LITER ATI -RF. hRlTISII. IN 1807. 



Canon Newbolt. completing the work, and " The 

 Lift- iinil Times of Cardinal Wix-tnan." by the rom- 

 iK-tent liand of Wilfritl \Vanl. " Private Pa; 



William \VilinTfonv" w md edited 



len v *WM 



the title of some life nou- by .l.-,|,h Parker. l>. I>. 

 ft .Hi. mi .Mm hutler, 

 !>ean >f Lincoln, and SHIU-IUIH- Vu-ar of 

 tage" was anonym. .MS. "ChHuncev Maples. 

 near missionary in KM! Central Africa for nine- 

 teen Tears ami Bishop of Ukoma, Luke Nyassa, 

 la biographer in his si>ter. Fllcn M 



,v t had "Solomon < 



Malan. 1> I>. s of \\\< Life ami Writ- 



Fowler edited tin- " Life ami 

 Letters of the Rev. .lohn Bacchus Dykes," tin- pop- 

 ular romiMwer of hymn tunes, to whom we owe the 



. Kindly 



Dr. Augustus Jessopp wrote of ".lohn I>onm . ^ 

 lime I lean of St. Paul's. A . n. KUM-HMl." ami " The 



! Writings of John Davcnant. l>. l>. 



of Salisbury." we owe to 

 - Fuller. To an earlier period b*lonff 4 *Th 



MISM - \ii_rustiue t<> Finland accordi' 



the Original Documents." a handbook for the thir- 

 teenth centenary, edited by Arthur .i.r 

 I>. !.. at the siiggrsti-'n of the late Archbishop 

 Benson as a permanent record of the commemora- 

 tion: M : \\\< Times. Life, and 



Work." by Canon William J. Km \-Littl. : and 

 "Cyprian: His Life, his Times, his Work," by 

 Arch! :.vard Win' . which had ah 



introduction by Hi-hop Henry ('. I',tt.-r. -Si. 

 Anselm of Canterbury ' was oommemoimted i>\ .1. 

 M. Rig*,nnd -The Life and Miracles of St. Wil- 

 liam h." ly Thomas of Monmouth, were 



f<>r the first time edited from the unique manuscript, 

 with an introduction, translat ion. and notes by Dr. 

 Augustus Jessopp and Montague Rho les .lames. 

 "Twelve Years in a .Monastery " of modern davs 



inland w. by Joseph Me' 



lately Father Antony. < >. & I-'. '-Oliver Cromwell's 

 dies" npjicarcd in the "Centenary 

 Edition of Thoma-i Carlyle's Works" e.lited l.\ II. 

 I'. Traill, as did "Letters, 1*01-1*1:!" ,,f Lord 



VMII in the edition of the poet's works edited by 



William K. Henley. W. F. H. Lecky cont ribuied 



a biographical introduction to "The Prose Works 



of Jonathan Swift," Vol. I of which was edited by 



Temple Scott, and Vol. II, containing Swift's 



"Journal to Stella, 1710-171::." l.y Pred 



land. "Ixrd Bowen : A Biographical S 



Sir Ilenry Stewart Cunningham, included a selec- 



rses of the poet, and Wilfrid Au- 



author of a sympathetic study of 



v : His Life and Po 



which contained a critical estimate of the sunn, -is 

 ; late John Aldinjjton Symond*. ".fames 

 Clarence Mangan : 1 1 :us " contained 



a study bv the editor. Louise Imogen (Juin.-y. 

 Vols, U LI. LI I. an 1 LIII wen- i^ue 1 ,,f the " Di- 

 tionary of National Biographj." edited by Sidney 

 Lee, reaching - Shearman-Smirke." 



ESMJ8. I'nder this head many volumes of a 

 ry character are to be included. Of essays, 

 properly speaking, there were several 

 -Rssays from t liao'" represent some of 



tho \^est journalistic work ..f Walter Pater; John 

 Mackinnon Robertson offered "New Essays toward 

 and Charles Whibley,* 4 Studies 

 in Frankness." R. A. Wenley contributed a volume 

 of essays, entitled "Aspects of iv^im.M..." and 

 "Platitude^ of a Pe>- -tie from the author 



of "The Life of a Pri-." "Th- (^u.-t of Hat.i.i- 

 rfS8. v left unfinishe.l bv Philip Gilbert Ham-rton. 

 was given to the public; a collection of "Essays 

 and Speeches'* was welcomed from W. S. Lilly: 



Dean Church, written be- 

 tween 1" : < i- in b.,,,k 

 f.Tiu. a> -f Sir .1. 

 M. I .. and " ( 'I'lnmon Thoughts 



f addresses deli 



by the late Che- 1 ^hieii. Principal of 



iinar C.>. India, to ..Ider 



Kumars of that institution. "An Kssn> on 

 and the usesof thecninic >|-irit pn>'. 

 tith a i-rilic of DO mean opler. and from W al- 

 ii we had a scholarly discourse on " v 

 \\eiv t he 1 hcmc of essa 

 n . di.i-xal literatur- SV. I'. l\ 



be] ranged " |-'r..m Qnive to <ia\ " in the 



ch..iee of thellie>: all<l ffolll Ve|-|lo|| 1 



we had " Limbo, and uiher K"-a\ 

 .n Fact and Fiction " was a li: 



Hon. A. S. (i. Canning; "A Studi-nl'> Pastime^ 

 ua- the title of a select series of articles b\ 

 Walter W. Skeat. reprinted from " v - 



aj:" Club Pap. llted 



by ). K. Mudd- Kaiidom : Ms^a\ 



I.. I . Au-tin : " I'.ofd. 



<f .lohn Veit<-h wen- reprintfd from mapi. 

 and from the late Lady Camilla (Junlon we lia-1 

 " .Memories and l''ii! y* "f .Ihn 



Sluart Mill" Were se]ee|ed by '.I. W.'M. <, 



Vol. II of " A History of English Poetry." by Wil- 

 liam J. Court hope, published duritii; th- 

 ered"Tlie Kdia issaiice and the Reformation: In- 

 fluence of the Court and the rnivcr>iti. -." Frpni 

 Clement Slmrter we had a review .f "Vid 

 Lit, i .f hooks and hoknieii "; 



and from Richard I>. (iraham, "Tin- Ma-t- 

 Victorian Literatur :uund W. 



Gosse wrote *' A Short II: M..il,.rn FiiL'li-h 



Literal lire," and al-o u Seventeenth CenturyStud- 



: contribution to the history of Fn^'li-h p- 

 Arthur Symons voiichs-ifcd "Studies in Two I 



,' aiid (J.-orire Saintsbury contrilmteil " The 

 Flourishinir of Komance and the Kin-e of \\\, _ 

 to the "Periods c.f Furopean Literatn: 

 " Th. nnyson," by Ilnirh Walker, be',. 



to the 3 f Handboolcs of Knglish Literal 



" Landseaj.e in poetry from Homer to '1 

 was the theme of lectures al ' Kfonl bv I'r 

 T. Pal-rave; "The old Kn-!M> Bible, and other 

 FSS ays" came from Franci* Aidan (ia-<)ii-t, I). I)., 

 an. I 'from Kdward Dowden we had U A Hi-i 

 French Literature" and "The French Revolution 

 and Kn^'lish Lit. -rat ure." the la- 

 delivered in connection with the sesqui centennial 

 of Princeton University. (Jilbert Murray contrib- 

 uted "A History of Ancient (Jreek Literature" to 

 the "Series of Short Hi-tori. 's of the Literatir 

 the World," edited by Kdnnind (Josse. and from 

 .1. P. .MahatTy. D. D.,"came 

 Civilization." .John Stuart Stuart-(!lerr 

 with essay^, annotated tran-latins by Lucy M. .1. 

 (Jarnett .'.f "(Jreek Folk-P..esy" in two volu 

 ! of which was Lfiven to " Folk Pi 

 Vol. II was alsf) published of "The \ 

 hran." beinu' a Mudy of the Celtic locirine . 

 birth, by Alfn-d N'utt. "(Meanings from Ibsen" 

 were selected and edited by I-'.. A. K'.-ddell ;in.l 



C. Stundin^. with a preface on " Ib-ei 

 and Samuel hut l-r at tempted to prove a woman of 

 Sicily "The Authoress of tho (-. 



Fiction, and other Essays on Literarj 



'harming reading from the pen of 

 Henry Duff Traill. and from Kli/abdh R.Cha- 

 we had "Marr tions in .Modem Fiction, 



and Other Essays." "Essays on the Novel 

 Instr, : rid Mis^ AiKten" came from 



Adolphus Alfred .Taok. while -Women Nov< 

 ..f (^ueeri Victoria's R.-k'n: A h-.ok "f Apprecia- 

 tions" was the work of Mr~. M. O. W. Oliphant, 



