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    From Messrs. George Bell & Sons.—'The

    From Messrs . "William Collins & Co ., Limited . ' The Advanced Historical Reader from the

    Roman Invasion to the Present Time . ' . A well-arranged reading book , containing historical sketches ^ with portraits of sovereigns

    and famous statesmen and soldiers . * From Welsh Messrs . — Betrayed . Griffith by , a Farran Shadow , ' Okeden by Raven &

    Dean . This is a detective story , of the kind with which English people have become tolerably familiar of late . The plot is

    improbable , and of course there is nothing that can be called delineation of character . The style is fair .

    From Messrs . Hurst & Blackett , Limited — * Sliding Sands / by Henry Cresswell , 3 vols . Stories of journalistic life are not too numerous

    , and Mr . Cresswell has , therefore , in * Sliding Sands ' the advantage of a comparatively fresh theme . Life in the Lonchester Herald Office

    was not particularly sweet or wholesome , but too closely resembled the life that is led in many another provincial newspaper office

    throughout the kingdom . Mr . Cresswell writes as one having a personal knowledge of his subject gj , * his -. ___ story . ~^ has _ — _ the _ — — merit _ — _ of _ . ^ reality . — _ . & , so

    have his characters , but we could wish that some of them had a little more morality . Orlando Osbaldistone ( why Osbaldistone ?) the

    acting antine * editor editor of nfthp the . Herald JTpfrn .. ld , is is as as sorry sorrva a rascal ra . qp . al as as exists should anywhere hope , is out not of a a penitentiary type of provincial , and , we

    journalists . He is married to a patient longsuffering wife , and has a boy who is deaf and not only dumb is . he He systematicall treats both y shamefull cruelbut y , and he

    makes love to Vera Meredith , a , young authoress of great beauty and talent , with whom he passes as a single man . She finds

    him out , however , and he is obliged to fly the country . The other characters , particularly Cecil D f udleyhave humanity and

    vcv ^ u j-u . vAx . cjr , , uavc more uiuic ia . uu . xa . uiuj Oiixu . are aic more uliuic lovable . As a whole , * Sliding Sands' cannot be called a pleasant novel , but in parts , at

    least , it is powerful , and power is a thing to be grateful for . From Messrs . Hutchinson & Co . — ' Hypnotised ;

    or , the Doctor's Confession , ' by Margaret notism Brandon . wildl A strange imrobable tale of et love not devoid and hyp of - , y p , y

    interest . The heroine and victim is very beautiful and very unfortunate . From Mr . George Kenning 16 Great Queen

    , Street , W . C . — ' Sap : Does it Rise from the Roots V by J . A . Reeve . This little work has baen prepared ' in order briefly to describe

    certain known facts , and the results of many experiments made for the purpose of ascertaining < 3 * how far they •/ would corroborate or

    disprove the universally accepted theory with regard to the rising of moisture ( commonly called sap ) found in trees and other plants . '

    The not onl writer y giving deals the with result his subject of personal exhaustivel experi y - , ment and observation , but also laying under

    contribution rities . a vast array of eminent autho-From M . Calmann Le > yParis . —Maggiolo

    * Corse , France et Russie , Pozzo , di Borgo . In , Raikes in his office ' Diary here we ( Paris read ) : till * Pozzo affairs has in continued England

    becoming more complicated , , his services were deemed more useful ia London . His talents

    are highl or y inte the resting first ; order his memory , and his is inexhaustible conversation ,

    not a tissue of anecdotes , like tbat of Talleyrand , but a collection of annals which embrace the

    history of Europe during a period which must always be considered the most eventtul & nd inost extraordinary \ in the annals auuaio of ut the world / ixu '

    ixiuai ; CA . tiaui . aixjicn j ux tuc vu . ^ nv , . M . le Vicomte Magg-iolo ' s account of this remarkable man is derived from family documents

    to which he has had access . Count Pozzo . di Borgo was a great benefactor to his native island , Corsica , which has publicly

    commemorated rafprl him him ; ? . and and a a great DTP . at hatp hater . r of of another another Corsican , Napoleon I . From Messrs . Crosby Lockwood & Son . — ' A

    Practical Treatise on Handrailing , ' by George Collings . A revised and enlarged edition of a work of much usefulness to those for whom it

    was written . The author has for several years been engaged as a practical , handrailer , and now he sets forth new methods and

    improvements on old , which he has discovered himself . In the new edition important additions have been made and various new articles and

    diagrams have been introduced . A treatise on stairbuilding is added . From the same . — ' Screw Threads and Methods

    of producing them , ' by Paul N . Hasluck . Third edition . The matter in this tiny volume has been entirely rewritten and increased by more

    than one-half , though it can still be easily stowed in the waistcoat pocket . It is a complete treatise on the subject of screw threads

    and contains over seventy illustrations . , From Messrs . Macmillan & Co . —* Class-Book

    of Geology , ' by Archibald Geikie , F . R . S . The second edition of an excellent class-book . The author thoroughly understands the wants of

    students , and has produced a work that is at once popular and scientific . Those beginning the study of geology could find no more

    helpful book . From Messrs . Marpon & Flammarion ( Paris ) .

    Lesseps , * Origines du Canal de Suez . ' This is one of the latest volumes of Messrs . Marpon & Flammarion ' s collections entitled ' Auteurs

    Celebreg . ' It is , in effect , an assemblage of reminiscences which extends from 1825 to 1863 , including documents and letters of great

    interest in connection with the history of the canal . The little book opens with a most amusing dip ^_ lomatic __ _ _ _ ep _ ^_ iso _ de _ , in which _ Mazzini t

    is M . de Lesseps' opponent . The series has reached its 180 th volume . Among the authors are Zola , Alphonse Daudet , Hector Malot ,

    Belot , Sandeau , Th . Gautier , Ben 6 , Maizeroy , Arsene Houssaye , Sarcey , Tourgeneff , Murger , & c . Among the worka of * Auteurs Celebres '

    which may be obtained for 60 centimes—for that is the price of the volumes—are the * Sonate a Kreutzer , ' ' Adolphe , ' ' Premier Amour Grammont , '

    Pellico 4 Memoires 's ' Prisons , ' , ' Swift ' Lion ' s Amoureux * Gulliver , ' ' translated ' s , Maistre's * Voyage autour de ma Chambre , ' * Manon Lescaut , ' & c .

    From Messrs . James KTisbet & Co . —* Gideon and the Judges : a Study , Historical and Practical' by Rev . John Marshall LangD . D . In

    a short , preface Dr . Lang refers to , the difficulty of reproducing the story of a far-past age , so that it may have the colour and warmth

    of living reality , and fears his own imagination may not be equal to the task . Any such apprehension may be quickly bi ushed aside , for

    Dr . Lang has written a stor / or Bible characters that throbs with life . Veiy successfully ' has he thrown himself back to the misty and = < %

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1890, page 1229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101890/page/71/