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    devotion to duty which is shown in the correspondence of this truly great man . Scientific

    readers will be attracted by the result of his passed painstaking throug researches h . in the regions he has

    We notice that Mr . Ravenstein has endeavoured to overcome a difficult task by

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    work is exceptionally clear . Dr . Emin's correspondencewe may safely predictwill be

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    March i , 1888 The Publishers' Circular 209

    A * Minerva Series/ Recently Published, ...

    a * Minerva Series / recently published , to the familiar * World ' s Workers Series' which I

    Messrs . Cassell have made so popular . Messrs I V . J . S . "Virtue < fc po . announce ¦ as ~— a " ^—

    — — _ ^ - ~^ m * » ™ ^ r ^— ^ » ^ V W V bBBB ^ BV ^^ B ^ B ) ~^ Bp ^ BT ^ B / . ^ B ^ P ~^ P" ~ ^ PT " -BP- " — - ~— ^ " ~ ° " » " ~ ~~ ~~ , ^ BJ » *^^ reissue , a library edition of Knight ' s Pictorial Shaksperein eight monthl ¦— y vols . at 65 . Each

    volume JL will , contain ^ 5 about * ^ 500 pages , of text , and 150 illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds

    B ^ k B ^ B ^^_ -A I BHB ^ BB BB ^ B ^ BBW ~ Bh ~ A B ^ B _ B > ^_ _ ,, P . R . A . ; C . W . Cope ~» > , R . A . ; C . R *^^^ . Leslie — , R . A . ; G . S . NewtonR . A . ; Richard Redgrave

    , , R . A . ; J . M . W . Turner , R . A . ; Frank Stone , A —~ . R ~^ . ^ A - — ^^^^— . ^ P" ; ^ B Sir W ^^ B ^ ^^^ BB J ^ k *» . B > Noel BB | V ^ P * P ^ ^ BflB ° ^ B ^ B Paton BPB | ^ B ^ ^ B ° ^^ V *^ P »~ ^ WBB , ^ Bl R BB > ^ P " 1 . V S W '"^ B "' . ^ B ^ A —^~^ — — . ^ r , ° " ¦ B and *^ " —^^^ " _ ~— ^^

    others . The first volume , containing * Romeo and ' Timon Juliet of , ' Athens 'Hamlet ' and / ' C ' ymbeline King Lear , ' ' ' Othello ill be '

    published at the end , of March . , w Messrs . Marion & Co . have just published

    a new trade list of opal tablets for the Easter season . They comprise coaching and hunting piecesfemale headsdramatic scenesactresses

    from , drawings , Shakspearean , subj , ects , actresses and fashionable beauties from negatives by Messrs . Downeychildren i in armsactresses

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    the x Sta r , of Bethlehem / , a special design , of female heads — . Altogether — ^ t — , there _ ____ are — _ nearl- y

    200 varieties of these opal tablets . Prices , sizes , and fittings are enumerated in the

    printed list . of Glasgow Messrs . Frederick will publish W . e Wilson arly this & month Brother a ,

    new work by , Mr . John Davidson , the author is of ' entitled Bruce : a fc Smith Drama . : ' a The Traged forthcoming y . ' We book are

    informed that the motif is rebellion against society , and the title at once indicates the society of to-day .

    Mr . Walter Rye has compiled from local records BT ^ B * - <^ m V * B . B a IB ^ I BJ list a » B & T of the 4 B Freemen 1 ^| ^ - « ¦ BB «« of ^ m ^ B * Norwich B ^ B . * - ^ BB * BB ^ V B BB «* ^^ ^ ^^ «^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ««^ «^ *^ ^» ^ ^^ ^ ,

    from 1317 to 1603 . This calendar wilj . __ give the date at which each citizen took up his

    freedom he — — belonged — — __ — —^ , __ and _ — - and _ the _ —_ — trad will ., _— — e be .. _ or ^ occupation preceded __ — — — _ — — - — by . — to _ a which short

    ijitroduction . , ^ The work , will be _ issued ^ very shortly .

    The Bookbinder will give in its next number an engraving . of _ a very remarkable -- ^ — _ binding __

    _ ___ ___ ^ , executed by a French artist , Florimond Badier ( about a . d . 1650 ) of the most elaborate

    workmanshi in the Publishers p we have ever , Circular seen . for It March will also 15 appear . The

    original of this extraordinary production is now in the Bibliotheqtie Nationale , Paris , whence i Bi it was first b i reproduced ¦ ¦ ¦ by M . L ^ on

    W " ¦ ^ BB- ¦ —^ " ^ B ^ —^*~ ¦ ^^— ^ B » ^ ^ B »^^» ^—^^ ^ P ^^^^^ " ^^ B * - ^^ ^^^ ^ BB 1 - ^ B ^^^^ ^ ^ - ^ ^— ^ - ^ - ^ Gruel in his 'Manuel ^^ de ^^ FAmateur de Reliures , ' published last autumn .

    The third edition of the * Elementary History ^ ¦ k —^^ ^» ¦ **» b * ^ w- ^ - ^ b , j of - **^ b , a Architecture ^ hi j » b ^ - *^ mm mm b ^ ^ m > ^* r ^^^ ^¦ ^ . 'm *^ ^^^ - , h Scul b ^—^ ^^ 'h bi ^ b » pture r ^ ' ™^ ™ ^^ - ^^ - , bh and ' ^ w ' ^ ^ — - ^ Paint ¦ - ^ - — ' ^^ ^ - ^ - ^—'

    ing , ' by N . D'Anvers , will shortly be ready . This edition , which has been Carefully revised ,

    will contain over three hundred engravings , in illustration of the works of the best artists of all ages . The ' Elementary History of Art '

    has been adopted as a text-book by the Civil Service Commissioners for the examination of ' candidatesand is also placed on the list of

    prizes issued , by the Science and Art

    Department . = 0

    _ . ofe £ and _ lew

    «* Bonaventure , ' Mr . G . W . Cable ' s new novelwill be published BJk bMessrs . Sampson

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    The Magazine of Art for March has for its frontisp Life' desi iece gned a fine b p Mr late . Luke entitled Fildes ' Venetian R . A .

    VBFB 1 , B Bh 1 y , B A bV The ^^^ articles s . comprise - the c Language of Line ^^^ , ' with examlesbMr bBb . Walter Crane ; '

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    Manchester , ' * A Century of English Art , the illustrations Grosvenor Gallery from / his * Benvenuto worksportraits Cellini of , ' with

    Na-, poleon I ., with engravings of the ' Mythical Napoleon — - M- ~ — - — - - — - , M ' & ^ m *** mmr c ^ r . ^ & ^ ^ c m ^ r . ^ The mmmt ^ mm * mm * ^ m * ^ number » aVfr ^^^ m ^ mt j » ^ V ^ ^ m * b « b » mm is r * m * wt a ^ mw wonderful w V ^* - * - mm mm ^ I * K ^^ *^ ^ bp bb b . ^

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    selection of letters from the Daily Telegraph . These are the letters which rise to the

    stormy controversy which still gave rages . As Mr . Donnelly ' s book will now be published X veryV

    soon , and as his secret is still unknown , this volume should be useful in showing at a

    glance , so to speak , the present condition of affairs . It is edited by Mr . R . M . Tneobald

    , M . A ., the Hon . Secretary to the Bacon Society .

    Mr . Spencer Blackett will shortly publish a 'The new Premier novel by and James b the 4 Freeman Painter bk Bell ' in k , one entitled vol > - .

    and a cheap —• — - — — — — ^— - ¦»• edition -k > -V ^ •« «_ p ¦ ^ V _>¦ — - ¦«• of " - —¦ ' H Throug _ ^ «^ ^_^ __ , K _ h TL _ . _ Love ^_ - J * . ^ ^_ r — and ~ v . p ^ , ™ War , ' by Violet Fane .

    We have received from Messrs . John Walker which comprises b & Co **• mm- . a an blotting expanding bb pa < J portfolio and desk under -tidy ,

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1888, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031888/page/7/