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his brother, Canon George Rawlinson, told at length 

 the story of his famous climb up the rock of Behis- 

 tun and the consequent revelation of a new science. 

 Two volumes of absorbing interest were devoted by 

 Lieut.-Col. G. F. R. Henderson to " Stonewall Jack- 

 son and the American Civil War," and Sir Charles 

 Alexander Gordon published " The Recollections of 

 Thirty-nine Years in the Army " of his country. 

 " A Prisoner of France " contained the reminiscen- 

 ces of the late Capt. Charles Boothby ; " A Middy's 

 Recollections, 1853-1860," came from Rear-Admi- 

 ral the Hon. Victor Montagu ; " The Life of Vice- 

 Admiral Lord Lyons," by Capt. S. Eardley-Wilmot, 

 R. N., gave an account of naval operations in the 

 Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, 1854-'5(5 ; Vice-Ad- 

 miral P. H. Colomb was the author of "Memoirs 

 of Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Astley Cooper Key," 

 and " Admiral Duncan " was commemorated by his 

 great-grandson, Earl Camperdown. "Nelson and 

 His Times " was the theme of Lord Charles Beres- 

 ford and Mr. II. W. Wilson. To contemporary bi- 

 ography belongs " Paul Kruger and His Times," by 

 Francis Reginald Statharn, and " Leo Tolstoy : The 

 * Grand Mujik," a study in personal evolution, by G. 

 H. Perris. " H. R. H. The Prince of Wales " ap- 

 peared anonymously and gave a complete account 

 of his career, including his birth, education, travels, 

 marriage, and home life, and philanthropic, social, 

 and political work. " Letters of Princess Eliza- 

 beth of England," an aunt of Queen Victoria, 

 written for the most part to Miss Louisa Swinburne, 

 were edited by that lady's great-nephew, Philip C. 

 Yorke. " The Two Duchesses, Georgiana, Duchess 

 of Devonshire, and Elizabeth, Duchess of Devon- 

 shire," was edited by Vere Foster ; " Memoirs of 

 Lady Russell and Lady Herbert, 1623-1723," were 

 compiled from original family documents by Lady 

 Stepney ; Lady Strachey edited " Memoirs of a 

 Highland Lady," the autobiography of Elizabeth 

 Grant, of Rothiemurclms, 1797-1830, and Lady 

 Newdigate-Newdegate, in "The Chevercls of Chev- 

 erel Manor," presented us with the originals of 

 " Mr. GilfiFs Love Story " as told by George 

 Eliot. Oscar Browning contributed lives re- 

 spectively of "P^ter the Great" and "Charles 

 XII of Sweden"; "Charles the Great" was the 

 subject of a monograph by Thomas Hodgkin ; 

 " The Great Lord Burghley " purported to be 

 a study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. 

 Hume, and " Charles I " was the theme of the last 

 \vork_of Sir John Skelton. "Henry of Guise and 

 Other Portraits" came from II. C. Macdowall. 

 From Archibald Forbes came " The Life of Na- 

 poleon the Third." "Michel de Montaigne," by 

 M. E. Lowndes, was a biographical study. Vol. 

 Ill of "Annals of a Publishing House: William 

 Blackwood and His Sons," was by Mrs. Gerard Por- 

 ter, and was devoted to her father, John Black- 

 wood. Henry F. Mackenzie Bell was the author 

 of a biographical and critical study of " Christina 

 Rossetti," and E. V. Lucas gave us " Charles Lamb 

 and the Lloyds." George Gissing made a critical 

 study of " Charles Dickens " for the " Victorian Era 

 Series," another issue of which was "John Bright," 

 by C. A. Vince. From Mrs. Anne Ritchie (his 

 daughter) we had the nearest approach we will 

 ever have to a biography of Thackeray in the shape 

 of biographical introductions to the edition of his 

 " Works " in thirteen volumes, inaugurated during 

 the year, nine of which were sent from the press. 

 The correspondence of " Robert Burns and Mrs. 

 Dunlop," now published in full for the first time, 

 with elucidations by William Wallace, filled two 

 volumes of great literary interest, and " The Life 

 of George Thomson, the Friend of Burns," was 

 written by J. Cuthbert Hadden. William Hale 

 White made " An Examination of the Charge of 

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Apostasy Against Wordsworth"; two volumes 

 contained the "Letters and Journals" of Lord 

 Byron, edited by Rowland E. Prothero in the new 

 edition of his " Works " ; while from D. Guido 

 Biagi we had the story of " The Sunset of Shelley " 

 told in all its sadness. Sidney Lee was the author 

 of " A Life of William Shakespeare," in which he 

 exploited a new theory with regard to the "Son- 

 nets." David Wilson, in " Mr. Froude and Thomas 

 Carlyle," contended that great injustice had been 

 done to the latter by the biography, which he nev- 

 ertheless considers Froude's greatest work. " The 

 Books of William Morris Described," by H. Buxton 

 Forman, contained biography in addition to bibli- 

 ography. " W. G. Wills, Dramatist and Painter," 

 came from Freeman Wills, and " Social Pictorial 

 Satire," by George Du Maurier, contained reminis- 

 cences and appreciations of English illustrators of 

 the past generation, and was, moreover, in part au- 

 tobiographical. " Robert Louis Stevenson " was 

 the theme of Margaret Moyes Black in the " Famous 

 Scots Series," and Miss E. Blantyre Simpson gave us 

 " Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh Days." In 

 the standard series there appeared fewer volumes 

 than usual. Among them we had "John and Se- 

 bastian Cabot : The Discovery of North America," 

 by C. Raymond Beazley ; " Edward Gibbon Wake- 

 field : The Colonization of South Australia and 

 New Zealand," by Richard Garnett, and "Sir 

 Thomas Maitland : The Mastery of the Mediter- 

 ranean," by Walter Frewen Lord, all in the ' Build- 

 ers of Greater Britain Series " ; " Sir James Young 

 Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870)," by Gordon 

 II. Laing ; "Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, ' by Tim- 

 othy Holmes, and " William Stokes. His Life and 

 Work, 1804-1878," by his son, William Stokes, in 

 the " Masters of Medicine Series " ; " Saladin and the 

 Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem." the sole con- 

 tribution to the " Heroes of the Nations Series," 

 which was from the pen of Stanley Lane Poole, and 

 "Mirabeau," the only addition to the "Foreign 

 Statesmen Series," by Paul Ferdinand Willert. In 

 the " Series of Famous Scots," "James Thomson " 

 was by William Bayne ; " Robert Fergusson," by 

 A. B. Grosart; " Mungo Park," by T. Banks Mac- 

 lachlan ; " William Dunbar," by Oliphant Smeaton ; 

 "Thomas Reid," by Alexander Campbell Fraser; 

 "Sir William Wallace," by A. F. Murison, and 

 " David Hume," by Henry Caldcrwood. " Pasteur," 

 by Percy Faraday Frankland and Mrs. Percy Far- 

 aday Frankland, appeared in the " Century Science 

 Series," and from Dr. J. Rutherford we had a history 

 of " William Moon, LL. D., and His Work for the 

 Blind." Two volumes contained "The Life and 

 Letters of Sir George Saville, Bart.. First Marquis 

 'of Halifax,'' with a new edition of his works, by 

 Miss II. C. Foxcroft ; " Brief Lives, Chiefly of Con- 

 temporaries," set down by John Aubrey," between 

 the years 1669-1696, were edited from the author's 

 MSS. by Andrew Clark, and from Claud Nugent 

 we had a " Memoir of Robert, Earl of Nugent." 

 W. A. S. Hewins edited with an introduction and 

 notes " The Whitefoord Papers," being the corre- 

 spondence and other manuscripts of Col. Charles 

 Whitefoord and Caleb Whitefoord, from 1739 to 

 1810, and Lady Gregory performed a similar serv- 

 ice for "Mr. "Gregory's Letter Box, 1813-1830." 

 "The Autobiography of Arthur Young" was ed- 

 ited by Miss M. Betham-Ed wards, with selections 

 from his correspondence. W. P. Jervis paid a cen- 

 tenary tribute to his father, " Thomas Best Jervis " ; 

 " A Memoir of Baron Brain well " came from Charles 

 Fairfield, and Augustine Birrell prepared a bio- 

 graphical sketch of "Sir Frank Loekwood." "My 

 Inner Life," by John Beattie Crozier, claimed to be 

 a chapter in personal evolution and an autobiog- 

 raphy ; " Old World Memories " came from Edward 



