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From The Authors' Co-Operative Publishin...
a new and revised edition of a guide-book that has already proved serviceable to the public . ' It has been rearranged and practically
rewritten , and contains a fresh introduction , 250 engravings , 23 official maps , and 12 specially engraved _ p j- lans — . The — _ descriptive portions are
clear —^— and concise , and the — information A x is generally correct . We notice , however , that in speaking of Swansea reference is made to
the * Valley of the Tame / Should it not read the Valley of the Tawe 1 Messrs . Cassell & Co . Limitedhave published
, , * Object Lessons from Nature , ' by L . C . Miall , a book intended as a first guide to the study of nature . It contains simple explanations about
animals and plants , with familiar examples described in detail . Some chemical and physical facts are also introducedand various
WAVtA ^ - Jt « - *^^ WJ UIA \ s \ % E >_ T \ J 111 UJ . VVi V 4 VWA * , mJUM * Jk ^ J + V % , % !* . ^\ S % ^** J experiments are ~ explained . ' Commercial Botany of the Nineteenth Century , ' by J . K .
Jackson , A . L . S ., aims at showing the progress of Economic Botany during the present century , and is a record of the introduction of new
vegetable products into British Commerce as well as of the extension and cultivation of the more important useful plants into the British
possessions . A book that is likely to be widely useful is * Guide to Employment for Boys , ' by W . T . Beard . It treats of the Civil Service , the
Koyal Navy , medicine , teaching , and many other subjects ,, and should be in the hands of parents and teachers . The * Agricultural — ^ -j —Series' of
Messrs . Cassell & Co . includes * Soils and Manures , ' by Dr . J . Munro , and * Crops , ' by Prof . Wrightson . They give a simple account
of the nature of soils , the action of manures , and the cultivation of ordinary crops . Technicalities are avoidedand those who are in-,
terested or engaged in agricultural pursuits will find them eminently useful . From Messrs . Chapman — _ & Hall . _ . —* Old _ Sea . _
Wings , ' by Robert C . Leslie . In December , 1884 , the author received this- letter from Mr . Ruskin about some sketches and notes—* I never
saw anything half so delightful or useful as these compared sails so easily explained . Do set yourself at this with all your mind and
time on this plan , ' & c . The result is the present work . We shall perhaps best set forth its nature by giving an abstract of the
contents : —Square and lug sails of the Northmen ; gibbous or true sail wing of the south ; full rigged ship ; long and short sail pinions ; the
wherry UU ; ori JL ' gin - of * the cutter ; figure Ml -heads * ; old gators kj sea- and lights their ; the nautical old ship farm instruments ; early ; navi the
black X liner ; from the docks to the Downs fifty years ago j the pilot ; the wingless war ship JL of the future ; sea terms , a vocabulary mJ .
The letterpress is illustrated by 135 engravings after designs by the author . China , the Friendly IslandsNorwayFlandersGenoa
Venicethe Rhine , Rochelle , the Italian , lakes ,, and nearly , every , sea or water , that can be , namedfurnishes comparative illustrations ^__ . _ of _
, JL ' --- sails and masts . Mr . Leslie ' s experience and observations on the build of ships and boats will be of the greatest value to yachtsmen and
those who sail their own boats . The delineations of old-fashioned hulls and rigs , and of antique —^ m apparatus ^ m ^ m- — ' — , such - — -- — -- — — as - ¦ - — - compasses —— — - ^— - — - «~ - ^ r- ^ ^ and ~> V —— - »¦
binnacles , will interest those who care for naval history . . The various shapes of figure-heads , »—_— ,
attracti stems , ve bows pages , and of bow Mr . -sprits Leslie ' occupy s book . many His vocabulary of sea terms shows how many of
them survive in ordinary language after becoming obsolete at sea . From Messrs . Chatto & Windus . —* Father
Damien : an Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu , ' from Robert Louis Stevenson — — . v In — this — — — * letter — - ^^ _ — ~_ - — _ ' published _ _ — — ~ — — — — ~ —^ ~ in the
form of a shilling pamphlet , , , Mr . Stevenson , __ ~—— ^^ ^^^ is ^ ^^ indignant and eloquent , and writes with all the force of a burning conviction . He visited
Honolulu and witnessed the work of Father Damien . He saw something of what the heroic priest had accomplished and understood
how much he had sacrificed . That the memory missionary of the brave whose dead sacrifices should be have aspersed apparentl by y a
been insignificant was more than Mr . Stevenson could stand , so he addressed a letter to the Scots Observer of which this pamphlet is a
reprint , vindicating the traduced Damien and speaking in exceedingly plain terms of Dr . Hyde . As a piece of literature and as a tribute
to one of many noble qualities the * letter' is so admirable that in many places it reminds us of Burke . We have never read anything so
severe from the pen of Mr . Stevenson . Dr . Hyde is smitten hip and thigh and left helpless . Yet Mr . Stevenson is no fatuous admirer
of Damien ; indeed , the work gains additional force from the frankness with which the Father ' s shortcomings are stated . So
consummate a master of character as the author of * Kidnapped' could hardly fail to make Damien interesting . But he has done much more . He
has given us a profound and telling study which will last as a faithful picture of the peasant A -priest A who gave O— his life for the lepers ATof
Molokai . The faults as well as the virtues are and given the , but vindication the latter is mightil lete y . The preponderate hlet , comppamp
deserves and will doubtless have a \ HSj wide circulation . From Messrs . James Clarke & Co . — ' The Last
readers of the Macallisters of fiction who / by are Amelia not B fastidious . Barr . To in regard to historical accuracyand who are
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characters talk in a way of their own . The Southern reader , however , is not likely to take
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r ¦ ¦ ' - ¦ ' - . , ^ 1670 The Publishers' Circular Sept . i , 1890
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1890, page 1070, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091890/page/16/
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