L1TKUATURB, CONTINKNTAI, IN 1897. 



purodu Slovann. Studio k. sloransk,vm sta 



ular songs and ballads; an ethnological description 



of Boli. -in in in course of preparation by tin- \ 



:in.l Jar- interesting nml not un- 



pleasantly prcj -vhy a I 1 



Prossia ami 



Holland " Na pude iiiufi un.v 



aii.l St. Vra/ ha- published. in tin- magazines. in- 



.tig pictures >f the i-lands of eastern Asia. < >f 



liriMii an<l hi-torv there is litth Vrch- 



iidicsand Portraits." .lar. Vleek"- " 111- 



.;an Liter ., \ Kraus's 



ei he ami 1 . Matthias 



Murk Hindus*' auf die An range 



iimisrhcti Kniiiaiilik." ami biographies such 



.rik " anl .lakul. w'a " Ant. Ma 



"In fiction. Bohemian literature still la< k- the 

 modern novel of cha - are numerous, 



but originality i- rarvr. The most successful seem 

 to be those describing the life of the OCNUltrj jHJOplo 



S'a hrulie hroude." ami Klostcrman's 



.M.l " V srdei hv../du h." Also 



to be noted are* 4 N4v.it, \v." - KalomfetUi fitchta," 



ainl "(t.nl among the People " (a study of beliefs. 



by Heritcs, who lays his scenes, as usual, in small 



country towns; the popular K"-mak's " Kaleido- 



ru-tic life; Hermann's "Two 



v. Mr-tik'i "Tfrh : 'Ba- 



-ucees-rul pictures of the Slavonians 



of M | the brothers Mr-tik: M. 1! 



"Poslcdni i" ami " Uodiny dvou sester" 



(tales of mi* idle-class society! ; and a third collec- 



"f gorgeou .'-In-d I'ictun-s" of 



ages, by Zey-r. In poetrj, too, Um is little that 

 rues above the mass of mediocrity^ of fint coll.-c- 



by young men. Noteworthy are ( 

 PFayerstotbe I'nknown "(seems to inark thoMnn- 

 his power): Vn-hlicky's "Collected Works" 

 (reflective verses in a minor key); Xeruda's p"-t- 

 huraons Friday S..nu'-" (fine, powerful, patriotic); 

 Mac-har's poems" of 1893-'90 (among il.-y- 



duk's pleasant lyri- " Pta.'i M-.tivy" and " 



melancholy "In tin? 

 Sun" S- m.-il .Mo'uriiings"; 



Drof-i (prominent among the 



w..rk* of tin- yoiinir liotiian Catholic ports by its 

 " fi uc language an< 1 rarm--t n-liuious spirit"): and 

 flu- fiTv.-nt v.-rs*- of Nciiman ("lit- .f tin- "yoiini; 

 authors who form the group of the 'Modern 



Dramatic literature also includes many attempts 

 by beginners, as well as Zeyer's "Donna Xancha" 

 af.d "Xd-iM rii/ov.'ho jitra"(a "pn-tty pastoral of 

 biblical ti Cal- 



>va" and "Bptnona" (drama of Christian 

 martyrdom in I - ..,!,-, da's remarkable 



"DUecku, dcd< nple pictun- of don 



rarv vi-ror seems to have abated some- 

 what. on the whole, though much has still 



I' umark. An important hM.,rv of Denmark, 

 bv J. StM>trup. K. Holm. K 

 W. Mollerup, .!. A. Predericia, and A. D.Jorgenjen, 



is aN-.irin-. .lulius C! 



tian, Hertog nf Augiisti-nUirg (1705-1- 

 inonogransk Skildrin-": II. R 

 Berg: Kn dai.sk Polttikera Cdriklingshistorie, 

 182-'6~; V. D.ihlerup'H - D-t danske s 



i alrnenfatlelifc Fremstilling w ; I-' 

 J Rational Ume i. Halfdd 



Arhu Hatiwn's D.-n dan-ke Skue- 



pla/ls, Illustreret Theatiiriii-'-.ri. " i-,.mpM-.. 

 Aumont and K.Collin'n " Det danske National t 

 : - Fn-drrik Barf-1." all 



have a national interest. Hans Kaarsberg's " 



ribi-s th, Laplanders. II. 

 ,rly "Sja'le.lyriv \alur- 



In art criticism there are Karl Ma 

 .rniph on the Danish painii-r .1. Tli. Luii.lty 

 'a study of Florentine nrt and " lie- 

 UaiSs.M . i iislorie i Danmark." 



Not much uf value seems to have appeared in 

 bellen-litti in the matter of form a hiuh 



ion ha> I 



and B< i ! AuM's hi-1 



novel. " Liden Karstcii. l\.>n^ 



; ll.rman I ,ud\ ii:-bakke " 



the small thi; 



and human Uf( : Karl (Jjellerup's 

 ** Mollcii " (novel of country life, elaborate charac- 

 ter a: 1*1 ' I'den for Uan-kla>- 



iiha^'en life nml ] 



the humorous stories .t ^dorph (" 



i.rt " an-: nu") and G. \ 



humorous " Kuri<"'-e Hi>|..nrr fr.i lleks.-nes 



by Wol.lcmar (pseudonxi.n : "Den yderslc 1 

 ' 



by Johannes Jorp-iisen. 'the lirilliant poet, 

 of late years gone deeply into rdi^'i .lion ; 



Mine. Nlalil.la .Mailings Fremitap- Idyllni " 

 (i. loli/m_' i nesto Dalgas, a neu. 



Dtl " Kroniker." tale-, some collected, others 

 original, marked by re lined ta-te. though son,, 

 d. Lri 



colored. I 'v is supplied in " II in- 



. Italian pictures in good wen 



OttO C. Foims; the gifted Vollllg Helge 1,' 



nine of poems, showing serene \.-t intense feeling; 

 an I Aage-Matthi-on I Ian-en's " Stjernen 

 vi-cd and altered edition of Ilolger Drachin. 

 "Strandby Folk" has been produced. 



Franco. Again the Involution and the fir-t 

 empire. have furni-hed subjects for a number of 

 noteworthy book-: Cha' 



financier!-' de 1'As-emblee Coii-t it ualile " ; i 

 Welschinger's excellent "L'lli-toirc du Hoi de 

 Rome"; Count M unit's " L'Ili-i"in> de- Cam- 

 pagm-s du Ii'i Mura! en F-i 



de PAnneede C..nde." by Bitlard des Portes; " TJne 

 Famille vendceum- pemlant la grande Cm-riv : M.'- 

 moires ,le Bouteilhcr dc Saint -And re "; Col. de 

 Pontliriand's * Le- (iuerres de la Chouannn 

 Count ' okft'l memoirs on Napoleon'- 



in Poland; Baron du Bourgojn's M Sou venire Mill- 

 taires"; Manpii- de Malev ie's " Meinoire- d'un 



niTicicr aux (Jardes francaises, !>: ''.<>" (ezoeK 



leiitly edited 1, (, K'. berlii: the entertaining 

 "Memorial dc I.'de Norvin-" (-ocial history of the 



times); F. Maeton't M Napoleoo et la Famille' 



llelit guide through the Nap. .Icon 



lire of the la- 1 



" B..naparte -t Ib-el , uta- 



tioti of a decisive yean ; and 'l -di- 



tion of Napoleon'- "Lett re- inedites (All VIII 



." which had been unpublished hitherto as 

 likely to diminish the prestige of the em: 

 M. C. il'ArL'u/.on's book on II 



1. but to be taken nun f/nitio mi I in. Con- 

 tinued interest in tl:- second empire i- slu.wn in 

 Villefranche's impart ial " Histoire de Naj 

 III"; Lamy's " F-sai sur la Guerre de ! 

 (favorable portrait of Napo!-.,- : OeH, 



_- ' Memoir I " : the Maroiii- Phi- 

 lij'l'*- de Massa's "Souvenirs et Impre--. 



Irnbcrt rle Saint-A Napoleon 



. ' M.ri. m Montijo" (di-pa ionate and 



truthful) and ' III et -a Cour": and 



'j " Bibliographie gcm'rale de la (Jm-rr 

 7' " (compiled with rn.re diligence than 

 judgment). Recent hi-t-.ry i- told in I. /. 

 " L'Histoire dc la Troisieme R^pnbliqne" (an ex- 

 cellent, impartial summa . iliari'-e franco- 



." by Juli-s Han-en, a Dane by birth: Jules 



y's "Discours" (Vol. VI ; ; Count de Mun's 



