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    • nro TheJPubUshers* Circular' Nov^i ^ ¦ ¦

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      ' Recollections' are good reading , and to > those who are conversant with the literature of the Victorian - ib ageespeciall ¦ y on its ¦ popu - ¦— lar sidethe

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      book was issued a second edition has been called for . From the same . —* Hayti ; orthe Black Republic /

      bSir SSt . JohnK , . C . M . G . Those who hav y e read penser the reports , published in the form of parliamentary blue-books by the Consuls and

      other representatives of the British Crown resident abroad can understand the exceptional opportuniti air hv es which b our ¦ countrymen h h t ¦ possess of

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      Spenser St . John gives us the fruits of knowledge acquired nation to during whom he a stay was of sen many t as 4 years Her Majesty among ' a s

      Minister Resident and Consul-General / and there is no part of the subject with which , he has not dealt ably and exhaustively . Historically the

      book gives a succinct account of Hayti both before and after its independence , its natural features are grap ¦ ¦ hicalldescribedand the account ¦ of the

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      not encouraging , and when the author in his preface tells us that his impression , after personallknowing PPfc the country for ¦ above ¦ twenty f

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      the state of an African tribe , and in the apparently harsh verdict which he passes upon them he disclaims ^* pp ) pppp » " ^ p" v ~~ mp » t rpb PBpKipr « ar anything ^ biVppVPOl W VVPhpv ^ PWBpB like p ^ **¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ p ^ anti ^ pp 1 ^ '" ~~^ ^ path w " ¦ ¦ " w P" * i ¦ y w on ^ v p ^*^ " * VpW accoun ^ p" ^ p ^ ^ b ^ v ^ toP ^* "hppB t ^^

      of race or colour ; in fact , during his residence he says that he lived in familiar * -and kindly intercourse ~ pi with pppphb Haytians pjpipBPt ¦ ¦ ppppv ¦ of " ^ vp ppp . ¦ all Tanks i and pfiprpH shades » > p > pi aRr of

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      the actual data to which it refers matters have - gone tiiat * the from hi bad h to officers worse instead now attend of mending the fetish , and ' g -a > ¦ . ¦¦¦¦ , ¦ ¦¦¦ ,. . — . ¦ .

      —— —^^ - ^ - ¦ - in . , ^ ^ . . ^ ^ worship and applaud the excesses connected with it . There is much interesting matter in the

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      producesome historical -works book down of merit which to . the The oug year ht record to 1879 give in , and satisfaction the it volume is throughout to is English brough a - t

      men as a proof of the high ability and trained in powers the colonies of observation and BB in BP < BJ forei B which BB - « HBk B-Bi parts our B | BB BP W representatives ¦ # WbS to 1 their

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      their Teachings from the Poets . ' Selected and arranged by Estelle Davenport Adams . The poet

      who who is is untouched untouched , hv by the the influences influences of of nature nn . tnrA can nan are are scarcel not not y like like be worth Wordsworth Wordsworth y of his nam enthusiastic enthusiastic e , for if lovers lov all -ars poets of nf

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      sources of inspiration . In the volume before us j Mrs . Davenport Adams has culled many flowers i of ^ B *~ BF verse B - ^ P- BBP —BT Bf which Bl BJ BPBJt b > BB . . ^ BBJ | tell VJfP - ^^ ¦ B B of VHP BB the - ^ BT BBBJ V ^ B- beauties Pfpl ^^^ ^ B"P BfB . BJJT BJJJ » BJjjP . ^ fB- of BB . . the ^^ 9 f ^ F flowers B > 4 BV V VbU J *^^* ^^* *

      of the field , and she has classified her extracts in two clearly-marked divisions : poems which refer to flowers in general and poems BiBB devoted Bf to some

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      of poesy meeting with favour at her hands . It is but natural to find Spenser , Waller , Dryden , Swift , Thomsonand Grayand then turning to later

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      of ori and verses ginal similarl book which y - app making have lied , before , but giving < 3 > it been is evidence a broug genuine ht of together p a iece wii of « of vm reading jl ccmjixj ^ and auu . of c » j . just juo . perception of the —

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      of the Christmas feast . . I From MessrsTrubner cfc Co—The 'American VJk

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1884, page 1110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111884/page/18/