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of 1776 on Lake Champtain.' The illustrations to these articles assign the whole a very warlike look. A curious picture is furnished of ' The Police Con- trol of a Great Election.' Mr. T. R. Sullivan deals with ' Wilton Lockwood,' a portrait painter con- cerning whom Englishmen will have to know more than now they know, and reproduces some very fine portraits. ' A Book-lover s Wish ' is for a first edition of Herrick's ' Hesperides,' a legitimate and not an unrealizable aspiration. The author of ' Silverspot ' claims friendship with a crow. We maintain that he never reached even intimacy, nor, indeed, got beyond recognition. In Temple Bar Mr. Arthur G. Chater writes on 'Shakspere and Wagner,' indicating many points of resemblance. In Wagner he finds a man who at the time when, in the middle of the century, aesthetic thinkers in Germany were anticipating that " a future German Shakspeare would arise to found a greater art than that of Goethe and Schiller "was even then work- ing in their midst, to be rejected, as the Jews rejected their Messiah, because " He was not in conformity with their preconceived notions." Mr. Ralph Nevill gives a dramatic account of 'Jean Cavalier, Camisard Chief and English General,' the most distinguished of the insurgent chiefs of the Cevennes, the son of a peasant and the apprentice of a baker, who had an interview with Louis XIV., was the hero of the battle of Almanza, was Lieu- tenant-Governor of Jersey, and is buried in Chelsea Churchyard. His memoirs constitute attractive reading. Mr. Nevill imparts some romance to his early career. To the Gornhill the Rev. W. H. Fitchett sends a second of his ' Fights for the Flag,' dealing with Blake and the Dutchmen. 'Some Real Tiger Stories' are sufficiently startling and amusing. Under the title ' A Gay Cavalier Miss Eva Scott describes " wild George Goring," of un- savoury reputation. 'A Desert Dream is very impressive. ' The Brigands of Calabria,' ' My First Shipwreck,' and ' Concerning Breakfast ' are inter- esting portions of a capital number. Col. Jarrett continues in Macmillans ' Macaulay and Lucian,' a somewhat startling conjunction. A copy of the works of the great satirist, the most modern of ancient writers, which came into his hands having previously belonged to Macaulay, by whom it had been carefully read and underlined supplies the basis of the paper. It is a scholarly and readable con- tribution, though we are not so profoundly impressed as is the Colonel with the coincidences brought to light. ' Some Memories of a Prison Chaplain 'pre- sent prisoners in an unfamiliar light. Col. Sir G. S. Clarke deals with Mr. Hannay's ' Short History of the English Navy.' ' The French Invasion of Ire- land' is concluded. Mr. T. S. Omond contributes to the Gentleman's, under the title of 'English Prosody,' some valuable observations on English versification. ' The Story of a Famous Society ' describes the formation of the unfortunate Guild of Literature and Art. ' Up Stream ' may be read with interest. Mr. Strong's article in Longman's on 'The Kindest-Hearted of the Great' attracts much attention, supplying as it does the further fortunes of the characters in ' Vanity Fair ' as told by Thackeray to the sixth Duke of Devonshire. Tne same paper contains two unpublished letters of Dickens. The general contents are eminently read- able, and Mr. Lang is once more at his best. ' Monarchs at Home,' in the English Illustrated, depicts the life of the King and Queen of the Belgians. Some studies of the first Napoleon, under

the title ' The Great Adventurer,' are good in them- selves, and very agreeably illustrated. 'A Won- derful Woman of Merrie England' supplies an account of Lady Elizabeth Percy, who was thrice married before she was sixteen, and depicts the murder of Thomas Thynne in Pall Mall, 12 Feb 1682. 'The Queen's Personal Interest in India' is

jvioiiuyKe nas some nne illustrations. Chapman s, which reaches us late, has a translation of Tolstoi's rather severe ' Guy de Maupassant and the Art of Fiction.'

A REPUBLICATION of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, to be completed in fifty-three sixpenny weekly parts, has begun, and is to be entitled " The Diamond Jubilee Edition." Each part contains about ninety pages, strikingly and profusely illus- trated. Each subscriber is entitled to a plate, 30 in. by 24 in., at a purely nominal sum, of the Thanks- giving Service at St. Paul's on 22 June, 1897. In this plate previous marvels in the way of cheapness are eclipsed. Cassell's Gazetteer, Part LIII ex- tends from Styal to Tealby. Its most important articles are on Sunderland, Swansea, Tamworth, and Taunton. It has views of Taplow, the Tay Bridge, the Crystal Palace (under Sydenham), and many other spots, picturesque or noted.

MESSRS. SAMPSON Low & Co. write: "We are preparing to publish, early in the spring, Vol. V. of the ' English Catalogue of Books,' 189071897. As we wish to make it as complete as possible, may we ask those of your readers who have published books between 1 January, 1890, and 31 December, 1897, for the full titles, sizes, prices, month and year of pub- lication, and author s and publisher's names, to be sent as soon as possible, addressed to Editor, ' English Catalogue of Books,' St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, London?"

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