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    more According is spent t every o a recent year statement in the education , £ 750 , 000 of

    the children of the middle and lower classes of London alone than all the churches of Great Britain together are able to raise for the

    evangelisation of the world . We learn that Messrs . Cassell & Company

    c will luding be unable Part o to f publish fc Royal the Academy second P and ictures con-

    until posed June ) as 3 they ( instead could of not May by 27 an , th earlier e date dat pro e -

    produce JL A , a suflGicient V number of copies to supply demands in full . The large edition which was

    prepared of Part 1 has alread ja y been exhausted , and and a a second second edition edition is is at at press -Dress , whi which ch will will he be

    ready on June 3 . , ' Engaged to be Married' is the title of the

    new serial story , by L . T . Meade , which is commenced in the June number of Cassell ' s

    Magazine . The publisher of the reprint of the ' Second

    Manchester Directory of 1773 / to which we referred in our last issue , is Mr . Albert Sutton ,

    of Portland Street , Manchester . MrGosse is lecturing this term at

    Cam-. bridge on the * Development of Naturalism ~ i 2 i English Poetry from 1780 to 1820 . ' The

    lectures are given in the hall of Trinity College . Last Saturday i / the subjti ect was the * Poetry «/ of

    Romance and Adventure , 1800-1810 . ' Today , Mr . Gosse is to speak about the ' Poetry

    of Passion and . Art , 1810-1820 . ' The American declares that the seventeen

    thousand one hundred periodicals published in that country , issued last year , reached the

    gigantic total of 2 , 959 , 566 , 500 copies ; in other wordsenough to * supply every person on

    earth with , two Kj copies of JL JL a newspaper */ «/ JL or other periodical . '

    We understand that Messrs . CasselFs seventh annual exhibition of original drawings

    in black and white will be opened early in June at the Memorial Hall , Farringdon Street , E . C .

    It will contain drawings by the following amongst "iUVliKOU other UU 11 C 1 ( artists All . UIOUO : . W ^* . . F JL' . Yeamea - ¦ . \ , 1 * 1131 .. V ^ O , , R JLV . .- A LJk . _ . ,,

    J . E . Hodgson , R . A ., J . MacWhirter , A . R . A ., R . W . MacbethA . R . A . W . SmallE . Blair

    Leighton , J . Fulley , love , , R . I ., Doroth , y Tennant , Alice Havers , and many others .

    The Fifth Annual Report of the Free Public Library of Portsmouth has just been

    presented to the Town Council . The number of volumes in the issue department is now

    16 , 039 , and in the reference department 2 , 811 , forming an aggregate of 18850 volumes . The

    books > borrowed o ^ 3 o from the , lending library during the year amounted to 254 , 162 ; those

    consulted in the reference department numbered i popularity 5 , 920 of . the The institution librarian is states clearly that proved the

    by the number of persons availing themselves of the -m ^ ^( ^^ -n ^ F advantages ^^^ P ^ fc ^^ ^ ^/ qf # ^ 0 m * ^ fc ^ ^ k- ^ i » Hl ^ bv ' ¦ ^ ¦ ¦^ which ^ ^^ ^ " ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ " it ^^ ^~ affords ^ ' ^^^ ' ^*^ ¦ —¦ ^^ — . " ^ During » — " ^^^ —^ ^ ™ " ^^ Bff ^ h

    the past year 1 , 835 volumes were added by purchase — ? and 214 volumes were presented A /

    Amongst , the latter were some books of considerable value and interest received from tlify

    Trustees of the British Museum .

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    June i , 1889 The . Pubushers Circular 657

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    historian We learn is not that in G failing eorge B health ancroft al , t l he stories veteran to

    w the ho — _ contrary was — , born _ _ with notwithstanding the century CJ . Mr ' , For . Bancroft a man ' s

    vigour of mind and body is very ^ , remarkable . His most — recent - literary «/ work is a life of

    Martin Van Buren , which will shortly be published by Messrs . Harper & Brothers . It

    is gratifying to learn that the American c grand old man' is fetill able to find pleasure 1 I

    in literary work . Messrs . Cupples & Hurdof Bostonare to

    publish this month a large work , in two volumes , entitled * Life in Montana' by N . P .

    Langford . The author narrates , his experiences in t- / the Territory at the time of its original

    settlement , and gives vivid pictures of the scenes and characters of that primitive period . The

    book will be fully and richly illustrated . ' Miss Eyre from Bostonand Other Stories '

    , is the title that Jxas been given to a collection of short talesdesigned for summer reading , by

    , Louise Chandler Moulton , which Messrs . Roberts Bros ., of Boston , have in the press .

    Messrs . Houghton , Mifnin & Co ., of Boston , have ready for immediate publication ' The

    ' w JL Beginnings of New England : the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and

    Religious ^ Liberty , ' by John Fiske ; ' Washington as a Statesman _ / in two volumes by Henry

    Cabot d"H "I 1 Lod T t ge ; and 7 ' The mi Cup /~* of Youth - * t ¦ t , ' a new volume of poems by Dr . S . Weir Mitchellthe

    noted physician JL and author of A Masque , and other Poems . '

    A work that promises to be of considerable interest is ' The Ice Age of North

    America and its Bearings on the Antiquity of Man Man' bv by Jf Prof ror . . U O . . Frederick Frederick Wrio Wright -ht . wlrrch which

    is announced , for , early publication by , Messrs . Apple ton & — Co . of New York . It will be

    amp ¦ a . m . ly illustrated , from photographs taken by various members of the United States

    Geological Survey during the past ten years . Messrs . Lippincott intend also to publish

    a x directly , by subscription , the first volume of ' The Cyclopaedia of the Diseases of Children '

    by American , British , and Canadian authors , , edited by John M . Keating CJ , M . D . Among CJ

    the important subjects treated in the volume are anatomy , physiology ^ diagnosis ,

    therapeutics , injuries of the new-born , infant-feeding «_> , dentition , puberty . V ' , fevers , ' and miasmatic

    diseases . A new novel by the well-known military authorCaptain Charles Kingentitled

    % f , C-7 , ' Laramie ; or , The Queen of Bedlam / being a story of the Sioux War of 1876 , may be

    expected immediately from the same firm . The memoir of Richard Henry Danawhich

    Charles Francis Adams has undertaken % / , at the request of the Historical Society of New

    Eng-A «/ CJ land , will be emiched with letters and papers supplied by the family .

    A book of much interest to lovers of literary gossip will be the 4 Recollections of

    George W . Childs , ' about to be published by Messrs . J . B . Lippincott * fc Co ., of Phila- I

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1889, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061889/page/7/