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    1-228 The Publishers''• Circular q<^ h i...

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    From Messrs. George Bell & Sons.—'The

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    1-228 The Publishers''• Circular Q<^ H I...

    1-228 The Publishers' '• Circular q <^ h iSq 9 I

    From Messrs. George Bell & Sons.—'The

    From Messrs . George Bell & Sons . —' The

    arranged Poetical Works and edited of John , with Keats a memoir / , chronologicall , by Lord y Hbughton . An editorial note informs us that

    ' the object of the chronological arrangement of this edition and the consequent insertion of some pieces of comparatively little value is to

    present a faithful self-drawn literary picture of a short and sad poetic life . ' We are glad to have everything that Keats wrote , if not

    always for its merit ( though he produced little that was not truly poetic ) , at least as part of a luminous record of the development of one of

    the most richly endowed minds that have ever lived contributed to turn to his ^ Eng promise lish literature into performance . Had Keats the

    world would , no doubt , be glad to dispense with , his juvenile productions , but , as it is , they are all welcome , and very touching some of them

    now are . Lord Houghton's memoir is appreciative and not too long . The volume is well printed and nicely bound .

    From the same . — ' The Poetical Works of William Blake , ' edited , with a prefatory X . V memoir , by •/

    William Michael Rossetti . Admirers of Blake will be moved to fresh enthusiasm by the excellent and grap CJ JLhic memoir which the editor

    has written for this volume . Though Mr . Rossetti modestly assures us it is based on Gilchrist - — — — —~ —¦— — — — '— s work -- — - — , it ___ is _ . _ reall _ __ y an independent — — — j— ^ — —— - —¦ —'— - —

    study of Blake ' s life and labours , and as such will be useful to the student and general reader alike . Blake was an erratic man of

    genius , original and fearless , and his poems are of very unequal merit , but they are poems , which is much . Like the precedingthe book

    is prettily got up . X < j , — ~ From Mr . Spencer Blackett . — ' Edelweiss / by

    ' Rita . ' The scene of this charming story is laid amongst the Alps . Early one morning the child Edelweiss is found by a peasant high up

    in the mountains . He takes «/ her j . home , adop O— t s . her , and she grows up a beautiful and good young woman . She makes the acquaintance of Conrad

    Reichenburg , a young Austrian engineer employed on the Rigi railway . Conrad lends her booksand the two become fast friends ; but a

    great calamity , overtakes her in the death of Hans ki Krauss lled while , her guiding foster-father a party , who of tourists is accidental . Edel ly

    weiss thus finds herself homeless and friendless . In the midst of her sorrow Franz Bruhl comes g he allantl is rejected y forward and and fired proposes with jealousy marria he ge , vows but

    to kill Conrad , who , he fanciesis to , be the lucky one . When , , the railway , is finished , Conrad ' s step-mother and his betrothed come

    to the opening JL ceremony . The Austrian girl meets Edelweiss , is struck with her appearance , hears her story - i / , and finally ^ discovers that — she

    has found her half-sister . Edelweiss is the daughter of a prince , though the fact is known only to Paulineand had been left by .. he ______ r nurse

    where mf the old peasant , had found her . Pauline perceives that Conrad loves Edelweiss , and she does all in her power to torture them tooth .

    She . is , eminently successful . Edelweiss loses her life in . an heroic endeavour to protect Conrad from danger ; and Pauline suffers for her

    cruelty and selfishness . The story is short , but it is sweet and striking . In the character of

    Edelweiss ' Rita * has achieved a rare triumph . JSt ' ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ~

    From Blackie & Son , Xiim . ited-. ~' Blackie's Modern — Cyclopedia ^ M - _ - ^ l of Universal — Information - _ ^ ^^ ^_^^^ H * fc ^ F _* ^ fc ^^^ ^^ £ A '

    edited by Charles Annandale , M . A ., LL . D . Vol . VII ., Pot-Ska . To the busy man who has little time h for ¦ ¦ resear ¦ 1 ¦ ch < Blacki 1 e ' s Cyclopedia '

    is - —» ~" r an — —^ *^^ invaluable ¦ ~— _ w _^^^» ~^* .- ^ r ^^— work — ° " ^^ ^^ p ~^ _~ ~^ m —¦ — of , ^ m ¦ ^™^ reference —^ ~^ " ~ ^ ¦ ^^ ™_»~ — ~— . —^^ - ^ . Consider ^^^ w ^^ ^^^ M ^^ p ^ v ^ ^^ rf ^^ ^^ ^ W ^ V - ing its scope , which , is literally universal , the fulness — — — — of - _ - its — information - _ - — — — - _ —— . _ - _ is — really -, ^_ - — — ^^ g astonishing __ — - _ ¦ - ~_ - — - ^^^ mr ^ v ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ , a

    to and secure it is evident accuracy that . The no effort present has volume been spared shows the same careful and successful editing that

    marked the preceding ones . The longer and well more written important , and articles some of are them without are models exception of

    clearness and condensation . There is a sketch of the history of Russia and another of that of Scotland which could hardly j be surpassed in

    conciseness — — - — — — - — and — —— — — concinnity — — — — - _ - - _ — — —— — . The - _ - — biograp _ — * — — — ^ v hi - _ - - ^ c al ^ ^^^^ ti notices cularl of well famous done . peop Indeed le are the likewise work is par a - y

    monument of learning , industry , , and good editing , and will be found to deserve a place in every library that is not merely ornamental .

    From Messrs . Brook & Chrystal , Manchester . — b * The y Emil Folks y Foster of Fernlei . A gh prolix : a Country , rambl Ch ing ronicle story , , '

    full of gossip and love-making , and describing many marriages . There are too many characters in the book , and none of them has any particular

    individuality the best of them . Anna . A , the disguised Quaker ' earl s daug pla hter ys , is important - part « - - toward . _ . s _ the __ close wr __ v which may - ¦< ¦—

    From be an the inducement Clarendon —^ — to some — — Press — to read . — ^^ __ ( Dup , the _ _ leix story . — / . by — w

    Colonel Series ) . Malleson There are , C few . S . I . greater (' Rulers or of more India in- ' terestin — - g g v figure ^^^ k — s — in ° the — - ¦ history - — ¦ ^ v -m ^ ^^ v of - *^ ^^ h ^ India ^^ v ^~ - ^^ . « ^^ ^^ r ^ than ^ v ^—^^ ^^^^^^^

    l ess , leix capacious . A man , and of inventive vast ambition mind / as , of Macaulay ' a restlong ago described .- _ - _ him .-. . j he p J— layed — ¦ - - — a great •^¦¦ mr-r game

    ^ -j ^ j — , _ — ^_ — — ^_ — in Indian politics , and if he did ^ not succeed in doing for France quite what Clive did for England it was assuredly from no want of

    press talent the or resolution imagination . His like g t i gantic e dreams schemes of some imgifted romancerand yet he ¦ had no b p I I lan that he

    could g ^^ J no — t — have , W carried — ' ' ^ M ^^ " ~ " ~ ¦ out ~^ ^^^ had ^^^ ^^ B ^ m ^ he ^^ ' ^ ,. ^»^ had " ^^ ^ " ^^^ ' ^ the —^" proper tools . Those who desire to understand the policy of the English in India during the

    ac last coun century t of will Dlei find x it necessary his doi to tak e close to enable them to up da this , Colonel ng M , alleso , ' s

    compact biography may be unhesitatingly recommended . From his own Indian experiences the autho - ~ ~— r is - - w- in a - ^ posit _ i ion ! ¦ to l 1 f- ap f M / preciate what

    the illustrious — Frenchman . _ ~ - - *^ ^» - —w ~ —m ^^ w ^ " —— - » ^^ achieved ^^ —^^^ H ^ ' ^^ ^^ and ^^ ^^^ ~^ ^ . ^^^ ^^ to ^^ ™ shed " bio light on her many must points have remained which to obscure an ordinary . The gp

    history of French enterprise in the East from the when — ~ ¦ - ¦ ¦ - ~ earlies D m ¦ le t ix t ¦— i ¦— m ~ - ~ es is rap on idl the y sket scene ched t w h « % , so reader •—¦ - ^ ~ that - " — ' — up ^ — —r — ' ^ " p M pears a ^^ ^^ . * 11 ^ *^^^ ^ fc ^ ^^ i . ^ ^^^ p ^^ ^^^ ^^^ Hj , ^^^ ^ jt ^ ^*^

    easily grasps the situation in which the young administrator found himself . The contentions of the English and French are described at

    considerable tiality . Clive length and and Dupleix with praiseworth are contrasted y impar ; the - facts , so far as their careers bore on each other , are his set own down jud , and gments the reader Colonel is mai Malleson nly left to admits form

    but tUat , following so far as India the . path is concerned which the , Eng genius land of is

    opened France To the opened is general well f out shown reader VUtV to her VA in however / the How book that perhaps before path was the us .

    ohief - "" ^^ «** - * interest ^^ m ^ ' ** -M *^ SM « , of ^* A the work , * m *\ jr will Iff % , / V % lie SM , * ^ in r ^ rm , m the ^^ r ^ jg" -- very

    successful presentation of Dupleix as a man . ' '' ~* rr

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1890, page 1228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101890/page/70/