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"' '. aagggggj 620 The Publishers' Circu...
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Books Received : — From Messrs. Alden & ...
at —London Florence , November in June 1861 1865 . It . ' is Mrs not . easy Browning to imag died ine
cir a collection cumstances of that poetical shoul p d ieces insp ire rou gre ght ater out interest under and respect than the two volumes before us .
From Messrs . W . Swan Sonnensch . ein & Co . — tures * Reconnoitring vjpw ^ b ^ ^ b ^ ™^ a * in aan a ^^ a . the ^ v ^^^^^ ^ b' Reg ™^^^ ^^ ^^^ f ^^^ t i ^^ on ^^ Central ^ ^^^^^^ ly M ing ^¦¦~~ i b ^^^ tp between Asia ^^ — ^^ : Pioneering Russia — ^^ — ^^ andlndia — — ^^ Adven ^ — — — A /"
-rious by Charles travel-book Marvin , printed . The in author large type of thi and s luxu with - wide marg aBb insgives us a p k opular account of the
princi w t * % ^ wa > ^ a ^ ^ p ^*» ^ al m **^ f ^^ s ^ p ioneering ^^^^^ ¦ ™ , ^« r ^^^ v ^ ^ ^^ ¦ ' — exp ^^ loits ^ a— ^^ — in the reg — - *~ ~^ — ion — — —~ — lying — — between the Caspian and India ; and he possesses at the outset an obvious advantage in dealing
\ rith the subject , in that he knows personally many of the explorers , Russian as well as Englishwhile bis own travels have given him
, knowled a right ged to . speak Ori , g which inally contributed is by no means in a skeleto unac n - form to the columns of the Newcastle Weekly
appeare Chronicle d , , some thus g of iving these proof chapters of what have journalis already - tic enterprise will accomplish ; and they were
we learn , revised by the author after a journey , to him the to Caucasus bring the and information Caspian region bearing , thus enabling upon it
l i hapters terally d to own the to famous date . feat He s of devotes Arminius separat Vam e - b ¦ n r & ^^ »^ fc » ry aj , Captain ^ mtr ^ ' ar m ^ m * ^ jw « av ^ ar ^ Marsh bb >* 4 b * b > hbj vw ¦ ¦ w i ™ , C ^ r olonel - » ~~ — - ^^ ^ a » —• V - a - ~ » l — ent — — — - v >* - i — ne ¦ - ^^ B i ¦ a — -w ker - — ^^ , a
Mr . J . A . MacGahan , Captain Napier , Colonel Macgregor Mr . O'Don , ovan Colonel and Burnab then y he , Captain recounts Butler the , and
adventures of Pashino , , the secret Russian agent , governmen of GrodekofF t , and , another Lieutenant emissary AlikhanoflPs of the journey Czar ' s
with a Russian caravan to Merv , and several other interesting bits of personal experience . Lastlyin ™ - a r closing 1 - - ¦ " chapter he recounts the
a change ^ a ^ V ^ V * * " ^ ^» ^ J , s which ^ " - —^»™ have ^ » ^^^ J taken place in Central Asia ^ — since Vambery ' s visit in 1863 , and discusses the future of pioneering k in the great - region - ¦ . The ¦— ¦
interes ^» ^ w . ~^ ™ ^ a » w ~ t ^^ ° ^™ of m—* the " — ^ - " ™ - volume —~ ~ j ^^^— is twofold — m I — — : in — f ^^ a . — the ' ^ first p readers lace it , and is a , book in th of e second adventure , it for offers grown a vast -up
amount of information "which cannot fail to interest and instruct the reader in view of possible complications with Russia . To those
whom —the we journalist may term -travell his ers own and legitima adventurers te comrades to whose enterprisecourageand endurance Eng- '
, , land deserve and d tribute Europe when owe so he much sas — that he the pays a wel loits lyxp of ^^¦ ^^ f 4 ^^ ¦ ¦ Vambery W ^ B > V W ^ B » * w qr ^^ , ^ B 0 ~^^~ 'Donovan —^~ - ~ m & " ^^^ i ^ ^|^ ^ ^ mr ^^ VH ^ 4 , ^ m and ^ «^ y «« «« ^ hT ^ BB ^ MacG BB > * ¦^¦^ tt ^^^ V V ^ ^ . ^ 'V - V ^ ahan B ) B ^^ i ^^ V ^ V . V ^ Bk | tran ^^ f ^ BB ^^^^ BI BBl ^ Bk
scend those of the other pioneers , most of whom of are con military demnation men to ; and the short then - lie sig gives hted policy Km a jus •/ t which word
has led our commercial men to undervalue the importance of the subject : — Th all anks the to markets her military of Cen successe tral Asia s Russi and a Is lias beginning swallowed to
encroach up Pei ^ ia and upo Afghanista n our lucrative n . Yet and tbroughout exteneWe this trade twenty with years merchant ' war lia agains s ever t our spent trad a e no Engl or sacrificed ish manufacturer a moment or
of li ^— ' .-, s ease on behalf — BB Bk « Bfe of dBk ¦ the a ¦ A penny interests A A of his Vl 4 > class * k . If B ^ BBb wo were from from it it to . there there lose India are are thousands thousands , or were of of to wealthy wealthy be temporarily manufacturers manufacturers expelled and and
one merchants of these , who has ev wo ^ uld r generously be reduced co-operated to beggary to . fix Yet iv limit not for to VVF ^ Russian JlK the * ^ IADUAWAL inte a * rests aggression »» lk |^ A \> V * J > yfc * or X ^ fc to fkTVT vr obtain K it # v «« K « i * . a * w secure m # - «* ' * w <« in A a fc » * India ^^ * outer ^ 1 »« » - *•>* , defence V 4 It " ^ a" VAVXJW a has a .
been left for the they personall whose y in possess terests are relativel . ini MiW sig nto nificant Central WlfcWl d themselves « M in > A Asia -VUH the - * ; y army East and U 1 A to ..-U * , , those WtlVUU to send pioneers | ftV « o 4 VVtU ut nd pioneer have JIAMTV braved «/ A after UI their f VU dan V pioneer » A * y ger ^ VA | . ,
freely expose to stem the Russia hardships n advance , a and spent cover trade money interests Burnaby which and the MacGregor traders themselves Baker » W 1 » V . V Marsh would •^¦¦^ and Wlt < not A Q- mtiM il protect l have JlJItVW .
Jt ^ **» UIMIfUTJ ate CWKJI-UK M > Ta * il ^ AM Jk "«> # fS \ ^>*' lk , aa , «•»««» a . , aB a \ \ Jt T ^ * perfor other ^ . med country services would to * the . have ¦ State ^^ been unrewarded publicly recognised , which in and any recompensed . QP ¦ ¦ ' '
Mr . Marvin characterises in no measured terms the policy of Eng i lish statesmen which made it
p action ossible he maintains Russa to that ann the ex M Czar erv , has and virtuall by that wiped out Central Asia . To prevent further y
our aggression v » ^ b ^ bt ^¦ ^ Indian " ^ 1 ' ^ and Emp ^ —¦ ^ ire oscupation — ~ is , the — ~ — author in ¦¦ the urges - directi — ^— , a ^^ wai on duty a ^ f ^ a ^ am B of ^ JM incumbent upon « BBour rulers . Thus he writes : —
the We richest have . the All largest the Empire resources in the the world most ; ambitious we have sceptre fJ sovere \ S * s £ S % JJ sta . W ig . # n tesmen Possessi - * - ever \ S > JiJ > UOillg sighed do ng all MIA * for t these VUVUV rule are thin Vi - at **^ gj gs the " we " beck V lack « .-w ^ -U- > of one - ^ 4 U » Britannia N » . esseatial VtCO ^ UUlCUt ' s .
remedy Our for this lies no in > . our own our hands empire . Ifc greatly is because . The we ou that rselves we have have allowed bee WW VW n indifferen our honour t , and apatheti 4 our c interests 4 J , unpatriotic to he ,
VUUIU WW **" - *»» \> « - *»*^ V * V »* " - ** . . AVUU . * KM «~ aVV >^» . *^ . -.. VQVQ V \> V l office trifled and with fooling by men themselves capable out of of talkin it , but g th utterly emselves unfit into to f ^ 3 the destinies of three hundred VVA million people \ JlVf « The
sway Off E be nglish C gove * J v **** , rn are * ed * - « -Wy giants as an 4 * V < Empireand 7 - ruled -r 4 . k > 4 A . J . \ by ^\^ « . babies « . l not <« 4 L ^« V ^ as * . . a For parish ¦ . ¦« . « - their *•»« . , St - ^^> Empire . ^^ | Stephen . J . 14 to ' s must aL « L *> VfLtJ \ M be i ^ JF *^/ filled aL & Jl > 1 \ rffwft of no jL Jft successful \« F longe al ^^ T al t Ch " 4 ^/ r with tr f ff Av ade ^ i mere r ^ afak famil " ^ Liberal ^ a" L * rfWX influen LVJk hacks AACjiVi JJklJ ¦ , the V &^^ 3
by frothy men s who cum know the empire well or , who love y it more ce , than but their consistency riches and to make their it life res , and pected "wh througho o possess the ut the courage world a . nd
o Mr r . about Marvin the gives Central a valuable Asian list ioneers of the ment work ioned s by in his volume , and he adds a map p of Central Asia
which is guaranteed by Mr . Stanford ' s name , and some excellent illustrations . From the same . —* Rehousing of the Industrial
Glasses , or Tillage Communities v . Town Rookeries , ' by the Rev . Henry Solly . Few men have a > v > ^ M v ^ a ~ a v - ^ w bett r ^ a" ^ a ~ *^ ^^ er ^ t ^ w ri ap % ^^ g pak ht ^^^¦^ B ^ av than ^^^ ^* a > ^ a *^ p at ^> Mr ¦ b ^^ vpw ^ ^^ K . a * Soll w ^* f ^^ r ^^ m ^^ y ¦ to ^^ ^ ta * speak w bj ^ p ^^^ ^ v ^ ^^^^^ on ^^^ ^^^ w any ^ ^^ 1 ¦
q no mere stion theorist affecting but the a -wor real king earnest classes w , orker for he for is their Va ^ aV *> VaaT J ^ av ^ welfare aj v ^ a * a »«^ "ai ^ V ^ ai ^ v' , ¦> th | r al IT orough *^^ ^ aV ^^ r Va » VaBfc a > a ^ l ^ a > y w acquainted ahaap v ^^ ^^ hs ^ ajtawv ak ajpavr Va * ^ ar wa i ¦ with v ^ v **^ a » their ^ ' — — —
nee gest ds p lans nd tastes for improving , and therefore their "w condition ell able to . sng The * i ti *•/ M . tle * W •« . ^_^ -page Bi . * ¦ wW | Ba . * % * of XX aW this " W * A -aV •— ' l a little a . » V 1 / aV ^ sixpenny "S . * a *> * » m ^ l % ^ « - « Ifc ¦ * -worth » J » ^ . p . a . _ . a > carries -v anv — ~
his what argument we want on is its not face , so for much his contention to rehouse is that the cro ejected wded JLondon metrool workmen isbut to in trans or fer near them the bodil over y - , p ,
with wif spots . h th th which p ei . i r industries infliifttries even in , t t . England c o some snmA of rvf seem the the unoccupied uaoecUDied to invite colonisation 1 . ar ^ tr vr ^^ ^ a > ^^^^ ^ a ^ a *^^ ^ ^ ~^^ ^ ^^
in Wyco and * the Are are mbe manufacture not no a t = t the chairs they men could , ' there he and asks be women far in , h * Old just , boys Street as - healthier wel and Boad l made girls , Finsbnry and , in engaged under High ? incomparably better moral conditions appier , than in , the amount bacK
slu Blums of cabinet ms < of f Bermondsey HftrmnndRftv making , wood ? ? Why Whv carving should should , watch not not making a a l large arge , tailoring amount , shoemaking-, envelope folding-, papier mach 6 work , rope making housed Yiouaod he done . , coul conl in canvas villages d d supplement siiDnlenient bag where and e thei thei the nck r r making workers wages waees , . , and and could bookbinding promote promote be decently , tnur tneir aw 01 -i
physical tending by supplying , ; to and a dairy moral the , great cultivating well- de being mand by vegetables for occasional fowls , fruit and gardening trees eggs , , ana atm even aking making have jam long ? been Pnper count Vt making * \ JJLAAAfc manufactures , straw fct plaiting " ~ 'J printings , and woe
frequently A X A . C * XVI At | 5 , HCb now TV JLVT relegated 1 *|^ Ik / V ^ VJJLA - to LA . JLA country ry , J - towns * « - « . * . «— " —• . ' ¦ - « - , Mr . Solly proceeds to enforce his views by man r cogent arguments and apt illustrations , generally and at a
d time rawn when to th public © subj attention ect , and when has been any veil-consiaerea idered scheme wouia ld be eiy to meet vw
fi s nancial scneme as well as wou moral oe and likely n ^ political w . support " ^ - , i is to be hoped that his valuable suggestions w
not be left out of sight . Edward Stanford— ' Tha Touri *^
From Mr . . Pocket polglot Boot companion / by George for F . the Chambers traveller , I * . gw *;** b ;
him A in y parallel columns a large number c / iW of , P ltaiw * "T and wordin in renchG ^ erman - ~» ,
ana Spani wora sh , s s Portuguese English jGjnguan , & , , c F r . reucu ; a list , , . of books ., uaeiiu - to t . o trnnristfl ourists . classifi <* lassified « d under under the tne ^ languages "K ""^ : ^
which hints' they as to , are requisites written ; , a foreign budget roone or ? ta pra Tl « ^ of I I
equivalents , medical and surgical htntfl , ^ ^ —————¦*~™*——*——*
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1884, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071884/page/12/
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