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were, "The Forest Lovers," by Maurice Hewlett, 

 "The Life of Shakespeare," by Sidney Lee, and 

 " Tales of Unrest," by Joseph Conrad. 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1898. 

 The following annotated lists include, as always, 

 works of momentary as well as permanent interest, 

 the aim being to make the literary record broad in 

 purpose though limited in space. 



Belgium. Interesting contributions to national 

 history are " Etude sur la Propriete fonciere dans 

 les Villesdu Moyen Age en Plandre,"by Guillaume 

 des Marez; " Les Tributaires ou Serfs d'Eglise en 

 Belgique au Moyen Age," by L. Vanderkindere ; 

 dissertations by H. van Houtte and V. Desprez on 

 the history of Flanders in the Middle Ages; a col- 

 lection of " Bans de Police de la Ville de Mons " in 

 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, by L. De- 

 villers ; Dom Ursmer Berliere's " Melanges d'His- 

 toire Benedictine " : a book by Aug. Thys on the 



Ersecution of the Belgian clergy by the Directory ; 

 van Caenegem's "La Guerre des Paysans (1798- 

 '9) " ; a work on the population of the large Belgian 

 towns in the nineteenth century by Maurice 

 Heins; revelations concerning Andre Vesale and 

 his family by the late A.'WauterS; and E. Gos- 

 sart's curmus studies on Charles V. Pierre Van- 

 der Beke's '"Carte de Flandre de 1538" (extant in 

 one copy) has been republished, with notes, by F. 

 van Ortroy. " Le Voyage de Francois Vinchant en 

 France et en Italic (1609-'10)," by Felix Hachez, 

 makes accessible the notes of an early traveler. Le 

 Comte Goblet d'Alviella has a learned and impor- 

 tant treatise on " Ce que 1'Inde doit a la Grece," 

 while Leon Leclere offers a good " Histoire contem- 

 poraine " (1789-1897). The section " Travels " in- 

 cludes ^Jules Leclercq's interesting " Un Sejour 

 dans Tile de Java " ; D. Siffert's book on South 

 Africa; A. Poskin's "Afrique Equatoriale " and 

 Marie Godelieve's charming " Six Ans au Congo," 

 both on the Belgian Congo ; and the books by F. 

 Wodon and A. Berthet on Mexico and G. Kaiser 

 and J. Bernard de Fauconval on Canada. Note- 

 worthy bibliographical works are L. Gilliodts Van 

 Severen's " L'CEuvre de Jean Brito, Prototypo- 

 graphe Brugeois" (Brito once again credited with 

 the invention of printing) ; a work on Belgian 

 printers abroad, by Paul Bergmans ;'a history of 

 two centuries of periodicals and pamphlets at Lou- 

 vain, by A. Berrewaerts; 0. Colson's history of 

 "L'Almanach de Matthieu Laensbergh et 1'Alma- 

 nach des Bergers " ; and Victor Chauvin's " Biblio- 

 graphie Arabe " (Part II). Sociological works of 

 value are Emile Waxweiler's " La Participation des 

 Ouvriers aux Benefices " ; " Le Travail de Nuit des 

 Ouvrieres de 1'Industrie dans les Pays etrangers," 

 by Maurice Ansiaux ; A. Carlier's " La Belgique 

 dentelliere " ; " Le Socialisme en Belgique," by J. 

 Destree and E. Vander Velde ; P. Verhaegen's " So- 

 cialistes anglais"; Henri de Kerchove d'Exaerde's 

 " De 1'Enseignement obligatoire en Allemagne " ; 

 and Louis Frank's "La Femme Avocat" (an "elo- 

 quent and well-documented piece of pleading"). 

 Godefroid Kurth's ' La Frontiere linguistique en 

 Belgique et dans le Nord de la France" is an im- 

 portant work on " the fluctuations of French and 

 Flemish." Fine arts are treated in D. Joseph's 

 ' Histoire de la Peinture de la Renaissance 1 * itali- 

 enne " ; Lucien Solvay's monograph on the land- 

 scape painter Theodore Verstraete ; Maurice Kuife- 

 rath's study of Wagner's " Meistersinger " ; Georges 

 Eekhoud's " Peter Benoit, sa Vie et ses CEuvres " ; J. 

 G. Freson's ' La Vie et 1'Art en Autriche-Hongrie " 

 ("some curious views upon the musical move- 

 ment "). In literary criticism there are Leon Mallin- 

 ger's " Medee " (" interesting study of comparative 

 literature ") ; Father H. Nimal's book on mediaeval 

 authors ; Ch. Sarolea's " Essays in Philosophy and 



Literature"; E. Cattier's "Le Naturalisme littc- 

 raire " : a work by Deschamps, Godenne, Legrand, 

 and Thiery on De Monge, Mgr. Cartuyvels, Van 

 Tricht, Kurth, and other Belgian Kotnan Catholic 

 litterateurs ; and a volume by Fra^ois Carez on 

 'Verlaine, France, and other contemporary authors. 

 Noteworthy prose fiction includes Arnold Coffin's 

 " Helene " ; Eugene de Molder's " Sous la Robe " 

 ("impressions of the Palais de Justice"); Franz 

 Mahutte's "Le Caprice des Heures"; J. Chot's 

 " Legendes et Nouvelles de rEntre-Sambre et 

 Meuse"; and Paul Leclercq's "L'Etoile rouge." 

 Poetry of note is found in " La Cithare," by Valere 

 Gille; Iwan Gilkin's "La Nuit"; and Charles van 

 Lerberghe's " Entrevisions." 



Flemish works on national history include popu- 

 lar books on the " Guerre des Paysans," by Osw. 

 Robijns, Pattijn, and Opdebeeck; A. Vermast's 

 "Generaal Vander Meersch"; a biography of Mgr. 

 Seghers (head of the Roman Catholic missions of 

 Alaska), by Maurice de Baets; Paul Fredericq's 

 " Geschiedenis der Inquisitie in de Nederlanden " 

 (Vol. II) ; and " Toponymische Studie over de oude 

 en nieuwere Plaatsnameu der Gemente Bilsen," a 

 capital study by J. Cuvelier and C. Huysmaus. 

 Paul de Witte, a tailor, offers an original and im- 

 partial " Geschiedenis van Vooruit " (the socialist 

 club of Ghent). F. Vanden Weghe studies the 

 transformations in the teaching of Flemish in Bel- 

 gium since 1830 ; Emiel Vliebergh explains the laws 

 on the official use of the national languages in 

 Switzerland. (The Flemish language has been rec- 

 ognized as an official one, and laws are now passed 

 in both French and Flemish, and so printed.) K. 

 Deflou and E. Gailliard have printed a third report 

 on their search for mediaeval Flemish manuscripts 

 in England. H. Claeys delivered two discourses 

 commending the poet Ledeganck and the philolo- 

 gist David, " two of the founders of the school of 

 Flemish literature after the Belgian revolution of 

 1830." Beside "prose volumes of a clerical tend- 

 ency" by Mile. E. Belpaire, Em. de Graye. -and A. 

 Stevens, four works of true originality are noted : 

 Emmanuel de Bom's " Wrakken " ; Maurits Sabbe's 

 "Aan'tMinne water "(clever sketch of life in Bruges); 

 Virginie Loveling's " Madeleine " (" fine study of a 

 very complex female temper"); and "Schoppen- 

 boer " (a record of the crime and shame of brutal- 

 ized Flemish peasants), by Cyriel Buysse, the 

 " Flemish Zola. Poetry of note includes Pol de 

 Mont's archaic "Van Jezus"; 1'Abbe Guido Ge- 

 zelle's " Rijmsnoer om en om het Jaar " (in the west 

 Flemish dialect) ; Theo. Coopman's " Kinderlust " 

 (poetry for children) ; Jan Bouchery's " Gedichten 

 en Gezangen " (unequal in merit) ; a new volume by 

 Miss Hilda Ram ; and the debuts of R. de Cneudt, 

 Van Hanswijck, Reinaard, Anemona,and Van Haute. 

 Among the mass of dramatic productions are three 

 of decided originality : " Koning Hagen," by Hui- 

 bert Melis ; " De Bruid van Quinten Metsys," by 

 Hendrik de Marez ; and Alfred Hegenscheidt's 

 ' Starkadd." J. W. Muller and L. Scliarpe issue 

 the unpublished plays of Cornelius Everaert, a 

 dramatist of the sixteenth century of Bruges. 



A curious phenomenon is the movement of the 

 German - speaking element (about 50,000). The 

 "Deutsche Verein," founded 1892 (President, G. 

 Kurth), established free German libraries, supported 

 two German papers, and published an interesting 

 volume on " Das deutsche Belgien." Works by in- 

 dividual authors are H. Bischoff's " Ludwig Tieck 

 als Dramaturg" and the valuable ' Die Kritik in 

 der englischen Literatur des XVII. und XVIII. 

 Jahrhunderts," by Paul Hamelius (Leipsic). 



Bohemia. New historical works are Lacina's 

 "General Chronicle." and Kosina's "History of the 

 World." I. J. Vraz has written an interesting ac- 



