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Cassell & Co.'S Publications.—With The C...
beyond the Atlantic , accompanied by wellwritten and descriptive letterpress . The work
is announced to be completed in forty-nine parts . The first number treats of the Coast of Maine and the St . John ' s and Ocklawaha
Rivers , Florida , the illustrations of which have been drawn by Harry Fenn . The general ' get up ' and printing of the work are deserving
of the highest praise , and we feel confident that such all-round excellence will be appreciated by a wide circle of readers . Another
issue to which we may call attention is the ! new edition of c The History of Protestantism / by the Rev . J . A . Wylie , LL . D ., of which the
first monthly part will be ready on May 25 . Upwards of 600 illustrations are included in the b- ^ h ^ work & which k is tar one of great interest and h
^ r ^^ ^» . v " ^^^ ^^ B ^^ w , H w V ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ V ^^^^ p - *^ r mmm ^ r ^ - ^^ - ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ m ^ m ^ ^^ " ^ r ^^ ^^» ^^ ^^ ^^ ^*^ ^^ " - ^ r ^^^ ^ r ^^ v ^ v « v ^ r ^ m practical National _ — usefulness Library con _ . Vol sists — . _ of 122 'The of _ * Victories Cassell _ ' s . _
of Love / being Part ^ II . of ' The Angel in the House , ' by 9 / Coventry 9 / Patmore . The first part JL
of this popular work , it may be remembered , appeared as Vol . TO of the ' National Library , ' and its publication was attended with almost
phenomenal success . That such books , distinguished by all that is best and purest in literature , should — be - _ p Alaced __ within reach -
ofthe people is subject for earnest congratulation . In this case the author also deserves his fair share of praisefor the work is still copyright
and without L his , permission it could •/ in its , present moderately-priced form not have been printed . We have also received from these
publishers the first half-yearly volume of the new and enlarged series of CasselVs Saturday Journal . It contains a mass of most
entertaining and instructive matter , profusely illustrated and excellently well printed . Japanese Art . —Messrs . Sampson Low &
Co . announce for publication early in May the first number of a new monthly illustrated periodical entitled Artistic Japan : a Journal
1 of Arts and Industries . For this the literary services and support of many of the leading
English authorities on Japanese art , including Dr . William Anderson and Mr . Huish , editor
of the Art Journal , have been secured . Each numberin addition to the illustrations
appearing , in the text , will contain ten royal quarto coloured platesexamples of work by
the best Japanese artists , , and will be issued in ^ h « ^ h » ^^^ a ^^ v ^ v coloured ^^ r —^* ^»™ *^^~ ^^ p ^ H v ^ b ^^^^ ¦ h ^^^ m wrapper — w ~— — m ° "" ~ m ~~ = ^ - , ^ m to ™ i be — ~— = ^ varied w ~~ ~~ — — = ~^ ^— monthl - —~ - — — r ^^— — y g . ^ v
Considering the great and increasing interest now taken in this country in Japanese arts and industriesthe new project starts with
every prospect of , success . Artistic Gift - Books . —We learn that
Messrs . Griffith , Farran , Okeden & Welsh , of St . Paul ' s Churchyard •/ , are proposing X X C Mthis
year to make an entirely new departure in the manufacture of those illustrated artistic giftbooks and booklets of which they set the
fashion some two or three years ago . Instead of going to Germany for them , as heretofore ,
they are preparing a series to be called the * St . Paul ' s Series of Monotint Books and Booklets' which will be entirely home
productions , , designed and illustrated by English artists of reputeunder UUULVl the UllV editorsh UlllL i / of Mr
UJ . UJIO UO \ JJL 1 OUUVU , , UVUVVX p WJL J . TJLJL . . Greorge C . Haite' ( Member of the Society for
the Encouragement of the Fine Arts ) , author of ' Plant Studies / 'Tendencies of Modern
Art , ' & c , printed by English printers on English-made paper and bound by English
binders . In this effort to show the British public what their own art industries can produce we have no doubt that Messrs . Griffith
, Farran & Co . will have the cordial support of the trade and the public alike , especially as
we see no reason why these exclusively English-made books should not equal where they % / do — not excel their artistic publications of
the past three years . x The Great Cryptogram . '—At last this
long-looked-for work has appeared , and the public cannot fail to look forward to the minute criticism which it must necessarily
evoke . On Tuesday , the 17 th ult ., the author , Mr . Ignatius Donnelly , had an opportunity of stating his views to the members of the Bacon
Society . In the course of his address Mr . Donnelly remarked that we knew more about Shakspeare — than was known fifty years ago
and - -- - fifty j ~ years ago more was known 9 / tj of , Shakspeare than was known of him in his own — time— - . Facts that were g iven in the
biographies of Shakspeare fifty years ago were blotted out of his biographies to-day . But notwithstanding the inaccuracies which had
been detected , those self-sufficient gentlemen who called themselves the especial advocates and representatives of Shakspeare , who had
attempted to build up for themselves great reputations as Shakspeare scholars—microscopic men—turned up their noses at any
theory that William Shakspeare did not write the plays credited to him . But did the world desire to worship a fraud 1 Were they like the
savage who , bending before his hideous god , knew he was ugly and believed he was great ? If William Shakspeare did not write the plays
the world wanted to know it . If Francis Baconthe illustrious founder of our modern
philosop , hy , and he might almost say of our modern civilisation , was the man who penned
those mighty works , the world wanted to know it . It was not a question of sentiment but one of factfor who was there who
wanted to worship , at the wrong shrine ? Mr . Halliwell-Phillipps said that the home of Shakspeare w —^^ ^^ ^^— ^^ - ^ v ^^™^^^ ^ - ^^ r h ^^ p - ^ a ^ ^>^^» ^^ v ^^^^ was ™ ~ ™ ¦ - ^ - a - ^^ - ^ bookless » ™ ^^ ^~ ' * — — ~~ — ¦ ~— nei i - ^^ —*— g ^^^ p ^ . hbourhood — — ^~ — — — — — —~ ~~ — .
He doubted if there was a single book in Shakspeare's father ' s house . Not a single scrap of paper with the name of Shakspeare
attached to it , with the exception of his will , and one legal document , had come down to us . The world ¦ had been -- — wagg -. ing on - for
fivethousand - years , but no such _ < 3 > c _ j genius { 3 as the man who wrote those plays ever appeared before or since . Yet we were asked to believe that the
greatest man who ever walked this planet , the mi —~ g jw ^ htiest ^— ~ " ^ ^ " ^ *—™ i ' ~— " ~^ of ™~ ^^™ the — — " ~ sons - — — ' — -- ™ - of — men —~ —— in — —¦ - his mental — ^ ~
attributes , lived in this town of London and in Stratford until he was fifty-two or fiftythree years of ageand that not a man came
forward and said * , Here is a letter of William Shakspeare . ' It was not to be believed . The lecturer then went into an elaborate
dissertation on tho very complex cipher
which he claims to have discovered m the
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May i , 1888 The Publishers' Circular 443
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1888, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051888/page/5/
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