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    lation from the French edition of the work is being made by the author of * Mankind : their

    Origin and Destiny . ' It will be accompanied with an Introduction and Notes . The publishers state that ' in this work the constituent

    elements of the text are divided , and the original documents used by the latest reviser

    are for the first time restored . ' Messrs . Triibner & Co . will shortly

    publish a bibliography of the Jewish question for the decade 1875-84 , compiled by Mr . Joseph JacobsB . A . who has prefixed an analytical

    introduction , . , The list runs to 570 numbers in almost all the languages of Europe , and , contains in all 1 , 230 items .

    Under the title of * English Bells and Bell Lore ; their Founders , Inscriptions ,

    Traditions , and Peculiar Uses , ' a volume left in MS . by the late Thomas North is now being prepared for the press by the Rev . W .

    Beresford , of Leek , Staffordshire . It will consist of about 150 pages of letterpresswith 50

    illustrations ; and it will be issued , to subscribers at the price of 7 s . 6 d .

    The Turkish Government having compelled M . Pourtoukalianthe principal of the chief

    , school at "Van , to leave Armenia , that gentleman has gone to Marseilles , where on

    August 1 he intends to publish a newspaper in the interest of his countrymen . The journal will be called Armeniaand it will be

    printed in the Armenian , language . M . Pourtoukalian states that his object is not revolutionarybut that he will attack all

    obstacles to progress , in Armenia , and endeavour to unite the Armenians as one people .

    For the next volume of the new edition of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica , ' Mr . Theodore Watts has written on ' Rossetti , ' Mr . H . M .

    Stephens on ' Robespierre , ' and Mr . W . E . A . Axon on ' William Roscoe . ' Mr . T . H . Darwin is making progress with

    the biography of his father . The volume , it is stated , will contain an interesting account of Darwin ' s method of researchand for

    the first time the public will hav , e a true picture of the great naturalist ' s home and daily life . It is anticipated that the book

    will be issued by Mr . Murray before the year is out . It is intended to urge upon the authorities

    that copies of the departmental publications of the Government should be distributed to I

    I the provincial libraries . Under the authority of several of the local

    governments in India , pamphlets are now being published on the subject of Indian castes

    commenting upon anjd supplementing the , information contained in the census reports

    of 1881 . The most important of the pamphlets already issued is * A Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and

    Oudh , ' prepared by Mr . J . C . Nesfield , of the educational department of those provinces .

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    volume through consists Messrs of . Blackwood ballads , lyrics & Sons and transla . The n tions contributed by members of , the club .

    contains The current an account part of of the Blackwood visit paid ' s Magazine to Herat few months Sir Peter

    a ago by Lumsden and mission two other . members of the Boundary

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    to from lish the them time magazines to in time and during quarterlies the past , and twenty will years

    pubautumn . a single volume early in the A history of Toryism from the formation

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    , y . Kebbel , the editor of Lord Beaconsfield _' _s speeches , will be published in the course of

    the autumn by Messrs . W . H . Allen & Co . It is on the tapis that Prince Ibrahim

    Hilmy , the son of the Khedive Ismail , will shortly publish , through Messrs . Triibner &

    Co ., an exhaustive work on the literature of the Soudan , ancient , mediaeval , and modern . The bibliography will embrace printed books

    periodicals , MSS ., maps , drawings , & c . , A political novel dealing with the best years

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    items History were , 132 Fiction ; and , Economy 184 ; Theology and Technology and ,

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1885, page 688, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081885/page/8/