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ft I 37« The Publishers' Circular April ...
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101 Boo& $ And ^Umoti ^ Of
Mr . Lawrence Gomme has written the I I ft new -mW volume in the ' Contemporary Science '
I I mun ser ^_>^ ^ v i es ity , ^^ . the . ' — ^ __* It __• ^ mw subject ^ will — « ^ m ^ m ^ r _ »^ be ^ mr being <¦• l ^^ arge ^^ ™ ¦ ^ ^ * l y The Ml ™^^ * »*^ illus - ^^ ^— Village tT — — — t ^ ra V t ed - — — — Com V - > with i — -
plans and maps . 1 ? *
Mr John Hill has written a novel under I h the title fc of * An ¦ Unfortunate - ~ - ™ - ¦ Arrangement .. __ ^^_^^ _ /
^—^ ^*^_> ~^ v ~» ^^» ^ ^—* ~_^ ^—¦ ^^~ ^^""^ " ^ —• — — —— — — — I which Messrs . Ward & Downey will issue . f It is understood the author illustrates some
I phases of the social questions of the time , *
i Mr . T . Fisher Unwin will shortly publish ' a story bMiss Rosa Mackenzie Kettle . It
is named y 'The Old Halt among the Water Meadows . ' Irish and Wiltshire scenery will
\ be a feature of the book . ___ l _____
* * . We understand that Mr . William Black
has made considerable progress with his new I story ™ - ^^» ~ ~ H which V ¦ ~— ~— ¦ he ~ will ^ p v nam I e * Stand Fast Craig »¦
-H . Royston ^^_ V ^_ ^_^ r ^—^ H , ^» . __ ' —^ —_ - The __ i ^_ P ^_ k A —_^— — work ^__> __^_——— M _ — — — — portrays —— — _ - — — — —— Scotch _ ^^_ 1 A ^ ft and * t American society , and some of the scenes are
laid in London . ' # #
j field In ' s Paris Letters , a translation to his Sister of ' ' Lord has attracted
Beaconssome attention . La Nouvellc Revue has written very favourabl — y of — the — workwhich is so well
transla ^—— ^ ted that it is declared v , to have almost the attraction of the original .
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The new volume in Messrs . Putnam ' s * Knickerbocker ___ Nuggets C 7<—» ' series will be ' The
Sayings of Poor Richard / or , in other words , the to i prefaces Poor Richard , proverbs 's Alnianack , ami poems , ' by contributed Benjamin
Franklin between the years 1733-1758 . * * * We ~ understand tm h _ -h pv » that Mr . H . H mi erman tmt h ¦ ¦ fcg
w ^__ F " - *¦ __ ' ^ i ^ ^^ m ^^ * . * ^ 1 ^ - » —m _ . ^ - " * m mm * ^^ mw ^* ^™ "" m ^^ m ^ ^^» ™ —^ " * «^—s « mm ^ ' ^ ma ^ m . 0 * , 1 . author and until of * Claudian recentl ' collaborateur and 'The Silver with King Mr / . y
Christie Murray , is about to publish , through Messrs 6 Scarlet . Fortune Trischler / < Xr Co ., a new story called
I # I Messrs . Aleton & Co . are bringing out
pp 1 a their new well editio -known n , with book many - ' New fresh Yor p ictures k Illus , of
-; t Scenes rated , . Buildings a Pictorial j-j , River of Delineation the , Views , yand of Street other
Picturesc ^ ue Features great Metropolis . ' *
Jft # 4 ft * A new work that will be welcomed by
jnany readers is nearly ready—a ' History of the Dominion of Canada / by the Rev . W . P .
Oreswell ^^^ ^ m ^ . m ^ k . There m ^ mm ^^^ . m is ^ a growing m interest ^ in ^ Canadian affairsand a book of this kind ¦ t immt , ^ m _ m ^
\ through will ^ doubtless the Clarendon suppl ^^ y a Press fel ^ ^ a t . want . It ^^^ comes
comprehensive We __ - - learn - ~ - from and St important . Petersburg work that has r- >^ - a been very ¦ L
arranged Leer _ ^^^ ^ , _ — . v ^ _ It — _ for is — _ under intended . __ _ _ . the — to _ editorship . present ^^_ ____ — . _ — a of _ thorough — _ — _ General . ^^ ^ ^^ , ^^ _ , ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
history of every war in which Russia has been engaged from the time of Peter the Great .
The highest experts in military affairs are enrolled amongst the contributors . Several
of the volumes are nearly ready .
have P . just Blakiston published , Son a new & Co Medica ., of Philadel l Dictionary phia ,
b one y Dr -volume _____ . George — book . _ M . , . _ , Gould containing — ____ . _ It ^ , ^ will several _ __ _____ be a thousand _ . _ compact _ __ _________ _ ___ ^ ^ . ^^ - ,
new words and definitions , collected from recent medical literature , 'while the total
number of words is beyond that in any similar book . ?
____ . _ M _ # * Mr . William O'Brien ' s novel is to be at
being once — — ^^^ k translated the — — ^ publisher _ — — — ^_ - into _ i _ . French <^_ V ^ M This — , is M ^__ . — _¦_ . an — — Calmann — - 1 - _ m ^ m exceptional —— —¦—— — —— - m ** ^*^ Le _____ ^~ ^^ ^ " ^^ > ~*^ y w * m *
honour for Ireland , and will , no doubt , increase interest in the work . Contrary to the rumour
hitherto circulated , the work is not of a party nature . The title is ' When we were Boys /
«/ 7 and ««__! it is to _ appear as a six _> -shilling «*_ . W «__ I volume « . # J _ r J _ r
* * We learn from Paris that M . Le * on Say , who has been engaged in preparing for the
press the autobiograp ^^ mm 9 w ^^^? hy of his A ^ mi grandfather J __ ^_ ^ * * , the well known economistread some extracts from
the work the other day , to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences . In these extracts
it was demonstrated that Jean-Baptiste Say traces his descent from an English stock .
# # # Messrs __ — . _ Sampson - — — _ - _ _ _ — ^ Low — , Marston — — — — ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ & ~^^~ i ^ Co ^ ~_^ .
hope shortly to add to their ' Illustrated Biographies of Great Artists' volumes on ' George Cruikshank / the ' Landscape Pain im
and - ters ™ ~ ¦ - - —^ of other - — £ ¦ 'm imr —— Holland -ar - _> Painters . i __ . V V > ~ H / ¦ •¦» — and W r *^ f of Xrf — - » 'Van the V « t -K ~ _^ E Early - « ha — « yck « — ^« r mty M ^ . ^ W ^^ , ^ Flemish Matsys B . ___ . ^ mf _*^^ m * MiMM m * w ^ Jl * J * ^ m m \ M ,
on School ' David . ' T Cox hese and three Peter volumes de ,. Wint and / another are in
preparation . ## •
The name of the Work on which Mr . Andrew Lang and Mr . Rider Haggard . _ . __ -- ¦ ¦ are jointly H - * w ^ ¦
a—^ m - — - — f « — — - ^ — * — " » . P" . <¦* —I * ^» w engaged is ft ' The MmWm *\ « World ^_ T ^ ^ ^ ^ _ ' s Desire ^ r * v m . ' It ___ will ^^_ - _ _ . run ^^ as a serial through the New Review . We
hear that the editor of this journal contemplates a new — wee . ___ - kl „ y paper MM — , to be ^^ published W" ^ ^ " ^ ^^ - ^** - * - * ¦» ^^ ~^^
handled at a half by pe men nny . of Current skill and questions reputation w , ill and be
place nlace will will be be found found for for faction fiction .. #
Messrs . Black are arranging for the issue the of another principal \ edition feature of Sir of Walte which 1 ¦ r will Scott ¦¦ i be v ' s 1 ^^— novels a new mt ,
who series A has mm -- ~ — of - — ~ - — w - __ L alread — - — — - illustrations _¦ - . — m l . — — - _ , y ^ _ ^^ won _ . ^ ^ __ , ^ __ ^ - _ . ^^ a _^ b __ . — y . hi — . — . Mr __¦_ — g F ^ — M ___¦ h ^ ^ ^ . —— reputation ' Hug ^_» — — - *___ _ ¦ T l ^ — v - ^^ - ^ ——— — ' _ h _ . ^ q m * w ¦ T _________ n — ¦ _ - ^ ~ m homson ~ rm am ^^^^^ as ^ ^ mr ^ ^ * an ^^ v ^ m ^ \ y ,
artist . Mr . Thomson is said to have a keen sense of --- humour -. ____ — — ... which __ - ___ - ^ , ---- ^ will - - . ____ ,. __ in — ^^ conj -v ¦¦ 1 ¦ unction vifw *¦¦^ # kab
with V m \ _ fl __ _ his ___ _ - other _ ' _ h ___ l qualities , _ __ __> a __ __ , greatl ___ l _ . ^__ m , y ¦¦ - « . hel _> ^^ ^ p ^ ^ ^ « him »» nr « r «» ' ^ in ^ *_ I 1 ^
Ulustrahng ^ * . the creations of * $ ir Walter . ^ .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1890, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041890/page/6/
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