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101 Boo& $ And ^Umoti ^ Of
Jteligion and Science . ' Sir William does full justice to the holders of evolution as
collectorsof facts up buthe indicates the wide divergences , of view , as . to what evolution really is
among the supporters of the modern rival and mutually destructive schools of Romanes ,
Haeckel , Weismann , and # others , # # **
& We Ferrier learn that will Messrs publish . Oli shortl phant y , Anderson a story
entitled 'Huth Lavender : a Tale of the Early Friends / by Dora M . Jones . The scene is
. laid partly in Hampshire and partly in London , and the drift of tfie story is to represent the
simplicity of the doctrine of Fox as contrasted with some aspects of Calvinism . Miss Jones ,
who is the daughter of a Nonconformist ministeris a young lady of promising talent
and skill , in fiction , and has already written some essays dealing with various phases of
modern life and thoug ht . # # *
Messrs . Trischler & Co . have in the press an illustrated work on Equatorial and
South-East Africa , by Wallis Mackay . The book , a \ fbolscap quartowill contain upwards of 90
illustrations by the , author , and will deal in an exhaustive manner with the late difficulties
between the English and the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay . The authorhaving been on
the spot at the time , is well , qualified to speak about the matter in dispute . His abilities
with the pencil will be thoroughly familiar to readers of the Sporting and Dramatic Newsvrho
will 4 Captious probabl Critic y hail ' w the ith a re considera -appearance ble amoun of , the t
of pleasure . # #
abl Robert led to' Browning a vastl ' increased s death has interest unquestion in his - y y
p of biographies try , and , if we and may promised judge from estimates the number of his
lif lite interest e and and * ' charac c is haracter likel ter y to . , one r > n be « may ma continued . v safel Rnfplv y say rav for that that a good . this t , hi « while to'come . Not ta long f we announced i i a f
me William moir , Sharp w h ic h ; i now s - * m ^ r being ^» » - *^ mm « we * b ^ k ago ^ ^^ p ^ prepare h hear ^^ * * ^^^ ^ h' ^ of ** ' ^ d ^ ^* ^^^ b another ^ h ^ v y ^^ ~ - Mr ~~ ^^^ b ^ c .
bi 6 graphical and critical account , which Mrs . Sutherland Orr is writing , with the assistance
of the Browning family . We also learn that Dr . Furnivall is carrying on his researches in
relation to the poet ' s ancestry ; and Dr . Burdoe has just publishedthrough Messrs . Swan
Soiinenschein « fc Co , ., a critical exposition , entitled ' browning ' s Message to his Time . '
' i • * A work entitled * Semitic Philosophy
Snowing the Ultimate Social and Scientific , Outcome of Original Christianity in its Conflict
' . Phili ¦ with * . A « . »»» p J' Surviving C v > . . Friese MS KlXJO \ J , j Ancient will V « 111 be UU issued inOIICU Heathenism mJ immediatel lillllUJVAlCJU , ' b y y ^
' from the press of S . C . Griggs & Co ., of Chicago . In it many interesting subjects are discussed .
alisat Beginning ion bi with y means instinctive of language thoug b ht , the , its ethere author - ~ * «^ ^ ^ m ^ ^_ * ^ ^
< treats of the social contract between God and ¦ man ' ~ ¦ — jv , , the meaning ' ^— ^^ ^— ^^ " ^ B of ^^ ^^ the ^ — ^^ ¦ » formula ^ ~ - ^ *<< " ^ ^™ ^ ' ¦^^^^ — ^ ' . King Ba ^ i ^ av ^ p ^ " . ^ .. b ^ h ^ k dom - ^^^ ' ' ' ^^™ >^
IB fof JPaJbriarchs God ' as , app prom lying ulgated its princi in p the les to days the subj of the ect
of a general social reformation . He touches upon such questions as the relation of Church
tion and State of politics and Church , the labour and School question , the , purifica and the
various phases of the race problem . * *
A work entitled m _ « IB * A Di ^^ " ^ a gest of Eng ^ P ^ B lish V A ^ and American Literature' is now in the press of
S . C . Griggs & Co ., of Chicago , being the last book written by the late Prof . A . H .
ratu Welsh Welsh re , , and whose whose Language * * d Develonment evelopment ' has passed or of Jlingns English throug u h Lite . Lite ten --editions . The scholarly reputation attained
b upon >¦ ^ y - ~~ Pro ^ ^ m the ^ r ^ f ^™ ¦ . ^^ Welsh — same — " ¦ " ' ^ ' ^ ^ " ^ subject throug — — — will h his cause other . __ the work . appearance s bearing — _ _ —
of the new book to be anticipated with pleasure . It is peculiarly adapted for those who desire to
follow the contemporaneous political and social development of the world while making a
special study of England ' s literature . The work is arranged for immediate reference , and ,
in a brief and yet comprehensive way , it is aimed to give the student chronologically the
characteristics and chief events of any author's period —together with a crisp M 7 critical synopsis /
of j ~ his life , ~ ^ and - writings . , , X
# # Bret Harte was at one time employed in setting type in the composing-room of a weekly
J »/ J . X O «/ newspaper in San Francisco . He had not been long CTengaged OCTJ in this way t / when he
bashfully submitted to the editor of the journal which he helped to print a few literary sketches .
They were accepted JL , and the young «/ printer abandoned type-setting and took to the pen .
He rapidly came to the front , and all his most characteristic work was done in California .
The explanation of this , according to the American Book Buyeris that Bret Harte at
first 4 wrote with a certain , unconsciousness or non-expectancy of applause that was calculated
to provoke the best work . The sources of his inspiration had begun to run low when he
came to New York to be a literary lion , and to accep t a contract of fabulous profitableness X ,
as his friends then thought / When he was in Europe - / between the years 1878 and 1885
he did comparativel , y little * j to increase his , reputation , but 4 since then , and notably in his
latest story—A Waif of the Plains '—he has , to a large extent , recovered the literary
strength and humour which some of his admirers were beginning to think he had permanently lost . #
Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston < fc Co . have issued a circular about ' In Darkest
Africa / in which they state that it is almost unnecessary , in view of the * deep and
universal interest evinced by the public in Mr . Stanley ¦ ' s book ¦/ for his publishers to say more
than that - . . nothing -- , which - the utmost efforts tf on their part can effect will be wanting to make
it in every way worthy of the grand story which , throug — ... _ _ oh . — its „_ - „ means , they ^ will have the
honour to make known to the world . Great as was tjbe interest evoked by Mr . Stanley ' s " How 1 Found Livingstone" and " Through
the Dark Continent , " it cannot , be compared
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1890, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041890/page/8/
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