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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Once Declared That...

    I generous , and Jo . ous e , n * tionB in the breasts I of the vast majority who in every age have

    I sense enough to use it temperately and with I wholesome discrimination .

    I Since novels constitute one of the great I educational influences of the age , and form the

    I staple reading of multitudes , surely it is not I too much to ask those who write them not to

    I degrade their high vocation , much less to ignore the deep moral responsibility which is

    indissolubly linked "to their position as public

    I teachers .

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    I Oct . 1 , ^ 889 ^ The Publishers' Circular m 39 r M ' r- — \ — ¦ ¦ , . 3

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    I Mr . Justin McCarthy , M . P ., has underin taken ' The to Queen write the ' s Prime volume Ministers on Sir Robert 5 a series Peel of

    political biographies which Messrs , . Sampson I Low & Co . have in contemplation .

    The Clarendon Press announce amongst their forthcoming books c Lord Chesterfield ' s

    , H Letters to his Godson , ' now first edited with an introductory memoir by the Earl of

    Car-I I narvon . # H # *

    I I crown Mrs octavo . Fawcett volume is , about a book to entitled publish , ' Emi in a - I nent Women of our Times ; ' it will be

    pub-I Iisiied lislied bv by Messrs Mesara . . Macmillan ATanmillan & Sr , Co CJo _ . # # *

    I The next volume of Mr . Leslie Stephen ' s I ' Dictionary of National Biography' ( For-Gar )

    will be ready on December 23 . This is the twentieth volumeand it looks as if another

    I score at least would , be wainted if the work I is to be completed on the same scale .

    * I The next volume of the Badminton

    I Library of Sports and Pastimes , l Fencing , I l > oxing , and Wrestling , ' by Mr . Walter H . ^^^^^ Bi W ^ ^ ^ ^ m ^ ^ b ^ K ^ H ^ H ^^ ^^ A

    IB Pollock and others , may be looked for in November . ¦

    ¦ I I * * ** ¦ I Mr . Rider Haggard ' s new novel , ' Allan ' s II Wife / will be published immediately by

    ¦ ¦ I 1 book Messrs will . S contain pencer a Blackett number & of illustrations Hallam . The b y

    I Maurice Greiifenhagen and Charles Kerr . ¦ ¦ I ¦ I ¦ # * * * *

    I Under the title of 'Our "Viceregal Life in India' the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava

    I ia about ,, to publish—through Mr . Murray—I two volumes of selections from her journal

    I during the years 1884-1888 . I* I * *

    II ¦ I of Mr Nathaniel . Russell Hawthorne Lowell ' s long ' is -promised amongst ' Life the *

    II ¦ I books promised for the # forthcoming season . p- * * -

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    — - 1 — ¦ 1 1 mi _ , Mr . R . D . BlackmoreV new novel , 'Kit and Kitty' will be published »~^— in three volumes

    in November — ^^ , - . - — — ^ — — — — — — —— - ^ ^^ - ^^—^^^ - ^ v — * ^ v ^^ v ^ n *^»^ v ^ w - ^^ r ^^^ * * * *

    Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein « £ b Co . are bringing out the 'Life of Pestalozzi' edited

    from the French of Roger de Guimps , , by J . Russell , M . A . The same publishers also

    announce ' The Letters of Froebel , ' translated and edited by H . K . MooreB . A ., and

    Madame Michaelis . ^ # *

    Sir Samuel Baker has written a boojc , which Messrs . Macmillan & Co . will bring out shortlyon < Wild Beasts and their Ways in

    «/ — 4 / — Asia , Africa , and America . * It is the outcdme of the observation of more than forty years .

    * # # * The Bedford Library' is the title which

    Messrs . Frederick Warne & Co . have given to a series of illustrated — books for boys and girls

    which they are about to issue . / . The ^^ first , three volumes will be written respectively by

    Mr . W . H . G . Kingston , Mrs . Marshall , and Mr . R . M . Ballaniyne . #

    * * Mr . James Burnley , author of the 'History of Wool and W 00 L Combing , ' is about to

    publish , through Messrs . Sampson Low & Co ., a ' History of the Silk Trade . ' #

    Messrs . Longmans will publish , in November , a selection from the official papers of Sir

    George F . Bo wen—formerly Governor of , New Zealand—under the title of ' Thirty Years of Colonial Government . ' The work

    which is in two volumes , has been cd ~ ted _ by , Mr . Stanley Lane-Poole .

    * * Messrs . Remington & Co . have in preparation a new ' Annual' which promises to prove

    , both ^ 1 m importan ¦ ¦ t and attractive ¦¦ 1 . Mr T » Mf . E gmont ¦ Hake has been — appointed —J . X editor , and we

    understand that he has already secured promises of literary contributions from Mr . Rider Haggard , Mr . Walter Besant , Mr . Swinburne ,

    Lord Lytton , Mr . W . H . Pollock , and other well-known writers . # * #

    The fourth volume of 'Chambers' . Encyclopaedia ' will be ready about' the middle of the month . Among the more important

    articles in the volume we notice ' Efryden , ' by Mr . George Saintsbury'George Eliot' b

    , , y M "M *~ r . R TT ^ . H * W ¦ ~ W . ¦ Hutton TT , and *• ' Emerson "WT 1 , ' b y Dr ~ M ~ -v . Oliver Wendell Holmes . Mrs . Fawcett , we

    also observe , is to contribute a biographical sketch of her husband to the volume . #

    # # Messrs . Longmans have made arrangements with Dr . Nansen for the publication

    both in London and New York of an account of his recent Expedition across Greenland . The book will be fully illustratedand will

    probably be published in the spring , of next year .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1889, page 1139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101889/page/5/