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Rachel, from Jane Helen Findlater ; Pabo, the 

 Priest, from S. Baring-Gould; The Dominion of 

 Dreams, from Fiona Macleod; A Rogue's Con- 

 science, from David Christopher Murray; Hagar 

 of the Pawn Shop, from Fergus W. Hume ; Daugh- 

 ters of Babylon, from Wilson Barrett and Robert 

 S. Hichens, working in collaboration; and The 

 Slave, from the last-named author on his own 

 account. Dracula was by Bram Stoker; Love 

 made Manifest and Dr. Nikola's Experiment, by 

 Guy Boothby; and Ernest W. Hornung sent out 

 The Amateur Cracksman and Dead Men tell no 

 Tales. The Individualist suggests W. H. Mallock. 

 J. Maclaren Cobban was responsible for Pursued 

 by the Law and The Angel of the Covenant, as 

 W. Pett Ridge was for A Son of the State and 

 Walter Raymond for Two Men o' Mendip and 

 No Soul above Money. Swallow, a Tale of the 

 Great Trek, was the latest from H. Rider Hag- 

 gard; Mrs. Annie French Hector, as Mrs. Alex- 

 ander, made us acquainted with Brown, V. C., 

 and The Step-Mother of a most exalted type; 

 while John Strange Winter (Mrs. H. E. V. Stan- 

 nard) gave us A Name to Conjure With and 

 Heart and Sword, and Rhoda Broughton, The 

 Game and the Candle. A Girl of Grit, by Arthur 

 Griffiths, was a story of the intelligence depart- 

 ment, and The Hooligan Nights were spent by 

 Clarence Rook with a young criminal. Mrs. Flor- 

 ence Alice Price James (Florence Warden) sent 

 out no less that three books, The House in the 

 Hills, Joan the Curate, and Love that Lasts; 

 George Bernard Shaw selected Cashel Byron's 

 Profession; Rob and Kit came from the author 

 of Miss Tuosey's Mission; and from Charlotte 

 M. Yonge we had The Herd Boy and his Hermit. 

 Stalky & Co., by Rudyard Kipling, gave rise to 

 much comment and criticism, inasmuch as the 

 pictures it presents of English military school 

 life and character open deeper problems. An- 

 other book of more human interest was The 

 Human Boy, by Eden Phillpotts, and from Q we 

 had a study of boyhood, entitled The Ship of 

 Stars. A new Haworth Edition of the Life and 

 Works of the Sisters Bronte was begun during 

 the year, the introductions to the works being 

 written by Mrs. Humphry Ward, and the intro- 

 duction and notes to Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Char- 

 lotte Bronte by Clement K. Shorter. Gerald 

 Fitzgerald, by Charles Lever, was published in 

 book form for the first time during the year, 

 having been rescued from an old magazine. Aus- 

 tin Dobson contributed an introduction to an edi- 

 tion of Charles Reade's Peg Woffington, illus- 

 trated by Hugh Thomson. 



Fine Arts. Two superb volumes contained 

 Architecture of the Renaissance in England, illus- 

 trated by a series of views and details from build- 

 ings erected between the years 1560-1635, with 

 historical and critical text, by J. Alfred Gotch 

 and W. Talbot Brown. Another magnificent work 

 was Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Me- 

 morial of his Life and Art, by H. C. Marillier; 

 The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, their asso- 

 ciations and successors, were the subject of Percy 

 H. Bate, as British Contemporary Artists were 

 of Cosmo Monkhouse; A. Whitman commemo- 

 rated The Masters of Mezzotint; and J. J. Fos- 

 ter, British Miniature Painters and their Works. 

 D. Croal Thomson edited Fifty Years of Art, 

 1849-1899; Pictures in the National Gallery, 

 London, with descriptive and critical notes by 

 C. L. Eastlake, was completed, and with its origi- 

 nal design for the cover by Walter Crane and 

 its elegant typography was said to be unsur- 

 passed among works of the sort published in 

 England. A History of French Art, 1100-1899, 



was written by Rose Kingsley, and French Paint- 

 ers of the XV111 Century wore the theme of Lady 

 Dilke. Ashton Rollins Willard was the author 

 of a History of Modern Italian Art; Andrea del 

 Sarto, by H. Guiness, and Bernardino Luini, by 

 George C. Williamson, were added to the series 

 of Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture; Rep- 

 resentative Painters of the Nineteenth Century 

 came from Mrs. Nancy M. Bell (N. D'Anvers) ; 

 Max Rooses edited Dutch Painters of the Nine- 

 teenth Century; and Parts III and IV were sent 

 out of Masterpieces of Dutch Art in English Col- 

 lections. No. IV also appeared of The Annual 

 of the British School a-t Athens, covering the ses- 

 sion 1897-'98. A. C. R. Carter compiled The 

 Year's Art, 1899. John Ruskin's Lectures on 

 Landscape delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871, 

 were made into a handsome and copiously illus- 

 trated volume. The Cathedral Builders, by Lead- 

 er Scott, told the story of a great guild. Greek 

 Sculpture with Song and Story, by Albinia 

 W T herry, was intended to interest young people, 

 and from Clara Erskine Clement Waters we had 

 a volume on Saints in Art in the Art Lovers' 

 Series. Examples of Greek and Pompeian Decora- 

 tive Work were measured and drawn by James 

 Cromer Watt, H. Wallis illustrated his own work 

 on Persian Luster Vases, and from Marcus B. 

 Husih came the first adequate account for Eng- 

 lish readers of the Greek Terra-cotta Statuettes 

 discovered at Tanagra twenty-five years ago. 

 Worcester China, by R. W. Binns, the author of 

 A Century of Potting in the City of Worcester, 

 was an illustrated record of the work he has di- 

 rected for nearly half a century. George Mac- 

 donald sent out the first volume of a Catalogue 

 of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection, Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow, and a volume of the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Greek Coins, by Warwick 

 Wroth, covered Galatia, Cappadocia, Syria. An- 

 tiquities from the City of Benim and from Other 

 Parts of West Africa in the British Museum came 

 from Charles H. Read and Ormonde M. Dalton. 

 Modern Book Plates and their Designers were 

 the subject of a volume by the late Gleeson White, 

 and English Embroidered Bindings, by Cyril Dav- 

 enport, was the first of a series of monographs 

 on English books. Richard Glazier drew up A 

 Manual of Historic Ornament for the use of stu- 

 dents and craftsmen, and Montague Marks com- 

 piled and edited The Cyclopaedia of Home Arts; 

 Blackboard Drawing, by W. E. Sparkes, contained 

 hints on sketching natural forms; and a fac- 

 simile was made of Beautiful and Quaint Designs 

 in Leaden Glass, printed in 1615. Practical Hints 

 for the Protection and Preservation of Paintings 

 and Drawings were offered by Sir P. Burne-Jones. 

 Among handsome gift volumes may be mentioned 

 Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft 

 all Round the World, by R. T. Pritchett, marine 

 painter to the Royal Thames Yacht Club, with 

 more than 50 full-page illustrations from sketches ; 

 Sights and Scenes in Oxford City and Univer- 

 sity, by Thomas Whittaker, which had an intro- 

 duction by George Saintsbury; two volumes of 

 The Queen's Empire; Royal Academy Pictures, 

 1899; The Temple, London, a collection of 12 

 etchings by P. Thomas, with descriptive letter- 

 press by the master of the temple, Canon Ainger; 

 Twelve Portraits, by William Nicholson ; Dickens 

 and his Illustrators, by F. G. Kitton; The Early 

 Work of Aubrey Beardsley, with a prefatory 

 note by H. C. Marillier; Beatrice d'Este, Duchess 

 of Milan, by Julia Cartwright; Sandro Botticelli, 

 by H. P. Home; and Rembrandt, by Malcolm 

 Bell. Lithography and Lithographers, by Joseph 

 and Elizabeth Robins Pennell, was an exhaustive 



