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    924 The Publishers' Circular Nov. I f * ...

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    anley were Rugy together , they were day of their first meeting until the latter ' s death . A fall-page portrait of the Dean , printed on a separate sheet accompanies this article . ' I

    understood With . respect that to the the . appointment office of Historiograp . of Historiograp her Royal her Royal for Scotland for Scotland the Scotsman has been says offered : — 'It to j s i

    Mr Tl / T- . William "tTST'll * Forbes TT » 1 Skene OM , LL T T . D T \ ., D TT \ . C / " ^ . L T ., on the i 1 _ _ ground . T th j 1 at his 1 _ historical 1 i 1 researches T point . . him . out out as as the tne person person most most fit nt to to fill nn it ix . . Mr ivj _ r . oKene Skene is is the tne well wen--Known known author autrior 01 of '' vjeitic Celtic Scotlan Scotland d " "

    history " The Four of Scotlan Ancient d and Eooks disp of lay Wales ing a , " rare and knowle various dge other of the works Celtic thro language wing much and lig of ht Celtic on the litera early - 1 I ture and it is believed that the of this honour scholar and historian

    ; conferring on a of such I distinction will give universal satisfaction . He succeeds John Hill Burton , LL . D ., D . C . L . J who received the appointment in 1867 , and held it till the time of his death . '

    Laug A hing new Mill novel : , and entitled other ' Stories Fortune / & ' s c Fool ., will , ' b be y begun Julian in Hawthorn the December e , author number of e of Garth MacmMarts , ' 'The Tt / f

    Magazine . Mr . Austin Dobson . is aring for the ' Parchment Series' of C . Kegan Paul & Co

    volume of selections from pre the p British essayists , neglecting the merely literary papersand . a I seeking r r especially »¦ to -w- gather hh i together ih ^ k those 1 describing manners ¦ i and ^ customs and social charac , - I

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    Ballades in Blue China / is making a selection of Edgar Allan Poe ' s verse . I American publishers are opening up a competition which is likely to destroy the trade of I

    such reprinters of English works as Tauchnitz and others on the Continent . At Eotterdam I and other cities frequented by English visitors , all the cheap American reprints issued by the I Brothers in 111 their Franklin / 1 (/ Library be purchased at fraction the

    published Harper - I _ I . Oil . £ / Ci . ' - JJJL prices W UAJL ^ J-O . Araongs WilOlA JLJ t the IAfii \> latest liV I Square A ^ 7 L £ reprints tl / l */ O JLJV \ , I Froude i . Aj I ( J may iXLCby ' s Carl / C £ P \ JLX yle . UiaOCU ¦ ' s Reminiscences € X > U tOi a X JL OiKj \ JX ' has L over \ J V Cl had l / UC a I I large sale . I

    Baron Tauchnitz lias now issued 2 , 000 volumes of English literature . A Bonn paper I compliments him . on the services he has rendered to German students of English , and on the I liberality he has shown to authorsespecially to Americanswho have no copyright treaties . I

    */ , s J . % / , 7 M . t / <~ 7 > ^ M Mr . Andrew W . Tuer ' s forthcoming illustrated book , in two volumes , on Bartolozzi and I his Works * is now announced for November . Mr . Tuerhas succeeded in cataloguing ^ 3 O upwards JL ^ I

    of 2 , 000 distinct examples of these fashionable ¦ prints ; the largest list hitherto compiled— Le Blanc ' s—contained only 700 . Among the illustrations will be a pair of beautiful and exqui- I sitely finished fancy subjects in stiple , from copper-plates engraved by Bartolozzi in 1783 , in I '

    brilliant condition , entitled * A St . James ' s Beauty' and A St . Giles ' s Beauty / printed in red I Countess on old 4 il UVkJIJ paper of Jt Kinnoull JkilXAA ; and a JkJL pair and of Robert / hi \ ghly Auriol -4- Jfc finished . V 4 JL ¦ Earl portraits of Kinnoull , from AX XX the engraved original copper bCaroline -plates , Watson of Sarah ^ vi in - — , I

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    technicall editions have y be alread large y quarto been -, bespoken and bound , ¦ and in vellum that ¦ the . work We hear is likel that y almost to be out all of the print copies as of soon both as

    published Miss Messrs Harriett . . F . V Jay . White author & of Co . The will Queen publish of immediatel ¦ Oonnaug ¦ ht y a ' Ac new . They novel have , in thre also e in volumes tlie press , by n I novel xi \ kl by Miss , A \ L t"tt Walkerauthor of ' Against Her , Will' Lad ' Holm' & lx /& cII

    sidering new ucw A new j \ that ; wy * History a ivxia century o x _ of . # j Norfolk - and . . < a * iivc hal / / 1 . f , , by di has u . oii Mr . v passed -n . R kjl . H ¦ since . Mason aiULa Blomefield vj xxci , is ¦ ¦ announced tvxu ,, commenced xjoiui as y v o s in jjujxiii . preparation his ,, famous < c v . . *^> . work . Con — - v

    and remained c History 1—i l r ^ no 4 * /^ t » tt considerable ' ' so and rf- * ¦* - * rl long i in - »^ the 4- neg V ^ / -v attempt hands 1 lec -fc r * * - * ted /~ 1 r < . of Af has Norfolk Mr iV / T-wi since Mason lV / 1 r * rt is ^ "vw been \ a ( h county , imself I * -v made - * nAlf — ^ particularl » v » it ¦ experienced ^ v ¦ - « is - ^ v ^ v remarkable *» i y-v * y ^ -k ^ w rich ^ -1 journalist •»• - *• in - -w that « - » ^ material r » lin ^ - the and * 1 T ^ / subject I for a jNorfoiK 1 ^ such 1 OI 1 * has ' ^ ^ a ^ 1

    eucuiji encumbers man to ours boot , most most ) we county county may expect histories jiisuories a , work . and ana which wnicu comprehensive w will ^ in be oe an ¦ at at ¦ whilst xne the same same free time time from replete repietw the , prolixity with wiw * interes *» whic — - j _

    from sources not available in the days of Blomefield ¦ . The new History' will be issued m parts The , commen admirers cing of earl Dr y Holmes in the new will year be . leased to learn ¦ that entireland taste "' u I

    edition with W 1 H AUC 1 fine JUllt £ of » ? , ClIIlll portrait yjKfl the \ jLiXL » ' Poetical \ H j \ , ) JLSL will Will . . XJLWllUlCa be U Works 13 published pUUUBUCU Wil of Oliver UO at ch p pitJ \ t UlUJtJ once ctatJU ¦ Wendell . ¦ LU b uy y XViXLH Sampson ijill Holmes II \ LUc J 15 KJ * IL L . , an il ' UUW Low ll in tJIltlLtJiy two C & 36 y handy VU Co new IltJ . . W ftUU The xxi volumes . v > very ' ^ « author ' " J ¦ - — , Ionia rnl i « . H H

    rearranged volumes several and revised ieces the written poems ¦ since , ¦ and the UllU has publication added to those of VJX previous which have editions been included and has in writ f <> e « ^

    ¦ very V UHA The 111 charact K 2 O November DCV eristic Ciai p piCJ number poem V ^ CO WJL by JLUI of way C 3 AI . the OUIVjO of ' preface North American » for U UlUJaL the -lVJIJL new Review issue UICVIUUO ' . will contain UClXLilV ^ ilO an , , «« exhaustive " ¦ *» v « - . VAL r ( I ¦ unbelief

    of Dame fort number y-five pages will contain by Col . a Robert l symposium Ingersoll , ' on , giving * Presidential the reasons Inability for his / in reli which gious IVleasrs ^ . y H ^^^

    924 The Publishers' Circular Nov. I F * ...

    924 The Publishers' Circular Nov . I f * — _^ ^ __ _

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1881, page 924, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111881/page/4/