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    i;o72 The Publishers' Circular Sept i, 1...

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    From The Authors' Co-Operative Publishin...

    FromMe 88 rs . Sampson Low , Maraton , Searle & Kivington , Limited . — ' In Black and White / by Rudyard Kipling . The eight short stories

    comprised in this volume are as fresh and graphic as anything Mr . Kipling has written , and that is — say — ^ ing — ^^ a good ^^ _ _ deal , _ . It is difficult _

    to select where all are good ; but * In Flood Time' and * On the City Wall' seem to us particularly strong . We have read three-volume

    novels in which there was not so much real matter , so much imagination and able characterisation , so much of that subtle insight which

    marks out the born story-teller . From the same . — ' The SubalternThe Policeman

    , , and The Little Girl , ' by Brownlow Ff orde . The subaltern and the policeman are rivals for the hand of Miss Robertsonfamiliarly known as

    , * the little girl / The tale meanders through many love scenes of quiet interest to an exciting and tragic close ; for the subaltern is shot

    dead while on his way to propose , though if he had lived he would have been too late . The scenes are _ _ new to — English c 3 _ readers , and novelty ^

    is in itself a great merit in these days of much fiction . Trom the same . —* The Trotter : a Poona

    Mystery , ' by Brownlow Fforde . The trotter is an uncommonly clever rascal , who manages to enrich himself at the expense of his friends by

    means of letters of introduction . Being well furnished with these , he is always well received , and robbery seems as easy to him as it is

    difficult to most . He gives evidence that he is a humorist too , and that he has pleasures more refined than those that come from gain . The

    reader will find him highly diverting , and will follow his career to the close with unabated interest . The book is cleverly written .

    From Messrs . Marpon & Flammarion , Paris . — Tolsto'i et Bondareff , * Le Travail . ' Count Leo

    Tolsto'i and the peasant Bondareff are the authors of one book on the labour question , but they «/ have not been co-workers in the ordinary ¦ % i

    sense of the term . Bondareff scarcely reads anything besides the Bible . Only just able to spellhe has had to decipher it verse by verse .

    From X . , the outsethowever he seemed t o have discovered the solution , of , all social questions . Penetrated with this thoug ( J ht , he learned to

    write , that he might be able to make known what he thought of the truth of truths . After the manuscript was finishedhe was introduced

    to Count Tolstoiwhostruck , bthe theories of his peasant visitor , , defi , nitively y adopted them as the rule of his life . Since that time he has

    laboured in the field with his own hands . The book before us consists of Count Tolstoi ' s ™ account ^^ n . ^^ ^^ ^ ™ ^ v ^ n ^^ of - ^^ ^^ ^ Bondareff i ^ ^^ r *^ om ^^^^^^ F *^ ^¦^ r ¦ i ^ ^ and fe ^ w ^^ f ^ p ^ ^^ 1 b his ^^** **|~ . work w w ^^ * " ^ *^*^ ; ^ then V ^ b ^ % ^^^ 4 ^« a ^ of ^ , w ^^

    and teondareff thirdl ' s y , * Labour of appendices accordi , ng among to the which Bible is * ; BondarefFs will . The whole is a most curious

    sermon on the text * In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread . ' The translation from the Russian is byB . Tseytline and A . Pager .

    From Mr . John Murray . —* Lux Mundi : Preface to the Tenth Edition , together with an

    Appendix on the Christian Doctrine of Sin / The present' Preface / issued in a separate pamphlet , is put forth as in some measure a reply to the

    criticisms that appeared on the book when it was originally published , and the *

    Appendix" consists of a sermon preached by Mr . >* . ;

    Gore , before the University of Cambridge , at Great St . Mary's Church , in March last . Both are able productionsand will probablbe

    widely read . ' , x y w , — " From Messrs . OrellFiissli & Co . Zurich . —

    ' Deiitsches Lesebuch , fur Schweizerische , Sekundar-Real und Bezirksschulen , ' von Heinrich Sporri . Three Parts . These three German

    Reading Books are made up of extracts in prose and and verse many „ , covering of the excerpts a great x variety are from of subjects German ,

    classics . They are so arranged that the intellect and the moral nature are simultaneously addressed and developed , and the pupil is

    cunningly led on from simple tales and fables that interest him to things of weightier import that instruct . There are fairy taleslegends h

    parables — - ^_ - - _ — — , historical - _ - _ - and - _ - - _ - | — ^^_ geograp — — - - ^_ - _ -. ^^ hical — , picture — ^ L ^^^^ ^^—^^ ~^ ^ rr s ^^ , , as well as many and varied selections from dramatic and other poetry . The selections

    seem to us to be very judiciously made , and they comprise , as we have said , some of the choicest pieces of German literature . We

    should add that the tastes of republican Switzerland are sedulously borne in mind . From the same . —* Der Schweizerische Bildungs - - -

    freund ein Republikanisches Lesebuch , ' von o Dr . Thomas Scherr . Two Parts . Like the above , these Republican Reading Books consist

    of extracts of various kinds in poetry and prose . Both parts have been revised since they passed out of the hands of Dr . Scherrand the editors

    have ventured to make considerable , additions which contribute materially to the educational , value of the books .

    From the same . —* Methode lSl § mentaire pour l ' Enseignement t _ j de la Langue *_ j Allemande - , ' par X

    Charles Keller . This volume is divided into i two parts , the first consisting of a series of graduated o exercises and the second — — dealing o

    particularly with the grammatical structure of the German language . It has already reached a fourth edition , which , may be accep — — ited as I

    evidence of its practical value . From Messrs . Percival & Co . —* Frays and

    Forays : Sketches in Peace and War , ' by Captain G . J . Younghusband . Captain Younghusband has collected into a volume nine short stories

    which are all more or less interesting , though none displays any special power or merit . They are smartly writtenhave plenty of ' '

    may be recommended , to the large class who go , like 4 S book port that in the can Sun be ny got East through ' is a very without attractive effort .

    sketch JL . */ •/ ! From Messrs . Isaac Pitman & Sons . — * The

    Newspaper World : Essays on Press History and Work , Past and Present , ' by Alfred B aker . form Mr . Baker the 4 has chief attempted AAAVAViVAAVk incidents * to present in the / in history a succinct of |

    the British AV /* AAA granting VA Journalism V V >*» - of »*¦ V- /* the . , from Royal its Charter earl A A A y IAAV days —a ** AM period down «« - j of to . more than two centuries and a half—and to

    give in all some its account varied p of hases the , in journalist the present ' s vocation day , ' and he has succeeded . The story of journalism

    loses is a singularly nothing from fascinating the way one in , which and it Mr certainly . Baker tells itHimself Ufti a journalist of experience /< Wl- *¦* " — —• he

    UVAAU AU . , « . A » -JM * -rV * " » IW JVUA * M «* AMV VA , VA » - ^' ' ~ , is master of his subject , and has the art of being graphic and interesting without in any way

    I;O72 The Publishers' Circular Sept I, 1...

    i ; o 72 The Publishers' Circular Sept i , 1890

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1890, page 1072, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091890/page/18/