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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1899. 



Saintsbury we had a similar study of Matthew 

 Arnold. Rudyard Kipling: An Attempt at Ap- 

 preciation, came from G. F. Monkshood (W. J. 

 Clarke), and Aubrey Beardsley was commemo- 

 rated by Arthur Symons. The tenth and conclud- 

 ing volume of the new edition of The Diary of Sam- 

 uel Pepys, by Henry B. Wheatley, was devoted to 

 Pepysiana. Oliver Cromwell and his Times, by 

 Godfrey Holden Pike: Cromwell as a Soldier, by 

 Lieut.-Col. T. S. Baldock, in the Wolseley Mili- 

 tary Series; Oliver Cromwell, by Samuel Rawson 

 Gardiner, superbly illustrated: and The Two Pro- 

 tectors, Oliver and Richard Cromwell, by Sir 

 Richard Tangye, owed their existence doubtless 

 to the fact that the tercentenary of the birth of 

 Cromwell occurred during the year; and from 

 Eva Scott we had Rupert, Prince Palatine, illus- 

 trated from contemporary portraits and engrav- 

 ings. The Life and Campaigns of Alexander Les- 

 lie. First Earl of Leven, by Charles Sanford Terry, 

 portrayed that Goliath of the Covenant, and A 

 Life o*f Richard Badiley, Vice Admiral of the 

 Fleet, was welcomed from Thomas Alfred Spald- 

 ing, recalling a forgotten hero. From Cromwell 

 to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers, was edited by 

 Spenser Wilkinson, with portraits and plans, and 

 had an introduction by Lord Roberts, and From 

 Howard to Nelson: Twelve Sailors, by John Knox 

 Jjaughton. Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery col- 

 laborated upon a volume devoted to The Naval 

 Pioneers of Australia and also upon Admiral 

 Phillip: The Founding of New South Wales, 

 in the Builders of Greater Britain Series; an- 

 other issue of which was Lord Clive : The Founda- 

 tion of British Rule in India, by Sir Alexander 

 John Arbuthnot. Sir John Cope and the Rebel- 

 lion of 1745 were handled by the late Gen. Sir 

 Robert Cadell, and W T alter Evelyn Manners gave 

 Some Account of the Military, Political, and So- 

 cial Life of the Right Hon. John Manners, Mar- 

 quis of Granby. The Life of Wellington, by Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell, in two volumes, recorded the 

 restoration of the martial power of Great Britain. 

 Nelson's Friendships, by the late Mrs. Hilda 

 Gamlin, author of Emma Lady Hamilton and 

 Romney and his Art, filled two volumes and con- 

 tained 60 illustrations. A British Rifleman was 

 the title given the journals and correspondence 

 of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, during 

 the Peninsular War and the campaign of Water- 

 loo, edited with an introduction by Willoughby 

 Verner, and A Boy in the Peninsular War re- 

 corded the services, adventures, and experiences 

 of Robert Blakeney, edited by Julian Sturgis. 

 To military biography belong 'also Lumsden of 

 the Guards, a sketch of the life of Lieut.-Gen. 

 Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden by his brother, Sir 

 Peter S. Lumsden, and George R. Elsmie; The 

 Life of Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, 1835-'81, in- 

 cluding services in Kaffraria, in China, in Ashan- 

 ti, in India, and in Natal, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wil- 

 liam F. Butler; and The Shervintons, Soldiers of 

 Fortune: Shervinton of Madagascar, Shervinton 

 of Salvador, and Tom Shervinton, N. N. C., by 

 their sister, Kathleen Shervinton. A Life of Ad- 

 miral Sir W T illiam Robert Mends, Late Director 

 of Transports, was written by his son, Bowen 

 Stilon Mends. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa, by 

 Charles Neufeld, describes his twelve years' cap- 

 tivity at Omdurman, with the terrible sufferings 

 endured, while he was the subject of misrepre- 

 sentation and slander in England. The Life of 

 Charles Sturt, Sometime Capt. 39th Foot and 

 Australian Explorer, was written by Mrs. Na- 

 pier George Sturt. The Log of a Sea Waif was 

 the title of Frank T. Bullen's recollections of the 

 first four years of his sea life. A memoir of Wil- 



liam F. Moulton, Late Head Master of the Leys 

 School, Cambridge, came from W. Fiddian Moul- 

 ton. Additions to the. Famous Scots Series in- 

 cluded Adam Smith, by Hector C. Macpherson; 

 James Hogg, by Sir G. Douglas, which included 

 notices of the poets Tannahill, Motherwell, and 

 Thorn; James Frederick Ferrier, by E. S. Hal- 

 dane; Andrew Melville, by William Morison; and 

 King Robert the Bruce, by A. F. Murison. The 

 Foreign Statesmen Series received two additions 

 Cavour, by Countess Evelyn Martinengo Cesares- 

 co, and Cosimo de' Medici, by K. Dorothea Ewart 

 and the Masters of Medicine were re-enforced 

 with Claude Bernard, by Sir Michael Foster, 

 M. D.; Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helm- 

 holtz, by John Gray McKendrick; and Disciples 

 of ^sculapius, by. the late Sir Benjamin Ward 

 Richardson. Michael Faraday: His Life and 

 Work, was the contribution of Silvanus P. Thomp- 

 son to the Century Science Series. Memoirs and 

 Correspondence of Lyon Playfair, First Lord 

 Playfair of St. Andrew's, was an important scien- 

 tific biography, for which we are indebted to Sir 

 Wemyss Reid; the Life and Letters of Sir Joseph 

 Prestwich were written and edited by his wife; 

 and The Life Story of Sir Charles Tulston Bright, 

 Civil Engineer, was told in two volumes by Ed- 

 ward B. and Charles Bright, brother and son 

 of the great pioneer in Atlantic cable laying. 

 William Harvey was the subject of an admirable 

 biography by D'Arcy Power, and George Harley: 

 The Life of a London Physician, was edited by 

 his daughter, Mrs. Alec Tweedie. Yet another 

 loving tribute was Dr. Southwood Smith: A 

 Retrospect, by his granddaughter, Mrs. C. L. 

 Lewes, which records his labors in the interest 

 of sanitary legislation for the poor. A History 

 of the Charities of William Jones at Monmouth 

 and Newland, by William Meyler Warlow, be- 

 longs to an earlier period. James Hack Tuke was 

 compiled by Sir Edward Fry. Vol. IV of The 

 Memoirs of the Verney Family, compiled from 

 the letters and illustrated by the portraits of 

 Claydon House, reached us from Margaret M. 

 Verney, and covered the period From the Restora- 

 tion to the Revolution, 1660-1696." Entertaining 

 Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe 

 Powys, 1756-1808, were edited by Emily J. Climen- 

 son, and Mrs. Ambrose Rathborne performed a 

 similar service for Letters from Lady Jane Coke 

 to her Friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758; 

 The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady 

 Stanley, edited by Jane II. Adeane, one of her 

 grandchildren, proved no less welcome than The 

 Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd; and from 

 A. M. Crawley-Boevey we had The " Perverse 

 Widow"; or, Memorials of the Boevey Family, 

 the " widow " in question being the one who re- 

 fused Sir Roger de Coverley. Lady Louisa Stu- 

 art: Selections from her Manuscripts, edited by 

 James Home, recalled a striking personality and 

 an interesting period. From Percy Fitzgerald we 

 had The Good Queen Charlotte and FlorizeFs 

 Folly, which last gave glimpses of the life of the 

 Prince Regent at Brighton and his connection 

 with Mrs. Fitzherbert; Famous Ladies of the 

 English Court were chronicled by. Mrs. Aubrey 

 Richardson; Thibaw's Queen was the subject of 

 a handsomely illustrated volume by H. Fielding; 

 The Story of the Princess des Ursins in Spain 

 (Camarera-Mayor) came from Constance Hill; 

 and Mary J. Hill commemorated Margaret of 

 Denmark. The Life of Madame De Longueville 

 (Anne Genevieve de Bourbon) was written by 

 Mrs. Alfred Cock, Danton was the subject of a 

 study by Hilaire Belloc, and from A. H. Beesly 

 we had A Life of Danton. Twelve Notable Good 



