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    Books Received :—

    Christian hope and belief summed up in the beautifu l words of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the

    sonnet prefixed to the volume : X mist Does "Does has he he risen see see on on : we and and see strive strive the youth on on ? ? And And no more may mav ; we we ,.

    Late-tottering world-worn hence , find his to be Tbe Or , echoing Mus strong t Night young the No toe " hand - ours More which and with his Nevermore help ? We 3 us hope up that : and store he . ?

    Born at Finchley in 1855 , his genius was early Trinity seen dfc ^ «¦ —— , - but ^ College when ^ j he he was entered , as is the too junior often classes the case at ,

    with geniuses , c chiefly distinguished among his school-fellows by his idleness . ' The first evidences of his poetic gifts were given in 1869 in some

    sonnets , the writing of which formed the emalso ployment eDgage of d in his painting leisure the hours first , important while he work was l

    of his pencil , a scene from The Tempest' in water colours , which won high praise from competent judges . ' Silas Marner * gave him a subject for

    another important work , destined to be the last p Denver icture ' he is exhibited the next . The point task touched of writing on * Gabriel in the

    memorials , and then Mr . Ingram gives us several chapters of friendly reminiscences and extracts from letters and from the later works of the

    young artist-author . The lad died almost pen in hand , the final chaptexs of the ' Last Story' and a fragment — q of a tale of — London Life being - - — ^^ taken — _

    down from his ] ips by his mother and his brotherin-law , W . M . Rossetti . Trom Mr . T . Fistier Unwin . —' Half-Hour 3 with

    Smith some . Famous The success Ambassadors attained , ' b by Mr G . . Baruett Bsirnett Smith as a political biographer , if y he will allow

    us his so present to term undertaki him , affords ng , and an amp we le can justification congratulate of him on having ¦ - given us a very readable and

    the interesting past , but " " " volume * — " ™ " - l in ^ h 7 ^^ his ^ . ^ ^^ ^^ He hands ^^^ is ^^ of ^ " ^^ it course is ^ " ^ ^^ M emp ^^ ^ dealing ^ ^ " ^ haticall ^*^^ »*^ " *^ ^» ^* with y ^ V <^ * fc ^» ' ** a living and not a dead past , and the aim which he

    forward says he set as they before reall himself y were of has bring been ing successfull the men y attained that of . th In ambassa each sketch dor of the wh central om the figure author is

    the undertakes leading to fi treat res , o > but £ the grouped court to around which him he was are accredited and gu the volume therefore assumes

    glimpse t something » Jf— - " of ¦> - " >• ; of the I . JI & historic U course VVUlflD imporLance of V / i Vi di * p JL lomacy / i . V /* , while * V ^ r which WT XA it Ks g ives . wi If ill ll a

    The open author — up — ~— a " » new a has *«* u field made J 1 JLUIVI of . V > observation good CUUVI use UOU V of » JL to the lyiAVJ many oftentimes VILVIILIUIVJ readers .

    copious material at his commandand such a do sketch with ne . all T as he the that notice painful of of Talleyrand the firs isodes t Lord is extremel of , Malmesbury the y Ito well yal ,

    nunent Marriage t ^ _ a part ^ negotiations r , «« . W , j will ii ixjl perhaps ^ JOI-lACfcJ in ep which ^ a prove L / 1 UVO he one VfL p layed of V * . the l / Ut so most JAJ pro . \/ OU

    interesting chapters in the book , as certainly it * orms , as Mr . Barnett Smith says , one of the most

    W tragic the — chapters other w ~ MVi sketches oA in . ciuucg English are « : o history Sir uii B xv . . . M iu . The > . jx Keith . citu subjects and « . uva

    ^ ^ ueen "d the Caroline Spanish Matilda Marri of Denmark the Story ; Gondomar of the

    ¦ Uievnlier Warm Loui D sa 'Eon ; Harley ; Metternich and age ; the , Court Napoleon of Queen , and

    Anne ; and AlberoniCardinal and Adventurer . A elective portrait frontisp of Queen iece , to Caroline the volume Matilda . forms an

    Magazines 1 Rhodes fou July . —Journal of Banking The Dublin (

    Brad-T r * ! * ( Burn , s & & Co Oates ., New ) for York Jul ) . — y , contains , »«* ong other incerest papers , two of notable and equal

    ^ . ^^ jr , viz ., an able exposition of Jane

    Austen ' s contributions to eighteenth-century fiction ; 9 and — - a sympathetic •/ treview of the works of

    the late celebrated German poet and translator , Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath , by the Kev . William Barry , ,

    Hooks received for notice : — The Artist ' s Table of Pigments ( "Wells Gardner ,

    Dictionary Darton , & of Co Music . ) and Musicians , parts 17 & 18 ( Macmillan & Co . )

    Mademoiselle de Mersac ( Smith , Elder , & Co . ) Shakspere , vol . 10 , parchment ( Kegan Paul & Co . ) Sea Fisheries of Great Britain and Ireland ( E .

    Stanford ) . Witty Good Stories , Humorous , 2 vols , and . ( Wells Merry Gardner Thoug ) . hts ( David

    Parrots Bryee in & Captivity Son ) . , Part 1 ( Geo . Bell & Sons ) . The M > steries of Ireland .

    Queen Vashti ( John Hey wood ) . Paragon Readers , Book I . ( ditto ) . Health Lecturesvol . 6 ( ditto ) .

    How to Teach Method , of Unity ( ditto ) . Irrigation and Water Supply ( Crosby Lockwood & Co . )

    Holiday Handbooks : Trip to the Ardennes—Holidays in Holland—Moselle ( G . E . Railway Office 125 Fleet Street ) .

    , Infield's Class Register ( H . J . Infield ) . Johnston's Standard Mental Arithmetic Cards , Standard VII .

    Tabulated Weights of Angle and Tee Iron . Little Pretty ( Griffith & Farran ) . — A Wise Woman ( x ditto ) .

    Catalogue of Books in ^ Historical or Remarkable Bindings ( B . Quaritch ) . Knapsack Handbook ( E . Stanford ) .

    Useful Grains : Wheat ; Rye , Buckwheat , Millet , Barley , Rice , Maize ( A . Johnston ) . WardLock & Co . 's Serials : —

    Dr . , Clarke , ' s Commentary , part 28—Illustrated Bible for the Young , part 10—Arabian Nights , part 12—Amateur Work , part 21—Ivanhoe , part

    Roman 9—Motley Emp ' s ire Dutch , part Republic 11—Child , ' part s Ins 9 tructor —Gibbon , part ' s 10—Great Thoughtspart 11—Bonnechose ' s

    , History Thomas of Hood France , part , part 9 -History 9—Edition of the de World luxe , part 22—Beeton ' s Dictionary of Science , Art , & c .

    part 21—Shakspeare , part 11 — Universal Instructor , part 34 . Pamphlets and Magazines .

    Half-time Register ( John Heywood ) . Cookery for the Household ( ditto ) .

    The Study of Beauty and Art in Large Towns ( Macmillan & Co . ) The Hygiene of Armies in the Field ( Wyman &

    Historical Sons ) . Guide to Great Yarmouth . The Unutterables ; or , Pseudo-Martyrdom ( Platt &

    Compensations Burdett ) . for Exhausted Manures ( W . Ridgway ) .

    Churc Hardy h Perennials Quarterly ( Review L . U . Gill - The ) . CornhiH Magazine—Merry England—Young

    England—Child ' s Own Magazine---Sunday at Home—Leisure Greetings Hour — Child —Boy ' s 's Companion Own Pap — er Girl —Friendl ' s Own y

    Paper —British —Tract Workman Magazine Band —Cottager of Hope and Review Artisan — Ladies' Gazette of Fashion—Sylvia's Home

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1883, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081883/page/13/