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I 2l6 The Publishers' Circular March i, ...
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^Ale Sfotthts^ Importan **•• We M— — — R...
" — b graduall ht . Messrs y beco . ming Robson more . & Kerslak rare— e has were ever the roug
purchasers . On the 5 th of March and following day , the
library good books formed inc by luding the late a J . copy R . Planche of ' Hasted . Som ' e s
Kent ' Wliitaker , ' folio , and , ' Sowerb Thoresb y ' s ' s Botany Leeds , ' ' 37 vols n the ., y ,
sale . Messrs . Putticks hold a sale of miscellaneous
March books JW . arcn on and ana the on on the tne 17 th 24 Z 4 th tn and they tney following win will se sell n a a days Musical musical of
, , Library . Mr . Hodgson announces several early sales
of good books .
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STATE . If it be an axiom that Nothing succeeds like success 1 ' it ¦¦ is no less true that success begets
detractors r ¦ »•» ^^ - *^ . ^^ - ' — r * m Some , v —— ' ~^ ^^ persons — — ^» — ^^ , unhappily , are — so constituted J that they cannot bear to see others successful . That they themselves have failed is often the cause of
their malevolent bearing towards those who have not only deserved , but have achieved success . It is ^ 9 a ^^ ^ not ^^^ - ^^ 4 ^ the - ^^ ^ - ^^ - ^^ man ™ ¦ » ' who v - ¦ — ' deserves - — — — yet m - — cannot
command success who envies the successful man , but he whose * vaulting ambition has o ' erleapt itself and fallen on the other side . '
Mr . H . M . Stanley , so distinguished in the ranks of African explorers , who devoted so much time and energy Oi / and endured so much in his brave and
suecessful endeavours to found the Congo Free State , is no exception to the successful men of all ages and countries who have suffered from , the detraction of
others . Mr . Stanley has recently bean subjected to attacks so unseemly that we forbear from further characterising W themor giving their authors a
gratuitous - — - — — advertisement - -- {— J , in these *| ¦» columns . The unhealthy craving for notoriety at the expense of others is one of the most unpleasant signs of the
times . Happily , the independent testimony which has recently been received from the Dark Continent so
fully confirms Mr . Stanley's statements as to the climate and productive resources of the Congo Free Statethat it must go a long way towards
compensating that 7 , brave explorer t I for the K * J dangers % f and difficulties ± he has so successfully combated , and for the attacks — referred — to , f arid is most gratif tJ y */ ing tJto his countless
admirers and friends all the world over . Lieutenant Taunt , who , according to Chambers s Journalhas quite recently returnod from the
a Congo special Free , mission State , whither by the he Government had been sent of the on United States , reports most favourably of its
condition . Cattle are most successfully reared ; there is a good supply of fresh meat , as well as of vegetables ¦ o — _ - _ . Lieutenant Taunt was well received by
the natives , who are generally on good terms with the chiefs of the Congo State Stations . He is of op -v inion -r ^ that the number of these stations mig h ht - bo
^^ H ^^ ^— —— ^^ - ^ - v — — — — — - — - — — - — v- ^^ — increased with advantage . He enjoyed good health , and thinks that by carefully attending to the requirements of the climateother Europeans might
, be equally free from ailments . la the Deutsclie Colonial Zeitung of February 15 icJ a most interesting account of a visit paid
- — »_> 1 by a German traveller to the Congo State . We regret that the limited space at our disposal prevents giving more than one or two extracts .
Writing from Leipe , on November 6 lust year , our traveller speaks in glowing terms of the productiveness of the soil . He says wild cotton grows in m —
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__ __ such profusion that in a few minutes enough may be p ^ lucked to fill many baskets full ____ . ' The _ Papaya !
- - - - ^ - ^^ **/ offers its wholesome and J pleasant , fruit in quantities J > * ! and every village is surrounded by woods of oil , j
palm trees . The leaves and stalks of the palm are used for house building ; the fruit as food for man and beast ; , and the oil for trading (^ . The refreshino-O
palm wine is supplied to the king of the village and his guests / Anything almost may be procured in exchange for pocket-handkerchiefs—fowlseggsfruit
cabbages , and onions . * In Ketenge we , paid , three , pocket-handkerchiefs for a fowl , and received threa
eggs efirors for lor one one handkerchief hanaKercinei . . ' * * We We still still live live well well better even than at Vivi , where fresh mea | t \ ras , short the last few days . '
We refrain from quoting more , merely observing that the article from which wo have extracted the above particulars is only one of a seriesand that ™*
m ^ j , — ™» we may perhaps return to the series on some other occasion . < c » ¦
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Corre ^ ponfccme * A NATIONAL LIBRARY FOR SCOTLAND .
To the Editor of the Publishers' Circuxab . Sir , —Having read your correspondent ' s
proposals regarding the above , I respectfully submit the following remarks for your attention . In the — — — fi — rst — p _ - lace _ _ , _ I r think — — — — that _ —»_¦ ~_— ^ the -vr ^^ - ^^ i ~ . i ~ absence ^ " ^^ " ~ ~ m j ^^^ a . ^^^ ^ h ^ of ^^^ ^ b ^ a * mr
National Library is a distinct want . Secondly , I consider that the Advocates' Library is the groundwork upon which such an institution should be I
raised . To this extent I heartily concur with what I has already appeared in your columns . I Beyond thatI am reluctantly compelled to I
, speak more freely than some of your correspondents I have spoken , because I take a * trade ' view of the I question which has been raised ; remembering the I
interests of booksellers , and noting that all those I who have written to you praise highly the present I facilities given by the Advocates . Do the curators I
deserve thanks , never to speak of glorification , I for granting these restricted facilities ? I do not I think so . I
The Advocates' Library , unfortunately , like simi- I lar places elsewhere ( also closed to the public ) , is I supported by compulsory donations from publishers , I
notwithstanding the ; fact that the books given are I presumably intended as a trust for the behoof of the I people . I do not cavil afc thisbut I think it very I
, hard that booksellers should be deprived of business I through the system ; for it is a patent fact that the I Advocates make their collection a sort of circulating I
library for themselves , whereas if they did not do so I they would be induced to support the booksellers' I libraries in the same way as the members of other I
branches of the learned professions do . It is quitfl I common for ladies , the wives , sisters , cousins , and I
aunts of advocates to go to the library not for I learned lore , but for current three-volume novels ; I and to get boxes of them f out ¦¦ to the tm country \ tooI
during the — "U holidays . — — - — — — . — . — - — ' —— - ^ ** ^^^ - ^ - ¦ ^^ - ^ ^^^ iK 44 VA V , ^ ^^ , I Why do publishers allow such a custom to go I on , seeing that it is in opposition to the interests of I
their direct customers—the poor booksellers ? * This I question greatly puzzles Yours truly , I St . Giles . I * i
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IMr . Thomas Hay ward , bookseller , of 35 I Uxtord Oxford btreet Street . Maiicheater Mantcliester . 1 has i ? lr removed rmnrivftfi from from II
that address to 19 Strutt Street , Market StreetI Manchester . , , II
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1886, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031886/page/22/
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