opinion, which was once universally received by the learned as well as the vulgar.’ Dickens’s science must be received in the same manner. Mr. Crisparkle has one piece of evidence in his memory. ‘Long afterwards he had cause to remember’ how, when he entered Jasper’s rooms and found him asleep by the fire, the choirmaster ‘sprang from the couch in a delirious state between sleeping and waking, and crying out, “What is the matter? Who did it?”’ As we have already seen, the gathering of the threads is in the strong hands of Datchery. As we know, Forster adds that Neville Landless was to have perished in assisting Tartar finally to unmask and seize the murderer. It will be seen that this part of his testimony is more doubtful than the rest, and cannot, therefore, be so implicitly accepted, but it may well be true. Melancholy seems to mark Neville Landless for its own, and his passion for Rosa is hopeless. If he dies, it is a heavy blow for his devoted sister, who finds her triumph marred by the death of her brother. Singularly enough, some writers who have hesitated to accept Forster’s more expressed testimony make much of the death of Neville Landless and its circumstances. It need only be pointed out that all this is pure conjecture, however ingenious it may be. I find no difficulty in believing that Dickens carried out his plan of making Jasper give in prison a review of his own career. This has been called a poor and conventional idea, but as worked out by Dickens it would neither have been poor nor conventional. What remains to be told is, I repeat, largely the story of John Jasper’s earlier life. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD A BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILED BY B. W. MATZ THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. By Charles Dickens. Parts 1–6. With 12 illustrations by Sir Luke Fildes, R.A. 1870. HOW MR. SAPSEA CEASED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE EIGHT CLUB. Fragment found by John Forster. See his _Life_ of the Novelist. Added to the ‘Biographical,’ ‘National,’ and ‘Centenary’ editions of the novel. THE CLOVEN FOOT: An Adaptation of the English Novel to American Scenes, Characters, Customs and Nomenclature. By Orpheus C. Kerr (R. H. Newell). New York: Carleton. 1870. THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD. By Orpheus C. Kerr. An English edition of foregoing, with several minor alterations. London: _The Piccadilly Annual_. 1870. JOHN JASPER’S SECRET: A Sequel to Charles Dickens’s Unfinished Novel, _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_. By Henry Morford, of New York, and his wife. Issued in parts in America by T. B. Peterson and Bros., Philadelphia, from October 1871 to March 1872; and in England anonymously. An edition of the same work was published in 1901 with the astoundingly false announcement on the title-page that the book is by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens the Younger. New York: R. F. Fenno and Co. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. A Play by Walter Stephens. Performed at the Surrey Theatre, 4th November 1871. Chapman and Hall. 1871.