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    juiy f, 1890 The Publishers' Circular gI...

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    and Two : a Tale of Four / by Elizabeth Glaister . The author of ' Bernard and Marcia' has here _^ iven _ v ^ _—__ us Vl . — - a kind __—_ of ., — comed — _ _ _ y of errors _ _ , which ,

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    true Langley ^ r , _ _ _ love _^ and does _ Eleanor ^ not _ run Cranfield ^^ smooth . , The and _ , course Geoffrey of Martyn weds Eleanor Cranfield , while the fair

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    lications after marriage , which , in the case of Geoffrey There is a Martyn villain and in the his story wife who , end is trag as villain ically - .

    ous as need be , though he is the bearer of a title . The story is peculiar , and , though of no great artistic merit , is pleasantly told .

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    that to many the Casino an unsop offers histicated an youth road to who fortune fancies . easy From the same . —* Monsignor' by Mrs .

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    in the fictional literature of to-day . Mrs . alway Compton s with -Iteade advanta likewise ge that thinks love that is admitted it is not into mundane affairs Jfc . ' Oh ! this ~ - love 1 ' she

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    life blindfold ! . . . . Love is a curse . It p millions 4 eop IA 1 A les V ^ »* . t >^ of V ma ^ " poor » - dhouses ' v ^ ^ -r * . w souls ¦«—> ~— - ivrf and in — - — m — ~ - isery — gaols — — — ^ a , —— and wrong _ - p j lunges - ~ j they ^

    had never known save for it . ' Love , nevertheprobabl less , is y be wholl cause y Mrs banished . Compton from - ' Reade Monsignor feels , ' she must make some concession to

    conventionality . There is a captivating priest in it who quite lias reduced a fine art the . He practice is handsome of lad and y killing vain that , and ' to

    the t will . hfi reader ron turn . der out pursues Tmrsues a him him . But reeling feelin our e : author suro sure that is not he ne to be taken in scamp that way , and the end of the

    handsome flirting priest is a ladies surprise lend . Several to very the scen Kf . fines es . and and young one one of ot them them lands lands grace a a King kino : in in tthe rie

    matrimonial , net . The story is ambitious and pal not pi badly tating constructed present-tense . It style is written so much in the in novelists who

    vogu desire e to just be now vivid with . female very From MessrsGTV . Baoon ^ mf— ¦— -w —— & — Co — — . ' Cycling —

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    to beauties get away of the from country cities . and The to mai explore n roads the are

    specially coloured , the by-routes are plainly

    are or traced interest very , and elaborat being the details e omitted , no plac as . to e of towns any and import villages ance

    Fro London - m the same to Oxford . — * Bird ¦ ¦ ' with ' s-Eye ' Bacon View ' s ihJ of Guide the Thames to \ the ,

    Thames ~— — . ' This ———— is , a third w » » - m vw edition x ^ » % ^^ v ^ of A Iv the ^^ VJ well V I m ^ - tion known is concisel guide to our great river . The

    informathe tourist an y added given and and material the ' views aid . ' render From Messrs . Bemrose & Sons m \ m . — 'A Continental

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    a re well spec suited ially . a for rranged the use for of class beginners subjects in , art and . ^*

    From ' Guide Messrs to Edinburg . A . & h C , . the Black Internation , Edinburg al h Ex . — -

    hibition , and the environs , including Roslin and Hawthornden and full of historic . ' Edinburgh and romantic , always interest picturesque , has

    this this year vear the the added added attraction attraction of nf the the Interna Tntftmn - . pected tional Exhibition to flock to , so it that in even visitors larger may numbers be

    exthan usual . These may have ' the Heart of l Midlothian iterature which ' and ma t y be p said ictorial to belong and romantic specially to ' Auld Reekie ' at their finger-endsbut they

    will require a guide-book . Their wants , have been the excellent well an volume ticipate before d by Messrs . Black in us .

    From round Messrs the World . Brentano Alone . . ' — ' * Lilian A Woman Leland ' s Journey , at the

    age of twenty-five , without premeditation or prepara her — .. t . ion . sixty , star __ g ted thousand - on a voyage — — miles ¦ — ¦ which . w 1 T ^^^ ^ he ™^— « carried r t ^^ * ime m ^^^ m **^ ^^ r

    occupied was about two years . In that period she saw Cape Horn , California , the Yosemite district and the geysers , the Sandwich Islands ,

    Japan , China , Singapore , Java , Ceylon , India , Egypt , the Holy Land , Constantinople , Italy , ¦ SwitzerlandGermanyHolland ¦ B ¦ ¦ russels h Paris

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    ever a strange gentleman bowed to me , , I knew hat he was in his a prince hand , for mostl an Italian prince Politeness wears his a y

    officers feature salute among each the Germ other ans , . All well soldie as rs thei and r ¦ superiors -- - -w « M ^ ^^ , with punc - ^ tilious — - - , ^~ - ~ - politeness I ^^ ^^ ¦ ^^ V . ^ BVf I e ^ am P *^ ^~^^^^

    amused at seeing small boys raise their hats to each other . ... I was rather disappointed in the Trossachs . I had been told in England I should h

    see — — - - — -- the — — loveliest scenerj — — — - ^ - in - ~~ - - — the — - — — - ^^ - ^« - world -- — ~— — - * ^^ ~*^^ m ¦ . « . ^ " ^^ ¦¦ .. ^¦¦ ^^ One ^ ^^ ^^ ^« who has spent his life in London , and judges from the standpoint of Ludgate Hill and Hyde

    Park , might well admire it ; but to me , who have seen the grandest sights the world holds , it was the least pretty of any of the famous

    scenery . ' From Messrs . Burns & Oates , Limited . — The

    W One illiam Mediator Hum , o hrey r Sacrific , Priest e an of d Sa the crame Society nts , ' b of y Jesus V i . The ~— ~ " aim ~— - *~ "" III of Father f Humphrey VHf in PHk this 1 #

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1890, page 815, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071890/page/21/