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    Books Received :— From Messrs. A. 8. Bar...

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    win for . a psociety of a country neighbourhood such as the local

    practitioner HHnner seldom seldom attains attains . . One Une result result is is . , the the envy envv and illwill of his middle-class patients ; another , almost \^ i iia v ^ —« — lapsing — i y ..- * into an — engagement — i' j — v ? — — with — the

    daug however hter , of the one lady of has the to county avert b families y pointing . This out , the utter impossibility ¦ *¦ ¥ of 4 fcj such fc a thi / U & Soon ! ! after

    t h e d octor KJ \/ KS M . * ¦ ' •¦ s m health - *^^ fc- / V ^ * - * . » fails A . W V . .. He « - * W *~ is I ordered IAJ ng . K- to 'V / VU winte ¦ bVA r abroad , and goes to Sicily , where he is welcomed

    to the house of a resident English gentleman . After some months St . Claire marries the stepdaughter of Col . Stewarthis host . It has

    transpired that the young lady , is no relation of his , but the daughter of a Sicilian Prince . The chief interest « . v _ ^ ^^ ^ - ^ _ v -v of - ^ — the — — story , turns — — ~ — - upon ^ p- the incidents of

    Ione ' s intercourse with members of the various strata of English society . She has never been in England ~ . ~ - before - and with __ ii ^_ her southern ~~ manners

    and ^^_^ p B ^ ^ P ^ ^ ungovern ^ _ ^ _^ _ able - ^ , j — passions — _ is a _ p roblem ^ — w - — for her neighbours . One of Ione ' s chief characteristics is unmeasured jealousywhichtowards the end of

    t that he stor the y final , brings catastrop matters , he to is such almost , a state a relief of tension to the reader . We may add , that lone' contains notices

    of Sicilian life , manners , and even of vegetation , which cannot fail to have their interest . From Messrs . "VAT . CollinsSons & Co . ( Limited } .

    , , Black — ' Hints . A to reprint Young from Housekeepers , the Glasgo / w By Weekl Mrs y . Nailof a series of papers on Cookery and

    Household , Management , contributed by Mrs . Blac sisters k to might that have journal the in benefit order of that her her experience young

    in overcoming some of their difficulties . This fact under accounts the months for the fro arra m March ngement to of October the recipes the

    dishes subject available of the notes at . each A paper season of forming ' Hints , the for Christmas' will serve to fill up the gap from

    November to February and * indeed a bill of fare able fro which m March includes to Octobe nearl r y may everything be said to in be season avail- '

    practical ' all littl the e year work round is onl / y sixpence As the , price dainty of fare this may be provided in every household .

    From the same . —* Mineralogy , ' by J . H . Colline alogy F . G . S . with Vol upwards . II . Systematic of four hundred and descri illustrations ptive miner- ,

    The first author v , olume tells published us that in JAA the 1878 1 present is written work , like for the his .

    w . u » , j ^ uuiioiicu U < U , , 13 Wlll / LUIJ lUr LllO use fioj < l of geologists o p and - racti ^ f t . a Arts \ c .. al / as ua working well » ron miners as a . o for iui , students oiuuoui quarrymen / S of Ui , and the LlltJ

    ^ once Department Classes . It is in down yreet left the ~ a ^ , dictionary record ivluiu to iu of the mo minerals tim Liiiiv © when wuou , and Mr iiir it . . v Collins brings ^ Ollino

    niade England up to , that at the date end being of 1881 fully , all entere discoveries d . The * lUi 8 trations -w » - ^ and » i « u diagrams uit »^ tnma in iu black umca . and nuu white wllice

    aua very considerably to the value of the book . ^ ^ naire ni Mr et . Henry de la Tri Frowde bune Franc .- ' I / ises Eloquence / Edited de by la

    l x « AIU lilouet Blou « t , B "R . A A . Vol VaI . I . French 1 ?*««« V . Sacred Q ~~^ a Ora r \ S - students ^ 7 ' A of selection the French intended language mainl fro y m for the advanced funeral FUi ?" and 8 ermonfl of Bossuet , Massillon

    1 l « !» a 1 ? - . \ v D 4 T * , r lr <) m Mascaron i nations . From on Oliver Bossuet Cromwell we have , ,

    mw ^"^* - ! »» n < Jnazarin ; from Bourdalouo , sonio

    fine sentences from sermons on the Resurrection , the abuse of riches , inward peace , aud submission

    to passages the Divine of grand will eloquence ; from Massillon on the Horrors we have of WarJealousyand Clerical Ambition ; and then

    from , Flechier ~ W , and Mascaronextracts which will ' , be new to the majority of readers , . The editor supplies at the close of the volume a series of

    notes which will , as he points out in the preface , appeal chiefly to those who are already well acquainted with the language — Tj for — whose use — lone

    the book is intended . ^ 3 K , From Mr . James Gemmell ( Edinburgh ) . — Wil- I

    son ' s Tales of the Borderers / Five volumes of a uniform edition of this well-known budget of fiction have reached usand in their blue and gold

    cases will form a welcome , gift ; while to those who do not already possess them , they will be found to be a cheap series for the library shelf .

    When we say that each volume is well printed , in crown 8 vo . and is sold for two shillings , there c * n be no two opinions k as — to the position iwhich

    the edition is likely to take with the trade . From the same . —* The Scottish Church and its Surroundings in Early Times' by Robert Paton

    Minister of Kirkinner . The W , fact that the pro- , posal to disestablish the Kirk in North Britain is to form the subject of a resolution which

    is to be submitted to ** the House of Commons in the present Parliament gives a current interest to this book outside the limits of the communion

    histori to which cal its re author trospect belongs of . the His earl piges y history supply an of Christianity in North Britain , and his chapters

    of were lectures , we learn to his , orig parishioners inally delivered . Mr . Paton in the shows form a wide acquaintance with the subject , and he has

    treated it in an attractive fashion . From Messrs . Griffith . & Farran . — ' A Word to

    the Wise on Common Errors in the use of English , * b scri y ption Parry of Gwynne this little . Second tractate edition as g . iven The on de its

    cover stands as transcribed above , but the titlepage on - ^^* - " ^ ^ Current ~^^ further r - ^^ ^ m ^^ ^^ " »^ ^ t / v summarises Improprieties ^»» ' ^ b ^* ^^ - ^^ ^** —¦ ^ ^^ - ^* ^ its - ^ —^ contents of - ^^ —~ - Expression " — " ¦— " ^ ^ ¦— — as — — ' Hints — — in

    —Writing and Speaking / The instruction , which conveyed is in nearl in y a every series case of p practical leasantly and written usefu notes l , is

    for which even may practised be read with hands profit may by near occasionall ly everyone y bo , caught tripping in their English composition .

    From Messrs . S . O . Grigga & Co ., Chicago , U . S . A . I North * History , ' from of the the Li most terature Ancient of the Times Scandinavian to the I

    translated Present . by By Pro Pro f . R f . . B Frederick . Anderson Winkel , with a biblio Horn - , hof the important » j ^ books h in the English

    grap ^ language ^^ Bl « 4 f K ^ •*¦ y W ^^^ ^ m relating ^^ ^^* ^^ ^ *• to ^^^ ^^^ the ^ " ^ . ^ " ^^ Scandinavian ^^^ ^^ ^^ *^ — — ' - ^ ' . ^ - ^ ^ — - countries - j-- ^ - interest by Thorvald to scholars Solberg and . This literary is a men work likewise of great a

    most important and valuable contribution , to hended lmn literary ^ AH the thtk history whole xehc . \ fH fipld field Between of of Scandinavian SoAnrlinavian its covers is literature literature compre- ,.

    including subiect is divided that of into the three nineteenth parts century the first . being The

    devoted to a succinct record of ' Old , Norse Literature Id / with an account of ¦» ancient ¦» # Icelandic — — — — — —

    litera-I ¦¦ V ¦ W » * kA CJ »»« » JW ^^\ - ^^ v * ¦ »/ ^^ » ¦ ^^* ¦• ^^ •— - ture ^ . Part y II . treats of Denmark and Norway ; Part m fit \ j . III au a . . of x ^ & Sweden + s «• ^^ »^ fc ^^»« . Thoug - — - *¦ ^^ - *» ^ which j h - — the the subject •¦ lish of

    Northern literature is one in Engspeaking people have not interested themselves and

    valuable as a-a it it deserves daRflTvea material . , there there for is is the in in p it it hilolog most most ist important important , the student ana rkf frkllr . lsu * A A . nr 1 of farms of verse , and also the

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1884, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041884/page/13/