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with the indescribable eagerness with which any information « k - ¦ - ¦ ¦ about this forthcoming work has
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the civilised countries of the world . ' The bookas previously announcedwill be in two
volumes , , and will contain thirty , -three full-page and . sixty-four half-page illustrations , besides
forty-six vignettes , and three large and fourteen small maps . An edition de luxe , strictly
limited limited to to two two hundred hundred and and iifty iiftv copies conies , , eac each h of which will be signed by Mr , Stanley
himself , is also in preparation . ^^^ _ .
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The forthcoming volume in the Minerva Library ' is to be John Forster ' s ' Life of Oliver Goldsmith . '
Chiswick has , by a very large majority of the ratepayers , resolved to adopt the Free
Libraries Act . We are informed that the twelfth report
of the Historical Manuscri }) ts Commission is nearly ready . We are informed that the Senate of the
University of Sydney has appointed Mr . Pitt Corbett , M . A ., Professor of Law in that
University . The next volume—the ninth , by the
wayin the ' Carisbrooke Library ' is to be Ben Jonson ' s ' Masques . ' It will be published towards the end of May .
The Carl ton Club is in a prosperous state . Not only •/ is there a profit J , on the year 4 / of nearly •/
t' 4 , 000 , but there is an unusual number of candidates eagerly seeking election . Messrs . SmithElder & Co . have now
, ready their shilling edition of 'Vanity Fair , ' which appears in the original yellow covers ,
and with the author ' s own illustrations . The orig <^ inal Paston manuscripts * . ' , which
Fenn gave to George the Third , have been recovered , having been found in the library of the late Colonel George Tomline at Orwell
Park . A portrait of Mr . H . M . Stanley , painted
; it Cairo by Miss Meyrick , is to bo exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition in May , and then presented to the Royal Geographical
Society . ¦ Her M 4 TJK ajesty the Queen has rwi been - » - leased r -
¦ * ¦ * ML . ^* r A , ^ . » ^^* ^ torf t * J *^ W »* A » ^^ "* ^ " ^ ^^ ™ ^ - *^ " ' — _ — p _ . _ _ — — — _ to 4 Story accept U of a a Poodle copy , of 7 a Miss little book Lucy published JL Thornton by »
Messrs . Sampson Low ife Co . in the Christmas season . Messrs . W . H . Allen & Co . have added a
most interesting volume to their ' Eminent Women Series / dealing with the mother of
the Wesleys—one of the most remarkable of women of modern times . We hear that the plans for the French
Exhibition at Earl ' s Court are now settled . At a recent meeting of those who are promoting' the scheme a very hopeful view was
taken of the coming show .
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A verr tiseful series of 4 Mnemonic Charts ' relating to English history has beenprepared
, by Mr ; David Ross . It shows the principal events from a . d . 449 to our own day , and will will prove "brove a a useiul useful wor work k tto o students students ..
Cambridge ha 9 recently added to its treasures by the purchase of some valuable
manuscripts ^ which include a ninth-century benedictional , and an example of the
Norman-French style of the fourteenth century . The Centenary if of the Royal of Literary Fund
is to be celebrated at St . James ' s Hall , under the presidency of H . R . H ., the Prince of Wales , on Wednesday , May 14 . The
gathering promises to be one of exceptional interest . Messr 3 . Cassell & Co . intend to bring out
Part I . of the Dictionary of Religion' o n the 24 th of this month . The work is edited by
the Rev . William Benham , B . D ., F . S . A ., and it is to be completed in eighteen sixpenny parts .
A cheap and revised edition of the Rev . Philip H . Wicksteed ' s 'Dante : Six Sermons '
will shortly be issued by Mr . Elk in Mathews , of Vigo Street . The original edition , published
in 1879 , has long been out of print and difficult to obtain . A new workwhich aims at giving a thorough
, comprehensive statement of English law , will shortly v be publi A shed by fMessrs . Clowes & Sons .
It is written by Mr . Thomas Brett , already known by works in a similar department of literature .
A most elaborate picture of the famous Jubilee scene in Westminster Abbey has been
nearly completed by Mr . Lockhart , who undertook the work at the command of the Queen . Her Majesty has expressed a high opinion of
the painting . We hear that Mr . Felix Joseph has
presented to the Nottingham Corporation a tine collection of early English drawings . His purpose is to assist in reviving the art of book
illustration , which has been somewhat languid in recent years . Under the rule of the Athoimnim Club
which provides for the annual election of persons distinguished in science , art , or literature , the following gentlemen have been elected : —
Sir John Kirk , Sir William Turner , and Mr ,. W . J . Courthopo . The following gentlemen have been elected
members of the Royal Society of British Artists : Henry Zimmerman , G . Sheridan Knowles , C . E . Marshall , Leopold Rivera ,
J . W . Godward , E . Holmes , Albeit Kinsley , and Alfred de Brianski . By a curious slip of the pen we attributed
Mr . Hall «/ Caine ' s powerful J . novel JL , The Bondman / in our last issue to Mr . Grant Alien .
The obvious error was all the moro singular , because on the previous page we had apoken of the book as the work of Mr . Caine .
Messrs . Butterworths have issued a work entitled * Outline of Roman History from I
Romulus to Juistinian / - It has translations of I the Twelve Tables , and the Institutes of Oaius
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1890, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041890/page/9/
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