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!f486 The Publishers ' ' Circular 1 june...
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c Victor Hugo is dead. He who for more
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A ^ Ter Fourteen Year» Of Diligent And C...
favourable towards the work of the revisers . Time alonehowevercan determine whether
it has been , carried out , in a manner which will give the new version an enduring life by
establishing a firm hold upon the affections of the people . The veneration in which the old
version F . *_• - I has been _ held can never be surpassed . As a * well of English undenled , ' it has exerted
a boundless influence in guarding the purity of letters and quickening the vigour of oratory .
In that connection Macaulay has declared that if every other book in our language were to
perish , it alone would suffice to show the range of the beauty and power of the English tongue .
The accuracy of modern research , however , has tested the time-honoured book with a
different gauge . Although poetically sublime in its beauties , many of its renderings were
found to be inadequate r mr or obscure . To remed - y this imperfection without interfering with the
ancient poetry has been the chief difficulty which the Revisers have had to encounter .
Most critics have allowed that they have accomplished their perplexing task with a singular
degree of taste , discernment , and power . The new version , in fact , will be a lasting memorial
of the soundness and intellectuality of contemporary English scholarship .
¦* - * r ^—*^ dW High commendation has justly been bestowed upon the manner in which the
publication of the Bible has been effected by Messrs . C . J . Clay & Son , for Cambridge , and Mr .
Henry Frowde , for Oxford . The work associated with the great undertaking has been
enormous , certainly unparalleled in the annals of publishing . The * Row / it is said , never
presented a busier scene than it did on publication day . But by careful management , the
immense supplies of Bibles were distributed throughout town and country , in such a
manner that not a word of censure has been heard from any —¦ quarter ^— —a very extraordinaryW
circumstance in an undertaking of so much magnitude " — ~¦ " ¦ " ~ ^ J ^^ - » ¦» . Satisfaction rwww v « x » aiMiwWAVAA must M , M > m , ' *¦* p ^ f V be f ^ T ^_ # » expressed % / . AA |^ A VMM vVl at % Af V
the remarkable reception which has been accorded to the sacred volume . The sales have
been unprecedented . Printers and binders _ are * again ^ m ^ working Jf nig ^^ ht and day b \ # . In — some
parts of the country the first supplies were disposed of immediately . This was notably
the case in Edinburgh , where the general as - semblies of the Kirks have been sitting ,
bringing to the city the regular throng of ministers and elders , of whom nearly everyone would be
sureto purchase a copy or copies . « tion , So ; ^ ^ ith ifar tfye the grievances new Bible spoken seem to of refer in connec to the
-¦ > ' , character ' . . .: " '' . ¦»! . »¦ pjpithe -M ¦ - ¦ . ' .. m editions . The ¦ poorer I L .. classes ,
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cheapo 3 * . 6 c ?; edition being too small . Those who already possess the Revised New Testa
ment are also complainers , because they can- - not 1 XUU Q get ^ the W **^/ Old v / ha Testament xv / ouu ( j . ii . vjiiu in j _ l . i a cu separate DCLfa » l cLt © form IOTm II II
They have to purchase the New Testament I again . These , however , are di ^ aetilties which I
cannot be considered of great moment in relation to the completion and first * appearance of tnis
great worK .
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! f 486 The Publishers ' ' Circular june ? St ¦ > ¦ ' " "_^ " 'ii .. i r ?
C Victor Hugo Is Dead. He Who For More
c Victor Hugo is dead . He who for more
than sixty years has excited the admiration of the world and the legitimate pride of France
has entered into immortality . ' Such were the words spoken by M . Le Royer , the president
of the French Senate , when , on May 22 he announced the demise , on that morningOJ ,
of the greatest Frenchman of the age . The renowned poet and politician passed away
peacefully and without —— suffering a— . Only ^ a month before , he had acted as * sponsor' to M .
de Lesseps at the famous Academy reception . Exposure to the inclemency of the weather on
that occasion is said to have hastened , if it did not cause , the fatal illness . Since the days I
of Goethe no literary man has had a fame as I universal as that of "Victor Hugo . Few men ( I
of letters have been so long before ¦ the public with unimpaired powers . Born ¦ at Besanyon
on February 26 , 1802 , he at an early age I devoted his attention to poetry , competing I
in 1817 for the Academy prize , the subject ! being * The happiness derived from study I
in every situation in life . ' In 1822 he pub- I lished the first volume of his ' Odes et Ballades / I
since which time his works have rolled on in an i — mpos jt in —g * ri * flood— . One — of the greatest w ? events
in the later life of the poet was the enthusiastic celebration of his eightieth birthday
he when ****^ said ^** w * , - ^^ te acknowled : 9 — ' I . 1— . *^ r ging t ou a gift ^^^ ^^ ^ from ^ ^^ ^^ tand the peop I await le , ¦« r ph accep sw ^^^^ t ^ y ¥ ^ " ^ ^^ presen m ,
a still better one , the greatest a man can refor ceive the —I good mean done death on ; death earth , th I at shall recompe live n in se I
and my JLVAi « descendants SJL Georges « . ^ . S G ^^ t ^ X ^ X ^ W . ^^ kV ^ If , ^ my indeed V ^** grandchildren ^/«> V <*< »/** I . ¦• have —• ^ ^— a , narrow Jeanne - ! ! ¦ to tO
minded r sure > im A < their xA thoug 4-Tirkiin future > ht Ti +. it if and is ia for fr *^ I them f . Ti confide Am . 1 T them wisft wish to the W m- - I protection of all the , loyal and devoted hearts !
here present . * I <»^< i ^
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Messbs . C asset ' s Exhibition ¦ . — The press modern view of artists this important in black exhibition and white ¦ of took worka pw or * |
on account Friday TT » .. ^ J 1 of , the May TtiT exhibits 29 Ort . We " % for XT ~ , bii reserve M />« r ovnra next a ? ssue detaitfJM ftetiOiuW . -M lU ¦ l A 3 SFew Foi ^ c of Literary 51
; Under ^ ii » eA ofr this May heading 29 > lfrto a letter | a ^ pear of ^ ^ M ^^ ^ I » ccti 8 ing > Mr . Herbert ^ Spencer ' ^|
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1885, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061885/page/2/
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