440 



LITERATUEE, BRITISH, IN 1899. 



and Ireland, by Alice Bertha Gomme, was issued ; 

 Richard Blakeborough wrote of the Wit, Charac- 

 ter, Folklore, and Customs of the North Riding 

 of Yorkshire, incorporating a glossary of over 

 4 000 words and idioms now in use ; and Aradia ; 

 or, The Gospel of the Witches, came from Charles 

 Godfrey Leland (Hans Breitmann). A Summary 

 Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford, by Falconer Madan, reached 

 Vol. IV; F. G. Kenyon wrote on The Palaeogra- 

 phy of Greek Papyri: and Facsimiles of the Pa- 

 pyri of Hunefer, Anhai, etc., by E. A. Walhs 

 Budge, reproductions of four of the finest ex- 

 amples of the Book of the Dead, formed, with 

 his previous edition of The Papyrus of Ani in 

 1895, a series extending from 1500 B.C. to one 

 of the last centuries before our era. Our Na- 

 tional Education was the theme of Hon. E. Lyulph 

 Stanley, Richard Claverhouse Jebb delivered the 

 Romanes Lecture for 1899 upon Humanism in 

 Education, and H. T. Mark discussed Educational 

 Theories in England. Little Folks of Many Lands 

 were described, chiefly from personal observation, 

 by Mrs. Louise Jordan Miln, author of When 

 we were Strolling Players in the East. Vols. IV 

 and V were sent out of A New English Dictionary 

 on Historical Principles, edited by Dr. J. A. H. 

 Murray and H. Bradley, bringing the work down 

 to H-Hod. 



Fiction. The number of novels, tales, and 

 juvenile works sent from the British press dur- 

 ing the year reached a total of 1,825 new books 

 and 736 new editions. While few masterpieces 

 were recorded, yet novel writing was declared to 

 be in a tolerably healthy and vigorous condition. 

 Several books achieved a high degree of popu- 

 larity, notably A Double Thread, by Ellen Thorny- 

 croft Fowler, who last year scored such a suc- 

 cess with Concerning Isabel Carnaby. It ap- 

 peared toward the opening of the year, and was 

 followed by No. 5, John Street, the work of 

 Richard Whiteing, which made a decided furore. 

 Later he sent out also The Island; or, The Ad- 

 ventures of a Person of Quality. Notwithstand- 

 ing the South African agitation, Red Pottage, by 

 Mary Cholmondeley, sold at the rate of a hun- 

 dred copies or so a day. She had previously been 

 known as the author of Sir Charles Danvers, The 

 Danvers Jewels, and Diana Tempest. On Trial, 

 by Zack (Gwendoline Kears), was regarded by 

 some as the finest novel of the year; it consisted 

 of a collection of sketches of Devonshire life, 

 which was again portrayed in Children of the 

 Mist, by Eden Phillpotts, and 'Postle Farm, by 

 George Ford. Sir Walter Besant published but 

 one book, The Orange Girl; Young April, by 

 Egerton Castle, was warmly welcomed; The Co- 

 lossus of Morley Roberts was presumed to be 

 the Hon. Cecil Rhodes, and he also wrote A Son 

 of Empire. From Edward F. Benson we had 

 Mammon & Co. and The Capsina, the last a sequel 

 to The Vintage; Bernard Capes was heard from 

 in Our Lady of Darkness and At a Winter's Fire ; 

 Neil Munro published Gillian the Dreamer; John 

 Buchan, A Lost Lady of Old Years and Grey 

 Weather Moorland Tales of my Own People; 

 Hugh S. Scott (Henry Seton Merriman) located 

 his Prisoners and Captives amid the horrors of 

 Siberia; Beatrice Harraden failed to reach the 

 level of Ships that Pass in the Night with The 

 Fowler; Grant Allen apologized for what he 

 termed A Splendid Sin, and also narrated Miss 

 Cayley's Adventures; Benjamin Swift (W. R. 

 Paterson) did excellent work in Siren City, and 

 also published Dartnell; Maurice Hewlett enter- 

 tained with Little Novels of Italy; Alfred Edward 

 Woodley Mason, with Miranda of the Balcony 



and The Watchers, while in collaboration with 

 Andrew Lang he wrote also Parson Kelly, an his- 

 torical novel; Halliwell Sutcliffe, the author of 

 A Man of the Moors, offered Ricroft of Withens; 

 Hilda: A Tale of Calcutta and The Path of a 

 Star came from Mrs. Sara Jeannette Duncan 

 Cotes; and The Taming of the Jungle from C. W. 

 Doyle. Richard Le Gallienne wrote The Wor- 

 shiper of the Image and Young Lives; Mrs. 

 Emily Sharp Cameron (Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron), 

 A Man's Undoing, A Fair Fraud, and A Difficult 

 Matter; Love among the Lions, by F. Anstey (F. 

 Anstey Guthrie), chronicled a matrimonial ex- 

 perience; John Oxenham in Rising Fortunes gave 

 the story of a man's beginnings; while A Princess, 

 of Vascovy belonged to the realm of the imagina- 

 tion wholly, as did The King's Mirror, by An- 

 thony Hope; The Princess Xenia, by H. B. Mar- 

 riott Watson; A Dash for a Throne, by Arthur 

 W. Marchmont; and A Modern Mercenary, by 

 Mrs. K. and Hesketh Pritchard. The Passing of 

 Prince Rozan was a romance of the sea by John 

 Bickerdyke, from S. R. Keightley came Heron- 

 ford, and from Mrs. Katharine S. Macquoid A 

 Ward of the King. O. V. Caine published In 

 the Year of Waterloo; Allen Raine, the author 

 of Mifanwy and Torn Sails, By Berwin Banks; 

 Arthur Conan Doyle sent out but one book, A 

 Duet, with an Occasional Chorus; Mary L. Pen- 

 dered described Michael Rolf, Englishman; Dead 

 Oppressors was a strong story by Thomas Pinker- 

 ton, who also published Sun Beetles: A Comedy 

 of Nickname Land; while Tom Gallon wrote The 

 Idol of the Blind. William Clark Russell chroni- 

 cled A Voyage at Anchor and told a tale of two 

 tunnels in Captain Jackman. To London Town 

 showed us Arthur Morrison in an optimistic 

 mood. In Chimney Corners was the title of merry 

 tales of Irish folklore told by Seumas MacManus, 

 who contributed more of the love, lore, and laugh- 

 ter of old Ireland seen Through the Turf Smoke. 

 The Talking Thrush, and Other Tales from India, 

 were collected by W. Crooke and retold by W. 

 H. D. Rouse. They that Walk in Darkness con- 

 tained more ghetto stories by Israel Zangwill, 

 Mrs. Wilfrid Ward recorded the fate of One Poor 

 Scruple, and The Passion of Rosamund Keith 

 was portrayed by Martin J. Pritchard (Mrs. 

 Augustus Moore)." The Strange Story of Hester 

 Wynne as told by herself came to us through 

 George Colmore (Mrs. Georgina Dunn), and Anne 

 Mauleverer was the heroine of Mrs. Kathleen 

 CafFyn (Iota). The Custom of the Country wa 

 the title of tales of new Japan by Mrs. Hugh 

 Fraser, who also glorified The Splendid Porsenna. 

 Samuel Rutherford Crockett wrote the stirring 

 story of Black Douglas, as well as the simpler 

 adventures of Kit Kennedy, Country Boy, and 

 he also found an American heroine in lone March. 

 The Heiress of the Season was by Sir William 

 Magnay, Bart.: My Lady Frivol, by Rosa Nou- 

 chette Carey; The Two Standards, by William 

 Barry; Mrs. Bertha M. Croker gave a sketch of 

 The Real Lady Hilda and a story of Infatuation; 

 Cromwell's Own was a story of the great civil 

 war by Arthur Paterson; Defender of the Faith, 

 by Frank Mathew, contained three portraits after 

 Holbein; The Favor of Princes, by Mark Lee 

 Luther, belonged to the days of Louis XV; and 

 A Fight for the Green and Gold; or, Gerald Des- 

 mond, was a romantic dream of Irish liberty 

 by John J. Hagarty. Like another Helen, by 

 Sydney C. Grier, recalled the days of the Indian 

 Mutiny and the Black Hole of Calcutta. Crown of 

 Life came from George Robert Gissing; Well, After 

 All, from Frankfort Moore, the author of The 

 Jessamy Bride ; Giles Ingilby, from W. E. Norris ;. 



