166 



MTKK ATCRI:. BRITI.MI. IN 1897. 



byMaxMaury: Kl.-ndik 



Klon- 

 dike and all aln.ut it." mid tl "Official lluidr to 

 the Klondyke Country and tin- <J"M Fi. 



Alaska." i'>;h la>t anonymous. 1 



:iiiii<f HIP: '. the Puritan Coast/* 



imund II. (Jam-it, with many little pictur- 



r fanciful, iiiul " Walks aiul I 

 in the Country numd aU-ut ll.-t.-u." by F.dwin 



nie Bacon, covering thirt \ 

 parka, and public wesrvationa \\ithin a radius of 



in i In- Stall-home. 



The table on u. 4415 gives the tiu-ur.-. of book pro- 

 duction during 1807, as compared with that of 1806, 

 fnun the column* --f the " Publishers' Wceklv." 



I I I I I! \ I I III . KIM I Isll. IN Is'.i;. fn this 

 year 7,996 books wetv publi-he<l in Kngland. an in- 

 uniasc nf l.flVt m i r thr ft ' i .:. }*-'.>; anl 



of <hi- ntimU-r 6.1244 were new books an.i 

 edit i- 



Theological works showed a markl b 

 niiiii' nal work-, work- of his- 



tory .-in- 1 biography, inn-try and tin- drama, a* well 

 m yearbooks and volumes of bellet-lettre*, but the 

 greatest increase by far was in the department of 

 n, 800 more new novels having been published 

 than in 1886. so thai n an average 38 a wed, 

 sent from the press, while 200 more new editions 

 were also publish, -d than saw the light the pn-.-.-.l- 

 ing year. In our own countrv 657 volumes repre- 

 sented the total output of works of fiction, includ- 

 ing new edition*, by American authors. These 

 figures in iMith rouir juvenile luniks. In 



the department of biography, in particular, notable 

 additions were made to tlie la-ting literature of 

 Great Britain. 



Biography. The jubilee year gave rise to nu- 

 is biographies of the Queen, who both in her 

 office and in her womanhood occupies the 

 most commanding |>ositioii at the close of the cen- 

 tury. Among them may \tc noted "Si\tv Years a 

 Max well, illustrated : "The 



Personal Life of Queen Victoria." by Mrs. Sarah A. 

 Tooley, and "The Private Life of the Quern." by 

 "f her Majesty's servants" C. Arthur Pear- 

 son; Victoria: Her Sixtv Years' Reign 

 ii'l .lul'ilee." I y Charles Morris; "Queen 

 ria," by U. K. Holmes, illustrated, and a new 

 i of "The Life of Uueen Victoria," by Mr-. 

 Fawcett. Perhaps the most important book 

 published in Knglaml during the year, certainly the 

 most eagerly expected and warmly welcomed, was 

 "Alfred Tennyson: A Memoir," by his son, Lord 

 Hallam Tennyson, in two volumes, with photograv- 

 ure portraits, facsimiles of |Mirtiou- of pm-ms. and 

 illustration- by Mr-. Allingham. Richard Doyle. 

 Biseomoe (ianl 'A'ritti-n hy tin- de-ire of 'the 

 poet, and with the fullest sympathetic insight, it is 

 a filial triliuii- of an unusual order. To li 



i ' r- of Kli/al.eth 



Barrett Brown i: i. with biographical addi- 



liy Fn-ilerii-k <J. Kenyon. in two volumes, full 

 of the subtlest t-harm, and "The Life of 1 

 Kenai James Darin. -teter. whicli n-- 



oeivwl th- highi-st encomiu-h-. Yet another of the 

 books which make the y,. ar a re,l-l-tter one \\. 

 posthumous" Annals of a 1'uhlishing House: Wil- 

 liam Blarkwood and his s.i.s. the- ,. and 

 f which ,,;dy the fn i umes were 

 l.y Mrs. Margaret O. W. Oliphant. "The 

 Etomanos of Isabel \M\\ Murton" was the title 



;-i tings, and his Pul.lic Life. 

 Aylmer Vallance. contained -1< half-tone rciirodnfl 

 tiodi of (le-iL'ii- liy Morris, an.i from Temple Scott 

 .io^raphy ,,f the \\ '..rks of \Villiajl 

 \\ 'illiam Care\\ lla/litt -a\ e new part iru- 

 lars aii'l new material concerning " Tl 

 Their Live-, their I-YiemK and their Corresponfl 



ail.l Stephen Wheeler edited "Letters anlj 



(Jnpablished \\ritings of \\alter Savage Landoifl 

 " The Kr< : . i and l-'ict ion " contained fur- 



ther information on thai remarkable family, vouch- 

 I >y Aliens Ma-kay. \\hile from Sir'Williafl 



we ha-i M The Thaokerays in Indfl 



and Some Calcutta (iia\. -.' \\hn-h derives its intefl 

 .letly from the "culminating genius" of ttm 

 family, the distinguished imvelist. " Letters A 

 Iiaiite (ialiriel IJossetti to William Allingham. 

 1854-' re e.lttc.i k Hifl 



who also arranged aixl c<lite.| '.lohn-oniau MisceB 

 lanies." iii tw.. volumes. All event of the deepefl 

 interest to sell,, lars was the final issue .f "The 1'u- 

 puldished Works of Kdward (Jil>loii." printed n r- 

 fmfini from manuscripts in the iio--e ion of tfl 

 Karl of Sheffield, who cont ril.uteil a preface to tfl 

 three volunirs. which ronlained n-spect ively 

 .phies" (from which the well-!. 



autoliioLrraphy of Gibbon wa- lar^'. l> compile< 

 ditedbjJohn Murray, ami "( iil.lion'-' Private Let- 

 ter- to his Father, hi- Stepmother. Lord Sheffield, 

 and Others, from !?:{.") to 17H1." edited \\ith 



i-y Rowland K. Prothrm. " Kecolleciions of 



Anbny 1. n- Lack -ome si\t\ \ 



filled with delightful details of the literary li: 

 men of the period, while the personality of the ad 

 thor was revealed l.v -u-L'.-tion only; " NotJ 

 from n Diary. IV, i ^ir Moun'tstuart Ll- 



phinstone (irant Duff, in two volumes, was another 

 of the attractive autobiographies published d 

 the year, full of anecdote, as was *' A I'. 

 World." l.y Bessie Rayner Park- iMme. Hei; 

 granddaughter of Dr. Priestley and the null 

 "Vignettes" ami "In a Walfed (ianlen." -Men 

 I have known," by Dean Frederick W. I 

 brought before u- the great men of the Victorian 



intered in W. , 



Ni'-oll's life of "James Ma.-'loii.'ll. Journalist." 

 " Four (leiieralions .-f a Literary Family: The Ha/- 

 litts in Fngland. Ireland, and Amei 

 came to us from a member of the family. W. < 

 lla/litt; David Christie Mu: ;!ied "My 



Contemporaries in Fiction"; Fiiiily Sohlene pulj- 

 li-hed My 'fheatrical aii<l Mu-ical Kecollecli 

 and Alice 'Mangold Di.-hl. " Mu-ical Memori- 

 illustrious names in the mu-i.-al worhl. 



Wheel of Life" Was the title of "a few Hie! 



and recollection-" ..f Clement Scott, and " Li 1 

 -man. and <M her F--ays on Men seen I: 

 Distance" came from Norman llapu'ood. Two \..]- 

 um.-- contain 'Tin* Story of Gladstone's Lif- . 

 Justin McCarthy, and \'<>\<. 1 1 and III al-o nj.; 

 of "The Political Life of the Ki^ht Hon. W. I-!. 

 <ila<lstonc." illu-trate.l from Punch." completing 

 the work which compriscs more than I."io-a!- 

 and 400 sketches in the text. "The Yoke ol 

 pire : Sketches of the nm-en'- Prim- Mini- 

 was by Kcginald Haliol Brett : Charles F. Lyi 

 tribute.] a " Life of Sir Henry Parke-. d. C. M. (i., 

 Australian Sta' .ind -Cecil Rhodes: A I'.i- 



tiv and Appreciation." by "an Imp* n 

 contained personal n-mini-- enr .- by Dr. -la 1 



. i > . i _ * i . i : i * L. _/!.:__,/ i .' :. . _ > , 



-on. 



__ ^ "Rulers of'lndia arid the <'hief- .f l;"ajputaiiu" wad 



to the .tory f,f her life told in part by her- n Lieut. -Col. Hendley, and I)r. 



self and in part by W. If. Wilkins. in connection George Smith Twelve Indian Stat- 



tiust U- in.-nti.,i,,.,i -The True Life of 



Captain Sir^ Kichard F. Burton," by his niece, was written by H. D. Traill : Robert Kdon Leader 



Arthur KosM 

 and " Lord 



with which must U- mentioned M The True Life of as subjects for his pen. The M Lif e of Lord Cromdl 



Captain Sir Richard F. Burton." by his niece, was written bv H. D. Traill : Robert Fa '-' 



Georgiana M. Stisted. with the authority and ap- edited the "Life and Letters of John ; 



proval of the Barton family. " William Morris : buck," with chapters of autobiography, 



