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    h»j» . : i ^jy n68 The Publishers' Circu...

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    To Tlo\E% And Hew$

    John Boyle difficulties O'Reill to y , contend who cer with tainly as had most as many

    literary £ 30 , 000 . men , has , it is said , left a fortune of

    Messrs . Williams & Norgate will issue on January 1 next the first number of a

    monthly serial to be entitled The Coming Day . Its object will be the advocacy of the

    founda Religion tions of Humanit of the fatherhood y based on of the God permanen and the t brotherhood of man . J . Page Hopps will be

    the editor . The new volume of the GirVs Own Paper

    w Evel ill yn contain Everett four Green serials Lad y y Margaret Rosa N . Maj Carey j en . , -

    die will , and tell t D arley irls Dale of , . E Mr land . Gleeson how to White write gng

    poe thing try to , and say Mr of . the James spiri Mason t of fun will in hav literature e someand art .

    It is reported that a native Indian novelist is attracting much attention in some of the

    i and Central , desp States ite his . His literary name , is accomp ' Peak lishmen of Thunder ts , he , ' prefers to live his semi-wild life at his home in

    I Indian territory . His book is spoken of as a very well written romance of life and love in his own country .

    We have received the catalogue of the Cheltenham Public Library , compiled by Mr .

    William Jones t is , the on the chief al librarian habetical . -index The arrangemen systemand is simple and effec p tive . We find

    that 9 f altogether , the » library contains 17 , 462 volumes , 10 , 291 being in the Lending

    We Librarjr notice and that 7 , 171 recent in the publications Reference Library are not . conspicuous by their number .

    Tren Mr ch . , H Trubner . Georg & e , Co of ., Messrs Limited . Kegan , writes Paul to us ,

    to say that one of the assistants of that firm has died suddenly , leaving * a wife and seven children totally unprovided for . A concert is

    and to be a given commi ttee has been the organised widow and to famil receive y , subscriptions on their behalf . We hope the

    trade will con will tribute not onl to y the patronise fund that the is being concert raised , but . Messrs . Haddon & Co . will publish

    im-I mediately * In the days when we went Hog \ Queen Hunting ' s , Own ' by Mr Cameron . J . Moray Highlanders Brown ( ) la , te au 79 thor th

    i j of S oin pear ' t Shikar author , ' ' 1 Polo oi Sketches ' 4 < ( of Violet XT * Badminton 1 / Yivian TT ' Powder Tfc Library * , TT S pur "WIT ) / , , and and & r \

    j j Mr volume . J . C by . Dollman twelve ori , g R inal . I ., drawings will , M illus . F trate . 15 H . inches the c .

    , m '' b ¦ t he y 10 . * V"v ho inc * to h % - tint , and which 1 . will alt be ** reproduced b y pprocess

    1 will The publish National immedia Society tely has the in following the press and

    s Sabinus torybooks / by for Charlotte the young M : — . ' Yonge The S ; laves ' The of Locked Desk' bFrances M . Peard ' The

    Vicar ' s Trio , ' , by y Esme' Stuart ; ' Peckover ; ' s Mill' by the author of « Starwood Hall ; ' * A

    Little , Candle ewels / by / Mary H . Debenham ;

    • JJangerous JDy r / l . Jt 5 ramston ; ' The

    Green and ' The Girls Famil of Greythorpe Coach' , b ' by M C . . and R . Colerid C ge ; y , y . Lee .

    writes ' W Max hen O I 'Rell was in 4 I America saw a Texas last winter i ' paper n

    which the editor said , y I had better not come IT to ¦•»• Texasor I would ¦ get what ¦ I deserved ^ a

    bulle 1 11 t , t hroug 1 _ h me . I —t rep J _ lied ^ T to i this i ^* editor ^ .. in -v a letter which ran about this way : —'' Dear

    desire Sir f ~* + , — M to " ¦ V y see attention ii me * and has ^ shoot ^ been me called in ^ (/ T Texas ^ to . your . - . « I -V

    have no desire to be shot . But if I ever have such a desireI shall choose a place where the ——

    , . ft ^ fe — v inciden where ** v t such . will a ^^ i cause an occurrence a sensation wou , and ld not Texas ^^^_ , pass JL

    unnoticed . "' Not even the threat of a Texas editor can drive the humour out of Max . The Society of Authors has amongst its

    many labours been t / making inquiries as to the — *•« extent to which colonial booksellers are trading

    in pirated editions of British books . According are to tolerabl the last number tisfact of in the Australia Author , and mat New ters y ory

    p Z iracy ealand V seems , and t also o be ac I t ndia ively V , bu carried t in South on . Africa The

    bu Custom t this House does not collects appear a to duty be of sufficient 20 per to cen put t ., down the contraband trade . The Society of

    and Authors hopes will to attempt have to the have co- the operation evil remedied of the , Colonial Office .

    third There and cheaper is a special edition interest of Mr . Josep attaching h Hatton to the ' s

    novel Hutchinson , ' By Order & Co . of publish . L . the Czar next / which week J . , Messrs in the .

    fact that Mr . Hatton has discovered that in he revising omitted his ori two ginal chapters serial copy of a for descri the p press tive

    One charac of ter these , which , ' The he Ghost adds to of the the Lagoon new edition / is a . with witn

    striking striking the disposi bit bit tion ot of of narratory narratorv the bod work work y of , , the dealing dealiner villain of the story . Mr . Hatton ' s story has been

    dramatised in America without his permission , and of course without helping in any way to

    swell his bank account . The le of Leeds seem to have a lively !

    twentieth apprecia ^^ V T ^^^ ^ Jk VA » , * ^ f peop JQ tion , J ^ report ^ , ^^^ ^ H ^ of ^ ^ p f ^ the y of \^ p J ^ value the ^^ J ^ J ^ ^^^ Public M of ^ - ' ^ «^ books ^ p ^ ^ L ^ a ^ I ( Free ^^^ . ^* ^^ ^ " ^ F ) # rom Li - ^» brary » 370 ^ the * ham V / A ; i

    volumes we learn hav that e been during issued the to past the year public 339 .. from , the Central Lending Department , and 353 , 314

    besides volumes vnlnmfta 110 from ft *«* 48 m 7 flip the from . Branch F £ r » nr the » li Lending T Reference i ^ nrlina' Librai Libraries Depart 'lCS ,, men * i- * VAJl t % J . The JL JIAV , respectable JL V ^ KJ YJ ^/ \ J l / C * MAv sum % J \ A < mM A . of >_^* . £ *^~ 235 ^ *^ 1 &* fines . Id .

    has been collected in twelve months for ; rooms and 1 , 249 The , 634 total visits number have been of paid volumes \ to the in news all

    the JLVVLUK libraries ) . . JLiHJ is \ 1 \ J \} VUK 101 JllUlllMV 749 and / 1 VJL the » -s- ~ total ~» - exi > en- | diture up to the date ,, of the report was

    £ 25 Number , 621 12 s . 365 4 , d . of CasaeWs Saturday Journal commences commences a n . new new volume volumean and a con contain tains the *>»

    -Dowling opening chap and ters Barclay of new North serial , , stories ( author by Richnra of * I io ne

    Day Diamond / the Button first of ' ) a ; ' new Secret series Societies of specially ot oi - wr WlJLtteil itten Ul articles tlUXUD Ui called * llOU . ' Undercurrents j \ u . \ a * jm . w ... r % *^

    do London i Life a / dep let ic e ting sensa strange tionalat scenes ory caiie ana ngs ; comp ^ ^

    H»J» . : I ^Jy N68 The Publishers' Circu...

    h » j » . : i ^ jy n 68 The Publishers' Circular Oct . i , 18 90

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1890, page 1168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101890/page/8/