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f 77 g • The Publishers' ' Circular Sept...
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Books Received:—
I book of sermons to children , spoken , as we gather from n the fch volume ¦ ~ »» h a . t — — some - ^ — — — - of - ^ the — — — children — --- — - — ' s services - — — --^^^^ ^^ — — ^^^^^^ T ^*^ ^^^^^™^^^ , —
in ¦ which every are pari now sh happ . Pull ily " of becoming apt illustrati an insti on tution s and homely enforcements of h the h duties of lifethese
addresses ^^^^^ ^^ p ^^^^^ b ^^ K *^^^ o ^ w *^^^ ^^^ will ^ ^^^ - ^^^ ^^^ m - ^^^ ~^ g ^^™^ ive ^»^^ - ^ - ^¦— - —^ — much -r—^^ — hel — - — — p to ^ -- — those — - who , — have similar work to do ; and are also well suited for reading to the little folks in the home circle .
¦ From Messrs . M & cmillan & Co . — 'Sheridan / by Mrs . Oliphant . A new number of ' English
Men of Letters / edited by Mr . John Morley , M . P . The name of the talented novelist is a sufficient guarantee of the readableness of this
volume it may , be and said as to a be piece a worth of painstaking y tribute to Sheridan biography ' s genius . The memoir of the dramatist conveys
a life cap , opening ital idea with of a his descri antecedents ption of his and grandfather his earlier , Dr . Thomas SheridanSwift ' s friendof whom it
¦ was said by Lord Orrery , that ' he , knew books better than men , and he knew the value of money least of all . ' Thomas Sheridanthe dramatist ' s
father , became an actor , a somewhat , poor one in all senses of the word ; but even if he never succeeded _ in his a . im of rivalling Garrickjhe was
at — — any rate a man of sufficient -p note to obtai , n a pension of . £ 200 from the Government . Sheridan ' s mother was of a literary ml turn , and the author
of a noyel which gained a good word from Dr . Johnson . Suffering from what then as now was a too common disease with literary V folk , impe A-
cuniosity , the Sheridans . went abroad , leaving Richard at Harrow , where , Mrs . Oliphant pungently remarks , ' he kept himself afloat , and
that was all / After his mother ' s death his father and sister returned to England , and went to — Bathwhere the Xinleys — livedwhose — eldest
, ^ - , daughter Eliza—the Maid of Bath as she was called—became a devoted friend of Miss Sheridan . Of the love scenes and intrigues which arose out
Mrs of the , Oli acquaintance phant , and an the ample interes recital t is necessari giv « n by ly centred — in Miss Linley as the dramatist — — ___ _ , ' s . wife
makes this part of the narrative ~ specially interesting . ' Married and happy / he twenty-two , and she nineteen , they lived for some time at
Burnham , until at last they came to town , where their house in Orchard Street , Portman Square , soon became a favourite resort . The Sivals
n made earl its three appearance after on January his marri 17 , 1775 and , althoug y h at first years it was not successful , age owing , to
of the parts defecti remedied ve playing this of , and one , to of use the the actors biograp , a change her ' s I words , ' secured for it one continued triumph
ever after / Mrs . Oliphant ' s chapter on the play is admirably done and ought to be read by all who are admirers of it—and who is not ? The
narrative passes on to an interesting account of the ' School for Scandal / and the Critic / and then Jiave Sheridan
we a chapter on ' s ' Public Life' apart fromt his literary and theatrical successes . His membership of the literary club
acquaintance where he was with proposed Burke ; by his Dr open . Johnson house ; , his of which — » ¦—^ - - — , Fox ^ —r — — said . _ - ^ — _ * an - - — ^ evening ' ^^ ^ ^^ ^—^ m ^ ^^^^ P ^ V ^ at ^^^ ^^ ^ Sheridan ^ " ^ mm * m ^^*^ v 0 m ^* m ^**^^ " *'^ s ¥ v is *• r *^
worth his ambition a week ' s to waiting win social for' ; fame his political —all are career care- , fully followed , and we rise from the book with a
varied very comp gifts lete . S Idea « d were of the his great late years man , and and here his Mra . Oliphant ' a sympathetic touch shows itself
with singled marked out any charm part of and the grace volume ; in for fact praise , if , wo it * , would be its closing chapters . From first to last , ^ njk
win however a wide , it popul is admirable arity . , and will , we prediet '
Prom Human Messrs ¦— - — Ph — — . ysiology Ward , / Lock by William , & Co . — R ' Outlines Carpenter i of
C admirable series series . B ., of oi M books dooks . D . ' , Science F which wnicn . R . S . Primers deserves •/ One — of - for — . ^•*** the . the . « . v « . publisher v People / t * l / CUC © ' ^ a
aeserves a a wide wide circulation cironlatiA « . printed printed the modest illustrated illustrated price of volume volume sixpence of oi asked 128 rzis for r > a £ the res neatly bound hound pages
of in a acknowled stiff linen ged cover eminence , and , edited being by suffi a scientist cient , to that this is commercial
prove no mere venture popular In the volume lectures before on physiology us Dr . Carpenter to teachers , whose have .
been productive of immense "benefit , giyes a readable account of the structure and living ~ ^^ f ^ actions MVVAU XJtJ
and of the illustrated human bod by y a , large conveyed number in . simpl of well e -executed language pictures - and diagrams . Whether to the teach l er
_ — ^ ^ ^— ^^ — — — — ¦ — — S ^^^ l — ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ " ^ fc ^^ ^^^ ^^ V ^^^ ^^^ p ^ j | M M as an aid in giving lessons , as a class book for students , or as a compact little manual for the
general reader , this primer is calculated to be of service . From the same . —* "Ward & — - Lock — - — _' .. s Standard , ____ — .. School *^ ^ \ s
Board This is , Dictionary having regard of the to its Eng size lish , one Language ____ _ of r-rmm the ^ . ' cheapest and most comprehensive books of its
c ! ass , and not only for school work , as its title implies , but for general use , it has the advantage of giving the multum-in-parvo' which is
often-U times O an important recommendation A . . For the office table , for travelling , or for all cases where economy of space is a desideratum , this dictionary
will be * a handy volume / From Messrs . Morgan & Scott . — ' George
Whitefiel Andrews d , a . Light Cheap Hising edition in . Obscurity The popular / by J . and E . powerful preacher , whose efforts synchronised
with in a striking those of piece the Wesleys of portraiture , is here , and set the before extracts us from his diaries give many life-like touches to tie ,
sketch sketch . . The The details details of of his his work work , b both oth in in America America and afford in a this striking country proof , are of full his and immense , comple capacity te , and
and unceasing energy . From of Expositions the same . — of * Choice the Scri Sayings ptures : / being Revised * . wv ^ Notes I ] i
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of cal texts sentences , and on consi each st top of ic a . series It is not of short stated practi either - j from what sources tbe comments are drawn , or
whether they are original . From the The Number Seven vi" in
Scrip-O . J . ture js is UXXJ a a . LUC / little little comp same DO book book . U 1 iled V . . - — _ which which ' b y 11 il S . can osin A . Blackwood ___ scarcely scareelv UOJ . " > s ^ C * fai iai « , i l C *~ m to to . B T ~» inuer interest . Tins Fl mi 1 K ^ " - I
the Biblical which iff student made of , illustrating the number , as seven it does in , the tlie
use UOtJ WXHCii IP IXlttUe UL IHO llUJUMOi our ^ " — cord coru sacred . of oi volume an all iiie the . A passages pabHttgeo complete in 111 and which wuitu exhaustive the oi *^ num ber re -
appears is here given , the texts being quoted m order as they occur in each book .
Fro D m The 6 t N The ational National Temperance Publication R eader \
recitations eel ep ected . -- ' , Second readings series , dialogues One Temperance , of & c . tho , o ^ difficult g 1 . " * ® » - e » "
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1883, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091883/page/10/
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