COLUMBIA LIBRARIES OFFSITE HEALTH SCIENCES STANDARD HX641 08090 R489.M1 9 H31 Sir Morell Mackenzie RECAP Columbia Untbersittp intljeCitpofi^elJjgork College of pijpgitiang anb ^urgeonsi Eef erente Hibrarp /t^%d^^ \^ SIR MORELL MACKENZIE PHYSICIAN AND OPERATOR H /IDemoir COMPILED AND EDITED FROM PRIVATE PAPERS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES BY The Rev H R HAWEIS MA AUTHOR OF "music AND MORALS " " MY MUSICAL LIFE " ETC LONDON W. H. ALLEN & CO. Limited 13 Waterloo Place 1893 Z2. - /7 <3 ^6 LONDON : PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTOV, LD. ST. JOHN'S HOUSE, CLERKENWBLL EGAD, E.G. 1^ w'^-vw^ W 3\ CONTENTS PAGE Prologue I. FAMILY TREE. St. Neots 13 II. SUEROUNDINGS. A Literary Circle Letter from T. B. Macaulay Aged Fourteen 19 21 2a III. BOYHOOD Early Kindness . Lessons and Games Boyhood at Wanstead Death of his Father Growth of Character 29 31 33 35 37 IV. A VOCATION. Voluntary Medical Study Medical Career entered upon London Hospital College The Laryngoscope Physician to the London Hospital The Brass- plate Period A 2 43 45 47 49 51 53 IV CONTENTS, V. THE THROAT HOSPITAL. Free Dispensary for Diseases of the Throat Doctor and Dispenser in one The Throat Hospital . . ■ . Attack on the Throat Hospital Withdrawal of the Hospital Sunday Grant Attempted Alienation of Subscribers Mackenzie's Resignation Arming for the Fight . The Report is not read . How the Requisition was signed The Committee of Inquiry . An Unforeseen Episode Senior Physician at Golden Square Samaritan Branch 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 YI. PRIVATE PRACTICE. " He did cure me " . 91 A Patient's Home Treatment . 93 Sympathy with his Patient . . 95 Testimonials of Gratitude . . 97 " A Q-ood and True Friend " . 99 Self-reliance and Perseverance . .101 The Emperor's Confidence . 103 Celebrated Confreres . 105 VII. LEISURE HOURS. Incident at the Theatre Life at Wargrave An Exhilarating Tonic . His Daily Routine Capacity for bearing Pain " One of my successes " 111 113 115 117 119 121 CONTENTS. VIII. THE EMPEROE. The Verdict of Posterity Intelligible Facts . . . German Surgeons in Council . First Operation Intimacy with the Royal Patient Virchow's Analysis Return to Potsdam Operation in London Danger Ahead Mismanagement . Announcement of Cancer Mackenzie given Sole Charge Five Months' Progress . Frederick's Journey to Berlin The Grerman Public , Visit to the Empress Augusta Life at Charlottenberg . The Empress' Consideration . The Emperor's Malady increases The Bergmann Incident "Von Bergmann's roughness" Bergmann's unsatisfactory Explanations Ley den and Senator The King of Sweden's Visit . The Emperor's Death . Mackenzie's Report The Autopsy German Comment 127 129 131 133 135 137 139 141 143 145 147 . 149 . 151 153 . 155 . 157 . 159 . 161 . 163 . 165 . 167 lations . 169 . 171 . 173 . 175 . 177 . 179 . 181 IX. THE GERMAN DOCTORS. Right, First and Last German Charges . Answer to Bergmann 187 189 191 VI CONTENTS. PAGE First Popular Charge 193 Second Popular Charge . 195 Suffering alleviated 197 Life prolonged ....... 199 No Operation without Positive Evidence 201 X. THE BOOK. A Stigma on his Book ....... 207 '' My Lips were sealed " . . . , 209 The Emperor Frederick's Opinion . . . . . 211 Leading a Forlorn Hope ...... 213 German Criticism 215 XI. THE RESPITE. Mackenzie leaves Charlottenberg , . 221 Rest at Venice . 223 The neglected Practice . 225 The Queen's Letter . 227 Ovation at Edinburgh . Welcome in Scotland . . 229 . 231 At the Philosophical Institution University Training Voyage to Teneriffe The Canary Islands Natives of Teneriffe . 233 . 285 . 237 . 239 . 241 Ready for fresh Work . Volunteer Interest . 243 . 245 A Lecturette . 247 Literary Activity . Inventive Ardour . . . . . 249 . 251 All-round Ability . . . . The Essay on Smoking . The Smoking Question . Two Evils of Tobacco . . 253 . 255 . 257 . 259 CONTENTS. Vll XII. THE LAST VOYAGE. On the CTiimhorazo Eellow-passengers « The Omnibus " Yacht PASB 265 267 271 XIII. LAST GLIMPSES. Back in Harley Street . . . 277 A Presentation . 279 The Toast of the Evening .... . 281 Lord Eandolph Churchill's Speech . 283 Mr. Henry Irving's Speech .... . 285 A Gift not a Testimonial .... . 287 XIY. THE END. Influenza in the 16th Century . . . , . 293 Superficial Improvement . . . . 295 A Kally .... . . 297 '* A Happy New Year" . 299 The last Days . . . 301 " It is no use " . . 303 The Memorial Service . . 305 Epilogue .... . 309 Appendix A . . . , 313 „ B .... . 317 „ C .... . 325 „ D . . . 335 „ E ... . 341 „ E ... . a49 „ G ... . 355 „ H .... . 361 „ I ... . 367 „ J .... . 373 Sm MORELL MACKENZIE. PHOLOGUE. The last scenes in tlie life of Sir Morell Mackenzie are naturally those whicli rise first in the recollection of all who are familiar with his name. There was something in that sustained and skilful vigil beside the dying Emperor which attracted world-wide attention and almost world-wide sympathy. The English physician had set himself to prolong to the utmost, if not to save, one of the most valuable lives in the civilized world, and in the process he also became personally devoted to his august patient, Frederick the Noble. It was a post of peril, anxiety, and severe trial, but it was also a labour of love. As a number of alternatives promising per- sonal safety or release passed before him, he B a PEOLOGUE. turned awaj from each, like Elaine from every offer of sordid compromise, saying : " Of all this will I nothing." There was in Mackenzie the stuff out of which heroes are made ; the singleness of aim, the concentration of purpose, the settled enthusiasm, the forgetfulness of self, the unconscious and unquestioning surrender of lower aims, and last, but not least, a quiet, unostentatious and tireless enthusiasm of humanity seldom seen and not always understood ; these were the qualities which made themselves felt at San Eemo and Berlin, and which attracted latterly so much public attention to Mackenzie's personality. Sir Morell came back from Berlin a broken man a month after the death of the Emperor. Soon afterwards I lunched with him in Harley Street. I was shocked at his appearance. His speech was slower, he was reticent and indis- posed to refer to the Emperor or the terrible time through which he had passed, just as great soldiers can seldom be got to describe sieges and battle-fields, or as Stanley declared there were scenes in his African travels of which he could not trust himself to speak until years had dimmed the terror of their details. Mackenzie's face seemed suddenly and com- PEOLOGUE. 3 pletely to have lost, for a time at least, its rest- less vivacity. It looked stiff and elongated and thin and haggard. He moved stiffly and more deliberately. His alertness seemed gone, and although a timely respite abroad, an ovation in Scotland, and a cruise in the Mediterranean, restored something of the old exuberant energy, and in the autumn of 1891 there seemed more than a flicker of his old self, yet between 1888 and 1892 he fell a prey to various diseases ; he was never, in fact, the same after that last terrible vigil of 1888 at Berlin. Nor did he find on his return to England the reception most calculated to soothe nerves tried almost beyond human powers of endurance. Instead of applause and admiration, he was met by the bitterest general criticism and the severest official censure. In spite of the largest fee ever received by a medical man — 12,000L — he found that he had suffered professionally. In his absence many of the specialists whom he had formed and aided had not been slow to absorb a number of his patients, and he returned •to a diminished clientele. This I have reason to know caused him some anxiety. Soon afterwards he consulted me about lecturing in America — he had been offered high B 2 4 PEOLOGUE. terms. I had had. some experience there myself and strongly advised him to go. However, that fell through. He was much pulled down in 1890 with a first attack of influenza, and on his partial recovery I was extremely anxious he should leave England and accompany me to Tangier. He would and would not. He seemed so keen upon picking up the lost threads of his practice. Patients who had been listening to other charmers discovered that, after all, there was but one Mackenzie, and they were flocking back to him. He was also in great request at Marlborough House, and in high favour gene- rally with our Eoyal personages, and therefore, of course, with the cream of the aristocracy. The tide had again turned, and Mackenzie was on the top of the wave. HI and worn, he could not tear himself from London. The London fogs of winter 1891 were setting in, and in November Mackenzie was again down with influenza. Soon after- wards I got ill myself. In December, not realizing how seriously affected he was, I wrote and told him my symptoms. He sent word back immediately, " My dear fellow, I would come and see you myself instantly, but I can't leave my bed, and if I did I could not get out of the PEOLOGUE. 5 house. Get out of London yourself as quickly as possible." It was the last message I ever got from my poor friend. Would he had taken his own advice. I left for the Riviera, eii route to Tangier. In February at Tangier I was unspeakably shocked, if not surprised, to open the Pall Mall Gazette of February 3rd, 1892, and read, — '' Death of Sie Moeell Mackenzie." So closed a friendship of thirty years' standing. On my return to England his family and executors approached me with a request that I would undertake some account of his life. I felt that mv love and admiration for the man con- stituted my only qualifications, or, as some people will perhaps sa}^, my greatest disqualifications. Those who saw most of Mackenzie saw little of him. I had been on his Hospital Committee as well as Chairman of the Throat Hospital Samaritan Society for many years ; but this brought me only into occasional contact with him. He was in the habit of consulting me whenever there was any difficulty. I Avas, on and off, a frequent guest at his house, god- fathered his eldest daughter and christened most of the other children. The family had been seatholders at St. James', Westmoreland Street, 6 PEOLOGUE. Marylebone, for more than twenty years. Cer- tainly I could not decline to arrange for publica- tion any records the family chose to put into my hands ; but those records were meagre to a degree. Mackenzie wrote few letters — very few indeed have come into my hands — ^though some correspondents have assured me that they possess interesting ones, which, for reasons best known to themselves, they refuse to allow me to see, intending, I believe, to publish them separately. A few relatives have drawn up a few memoranda; many correspondents have favoured me with accounts of Mackenzie's extraordinary skill and boundless generosity ; some doctors have contributed a few less flattering letters which, on the whole, it will hardly be necessary to publish ; here and there, from family report or intercourse with his friends, I have been able to recover glimpses of his professional life of toil and his spare moments of recreation ; I can fill out some details from personal knowledge or recollec- tion, and I can appeal to his own writings, his book ''Frederick the Noble "and several charming essays and addresses, the '' proofs " of which are before me. Such is mymoderate equipment. (Appendix A.) I have thought it right to submit the PEOLOGUE. 7 proof-sheets to a representative member of the family, and I have felt bound, both as regards what is said and what has been left unsaid, as far as possible to respect their wishes. I have, in fact, been an arranger of material placed at my disposal by the friends and family of Sir Morell. I have not thought it necessary to listen to or record mere gossip, sometimes very unfriendly, concerning much of which it may be said, — "Surely, after all, The noblest answer unto such Is kindly silence when they brawl." This Memoir, like Sir Morell's own book, " Frederick the Noble," is addressed to the general public, whom he served, and not to the profession, whose opinions and prejudices he so often — in my opinion needlessly— defied. I expect to make no medical conversions, but I wish to leave some picture of a very remark- able man, who certainly contrived to excite the extremes of hatred and love, leaving to his biographer the difficult task of striking a balance and doing some justice to his memory. Those who loved him will know how to value this tribute ; and those who loved him not are not obliged to read the book. I. FAMILY TEEE. I. FAMILY TREE. The great question of whether the '^Mackanzes" "Makainzes" or '' McKenzes " ^ (spelling in old times was notoriously a matter of taste) were descended from the ancient kings of Desmond in Ireland, or from some other inconceivably remote and probably ragged potentates, is a question which I feel myself quite unable to '' wrastle " with. I may also here add that the bloody struggles between the Makainzes who stuck to the Earl of Seaforth as head of the clan, the Makcanzes who stood by the Earl of Cromarty, and the Mc- Kenzes who acknowledged the Baron of Kintail, need not eno^ross the reader's attention. The favourite family motto which embalms the memory of a certain amount of '' peculation " in a very literal sense, smacking of the good old times and the old established plan, that he should ' Vide " Parochiales Scotia," vol. ii., p. 393. 12 FAMILY TEEE. take who has the power, and he should keep who can, is still often quoted by the Mackenzie family. It runs thus, and certainly betrays some lively doings of a sort, happily now no longer reputable. " As long as there are cows in Kintail there will he Mackenzies to lift them.^^ Out of the thirty-five families with their cows, whose varying fortunes are recorded in the History of the McKenzie clan, the MoKenzies OF ScATWELL alone need here be mentioned. They came from one Roderick McKenzie of Coigeach, and evidently acknowledged the Baron of Kintail as head of their clan, since Sir Roderick acted as tutor of Kintail, and was also cousin to his pupil's father, the first lord. In 1619, Sir Roderick's second son, Kenneth McKenzie, settled at Scatwell. His heir, another Kenneth McKenzie, was made a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1703. Sir Morell Macl^enzie, the subject of this memoir, is directly descended from Alexander, the second son of this Nova Scotia Baronet, Sir Roderick McKenzie, through Alexander's son, John Mac- kenzie, born 1751, whose son was another John Mackenzie, born 1783, who was the father of Stephen Mackenzie, born 1803, who married Miss Harvey, and became the father of the late distinguished physician, Morell Mackenzie. ST. NEOTS. 13 Exactly when the Mackenzies migrated from Scotland and took up their abode in England I have not been able to ascertain, but it is certain that the second John Mackenzie, Sir Morell's grandfather, after many years' ser- vice as a lighterman and wharfinger — having presumably feathered his nest — threw up busi- ness and settled at St. Neots in Huntingdon- shire. What his personal claims to attention may have been does not appear, but a certain family halo gathered round the head of the retired lighterman now in the enjoyment of otium cum dignitate, when it became known in St. Neots that his wife had been a Miss Symonds, daughter of a medical practitioner in Worcestershire. This lady boasted that she was co-descendant together with the Symons or Symeons of Pyrton, the heiress of which branch married the great John Hampden. The Mac- kenzies seem to have always been extremely proud of this patriotic connection, which cer- tainly proves that the clannish instinct undoubt- edly strong in the Scotch, has not in the least in- terfered with their hearty sympathy with British interests and traditions. When we remember how bitter the feeling still was between Hampden's English contemporaries and the Scotch, we cannot but be thankful that so complete an 14 FAMILY TREE. amalgamation of sentiments lias since taken place. Two of Morell Mackenzie's uncles made for themselves names. John Morell, a well-known ISTonconformist minister, was drowned at sea after a distinguished career at Glasgow Uni- versity, where he was the friend and contem- porary of Professor Swinton and Archbishop Tait. The other uncle was Charles, better known as Henry Compton, the well-known comedian and exponent of Shakespeare's clowns. When I have further mentioned that the present (Morell) Mackenzies claim kinship with Mr. James Addington Symonds, the critic, through John Mackenzie's wife, a Miss Symonds, as mentioned above, and with Sir Eowland Hill of Penny Postage fame, and Mr. James Daven- port Hill, Q.C., through a marriage between Mr. John Mackenzie's sister and Mr. James Hill, grandfather of the celebrated Secretary to the Post-office, I think I shall have done all that the most exacting reader can fairly require in the way of genealogy, besides setting at rest the ingenious speculations of certain imaginative German journalists who declared that he was not a Scotchman at all, but a Polish Jew, and that his real name was not " Morell Mackenzie," but " Moritz Marcovics." II. SUEEOUNDINGS, II. SURROUNDINGS. The father and mother of Morell Mackenzie were no ordinary medical man and his wife. Stephen Mackenzie (pere) was a man of great taste, various learning and much literary enthu- siasm. His wife Margaret {nee Harvey) was a woman of great liveliness and ability, a ready and entertaining talker — even as I recollect her in later life — a first-rate manager, a devout soul withal ; over-zealous at times that others should do their duty and profess correct opinions on all religious and social questions upon which she might happen to feel strongly herself ; a woman not to be talked over or talked down, with a ten- dency to have a finger in every pie ; whose ad- vice was often given unasked, and was not always acceptable, but generally worth listening to, even when it could not be taken. I remember well this Margaret Mackenzie, who died in 1877, a c 18 SUKEOUNDINGS. fresh-coloured, well-preserved old lady, with great powers of narrative and talk, not to say rattle, and always incisive and pointed, with a certain vivacity and empress ement, which attracted strangers, but occasionally wearied familiars. There was no doubt a certain want of repose about her, born of a life of bustle and anxiety, but she was a faithful and devoted mother and idolized Morell, who in turn worshipped her with a tenderness and practical liberality which knew no bounds up to the day of her death. As Morell's father and mother were excep- tional so also was the atmosphere and entourage into which he was born. The little village of Leytonstone, only six miles from London, and then quite " countryfied," was in the forties the favourite resort of hard- worked City men. They built villas and came out to breathe the fresh air, as Coleridge and Charles Lamb resorted to Hampstead, or as later on people flocked for the same purpose to Norwood and Sydenham before those exquisite woodlands became merely tributary towns to London. The names of that coterie of literary and scientific men whom Stephen Mackenzie delighted to gather round him, for social intercourse and literary recreation, from Saturday to Monday, out of the ferment of the great neighbouring A LITERARY CIRCLE. 19 Babylon, have unhappily not been preserved. The children were all very young when their father died. But it is certain from the first that they were accustomed to see men of refinement and culture and t ) hear good literary talk. It was indeed a grand period, 1837-51.-^ The star of Byron had not long set, and Shelley's voice still seemed to haunt the air. The rippling verses and the guitar of Moore still tickled the ears of the polite cognoscenti, Wordsworth had followed Southey as laureate, the influence of the lake school was still paramount — Walter Scott had not yet been pushed aside for Bulwer. People had be- gun to whisper strange praises of a young poet called Alfred Tennyson, Carlyle was fighting for ^ Moore . Southey Wordsworth Scott . Lord Lytton (Balwer) Tennyson Carlyle . Raskin . Dickens Thackeray Lock hart Shelley Byron . Macaulay Born Died 1779. 1852. 1774. 1843. 1770. 1850. 1771. 1833. 1805. 1873. 1810. 1892. 1795. 1881. 1819. • . . 1812. 1870. 18n. 1863. 1794. 1854 1792. 1822. 1788. 1824. 1800. 1859. 2 20 SUEROUNDINGS. a Public, Ruskin was beginning to get abused bj the architects, Dickens was lounging about the sands at Broadstairs, Thackeray was hardly known ; and last but not least the Edinburgh Revieiv under the guidance of Lockhart, Walter Scott's son-in-law, was driving a coach and four through the old methods of criticism by substitut- ing for dissection and analysis creative synthesis and picturesque construction. Of this method, a rising young writer, whose articles periodically fluttered the literary dovecotes of Leytonstone and a good many others besides, was the acknow- ledged master. His name was Thomas Babington Macaulay. Stephen Mackenzie, in the midst of his literary symposium, which as has been said lasted from Saturday to Monday, eagerly dis- cussed these remarkable articles. Their novel style made them comparatively easy to single out ; but at last, when the list had assumed the proportion of a bulky volume, the desire of the Mackenzie coterie was so great to have them certified, that the zealous doctor wrote to Macaulay himself, telling him of the enthusiastic and admiring circle of readers at Leytonstone, urging him to employ his great powers on writing a history of England, and finally requesting him to note any errors in the fist of articles ascribed LETTER FROM T. B. MACAULAY. 21 to him and to supply any omissions. All this may not seem strictly relevant to the life of Sir Morell Mackenzie, but if the characters and pursuits of great men's parents — as has been generally held — are calculated to throw some light upon the tendencies which influenced their early days, and therefore their whole subsequent careers, antecedents so remarkable as those which I have digressed to relate, should not be thought entirely out of place here. The sequel to Stephen Mackenzie's letter to Macaulay is far too interesting to be omitted. There was, indeed, a flutter of excitement and delight when the following reply to the doctor's diffident and apologetic letter, arrived from the great but urbane writer : — Albany, London, January 22nd, 1843. Sir, — Your apology was quite unnecessary. It is most gratifying to me to learn that I have given any pleasure to an intelligent reader who is a stranger to me, and whose judgment must be unbiassed by personal considerations. Most of the papers which you mention are mine. You are wrong, however, about three '' Uneducated Poets," '' Alison " and •'' De Witt." The bulk of what I have written for .22 SURROUNDINGS. the Edinburgh Bevieiu will be republislied. But some selection it has been necessary to make. The collection will make three large and not loosely printed octavo volumes. If two more volumes had been added, filled with juvenile declamation, or with controversy on questions which had only a transitory interest, the patience even of readers so indulgent as yourself, would have been worn out. I have long entertained the design of writing the History of England from the time of the Revolution. The execution of this design will probably be the chief employment of my life. But some years must elapse before any part of the work is fit for publication. I have the honour to be. Sir, Your faithful servant, T. B. Macaulay. It may interest admirers and students of Macaulay to know that amongst the articles which Stephen Mackenzie had bound up with the others in a volume now before me, were the three on Mill's Utilitarianism, Barere and Mira- beau, none of which did Macaulay include in the edition that was published of his Essays during his lifetime, but which have found a AGED FOURTEEN. 23 place in Sir George Otto Trevelyan's edition of liis uncle's *' Miscellaneous Writings." Such, then, was the literary atmosphere, and such the wide and cultured interests which Morell Mackenzie, the eldest born son of Stephen Mackenzie, had the advantage of enjoying up to the age of fourteen (1851). III. BOYHOOD. III. BOYHOOD. ^'MoRELL^' Mackenzie was named after his uncle, who received his name from a respected minister of St. Neots, where his father had once resided. The Rev. gentleman's fame chiefly survives through his brother Daniel, author of '' MorelFs Grammar," and his far more illustrious namesake Sir Morell Mackenzie. A large head with some tendency to water on the brain — a certain mental sluggishness, ac- companied by an emotional sensibility beyond his years, occasioned his parents much anxiety. Indeed, his head seemed too heavy for his body, and had a tendency to roll about awkwardly, so that for some years he was even forced to wear a protective pad. The little picture of him at the age of seven, still in existence, probably toned down these personal peculiarities which as he grew up entirely disappeared. He is there 28 BOYHOOD. represented, as his sister Agnes describes him, '' with long curls of bright auburn hair. He generally wore a velvet suit (of the period) with a broad linen collar trimmed round with a frill," He seems to have been a good deal let alone educationally, as he had " several severe illnesses," according to his eldest sister Bessie, now the wife of Archdeacon Aglen, and could not be '* taught much." ]N"evertheless, in spite of tardy mental development, so often favourable to originality, the dominant notes of his character were early and spontaneously struck. These certainly were a total absence of self-consciousness combined with that kindness of heart and simplicity of purpose, which never rested in mere sentiment but passed at once into action. '' Do noble things, not dream them all day long." " I remember," writes his sister " (and it is one of my earliest recollections of him), looking out of the nursery window at Leytonstone, and seeing my little brother Morell, who must then have been between seven and eight, carrying a faggot of sticks. There was an old woman in our village, Mrs. Parker by name ; she is vividly impressed upon my mind by the red cloak she wore, as every one, high and low, wore red EARLY KINDNESS. 29 cloaks or jerseys about tliat time, but the winter distribution of red cloaks in our village was chiefly made by Mrs. Cotton, mother of the Lord Justice Cotton. One very severe winter Morell had been hearing about the hardships of the poor, what a comfort a cup of hot tea was to them, and especially how much the aged poor suffered from cold. The long ears of little pitchers were never filled to better purpose. He began saving up his money to buy tea and sugar for old Mrs. Parker, and asked to be allowed to gather up sticks for firewood out of the garden. Every morning early he rose to perform this pious work of supererogation, and might be seen in all weathers — though far from strong himself — trudging along to Mrs. Parker's cot- tage with his bundle of wood. " The old lady was at one time ill in bed, and Morell used to hurry out to light her fire for her, and run back in time for breakfast. When Mrs. Parker could get out, she was wont to come up to our house, and be made welcome in the kitchen. She seldom returned without a bundle of sundry comforts, which my little brother used to carry back for her. One day, for a frolic, he pretended to act the thief, and snatching the bundle from the old dame, was making off with it, when a passing carter mis- 30 BOYHOOD. taking his action raised his whip to chastise the young ruffian ; but the tables were soon turned, when the old woman, j3.ourishing her stick in a terrible state of excitement, screamed out, *' Hoo ! hoo ! how dare you touch my young master ! " Little could Morell's sister or old Dame Parker have guessed how much of the invalid boy's life would afterwards be spent in gathering sticks for the use of others, and in providing solace gratuitously for the suffering and the needy ! This could not indeed be written before- hand, but the remembrance of it throws a halo round the life of one who has been sometimes accused of loving high fees to excess (as if no doctor had ever been known to care for such things). But those, and their name is legion, who were benefited by his generous and gratuitous services, know that he cared for suffering humanity far more than for money. His memory long will live alone In all their hearts like mournful light ; That broods above the fallen sun, And dwells in Heaven half the night. Like aeTiormed tracheotomy in the presence of several physicians, and that in the case of Fanny Brooks he performed it with great skill and perfect success — the patient having made an excellent recovery. *' (8.) That to entrust such a dangerous operation to such in- experienced hands, when the Surgeon (who had per- formed similar operations nearly fifty times) could have been summoned by telegraph, showed a want of regard for the interests of the Hospital, if not an absolute disregard of human life. *'(8.) The Surgeon of the Hospital had only become ex- perienced in performing the operation by previously acting as a Clinical Assistant. The Committee consider that the ' interests of the Hospital ' and a ' regard for human life ' require them to carry out the By-Laws of the Hospital, which provided for the instruction of a large number of practitioners in performing tracheotomy, instead of confining the operation to the hands of one person. The operation was most skilfully performed. *' (9.) That the statement of the number of patients treated at the Hospital, published for the information of the subscribers and the public, have been wilfully falsified, " (9.) The Committee are not aware of any inaccuracy in the statement of the number of patients treated at the Hospital ; but if there has been any ' wilful falsification ' it must have been efi'ected by the person who has fabricated the charge. NO WANT OF ATTENTION. 333 '' The Committee declined to allow this charge to be in- vestigated in the followiEg words : — "*As regards No. 9, the charge is of such a very grave character, involving, as it does, the personal honour of some officer, that before allowing the matter to be made the subject of inquiry, the Committee of Management would require to know the name of the person who is thus charged with * wil- fully falsifying ' the numbers of the patients treated at the Hospital, and the exact details of the falsification.' '* In conclusion. Dr. Mackenzie desired to call attention to the fact that not a single charge of want of care or attention had been brought forward by any patient of the Hospital, and he did not hesitate to say that these charges of mismanage- ment were entirely the result of the jealousy of an inferior man towards a distinguished young physician, his friend, Dr. Semon. (Loud and prolonged cheering.)" APPENDIX D. D. Alfeed Mackenzie's Analysis and Account of THE GrENEEAL PeOGEESS OF THE ThROAT HOSPITAL. The progress of the Hospital has been in all respects remark- able, and the more remarkable when we consider that it was founded, fostered and fathered by one man. Of course, he found many kind friends to assist^ but it would be difficult to mention any workers for the Hospital who have not been drawn into it by either Sir Morell Mackenzie himself or his personal friends. Here is its growth in the first ten years of its existence. 1863. Donations 86Z. 155. 11^?., Annual Subscriptions 24Z. 3^. 1873. „ 4244Z. 16s. 8^., „ „ 579Z. 55. This 4244Z. 16s. 8tZ. included the proceeds of a Bazaar held at the Hanover Square Eooms, and supported by Royalty, and also an anonymous donation of lOOOZ, During these ten years, a large number of medical men^ both in esse and in posse, enrolled themselves as students, and in addition no less than 2308 practitioners " attended to witness the regular practice." Indeed it would be difficult to mention any throat specialist who, during those ten years, did not derive some of his training and experience either from the Hospital or its founder. 338 APPENDIX D. In 1887, the teaching powers were further increased by the estahlishment of a series of post graduate classes in connection with the Hospital. The " Throat Hospital Pharmacopeia '^ has now become almost a text book. First edited by Mackenzie himself, and spoken of by the British Medical Journal in the following terms : — " Such a pharmacopeia has been long wanted and will prove most useful to practitioners," it has run through several editions, and has for long been a source of revenue to the Institution. The publication of this little work would in itself have justified the existence of the Hospital, had not the vast number of patients testified to this in another way. The assistance always so cheerfully given by Sir Morell to members of the musical and dramatic professions has been well acknowledged by both the leaders and the rank and file of those professions. In the space of four years no less a sum than 1500Z. was raised in a very remarkable and unprecedented manner. In 1878 Madame Christine Mllson gave a concert at St. James's Hall^ when 900Z. was realized, and in 1878 Madame Trebelli followed suit, clearing over 400Z. Both these talented artistes were well supported by the profession, and patronized both by the Eoyal Family and the leading ladies of Society. In 1879 a still more remarkable performance was given in aid of the charity. Mr. Irving gave the use of the Lyceum Theatre for an afternoon performance, and appeared, with Miss Ellen Terry and other members of his company, in Charles I. Mr. Bancroft undertook the stage management, and, together with Mrs. Bancroft and the then Haymarket company, gave a selection from Ours. As a third piece Mr. Corney Grain, Mr. Arthur Cecil, and Mr. G-eorge Grossmith, gave the musical triumviretta " Cox and Box," Sir Arthur (then Mr.) Sullivan conducting his own music. This unique bill brought the Hospital between 250Z. and 300Z. In the year 1881 the International Medical Congress met in Loudon, and *^Uhe Hospital was selected as the most fitting place for the demonstration of exceptionally interesting cases, SATUEDA.Y r. SUNDAY FUND. 339 and of the various instruments and appliances used for the recognition and treatment of diseases of the throat." These demonstrations attracted a very large number of distinguished laryngologists from all parts of the world, and the Hospital received its due meed of recognition and appreciation. The treatment of the Hospital by the two great collecting agencies, the Hospital Sunday and the Hospital Saturday Funds, is instructive, when the origin and aims of the two movements are considered. The Hospital Sunday Fund is practically an irresponsible body. It deals with other people's moneys, and cares little or nothing for the principles or useful- ness of the respective Institutions. The Hospital Saturday Fund, on the other hand, is distinctly a responsible body. Its delegates are all elected from the contributing sources, it deals with its own moneys, and it does care for the principles and usefulness of the participating Institutions. This it shows by sending its own representatives to the governing bodies of the Hospitals, and in most cases they are given a hearty welcome • and this Hospital, I may mention, not being ashamed of any- thing, has expressed itself quite willing to receive a delegate^ and by pertinaciously insisting upon, and in many cases securing an evening attendance of medical officers. And how have these two funds treated the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat *? The Sunday Fund made a grant in 1873, in 1875, and in 1876 ; it was then dropped until 1887, in which year, and in 1888 and 1889, it made an award. In 1890 and 1891 it was again dropped. TJie Hospntal Saturday Fund made an award to the Hospital in the first year of its exist- ence and has never missed its annual grant. It soon occurred to Sir Morell, practically within the first two or three years of the foundation of the Hospital, that the provident principle was the only right one, and that while hospitals should be open free to the necessitous poor, those patients who could afford it should contribute something to the Institution from which they were deriving benefit. Accordingly, after the matter had been thoroughly examined and considered, a table of amounts z 2 340 APPENDIX D. to "he paid by patients, founded on wages earned, was drawn up and adopted, and in 1867 — its fiftli year — the sum of 289?. 95. 6d, was received from this source. In 1868 it had increased to 3371. 3s., and it has gone on increasing ever since. It is this provident principle that, I understand, does not com- mend itself to the Hospital Sunday management, which systematically taxes those institutions adopting it, and which I am told is now given as the reason for not making a grant to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. The principle, however, commends itself to most thinking people, and is approved both by the public and by the patients, as is shown by the numbers who throng the Hospital. The system on which this Hospital acts was fully explained by Sir Morell in his evidence before the House of Lords during their recent Commission on Hospitals, and will be found in full in the Blue Booh issued by that body. Total number of out-patients, 132,729 ; in-patients, 5709. Total moneys received, nearly 100,O00Z. No record after the first few years has been kept of the attendances of medical practitioners, though, of course, all students are registered. But in the six years ending 1874 more than 2000 medical men and students availed themselves of the teaching. With such results how can any one assert that the Hospital has not served a good purpose and filled a distinct want ? APPENDIX E. E. Thyeotomy a Dangerous Operatiox. The German doctors maintained that the Emperor's case in the earlier stages was one specially favourable for the operation. See British Medical Journal, I. 1888, p. 1360. This view does not seem to have been entertained by Hahn, Krause, Billroth, and others, who maintained, with Mackenzie, that the operation is always dan- gerous. Mr. Prothero's remarks in the Nine- teenth Century, November, 1888, may also here be read with advantage : — '' The False and the True Issue. The False issue is this : — The German doctors suggest that in May, 1887, it was possible to extirpate the cancer by an opera- tion which was comparatively simple, safe, and certain. To this operation, known as laryngotomy, the Crown Prince had consented — but — but Mackenzie's opinion that there was no evidence of the malignant nature of the growth, postponed its performance till too late. The reasoning by which von Bergmann minimizes the danger and exaggerates the efficacy of this external operation is misleading, if not disingenuous. It 344 APPENDIX E. was on the diagnosis of cancer that the operation was to be performed. Cancer, and cancer only, was the plea for this medical treatment. Either he trusted the diagnosis or he did not. If he trusted it, the extirpation of the growth by the excision of the whole or part of the larynx was his object. If he did not trust it, his operation was unjustifiable. To see if a disease is fatal, he offered to perform a life or death operation. It is true the Crown Prince had consented to the treatment, but its real nature was concealed from him. . . . There is no external operation for laryngeal cancer known to surgery which is not in the highest degree formidable, so hazardous in fact, that many of the best throat specialists of the day consider it to be under no possible circumstance justifiable. ^' The True issue between the English specialist and the German doctors was this: — In May, 1887, two German doctors, without special skill in diseases of the throat, unsupported by any patho- logical evidence, trusting to the infallibility of their diagnosis, and concealing from the patient and his family the nature of the proposed medical treatment, advised an external operation, which in 27*2 per cent, of the cases is immediate death, which in 54*54 of the cases hastens death, which nearly always destroys the voice and which in only two cases (and in one of those Dr. Lennox Browne doubts the existence of cancer) has effected a complete cure. Against this proposal Sir M. Mackenzie took up a posi- tion from which he never swerved a hair's breadth. Without asserting an opinion whether the growth was or was not ma- lignant, he maintained that no external operation was justifi- able without pathological evidence of the existence of cancer^ and that even if cancer were thus proved to exist, a palliative treatment which prolonged life under normal conditions of health for at least another year, was to be preferred to a radical treatment. "When the alternatives are so terrible the patient himself must decide. In November, 1887, the Crown Prince deliberately refused. His decision, in the opinion of every important critic, concludes the controversy. The sole responsi^ bility of le-opening the question rests with the German doctors. EESULTS OF OPERATIONS. 345 and their charges against the English specialist compelled him to reply." — Nineteenth Century, Octoher, 1888. Mackenzie also says : — " On May 5th, 1887, less than five months after a certain patient had submitted to thyro- tomy, total extirpation had to be performed (three weeks before the date on which it was intended to operate on the Crown Prince). The patient survived this procedure only four weeks. Here we have an example of what would in all probability have been the fate of the Crown Prince, if von Bergmann had operated on him in May, 1887. His Imperial Highness would have suffered in May all the misery which he went through in the following February. Name of Patient. Result. 1. Scheidenreicht ... Cured C?) but could not dispense with cannula. Eecurrence. Death from suicide. 2. Hahn* ... ... Cured. Recurrence five weeks after operation. 3. Richter ... ... Death on the eleventh day through heart-failure. Opera- tion only undertaken at urgent request of patient. Instead of this, as the result of Virchow's report, the illustrious patient passed many ^ The patient's name was the same as the operator's. 346 APPENDIX E. montlis of pleasant existence, during whicli he often told me that he felt as well as ever he had done in his life. If, when the time came for tracheotomy to be performed, the after-treat- ment of that operation had been carried out in an intelligent manner, not only would the illus- trious patient have been spared much unneces- sary suffering, but his life would, in all human probability, have been prolonged considerably beyond what actually was the case. The average duration of life in cases of laryngeal cancer is two years, and there are well authenticated instances of patients un- doubtedly suffering from the disease having lived for three and even four years. Taking the average period, however, the Emperor's " expectation of life " was till February, 1889. Thus several months of his existence were sacrificed through unskilful treatment, and the use of clumsy instruments. Perhaps all the evil results ought not to be laid on the shoulders of Bergmann and Bramann, as the rapid development of the disease was, in part, probably caused by Gerhardt's extraor- dinary abuse of electric cautery. The slow progress of laryngeal cancer is universally recognized; the hard encasing cartilage resisting the progress of the disease. In this case, how- PEEICHONDEITIS. 347 ever, Gerhardt's reckless use of the red-hot wire no doubt set up the perichondritis which formed such a prominent feature in the case, and hastened the fatal result. (See also British Medical Journal, I., 1888, p. 1360.) APPENDIX F. F. BiSMARCKiAx Policy and the Emperor Frederick's Death. It is difl&cult to resist the impression that the Bismarck faction was extremely anzious to guide Providence into the right course of political action, by arranging for the translation of the Emperor Frederick to another world, if possible, before the death of his venerable father. Had Mackenzie declared him to be unfit to reign, Bismarck would have no doubt declared a regency ; failing that, the passage of the Alps in mid-winter, which finished Mazzini, and has proved in more senses than one fatal to more heroes than one, seemed not inappropriate. When the Emperor at last arrived unex- pectedly, fit and capable for the transaction of public business, there was nothing for it but to wait for his death with such patience and resignation as so fiery and unscrupulous a political faction could command, but upon the 352 APPENDIX F. whole situation the following extracts from the Contemporary Review (Bismarck article) : — " Sooner or later, then, it was certain, if the Emperor lived, Prince Bismarck would have to go, and the probability was that it would be sooner rather than later. Thus it came to pass that, in the Chancellor's mind, there must have been con- stantly present, however much he repressed it, a haunting temptation to wish that the Emperor might not recover ; nay, even that he might die before the inevitable crisis arrived. ... " The difficulty in his path was the danger that Sir Morell Mackenzie would not certify the incapacity of his patient, and also the probability, which deepened into a certainty after the horrible accident of the cannula^ that the Emperor would die too soon to make it worth while to run the risk and to incur the friction of the Eegency. . . . " Who could be surprised if he had wished that the cancer would make haste ? " That such evil thoughts may have brooded in the obscure recesses of the great Prussian's mind is certain. '^ When the old Kaiser died, there was for the moment a period of painful suspense and indecision in the mind of the Mayor of the Palace . What should be done ? How long would the Emperor Frederick live 1 Was there any need of there being any Emperor Frederick at all ? From the point of view of the Bismarck dynasty it certainly seemed desirable that the succession should pass direct from the grandfather to the o-randson. For the young man was reared in the Bismarckian tradition. He was a product of Blood and Iron. With him, unless he is foully belied, the omnipotent Eeichskauzler had made sundry important and binding agreements, on the prin- ciple of clu ut des. His father, on the other hand, was not a Bismarckian. He moved in the midst of the Prussian Junkers, like a cultured Athenian amidst the warlike Spartans. He represented civilization, culture, peace. Above all, he repre- sented the hateful principle of the right of woman to the recognition of her faculties regardless of her sex^ and he paid THE JOURNEY TO BERLIN. 353 to the genius of his wife the homage to which she was entitled as an intellectual force^ without stinting the measure of his devotion because she was ' only a woman.' Of all the sub- jects of the old Kaiser the Crown Prince and Crown Princess probably regarded the coarse brutality of Count Herbert with most aversion. It is easy to imagine the pressure of the temptation suggested by the cancer which was eating into the throat of the invalid at San Remo. " If the Crown Prince never came to the throne, Prince Bis- marck's great danger would be averted, and if, at the same time that this peril disappeared, the Chancellor were to rivet his claims upon the young Emperor by placing him at once upon the throne without waiting for his father's decease, a double advantage would be secured. Opponents maddened by hatred accuse Prince Bismark of meditating the doing to death of the Emperor Frederick in order to gain his end. ^'They assert that when the Imperial Chancellor brought Frederick III. from San Remo to Berlin, in the depth of winter, he calculated that the chapter of accidents might during the journey accelerate the progress of the disease. For what — it is asked by those who think the Chancellor capable of any crime which forwards his cause — what other conceivable motive could Prince Bismarck have had in declaring that he could not answer for the consequences if the unfortunate Emperor did not cross the Alps in the depths of a severe winter ? Of two things, one — either the Emperor would have refused to risk the journey, in which case the Prince might have proclaimed a Regency, or he would, at any risk, proceed to Berlin, in which case he might die en route. Either alterna- tive would have suited the Chancellor. As we know, neither alternative occurred. The Emperor stood the journey better than was expected, and Prince Bismarck, after seeing him, went so far as to declare that there never had been any neces- sity for the journey northwards. So easy is it for statesmen to persuade themselves after the event, when their schemes mis- carry, that they have been entirely misunderstood." A a APPENDIX G. A a 2 g^=l•l;^••^^;t!f;^l•^+•l^+^^^H;•l•;l;^^•ifi^•llH•lfH^H-4H■;l;l;•K4;+;l;+;+•+;l;^^;+^mm F^^;4;l;4!f^l■•+H-l^+^■l^^l■^l^;^•;^l•^^^^••|•^^:4H■;^^;■l^l•l•ii•H■;•l•^^;+i+H•:4^^:•^j+r^^;■^?•l^T^a G. The Nature OF the Attack and the Natqre of THE Reply. ^^ Die Kranhheit Kaiser Friedrichs des Dritten" is rather a popular appeal than a scientific treatise upon an obscure disease. Among its many unproved and unprovable assertions the only point which is clearly established is that the spretco injuria formce rankles as venomously in the breasts of the German professors as in the heart of a deserted woman. Their manifesto is a mere continuation of the Press Campaign in- spired in every line by the Mackenzie-Hetz. Pride in their professional reputation, pride in the honour of German science alike dictated science. It is only vanity — personal or profes- sional — which rushed open-mouthed into the streets to solicit sympathy. In the bitterness of their mortification the Ger- man doctors forget the honour of the profession, their per- sonal pride, the dignity of German science, their own self- respect, and the teaching of experience. ^* . . . The German doctors issue an elaborate manifesto to prove that if their advice had been followed the Emperor would now be alive and radically cured. Sir M. Mackenzie, under these circumstances, owed it to the Empress and her family to show that their unshaken confidence in him was not misplaced. He owed it to the German people, and, above all, 358 APPENDIX a. to the memory of the late Emperor. — Nineteenth Century^ Is'ovember, 1888." "The father's death had fought against the milder influences of the Liberal reign. The brief experiment ceased, almost before it had been well begun, and Prince Bismarck was left free to establish his dynasty in peace. Magnanimity is not a Bismarckian virtue. He had triumphed, but that was not enough to console him for the anxieties of the late reign. It was necessary to punish those who had in any way been asso- ciated with the sovereign who had dared to believe that Ger- many might continue to exist even if a Bismarck were no longer Eeichskanzler. First and foremost came the unhappy lady who had shared for thirty years the sorrows and joys of the dead, and who had dared after all these years to remain English at heart. Half German by birth, naturalized Ger- man by marriage and residence, the wife of one German Emperor and the mother of another, she had never ceased to cherish with affectionate devotion the memories of the land where the sabre is not perpetually clanking in the street, and where there are other ideals of life than that of being a Prussian grenadier. With all her husband's aspirations she had keenly sympathized, and she had shared also in his anti- pathies. She had encouraged him to contemplate the emanci- pation of the Imperial throne from the ever-increasing shadow of the Bismarckian major-domo. Upon her, widowed and forlorn, fell the first vengeance of the offended Chancellor. To one who had for a twelvemonth nursed her husband at every step in the long stage that led to the grave nothing could be more tormenting* than the accusation that, at some point or another in the treatment of the patient, mistakes had been made but for which his life might have been spared. Hardly had the obsequies ended when there was launched from the Prussian State Printing Press the pamphlet of the German doctors asserting, with brutal emphasis, that the Emperor had been subjected to a mistaken treatment, which had rendered his recovery impossible. All the blows aimed at Sir Morell HIS BOOK INTEEDICTKD. 359 Mackenzie fell upon the widowed Empress, who had supported the authority of the English doctor, and who knew that her husband had trusted him and been grateful for his skill and attendance to the very last. Sir Morell Mackenzie replied. His pampjhlet on ' Frederick the Noble ' was promptly inter- dicted in Germany^ while the accusations of his rivals were circulated everywhere." — Contemporary Review. APPENDIX H. I'll iiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiii|i|i|i|i|i|i|i|i|i|i|iiiiiii Ill iiiiiii|i|i|i|i|i|i iih iir in I lilililil l,l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|i|lil|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|lill H. Me. Paekinson's Intimacy and a Lettee eeom Mackenzie. The following fragments of Mr. Parkinson's interesting narrative I have with reluctance relegated to the Appendix, together with a characteristic letter by Mackenzie : — In vain do I tax memory for the precise time and occasion of my first knowing Morell Mackenzie. It was certainly through .the Edmund Yates's, and at one of their houses in town or country, where we were both frequent visitors, and with whom we were on terms of familiar and affectionate intimacy, but I cannot remember exactly where it was we met. We had been intimate so long that it seems like always. The very last time I saw Mackenzie was to consult him privately for Mrs. Yates as to his real opinion concerning her husband's health, who was then in the preliminary stages of the severe illness which lasted so long, but from which at this time of writing he has happily recovered. Mackenzie was then ill in bed, and expressed his keen regret he could not run down to Brighton to the Yates's, to relieve our dear friend's mind at once, and promising to do so '•' directly he was well enough — " a time which, alas ! never arrived, for he never left his room 364 APPENDIX H. again. An assuring telegram was, however, written by me that morning at Mackenzie's bedside, giving his views^ which were emphatically that our friend Yates, however severe his attack might seem, was at that time in no danger, an opinion which gave infinite comfort and confidence w^hen both were sorely needed. In endeavouring to comply with the request that I should jot down some of my recollections of dear Mackenzie, I am met by the initial difficulty of not being able to explain the nature of the close and affectionate tie between us. Of diffe- rent pursuits and habits, we had, it is true, many tastes and friendships in common ; but in looking back, neither this, nor anything else I can discover, is sufficient to account for our extraordinarily affectionate relations, which were more those of brothers than friends. I have only preserved one of his letters, the last I received from him, but it shows to some extent the sweet and gratefully sympathetic nature of the man. Here it is : 19, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, December 29tli, 1891. My dear Parkinson, — I have had a bad attack of influenza, and three distinct relapses, so that I find it very difficult to get well. Indeed I am afraid I shall have to go away in order to pull myself together. If anything, however, could do me good it would be such a kind letter as you have sent me. I think you must know that my feelings towards you are exactly similar to those which you entertain for me, and that there is no one with whom it is a INTIMATE CONVERSATIOX. 365 greater pleasure for me to associate than your- self. I do not feel equal to writing you a long letter ; indeed I can scarcely express myself properly, but I must assure you that your letter has given me the greatest satisfaction. I have very rarely received one which has so completely touched me. Hoping to see you soon, in the meantime. Believe me. Always your sincere friend, MoEELL Mackenzie. The above shows better than anything I can say the sensitive high strung nature of the writer, who while credited by the critics with being a bom fighter, and who certainly seemed to revel in the joys of a battle with his peers, had on the other side of his nature^ a heart as soft and tender as a woman's, and one singularly open to the claims of friendship and sympathy. It was in the summer of 1878 during a Sunday afternoon's ramble from the Temple, Goring, an exquisite river-side place which the Edmund Yates's rented for several year?, and at which Mackenzie and myself were frequent visitors, that we had a close talk, which made a lasting impression upon me, for it was then IMackenzie first opened his heart to me, as friend to friend, told me his secrets, lifted the veil from his early struggles ; his difficulties in following the profession he lovedj and how and by whose agency they were removed ; his distaste for the calling to which he was originally destined ; his studies on the Continent ; his successes at home ; his literary ambitions ; the appreciation he was gradually meeting with abroad as well as in England ; his hopes and ambitions ; his unremitting labours ; the opposition and jealousy he had 366 APPENDIX H. surmounted or was beset by (this was touched on very lightly, and in a humorous rather than complaining strain), and his well-grounded hopes for the future of his name and fame. We had been fairly intimate for some years before this, but I date from this conversation that community of feeling and close confidence which distinguished our later intercourse. When Mackenzie resumed his London life our intimacy was maintained, and continued unbroken to the day of his death. We were members of the same clubs, and of other social institutions of which he was the ornament and pride, and we met frequently in private, always in fullest sympathy. I was never under him as a patient, never having the need for his professional services ; but on all matters connected with the use and modulation of the voice, and on the cadences which gave oratorical force, and how far they can be strengthened by throat and chest management and the most skilful conserva- tion of tone, were subjects we never wearied of discussing. But it was not by attainments or by knowledge or other possessions or endowments, material or intellectual, that Mackenzie's heart of hearts was reached. There was in his nature — little as his enemies or his critics suspected it — a vein of noble simplicity and unselfishness which impelled him to many a good deed in secret, which made him an absolutely devoted friend, to whom no sacrifice of time or energy was too great or too exacting, which lifted him above many a pretentious time- worn convention. APPENDIX I. I. American and other Tributes. I HAVE said in America Sir Morell was looked upon as an oracle. The following may serve as examples of the Transatlantic eulogies which followed him to his grave : — Extract from the ^' Philadelioliia Medical Times and Register,'" February 13th, 1892. Sir Morell Mackenzie, the great English laryngologist, died February 3rd, of tuberculosis of the lungs. He was a great man, of consummate ability in his speciality, with enough pluck for seven men. Extract from the ^^ Daily Chronicle" February iWij 1892. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts in distributing the prizes to the Queen's Westminster Rifles ^' referred to the death of her,^ intimate friend. Sir Morell Mackenzie, who was the surgeon of the regiment." Extract from the " Texas Sanitorian,'' February, 1892. The Great Morell Mackenzie is dead ! He died in LondoB on 3rd February inst., of bronchitis. Thus even the Goliath B b 370 APPENDIX I. of throat and lung diseases may be filled by an infinitesimal microbe, perbaps. Extract from " The Times and Register " of Neio York and Philadelphia, February 27th, 1892. Dr. Cutter in a lecture delivered at New York, alluding to Sir Morell Mackenzie, said : — " His words of good cheer and encouragement will long endure in my memory. Thus he brought me into society. Like the great-hearted Dr. Sims, he recognized co-workers in a very handsome way, and held out a helping hand to others." • • • • • • • " Thank God that Sir M. Mackenzie lived such a useful and brilliant life, and did so much good to others." Extract from the ^^ Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion," Chicago, March 26th, 1892. The following beautiful tribute to one of the masters in our art is from the pen of Dr. Wm. Porter, and taken from the " Clinique." Sir Morell Mackenzie. " The master rests. After the day of toil, An urgent message came to him, and he, Well used to sudden calls, in quiet haste, With kind good-night went out and all was still. And now his work is done ; to him no more Will come the suffering ones and those who need The helping hand and words of goodly cheer. His last response completed all his work. strong and gentle heart, ours is the loss Who knew thee well — and knowing loved thee more. Ours is the loss and thine the great reward. We crown thee victor, thou kingly dead." TRIBUTES PROM THE PAPERS. 371 Extract from ''Society,'' London, February ISth, 1892. In Memoriam. Sir Morell Mackenzie. Bom 1837. Died February 3rd, 1892. ' Morell Mackenzie " — once it was a name To conjure with, wherever human skill Availed to baffle in any fleshy ill ; And, far and wide, spread the great doctor's fame. Yet death o'ercame him, who had wrestled long With that Arch-Conqueror, during his life, — Science avails but little in the strife Which levels all, the weakly, wise, or strong. Not as the surgeon honoured by a King, With prince and peer, as patrons, at his door, But as physician to the helpless poor, His kindly sympathy for suffering Will cause him to be long-remembered here, And win a fadeless crown in brighter sphere. To Sir M. M. God gave thee to the world to lessen pain. And bring to many a stricken brother balm In direst torments — surely not in vain For skill consummate thou dost not bear the palm ! Under no napkin hast thou dared to hide That talent given by thy Maker's hand. But thou hast freely spent it far and wide To stem the tide of suffering in the land ! B b 2 872 APPENDIX I, Not only here, but in the Teuton's realm A truly noble martyr turned to thee ! In that last voyage he knew thee at the helm To smooth, his course o'er death's tempestuous sea ! And though maligned by those who should have praised Thy leal devotion to their lord — we know Our land's fair fame abroad thy skill has raised, And thy renown will through the ages grow ! F. B. D. APPENDIX J. r^ raJ r^ raTraJM^J raJriJrairgJrgJ fa^ rBJ?Mj raj raJ raJ tg|^ ra raj r^ raj r^ i m fBJrgJr^raJraJfglsir^r^raJr^raJfei^jr^rgJraJr^raJlstsiraJmJr^rgJrBT ^ J. A Lettee feom Mackenzie. The following letter gives us a glimpse of Mackenzie at the Schloss Friedrichshron, and should no doubt have been included in the text of the book. Schloss Friedrichskron, June 10th, 1888. My dear Anderson, — I am quite ashamed of not having written to you before, but I have been intending to write every day since I re- ceived your very kind invitation. I am very sorry I cannot avail myself of your good nature, for if I leave here before August (and owing to certain symptoms which are threatening, I think it likely that I may not be here much longer, hid this is quite private), I shall go away "far from the madding crowd." Little did we think in those old days at 876 APPENDIX J. Yienna that my studies with the laryngoscope would end in my being der e^ste behandlender arzt des Kaisers. I recollect seeing your copy of Czermak's first German pamphlet. You wrote the English translation of some of the difficult words in pencil in the margin ! ! You see what an impression your diligent application made on me at the time. My time is completely taken up here, for when the Emperor is very ill, I am obliged to be constantly with him, and when he is better he won't let me out of his sight. I hope you saw the scathing letters I wrote to the Berlin correspondent of the Times. The Scotsman stuck up for me well, and gave me a most eulogistic leader. The Glasgow Herald also came out well. I hope you and all your family are well. I recollect Mrs Anderson so well as a very pretty, delicate and refined looking bride. How maoy. years ago ! Yours always, MoEELL Mackenzie. J^-ne, 1893. CATALOGUE OF RECENT WORKS PUBLISHED BY W. H. ALLEN & CO., Ltd., 13, W^ATERl-OO T^l-ACE, S-VNT. publtsbetB to tbe Snbta ©tRce. Now Ready. Super- Royal 4to, with i6 Chromo Plates, and 48 Plates in Photomezzotype. £df 4s. net. THE GREAT BARRIEI( REEF OF AUSTRALIA : ITS PRODUCTS AND POTENTIALITIES. Containing an Account, with Copious Coloured and Photographic Illustrations (the latter here produced for the first time), of the Corals and Coral Reefs, Pearl and Pearl-Shell, Beche-de-Mer, other Fishing Industries, and the Marine Fauna of the Australian Great Barrier Region. By W. SAVILLE-KENT, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.I.Inst., &e. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, represented by a vast rampart of coral origin, extending for no less a length than twelve hundred miles from Torres Straits to Lady Elliot Island on the Queensland coast, takes rank among the most notable of the existing wonders of the world. Built up by the direct and indirect agency of soft-fleshed polyps of multitudinous form and colour, it encloses fjetwixt its outer border and the adjacent mainland a tranquil ocean highway for vessels of the heaviest draught. To the naturalist, and more particularly to the marine biologist, the entire Barrier area is a perfect Eldorado, its prolific waters teeming with animal organisms of myriad form and hue representative of every marine zoological group. The author's qualifications for the task he undertakes are emphasised through the circumstance of his having been occupied for the past eight years as Inspector and Commissioner of Fisheries to various of the Australian Colonies, the three later years having been devoted more exclusively to investigating and reporting to the Queensland Government upon the fishery products of the Great Barrier District. A prominent feature in this work consists of photographic views of coral reefs of various constructions and from diverse selected localities, together with similar and also coloured illustrations and descriptions of the living corolla, coral- polyps, and other marine organisms commonly associated on the reefs. These photographic illustrations taken by the author are, from both a scientific and an artistic standpoint, of high intrinsic merit and also unique in character, representing, in point of fact, the first occasion on which the camera has been employed for the systematic delineation of these subjects. London: 13, Waterloo Place^ Pall Mall, S.W. W. H. Allen & Co!s Catalogue of Recent Works. Crown 8vo. Illustrated by W. W. Russell, from Sketches by Edith CE. Somerville. 3s. 6d. THROUGH CONNEMARA IN A GOVERNESS CART. By E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross. "A bright and breezy narrative of the adventures and experiences of two ladies in Connemara, who preferred independence and a mule to society and a mail-car. Is divertingly told. The narrative and its illustrations will provoke a frequent smile." — Times. ** Sketches of Irish life, the eccentricities of wandering Saxons, and descrip- tions of local scenery and events are worked up in a manner which makes the book a pleasant companion. Mr. Russell has, in his illustrations, ably supported the writers." — Morning Post. *' The freshness and vivacity of the holiday experiences comes like a savoury dish to a jaded palate, after all the dull bits of book-making in which so many globe-trotters find relief. They are related with a continual flow of conscious — and still more charming unconscious — Irish humour. The most prosaic details of travel are touched with so light a hand as to be invested with new interest." — Bradford Observer. *' To read such a joyous book as this makes us envy the happy faculty of the writers for seizing upon the incidents that make up the * admirable drama of small things.' " — Lady's Pictorial. "The authors have the knack of putting their readers in the situations in which they themselves were ; and so the book, light and smart as it is, is heartily enjoyable." — Scotsman. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend, from sketches by E. CE. Somerville. in the vine COUNTRY. By E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Authors of " Through Connemara," &c. " A bright and artless narrative of travel." — Times. ** It is quite impossible in any sort of review to give a just idea of the vivacity and raciness of this delightful record of unimportant travel. . . We close the book with a feeling of regret — regret that we cannot forget it all, and so have the pleasure of reading it again quite freshly. But that pleasure we offer to others, with a last word of assurance that those who may be careless enough to forego it will miss one of the most joyous volumes of the season." — Daily Chronicle. "There is not a dull page in the book. It is written in a vivacious style, and we can cordially recommend it to anyone who desires to be entertained during a few leisure hours." — Manchester Examiner. "■ This lively and pleasant book is the story of an expedition to Bordeaux and its neighbourhood. . . Is agreeably told, and the book need only to be known to be popular." — The Queen. •' There is not a dull line in the volume from the first page to the last, and the authors have the rare gift of knowing when to stop." — Lady's Pictorial. Lo7idon: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W, W. H. Allen & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works 3 SIR W. W. HUNTER'S "INDIAN EMPIRE." Demy 8vo, 852 pages, with Map, 28s. Published under authority of the Secretary of State for India. THE INDIAN EMPIRE: Its People, History, and Products. By Sir W. W. Hunter, K.C.S.L, C.I.E., LL.D. *'It should be mentioned that this new edition is not a mere reprint, but has carefully been brought up to date. How thoroughly this has been done may be seen from the references to the events which have happened in the present year. More than this, the volume actually anticipates the official report of the Indian Census of 1891. The mere mention of such facts is better than the best recommendation. " — Glasgow Herald. '* The book is a most valuable library of information, embracing almost every subject which can interest and instruct people who wish to know what India has been and is. . . It may be safely said that all who desire to know what India was, and is, and may be in the future, will find in Sir W. W. Hunter the ablest and most attractive guide." — Overland Mail, "A solid and substantial volume, it will well repay careful study, and will be a valuable addition to any library." — Manchester Examiner, '* The most lucid, comprehensive, and able summary of facts and forces whicL are indissolubly bound up with the honour as well as the welfare of England. . History, ethnology, geography, science, religion, education, and commerce are all represented in their just proportions and with amplitude of detail in this authoritative work of reference ; and scrupulous care has been taken to bring the wide array of facts and figures abreast of the times." — Standard, " This work is absolutely indispensable to anyone who aspires to an accurate knowledge ot our great Indian Empire. . Numerous appendices and a full and excellent index add greatly to the value of this important work." — United Service Gazette. " It is a vast monument of skill, labour, and patience." — National Observer. By the same Author. Demy Svo, los. 6d. THE INDIAN MUSALMANS. London : 1 3, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S. W. 4 W. H. Allen & Co!s Catalogue of Recent Works. Royal 8vo, with Maps and Plates, 21s. NAVAL WARFARE: Its Ruling Principles and Practice Historically Considered. BY VICE-ADMIRAL P. H. COLOMB, Gold Medallist Royal United Service Institution, arid Lecturer o?i Naval Strategy aiid Tactics in the Royal Ncpval College at Greenwich, "The book is almost a pioneer of its class, for, strange to say, the literature of the greatest naval power in history has no authoritative treatise on the principles of Naval Warfare. . . . Ought to have an absorbing interest to every Englishman who loves his country and cares for its history." — The Times. "A serious and important contribution to a vastly interesting study." — Daily Telegraph. "There are other roads to fame than the path which leads to victory, and there are services which a man may render to his country perhaps greater than to die. Englishmen have reason to be proud of the wisdom, the public spirit, the wide knowledge, and the singleness of purpose displayed in every page of Admiral Colomb's great work. . . . Into the technical details we have no space to enter, but we can only hope that so great a master of naval tactics will give the world the further benefit of his researches and experience in some future volume." — Murrafs Magazine. " Such a work ought to find its way into every reference library, as well as into the hands of all who are preparing for the service." — The Standard. " This able work should be highly appreciated." — Morning Post. "The gallant author, who is a mot prolific writer on professional subjects, deals with every phase of the question of Naval Warfare. . . . There are numberless illustrations, plans, diagrams, maps, &c., to assist the reader, and the bulky volume should, upon its merits, generally find many readers." — Hanti Telegraph. Lo7idon : 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. W. H. Alleyi & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works. 5 Crown 8vo, with Plans, 6s. ESSAYS ON NAVAL DEFENCE. By Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb, Author of " Naval Warfare.' ** Admiral Colomb has done the country a service in keeping it well in mind of its perils. Highly technical as much of his work is, we hope it will receive from the general reader the attention it deserves." — Yorkshire Post. ** The papers may be regarded as the latest voice of science on the great and oomplex problem of naval defence." — Scotsman. "An admirable manual for the naval student." — Daily Telegraph. " Is both well-timed and welcome. . . This present handy volume ough to find favour with all who feel that the prosperity — nay, the very existence — of this country depends on the efficiency of its sea forces. Every thoughtful executive naval officer should possess a copy of this book, and there are many civilians capable of reading it with much interest and profit." — World. ** Throughout the entire work Admiral Colomb shows himself to be thoroughly master of the subjects with which he deals ; and while some of the principles ot Imperial defence he sets forth may be and are contested, and some of the facts behind them are denied, the Admiral's views, as given in this excellent series of essays, are entitled to the most serious and careful consideration. The volume is beautifully printed in clear, readable type, and handsomely bound, and forms a most valuable contribution on a highly important subject. There are nine plates of diagrams throughout the book.'" — Steamship. "On the problems of Imperial defence the opinions of Admiral Colomb are always worth studying, and the republication of these essays is an inducement to re-read and re-study them." — Athenceum. " Through the whole work Admiral Colomb shows a thorough &miliarity with his subjects, and although he deals with some questions on which othei authorities differ from him, he is everywhere worthy of careful attention." — Glasgow Herald. Lofidon : 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. 6 W. H. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. Medium 8vo, 12s. 6d. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO ADMIRAL H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G. THE STEAM NAVY OF ENGLAND: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. BY HARRY WILLIAMS, R.N., Chief Inspector of Machinery. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "It is a series of essays, clearly written and often highly suggestive, on the still unsolved, or only partially and tentatively solved, problems connected with the manning and organisation, and propulsion of our modem war-ships, . . being laudably free from technicalities, and written in a not unattractive style, they will recommend themselves to that small, but happily increasing, section of the general public which concerns itself seriously and intelligently with naval affairs. " — Times. "We strongly advise all who are interested in naval matters to procure a copy, seeing that they will find in it information which they cannot obtain in so well-arranged a form in any other work hitherto published." — Hampshire Telegraph. " Its manifest object is to promote the efficiency of our steam navy in times to come, keeping which aim steadfastly in view, Mr. Williams has brought great knowledge and ability to bear upon the endeavour to forecast what provision it would be well to make in order to meet the full requirements of the British nation. A highly instructive work." — Daily Telegraph. " His opinion on naval matters is the result of deep thought, of wide experience, and of a single-minded desire for efficiency with economy. A work of the very first importance, not only to the navy, but to the safety of the Empire in time of trial." — Daily Chronicle, December 23rd, 1892. "Mr. Harry Williams, a naval engineer of long experience and high rank, discusses the future requirements of the fleet. He is naturally most at home when dealing with points which specially affect his own branch of the service, but the whole book is well worth study." — Manchester Guardian. Lo7idon : 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. W. H. Allen & Cols Catalogue of Recent Works, j Crown 8vo, 6s. THE STORY OF A DACOITY. Nagoji the Beder Naik, and the Lolapur Week. By G. K. Betham^ Indian Forest Department. ** Graphic sketches of Indian life, narrated with a good deal of spirit and picturesque force. . . The author has the knack of enlisting the attention of his readers." — Daily Telegraph. " The author gives a spirited narrative ot the adventures and ultimate capture of one Nagoji Naik. . . Mr. Betham's intimate knowledge of the natives and their ways has enabled him to render the scenes and incidents of this tale with truthful vigour." — Morning Post. " Will be found to convey a life-like impression of scenes in which natives and Europeans, sepoys, police officers, and dacoits, tell their own tale, and throw unwonted lights on India as it is now. There is much to be learned from this book, and many of its passages are marked by great graphic power." — Globe. New Edition, Crown 8vo, 6s. THE CHRONICLES OF BUDGEPORE; Or, Sketches of Life in Upper India. By Iltudus Prichard. " This is an interesting book, and one of the most depressing ever written. . . A very interesting production." — Pall Mall Gazette. " With many incidents, grave as well as gay. Mr. Prichard illustrates the many phases of the society to be found in Modern India, and, amongst the minor parts, old Indians will appreciate with a smile the well-known names with which he vests his official characters. . . English readers, whether they have passed any part of their lives in India or not, will find it quite worth their while to read these sketches." — Colonies of India. London : 1 3, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S. W. 8 W. H. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. Demy Svo, 680 pages. i8s THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MOHAMMED Or, The Spirit of Islam By Syed Ameer Ali, M.A., C.I.E., Barrister - at - Law, a Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Bengal, Author of " The Personal Law of the Mahommedans," &c. " It has been reserved for Mr. Justice Ameer Ali, well known as one of the most prominent and enlightened followers of Islam in India, to defend and recommend his faith in an English work intended chiefly for circulation among Christians — a work equipped with all the resources of western thought and learning. Mr. Ameer Ali writes with enthusiasm, but with no trace of fanaticism. " — Times. "This volume can be cordially recommended to the consideration of the English reader. There may have been more detailed lives of the Prophet of Islam written by European as well as Oriental pens, but we may venture to assert that none of them reveal more boldness or greater breadth of vision." — Daily Graphic. " A clear-sighted, clearly-stated, and forcible exposition of Mohammedanism as a moral force, and has an advantage over the few good books on the subject that an English reader can obtain." — Scotsman. " The historical value of the book is very considerable. . . . Those who care nothing for the polemics of the matter may still find profit and pleasure from the narrative portion, while to others it may suggest a new and important view of the development of the human mind." — Academy. Crown Svo, 3s. 6d. WORDS ON EXISTING RELIGIONS. By the Hon. A. S. G. Canning, Author of "Thoughts on Shakespeare's Historical Plays," " Revolted Ireland," &c., &c. " The attention which has been latterly devoted to the comparative study of religion is one of the most remarkable features of the thought of the century, and those who are curious to know what the results of that study of them will find them admirably summarized in Mr. Canning's book." — Scotsman. *' An interesting and instructive volume, mainly historical, have the merit of originality of thought, and is carefully written. . . . The work is characterised by profound thought and great research, and, to be duly appreciated, must be carefully studied." — Belfast Nezvs Letter. "Mr. Canning has produced an interesting volume." — Publishers' Circular. •'* Words on Existing Religions' is the outcome of Mr. Canning's wide reading of the many standard religious works of the day, which he has evidently read and digested to no mean advantage. No statement is made in its pages without an authority, which places it ahiiost beyond the range of general criticism, and from its pages a good deal of really useful knowledge may be gleaned relating to the various forms of religion now existent in the world." — Public Opinion. '* Is readable, and gives a very just and sympathetic survey of the world's religions." — Daily Chronicle. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W, W. H. Allen & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works. g Boofts on Sport By Parker Gillmore ("Ubique"). New Edition, Crown 8vo, 6s. GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. ' ' Teem with valuable information and pleasant narrative. " — Daily Telegraph. " The author has shot and fished in almost every part of the world, and has had his full share of adventures. He shows a considerable knowledge of natural history, and is evidently a keen observer, so that the sportsman will read his pages with profit and interest." — Scotsman. "Deserves cordial acknowledgment. It is a record of personal experience and of advice, the outcome of such experience from the pen of one who has travelled, and kept his eyes open, everywhere. Here he discourses of subjects so various as wolf-coursing and dog-breaking, the Cape buffalo and Japanese salmon, shooting in Morocco and shooting in America, catching sharks and catching grey mullet, the breeding of oysters, and the training of the race- horse. No reader who has a taste for sport will find this volume devoid of interest. " — Yorkshire Post. "The personal experiences recorded in this volume have been gathered in all parts of the world . . . they convey an immense amount of out-of-the-way and valuable information. . . His book is as instructive as it is interesting, and will afford pleasant reading to a good many outside the circle of the ' sportsmen naturalists.' " — Glasgow Herald. "A highly readable and entertaining volume." — Bookseller. " The book is full of interesting reminiscences and anecdotes." — Publishers' Circular. Crown 8vo, with Portrait, 6s. LEAVES FROM A SPORTSMAN'S DIARY. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. 10 W. H. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. DBOOI15 on Sport, by Parker Gillmore (*'Ubique"), continued. Third Edition, Crown 8vo, Illustrated, 3s. 6d. ENCOUNTERS WITH WILD BEASTS. ** Mr, Gillmore has well earned his nom de plume of ' Ubique.' . . Contains twenty- one chapters on the varieties of game to be found in the northern states of America, and they form a useful and interesting guide to intending visitors." — Land and Water. " Has additional interest because, with but few exceptions, all the adventures related befell the author himself in South Africa and America . Mr. Gillmore tells the stories well without any of the self-glorification and evident exaggeration that sportsmen are usually guilty of in recounting their own adventures. The book should be a popular one with boys, and all into whose hands it may happen to fall. Not the least interesting parts of it are those which deal with the manners and customs of the tribes that Mr. Gillmore fell in with in his search for big game." — Notts Daily Guardian. " Are full of thrilling stories, and are freely illustrated." — Yorkshire Post. Second Edition, Crown 8vo, Illustrated, 3s. 6d. PRAIRIE AND FOREST: A Guide to the Field Sports of North America. "We are glad to welcome a second edition of ' Prairie and Forest,' in which * Ubique ' so graphically describes the field sports of North America. . . * Ubique's ' descriptions are the more valuable because they are written by a sportsman and not a mere tourist picking up information second hand. " — Daily Telegraph. '' This admirable guide to the field sports of North America has already attained well-deserved popularity. It is a book which ' the new hand ' may read with profit and an enthusiastic desire to learn how to attack his quarry, whether in the air or on the earth, or in the water ; whilst ' the old hand ' will certainly peruse it with pleasure. " — Home News. "The author is such an authority on field sports in general that everything he signs is sure of a standing welcome." — Bradford Observer. " The book is a valuable addition to the Science of Natural History, told in a popular form, and made interesting from the fact that the author has had a very practical acquaintance with the animals he is describing." — Notts Daily Guardian. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. IV. H. Allen & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works. li mew movels. With Numerous Illustrations by the Author. Crown 8vo, 6s. ABSOLUTELY TRUE. By Irving Montagu, late Special War Correspondent " Illustrated London News." " The plot of this romance is cleverly and ingeniously worked out, and the reader is certain not to close the book until he has devoured the last page." — Acadetny. *' All the characters are well drawn, some of them arc exceedingly so. . . The interest which is awakened in the very first chapter is maintained throughout." — Pall Mall Gazette. " A story of much power, told in fervid and stirring language. The incidents are neatly arranged, and the interest never flags, while the humour is consistent, and not over-strained." — Daily Telegraph. "We accept Mr. Montagu's declaration that the incidents in his delightful" story are absolutely true ; and as one lays down the volume one exclaims that, in all truth, fact is stranger than fiction. The book is not only charming as a tale, but it is written in excellent taste and with conspicuous literary power. It should be added that the book is beautifully illustrated from sketches from Mr. Montagu's powerful pencil, and that these add immensely to the attractive- ness of an altogether delightful work." — Scotsman. ' ' There is a good deal of ingenuity in the plot of this book, and only the very accomplished novel reader will be able to unravel the plot without reading on to the end." — Daily Chronicle. 2 Vols., Crown 8vo, 21s. AN AMERICAN MONTE CRISTO. A Romance. By Julian Hawthorne. ' * There is a touch of supernatural in the story wisely left unexplained, and for the rest, though wildly romantic, it is not a book to begin and lay aside." — Daily Graphic. '* Mr. Julian Hawthorne bears an honoured name in American literature, and a new work from his pen cannot fail to be of interest. ' An American Monte Cristo ' possesses a great deal that is fine i . . it is of the sensational order, certainly very exciting, and filled with startling incidents enough." — Saturday Review. " Full of interest, excitement, and general 'go.' Mr. Hawthorne rises to the height of his great opportunity, very good indeed." — Daily Chronicle. *' Its author has written stories more coherent, but none in which the mingled charm of mystery and romance are secured with better effect." — Scotsman. '* The scheme of the story is extremely ingenious, and enchains the reader rom first to last. . . A very moving drama." — Bradford Observer. " Will be thoroughly enjoyed by the reader. . . The interest is kept up to the very end of the story." — Publishers' Circular. *' The reader is not likely to lay down the book until he has reached the last page." — Daily News. *' The plot of this romance is cleverly and ingeniously worked out. It contains all the exciting ingredients of love, jealousy, hypnotism, and crime ; and the reader is certain not to close the book until he has devoured the last page."'— Academy. London : 1 3, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S. W. 12 W. H, Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. flew movel6 3u0t pu&Ii^beJ). 3 vols. Crown Zvo, 31s. 6d. THE HARLEQUIN OPAL. A Romance. By FERGUS HUME, Author of " The Island of Fantasy," &c. " Something exciting is always either happening or about to happen, and the book is always refreshing and entertaining." — Scotsman. '* The thrilling and mysterious in Mr. Fergus Hume's story is pleasantly- relieved with scenes and incidents which aie comparatively ordinary, though they all belong to South America. He every now and then gives us a rest from the harrowing and exciting, by introducing bits brightened up with wit and humour, and if we have strange heathen priests and Napoleonic adventures, and secret passages, and human sacrifices, and impenetrable forests, and blind- folding, and hideous yells, we have also a delightful Irishman, a prim aunt, and plenty of pretty love-making and friendly chaff." — Glasgow Herald. " It is certainly an interesting story, and shows a vivid imagination and much dramatic ingenuity." — Birmingham Gazette. 2 vols., Crown 8vo, 21s. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EMINENT POLITICIAN. By EDOUARD ROD. (Rendered into English from La Vie Privee de Michel Teissier.) "The cleverness of the book is remarkable, its skill in developing emotional situations unquestionable, its boldness refreshing, and its modernity quite new." — Scotsman. "The book is a very remarkable and superior one." — Glasgoiv Herald. " The story is profoundly interesting and deeply pathetic. The psychology is exceeding subtle, and many of the situations intensely dramatic." — Daily Chronicle. A tale of French political and domestic life. It is, however, true not only to nationality, but to human nature, and is therefore as interesting to the English as to the foreign reader." — Globe. "The main business of the novel writer is to catch and hold your attention, and this M. Edouard Rod is able to do in all the works of his I have hitherto read. The book which is before me, translated with real excellence, is, as a si ory, one of the best constructed I have read for a long time. You are brought into contract with the catastrophe almost in the first page. There is scarcely a pause in the narrative until you reach the final and inevitable end." — Weekly Sun. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. IV. H. Allen & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works, 1 3 Crown 8vo, 6s. THE BOW OF FATE. A Story of Indian Life. By Surgeon-Major H. M. Greenhow. "His pictures of Anglo-Indian life are very graphic in their simplicity, while the period of the story — that of the great Mutiny— gives ample opportunity for the introduction of much dramatic incident, which lends the book more than ordinary interest." — Morning Post. *' The author has thought out an interesting plot, yet the attraction of the book lies rather in the events than in the characters . . . the ti7nes in which their creator has placed them were real enough, and we follow with fresh excite- ment this recital of the surprises and terrors of 1857." — Glasgow Herald. "It is a well-written story, interesting in its subject, and containing powerfu scenes — Matichester Examiner, Crown 8vo, 6s. CAVERTON MANOR, or FORESHADOWED. By May Brotherhood. "Many of the incidents narrated will be found to be more than usually fascinating by the majority of the readers." — Evening Nexvs and Post. "The author deals with nature and animal life in a way that is fresh and exciting." — Daily Telegraph. " A pleasantly-told tale of life in a hunting country, and will interest." — Glasgow Herald. " There are traces of originality and power about this story of love and jealousy. " — Bookseller. 2 Vols., Crown 8vo, 21s. CAPTAIN ENDERIS, 1st WEST AFRICAN REGIMENT. By Archer P. Crouch, Author of " On a Surf-bound Coast," " Glimpses of Feverland," &c., &c. 3 Vols., Crown Bvo. WHAT AILS THE HOUSE? By A. L. Haddon. New Edition, Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. SIGNOR MONALDINI'S NIECE. A Novel of Italian Life. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. 14 W. H. Allen & Co!s Catalogue of Recent Works. Crown 8vo, 3/6, ORNITHOLOGY In Relation to Agriculture and Horticulture. Edited by JOHN WATSON, F.L.S., &c. List of Contributors. — Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, late Consulting Entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society of England; O. V. Aplin, F.L.S., Member of the British Ornitho- logists' Union ; Charles Whitehead, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., Author of " Fifty Years of Fruit Farming"; John Watson, F.L.S., Author of "A Handbook for Farmers and Small Holders"; The Rev. F. O. Morris, M.A., Author of "A History of British Birds"; G. W. MuRDOCK, late Editor of The Farmer ; Riley Fortune, F.Z.S. ; T. H. Nelson, Member of the British Ornithologists' Union ; T. Southwell, F.Z.S. ; Rev. Theo. Wood, B.A., F.I.S. ; J. H. GuRNEY, Jun., M.R ; Harrison Weie, F.R.H.S. ; W. H. Tuck. ' ' In these days of agricultural depression it behoves the farmer to study, among other subjects, ornithology. That he and the gamekeepers often bring down plagues upon the land when they fancy they are ridding it of a pest is exceedingly well illustrated in the series of papers." — Scotsman. " Will form a text book of a reliable kind in guiding agriculturists at large in their dealings with their feathered friends and foes alike." — Glasgow Herald. " This is a valuable book and should go far to fulfil its excellent purpose. . . . A good book that every agriculturist should possess if he wishes to know friends from foes among the birds." — Land and Water. " This many-authored book is full of interesting and instructive matter.' — Saturday Review. "This volume may be confidently recommended to farmers, gardeners, and lovers of birds." — Academy. " It is well to know what birds do mischief and what birds are helpful. This book is the very manual to clear up all such doubts. " — Yorkshire Post. ' ' If landowners were to make a present of the book to their gamekeepers, much useful knowledge would be disseminated among a class that is sorely in need of enlightenment. We can cordially recommend the volume to all who are interested in British birds." — Maftchester Examiner. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. THE FUTURE OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE; How Farmers may best be Benefited. By PROFESSOR SHELDON. London: 13, Waterloo Place^ Pall Mall, S.W. W. N. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. 15 Second Edition, Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. THE CHURCH UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH. An Historical Sketch. By Rev. R G. LEE, D.D., Vicar of All Saints', Lambeth. "This is in many ways a remarkably fine book. That it is powerfully written no one acquainted with Dr. Lee's vigorous and even slashing style would for a moment dispute. — Morning Post. " His valuable contribution to English history ought to be greatly appreciated. Dr. Lee is an able and painstaking scholar, and the fruits of his undoubted labour deserve to be widely read." — Public Opinion. " His vigorous style must command the admiration even of those who most strongly dissent from the views he puts forward. Politics, intrigue, patriotism, religion, fanaticism, and superstition, were wonderfully blended in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and the condition of the society thus produced is well adapted to give full scope to Dr. Lee's controversial and critical powers. No reader is likely to complain that the ' historical sketch ' is dull, or that it is lacking in argumentative power." — Liverpool Mercury. "The author's learning is great, his pen is a fearless one, and his work will do much to take from Queen Elizabeth claims to honour attributed to her by many an earlier historian. The statements by the author are fortified by foot- notes on almost every page." — Public Opinion (Washington). Second Edition, Crown 8vo, 5s. ADDRESSES FOR A RETREAT OF FOUR OR SIX DAYS. By The Very Rev. R. W. RANDALL, Dean of Chichester. Part I. — Union with God; Part IL — From Life to Life. " This excellent volume will be found not only suggestive for conductors of retreats, but will also be of the greatest use to any of the clergy who hoM solitary retreats for themselves at home. We hope we may anticipate for this book the circulation it deserves."— ^(?A;2 Bull. " Dealing as it does with the great problems of faith, patience, and the life to come, we can confidently recommend it to that larger circle which is some- times known as ' The Religious World.' It is full of deep thought, wide reading, and a profound insight into the spiritual life ; and from its great catholicity should be of use far beyond the bounds of the class and church to which it is dedicated," — Academy. " The main object of these meditations is to bring clearly before the soul that life is given that we may live for the glory and honour of God ; to awaken the soul to the misery of missing this great end of life ; to guard it from what threatens to lead it astray ; to point to the example and love of Christ, and the joy of being true to God. . . The subjects dealt with are serious, solemn, as benefited the occasions on which the addresses were delivered. The meditations are short, pithy, and instructive, and are characterised by deep spirituaHty and intense earnestness." — Manchester Examiner. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. 1 6 W. H. Allen & CoJs Catalogue of Recent Works. Crown 8vo, 5 s. SCRIPTURE PORTRAITS And other Miscellanies collected from his Published Writings. By ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, D.D., Dean of Westminster. Many of our readers will be pleased to see this volume. It is a selection from the author's works generally, and contains much beautiful writing in the way of biography, travel, history, and exposition." — Liverpool Mercury. " The reader will find here many most striking passages ; his writings are a valuable contribution to the proper understanding of Jewish history. His style is beautifully chaste and poetical, and fascinates the reader at once." — Bradford Observer. Uniform with the above. Crown 8vo, 5 s. WORDS OF TRUTH AND WISDOM. By Very Rev. FREDERICK W. 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Anything from the pen or the lips of the great Bishop of Winchester is of great value, and much may be learned from this very cheap and most interesting volume, one especially valuable for the Sunday School teacher." — Liverpool Mercury. " Will be found a rich mine of golden ore to the busy preacher of to-day." — Perthshire Advertiser. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. PF. H. Allen & Co:s Catalogue of Recent Works. 17 Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. ANGLO-INDIAN AND ORIENTAL COOKERY. By Mrs. Grace Johnson. "Overflows with all sorts of delicious and economical recipes." — Pall Mall Budget. " Housewives and professors of the gentle art of cookery who deplore the dearth of dainty dishes will find a veritable gold mine in Mrs. Johnson's hooV"— Pall Mall Gazette. " She has thoroughly and completely investigated native and Anglo-Indian cuisines, and brought away the very best specimens of their art. Her pillau and kedgeree are perfect; curries are scientifically classed and explained, and some of the daintiest recipes we have ever seen are given, but the puddings particularly struck our fancy. Puddings as a rule are so nasty. The pudding that is nourishing is hideously insipid, and of the smart pudding it may be truly said that its warp is dyspepsia and its woof indigestion. Mrs. Johnson's puddings are both good to taste and pretty to look at, and the names of some of her native dishes will brighten any menu."— Daily Chronicle. Fifth Thousand. Cloth. One Shilling. PUDDINGS AND SWEETS: Being Three Hundred and Sixty - five Receipts, approved by Experience. By Lucy Jones. •' Those whom the matter concerns will find a faithful and fertile source of information," — Saturday Review. " Contains a fresh recipe for every day of the year, is clearly printed, and of a handy size. The recipes are clearly set forth, and likely to be of practical assistance .to cooks and housewives, since they have all been approved by experience. " — The Caterer. " A useful little cooking book." — Home News, *' Miss Lucy Jones' 365 receipts are admirable for their terseness and for the ease with which they can be understood. This handy book is a veritable treasure to young housekeepers." — Public Opinion. " The collection as a whole in this handy and useful volume will be highly prized. " — British Weekly. " We could not recommend a better work." — Army and Navy Magazine, " A considerable number of the recipes are out of the ordinary run, and those which we have examined in detail appear to be constructed on sound principles." — Manchester Guardian. " Will be found extremely serviceable." — Metropolitan. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mally S.W. 1 8 W. H, Allen & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works. Second Edition, Crown 8vo, Illustrated, 6s. WANDERINGS OF A WAR ARTIST. By Irving Montagu, late Special War Artist "Illustrated London News." "Mr. Montagu is to be congratulated on an eminently readable book, which, both in style and matter, is above the average of productions in this kind." — Morning Post. "The adventures of Mr. Montagu are narrated with humour, and aie seldom dull reading." — Glasgow Herald. " It is seldom that a more exciting and readable book than the ' Wanderings of a War Artist ' comes into our hands, and we congratulate Mr. Irving Montagu on his excellent production. Here we have racy anecdotes, full of life and humour, illustrated so well that we see the whole scenes rise vividly before us again. . . . The spirit of enterprise and daring breathes in his every page, and old and young alike will derive healthful amusement, together with information and instruction by following the author through his many vicissitudes and experiences in his capacity as a war artist." — Adfniralty and Horse Guards^ Gazette. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Second Edition, Crown Svo, Illustrated, 6s. CAMP AND STUDIO. By The Same Author. " Is a bright, chatty record of war scenes and adventures in various parts of the world." — Echo. " His animated pages and sketches, however, have a more than ephemeral interest, and present a moving picture of the romance and the misery of countries and populations ravaged by great opposing armies, and many a picturesque episode of personal experiences ; he is pleasant and amusing enough. " — Daily News. " Will turn with pleasant anticipation to this recital of adventurous ex- periences, and will assuredly not be disappointed. Mr. Montagu has plenty to tell, and an easy way of telling it which is delightful. His vivacity is not spoilt by laborious effort, his pathos is not vitiated by sentimentality, and he possesses the rare gift of exciting interest in his own doings without so much as a saint of egotism." — Broad Arrow. " Brightly written and cleverly and interestingly illustrated the book ought to become exceedingly popular. From first to last the author has avoided dry etail, and while consecutiveness is not lost sight of, there is scarcely one out of the 400 pages into which the matter is compressed that is not sufficiently interesting in itself to claim the reader's attention." — Evening News. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. W. If. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. 19 Crown 8vo, with Maps specially drawn for the work, and numerous Illustrations, 7s. 6d. Second Edition. MOROCCO AS IT IS. With an Account of the recent Mission of Sir Charles Euan Smith. By Stephen Bonsal, Jun., Special Correspondent "Central News." *' There are several new and interesting features in the work, which gives much valuable information." — Daily Telegraph. *• Will be read with interest by all who are anxious about the present prospect of affairs in Morocco. " — Scotsman. " Deserves to be widely read. . . . Any who desire a full and picturesque account of this mission this book will be of special interest." — Manchester Examiner. **A vivid account of Sir Charles Euan Smith's abortive mission to Fez forms a prominent part of this volume, and Mr. Bonsai gives an independent version of what really happened." — Daily Graphic. New Edition, Demy 8vo, 1,200 pages, ;^i lis. 6d. Dedicated by special permission to the Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE. THE BOOK OF DIGNITIES, CONTAINING Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire^ CIVIL, DIPLOMATIC, HERALDIC, JUDICIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, MUNICIPAL, NAVAL, AND MILITARY. From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, together with the Sovereigns and Rulers of the World from the Foundation of their respective States ; the^ Orders of Knighthood of the United Kingdom and India, and numerous other lists. Founded on Beatson^s " Political Index '' (1806). Remodelled and brought down to 1 85 1 by the late Joseph Haydn. Continued to the Present Time, with numerous Additio7ial Lists, aitd an Index to the entire work. By HORACE OCKERBY, Solicitor of the Supreme Court. "It is probably the most complete official directory in existence, containing about 1,300 different lists." — Times. " The value of such a book as this purports to be can hardly be overrated.'* — Saturday Review. London : 1 3, Waterloo Place ^ Pall Mall^ S. W. 20 W. H. Allen & Co.'s Catalogue of Recent Works. Imperial 8vo, 1,539 pages, £$ 3s. net. A COMPREHENSIVE PERSIAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY : Comprising such Arabic Words and Phrases as are to be met with in Persian Literature; being Johnson & Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, Minutely Revised, Enlarged from Fresh and Latest Sources, and entirely Reconstructed on original Lines. By F. Steingass, Ph.D., Author of both the Student's Arabic- EngUsh and EngUsh- Arabic Dictionaries. " The author has spared no pains to make his work as complete and useful as possible." — Times of India. "Messrs. W. H. Allen & Co. have added another to the long list of useful books with which Oriental students associate their name. Dr. F. Steingass has been responsible for the preparation of this volume, which comprises all such Arabic words as are to be met with in Persian literature; The excellence of the work is attested by the fact that it has been brought out under the approval of the Secretary of State for India." — Daily Telegraph. "Dr. F. Steingass' Persian-Eyiglish Dictio?iary has been delayed some time, but no one will regret this who considers the thoroughness with which the work has been executed, and the enormous labour necessary for its completion. It is by far the most complete and most generally satisfactory book of the kind yet offered to Enghsh students. The title-page modestly describes the volume as 'Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, revised, enlarged, and entirely reconstructed. ' But the truth is, it is practically a new lexicon. Dr. Steingass has, indeed, had the advantage of the labours of some predecessors distinguished in lexicography, just as Johnson had the advantage of Richardson's in producing the dictionary known under their joint names. But so much, both in substance and in the arrangement of the work, is due to Dr. Steingass' own labour, and to the newer elements that the mere lapse of time has made available, that the lexicon is not properly regarded as only an enlargement. It has in it all — so far as Persian is concerned — that is in Johnson and Richardson, and the kernel of the recent French lexicons, and of Vuller's Persian- Latin Dictionary ; while Dr. Steingass has very fully supplemented this rich matter by his own wide reading, which ranges from the acknowledged and historical classics to the Shah's diaries. The difficulty in a work of this kind is always that of the importance to be assigned to Arabic. Dr. Steingass has overcome this in such a way as to make his lexicon satisfactory both to those who wish to be scholars in Arabic and to those who care nothing about that speech except in so far as it has been adopted by Persian writers. The work, on the whole, is a conspicuous monument of labour and learning in Oriental philology, and will without any doubt at once take its place as the standard dictionary for English students of the speech of SadL'' — Scotsman. "This is a minute revision of Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, with enlargements from the latest soiu-ces, and the whole work has been reconstructed on fresh principles. The Arabic element has been reduced and recast, but the dictionary still comprises all such Arabic words and phrases as are to be met with in Persian literature. The volume bears marks of assiduous care and indefatigable research, and will find an honoured place on the shelves of all serious students of Oriental hterature." — Daily Chrofiicle. " This volume, comprising over 1,500 imperial 8vo pages, seems to have been prepared regardless of cost or labour. It is a minute revision of Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, and all Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature are included in it. It was at first intended to reduce the Arabic and increase the Persian in the original dictionary, but the additions which were found necessary have carried the work beyond the dimensions contemplated. Dr. Steingass appears to have at last placed at the disposal of English students of Persian life and Persian literature a first-class dictionary." — Home News. " Dr. Steingass has brought a most laborious work to a successful termination, and deserves the profound gratitude of all students of Persian for the conscientious manner in which the book has been compiled.'' — Saturday Review. London: 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall y S.W, W. H. Allen & Co!s Catalogue of Recent Works. 21 Royal 4to. Cloth, with 51 Illustrations, £2> S^- J^^t. MAHABODHI; OR, THE GREAT BUDDHIST TEMPLE UNDER THE BODHI TREE AT BUDDHA-GAYA. BY MA.JOR- GENERAL SIR ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM R.E., K.C.LE., CS.L ' ' The author gives an elaborate account, illustrated with numerous photo- graphs, of the results of the excavations and restorations recently undertaken at the Great Buddhist Temple of Buddha-Gaya. The importance, as he says, ' of the Temple for the history of art is quite unique, as it gives us the oldest existing remains of both sculpture and architecture. The sculptures of the Bharut Stupa date from the flourishing period of the Sunga dynasty, about B.C. 150, whereas the Mahabodhi remains belong to the period of Asoka, just one century earlier.' All Oriental archaeologists will recognise the importance of these remains and the value of Sir A. Cunningham's monograph upon them." — The Times. " A handsome volume which will be warmly welcomed both by archgeologists and the wider circle who interest themselves in Indian Art. Mahabodhi is a monument of careful and patient investigation, and bears on every leaf the stamp of its author's ripe acquaintance with a branch of learning, which in India has been peculiarly prolific in practical results. ... It is elaborately illustrated with a series of over thirty plates, which reveal some of the finest masterpieces of Indian sculpture and architecture extant." — Pioneer (Allahabad). Sir A. Cunningham is the greatest authority on the ancient monuments of India, and his volume, historical, descriptive, and illustrative of the Alahdbodhi is a work of unusual interest and value. . . . The work is illustrated by a series of beautifully executed plates, and these, together with the letterpress, give us a very clear and complete idea of this famous temple." — Scotsman. "This handsome volume will increase the deservedly high reputation of its author. " — Manchester Guardian. " Sir A. Cunningham's work is one of great value, and abounds with matter of a highly suggestive character."' — Indian Magazine. Londo7i : 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall., S.W. 22 W. H. Allen & Co!s Catalogue of Recent Works. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 30s. With 18 Maps of Collectorates. THE LAND REVENUE OF BOMBAY: A History of Its Administration, Rise, and Progress. By Alexander Rogers, Bombay Civil Service (retired). ' ' Mr. Rogers has produced a continuous and an authoritative record of the land changes and of the fortunes of the cultivating classes for a full half-century, together with valuable data regarding the condition and burdens of those classes at various periods before the present system of settlement was introduced. He commences with the northern division of Bombay, in which his service was chiefly spent, and works southward, giving a detailed account of each district within the Presidency, exclusive of Bombay Island and Sind. His work thus supplements the valuable selections of records which have from time to time been published by the Bombay Government. These selections deal chiefly, although not exclusively, wdth periods of special interest or with measures of particular importance. Mr. Rogers now presents a comprehensive view of the land administration of Bombay as a whole, the history of its rise and progress, and a clear statement of the results which it has attained. The narrative is by no means one of unchecked prosperity. But in spite of famine, droughts, floods, and the other recurring calamities of nature in a country dependent on the tropical rainfall ; in spite, also, of the occasional blundering officials, it is a narrative of which all patriotic Englishmen may feel proud. The old burdens of native rule have been lightened, the old injustices mitigated, the old fiscal cruelties and exactions abolished. Underlying the story of each district we see a perennial struggle going on between the increase of the population and the available means of subsistence derived from the soil. That increase of the population is the direct result of the peace of the country under British rule. But it tends to press more and more severely on the possible limits of local cultivation, and it can only he provided for by the extension of the modern appliances of production and distribution. Mr. Rogers very properly confines himself to his own subject. But there is ample evidence that the extension of roads, railways, steam factories, and other industrial enterprises, have played an important part in the solution of the problem, and that during recent years such enterprises have been powerfully aided by an abundant currency." — The Times. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. W. H. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. 23 Tenth Year, 1893. Price 2s. Three Hundred Illustrations. ACADEMY SKETCHES, A Volume of Sketches of Paintings, Water Colours, &c., IN THE Royal Academy, The New Gallery, The Water-Colour Societies, and other Exhibitions. Edited by HENRY BLACKBURN. ' ' A capital selection of illustrations of paintings and sculpture in the eight principal art exhibitions of the year." — Saturday Review. "It is not only valuable as a companion to the various picture Exhibitions, but as a memento of them, and as giving some idea of the majority of the pictures to residents abroad, or persons who are prevented by circumstances from seeing the originals. It is particularly well got up, and, as many of the plates are reproduced by the Meisenbach and kindred processes, they will bear looking into, even with a magnifying-glass. " — Lady. '* The most complete representation of the works of art shown in the various London exhibitions. It is an admirable souvenir of the art work of the year." — Scotsman. "Sketches from all the leading exhibitions, and will serve to indicate and to recall some of the best pictures of the season." — Life. London: 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. 24 W. H. Allen & Go's Catalogue of Recent Works. Crown 8vo, Cloth, is. Twelfth Year of Issue, Revised and Enlarged. LONDON IN 1893. ILLUSTRATED BY Twenty Bird's-Eye Views of the Principal Streets, ALSO BY ■ A LARGE GENERAL MAP OF LONDON. Originally Compiled by HERBERT FRY, Editor of the '"''Royal Guide to the London Charities" '■^Handbook to Normandy,'''' '* The Road to Paris,'' cffc. The great object of this Book is to provide the stranger in London with information at a glance respecting each of the main thoroughfares ; and with this design both the plan and the style of its unique illustrations have been projected. Moreover, instead of the usual arrangement of Guide-Books, where the traveller is set down before a very maze of streets, with a list of places and institutions alphabetically strung together, street-by-street particulars, such as are of the most general interest, are given, and an Index supplies an alphabetical means of reference. This manual not only serves as the Easiest and Clearest Guide about the Great Metropolis, but both for the accuracy with which its novel illustrations depict the main thoroughfares and their principal buildings, and for the descriptions corresponding therewith, the book is esteemed an interesting souvenir which visitors carry home with them, and also purchase as an appropriate present for their far-off f-iends. The first annual edition of this book contained only Thirteen Illustrations. "London in 1893" has Twenty Double-page Street Views, and is carefully revised to present date, so as to exhibit the latest alterations and changes in this ever-improving and enlarging metropolis. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The bird's-eye views of the chief thoroughfares are anew feature f streetography, and far more useful than maps. Altogether it is a most valuable handbook to the metropolis." — Graphic. "Very extensive in its information and interesting in its details — as a text- book for explanation and as a historical book of reference it will be found most useful and entertaining." — Daily News. "An admirable guide, full of information. The bird's-eye views are very interesting. They often give even those who are familiar with London a new idea of the relation of localities.'" — Llltist rated Sporting and Dramatic News. 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