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    I282 The Publishers' Circular N I — ^

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    188 Fleet Street : November 1, 1886.

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    IN doxes De Morgan 7 the ' author s amus...

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    Booksellers' Provident Institution. At t...

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    I282 The Publishers' Circular N I — ^

    I 282 The Publishers' Circular N I — ^

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    4 . ' - _ ====== _ Christmas THE PUBLISHERS * ^ if t * CULAR and for > presentation DECEMBER i , 1886 , will > Ij display & ooks . I It will , as usual , form a Summary of the PRESENTATION BOOKS of the YEAR , and will I embellished with some of the choicest Illustrations , nearly 200 in number . I The Reduced Cost to the Retail Bookseller for Copies in an elaborate Ornamental WrapJ ( designed this year ) , with Name and Address , can be had on application | . _

    188 Fleet Street : November 1, 1886.

    188 Fleet Street : November 1 , 1886 .

    In Doxes De Morgan 7 The ' Author S Amus...

    IN doxes De Morgan 7 the ' author s amusing naivel 'Bud y tells get of a Para story

    about a friend who showed him the proof of an article on the malt tax intended for

    Nothing the next was number ^ wanting of the except Edinburg the titl h e Review of the .

    book reviewed . Mr . De Morgan asked what it was , and his friend sat down and wrote at the

    head , ' The Maltsters' Guide ( pp . 124 ) , ' saying that would do as well as anything . The

    reviewer of Mr . Gosse's book in the Quarterly has reversed this order . He first pulled the

    victim to pieces , and then , evidently at a loss AV / KJU what II JlXUJl / to \ J V- ^ cal ^/ % * VJLJ l ~ his O . A . JLKJ article LV 1 VXV / A \> , « sat ULVV ^ down -A . V 5 - ^ II JLJk * and ^» A . * . v _*

    wrote ' Literature at the Universities . It is doubtful whether all the universities of

    the United Kingdom will accept a share of the fierce castigation given by Mr . Churton Collins .

    Few of them deserve the infliction ; but at the same time it ought to be a source of

    some satisfaction that the article in the Quarterly Review may direct attention to a

    subject which certainly requires attention . We refer to the academical study of Eng -wlish

    literature . The question is an old one , although it is well known that the sins of omission and

    commission are not altogether attributable to the course of study at the universities .

    Neither are schools and schoolmasters wholly responsible . The fact is that English

    literature holds a very poor place in connection with examinations for the learned and other

    professions . In the mercantile curriculumif we may speak of such a course — it is

    almost ignored . There is little demand , and the supply is consequently indifferent . When

    the time arrives at which educationists will recognise the expansive intellectual

    benefits that may be conferred upon youths by a profound knowledge of the literature of their

    mother tongue , we may expect some steady advance in the study , at homeat schooland

    \ j * , , at the university . Mr . Gosso has done excellent service to the

    cause of English literature . But no one can blame tlio reviewer for bringing his charges so

    sharply to the front . They will do good by I the interest they will awaken . Accuracy in

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    In Doxes De Morgan 7 The ' Author S Amus...

    scholarship is nearly smothered by the raj 1

    for hasty compilation . A few more articj such as Mr . Collins' would make us think

    the old Edinburgh and Quarterly days whJ the ink had more acid than it now has . — Fr |

    from personalities , nothing doss more <« A than pungent criticism . Under ito infiuencl

    the author becomes cautious and is pretty cJ tain to look twice before he takes his nel

    leap . I

    Booksellers' Provident Institution. At T...

    Booksellers' Provident Institution . At the usual monthly meeting of the Board

    directors held at 56 Old Bailey , on Thuisdal Oct . 21—presentthirteen directors ¦ —C . 1

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    members and widows of members . I The ' Coisttempoba ^ ry Review . ' —ReadJ

    of the current part will at once turn with intJ est to the article on ' The Future of Journl

    ism a a vftrv , ' by exalted exalted Mr . W . view view T . Stead oi of the the . The mission mission writer or of taJ m tl

    press of very human , more activity particularl . A y leader in the of greater the peop centJ l he lie says octves , , if i-i- a a juuiiiaxxoi journalist > , , needs nu ^ u . o a neck m . ^ - ^ ¦ - ^^ - capaWel ^^ w ^ —

    being minister stretched . 'At present quite as the much journalistic as if he is assunl ; . \> nm tion of uttering the opinion of the public I i

    in in most -rv- « i ^ ci + cases / -. oaoo a hollow T »/ - vllrk-M 7- fraud fr ^ lir ) . In IT ! the tllO case C ( l 3 G B most London , editors absolutely no attempt ! made ¦~ -. « . A ^ to 4- ^ ascertain ** r , ^ . ^ - ^ .-J- ^ -C » -. what -. TrV « rt 4- Demos TT ^ oTYTrka really TPn . llV tliin tlllllB

    club Opinions in are the exchanged drawing in the but office any , ml si

    those tematic LIlUHtJ , whom or W 11 attempt U 1 II lie he meets lllt to gauge UB there U 1 CX - ¦ room the C 10 is none i op ^" ; inion ¦ u . " As even fi > rl

    of opinion their of personal Londoners acquaintance outside the , that limited rema raj (>

    to London them everything an inscrutable l , of course XI mystery /~ kTir , is shrouded . koi L « ^ Ollfl ! denser j darkness j ^ How uj

    editors into even UltD the L 11 W even sheets Hll « ti look L » of Ul half their tllCli a . dozen provincial piwYii times many ^ - not m contcmi the yj ^—

    raries ? Yet not one of them will unm take to pronounce off-liand that imblif pubhe op ij

    will w insists ill not not on , tolerate t , ol that <> rji . .+, « And this this , , all or or the that tliat while pium * ^ -, Tl - m - as much about public opinion as of the p m

    imposture opinion of the should Grand cease Lama . ' T . hese It lS hh ^^ ^^ J m words from robust writer wm » ' m

    throug temporary contributions hout a sustain is very otherwise s its interest lied rich , . l > tlll y 9 * . , . , ) feaB ( J ) ^

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1886, page 1282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111886/page/4/