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    * Bibliotheca Polytechnica' is the title of an I exhaustive bibliograp ^ j xhy «/ of technical literature

    which yjn » " is now in the press , and will very shortly be ^ published _ , lists - . of It illustrations will contain - the titles ,

    contents , , publishers ' names tions , in sizes the , and Eng prices lishFrench of technical and publica German

    languages , including also , the sam , e particulars of VTA the various technical magazines ^^ and m « m « V ¦ * AaV- ^ 1

    periodicals . The object of the learned com-Petersburg piler «¦ , Mr . has Fritz been von to give Szczepanski to the technolog , of St ist .

    the A w most recent O , and reliable O information con W - cerning VW— —— ^ ^ publications dealing ^ jwith the arts and

    to the theorist an accurate index of the literature required in his studies . The compiler has

    devoted much time and trouble in order to * arrive »— — — - — at — - this result . Judgj ing tj from the pages j ^ j ^

    with which we have been favoured , we are of opinion £ that the object arrived at has been

    achieved - - ; and we have ,, much pleasure in calling the attention of all interested in technical

    literature to so valuable and interesting a publication . Messrs . Sampson LowMarston

    Searle & Rivington ( Limited ) have , been ,

    appointed agents for its sale m this country .

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    August i , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 9 tt 1 " "

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    closed The during Advocates the ' present Library , month Edinburg . h , will be

    The August number of Temple Bar contains an article on Rivarolwhom Edmund Burke 1 4 4 K bk , k M HO H A ¦ — ^ m ^ m ^^ a — ^ ^^^^^^ ^ a ^^* ^

    I styled the Tacitus of the French Revolution . . . The Library for August contains articles

    1 4 / O on 'The Shakespeariana Monastic Scriptorium by Mr . ' Fleay ^ b y Mr , . and Joh on n

    Taylor . Mr . F . Francis Barry , who for the last two

    years has been manager-of the advertisement si department gned . of the Saturday Review , has

    re-Mr . William Blackhall has opened a sta-Street tionery and Galashiels bookselling . Mr . warehouse Blackhall at has 40 Hi had gh

    experience , in both London and Edinburgh . Admirers of 4 Cuthbert Bede ' ( the Rev . E .

    purchasing Bradley k ^ - —— -mm « ) will ^ ) some ^\ to yjlAA -day \/ of ^ k-T ^ have his ^ b & AIV ^ an relics J * . ^^ J opportunity »> 4 h ^^ W . * Messrs A'tAWMAMI of .

    ° Sotheb riginal y manuscri will sell pt his of * library Verdant , including Green . the

    « on The of the annual United meeting Kingdom of the Library will be Associa held at

    fading on the 17 th , 18 th , 10 th , and 20 th of torture September will , be when read . papers of an interesting

    Ked ** Jj * Bktckioood article on 8 Magazine 'Heligoland ' for , August the Island contains of < ** , , ixreen Green , and and White White / It It deals deals with with the the

    P ^ ple and their , legends . The same number Jp w > & u tains of * Bi an -Metallism article on , the ' by much Mr . H debated . C . Gibbs ques . -

    An article in "which Mr . Gladstone ' s views 5 * expressed of the aitory of ' Paul Nugent ,

    ^« niaUst , ' a novel recently published by

    will Messrs appear . Griffith in the , Farran September , Okeden number & Welsh of the ,

    Newbery House Magazine . The Paddington Free Library is in need of

    funds This ihis , it it and is is said said has appealed will will sumce suffice to to to the narrv public on on for the t . hft £ work -work 250 . , , carry

    till the , end of , the year . That the institution is doing good work is evident from the fact

    that during the present year there have been more than thirty-two thousand certified readers .

    The new number of ' Subjects of the Day , ' published nublished hv by Meaara Messrs . . Ttoutlftd Koutledge crA & iXr . Sons Son a . is ia

    devoted to * Socialism , Capital , and Labour , . * Among the contributors are Prof . Thorold

    c ? Rogers , Mr . George Holyoake , Stepniak , Mr . Charles Bradlaugh , M . P ., and the Editor ,

    Mr . James Samuelson . Mr . David Christie Murray is enchanted

    with the sunny South , and is in no haste to return to England . We hear that he has

    c ? sailed for Samoa to join Mr . Robert Louis Stevenson . Samoa will presently be a literary

    centre if our novelists one after another are to take to it in this fashion . Our readers will be glad to learn that the

    health of Mr . Stanley is almost completely restored . Surgeon Parke has left himand

    the ^ B explorer ^ H is A G * able ^ . h to _ take . ^ K food ^ k ^ m and ^^ exercise , ^ with ease and pXleasure . Mr . Parke thinks

    his patient has made a marvellously speedy recovery . Messrs . G . W . Bacon & Co . Limited

    , , have nearly ready * The Excelsior Graduated Drawing O Charts- - , being - - j ^ a -series -- of five sets of

    Charts , for all the Standards , designed by Messrs . Steeley & TrotmanArt Masters

    Birmingham Municipal School , of Art , and , inspecting — JL ^ j Teachers of the Drawing - c > taugCJht

    under the Birmingham School Board . ' The Asiatic Quarterly Review will , we

    understand , be issued henceforth by Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Co . The July number contains F . H . Balfour articles ; on on Morocco Chinese by History Dr . Cust , b ; . y ' Th Mr e .

    English Language in India , and the East , ' by Dr . Hy de Clarke ; and ' The Healing ^ jof the

    Schism among Orientalists , ' by Dr . Leitner . Truly of the making of journals there is no

    • 1 frt •» end , and if readers do not find something to suit them they •> must be very •/ hard to p Xlease .

    One of the latest candidates for a place is The Gentlewoman , 'a paper * , devoted , Jas its

    name implies , to the interests of ladies . The name strikes us a 3 being rather cumbrousbut

    the 4 John contents Strange are Winter bright ' begins and a entertaining serial , and .

    Mrs . George Augustus Sala writes on ' Famous , PeopJLle I have Met . ' The first of the series is

    devoted to Mr . Stanley , for whom Mrs . Sala seems to have a genuine admiration . Welshmen are agitating for a School of

    C » « 3 Medicine at Cardiff . It is proposed to establish the thfs school Rfthoni hv by founding foiinrlincr a Chair IJhftir of of Human TTiiniAn

    Anatomy and one of Physiology and Histology in connection with University College . A

    London Committee has been formed , with

    Miss Caroline Williams ¦ ¦ and Dr . Isambard m

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1890, page 911, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081890/page/7/