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    BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. Receiver At the ...

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    Books Heceitbd : From Messrs. "W. H. All...

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    zo 6 The PublishersCircular March t 1

    Bankruptcy Proceedings. Receiver At The ...

    BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS . At the London Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday , before Mr . Harding , the Chief OfhY 1

    recentl Receiver y , petitioned a first meeting the court of creditors , describing was held himself under as the of failure 18 and of John 19 Queenhithe Wick . The wholeaal bankrupt I stationerWick & CoThe accounts produced showed debts ,

    in £ 17 the , 313 , proceedings , and trading assets as . £ ' 11 Barry Numerous , 137 . , 14 s . 9 , proofs d . Mr . ' . were Godden put , Mr in , . and Thomas a scheme Beard , and of arrangement others , unsecurp appeared l I

    accountan unanimousl t y 38 agreed Basing to , hall by which Street the as business trustee , was with to a be committee continued of b inspection y Mr . W . H the . P aimell debtor was I

    assisting in , the realisation of the estate , , with a proviso enabling the trustee to sell , the estate I I ci tu uut ti tiitJ

    ir examination so aavisea . was aii adjourned ine costs , to cuarges the 11 th . of ujtpenses March . ue pttiu . » estate , rjie public I I

    Books Heceitbd : From Messrs. "W. H. All...

    Books Heceitbd : From Messrs . "W . H . Allen & Co . — ' Thornton ' s

    Foreigu Secretaries . ' Mr . Percy Thornton ' s interesting series of sketches of English Foreign Secretaries deals with those who occupied that

    post during the eventful years at the beginning of the nineteenth century . Thus , we have accounts of the Marquis Wellesley , Lord Castlereagh ,

    George Canning , Lords Dudley , Aberdeen , and Palmerston ; of Lords Grenville , Hawkesbury , Harrowbyand Mulgraveof Charles James Pox

    j ^ arl Grey , ( Lord Howick ) , , and of Lord Bathurst , , with a second notice of George Canning . The later personages included in these volumes are

    Russell Wellington , and , Granville the Earl , of Malmesbury Clarendon , . Lor A d number , John of tinted portraits add interest to Mr . Thornton ' s

    ' Foreign Secretaries / They have been received with such favour by the public that there is already a second edition of the three volumes .

    From Messrs . A . S . Barnes & Co ., New York and Chicago . — ' Worman and Monsanto ' s First

    Spanish Book / This elementary work , for it ; begins planned with on the the al natural phabet or and Pestalozzian sounds of letters method , is .

    It is made attractive by numerous engravings of domestic articles and - scenes , views , familiar ! objectsanimalsschool apparatusshipsrecks

    Sec . It , is well , printed , crown , 8 vo . in , orna- , mental boards . The firBt approach to a language could hardly bo made more agreeable .

    From Messrs . Gilbert & Co . ( Southampton ) , and Hamilton , Adams , and Co . ' A History of

    Southampton / Partly from the M . S . of Dr . Speed in the > Southampton Archives . By the Rev . J . Silvester DaviesM . A . F . S . A . vicar of St . James ' s

    Enfield Highway , . Mr , . Davies , , when residing in the , neighbourhood of Southampton , was asked by the local publishers to edit Dr . Speed ' s MSS . among

    the the Southampton resuit of his Archives labours , with and additions he here gives which us serve to bring the record down , to the present hv , date .

    Mr - ~ - . Davies - has » - - ™ also consulted — nil other available -r ' -r ^— - ^— ^ ^ - ^ H ^^ ^ m sources of information , including the registers of the diocese of Winchester , and the documents

    in the Public Record Office . Dividing his work into the nine town — -p , sections the _ local he treuts inntirutions of the , earl the . __ y munici history _ . ___ pal „ of

    bodies and customs , the trade of the town , the charities , the educational institutions , and the ecclesiastical history of tho parish churchesand

    other religious bodies . The origin and progress , of the various guilds and institutions are carefully described . and cop _ A ious foot-notes supp *»«/ ly the authori - -

    ties for , , every , statement . The old charters . granted for specific purposes , such as the fairs , aro duly set

    forth burgesses , and in j the Parliament lists riitiu of mayors d , other sheriffs , Tecorders I

    g records uuigBB iven with » e of the , scrupulous . u churches « . < . ouu and care , , an a of , n and a r he — ntner ancient exactness onicers officers ecclesias . The are ar » I 1 I II

    tical can . give Davies houses the has are utmost fuLl done and praise his exhaustive work to fro the way ; in " ^ in - ^ fact ^ icoiaa which we * - I I

    Mr . m first to last I ana and The tne the book m marginal arginal is admirabl notes notes y and and printed inaex index on give ffive thick the tli « vp reader paper ^ uI , I I I

    every Taken aid as a in whole searching the for book any is particular a model of subj what ect a . I local should , b

    history -j . From Holy MessTS Lent' . by Grifath the Bishop . & P of arran Central . —* Hel New ps York to a .

    A series of , meditations for each day in Lent , followed a collect by . a . The few appropri subjects ate of verses the meditation of poetry and are

    given at the head of each chapter in the form of extracts from the Bible , or from some religious writer—it would have been an improvement if

    the source of the quotation had been named—and the meditation , which is couched in simple and i practical language , seldom exceeds two or three

    pages . It will be an acceptable book for private devotional use , and will also serve as a suggestive handbook to the clergy in giving Lenten

    addresses to their people . From Messrs . John & Robert Maxwell . —'

    Peric Satiri les B cal rum Romance ; or , the b Last Austi of n Pember the De . The Veres key , ' to a , y is

    date this t . liis d work wort ' Iona is is s Kiinnl Is upp land lied ifid , December m in the t . h « introduction int . rnfluotioii 25 , 1980 / , . wherein which which IS the author speaks of things which in his opinion

    L / Uk * > « VI . UUsJl . fcj LyV' «* A \ IJ * S M . Kill iJCIO IT IA'V >* * *• *— . — ~ - i * s ? will ti UlllUIVU tut b y that h 1 K a 1 O s timo been UCC 11 have u UUUU ndermine come 1 UllllViU d to , the l pass / uu — » foundations v » ' the into

    conthousand of society fragments blown up , , v ery d few reli of gion which been either split are , or a

    occ UCUULICU to are urred note considered the : . the LllO changes , colonies CUJLUllltfa worth which pi are HCK cking separated bcpairt he up supposes . He from i * p bare to roceeds ... lwvo l the

    j Parliament rational mother . tiinjiinHui Church country > ; ; the me ; JirisLwrnc ari ; do there stocracy standing is no ha ihivo ve army national tut cut thei * nor . » iv ^ , r a throats sitting y a

    — com some piling have a history had thei of r throats tho world cut for the them eminent 4 \< ; M m ~ land " German \ n-nA ' . «^ Jew - d finall <; nn , Griimmen ii ,. in : ^ i ^ ^ . « . i l Josep ish ^ i » dictionaries ^ l . ' hue rtfi '/^ , forgot nrift . s certain certain

    Imperialism words which an , formerl patriotism y y Eng occur , have red been , such left as out p rest . 5 \ ° ' writer writto lo describe the stages bm & by j vine

    this abyss proceeds proceeua has been uesonue raiched , and then ^» ts he comjnir introduced mences ouuceu his to ru romance ns ns in in rue the . Pericles company company Brum of ui " his » ° , uncle "" ' . ot , ^ ° AJe [? ,. ' .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1884, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031884/page/10/