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    Marchi. issi The Publishers' Circular l6...

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    OOBKESPONDBNOE. COPYRiaHT.

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    Books .BOOKS x Keceived \tj<jni. y£ju : ...

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    Marchi. Issi The Publishers' Circular L6...

    Marchi . issi The Publishers' Circular l 6 ?

    Oobkespondbnoe. Copyriaht.

    OOBKESPONDBNOE . COPYRiaHT .

    To the Editor of the ' Publishers' Circular . ' tzr There is at tic 126 iiiu of \ this day ' issue that requires modification lanationviz

    y S jlE IE — —Xfltsre lo a u . pa piooago ssage p | y . . jx Liiia uaj s o issue iuai fci ^ uuca nujviiiictttJVU or exp oJkUlijbUaLIvJlJ , , VI * .. No action of Parliament is needed to sanction the importation of American reprints of English booksthe author ' s consent is all that is needful . ' I should like to s < e a reference to your authority for this

    do statement not see , cop or a ies quotation of these of editions the passage ^^ sold in I . Eng Most land of ; our in point popular of fact authors , his consen have Ameri t , if g can iven editions , would , be but over "we - . the , i t- % lifch 1 l _ / T — . of * C /! a . '

    ridden by Eng' Law Copyright . ' Yours faithfull y , Feb . lo , 1881 . A . H .

    for the [ We simp refer le ' reason A . H . ' to that 7 Viet no author . c . 12 , would section be 10 so . foolish ' "We do as not to see give cop the ies n of ecessary these reprints consent . sold —Ed inEDg . P . C land ] *

    Books .Books X Keceived \Tj<Jni. Y£Ju : ...

    Books . BOOKS x Keceived \ tj < jni . y £ ju : . — *

    From Messrs . Appleton & Co ., New York . — ' North American Review , ' February , 2 nd edition .

    This is such a remarkable number that we are tempted to name four of the articles . They arc —The Nicaragua Canalby General Grant ; the

    Pulpit and the Pew , by , Oliver Wendell Holmes ; Did Shakespeare write Bacon ' s works ? by J . F . Clarke ; the Poetry of the Future , by Walt

    Whitman . From Messrs . Burns & Oates . — ' The Life of Father John Gerardof the Society of Jesus / by

    — — - — - , v * ft John Morris , of the same Society . Third edition . The author of this remarkable work , which is interesting , not only to the antiquarian , but to the

    student of English history , has , in the present edition , re-written the life of Father Gerard , and has virtually given to it all the freshness of a new book .

    The sufferings of the Father in the Tower and elsewhere are recorded with a painful minuteness by his own hand , and even those who have no

    sympathy with the faith of the Roman Church , for his devotion to whi < h he suffered so terribly , will find a remarkable portraiture of a period of the religious

    life of this country which is now almost forgotten . The book is illustrated by some admirably executed photographs .

    From Messrs . Griffith & Farran . — ' Grandpapa ' s Verses by t / T . P and * . M ^• a * . Pictures . , ¦ with « r * * s A A twenty aw ; or ^ S ^ - » , Natural J -ei V- * * g ^ k ht *•¦» V > History illustrations . » * . » vrnK ¦ a ^ I / A «_ v «> in « Play l . b r ^ r b r _» y , '

    his nis of book H . a H practice . tells Moore us . , which in The the he author preface adopted of , this that in pre order it tty is to children the gratif fruit ' y s

    then work grandchildren grandchildren writing on Natural descri , , History ptive of of copying con verses vine into tho tho upon a MS woodcuts woodcuts them . book . , of of The and a a

    pictures poems in here homel given hrase are cap tell itall the y children drawn , of and some the i of the cha « . *„ racteristics M »« - ^ uvi y p O and CL 1 IVJ . habits llttUlLO of \ JX the LUU bird \ J i X VI s * and Cl / AJVl the , 3

    beasts sketched for their delectation . From rellet Messrs ev by * . William Hodder & Stoughton . — ' Stephen

    <> ^^ f eu the publishers ' > y William ' series Gnpnt Guest of . , F RO * . Men G . S S . Worth A A new nnw Remem volume volum ^ - ^ " —oi / utj ling & sketch of tho remarkable

    two the ijrench ng wars - Qu supp of > ikor the - " y yuiJj , whoso Firs 5 « t Napoleon p hilanthrop jK . ci . cu ui form luv ic efforts the xuiuurAuuiu subj duri ect ng of

    which largo this briefer volumes biograp by Benj hy has amin been Soebohm compiled , from . As aristocra a ? jcnu rative t in of the experiences of the young French

    J - ° «« the ultrji m simp his nis passage Dassairo licity of from from tho faith Roman Ttonian of the Catholicism Catholicism Society of * nends , the book is tJ full lull of interestand the etory

    _/> l . ' ~~ > - »«^ * v / i IUI / L 1 UDI' , | U . J 1 VA iJLJIU Dl / Vi V Bw rought a , into . tJVrer connection 8 ion rcctiUs with that tho of Quakers St . Augustine , ho was , * M 1 t > O Rflirl Ud -.-. th 4 . 1 T . " > . . i > i Bible -r-. ' > i i . ¦ .

    , ^ J to ^ tK e ? United t y States o E"gli , where « n he , became and he intimatel then went y

    i associated with the members of the Society , and

    ! entered on the career of charitable effort which j Russia won for , to him Ital well y •/ , and -deserved to many honour % f European . His countries visits to

    are fully described down to the close of his re-, narkable life , in 1855 , when ho died in the ! "United States , still firmly adhering to the body

    to which his devotion never wavered . Ftohi Messrs . W . & ^ l . K . Johnston . — ' The

    Statistical Atlas of England , Scotland , and Ireland . ' Edited by G . Phillips Bevan , F . S . S ., F . G . S ., & c . Part I . Religious . This workwhich will

    ¦ when completed , form a perfect library , j — of refer- , j ence on nearly every matter of interest to the I religionistthe philanthropistand the politician

    presents , in , tabular form , a series , of statistics in , the various departments of the subjects dealt with , j accompanied __^_ ^ by illustrative - — — _ . maps ^_ — . In the ^ —_ — ^

    part before us , for instance , we have a complete resume of the existing condition of the various religious bodiestheir ministerscongregations

    & c , and then follow , maps illustrating , the religious , condition of the people . As , however , the last religious census was taken thirty years agothe

    ficanin instancesobviousl , onl present gures an , approximation many to tho , actual state y of y things , although , in other cases—as , for example

    in regard to the diocesan officials and cathedral , clergy—various sources of information have been freely utilised , and the diocese of Liverpoolfor

    instancr , is fully represented in the tables . , Tho clearness of the printing and the perfect execution I of the maps add not a little to tho merits of the

    work . j , From Messrs . Little , Brown , & Co ., Boston . —

    Grimm ' s ' Life and Times of Goethe . ' We are I monograp almost t _ j inclined j , h on Gernianv to think ' this e greatest cj tho most writer interesting — which j

    bus ever appeared . That is baying much , because , if there is a subject which has been discussed to death in Germany , the land of disquisitio x n' , it is

    —Goethe ; and , besides , it is not so many years since the Kn £ > lisli-speaking- world received the best biography of Goethe which exists from the hands oi perluips thtf most versatile author of England .

    The book boforn us is a comparative study , which can be read with profit l-y any admirer of Goetho , however familiar ho may be with Goctkc-Litcratur .

    IForr Grimm—ii nephew , by the waj r , of the celo-Ijrted I ; rut hers Grimm—traces tho causes and effects of tho productions of tho wonderful mind

    ] io oxamines ; these caist'S and offects being , in part , writings from oi her countries . Thus , Wertkera XiC T- idcn 1 hus I li 1 ' ht I . shed 1 1 it ••/ from » both 1 . 1 T ^

    and England , g jis uliown u ( b - y on these few lines : Franco —

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1881, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031881/page/9/