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—. ¦—^ EMIN PASHA.*
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Booksellers' Provident Institution.— The...
on what might be called constructional lines . His own efforts in designs for
book covers had been rather with a view to production JL ______ in a cheap j _ form _ _ , _ and _ it should be
remarked that a good design was not dependent upon expensive materials for its effect . It appearedhoweverthat one of the difficulties
of modern , bookbinders , was to command price enough to enable them to work out good designs in expensive materials . Perhaps one
reason why the French appeared to spend more upon bindings might be found in the fact
that all their books were first issued in paper covers ( at a much lower figure than our
clothhad bound more volumes to ) spare , and when that , therefore they wished , purchasers to put
their favourites into good coats . . Mr . John Leighton said foreign competitors had been our
imitators hitherto , but they were now distancing us in the race . Hence the necessity ¦ - ttfor further '
effort . He could remember when the works of French artists , both plate and wood , came
to England to be engraved , and when half an edition of a livre de luxe went away to the United Statesbut it was not so now . The — — 7
Continental workmen , who are more delicate in their touch , having , a better art training ,
rival us . In England whole editions of books ¦ appear » ¦ ^^ 7- ¦ ¦¦*• - ^_ r Mr ^ mf ^ h . _» in ^^ cl — ' ~^ o — th — , whilst in F ^ rance ^ ^^^ and Germany — — -i m
hardly the half appear boarded in toife Atiglaise . ____¦ For the ¦ convenience of the buyer all the finest
' ¦ books — , _> ^^^ ^^ __«^ — were ^^ —^ —_— obtainable — — — — - in paper — » # — , which is an incentive _____ to extra leather binding and the
tender _^—^_^^__^^^ . ^^ 0 «_> » handling —_^ ^— . ™ — of books . In .. _ - the _ . —_ matter _ . — of the publishers f ¦ ' cloth workand the
marvellous ^^ ^ m—^ —^^ M _ —_ r _ v — strides *^ ^_ p ^_* —_ - ——r _— . —— ——— it took — — , growing - - , - from a mere — lettering patch to an ornate coverture ¦ more
——— ——— , ——— —— , —p less ^ ^—^ ^^« v ^_ r ^^^^ appropriate B . ^— . — - — - . " — . _ ~ — , all — was due - to , ~ - art — . With ¦ regard h to the bookbinding art of the
literature future — _ ^^ m —v •*—w , the ——— ^^^™~ should ~^ —^ — collector — — ~^ — play — and an the influential disseminator r ^ part , the — of
patron and the publisher exercising a wide I influence ; but if they wished for excellence ^
th The ^ ey p j must _ ublisher _ not , paid j either - ~ _ a of good them sum , work and b should y deput see y .
that —_ . _ _ — he got good desi ^— gn , and , , j moreover , that — it was conscientiously worked out , and made to
pass the ordeal of his own and of his artist ' s op ^ inion—that is to sayif these tear-away
times literature — _ — — — would _ not permit being . _ ___ , a of purveyor _ % j , it . «/ The , had patron time ____ and — of 1 / _
means at , commandand ^ should - be able to beget the best work , , and thus prove himself a
benefactor to the future .
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—. ¦—^ Emin Pasha.*
— . ¦—^ EMIN PASHA . *
better Eduard known Schnitzer as Emin , Pasha of Oppeln has a knowled in Silesia , of the —r ——r reg — —__ ions -.-- .. _ of . __ the . _ Upper — , Nile , _ _ —_ which _ m . __ , ¦ ___ __ __ , far __^ ge ^ ^^ m
surpasses that of any authority whose observations have been recorded . At the present time his mission and his exploits are of very
great interest to the 'British people . Associated intimately with one of the greatest of British pioneers of civilisation , and attached to what
I _ ettera * Emin , and P Journal asha in ? Cen . ' Edited tral Africa and : Annotated being a Collection by Prof of . His G . Schweinfurth , Prof . P . Ratzel , Dr . R . W . Felkin , and Dr . ' G . I t Hartlaub . Translated by Mrs . Felkln . —London : O . Philip
. < B fcion .
behalf may —^ p—v be of called the ihe release ¦ most ¦ i of 1 momentous the African effort native on
races ^^ t ^ —^^ ^^ ^ 1 ^ ^ ^^^ fro —t m ^^_ ~ Arab ^ m ^ pv ^_— - ^^ r ———^ slavery ™ ^^¦ f' " ^ r —¦ _—_— , —— Emin ~ — Pasha — — — — ; , if ___^ v _ —^^^ still ^^ ^^^ ^ ^ a aliveis perhaps ¦ the ¦ only survivor of a unique
band ^^*^^ v ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ , ^ m of ^^^^ w ^^^ ^ v ^ heroes ^ r- - ^^^ v ^ vb ^^^ ^^— ^—^ ^» ^ r ^^ . ~ ~ - * — M ^—^ ystery = ^ ~ — ^^ yet enshrouds — — — ~^ ^~ — ¦ ^ —^^ ^_ the *™ ^^^^^ ^^^^ story v- ^ p - ^^ - ^ m- ^ hv W of ^^^ ^^^ their ^^ " ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ¦ ^ ¦ f ^ fate —^— ^ - ^ ^ ^—~ —even —~ ~ — that of Gordon — . , ~ m the —^— ^_ t « H ^ ^^^^
greatest of them all , not Being removed from doubt . Until some word is received from
knowled & Stanley __^ _ UUVT X . Ug , ge the . ; , and axiu worl keep j _ - t ; d / j ^> - ing must J . -. g j in - ij . mind x wait i-axxxu —t _ * . that for uiaou __ h i / accurate wonder w ^ iAcirx ^ - - I
ful explorer ' s adventurous life , it is difficult to say where or when he may turn up with
the Mr . news Stanley . ' Should s friends his hav health e not doubted be sustained for a ,
moment his capacity to cope with dangerous emergencies .
The correspondence published in the volume now before us relates to about ten years of Dr . Emin ' s life . The editors are Professors
Schweinfurth and Ratzel , Dr . Felkin , and Dr . Hartlaub — . to _ whom the original letters were J
addressed . , - Dr . Felkin writes the introduction . 5 In the correspondence is found graphic
descriptions of the various journeys made by Emin Pasha , as explorer and administrator , in what
is , apart from the Congo region , about the most interesting part of Central Africa . The
slave trade naturally occupies much of the writer ' s thoughts . In speaking of means of
repression , he declares it to be ridiculous to dream of stopping the slave trade in the
Soudan by setting up a slave department at Khartum with branch offices . ' To try and tie up our districts with the red tape of
Egyphair tian bureaucratism stand on end . is In an another idea that lace makes he one ' s : psays
' Thanks to Gordon Pasha ' s eminent talent of organisation __ . ; thank ___ s __ to _ . his three __^ years __ — ' reall _
superhuman GJ --- exertions _ , and labours in a climate y which very few have hitherto been _ abl _ e _ to _ . __
withstand ; thanks ~ to his energy , which no hindrances were able to damp—the whole
country from the 9 th to the 1 st degree ( Sobat to Mruli ) is so well - organised - - and r so - entirel r I W
secure , that _ a single _—— . traveller can wander . ———— . —_ ————— —^— ^^ y througcj h the — length cz > and breadth of it with all
the comfort that is here attainable , and can | carry on — his _ .-. _ . studies ___ .. — in . peace — . Arms _ _ _ — and __ _ , — — — — am __ __ _ , __ . __ -
munition are certainl , excep y not t for required the pursuit . Onl of y the one chas who e ,
has has had been any dependent direct dealing on them with for the negroes transport , and
of goods , the supply of provisions , & c . ; who has seen and experienced the glowing sun and
the who fever knows ' .-- - - exhaling _ — what — — — - — - - *~ it . _ - is swamps _ to — be — for of w— long the — —^_^^_ years territory _ ¦ " ^— ~— . — r ^^ r" *~ shut ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ V ^^ ^ £ ;
out from all society , and to dispense with the most ordinary - - comforts — of lifecan form w——h ^_ a
true _ estimat ^ — — _ e _ of what ^_ - Gordon _^ » A VB has IM _ , accomp _ _ _ , , _ . lished __ ___ ¦¦ _ . _ . _ , ' ^ here . He was obligedmoreoverto create for
¦ himsel _! _ L __ i f . __ . the __ material . _ i —_ , with A « tf which —_ _ b , to do __ his work , and upon negroes he had to rely . '
referring The book to all abounds the sections with interesting of the province ¦ passages _¦
and — - describing «* _ — — — . ^^ v ^^ b ** . ^ V — M . ^ _ - — with A — — _ — ^ — * genuine — — — ft earnestness — — _ _ ^— —^*~ ^ what ^^^ ^^ ^^ __ ^^^ ^^ . ^ , ^ H has been done and what remains to be
accomnot plished forgotten . Trade , thoug and h commerc the administration e generally are of
the region and the stopping of the slave trade are MM the i leading themesL . What __¦ will strike I _ __ _ - a ^ H __ _ ^ B —^ i _
the reader most forcibly is the seU-sacrificmg
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1888, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031888/page/6/
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