

 enyi's " Newspaper Articles" (1828-'43) has appeared. 

 Almost the only work of note in political economy is 

 Man6 Somogyis monograph on " Profit Sharing,"'the 

 first Magyar book on this subject. Jos. Ilampel has 

 begun the publication of "Monuments of the earlier 

 Middle Ages in Hungary," while Jozsef Fekete has 

 issued " Magyar Painters' Studios," the best guide to 

 modern Hungarian painting. Of national interest 

 are also Arpad Zeller's "Hungarian Church Polity, 

 1847-'94," and G. Petrik's " Guide to Newer Hungarian 

 Literature." Jokai's jubilee has called forth various 

 biographical publications, and the first 10 volumes 

 of the 100-volume edition of his novels have met 

 with a ready sale. The" Selected "Writings" of Adolf 

 Silberstein, prominent among IIungaro-( ierman writ- 

 ers, have been issued in 6 volumes of studies of the 

 literary, artistic, and scientific aspects of his aspiring 

 country; his newspaper articles are being published 

 under the title " Im Strome der Zeit." Prose fiction 

 makes a better showing than it has for several years. 

 Zsigmond Justh's " Tobacco Juliet " (in which a fac- 

 tory girl is the heroine of a charming story of coun- 

 try' life) has been pronounced his masterpiece. Per- 

 haps the most popular writer, excepting Jokai, is 

 Ferencz Herczeg, whose " Susanna Simon" is hardly 

 up to the standard of his former writings, however. 

 Another very popular writer, and a most prolific one, 

 Ilona cle Beriiczky-Bajza, has taken a flight into the 

 realm of pure imagination in " Not heard of again " 

 although her mild vein of fancy soon gives way 

 the habitual moralizing of this writer, who has i 

 sued also " At Five o'Clock" and " A Family Legacy.' 

 Gyula Werner handles an interesting psychology 

 problem in " Anteusz," and Ecle Kabos, in " Sh-ni 

 Nights." truthfully depicts the life of the circus a; 

 the music hall. A number of very good short stories 

 have seen the litrht. Istvan Barsony, in " Forest and 

 Field," shows delightfully subjective and poetical 

 description of nature. Tarn as Kobor's " Asphalt" is 



