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    The Religious Tract Society's J 3 o ?/' s Ottm Paper and GirVs Own Paper begin new volumes

    with the November part , which has just appeared .

    The new part of the beautiful Magazine of Art begins a new volume this month .

    Messrs . Virtue & Co . have added to their successes by the fine appearance of this year ' s

    ''Art Art Annual Annual , ' which whinh is is devoted rlfivniRfi to to Mr lYTr . Alma Alma Tadema , his life and works . Mrs . Helen Zimmern supplies the text . The illustrations

    and literary matter are all that could be desired .

    The edition of the November Century , which contains the first chapters of the

    authorised Life of Lincoln , and the opening of Frank R . Stockton ' s new novel' The

    Hundredth Man / will be a quarter , - of a million copies .

    Mr . Cundall ' s 'Anaals of the Life of Shakespeare' is a very handsome volume ,

    well printed , well illustrated , and well bound . The author is to be complimented upon the

    care which he has bestowed upon the compilation of this very acceptable volume .

    Miss Braddon ' s Christmas Number , 6 The Misletoe Bough / has now been published by

    Messrs . Maxwell . ' The Anniversary Book , ' a record of eventswith practical suggestions as to its use

    by E . M , . M ., is announced by Messrs . George , Waterston & Sons , Edinburgh and London .

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    entitled ' The Origin of Mountain Ranges . ' Mr . T . Fisher Unwin has now issued a

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    which throw interesting light on the manners and 4 customs of the middle ages . * Melusine , '

    Robert the Devyll / and ' Howleglas' are among the romances included .

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    Austria has not yet signed the Berne convention __ _ — for the _ jprotection ^ of Literary Copy a . v-

    right . Her reasons for drawing hack are two : Firstly M ^ ^ L » J ^ bJJL y A , that ^^ J . bL \ JV ^ J the ^ J A JL ^^ y literary ¦» * - ^* ^^ ** fL * " /« W W ¦¦ convention ^ - / V ^ b % ^^ ¥ ^^ ^*^ ^ ^• ' h ^* between " ^ ^^

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    the author of ' La Vie de Je ' sus' we are , are the result of M . Renan ' s , leisure hours , lifework

    and are not to be considered as his -. accept We the are verdict glad of to some learn published this ; for criticisms , if IllU iuuw we ,

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1886, page 1286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111886/page/8/