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    William Wilkib Collins. I It is needless...

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    establishment of railways ? ' 'Compare the sciences of China and the Westshowing their

    , points of difference and similarity ; ' ' How can the evils attending the introduction of

    telegraphs and steamboats in China be removed , and the benefits be rendered

    permanent ? ' * What is the cause of the present unprofitable state of the trade in tea and silk ,

    and how can the difficulties be remedied ?' * The calamities of inundations and — droughts

    • -. O , how can they be provided . against in ordinary times ; and when they happen how can they

    be remedied or ameliorated ? '—Journal of the

    Society of Arts .

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    Oct . i , . 1889 The Publishers' Circular II 55

    I In Flfiemoi^Iam

    I In flfiemoi ^ iam

    I Samuel Austin Allibone . I By the death of Dr . Allibone , which took

    I place at Lucerne on September 2 , bibliography I has lost one of its foremost representatives . He was born in Philadelphia on April 17

    I 1817 , and at a comparatively early age entered , I ^ ; upon —^_ a __ mercantil _ __ e career — thoug _ —j ^ h even then

    _ | ^ __ , j — _ _ _ his bent was towards literature . His first pub-^ H lished writings % ^ were chiefly contributions to

    the discussion of theological questions , and for many year 3 he edited the publications of

    the American Sunday School Union . In 1852 Mr . Allibone—largely through the encourage-^^ 1 nient « ^ .-k / -W * -fc ^ which - » WT-l-fc t J ~ h l-fc be 9 T % rf-V received itAAAl TTn / 1 fro ? *»^ - \^ V- » Mr !«/¦ "M G I _ L W \/ V /

    m . . . Childs , who at that time was one of the most ^ I enterprising x— o book jpublishers . in Americam ,

    began the great work of his life , the preparation of a ' Critical Dictionary of English Lite-I ^^_ rature _ _ — # and ^ British and American _ Authors . '

    , Two years afterwards the first volume ap-I peared , but fifteen more years were to elapse

    I before Mr . Allibone had completed his gigantic I task . Meanwhile Mr . Childs had retired from I the book business and _ - _ _ the _ work passed into

    ^ H , y x H the hands of the late Mr . J . ] B . Lippincott . I Author and publisher worked together in the

    I production of the book most harmoniously , and Dr . Allibone would have been the first to I 1 acknowledge that but for Mr . Lippincott ' s

    H ability and capital the great enterprise would never have been brought to completion . In ^^^^^^^_ 1879 - v __ ^ Dr ^^^^ _^_ . * ^ Allibone — —¦ ¦ - — —— - —— —— ¦ was -- — — appointed — m — — to a post H — — in

    tlie then recently endowed Lenox Library , I and in consequence removed to New York , I Avhere the closing ¦ ¦ i years of his life have been

    ^^^^^^^__ _ - ^^_ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ - m ^ _ ' ^^ —^ ^^^^ B W ~~ * ~ " ~ _^^ - - - _ spent in congenial work .- He w as the author ¦ I of several other booksbut his dictionaryin

    , , H spite of many errors and imperfections , re-¦ j mains his most remarkable literary

    achieve-H inent , and is in its way a wonderful and even

    monumental work .

    William Wilkib Collins. I It Is Needless...

    William Wilkib Collins . I It is needless to say that we share the

    H universal sorrow which has everywhere been H expressed with regard to the loss which ¦ English

    H literature has sustained in the death of Wilkie H ^' ollins . For thirty years—for it was in 1859

    H that he published his first great novel , ' The HWoman in White '—the name of Wilkie Collins ^

    William Wilkib Collins. I It Is Needless...

    has ranked with those of the chief novelists of the Victorian era . He has been happil

    described as perhaps the only prominent associate of Charles Dickens who didnot

    , slavishly copy that master , and it has been added with no less truth that the admiration

    which Dickens felt for the most brilliant contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round did not suffer in the least from the fact

    that Wilkie Collins from the first struck out an independent j . course m , and was wisel ..- — y content - — _ —

    to follow the bent of his own genius . So much has been written concerning himboth

    as man and novelist , during the last few , days , that it scarcely seems necessary that we should

    do more , in this column , than recapitulate in brief outline the landmarks of his literary

    career . He was born in London in January 1824 , and was the son of William Collins , It . A .,

    the well-known painter ; his godfather was the still more distinguished artist , Sir David Wllkie W llkie . and and in in this this way wav the thf » child child rp received . nmvp . d a anam name «

    the fame , of which he was destined to extend . He was educated first at Hig hbury •/ , j and

    afterwards on the Continent , where lie acquired a knowledge of both French and Italian . After spending a few years in a business house in

    x o «/ - the City , Wilkie Collins entered himself as a student at Lincoln ' s Inn , and in 1851 was

    called to the Bar , though , like scores of other literary men similarly qualified , he never

    followed the profession of the law . His first work was a biography of his father . This appeared in two volumes in 1848 but did not

    attract much attention . Two , years later , however , Wilkie Collins found his true

    vocation , by the publication of ' Antonina ; orThe Fall of Rome' an historical romance

    which , marked his advent , into the realm of , fiction . This was followed by 'Basil , ' a story

    of modern life in 185 % ; and shortly afterwards Mr . Collins joined i the staff — of — Household — I

    Words . It was in that magazine , between the years 1856 and 1859 that 'After Dark / ' The

    bead TT-v 1 Secret / " - < * , ' and ¦» , ' The TW * - * Queen v ~ v of Hearts -w ~ w i ' appeared . His first really great achievement

    as a novelist was ' The Woman in White , ' a story which ran in All the Year Round in 1860 and made a deep and widespread

    sensation , . From that time forward Wilkie Collins — — — was recognised — f ^^^ V — both — — by 8 the — ^ ^ critics ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ and ^^ ^^ ^^^^^™ ^^^^^

    the public at large as a novelist who was worthy to rankif not with b Thackeray ¦

    and — — — Dickens ^^ , at least — — , amongst — - v ^^ f ^^^ v 1 !^ the *— " foremost " ^^ ^ " ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ** m - ^ r- ^ w in those who stood next to them .. Amongst

    the more prominent of the other novels on which — — ' — — — — ¦ - — the — — reputation — — h — ~ " - " ^— ^» " ^— W ^ v — — — of h —^— B Mr > ¦ ^ - «^^^ . ^ r Collins ~^^^ ^^ F ~ »^^ ¦ ^"" ^^ B ^^^ W ^^^ ^ rests ^^ . ^(^ T y ^^ p ^^^ f ^^ p

    are 'No Name , ' published in 1862 , 'Armaand dale , ' that which weird appeared f romance in ' Cornhill The Moonstone in 1866 , ' — — - — - — — — — — - ^^ ' - ^— — — ~— ^— ^ — ^ mr- ~ - ^^ r ^^* ^^^ pi IPW ^^^ T , ^ B

    which followed two years later . In the list perhaps of his to more mention recent { Man work and s it Wife is enoug ' ' Poor h ,

    Miss ¦» «"• .. Finch T 71 , _ / ' The mi New TVT Mag T » If dalene 1 1 , , ' and ' Blind — - Love — ' which -- __ . — _ — T ^ is —_ _ - ^ at ^^ present —^^ __ ^^ —^^ ¦¦ , ^^ i ™ ^» running ^ mr .. ^ fiM m » ^ b w mmw * Hk

    through the pages of the Illustrated London Newsand whichwe —~ are ~~ glad to learnwas left ihm in

    a comp , ^» - leted — — form — — , ^ m by the — — — ^ T distinguished ^^ B — — ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ' , * m . w w novelist ¦ ¦ ^ nr r ^^ r ^ m ^ ^^ mfn . The copyright of ' The Woman in White' was

    purchased , and that work was first published in book form , by Messrs . Sampson Low , Mar-

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1889, page 1155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101889/page/23/