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    juiy i, 18S2 The Publishers' Circular - ...

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    Books Received:— From Messrs. G-. W. Bac...

    From Fun Office . — ' Fun ' s Academy Skits . ' Nearly The 100 page sketches s of burlesque are exceedingl , prose y , Yerse clever , . and The pictorial num- .

    mor beriDg e seri and ous the catalogues letterpress " , so tall that y with , in its the humorous order of . 1 Skits ni ' . I is ! .. actuall . -1 .. 11 _ . of

    way , * Academy ' y a species guide *

    From Mr . L . TJpoott Gill . — Notes on Cage Practical Hints the Management of

    British Birds ; or and , Foreign Cage on Birds , Hybrids and Canaries / By various hands . Edited by W . T .

    Greene tive tr , eatise M . A ., on M the . D ., art F . G of . S ., cage F . Z - . S bird . -keep An exhaus ingin

    --which . Dr . Greene argues England is altogether , behind France and Germany , where it has long

    since been reduced to a science . The contents of the book are , we learn from the preface , gathered extent frothe Bird notes

    to a considerable m which have appeared in the columns of the Bazaar , and which the editor has here classified under a

    variety of heads , such as the construction and fitting bird-rooms " of cages ; the and diseases aviaries and ; appropri the furnishing ate treat of

    ment of birds , and their food and management during on the the numerous moulting foreign seasons birds ; followe "which d b may y notes be

    easily reared in this country . There is a capital index to the volume , but the addition of a table of contents would also , we think , be an improvement

    in another edition . From Messrs . Houlston & Sons . —* Art in

    Everymission thing . ' to By Sir Henry Frederi Fawcett ck Iiei . hton Dedicated Presiden by per t of - the Royal Academy . A popular g treatise , on the

    function of art as the beautifier of everyday life and its surroundings . That the holiness of ugliness is still a prominent article in the creed of no

    inconsiderable proportion of the human race is has unfortunatel used his y pen onl to y too good obvious purpose , and in exposing Mr . Fawcett the

    needless offences against good taste which mark our the houses decoration , streets and , and furni cities ture , our of public our houses buildings , the ,

    ¦ in l arrangement east locomoti , the ^* »*^» ^^ on ^ fashions m ^*^ m * j of m by ^^ m * * t our ^ Jk road ^ v ^ r of ^^ gard r ^ m and dress ^ h ^ v ^^ en v ^ rail w % & s ¦ ^& ¦ , and , the m ^ and ^^ * carriages , society . ^^ ^ last ^ ^ . ^ - ^ ^ ir ^>^ v but ^ . used The ^^ not ^ b <^«« ^^

    1 I author things , is and evidentl the examples y a keen which observer he of cites men from and I 1 devoted existe various nce parts much of an of thoug the improved country ht to the taste as subject illustrations show on that wh he i of ch has the he

    II writes . The keynote of his book is summed up m taste that this we sentence should : ' idealise The true fro princi m nature ples of , art and require good demands iwui 4 / the selection of the most natural

    II II and difficult _ 1 1 . suitable « ¦ " ^ _ task { */* - * UU fcJ *^ , [} subj to Aj \ L -IEC show OX ects 7 VI Dwlv Vf . JUITy how tlVJ It U is x often V / , *> V of ^ VIUU JLX course and CAAAVA UJUOU how AAV , no JLACbVIAA W » com Wil very < **

    -pletel y this canon has boen set at naught , but Mr nis UIH . Fawcett is not satisfied with merely putting

    I a removal finder "ng-er and upon UDon suggests blemishes blftmifihfis a , more he he gives ^ ives excellent hints hints for way their their of ( I d ° ing thingsHis observations the blunders

    II 1 and o eader » ade other " l > y UjjO * public buildings i / uuuiu . . bodies JJ . J ^ o KJUOX will wilt in the V be ua UL 1 erection U felt loit 11 CI on ITU by Mjr l nearl uoaiijr > of il \ J municipal U 1 y every orci UUA j ^

    ^ ' th which to app we ly are with onl much y too force familiar to ; structures and his O inctures lriCCUPfiei on / -wt | the | -f- » £ v needless 11 «* a / -3 1 £ >< ia monetrosities Tn / -v « tcif i » rvtii- # -i aa sty dfiTlc led »/~ l

    . Wft ^ station s which have been permitted to JJJ fe even re forms in which Londo he n itself su are richly for deserved the .

    ^ e ggests are most ^ jw er within at first reach eight , and if being some sli of them htlfanciful strike the

    —1 ^^ " * hia plan of carpeti as ng a house g with y a fabric

    uniform in design but varied in treatment—it is , we that are what inclined he suggest to think s , is simp a novelty ly owing . to Instead the fact of

    presen what he t carpets terms the he ' recommends no-taste' of too the many use of of some our

    plant form taken , from vegetation familiar to our country as the foundation of a suitable floor

    of or ferent covering homeliness nomeuness rooms and ; coloured and ana his object renos appropriatel e e to to being all all the tha to y impart rooms rooms for the of nf an d the tha air ifrepos

    house author . disp In lays this considerable and many other originality directions of con the - ception ¦ and the ¦ fact that the President of the

    ^^ , — — — —^ - ^ ^ ^*™^ ^ ^ ^*^ ^^ ^ b * ^» ^^ «^ « ^^^^^ ^^ mm ^^ ^ ^^ * ^ - ^^ Royal Academy has done him the honour to accept sufficient the to dedication secure a thoug of the htfu work l consideration ought to for be his

    proposals . From Messrs . LettsSon & Co— ' The Eoads of

    , , . ing England cyclists and will Wales wel , ' come by Charles this compact Howard . volume

    Tourcompilea compiled bv by Mr Mr . . Howard Howard , as as the thr > result TAsnlt of « f his ? ii « bicyclists experience and , parti tricyelists cularly described . The volume for the before use , us of

    particularises the main roads , on of a Eng scal land e never and hitherto "Wales with attempted some in ,

    being Scotland described as far as so Edinburgh as to afford and such Glasgow informati ; these on respecting the surface of the roads and the nature

    of The the author gradients however as will has be not useful been to lectfu cyclists l of . other tourists , besides , cyclists , giving neg numerous

    topographical notes of cities , residences , and the b too princi , cyclists but pal not object distinguishing least s , of is interest a list those of by hotels which the way frequented adopt ; last the

    y , Touring Club tariff . The road description ap- " pears to be well and systematically arranged ;

    it is written in a style at once concise , clear , and comprehensive , while it displays a thorough mastery of detail .

    From MessrsMacmUlan & Co—* Dickens /

    . . by Adolphus William "W ^ ard . Professor Ward ' s monograph on the life and works of Charles

    Dickens is the new volume of Messrs . MacmiHan ' s excellent series , the « English Men of Letters . ' The contents are thus divided : —Before Pickwick ;

    from Copperfield success ; changes to success ; last ; strange years ; lands the future ; David of Dickens ' s fame . In the preface Professor Ward

    enumerates his sources of information , which are chiefly Mr . Foreter ' s life and the published letters . At the same time many private persons

    have given valuable assistance . We may quote a eentence or two from the work before us by way of showing the interest of it ; first on the famous

    readings ; could In Lii the h way of omplished assumption iuauvu Charles Protean Mathevra effort tbe elder Tlie

    v lack ; L » . v - lustre uu ave « v eye acc nuuuuu of | Mr . Justice no iiu more myre Stare nwwjttii leigh , the uju . urv for > . . ensic xjiu liitch of Mr . of Nathani Mr . Serjean el Winkle t Buzfu , were z , and alike the incom hopel parable ess impotence .

    Wo can testify to the truth of this . Dickens seemed actually to be transformed into the judge

    as he read . What Professor Ward says of tlie Thames as it brings to mind scenes from Dickens ' a works is equally happy :

    London and Its river In especial are , as I have said , for A h aunted years jrvttiB by impossible iiKiisir the otMUju memory to w pass yuan of Dickens uau near juuuuvu London ' s books Bridge vi . iug To me a at « it night uigju was to other localities the Thames

    ¦ without ... .. or instinctively frequent .. . recalling . pictures near scattered through , u eritatis works . of Dickena—in thia respect , also , a real litxr

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1882, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071882/page/11/