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    Llf R. Andrew Lang Recently Took An -"-*...

    last analysis of the inmost self of some ini trospective young girl which crossed the water

    from the States . ' . In order to make assurance i doubly sure , Mr . Lang gives other hints

    I equally artless and valuable . Some of them concern the publishers , and touch gingerly on such supposed pitfalls for the unwary as '

    halfprofits ' the like , but we have said enough to indicate that the tone throughout is *

    childlike and bland , ' and that , if the book does not point out any royal road to failure , it is an

    uncommonly good guide to those who wish to travel in that direction along more beaten thoroughfares . ' Nothing / said Douglas

    Jerrold , ' is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands

    advan constitutionall tthe y 4 ¦¦ at the freezing author' -poin who t , is ' and not that too age young

    proud to accept judicious counsel may gain in this ' lecture' from the lips of Mr . Andrew

    Lang .

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    # Poynter We are named informed 4 The that Failure a work of Elizabeth by Miss '

    will be read , y in a few days . , # # **

    It is stated that the widow of the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria has written a book

    on travel , which will appear immediately , ? # #

    4 Havelock / in the ' English Men of Action ' series , has been entrusted to Mr . Archibald

    Forbes . # be called The nex ' The t novel Wrecked by Mr . . ' Louis He has Stevenson resolved is to to

    take up his abode permanently in Samoa . # # #

    Messrs . Chatto & Windus are bringing out

    in a new and cheap form , the first series of , ' Tales of Great Families , ' by Mr . Walford .

    # # * It is rumoured that Mr . Cyrus W . Field

    of submarine cable fame , is likely to bring out , a volume of reminiscences .

    # # Messrs . OliphantAnderson & Ferriet will

    Miss publish Annie early S in . Swan the summer , entitled a new ' A Vexed novel In by

    heritance . ' , : ¦ > - ¦« 1 1 fimiutr - ; t 1 1 ¦ 111 . 1 111

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    Wo hear that Mr . Marion Crawford's novels are attracting great attention in France .

    printing Some of his the works leading . Paris newspapers are re-? * Nisbet & have ht

    out Messrs a cheap . James edition of Dr Co . . Cunning broug ham Geikie < The Li ' s fe singular and Works ly able of Christ and . learned 7 book ,.

    As an evidence of the great interest

    manibe fested mentioned in the Free that the Library work movement of Mr . Greenwood it may

    on the subject is going into a third edition , *

    It is stated that Mr . William Morris is en-¦ gaged h on a prose romancewhich ¦ will come

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    * * * George MeredithNovelist and Poet :

    is Some now Characteristics in the printers , ' b , ' y Mr hands . R , . Le an G d allienne will , be ,

    published at an early date by Mr . Elkin Mathews .

    * # # It is reported that Mr . George Du Maurier

    is is also engaged --- going 0--0 on to a execute novel . with If it his be own true hand that the he

    illustrations for the work , a fascinating book may be expected . #

    • * — Mr — . _ — Elkin — Mathews - , Vigo __ , Street - , W ., jwill

    limited publish of a new edition in volume the , course printed of verse of on this 4 Corn hand month and -made Popp a paper choice ies , '

    by Cosmo Monkhouse . , 9 X . M . , in

    < w Mr . J . K . Elliott has written a book on * American Farmstheir Condition and

    Future immedi , atel ' which y in Messrs their , ' . Questions Putnam will of the publish Day '

    series . The Rev — __ . . _ W _ . J . Dawson _^ of ( Glasgo ^_ wa

    young written — — _ and a Handbook rising Wesleyan to the Greater , minister Poets j , has , of

    the Century , ' which Messrs . Hodder & Stoughton will publish . #

    ? * Mr . Carl A Rifles . Thimm has , late Captain d ConiDlete in the

    and 22 B nd nd ibliograp London London Bayonet hy Kiries . of ' the The , , Art has bool prepare Dreoare of $ Fence will d be ** A with A published Complete Sword

    shortly by Messrs . Franz Thimm & Co . Honours thick and fast are falling to thq

    lo trave t of ller Mr is . S to tanley be made . It the appears hero that of a new the gre ( , p lay at , ^

    called the boards after in him Paris , which next is September to be placed . M upon —¦—¦ - > ' J 2

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1890, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041890/page/5/