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    March i, 1890 The Publishers' Circular 2...

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    bufcion by subjects , at all events in small libraries , must of necessity be controlled by the question

    of sizes , Mr . Gladstone proceeds to state that he has arrived at the conclusion not merely

    that the mechanical perfection of a library demands an alphabetical catalogue , but . also

    that under the shadow of this catalogue there ought to be as ' niany living integers as possible ,

    since every well-chosen subdivision is a living integer , and makes the library more and more

    an organism . I plead / he adds , 4 f or individual men as centres of subdivision—not

    only for Homer , Dante , and Shakespeare , but for Johnson , Scott , and Burns , and whatever

    represents a large and manifold humanity . ' Anything which comes between a man and the

    society of his books is to be avoided , and therefore Mr . Gladstone protests against highly

    ornate bookcases on the ground that they are not required , and detract from the true

    ornament of a library , which must always be the books themselves . Fresh from the

    arrangement of his own books at Ha warden , Mr . Gladstone tells us that if the wall space is

    divided by bookcases which project at right angles to it , it is possible in a library forty

    feet long and twenty feet broad to find space for eighteen to twenty thousand volumes of all

    sizes , without the place ' losing the appearance of a room , and assuming that of a warehouse . '

    The final pages of Mr . Gladstone's article are devoted to a description of the best methods

    of dealing with a large number of books so that all may be visible , all within easy reach

    and without destroying the character of the , library as a room . It certainly does seem hard

    to have ' our dear old friends stowed away in catacombsor like the wine-bottles in bins' ;

    but , so far , as public libraries are concerned , the disappearance from the light of day of

    books that are seldom or never in demand is inevitable .

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    March i , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 223

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    pre" ng <** . ^^* - * ^ - ' »»»*»»** JV / V * Jlly ^ . # J J TT ^ ntten more than fifty novels . #

    # # w Lancashire iiancasiure poet poet of or some some note note . Mr Mr ..

    miniscences * win Waug of h , his is early writing days a . book giving ,

    re-# # ¦ Pill The consist _ . new ¦ » volume ot selections m of the * trom 4 * Canterbury the * m Poe ts —'

    [^ * ka ol ' Owen Meredith . ' poetical

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    Mr . Louis Stevenson is writing a book of stories which he intends to call * South Sea

    Yarns / # # * **

    is being An anthology prepared jl j of by if the Sir minor Georg Scottish e Doug — poets las of

    —Kelso for ^ j the ' Canterbury - Poets ' series . # # # ? ?

    It is reported that Mr . Michael Davitt is already •/ hard at work upon x a searching o literary «/

    examination of the Report of the Parnell Commission . *

    # # Messrs . Seeley & Co . are publishing the ' Chemistry . ¦ of — Paints h -r - ^ ^ h ^^ ^^ ^ h r- ^ r and -mr ^ ^» ^^ m ~^ r ^ v Painting ^^^ - ^ ^^^ r ^^» ——* ^^ ^ m" ^ " » ^^ ^» - ^ H ^ B , ^ M ' b w ^^ 0 y W

    Professor A . H . Church , of the Royal Academy . # #

    * Mr . E . C . Marchant has made a new collation of the second book of Thucydides in

    the British Museum MS ., and Messrs 0 / . Macmillan will publish the book .

    # # * "' Up and Down ' is the title of a work which

    Messrs It is written . Ward by and l Mr . Downey G . S . Macquoid will shortl , and y issue is a— .

    record of travel in Switzerland and Germany .

    ? # lishing Mr . a Alexander work entitled Maxwell ' Old . Dundee Dundee , Ecclesi is pub - - ,

    as Reformation tical , Burg . hal ' , and Social , prior to the # *

    ; lish Messrs a new . story Frederick by Mr Warne . J . ____ McLaren & Co . will Cob ___ pub ban - .

    1 «/«/ d It escri deals bes with the life t in ion workhouse s of the Poor schools Law , and opera .

    1 * # j Mr . Stanley ' s ' My Kalulu ¦ - *~ Prince ¦ h King

    I and Slave ^ / is now re -issued ^^ ~~ —~ ~— —r —m , v and — v ^^ m ^ ^^ will ^^ p ^^^ - , ^ m m ^^^ ^ form ^^ . ^^ B ^^ B ^^ B ^ W ^ k , ^ B one of the volumes of 4 , Low's Series of

    Standard Books for Boys . ' # # *

    is the Lord most Acton learned , in Mr man . Gladstone in Eng ' s land judgment . He ,

    possesses a library of one hundred thousand volumes , and knows how to use it .

    * We are glad to learn that Messrs . Kegan

    cheap Paul , Triibner editionin & one Co . volume are about of the to publish poems of a

    Mr . | Lewis - Morris , , . , A # # I

    Mr . William Archer ' s short biography of William Charles Macreadyin the 'Eminent

    Actors' series , is to be published , immediately by Messrs . Kegan Paul , Triibner & Co .

    # # » Mr . J . T . Gilbert has completed his sixth

    tion volume War of / the It 'Hiat has ory numerous of the Iris ori h inal Confedera letters - g

    and papers never before issued .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/5/