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    • 1 I St. Dukstan's House, E.C., I March 1, 1890.
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      222 The Publishers' Circular March I, I$...

      222 The Publishers' Circular March i , i $ n

      , Contents

      , CONTENTS

      Literary Intelligence 222 Books Axd Rumo...

      LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 222 BOOKS AXD RUMOURS OF BOOKS 223 NOTES AND NEWS 226

      AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 228 | CONTINENTAL NOTES 229 I MR . MARSTON AND MR . STANLEY AT CAIRO .... 230

      LITERA 1 URE AT THE ANTIPODES .-II 231 ANXALS OF SCOTTISH PRINTING 232 A NEW PUBLISHING SYNDICATE i 33 '

      THK PUBLISHING TRADE IN EDINBURGH 233 THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF AUTHORS 233 NEWSPAPER STATISTICS 233 '

      RET ! REMENT OF MR . ALFRED SUTTON 233 IMPORTANT SALE OF BOOKS , MSS ., AND AUTOG RAPHS 234 !

      IN MEMORIAM 234 I

      Literary Intelligence 222 Books Axd Rumo...

      ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE SEASON 235 REVIEWS . & c 24 j }

      INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN FEBRUARY 17 & 28 250

      BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM FEBRUARY 17 TO 28 ..... 251

      NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 254 MISCELLANEOUS 289

      BUSINESS CARDS 298 , 299 ASSISTANTS WANTED 301 SITUATIONS WANTED Sul

      BUSINESSES FOR SALE 300 . Soi BOOKS FOR SALE #%

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 302

      1 I St. Dukstan's House, E.C., I March 1, 1890.

      1 I St . Dukstan ' s House , E . C ., I March 1 , 1890 .

      1 I 4 Ll Who Have To Do With * Books And...

      1 i 4 LL who have to do with * Books and the £ * Housing of Them ' will find not a little

      of more than passing interest in Mr . Gladstone ' s 1 article on that subj ect in the new number of ! 1

      the Nineteenth Century . From youth to age j i the ex-Premier has been an omnivorous reader , j

      ' and , as might be expected , the paper in question is full of practical hints on what may

      be termed the library aspects of literature . Mr . Gladstone , like every true lover of books ,

      believes that noble works ought not to be published in mean and unworthy forms , nor

      cheapness secured by the sacrifice of elegance . 1 The binding of a book he regards as the dress i

      with which it walks out into the world , whilst j paper , type , and ink are described by him as !

      the body , in which its soul is domiciled ; and these three , he maintains , ought to be adjusted

      to one another by the laws of harmony and j good sense .

      In these days , knowledge runs to and fro through the earth , and books multiply with

      such amazing rapidity , that in every two years nearly a mile of new shelving is required to

      meet the needs of a library like the British Museum . Yet Mr . Gladstone believes that

      the present rate of growth is insignificant in comparison with what it is likely to become ,

      and therefore he holds that the period of encyclopaedic learning has gone by for ever . In

      this respect , as in many others , the United j Kingdom and the United States , with their

      far - reaching territory and their unity of j speech , are likely to become still more

      prolific in the production of books . When England and America are ' fused into one ,

      book-market ; when artificial fetters are relaxed , and printers , publishers , and authors

      obtain the reward which well regulated commerce would afford them , then let floors beware

      j lest they crack , and walk lest they bulge and I bunt from the weight of book * they will have

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      1 I 4 Ll Who Have To Do With * Books And...

      to carry and confine . ' Already the literary arrivals every year at the Bodleian Library

      amount to some twenty thousand ; whilst at the British Museum they number 'forty

      thousand , sheets of all kinds included . ' It is plain , therefore , as Mr . Gladstone points out ,

      that specialism in the future must of necessity more and more abound , and that of course

      carries with it an ever-increasing division of j labour . ' We must refer our readers to the

      article itself for Mr . Gladstone ' brilliant survey of the libraries of the past , as well as

      for his eloquent eulogium of books as the allies j , of — t ™^ hou — ^^ ¦ g ^ V ^ h ht ^^ ^~ ^^ , V and ^ ^ ^ fc *^ ^^^ the - ^ r ^ k ^ m - ^ pp * voices v ^^ Vfc ^ B ^ ^ kpr **^ of ^^ ^ Pk the ^ v ^ B ^» ^^ dead ^ v ^» ^ pr ^^ v ^^^ p » . VI ^ It ^ fc vr ^ is l ^ pr | I '

      more to our present purpose to call attention ! to the answer which the great statesman and

      do scholar with g our ives books to the ? l question Shall we — be What buried are under we to

      them like Tarpeia under the Sabine shields ?' Mr . Gladstone passed j * . over such obvious

      conditions as are involved in the fact that the building should be sound and dry , and the

      room in which the library is placed airy and furnished with abundant light . He also

      assumes that the book-buyer is a book-lover , and that his attachment to the volumes he has

      collected is a * tenacious and not a transitory love . '

      In Mr . Gladstone ' s opinion the chief aims to be kept in view in a library are economy of

      space , good arrangement , and accessibility , without any vexatious waste of time . He j

      thinks that in a private collection , where the service of books has generally fco be performed

      oug by ——v the ht , - j person as — — — far — ~ - as who ¦— — possible h- « - ¦ - consults — - ¦ — ¦¦ iw- * " ~^ r , ^ m to - ^ ^ pf them be - ^ r , assorted -1 the — — volumes and j

      distributed according to subject . Every body m ust p »~ ^^ admit ii ¦ ^^^^ ^^^^^^— . ^ ^ i > that ^^ p ^ av ^ p ^ r - ^ pr it «^ - ^ f- p is ^^ pF ^ r ^ an ^ - ^ p- ovpv 0 immense » 0 PKVBM ¦ . ¦¦• p ™ ^¦ p *^ ttmmm ^*^ ^ " ^ boon ^*^ ^^ ^^ to know

      at once that all the books on a given topic in a iven library are grouped together at a g iven

      spot g , so that there is no necessity to hunt up and down - *^ - * r ww tw through ypiw -v ^^ py **** the mrm ^^ r whole w » /* m ** SM-TI * S ^ collection n ^ WJfc ^ fW ^ w *^* ' — -- . After

      g and lancing making at the the inevitable beat methods admission of classification thatdis tn- ,

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/4/