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

    .. p of ap the er ' Franco ' Sir -German Joshua TYar Reynolds , ' also ' with an interesting illustrations of his Child Pictures . —Sunday at Home

    has an illustrated account of ' Addington , the country seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury . —

    Friendly Wvijpndlv Greetings ( freezings contains contains a a coloured coloured text text as as cise frontisp Cyclopedia iece , and , illustrated some excellen ( Cassell t reading & Co . — . ) Con part

    mometer 26 , taking /— the The al Sea phabet , Adventure from * , Stork Peril ' , to § -c * . Ther illus - - ¦ ¦ trated i . |^ i ^^ ^/ ^^^ ( Cassel ^^ ^ m ^~ - ^^ ^*^ ¦ - ^^ — — l & ^ m Co - ^ ¦ — . ^ ) » ¦ part »^ ¦ - ¦» ^^ 19 ¦^ - ' ^^ , chiefl - ^ ¦»¦ — — ^^ ™^» y m dealing ^*^ ^» ^^™ ^ ^ " ^—^¦¦^ fc

    ¦ vrith Northfleet the wrecks , ' & c . — of ' the C 6 uri * Amazon er of Music , '' Deutschland and Litera- / ture * ( Cincinnati ) new number . — ' Centralblatt

    fur Bibliothekswesen' ( Leipzig , Harrassowitz ) Ht zu ft Jena 3 , containing u . Weimar , Goethe von H . u . Diintzer die Bibliotheken , zur

    G-e-schichte der Erfindung d . Buchdruckerkunst ; and other papers . Magazines fob April . —

    Co TA . « ) g Eng ives lish us an Illustrated interesting Magazine glimpse of ( Macmillaix old London & in Mr . Austin Dobson ' s' Changes at Charing Cross '

    the illustrations to his word-gossip including a , sketch from Aga * s map of 1590 , a copy of an original plan of the locality of 1690 from the

    British Museum , and several other pictures , in one of which , dated 1753 , Northumberland House with its lion still stands . In one of the houses

    in Spring Gardens ^ Milton wrote ; another tenement hard by was Colley Cibber ' s home ; and Thomson lodged in the quarter when he first

    came to London , 'to negotiate his poem of " Winter / " Another section of' An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall' gives us some more

    West-country sketches , the Lizard forming the point The Belfry reached of , Bruges and , p ' i with cturesquel the name y described of Rose . — G .

    Kingsley as its authoress , will not lack a welcome , tower and ~ - ~ ~— — its ¦ , m ¦ a *< ^ view illustrations v ^ ^^^ y v on ^^ ^ n ^ the ^ j ^^ m ^^ canal ^ , incl a ^ ^^ f ^ uding , the ^^ m- ^ t ^^ Quai ~ ^ r ^ the ^ v ^ ^ » des ^^ ^ famous . ^ ^^ Marbriers . ^ b ^^ i ^ ^^ ^ r ^^ ^^ bell . « ^^ ^ b iw - , k

    and will some recall choice leasant bits memories of the local to those architecture who have , journeyed thither p , while the paper may fitly

    suggest a place for a coming holiday to other is readers a dainty . Mr poem . Walter , daintil Crane y ' enshrined s * Herald of in S p pring icture '

    Forbes borders tells of us his ' How own he desi became gn . Mr a . War Archibald Correpondent' and there are severa % Mt l other readable

    of s items I Mrs ^~ . -w "" . . - Longman , y O >^ li a * . ¦*> » p » - ^ h « - * *« . ant w i MJi « « ' M s ' | s ^ \ JJL Magazine KJ tragic l ^ JL € MfE JvX . ^ \ J I V / U ^ J story fcj g IA \ S ives / J A , , T , . another ^ ' A Madam A < A 4 . VJ « WVi . « - « A VMVHW while section / « and " - ^ ^ * * V V - » *

    Popular pleasantl scientifi y carr c paper on * is Jack contributed ' s Courtshi by p , Mr ' . K . A a . Proctor on * A New Theory of Sunspots ' a liht

    - ; g essay Watson an 'Steeplecha d a descri sing ption , ' by of * Mr A . Pil Alfred grimage E . T to .

    ; readers Skiborne , with ' by a Mr wide . T . variety E . KebW of , tastes will . please Mr . Kebbel

    ' s pen sketches almost as vividly as many vi ' made in ll art be b ist g ' lad s his pencil to home have , and and this all its sketc lovers surroundings h of of the Gilbert impressions White such

    thin ft keen ks , y and and probabl appreciati y with ve observer justice , . that Mr tho . on Kebbel place gave fc £ * e much muca of ot colour colour to to the the man man . w whose hose share shaire of of

    the sweet monotony' extolled , by George Eliot ft vanity s a -j deeper in the 3 source world of contributed cuuinuutt happiness largely than all to tho the

    ' * - » , m wwm 'u largely iu luu ^ mper and disposition which made him what he w tIiOft Thus our 18 B ! l wri 11 ^ ter say non s : — -improvementno

    landm niftn in ark tL llie ^ il 1 ¦ 1 U l riBe remOve * ' . morning y either ° * moral and go to inftteiiiil bed » every ^ , ; an nig ht ft n » PDy COnfldfln ^ n t . liftt . All nrr ^ ntwi tl-h 1 < 1 V »« ? lift

    to thae « enq "I of rrow time ' aH . lt Wft It seems ^ " ^ y probabl ^ And , for e that what some he kiiew such , ^

    moral Gilbert atmosphere White . For is necessary it is not to only : the the . growth closeness , of inen of like his fw II history observation which and delight the extent us in his o £ Ms knowledge The tone in of natural satis- , U

    faction a love of and and . contentment devotion to which nature pages they , unbroken . everywhere by that breathe strife , 'H H u and to the trouble of the outer world which ljow-a-days penetrates if

    of a perfectl remotest y happy recesses man of our which island tfhey —the constantly image , in reflect short , , 1 j they contribute inspire at . least au equal share of the pleasure which | ' i

    A vivid description of the Macready Riot in New tion York just in 1848 accorded —a strange to Mr . contrast Henry Irving to the ^ -and recep a -

    strange story , * A Mad Parson , ' by Julian Sturgis , ! Magazi complete ne an in attractive its Famil number Parliament . — -CtcsselVs discusses Famil the y I

    question * , Ought the JState y to Provide , Healthy I mi Homes ght have for the been Poor more ? ' clearly a problem phrased which if the perhaps word | I ]

    Health debate y does had not bee seem n omitted to fe . ^ l The that opener he has a of very the I I ] ] strong caseand the opposition speaker has || by

    far the best , of the argument . Tho discussion is B to be resumed next month . As a sample of the 1 interesting information which the editor of this i

    describing magazine contrives * The Promotion to give , we of may a Private cite the Bill paper in Parliament' from which some idea may be

    formed of , the trouble and expense involved in floating a scheme in which the consent of Parliament is a necessary part of the undertaking . —

    The Quiver ( Cassell & Co . ) gives us a sketch , literary and artistic , of a thieves' supper , in which I it must be admitted the artist has faithfully repro- 1

    duced the physiognomy of the guests . There are Canon some - ^¦ ^ r ^*^ ^ nm ^^ ^»^ " theolog ^ Scott ~^ m ^ mr ^^ «^ ^^ , m ical 'and * ¦ ^^ ^^ contributi other « v ^ ^^^ ^ " ^^ ¦ well " ^*^ ons ^ " ^ -known ^ ^ ^ — b ^^ y Dr clergymen ^ . Maguire — n » J ; , i

    eketc organist a song h of by of Yo Dr rk the . E Minster . Temp J . Hop le kins with Church , illustrations the ; distinguished a descriptive and > ; ;

    many other attractive items , . —Little Folks ( Cassell | c ha Co pter . ) makes on ' Childre Egypt n the of all subj Nations ect of this ; ' gi month res an ' s | !

    interesting account of the production of ' A Skein of some Silk of ' its as an Wonders item in ; ' describes My Lady ' s the Workbox Kishon and and j

    its associations in the papers on Some Famous Rivers of Volney of Bec the kner Bible by ; ' Edwin and gives Hodder a grap , better hic account known to unreaders as Old Merry' in the series of

    yog , ' hill Children Magazine Famed ( Smith in Song , Eld and er , Story & Co . . ' ) — opens The Corn with - ¦ a the uthor first of part John of a Herring pretty Jk « h ¦» kK p ent iece itled of iiction ' Margery k by the of

    ¦ w some Quet _ m V ^ % 0 A » ^ hor - ^ *• admirable / a ** ^^ genuine <¦ »^ bits 1 m ^* of West » , j word - country ^ ~ " ^ » - painting . — - »» — story . ^ In , with ^ » the fifth uicn instalment insbaimeiiL of oi ' Literary juiterar ^ - jivcuuiiuutujuis JRecollections , / < a }

    WhewelTs sketch of life time at leads Trinity the , Cambrid to a ge reminiscence , in Master ' of a visit to Miss , Be Quincey way and her fatherto

    whom our author had secured an introduction , i from Miss MitfortL Here is his description of J ' the English opium-eater : '

    —very * Picture carelessly to yourpelf —dressed a . very : a diminutive laced lined , man care , w ca or reles n , and « ly bo less 1090 expressionless br uruvv ow where wut'i » s that uuiu cold it reminds viJtsi obstruction / i uubiuii one ' s of apathy » jj " tliat eat »/ i . ijr h chill in appals » i' life K change The the «»•¦» -

    gazing mourners heart "—a face like d . Ij electric instant he light began ; tears to Bpeak came , however from , his tt lit m up arvellous as though eyes by , tl M brighter and intelligent Cthoutrh by fits ) than I have II

    more ever seen in any other mortal . They seemed to me to II glow with eloquence . * U Mr . Anstey ' s * Giant ' s Robe ' is continued with all I

    the the vi story gorous famous persona , and lity is another which has bit served of story to -telling make I I of a school of a respectable T > o-the-Boys IIa . ll type . I

    entitles I * Tozer ' s / opening with an alarming por- 1

    trait of the old gentleman and his wite . ine old ' ..,: ' , : ..,-..., '' i " ^ y >

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1884, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041884/page/15/