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    652 The Publishers 1 Circular August i18...

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    Books Received :—

    I or for an index . Both these very necessary ! comp jlements to any bookwhich is likelyas this

    certainl . isto be used for , of reference •/ , [ ought to y be , added in a . subsequent purposes edition . ,

    ! From Some "Words Publishing Office . — ' The Silvery Hosts of the North Sea , ' with a sketch of * Quaint Old Yarmouth / by C . Stacy-Watson .

    Second Thousand . By a curious coincidence , after looking through the pages of the Historical Guide of Great Yarmouth / noticed abovef

    the next book on our table r chanced to be , this little sketch of the Herring Fishery . The author _ __ iswe learn from the advertisements which — ,

    appear at the end of the volume , the head of a great firm of purveyors and curers of the Yarmouth — herring - — - — y' , and — he is therefore _ - _ -. — speciall . _ „ - _____ . y

    qualified to treat of the subject . His little book gives much useful information , and at the present moment -when fishes , Fishery Exhibitions , and

    fishing are so much to the fore it is likely to find many readers . Prom Mr . A _ . Johnston _ _ . — 'A Map of Palestine :

    reduced by arrangement with the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund , embodying as much of the Great Survey of Western Palestine

    as ] the scale allows / by T . B . Johnston , Geographer to the Queen . A well-executed folding map of - Palestine in a neat cloth casegiving the

    results 4 . of the most recent scientific exp , lorations C _? of the country , and thus bringing the fruits of the labours of the Palestine Exploration Fund into a

    portable shape . It is calculated to bo of immense service to the traveller or the teacher . An index of places L , with , cross-references to the sections in

    which they are to be found , printed on a separate sheet folding in with the map , adds much to its completeness .

    Prom Messrs . S . W . Partridge & Co . —' Miscellaneous Poems / by Georgiana Farrer . A volume of considerable bulklargely made up of religious

    , verse , some of which is suggestive of those earlier versions of the Psalms familiar to all students of ancient editions of the Prayer Book . Herefor

    leare two verses which miht almost , be examp thought , to have been taken from one g of the works of those older writersalthough they areof

    course , recently written , : , I A K cruel eally man a child can of never God be ; ( Psalm vi . 6 )

    For The He vil is e good shall whose feel His name rod . is Love ; His No bow one is bent wra , His th ca arrows n st fall ,

    If " He Where sho can uld rise they and hide vengeance away ay ? take , The authoress writes with a s ¦ trong — —^ j religious — f-7

    ~—purpose after a , minatory and she does fashion not , hesitate as witness to , use these her linos pen headed 'Apostasy :

    If Sh Groat e soon Britain sunk turns in wrath apostate be And the broad Atlantic waters may ;

    Clasp their hands with German Sea . Of ! No that > t be highly found favoured the smallest Island grain ; left to

    No Her ripple dark even beneath show the main . grave The italics are the author ' s . Whether she would

    hook not hare containing done more the wisel best y of to publish her verses a smaller after , submitting them to the purgation of a friendly

    criticism is a question on which her friends must decide . From the same . —* Brands Plucked ¦ from - ^ v ^ b ^ the Burning ¦

    and How they — were -- -- Saved - — --w w m , / _ - ^^ —*~ by — - - - — _ — J . H . Wilson ^ " —~ — " ^ " ^ W ^^ W ^^ *» " T" * , ^^ D " ™ ^» H . D ^ ^ p ^^ , ^ k . . A record of some of the successes attained by

    " 9 * . Unristian workers among the masses ot the

    peop the work le . Sketches was done are , on g the iven lines of the adopted way in b which y Dr ( Guth jrutnririe e and and oth otners ers , , in in the tne Justice Justice Port Port- , of nf Aber A \ , nJ

    deen , and some touching tales are told of the - b influence y the simp exe le rted preaching over the of the most G- degraded ospel . people

    From based Mr . upon F . Pitman the Works . —* A Manual of Isaac of Phonography Pitman and J ^ j _ J to j the a . 1 _ _ French I A _ 1 _ TT ______ / 9

    Lawson unwonted adapted _ . guise This as little a transcri book Language , pt which of a comes by pieea A . in of J .

    Mr delicate j . t . ?_ James . i penmanshi _ U Butter - !_ - worth p -- lithograp im -- , . _ of — South - i hed — i XT and Shields - — i ¦ - printed _ r — -wi . jf k ^ , 1 * . * " forms * ^ ^ ^ - « ^ ' _ b I y ¦

    app a comp lied lete to guide the language to the art of of our shorthand versatile writing neighbours . It will be of great ^ J value to journalists ^ J — — - — uuAiwi / Q

    means in these a rarity days even when in a this French country speech and is is l > often y no the accepted means of utterance at great public

    gatherings abroad . From Messrs . Seeley & Co . —* Heroes and Kin ^ s : _ r «_ i ? _^ _ _ h ^ r- _ —i —» -. -. —_ _ ^

    Stories from the Greek / By the Rev . Professor Church , author of ' Stories from Homer / ' Stories from Virg — ^^^ il / j & c , < fec . With Illustrations i . The

    and Greek with s ubjects _ which —— —— on — _^ Mr - —p — which . — —— . —— - — Church these — _ has — stories — hitherto — —~ — — are - —— —^ ——_^^— _ founded ^^ been ^ ^^^ 0 ^^ so ^^ ^^ , successfulaptly lend — — themselves --- _ - to _ this _ _ . __ _ form __ . _ ___ ,

    of reproduction , ^ ^ j . Mr . Church judiciously mingles narrative and dialogue , and preserves a good deal of the antique flavour . This

    book , which is not uniform with the other volumes of this series as it is issued in a smaller size , contains nine stirring stories of Heroes and

    the Kings early , the and place famous of honour legend , entitled being allotted 'The Tale to of --v mm the mr * - »^ fc ^^ Shi » m * ' m ^ mmimm p H ^ ^ A ^ w rgo m * W 0 *\ T *^ / ^ Then 4 ^ - ** m ** m + ~ a ^ m * . mm follow - ^ ^ k- ' mmt m > ~ hv -r -f half ^ --r «* w -- - m— a ^ - * mr dozen -- w — -

    fresh stories from . Homer and two from Herodotus , Achilles chief in / point from of the interest Iliad . being The the whol * Em e of bassy these to 7

    main stories narrative had been when ' crowded Professor outas Church episodes in iled the his earlier volumes , but they are "well deserving comp the

    same readers treatment . The worth , and of are the speciall little y volume suited is to further young desi enhanced gns by by Flaxman several illustrations and it is got taken up from in a

    most tasteful m / style . ' , « - » - From MrEdward Stanford— jEsthetical iuiuuiSani t-

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    Duchess notice , and of its Teck dedication as ' an to earnest the Princess endearour Mary to , promote the interests , of domestic weal and oi

    JJ national 1 U 1 J 1 ULO heal tlJLO th in lOXOOl their >» UJl intimate U . U 11 JIODMU association """• — " witfl . , uu academic ^ ueiuic art aru ' will win doubtless uuuL » uj . tj »» secure » ov ^ u . lo aw for * . it - « many - _ _ _ . A . a « r

    readers the author in circles ' s views where . Mr it . is White possible , who to carry is * ou «" the waicu which iw 111

    known known the basis as as of an an his architect ftT ^ ln little hfict , , book wrote wrofco as the contributions papers naners to tne * British Architect / and he touches vj on a « variety

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    direct as affecting ly or indirectly the bodily with health , the , fashions of ladies of and the boci cniij aay drenMrWhite thus forward ¥¥ as a

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    what melancholy theme if it were "^ J ^^ f

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    652 The Publishers Circular August i 1883 ,

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1883, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081883/page/12/