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Women of the Nineteenth Century were eulogized 

 by Rosa Nouchette Carey. The Romance of Lud- 

 wig II of Bavaria was the theme of Frances A. 

 Gerard. The Tragedy of Dreyfus was ably 

 handled by the late brilliant George W. Steevens, 

 and Trooper 3809, by Lionel Decle, has special 

 interest as tending to throw light on the methods 

 pursued in that famous or rather infamous case. 

 With Zola in England told the story of his exile, 

 and was from the pen of Ernest A. Vizetelly. 

 Haunts and Hobbies of an Indian Official, by 

 Mark Thornhill, supplemented his previous Ad- 

 ventures of a Magistrate in the Indian Mutiny, 

 and Sir Spenser St. John portrayed Rajah Brooke: 

 The Englishman as Ruler of an Eastern State, 

 in the series of Rulers of India, another issue of 

 which was Babar, by Stanley Lane-Poole. Things 

 I have seen in War were described by Irving 

 Montagu, the war corespondent. To James Still- 

 man we were indebted for a biography of Fran- 

 cesco Crispi, and James Headlam contributed 

 Bismarck to the Heroes of the Nations Series. 

 In religious biography we had The Life of Ed- 

 ward White Benson, sometime Bishop of Canter- 

 bury, by his son, Arthur Christopher Benson, 

 in two volumes ; Henry George Liddell, D. D. : A 

 Memoir, by Rev. Henry L. Thompson; A Preach- 

 er's Life, at once an autobiography and an album, 

 by Dr. Joseph Parker; Vols. II and III of The 

 Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, compiled 

 from his diary, letters, and records by his wife 

 and private secretary, covering the periods re- 

 spectively 1854-'60 and 1861-78; Robert Grosse- 

 teste, Bishop of Lincoln, a contribution to the 

 religious, political, and intellectual history of the 

 thirteenth century, by Francis Seymour Steven- 

 son; a Life of Bishop Latimer, by Rev. A. J. 

 Carlyle, in the series of English Religious Lead- 

 ers; Lives of the Elizabethan Bishops, by Rev. 

 F. 0. White; Fra Girolamo Savonarola, a bio- 

 graphical study based on contemporary docu- 

 ments, by Herbert Lucas, S. J. ; Charles Kingsley 

 and the Christian Social Movement, by Rev. 

 Charles W. Stubbs, Dean of Ely, in the Victorian 

 Era Series; George Miiller of Bristol and his 

 Witness .to a Prayer-hearing God, by Arthur Tap- 

 pan Pierson ; Bishop John Selwyn : A Memoir, by 

 Frederick Douglas How, the author of Bishop 

 Walsham How; and The Autobiography and 

 Diary of Samuel Davidson, D.D., edited by his 

 daughter. The Life and Remains of the Rev. 

 R. H. Quick were edited by F. Storr. Eden versus 

 Whistler, the Baronet and the Butterfly, styled 

 in subtitle A Valentine with a Verdict, was the 

 unique contribution of James McNeil Whistler. 

 Sir Arthur Sullivan had his life story, letters, and 

 reminiscences given to the public by Arthur Law- 

 rence. Frederick J. Crowest contributed a Life 

 of Beethoven to the Master Musician Series. 

 Vols. LVII to LX of the Dictionary of National 

 Biography, edited by Sidney Lee, brought the 

 work to Watson-Whewell. 



Essays. There was a considerable increase in 

 the number of new books falling under this de- 

 partment. From Mrs. Alice Meynell we had The 

 Spirit of Place, and Other Essays, which pre- 

 served the high tone and delicacy of her previous 

 volumes; A Paladin of Philanthropy and other 

 papers were by Austin Dobson, in which he gives 

 us more eighteenth-century vignettes; Essays in 

 Modernity, by the late Francis Adams; Essays, 

 by Wray Hunt; Appreciations and Addresses, de- 

 livered by Lord Rosebery and edited by Charles 

 Oeake ; The Etchingham Letters, by Sir Frederick 

 Pollock and Mrs. Charlotte Fuller-Maitland ; On 

 Books and Art, by Frederick Wedmore; Study 

 and Stage, by William Archer; More, from Max 



Beerbohm; Genius Loci, by Vernon Lee; the John- 

 son Club Papers, by various hands; The Back- 

 water of Life; or, Essays of a Literary Veteran, 

 by the late James Payn; The Decay of Sensi- 

 bility, and Other Essays and Sketches, by Stephen 

 Gwynn; The Human Interest, a study in incom- 

 patibility, by Violet Hunt; and The Art of Think- 

 ing, an earnest plea by T. Sharper Knowlson, 

 found interested readers, while from William Ed- 

 ward Hartpole Lecky came The Map of Life: 

 Conduct and Character. A History of Japanese 

 Literature was written by William G. Aston for 

 the Literatures of the World Series, another issue 

 of which was A History of Bohemian Literature, 

 by Count Francis Liitzow; A Literary History of 

 Ireland, from earliest times to the present day, 

 was added by Douglas Hyde to the Library of 

 Literary History; and Literary Ideals in Ireland 

 were studied by John Eglinton, W. B. Yeats, 

 and W. Larminie. Scottish Vernacular Literature 

 was the theme of T. F. Henderson, while The 

 Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century, 

 by Henry Grey Graham, filled two volumes. 

 Thomas Newbigging defended The Scottish Jaco- 

 bites. Three volumes contained the new edition 

 of A History of English Dramatic Literature to 

 the Death of Queen Anne, by Adolphus William 

 Ward ; The Augustan Ages, by Oliver Elton, and 

 The Fourteenth Century, by F. J. Snell, belonged 

 to the Periods of European Literature Series; 

 Prof. F. Max Miiller reviewed The Six Systems 

 of Indian Philosophy; and from A. W. Benn we 

 had The Philosophy of Greece considered in Re- 

 lation to the Character and History of its People. 

 Lewis Campbell contributed a sketch in outline 

 of Religion in Greek Literature, and from Andrew 

 Lang we had a new prose translation of The 

 Homeric Hymns, with essays, literary and mytho- 

 logical. Roman Festivals of the Period of the 

 Republic, by William Warde Fowler, was intended 

 as an introduction to the study of the religion 

 of the Romans. Rev. S. Law Wilson considered 

 The Theology of Modern Literature. Essays on 

 Robert Browning came from Marion Little; Ten- 

 nyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Esti- 

 mates from Frederic Harrison; and a second 

 series of Studies in Dante from E. Moore. Rev. 

 H. S. Bowden investigated The Religion of Shake- 

 speare, Roscoe Addison Small found interest in 

 The Stage Quarrel between Ben Jonson and the 

 So-called Poetasters, and David Irvine expounded 

 Parsifal and Wagner's Christianity. The Soli- 

 tary Summer came from the pen of the author 

 of Elizabeth and her German Garden, and More 

 Potpourri from a Surrey Garden was welcomed 

 from Mrs. C. W. Earle. Wild Life in Hampshire 

 Highlands was the theme of G. A. B. Dewar, 

 and Life and Nature at the English Lakes of 

 Rev. H. D. Rawnsley. Richard Garnett supplied 

 Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography, The 

 Romance of Book Collecting fascinated John Her- 

 bert Slater, and John Lawler made a study of 

 Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth 

 Century. R. H. Forster proved himself The Ama- 

 teur Antiquary. Famous Homes of Great Britain 

 and their Stories, edited by A. H. Malan, were 

 handsomely illustrated; Vol. II of Records of 

 Lincoln's Inn: Black Books, appeared, privately 

 printed, covering the period 1586-1660; Sarah 

 Wilson dwelt upon The Romance of our Ancient 

 Churches; The Municipal Parks, Gardens, and 

 Open Spaces of London had their history and 

 associations revived by J. J. Sexby; and from 

 A. E. Daniell we had London City Churches and 

 London Riverside Churches. Part I of the second 

 volume of a Dictionary of British Folklore, cov- 

 ering the traditional games of England, Scotland, 



