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VIII of Italy and her Invaders, by Thomas Hodg- 

 kin, were issued, covering respectively 744-774, 

 Prankish Invasions, and 774-814, Frankish Em- 

 pire. A History of Italian Unity, in two vol- 

 umes, was by Bolton King, and from H. Remsen 

 Whitehouse we had The Collapse of the King- 

 dom of Naples. The Real French Revolutionist, 

 by Henry Jephson, pictured vividly the Vendean 

 uprising of 1793, and Napoleon's Invasion of Rus- 

 sia was the theme of Hereford B. George. In 

 the Story of the Nations Series we had China, 

 by Robert K. Douglas; Austria, by Sidney Whit- 

 man, working in collaboration with J. R. Mc- 

 Ilraith; and Modern Spain, 1788-1898, from the 

 pen of Major A. S. Hume. Finland and the Tsars, 

 1809-1899, came opportunely from Joseph R. 

 Fisher. A timely new edition was also made 

 of South Africa, written for the same series by 

 George McCall Theal, which was thoroughly re- 

 vised and brought up to date. In the Series of 

 Mediaeval Towns we had The Story of Rouen, by 

 Theodore Andrea Cook; The Story of Nurem- 

 berg, by Cecil Headlam; and Toledo: The Story 

 of an Old Spanish Capital, by Hannah Lynch. 

 The Historical Atlas of Modern Europe from the 

 Decline of the Roman Empire was edited by R. 

 Lane-Poole. The Commune of London, and Other 

 Studies, by J. H. Round, had a prefatory letter 

 by Sir Walter Besant; Records of the Borough 

 of Leicester, 1103-1327, were edited by Mary Bate- 

 son; The History of the Castle, Town, and Port 

 of Dover was written by S. P. H. Statham; to 

 Thomas Kemp we were indebted for The Black 

 Book of Warwick; Hawkshead had its history, 

 archaeology, etc., investigated by Henry Swain- 

 son Cowper; and Alexander George Reid in The 

 Annals of Auchterarder and Memorials of Strath- 

 earn contributed 22 curious papers dealing large- 

 ly with witchcraft and the two Jacobite rebel- 

 lions. G. Grant Robertson added All Souls' Col- 

 lege to the University of Oxford: College His- 

 tories, Annals of Westminster School came from 

 John Sargeaunt, and Annals of Shrewsbury 

 School were supplied by G. W. Fisher, late as- 

 sistant master. A History of Eton College, by 

 Lionel Gust, and A History of Winchester Col- 

 lege, by Arthur F. Leach, appeared in the series 

 of English Public Schools. A ninth series of 

 Cameos from English History, by Charlotte M. 

 Yonge, 40 in all, belonged to the eighteenth cen- 

 tury. 



Poetry. Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards, 

 a tragedy, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, was 

 marked by a new element of " resolute simplicity " 

 hitherto lacking to that author's work, and from 

 Stephen Phillips we had Paolo and Francesca, 

 also a tragedy, full of poetry, albeit lacking in 

 dramatic movement. John Oliver Hobbes pub- 

 lished Osbern and Ursyne, poetical in form, which 

 received favorable notice, and here as well as 

 anywhere may be mentioned Heather Field and 

 Maeve, prose plays, by Edward Martyn, much 

 controverted in the newspapers. New Poems were 

 added to the Collected Works of Robert Bridges; 

 Wessex Poems of Thomas Hardy were accom- 

 panied with other verses and adorned with 30 

 drawings and designs from his own pencils, both 

 new attempts at expression being decidedly un- 

 even in character; Gatan Absolved, entitled also 

 A Victorian Mystery, by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 

 was an effort at verse founded upon the phi- 

 losophy of Herbert Spencer, far from successful; 

 from which we turn to The Wind among the 

 Reeds, by W. B. Yeats; The Field Floridus, and 

 Other Poems, by Eugene Mason; The Alhambra, 

 and Other Poems, by F. B. Money-Coutts, and 

 The Silence of Love, by Edmond Holmes, a col- 



lection of Shakespearean sonnots. Points of View, 

 and Other 'Poems came from George Colmore 

 (Mrs. Georgina Dunn) ; Lyra Frivola, from A. D. 

 Godley; The Living Past, and Other Poems, from 

 Thomas Seton Jevons; Pastorals, from Miss 

 Elinor Sweetman; Fugitives, from Winifred 

 Lucas; and Poems, from A. B. Miall. Laurence 

 Binyon sent out a Second Book of London Vi- 

 sions, performing the difficult task of ideal i/ing 

 common things; The Vine Dresser, by Sturge 

 Moore, fell short of absolute excellence; Laurence 

 Housman led the way into The Little Land ; and 

 Edward Willmore heralded The Soul's Departure. 

 The City of the Soul was anonymous; Sir Edwin 

 Arnold translated The Gulistan, or Rose Garden, 

 of Sadi; W. Laird Clowes sent out Eclogues; 

 James Williams, Ventures in Verse; Rev. T. E. 

 Bridgett, Sonnets and Epigrams on Sacred Sub- 

 jects; F. A. Homfray, Idyls of Thought and Lyr- 

 ical Pieces; Robert Wilson, Laurel Leaves; and 

 E. and H. Lee Hamilton, Forest Notes. The 

 Island Race came from Henry Newbolt, the au- 

 thor of Admirals All, and In Cap and Bell from 

 Owen Seaman, who chronicled The Battle of the 

 Bays a few years ago. There yet remain for 

 mention Vagrant Verses, by Rosa Mulholland; 

 Selected Poems, Old and New, and Love Tri- 

 umphant, by Annie Matheson; In a Village, by 

 J. A. Bridges; Poems, by Oliver Orchard; Verses, 

 by Maud Holland; Ballads and Poems, by Mrs. 

 Clement Shorter; a third series of Interludes, by 

 Horace Smith; A Jester's Jingles, by Raymond 

 Coulson; Betwixt Two Seas, by Violet Fane; 

 Roses and Rue, by Alice Furlong; The Apostle 

 of the Ardennes, by Lady Lindsay; The Forest 

 Chapel, by Maxwell Gray (M. G. Tuttiett) ; Buch- 

 anan's The New Rome; and Ballads of Evo- 

 lution, by Herbert Thomas. Two volumes of 

 George Meredith's Poems were collected, contain- 

 ing for the most part his later work. Bertram 

 Dobell edited The City of Dreadful Night, and 

 Other Poems, of James Thompson (B. V.) ; A 

 Facsimile Reproduction of the Proofs and MSS. 

 of some of the Poems of Coleridge, edited by the 

 late J. Dykes Campbell, had a preface and notes 

 by W. Hale White; Prof. Edward Arber opened 

 his British Anthology with the first of the ten 

 volumes which will contain it; and Robert Ford 

 sent out Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland. 

 The Open Road was a little book for wayfarers 

 compiled by E. V. Lucas. Hamlet opened the 

 new edition of Shakespeare by Edward Dowden. 

 Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Science. 

 Vol. II of the four which will contain The Sci- 

 entific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, edited 

 by Prof. Sir Michael Foster and E. Ray Lankester, 

 was sent out near the close of the year, and a 

 new revised and enlarged edition of Herbert 

 Spencer's Principles of Biology was begun with 

 the issue of the first volume. Frederick Wollas- 

 ton Hutton published four lectures on Darwinism 

 and Lamarckism, Old and New; Lectures on the 

 Evolution of Plants were delivered by Douglas 

 Houghton Campbell; and Sir John Lubbock 

 wrote On Buds and Stipules. No. 51 of Vol. 

 VIII of the Annals of Botany was sent out, and 

 Edward Step contributed The Romance of Wild 

 Flowers to the Library of Natural History: Ro- 

 mance. An Elementary Text-book of Botany, by 

 Sydney H. Vines, contained 397 illustrations, and 

 The Making of a Daisy, Wheat out of Lilies, and 

 Other Studies in Plant Life and Evolution, by 

 Eleanor Hughes-Gibbs, was intended as a popular 

 introduction to botany; Flora of County Done- 

 gal, etc., were studied by Henry Chichester Hart; 

 and A Text-book of Plant Diseases caused by 

 Cryptogamic Parasites came from George Massee. 



