388 



LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1898. 



G. Tarbets, "The Journalist," by C. F. Keary, 

 "The Confessions of Stephen Whapshare," by 

 Emma Brooke, and "The World's Rough Hand,' 

 by H. Phelps Whitmarsh. " Tekla " was ajomance 

 of love ana war, by Robert Barr ; Rosa Nouchette 

 Carey told the story of "Mollie's Prince," and Rob- 

 ert S". Kitchens that of "The Londoners": literary 

 London was the theme of "Scribes and Pharisees," 

 by William Le Queux; "His Grace o' the Gunne" 

 and "The Minister's Conversion" came from I. 

 Hooper, and - Naniio," a pathetic Irish story, from 

 Rosa Mulholland. " The Nigger of the Narcissus " 

 was a tale of the sea, bv Joseph Conrad, who told 

 also "Tales of Unrest''; J. Marshall Mather, the 

 author of "At the Sign of the Wooden Shoon," gave 

 us " By Roaring Loom," a masterly description of 

 lift- among the Lancashire working classes ; "The 

 Scourge Stick." according to Mrs. Campbell Praed, 

 kept her heroine in the right path, while " The Cost 

 of her Pride." in another case, was calculated by 

 Mrs. Alexander (Mrs. Annie French Hector). "Sun- 

 light and Limelight " were contrasted by Francis 

 Gribble, and a survival of the sex novel was George 

 Paston's "A Writer of Books." " In High Places " 

 and " Rough Justice " were the ventures of Miss M. 

 E. Braddon in the world of fiction during the year; 

 Fergus Hume was thrilling as ever in his narration 

 <>f the adventures of the leader of "The Rainbow 

 Feather," while John Strange Winter (Mrs. II. E. 

 V. Stannard) elected to chronicle " The Peace- 

 makers." M. E. Francis (Mrs. M. E. Swcetman 

 Illundell) described " The Duenna of a Genius," and 

 "The Gunrunner." by Bertram Mitford, was a 

 story of South Africa and the Zulu war. "A States- 

 man's Chance " was shown by Joseph F. Charles, 

 and William Somerset Maugham described " The 

 .Making 'of a Saint." "The Romantic History of 

 Uobin Hood" was retold by Barry Pain. Among 

 volumes of short stories may be mentioned " To be 

 Read at Dusk, and Other Stories, Sketches, and Es- 

 says," by Charles Dickens, nearly fifty in all, dis- 

 covered by F. G. Kitton, which had hitherto escaped 

 the notice of bibliographers, and now first collected ; 

 "Afterwards, and Other Stories," by Ian Maclaren ; 

 " The Keeper of the Waters," by Morlcy Roberts ; 

 " From the East to the West," by Jane Barlow ; 

 " Weeping Ferry, and Other Stories," by Margaret 

 L. Woods; "Traits and Confidences," by Emily Law- 

 less ; " The Mess Deck," stories of the Royal Navy ; ' 

 " The Golficide, and Other Talcs of the Fair Green'," 

 by W. G. Van Tassel Sutphen ; " King of Circum- 

 stance," by Edwin Pugh ; and " Life is Life, and 

 Other Tales and Episodes," by Miss Gwendoline 

 Keats (Zack). The story of M 0wd Bob, the Grey 

 Dog of Kenmuir," by Alfred Ollivant, was a par- 

 ticularly pretty juvenile book. "To Arms," by 

 Andrew Halfour, was also suited to young readers, 

 and "Off to the Klondyke; or, A Cowboy's Rush to 

 the (})!< 1 Fi-lils," by William Gordon Stables, M. I)., 

 was illustrated by Charles Whymper. " The Ste- 

 venson Reader" was edited by Lloyd Osbourne. A 

 new edition of "The Works of Henry Fielding" 

 was begun, and the Thornton edition of 'the " Novels 

 of the Sisters Bronte"" was put through the press, 

 as well as a ten-volume edition of " The Novels of 

 Jane Austen." 



Fine Arts. Several works of remarkable excel- 

 lence are to be noted in 1898. " Modern Architec- 

 ture," a book for architects and the public, by II. 

 Heathcote Stat ham, criticised the leading modern 

 buildings of Europe and the United States, and 

 from the same author we had a review of " Archi- 

 tecture Among the Poets." "Gainsborough and 

 His Place in English Art " came to us from Walter 

 Armstrong and was superbly illustrated; "Me- 

 morials of an Eighteenth-Century Painter (James 

 Northcotc)," by Stephen Gwynn, and "George 



Morland, and the Evolution from Him of Some 

 Later Painters," by J. T. Nettleship, were special 

 studies, and from Algernon Graves came a mag- 

 nificent volume devoted to "Sir Joshua Reynolds." 

 Another was " Drawings and Studies in Pencil, 

 Chalk, and Other Materials," by the late Lord 

 Leighton, which had a preface by S. P. Cockerell, 

 and contained 40 facsimiles, mostly of the same 

 size as the original drawings. " The Pictures of 

 Armitage, R. A.," were considered anonymously ; 

 and A. Rischgitz published " Drawings of Con- 

 stable." The first of three parts of " Van Dyck's 

 Pictures at Windsor Castle," historically and crit- 

 ically described by Ernest Law, was issued, and 

 from the same author we had '^The Royal Gallery 

 of Hampton Court Illustrated " with 100 plates. 

 " A Florentine Picture Chronicle " was the title of 

 a series of 99 drawings by Maso Finiguerra, repro- 

 duced from the originals in the British Museum, 

 with a critical and descriptive text by Sidney Colvin, 

 and "In the National Gallery," by Cosmo Monk- 

 house, covered the Italian schools from the thir- 

 teenth to the sixteenth century, with illustrations, 

 while Claude Phillips contributed " Titian : A Study 

 of His Life and Work," and A. Letchford " A Scrips 

 of Seventy Illustrations to Capt. Sir R. F. Burton's 

 Arabian Nights," with a portrait of the explorer. 

 " Painters and their Works," a dictionary of great 

 artists, by R. N. James, filled three volumes. H. 

 Nisbet was an authority "On Painting in Water 

 Colors " ; " Japanese Illustrations," by E. F. Strange, 

 gave a history of wood cutting and color printing 

 in Japan, and " Etching, Engraving, and the Other 

 Methods of Printing Pictures " were treated by 

 Hans W. Singer and William Strang. " The Bases 

 of Design," by Walter Crane, contained 200 illus- 

 trations, and Waller J. Pearce was the author of an 

 exhaustive treatise on " Painting and Decorating." 

 " King Rene's Honeymoon Cabinet," by John P. 

 Seddon, reproduced the designs of the pre-Raphael- 

 ite painters for the decoration of this cabinet which 

 contained the architect's plans, and upon which a 

 theory regarding the unity and fellowship of the 

 several arts was worked out. " A History of the 

 Society of Dilettanti," compiled by L.Cust, was beau- 

 tifully illustrated ; a history and description of " The 

 Bayeux Tapestry " was written by Frank Rede Fowke 

 for the " Ex-Libris Series " ; and " Windows : A Book 

 about Stained and Painted Glass." by Lewis For- 

 man Day, contained 50 full-page plates and more 

 than 200 illustrations in the text, all of old ex- 

 amples. A series of " French Wood Carvings from 

 the National Museums " were selected for illustra- 

 tion and accompanied with descriptive text by 

 Eleanor Rowe, and " Old Furniture, English and 

 Foreign," was drawn and described by Alfred 

 Ernest Chancellor. "London Impressions" con- 

 sisted of etchings and pictures in photogravure by 

 William Hyde and essays by Alice Meynell. and 

 " London Types," drawn by William Nicholson, 

 were accompanied with quatorzains by W. E. Hen- 

 ley. "The Nature Poems of George Meredith" 

 were collected into a beautiful volume and illus- 

 trated with 20 full-page pictures by William Hyde ; 

 and Aubrey Beardsley was represented by "Six 

 Drawings illustrating Theophile Gautier's romance 

 ' Mademoiselle de Maupin.' '* and by "A Second Book 

 of Fifty Drawings." " Pictures of the Classic Greek 

 Landscape and Architecture," by John Fulleylove, 

 R. I., were accompanied with text by Henry W. 

 Nevinson. John H. Huddilston wrote on " Greek 

 Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings." and Dr. 

 Murray on " Greek Bronzes." " Examples of Greek 

 and Pompeian Decorative Work " were measured 

 and drawn by James Cromar Watt. Sir Richard 

 Temple gave us " A Bird's-Eye View of Picturesque 

 India," beautifully illustrated. " Our English Min- 



