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book of country verse by Katharine Tynan. " Ram- 

 polli : Growth from a Long-planted Root," consisted 

 of translations (mainly in verse), new and old, chiefly 

 from the German, along with an original poem, " A 

 Year's Diary of an Old Soul," one of the finest pieces 

 of spiritual writing from the author's pen. Laurence 

 Housman published "Spikenard: A Book of Devo- 

 tional Love Poems," Laurence Binyon, " Porphv- 

 rion, and Other Poems," Charles Camp Tarelli, 

 " Persephone, and Other Poems," and William Nor- 

 man Guthrie " A Booklet of Verse." Miss E. Nesbit 

 sent out " Songs of Love and Empire," M. C. Tyn- 

 dall, " Lays and Legends of England," A. Conan 

 Doyle was heard from in "Songs of Action." and 

 Rehnell Rodd in " Ballads of the Fleet," while G. 

 Stewart Bowles was responsible for " A Gun-Room 

 Ditty Box." " London Voluntaries " and other 

 poems of W. E. Henley were collected under the 

 title of " A Book of Verses " ; " Yggdrassil, and 

 Other Poems" came from John Campbell: " Shad- 

 ows and Fireflies " from Louis Barsac ; " Imagina- 

 tions in Verse " from G. T. Bridges ; " Pictures of 

 Travel, and Other Poems " from Mackenzie Bell ; 

 ' A Little English Portfolio " from Ada Iddings- 

 gate ; " Mallow and Asphodel " from R. C. Trevylan ; 

 " Nightshade and Poppies " from Dugald Moore ; 

 " Willow-Vale, and Other Poems " from Henry 

 Rose, and " Poems " from Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 

 " The Shadow of Love " passed over Margaret 

 Armour ; Newman Howard followed " Footsteps of 

 Proserpine " ; Alfred Gurney dreamt of " Love's 

 Fruition," and Richard Yate Sturges gave us " Song 

 and Thought," the proportion of the latter, however, 

 being very small. " Pan " was the title of a collec- 

 tion of lyrical poems by Rose Haig Thomas ; " The 

 Starless "Crown, and Other Poems " had only the 

 initials J. L. H. on its title-page; Temple Isewell 

 chronicled " Episodes of Joy " ; John Rickards 

 Mozley saw " A Vision of England," which he pub- 

 lished with other poems : H. M. Burnside entitled 

 his effusions " Driftwood " ; F. B. Money Coults 

 chronicled " The Revelation of St. Love the Divine." 

 " Nocturnes " were composed by Rev. W. Moore ; 

 B. J. M. Donne put " Colloquy and Song " into print ; 

 Russell Veitch discoursed of ''Willow Leaves"; 

 Addison M'Leod found poetry in " A Window in 

 Lincoln's Inn " ; " Terra Tenebrarum, Love's Jest- 

 Book and Other Verses," of William Knox Johnson 

 saw the light, as did " The Child of the Bond-woman, 

 and Other Verses," of Jean Carlyle Graham ; " Ian 

 and Edric " was a poem of our own day, by Don 

 Antonio Mirandola ; William Akerman gave a 

 dramatic version of the old legend of " Rip Van 

 Winkle," and Thomas Fergusson contributed " Wal- 

 ter Graeme, and Other Poems." " Cameos, and 

 Other Poems " were by Florence G. Attenborough 

 (Chrystabel), and " La'ys of lona," by S. J. Stone, 

 while " Life of Life " was by Arthur L. Salmon. A 

 new edition of W. S. Gilbert's " Bab Ballads " was 

 sent out ; " Selected Poems from the Works of the 

 Hon. Roden Noel " were accompanied with a bio- 

 graphical and critical essay by Percy Addleshaw ; 

 " Poems," by Innes Randolph, were compiled by his 

 son, Harold Randolph, from the original manu- 

 script ; and " The Poetry of Wilfrid Blunt " was 

 selected and arranged by W. E. Henley and George 

 Wyndham. A new, revised, and enlarged edition of 

 " The Works of Lord Byron," with illustrations, was 

 opened with his " Poetry," edited by Ernest Hartley 

 Coleridge ; Thomas Hutchinson edited " Lyrical 

 Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor 

 Coleridge, 1798," with certain poems of the same 

 year, adding an introduction and notes ; and Richard 

 Garnett edited "Original Poetry by Victor and Ca- 

 zire " (Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Shelley). 

 Wilfred Whitten compiled ' London in Song," and 

 " Lyra Nicotiana " were*edited by W. G. Hutchinson 



in the " Canterbury Poets Series." Canon Ainger 

 edited the " Poems of Thomas Hood " in two vol- 

 umes. " Versions From Haflz " was an essay in 

 Persian metre by Walter Leaf, and translations 

 of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" were made 

 by E. Heron-Allen and John Payne, respectively. 

 William M. Rossetti wrote an introduction to an 

 edition of " The Blessed Damozel," by Dante Gabriel 

 Rossetti. Two volumes contained the " Plays, 

 Pleasant and Unpleasant," by George Bernard 

 Shaw, and " The Embassador " was the title of a 

 comedy in four acts by Mrs. Mary Craigie (John 

 Oliver Hobbes). " The World at Auction " was any- 

 thing but a creditable production by Michael Field, 

 and " Godefroi and Yolande " was the title of a 

 mediaeval drama in one act, by Lawrence Irving. 



Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Science. 

 " The Wonderful Century " which is nearing its 

 close had its successes and failures reviewed by Al- 

 fred Russel Wallace. " The Scientific Memoirs of 

 Thomas Huxley " were edited by Professors Mi- 

 chael Foster and E. Ray Lankester ; " Recent Ad- 

 vances in Astronomy " were reviewed by A. H. Fison 

 in the " Victorian Era Series," and " The Tides 

 and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System " 

 were the subject of lectures delivered in 1897 at 

 the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., by 

 George Howard Darwin, the son of Charles Dar- 

 win. A volume on "Seismology " came from Prof. 

 John Milne, in the " International Science Series." 

 A new " Science Series," edited by F. McKeen Catteli 

 and F. E. Beddard, was opened with " The Study 

 of Man," by Dr. Alfred Cort Haddon, which was 

 followed by " The Groundwork of Science : A Study 

 of Epistemology," by St. George Mivart. Grant 

 Allen turned "Flashlights on Nature." " Organic 

 Evolution Cross-examined ; or, Some Suggestions 

 on the Great Secret of Biology," by the Duke of 

 Argyll, was accompanied with illustrations. " A 

 Sketch of the Natural History (Vertebrates) of the 

 British Islands," by F. G. Aflalo, the author of " A 

 Sketch of the Natural History of Australia," con- 

 tained numerous illustrations, and A. S. Woodward 

 prepared " Outlines of Vertebrate Paleontology 

 for Students of Zoology." Vol. I of the " Student's 

 Text-Book of Zoology," by Adam Sedgwick, cov- 

 ered " Protozoa to Chaetognatha " ; " Wild Traits 

 in Tame Animals," by Louis Robinson, consisted 

 of familiar studies in evolution, and from Sir 

 William H. Flower we had " Essays on Museums 

 and Other Subjects Connected with Natural His- 

 tory." " Deer of All Lands " were exhaustively 

 treated by Richard Lydekker in a handsomely il- 

 lustrated volume. A " Monograph of the Turd'idae, 

 or Family of Thrushes," by the late Henry Seebohm, 

 the author of " Siberia in Europe." " A History of 

 British Birds," etc., was completed after the author's 

 death and edited by Dr. E. Bowdler Sharpe, who 

 published himself Parts I, II, and III of " Teraco- 

 lus : A Monograph of the Genus." Charles Dixon 

 in " Lost and Vanishing Birds " gave a record of 

 some remarkable species and made a plea for some 

 threatened forms, which contained ten plates by C. 

 Whymper, and " Birds in London " were the theme 

 of W. H. Hudson. " The Flora of British India," 

 by Sir J. D. Hooker, was completed by the issue 

 of Vol. VII, and Part III of Vol. VII of "The 

 Flora of Tropical Africa " was issued, the work be- 

 gun by D. Oliver being continued by various bot- 

 anists, edited by W. T. Thiselton Dyer. The " Flora 

 Capensis," begun by W. H. Harvey and O. W. Son- 

 der, and also continued by various botanists, edited 

 by Mr. Dyer, reached Part I of Vol. VII, and Al- 

 fred Fryer published Parts I-III of "The Pota- 

 mogetoris (Pond Weeds) of the British Isles." Vol. 

 Ill also appeared of "An Illustrated Flora of 

 the Northern United States, Canada, and the Brit- 



