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    activity of the two countries is to contrast their literary journals . Mr . Bunce cites the

    jlthenacnm , the Saturday Review , and the Spectator as representative of all that is most

    typical in the English world of letters , and he shows that—setting aside all questions as

    to the quality , variety , and promptness of literary treatment — these journals reveal a

    much greater activity in the production of books than is apparent in the only three

    American periodicals which are worthy to be named in the same connection -the Natioti ,

    I the Critic , and the Literary World . He places side by side , for instance , a copy of

    the Athenaeum and of the Nation of the same date , and he does so to point out , by way of

    object-lesson , the significant fact that whilst the former contains thirty-six columns of book

    i announcements and advertisements , the Nation can show only about seven , the columns being

    of equal length . This is no exceptional case , and the remarkable difference speaks for itself .

    We have no space for the compliments j which Mr . Bunce pays to English

    publ lishers concerning the many cheap * libraries ' of standard works which have appeared in

    recent years , much less to repeat the kind words he has to say in regard to our magazine

    literature . He admits that in America a public is to be found that devours the

    newspapers , buys the magazines , and ' idles over the last sensational novel / but he is forced to

    the conclusion that the readers for books that come ' distinctly under the name of literature '

    are extremely limited . We are assured that , when the American publisher is told of the

    great number of book buyers in the United States , he is inclined to ask wistfully where

    they are to be found . He is perfectly aware that school-books , text-books , and works of

    reference sell largely , and that occasionally the public make a mad rush for a novel of

    acme kind . He sees the most powerful of his English competitors continually producing

    books which would soon ruin any one who was rasli enough to embark in such speculations on

    I his side of the Atlantic ; and therefore the question returns , If there are twenty readers

    in America to one in England , or * ten to one , <> r one to one / whore are they to be found !

    Mr . Bunco ifl inclined to think that mr the ' cheap fiction libraries which abound in the United

    States are rather a disgrace than a credit to the country , and that what is needed are cheap

    and neat editions of standard authors , and an extended circulating library tiystem like that

    which prevails hero , so that new books by unknown writers mny at all events got the

    chance of a prompt hearing .

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    May i , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 49 i

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    We Mr . Hamley ^ , the editor of the 4 Views Snots and Observer Reviews , is publishing : Essays in a A work ppreciation entitled . '

    * ' Northern Studies , ' by Mr . Ed mund Gosse , in

    a new the popu 4 Camelot lar edition Series , is . ' to be the next volume * *

    < * We are informed that the new novel of Tolstoi 4 , which is creating so much sensation ,

    K Kreutzer reutzer oonata Sonata , ' is is shortl shortlv y to to be be issued issued in m English through Me 3 sr # 3 . Remington & Co ,

    Miss Eastlake , the eminent actress , has been so much interested by American life and

    society that she is about to give her impressions of the United States .

    ¦ w * au author thor It is of of stated that that . strikiner striking that Mark book book Rutherford 4 The lhe Revolt Revol , . the m in I

    Tanner ' s Lane , ' will shortly issue another work of very considerable interest . Messrs .

    Kegan Paul it Co . are the publishers . # ¦ W

    * * We understand that the Wellhausen school I of Biblical criticism is to be attacked in a work 1

    from the pen of the Rev . W . Probyn-Nevis . The opening chapters of Genesis will bo specially dealt with .

    An interesting memorial of the late

    Empress Berlin . It Augusta embraces has most just of been the notices issued that at appeared in German , English , and French

    newspapers when the Empress died . ?

    The Hampton Lectures by Archdeacon Watkins are to be published by Mr . John Murray . The subject chosen by the

    Archdeacon is the Fourth Gospel and the criticism made upon it in modern # times .

    » # An interesting gift has been received by Cardinal Manning from the Pope . His

    Holiness has sent to the English Cardinal a phototype copv of the celebrated manuscript the

    * Codex Vaticanus . ' # # * ##

    ' Queens of Society and ' Wits and Bc « vix of Society / by IMiilip and Grace Wharton , arc

    to ^ _ r n be - * - * -- ^ - ^~ issued ~* - ^ If in */ new editions M by Messrs . Jarvis * and Son . Mr . J . Huntly McCarthy lias

    written a preface .

    4 Walks in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg / a district little known to Continental

    travelforthcoming lers , will form issue a new of illustrated Mr . Percy section Lindley in the n

    pleasant little book , ' Walks in the Ardennes . '

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1890, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051890/page/5/