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    Nov. i, 1882 The Publishers 1 Circular I...

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    Books Received:— From * Bell's' Life Off...

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    Nov. I, 1882 The Publishers 1 Circular I...

    Nov . i , 1882 The Publishers Circular IO 77

    Books Received:— From * Bell's' Life Off...

    Books Received : — From * Bell ' s' Life Office . —The ' Australians in

    England / a complete record of the Cricket Tour of the 1 Australians 882 , with the and batting the Englishmen and bowling who averages played of

    against thern , reprinted from BelTn Life in London , with additions . This is the title of a timely and interesting volume that should be in

    the hands of all our young cricketers . From the Clarendon Press . —* A Short History of

    book French is Literature a crown octavo / by George of just six Sait » hundred tsbury . page This s , derived from an examination of the literature

    probabl itself ; an y never attempt been which made , as before the author , in Eng says land , has . The contents of the work are thus divided : —

    I . Mediaeval , pages 1-164 ; II . . Renaissance , IV 155 . -271 Eighteenth ; III . Seventeenth Century , & 89 Cen -507 tury ; , 2 V 72 . - Nine 388 - ;

    teenth Century , 508-576 . An index occupies the rest of the volumes . Not merely authors' names are giren in the index , but the student is guided

    to the criticisms of important works by entries under their names . This part of the book is made additionally useful by a characterisation of

    each author as his name is given ; for example : — Musset 538 , , 540 Alfred , 543 . de , poet , novelist , and dramatist , 532 ,

    In the last figure we have ventured to correct the index . Tho & e of our readers who have read Mr . I Saintsbury ' s brilliant studies on French writers

    however told in the what Fortni brief a g , privilege htl of y French Review it literature is will to not have from require a his survey hand to be . ,

    heartil To those y commend who do not the know ' short those history studies . ' , we most From Messrs ¦ . Griffith & b Parran b afi . — 'The Children ' s ¦

    the Dail — ——— y Psalms ^^ Hel — ™ - — ^ mm p ~^* m for and ^^ rw ^ v ^» the ^^^ . ^^ Lesson ^ ^^ ^^^ mm Christian ^^^ v o ^ s ^^ r ^ se ^ ^ " ^^ lected w ^» Year ^» w ^^ / b ^ taken ^^ E ^^ ^ m . *^ G ™ — . f . rom ** ^^^ A verse of the Biblefollowe , d by a verse y hymn

    is here given on , a somewhat novel plan ; each , week Sunday -day of s the desi Church gnated ' s not year b being y the followed day of by the six

    month , but as the ffrst , second , third , sixth Easter Monday & , Tuesday cas the , or case Wednesday be . after This Ep obviates iphany , , may

    the difficulty , which has often been felt of making of a dail the y different text-book seasons harmonise of the ecclesiastical with the teaching yem * ,

    as forms in good apar a t readable tin from y pocket the type nat or and ral bedside year is preceded . volume The book b , is morning , printed which

    an whose d evening use it prayers is speciall for y tho inten little ded . readers It will for "be found to bo suitable for any child who is old

    enough to read . From A .. Johnston . — ' The Children s World , ' "by

    g E . ] i VI ng . M ver . y An little elementary peoplo some book idea about of g the eograp sha h pe y , of the globe , tho centre of gravity , the

    movedi ments visions of the of land earth and roun water d the . sun This , an part d the of chief tho work is numbered * one * so we expect to bo

    favoured with a continuation , . may From Messrs " — — - ^ - ^ » w . Sampson wir WJMkAj ^ m ^^^ m ^^ m ^ Low m ^ mi ^ mW WW , m ¦ Mars « MMW ¦ ^ ""^ ton * r ^ ¦ ^ ' , m & u Co ^ w ^ r m . * —

    Nassau Senior ' s ' Conversations & c . in Egypt and Malta , * 2 vols . Wo shall , we tliink , do good ser entire vice by quoting Mrs . Simpson's short preface

    : — endeavoured In publishing to my seise Boutn father the i / iio ' s conversation t t vfhnn s I the uio have wauvwivn always nntrle

    — «~ 08 *"" e P 0 ^ ^ 018 they " Tecord were mom mom objects en enw of » nn espacfal o intoroat *« . ^

    the There VUD present p i surely CSOUV J for will - \ JL the VUC never appearance Ct |/ J be / COi a more of » opportune * I Ms 'W journals ^ VHJ IUMO occasion in A 1 A Egypt JVt than ^ J jru

    journals and Malta in . Turkey When , and in 1869 Greece . Mr , . mach Senior th brought at was Valuable one his « and * u \* interesting iubvii 77 VUA ^ had nwn to \/\ j be t ^ a uuiivvc omitted ^ i , y and nitu the vuu names tiotuvo of v * . nearly uvim of

    century all the speaki has relieved -rs soppressed me almost . The entirely lapse from of a the quarter necessity a I of present Dresent omitting vol volumes umes either cannot cannot names , be he facts considered cnnRfdfered , or opinions out oat of of ; and date date yet ; : for for the j .

    does as my not father change says . ' in one of bis conversations , ' The East , The very remarkable qualities of Mr . Senior ' s

    already published conversations will have raised the reader ' s expectations . The firtt five lines of the contents of Egypt and Malta . show that he is

    not likely to be disappointed : Early history of M . de Lesseps ' s First Idea of the Canal ; Objections of the English Government Refuted by

    M . de Lesseps ; Effect of the Canal in Peace and in War . What one may call the unexpected interest of Mr . Senior ' s new conversations is

    shown by another part of the contents : —Visit to the Pyramids ; Cost of reproducing them in England ; Superiority of the Coliseum ; Idols

    manufactured in Staffordshire . From Macmillan & Co . —' Queen's College (

    London ) Calendar for 1882-3 / An interesting record of the work of one of the earliest of the ' Jadies ' colleges' founded and successfully established

    long t-j before the days of Somerville v Hall at Dr Oxford . Henry , or of Morley Ne'wnham m / continues and Girton to act as at Professor Cambridge of .

    English Literature , with Mr . Owen Breden as his assistant ; and the course in this subject , as sketched out in the syllabus , is an evidence of the

    fe College com rring pleteness tj to - is the — done with college . — Wo o which library — note , all in / , th the the . it paragra the work books of ph are the

    redivided into three groups at the beginning of each term : ( a ) books of reference ; ( A ) books bearing directly on the lectures of the current term ; (

    all other books not included under these heads . From Messrs . Morgan & Scott . — ' Cruden ' s

    ments Complete with Concordance a New Translation to the Old and Revision New Testa and - Extension , of the tt Proper Names of , tho Old , and

    New New Testamen Testamens s , , with with their their Moani Moaninner g in in the the Author Original of Language The Proper 8 . ' By Names Rev . Alfred of the Jones Old , Testa M . A . - ,

    ment Until the Scri revision ptures of Expounded the Old Testament and lllu- is trated com . - ' p King & leted Mte J and ames t ' he s b Revised ook in mm > public m Bible * r takes worshi - the p p and - lace in of

    genera ^ hold ^ b m m m its l ^^ " - ^ own use mm ^ " ^ , as Cruden w *^ the w ^ »^ ^^ ^ most ^ ' s laborious val v ~ ^* uable r ~ ~ -m ~ work w » accom — — —^ ^ — is ^— panimen likel — y to t to the sacred volumeenabling the student , as it

    , does printed the present , to e make dition case the , of we Bible the have ori its a g han ina own l dsom wo inte rk e , prete and with clearl r . a re In y -

    g vise The 0 iving d advantage and their extended meaning of this list in addition t of he the orig to i proper nal tho lan book names guage is , .

    texts obvious ^_^^ ^_ ^^ _ — in — — —m , which — for the m the me names — re reference — occur — - — is of to com the parativel various y little use unless the signification of the name is

    i also nstance given , Mr . . Jones Under tells the us head of his of lineage Abraham nnd , for of the after-history of tho race from which ho

    sprang , and then adds a few lines on the spiritual si in gnification the New Testament of the term . U Children nder Moloch of Abraham , we have *

    tion the following of the comp , which leteness may be and taken clearness as an illustra of Mr . - Jones's plan of tracing out the variations as well

    as the derivations of the names : Molech , the

    KiDg ¦ . —The word is alwaya ——— ' written , with . the ¦ . article . ¦ . " - , - " ftj ji

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1882, page 1077, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111882/page/13/