MARCH, 1896—AUGUST, 1896. . . . 172 308 458 67 . . . 176 552 . 554 . 168 . 368 556 176 457 AMONG THE LIBRARIES. 87 465 273 271 559 175 70 561 175 173 273 the Present Time, The, 272 177 175 272 560 69 174 370 367 462 176 88, 178, 275, 372, 469, 563 89, 180, 277, 374, 471, 564 American, English, Continental, 93, 183, 280, 377, 90, 180, 277, 374, 472, 565 88, 179, 276, 373, 470, 564 1, 97, 189, 286, 383, 481 420, 500 By H. S. May, eric Taber Cooper, Across an Ulster Bog, 457 459 Penny, A, 260 557 172 Cavaliers, The, 271 17' 170 457 172 67 270 171 307 172 557 455 Your Money or Your Life, 52, 150, 251, 344. 440, 527 After Sin. By Dorothea Lummis, 343 117 Macfie, 223 524 249 Cleaver Wilkinson, 459 . 529 46 . 536 256 266 360 351 258 . 227 446 538 358 156 160 55 398 356 Pansies. By Sara E. L. Case, 34 407 237 324 85 American Feeling toward England. ByH.T.Peck, 211 go, An (with Fac-similes of Autographs of 43 134 333 with Sketch of the Columbia University Li- Prof. H. T. Peck, and the Hon. A. S. Hewitt), · 224 Isabel F. Hapgood. Six Reproductions of Drawings by the Poet's 229 118 206 136 417 By Lilian Whiting, 520 rence Hutton, I. By Arthur Hornblow, of MSS. and Drawings). By Mrs. E. Lynn Linton, of Zola). By Émile Zola, H.C. Bunner, Macdonell, Richard Garnett, trait). By Hamilton W. Mabie, 207 313 Chambers, Women." By Annie Nathan Meyer, Zimmern, 342 Mrs. Browning's MS.). By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hornblow (with Fac-similes), First Paper, Illustrated. By W. L. Andrews,. 211 Second Paper, Illustrated. By W. L. Andrews, 329 216 Cooper, (with Portrait of Frances, daughter of Oliver RECENT EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, 73, 464 535 530 353 263 63 267 264 54 359 153 59 358 349 443 267 449 153 61 157 153 549 543 64 360 254 155 449 347 164 453 260 162 63 165 545 358 232 530 452 159 261 161 447 63 63 63 56 155 347 261 264 540 63 63 153 541 549 453 449 363 452 533 107 204 216 169 126 Char- 318 a 319 . 330 . 36 398 7 391 316 224 294 226 4 300 3 18 493 Brontë, Annie (from a Drawing by Charlotte 313 317 lotte), well Bronte), 317 33 Florence, 39 199 397 19 Title-page of a, 129 194 192 225 MS. of - Der Letzte Jude" (The Last Jew), 297 103 200, 383 315 by the Russian Censor at St. Petersburg, 294 30 226 295 419 291 Browning lived and died, 385 195 303, 308, 310, 427, 430, 436, 501, 503, 507 Landor, Fac-simile of Handwriting of, 6 517 394 485 387 484 Billings, 3 193 14 himself, nat where Charlotte Brontë studied, 296 15 295 in England in 1853), given to a friend a few weeks before her 489 105 passed by the Russian Censor at St. Petersburg, 26 387 293 batter with a spoon", 415 SOME CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME III. Meyer, Annie Nathan. Shorter, Clement K. Singleton, Esther. Nicoll, W. Robertson. Trent, W. P. Way, W. Irving. Roberts, Charles G. D. Whicher, George Meason. Whiting, Lilian. Scott, Duncan Campbell, Wright, Claire Le Franc. Woods, Katharine Pearson. A LITERARY JOURNAL. VOL. III. MARCH, 1896. No. 1. CHRONICLE AND COMMENT. Perhaps it is not generally known- world, which seem to have reached a clicertainly it cannot be known to the max in this last work of his, we think writer of an article in the January Black- irresistibly of a certain passage in Stewood, a rival novelist, by the way—that phen Crane's Lines, which might serve Mr. Thomas Hardy endeavoured to withdraw his novel of Jude the Obscure from Harper's Magazine, actually requesting that firm of publishers to cancel the contract. But it was found to be impracticable to do this. PAPERS MONTHLY NACAZINE THE AMAZINC MARRIAGE The source of the smart jeu de mots, “ The Amazing Hardy'' and" Meredith the Obscure," has been curiously cited, as if it were a creditable discovery, by some of our contemporaries with a solemn knowingness, which is rather amusing when he who reads may find it in the February number of the Pall Mall Magazine, under Mr. Zangwill's causerie, “Without Prejudice." The accompanying sketch, however, from the same column, excels Mr. Zangwill's pungent and acrid wit. It is intended as an illustration of the following comment on Jude the Obscure as it appeared in Harper's some purpose if pinned to the title-page Magazine. “Now that I have read Jude the Obscure," says the literary wag, “I “In the desert am all agog to read the Harper's ver I saw a creature, naked, bestial, sion. It should be the greatest 'curios Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, ity of literature' extant. How this And ate of it. book could be Bowdlerised and made I said, “Is it good, friend ? ' acceptable to the American mind passes It is bitter-bitter,' he answered : • But I like it my comprehension. ... To cut out Because it is bitter, ihe 'improper passages' and leave the And because it is my heart.'” story still coherent seems as difficult as to cut the pound of flesh from Antonio without spilling a drop of blood." Mrs. Oliphant's scathing review of Jude the Obscure in the Blackwood Maga zine having been so widely copied and When we remember all the bitterness commented upon, it is singular that no of Mr. Hardy's pessimism, his keen, re- notice has been taken of the mistake morseless sense of the ironies of life, contained in the following paragraph : the passionate insurgence of his heart There are children, as a matter of course ; a against Nature's injustice, and the re weird little imp, the son of Arabella, and two volt of his soul against this sad, mad babies of Susan's. In a moment of dreadful |