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Modern Barbary Pirates were the subjects of a 

 handsome volume by Herbert Vivian. George 

 W. Steevens described the reception of Lord 

 Curzon as viceroy in his brilliant book In India; 

 Lucy E. Guiness went Across India at the Dawn 

 of the Twentieth Century; the same country is 

 the scene of Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks, by Isra- 

 fel ; a Second Series of Asiatic Studies, Religious 

 and Social, came from Sir Alfred C. Lyall ; Capt. 

 F. E. S. Adair spent A Summer in High Asia; 

 William Jameson Reid traveled Through Unex- 

 plored Asia; R. L. Jefferson took A New Ride 

 to Khiva on a bicycle; Hugh Clifford found him- 

 self In a Corner of Asia; and Sir Frank Athel- 

 stane Swettenham gave us pen pictures of The 

 Real Malay. Russia in Asia, by Alexis Krausse, 

 was at once a record and a study ; Isabella Mary 

 Phibbs paid A Visit to the Russians in Central 

 Asia: and Henry J. Pearson went Beyond Petsora 

 Eastward. The Philippines and Round About, 

 by Capt. G. J. Younghusband, and a second edi- 

 tion of The Philippine Islands, by John Fore- 

 man, revised and enlarged and brought down to 

 the present time, were of interest to Americans, 

 as was also The Caroline Islands, termed in sub- 

 title Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands, by 

 F. W. Christian. Intimate China, by Mrs. Archi- 

 bald Little, told of the Chinese as she saw them, 

 and from James Johnston we had China and its 

 Future in the Light of the Antecedents of the 

 Empire, its People, and their Institutions. Mrs. 

 J. F. Bishop visited The Yangtze Valley and Be- 

 yond. Stafford Ransome portrayed for us Japan 

 in Transition; Mrs. Hugh Fraser as A Diploma- 

 tist's Wife in Japan published two volumes of 

 letters beautifully illustrated and luxuriously 

 equipped; and The New Far East, by Arthur 

 Diosy, dealt with the same country. Margaret 

 Thomas, the author of A Scamper through Spain 

 and Tangier, made a record of Two Years in 

 Palestine and Syria. Spinifex and Sand, by David 

 W. Carnegie, was a narrative of five years' pio- 

 neering and exploration in western Australia; H. 

 Cayley Webster went Through New Guinea and 

 Other Cannibal Countries; and Tunafuti, by Mrs. 

 Edgeworth David, described three months on a 

 coral island, giving an unscientific account of a 

 scientific expedition. Tangweera, by C. Napier 

 Bell, pictured life and adventure among gentle 

 savages of Central America; The Highest Andes, 

 by Edward Arthur Fitz Gerald, was a record of 

 the first ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in 

 Argentina, and the explorations of the surround- 

 ing valleys, which contained chapters by Stuart 

 Vines and contributions by Prof. Bonney and 

 others. James Rodway, the author of In the 

 Guiana Forest, was at home In Guiana Wilds, 

 and W. Anderson Smith declared Temperate 

 Chile: A Progressive Spain. From Sea to Sea 

 was a record of travel, in two volumes, by Rud- 

 yard Kipling; William Archer volunteered ob- 

 servations and reflections on America To-day; 

 and T. C. Porter gave out Impressions of Amer- 

 ica. Grant Allen instanced the advantages to be 

 derived from The European Tour; Tighe Hopkins 

 was An Idler in Old France to good purpose; 

 David Storrar Meldrum was heard from upon 

 Holland and the Hollanders; Byzantine Constan- 

 tinople was the subject of a superb volume by 

 Alexander Van Millingen; The Annals of Mont 

 Blanc were written by C. E. Mathews; Francis 

 Gribble chronicled The Early Mountaineers. 

 Peaks and Pines was another Norway book, by 

 J. A. Lees. Two volumes of A Book of the West, 

 by S. Baring-Gould, were devoted respectively to 

 Devon and Cornwall; By Moor and Fell, by Halli- 

 well Sutcliffe, dealt with an unhackneyed corner 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1899. 



of Yorkshire; Shropshire was described by J. C. 

 Augustus Hare; Highways and Byways in Done- 

 gal and Antrim, by Stephen Gwynn, had illus- 

 trations by Hugh Thompson; Shakespeare's Coun- 

 try was added to the series of Little Guides; and 

 Emeralds chased in Gold were, of course, the 

 islands of the Forth, which had their story, an- 

 cient and modern, told by John Dickson. 



The following are the statistics of book pro- 

 duction in England in 1899, compared with those 

 of 1898, from the London Publishers' Circular: 



LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1899. 



While the annotations in these classified lists 

 are necessarily concise, they are intended to indi- 

 cate the minor as well as the greater movements 

 in literature. 



Belgium. Beginning with history, as is usual 

 in these annual reports, there are noted A. Gail- 

 lard's Histoire du Conseil de Brabant; J. La- 

 meere's Ordonnances de Charles V (Vol. II); 

 Baron J. de Chestret de Haneffe's fine La Maison 

 de La Marck (a bit of mediaeval history) ; a mono- 

 graph on Daniel de Borchgrave, first Secretary 

 of State of the United Provinces (1550-'90), by 

 one of his descendants; A. Hansay's La Forma- 

 tion et POrganisation du Domaine de 1'Abbaye 

 de Saint-Trond (a "curious study of economic 

 history ") ; Baron C. G. de Pelichy's interesting 

 L'Organisation du Travail dans les Ports Fla- 

 mands; and Henri Pirenne's history of Belgium 

 to the fourteenth century (a noteworthy suc- 

 cess), published in German as one of Lamprecht's 

 series before appearing in French. Vol. Ill of 

 Correspondance de Rubens has been issued by 

 Max Eooses and the late C. Ruelens, and F. Van- 

 der Haeghen is continuing his noted Bibliotheca 

 Belgica. Belgium's African interests are well dis- 

 cussed in F. Cattier's Droit et Administration du 

 Congo; L'fitat independant du Congo, by A. J. 

 Wauters; A. de Haulleville's Les Aptitudes colo- 

 nisatrices des Beiges ; and V. Collin's La Question 

 du Haut Nil au Point de Vue beige. E. Carton 

 de Wiart's Les grandes Compagnies coloniales 

 anglaises du XIX* Sicle and H. Martel's Les 

 Colonies anciennes et modernes et les grandes 

 Compagnies commerciales illustrate an interest- 

 ing subject. The charming Un S6jour a Patmos, 

 by J. Bidez and L. Parmentier, deals especially 

 with the life of Greek monks. Works on military 

 science include M. De Maere d'Aertrycke's history 

 of cavalry among the ancients, and Gen. Brial- 



