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    From Messrs. "W. EC. Beer & Co.—A remark...

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    licensed . Barren as 'was the earlier part of her reign in literary productions of merit , books and pamphlets of all sorts increased with great rapidity . ¦ ¦ It was yi ^ not b ¦ long after »¦ she iv b mmmr renewed the vaa charter of

    • v m ^ ^^ ^^ r ^^ ^^ ^ mr ™ ^ p ^ a ^^^ * v ^ - ^^ ^^ ^^» «^ ^ ar ^^^ ^^ v v v ^*^ m ^^ ^ r a *^^^ v ^ m ^^^ r ^ v ^^ ^^ the Stationers' Company , than , with characteristic self-will , she upset it by making- certain grants , _ m m % rf m a

    authorising B ^^^^ yrde ^ to print music books ; Serres ^^* , psalters , primers Tothill , and law prayer books -books Judge ; Flower Her ,

    grammars ; , ; , Majesty's printer , Bibles and Testaments ; Watkin £ and ^ ^ ^ ^^^^ ^ Koberts mmm , ^ T ^^ ^ V m ^ r ^^ " ^^ —^ , W almanacks ^^~^ — ^~ ^ ™ ^ ^ ^ h ^^ P «^^>^> % ^ and ^ k ^^ V ^*^ i * " ^^^» prognosticati H ^ mm * ^^^ Bflk ^'" ^ k ^ m ^ mr- V ^ » ^ V ^ h ^^ V ^ ^ ons ^^ ^» . ™» *^ r ; v _ ^ M ^ B . tt ^ V ^ H ^ . a ¦« ^ k a A mw

    Vautrollier ^ ^ , Latin Testaments and other Lati ^^^ n books ^ ; Marsh , school books ; and Day , A B C ' s and cate-¦ ¦ chisms u g \ *» , j i r 9 am * . The ^ mmmm ^""^ ^ " * "Stationers ^^^ ^* ~ ^~ ^^ ^ " ^^ ^ " ^™ ^ mr- *^ ¦ ** ' Company ^^ ^^ - ^ ¦ P ^ ' ^*^ ^^~ w was » * * " ^^ " ^^ ^ not mr ^ ¦ ^*^ *^ ¦ un ^ " ^™

    -naturally horrified at this new departure of the Queen , and accordingly drew up a petition , which met with IV nothing but a severe reprimand ' for

    || J ^ y ^ m w flSi ^ Bh ^^ ^^ v ^ ^^ ^ ' — H ^ h ¦ * " ^^ ¦¦ v ^ ' ^^ v ^ ^^ V ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ mi . ^ dk ^ » J ^ ' ^^ " ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ daring to question the Queen ' s prerogative / But , ¦ approaching u r ^ t ^^ ~ ~ ^ - ^ - ^ r ^^ ^ b- ^ ^^^^ cj ^ b ^ k ^ Her ^^^^^^ ^^ - —~ Majesty ^^^ —^^^ ^ — - t > ^^^ ^^^ ^^ »/ a ^ ^^ p second ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ k ^ ^«^^ b time ^ k > Jlk ^^^ B ^^ ^ hr ^ much ^ ^ ^^ ^^^* ^^^ ^^^^^ than before at

    more humbly , ' the Company was length granted the exclusive right of printing and selling psalters , primers , almanacks , A B C ' s , the

    ' little catechism , ' and Nowell ' s Knglish and Latin catechism . Ward , and "Wolf , a fishmonger , disputed the power of the Com pan }' , and all efforts at

    prosecution were ignominiously frustrated by Ward ' s Avife . Books , pamphlets , and other literary productionswere ' entered ' at Stationers' Hall so far

    back as , 1558 , but this seems to have been dono more as a trade advertisement than anything else . It is greatly to be regretted that the records of

    this institution are not more full with respect to early printed books . ¦ But M m ^ ^* m * mm * ^ in ^ ^^ sp Wm ~ " ^ mW ite mU ^^ - ^^ of ^ m ^ mm * decrees ^* mm ^ h ^ ^^ Wm 9 ^^ ^_^ IW , H ^ and ^^ ^ b ^ ^ fe ^^ ^ a ^ V host J ~ ^^ |^^ ^ # of ^^^ ^^ means Jh ^ l ^ k ^ K ^ m' ^ vW ^ rf » P ^ to ^ V ^ 1 ^

    bring trangressors to the bar of judgment , the many f-o-called privileges of particular persons and bodies corporate ^ " ^^ + * JL m * r ^^ mm » mL ^ mt ^ ^* r were w w ^ mS A ^ ^^ being w ^^^ Jk ^ -m ^ jmrn ^ constantl ^^ X ^ * T + mW ^» r V ^ w ** ^ ' % > y % / infringed ^ &^ * «• A m r O ^^^ ^^^^^ . The *^^ ^* + ^^

    C ^ ueen ' s prerogative was repeatedly questioned . Important concessions were made in 1583 , but with the dawn of ~ i the seventeenth ] - century ¦ b the t ml m \ * rig hpk hts ' of | the

    — * * " ^ v * ^ ^ ~ mm mm' fv ^ ^^^ m ^^ —^ ^ hvr ^*^* ^^ ^ w ^ h' ^>^^ ^ " ^ ^^ ^^^ ^ m ^^ m , m ^ ^^ m * ^ w m ^^^ - J ^ ^ ^^ k- ^ ^ v " " ~ - ~ ^ B ^ ^ v mm * mm * - ~—monopolists had almost dwindled into a shadow . It was not until the last few years of Elizabeth that printing f * - » - ¦* mj m , mmm * B || B ^ m and ^ mr ^ mmt ^ jmm bookselling r r ^ mT ^^ jb , —^ ri ^ ^ mf Jh m ^ mk m k ^ commenced ^^^ x ^ m * A A A A ^ h ^ 4 fc ^ ^ v ^ ^^^ ^ - 'V * to m ^ - ^^ be mmt ^ ^^ recognised j ^ ^ j ^ mm - ^^ L ^ m ± ^ m ~* ¦ ir mm *

    as separate trades , and each as requiring a distinct technical skill and training . Giants -+-TW m m + JMt ^ ^ mj m ^ r , M indeed ~ mm » ¦ A ^ WV ^ . ^ ^ i ^ ^ i ^ , there m ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ fe ^ , ^ were V ^ ^^ jj , ^^ among ^ f » ^ mm , ^ T m \ m \ ^^_ the ^ A ^ ^^ ^ literati V *^ ^^ * «^^^ *^ *^ of ^ m * ^~ V - B mm—f ^^^ ^ ^ ^ & ^ __ ^ mi ^ m , mm

    this period . But from the earliest times booksellers and authors seem to have mutually agreed in con-I sidering ¦* JtW \ their htf mm interests mm > h mm % 1 mimW as l antagonistic tm + mf . For b ¦ many m ^^ m

    - - »•—^ ^ mT *» M b ^ b ^ H ^^^^ ^¦ ' ^^ ^^ K ' ^^ ^^ mm ^ * -mm ^ w -- ^_^ m ^ mf - ^ ^ ^^ Jk ^^ ' ^^^ | ^ J ~** m . mm , v « - ^^ - ^« mm * mamr ^^ , mm ^^ ^^ ^» - * - ^ ^— B years after the invention of printing , the press was ^ chiefly employed in increasing the stock of literature t provided f— ' — " ^^ W mU -mmmml ~¦ % ^ ^^ m ^ by p ^/ classic ^^ mm * % ,. m m * mr " mw ^^ authors ^ P ^ ^ ™ ¦ ^^ fcjl' ^ b > N ^^ , J ^ and ^ . ^ ** ^ ^ l ^^» the ^ - ^ ^ m * - ^^ producers ¦« ^ BV ^ . ^ ^*^ ^^ ' ^^ ^ C ^ K B ^^ were V ^^ ' ^^ - ' ^

    therefore trading on pretty safe ground ; the selection was not so much a matter of discrimination as of tasto or convenience . But so soop as that class

    of of mp men n sprang Rr » ra . ncr lut into . o existence « xistpnr » ft who whn endeavoured ftndftii . vrmrfid to to Rain a livelihood—poor and miserable as it wasbv by the the productions Tvrnrlnp . fr . irYns of of thei t . hfii r pen r > pin- the th « war war between bfihween

    bookseller and author commenced , . It should be remembered that the very early printers , the Gutenbergs v ^/ KsJL CVI FaustsGryphiiDolets + % and Caxtons / XJ \^ « . Ji f

    ^ " ~ - * u •*• -. , JL « . ** UW Vk > , } " *» . ** - ~ - J k / AA & A , 9 " * ' ** ' - •*¦"* . ' VmJj , JV L 1 VC > . « M ^ m . m ^ , y were men of considerable intellectual powers . They were followed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries bmen who were for the most

    part grossly ignorant . y Poor , witty , good-natured Tom — Nash hasin'Pierce 1 Penilesse'' ( 1592 \ J mi ) & k iven

    w " *¦ * . ' UV * J JLA A A * Jmm + J , Jll - » - * ^ ¦* . ~ Lr * KJ . JU V- * A- » A A . ^ yfc ^»^^^ I « . ^/ W , . g A » ^^* J » us personifi ^ ^ - ** - a - » V grim / -m --, A JtA cation V / VjW p icture V ^ A A ^ of ^ JL of Sloth ^ a \ mW bookseller U U . J Nash . ^ tju kj A . A , in not A Jl \ y whom V onl VJ" KJI A y T he charged m mmf AA sees ( J > A ¦ ( > V / Vj a

    the stationer that I knowe' with * eating sixe times eurie day' —this must have been galling to an

    • author in lUthor a week who who !— usuall nRiiftllv but who y had had , ' if meals Tri a man als about about come as as to many man his stalle v times times to nske uske him him for foi * a booke ^ ookfl . neuer nflnfir stirres Rtirrpisi his Vii « head Tiftn . fi . or or

    not looks a word vpon % Jl onl him 11 , with but If -stands his , littl XX 1 / stone UfcV e finge still r poynts , and speaks back , -

    wards v " **¦ " * to w « r his V ^ f , V boy AT y * who 1 Ju » KM , must JLJbftKT be his * JI UbVA interpreter Mr mJ v » J * , * |^^ < & «* V c ' - *» . " : ¦¦ " ~ mmm r ~ m z mmmmm r !^ > »„¦ , _ - .. . «¦;•¦ ' ' " ° ^ ' ' - ^

    The horror with which men in high places 6 r position jl s refused to be regarded ^ 3 as authors , is alrno & t .

    proverbial of a regular , and author onl . y too This clearl feeling y indicates was very the general statu ly s manifested fT mr until 1 within recent + f and ¦ Sheridan 4 ¦ ¦¦ ¦! ' s

    T ^ ^ T ^^ h ^ b m ^^ -mmWrnm ^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ m *^ ^^^ ^ m * V V ^ ^< ^ b ^ h m * ^ k ^ ^ m * m ^^ ^^ ^ i ^ B m ^ years jf ^^^« V ^ h ^ 0 , « ^ bil ^ ^^ ^^^ ^* ^ fr ^ ^ 1 ^ » ^ ^ ™ ^ ~^ Sir Benjamin Backbite was only expressing a common ^ fe ^ ^^ ^ V ^»^» ^^»^^ ^|^ ^^ . ^ B thoug ^ i ^^ k ^^ ^ mT V *^ V ^\ ^ ht ^^ ^* when ^^^^ ^ W ^ ^^ . ^ ^ he bj ^ ^ t ^ exclaimed ™ m ^ ^^^* ^ M ^^^^ U ^ V ^»^ B ^^ m ^^ -mm ^ mm , « ' To ^^^ ^ i ^ say V * aT V ^ T V trtith «^ mmm ^ r ^ v ¦ ^ i" , W A ¦ mm m * M ^ m ^ « m dk V

    ina ' am , ' tis * very vulgar to print . ' The works of the dilettanti were circulated among their friends in MS ., ^ and Wi . * ^>» remained mWto ^ ir «* M ^ « riW ^ * - * <^ V * in ^ *^ that If 11 ¥ ^^ condition ^^ ^** f m-m-. ' m ^^ -W ~ m * mt . ^ mmT " ~ t until «•«• — « *!» » «» they ^^^ ^ " ^ -J ¦ fell ^^ in the ^^™ ^^

    way of some enterprising bookseller , or until the author ' s death . The poems of the noble but ill-fated ¦ Surreyalthough circulated 1 in MS tf . duriDg i his Wrnpr life B -

    *^ ^^^ ^ mr ^ w ^ mw w , « m * m ^ v * 4 ^^ ^^^ bb ^ 4 » ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ J ^ m ^ mMW m ^ ^^ ^^^ ^ * ^ ^* . ^^ «« ^ ' ^ ' ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ h' Mh ^»^ mm cm ^ . ^ v time , we re not printed until 1557 . Sidney ' s' Astrophel and Stella' was never written with the intention of being m *^ W mmw ^ h . ^ F ^ % published ff ^ ^^ ^^ mmm 4 mm **• + ' ^« V , H but V ^ V ^^^ mmr it ^ mmm ^ issued ^ m WmW m * ^ ^^^ - ^|^ ^^^ fro mmt mmm , m ^ f m ^^ h ^^ the m ^ j m ^ mm ^ M ^ press mm ^ ff ^ ^ mr mmmW - * tmT in mm , B *^^ 150 ^^ ^^ ^*~ 1 mrmw , w

    with a notice from its bookseller , Thomas Newman . One of the m 6 st interesting examples of the * horror ' to which we have alluded mmmm ^ offers itself in * England ¦! 's

    mmT ^^^ - V * ^»^ H mm mm' ^ ^ W W - ~ m * ^ mw ' ^ . mp W ^^ ^^«^ V W ^ ^«^ m ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ p ^^ ^ ^^*«^ ^^ A \^ ^ k ^ ^^ ^ B ^ ' ^ V 4 taK ^ ' ^ V ™ ^ ^ ^ mw Helicon tmmm m ' mm ^ ^ * ' ( 1600 mm \ V ^ ^ -A ) , which « 0 is a collection M ^ mt of *^ poems b * y various writers , and published by John Flasket . The mi curious address to to ¦ the reader k refers to ¦ ¦¦ stationers *• B ~ W

    ^ " < ™ ^~ - ' -m * m'" - ^ ^ ^ *** — mmm ~ ' m * V W ^ - ^ . ^ ^^_ ^ ^ P ^^ ^ v ^^ ^ . M V * ^ mm ^ mr ' ^ ^*^ ^ ^ k ^ b ^^ 9 ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ - ^ ^^ ^ b . » f ^* ^ m * . ^ ^ **^ making free with each other ' s property , but Flasket was hoisted with his own petard . He raised a perfect hornet ' s nest around his own ears by making

    free with the work of certain authors , and he was compelled to paste slips of paper over the names of the writers which ho had cited . John Denny ' s

    'The Secrets of Angling' ( 1613 ) was one of the many books published posthumously , and under the ¦ supervision of a bookseller . Here again -we see J the mt

    ^^~ ~ - JL ¦ ¦ ^ v - ^— v mm ^ ~^ - ^—^— -v ¦ ^~ ^^ m i ^ - ^ mW ~ mm * mgf ^ b ^^ v ^^ ^ m * 4 ^ B ^^ . ^ h ^ ^^ ^ ^ mm ^ m ^^ *^ *¦ fe ^ — ^ V ^ KmJ ^ p ^^ ^ . mf mml ^ m , ^^ m m ^ 0 p ^ ^^ ^ nmmW mmm — — bookseller ^ exercising a somewhat novel function , one for which he more often than not proved himself singularlunfit—we referof courseto thatof

    editor . y , , ;

    ( To be continued . )

    U^^L M^M^^^^^^^^ ^^. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ " Mm^M...

    U ^^ l m ^ m ^^^^^^^^ ^^ . ^^^^^^^^^^^^ " ^ mm ^ m ^^^ mmmmmmm 999 ^^ 999999 gm 99 ^ m ^ m ^ mmm ^ mmg / ggm ' ^ mmm ^ mm ] fmmgm ^ m ^ mmlmmm ^ m ^ gm ^ mmm ^ ' gm ^ mmmm ^ mm ^ mmM ^ mtm ^ m mm ^ mmmmmmm ^ m ^ m mmmmm N ¦ w ? _ - - t , ' ; Jul y i , 1 S 8 7 The Publishers * Circular 7 j 9

    From Messrs. "W. Ec. Beer & Co.—A Remark...

    From Messrs . "W . EC . Beer & Co . —A remarkably neat mw m < l mm bound ma little m ^ j volume h contains m % fc ' Alb \ : a

    m ~ mm - ^ ^ . y g ^^ r - *^ ^ p «^ ^ m ^ m ^ ^ ^ m ^ , ^ . ^ . ^ V ^^^ K ^^ * ^ ^^ i ^ , m ™^^ * . ^ ^ fc m ^ j ^ ^ y ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ m % t myW ynne W &\ M m \ ± m ** m > m U ^ Dnimatic Medley , ' by Esca . The author's ability as a versifier is of somewhat unequal kind , but many of - * m ^ ^* the ™ m * m ^ - ^^ mm- ^ lines ^ mm ^ b ^ h ~ mm * W ^ mr disp m , * ^ m \ m ^^ I m , ^^ lay ^ m } , mmr mJ merit ^^^^>^^ ^^ ^^ ^ «^ of ^^^ ^^ no Jfc ^ b ^^^ mean ^ b ^» 4 * ^^ ^ H ^ b «& order ^ ^ 4 \» ^^ V ^^^ , ^^ . A The . ^ L ^ v A ^^^

    ^ work has evidently been written "with a due regard to the requirements of the time . From \ ¦» Messrs . Diprose mmmt ir & Bateman Vt ^ mr ± —A new

    m ^— ^* - " ^ - ^^ - ^^^^ - ^ »^ - ^ ^^ mmm m ^^^^ mmm ^ gm ^^ ^^ i ^ ^ k ^«^ tmWmwmV m ^ m ^ mr j ^ 4 m ^ m ^^^^^^ . ^^ ^ . ^^ . ^ m ^^ » edition in popular form of ' Wheat and Tares , ' by H . S . Cunningham . This is a story which is especi - ^^ " — ' W ^* - — ' ^» — al m ~ v — l — y » strong m-m- rnmr ^ ^^ " ^^ f % in ^^^ character ^^ ^ - ^ ^ mHmmt ^ m 0 ^ m ^ - ~ m * «^ m stud ^ r «^ ^>^ ^^^ y » . 0 Perhaps ^^^ ^^ Jh JfcJW mj ^ r H ^ ^^

    the best is the Dean of Oldchurch . ' He was a perfect master of language , ' the author tells us . ' Dexterity was his great characteristic . He played with all sorts of theological edged tools and never

    V V ^ mm > « m— m -mr mw ^ h - ^ m- ~^— ~ m . ^* mm ^ r - **** mmm m ^ m- mt ^ -mmr ^ m * ^^ ^^ aa ^ m m *^ m , m * 4 » ^^ ^^« mWm * ^^ ^ 1 ^ ^^ ^ t-mT m ^ f ^ P ^ # ^ V R m ^^^ mW tf * ^^ T T ^ * ^^ cut himself . He juggled with controversial questions , and tossed them aboutvand swallowed them , mt and V —— * m » balanced - *— m ^ mm , ^* v ma ~ m ^ mr -w ^^^ them mmr ^ ^ V ^ ^ M ^ , « ' and kw V mm a ¦ I ^ spun *** , n ^ «^» ^ i ^ them ^ 1 Jfc ^^ ^ <^^ fc until ^ PVt ^ b ^ ^ J > ^^ ^ it ^ m * made I * mmmW ^ LAT * m ^ m ^^ *

    you dizzy to look at him . He coulcl dance a ^ worddance in and out among all the deadly heresies , mmjmw and . ««« ^^^ ^ not mm ^^ ^ mr ¦ touch mm * ^— mt -m ^ r «»^ H them ^ mr «« mm ^* ^ mm ^ , f till ^^ mm mm mmm you m ^ m ^ ^ v ^ / would m y ^^^ ^^^ ^ m ^^^ thi m ^ j ^^ fe ^ h 4 nk ^ P *^ B 1 ^ ^ iia ^ kj * «¦ * W ^ toes ^ V ^^ ^^ r ~ "

    were bewitched ; he enunciated commonplaceswith all the dignified importance of an original discoverer , ornamented platitudes with brilliant scholarshi mm and pointed + mt mf them J > , with ingenious

    illustrations r * -r ^^ ^ r — » . -r mm . mmm- -.-mma . p V , « _ till ^^ r * -m >^ their m ^ r - * - a m— - oldest --mf ^ - " ^ ^ ^ Jl ^ friends ^ A' v W - ^ **? B »» mi A m \ m ht L— ^^ * 4 have « b ^^ ^ b * ' -m * passed them , without knowing it ; made g light of awkward VV m w ^ m ^ V mmm ¦ , mr m , ^ * matters ¦ mm mm , m ^ mmr ^|^ ^ m , mmm * that mmT VW < mr were m , W mm mm ^^ the m terro mA r of m ^ less rf | h mmmmm ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^^ j ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ m ^^ ^ ^

    agile preachers , parried logical embarrassments by rhetorical cleverness , got rid of a difficulty l > y an antithesis ¦ and ¦ explained h the mm inexp ¦¦ f licable Vt «^^ in

    m , mm m , ^^ ~— - ^ . ^^ n - ^ m- m - ^ _^^^ ^^^ — m , ma ^ m , ^^ - ~ ^^ r ^^ v - ^^ ^^^^ mrn ^ ^^ m . . S ^ ^ v ^—mr ^^^^^ V ^ ^^^ ^^ 0 ^^ PB ^^ WHB m ^^ n ^^ V ^^ tf ^ ^^^ «> PP sentences of such incomparable neatness that * ninety JLJ HIV VJ — - AmU nine LM v ^ out W t * U < of V ^ JL l a « hundred HUUUi UU of V / A AJ his him ^ ¦ Kl hearers AAU the (*&\? JIK 7 were »» V 4 . V

    sure to be taken in , an ^ believe ^ greatest philosophpr of the ' day . ' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ M ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ tM ^^^^ v ^^ T M 'I ^^ B ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1887, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071887/page/13/