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    Nov. i, 1890 The Publishers' Circular I4...

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    of merit , let us add that the little book enforces many truths in a simple and highly interesting

    wanner . From ___ _____ __ Messrs - — - . — Hurs ______ t & Blaokett — __ _______ — - _ _ . Limited -. - _ - _ -- _ - — — . - —* The — — - ^^ ^ , . * Pfc m V P ^ PPWlh . I ^ Pl A A « MP *** B » Pfe ^ b < PK PK - . _~

    Last of the Fenwickes / by Helen Shipton . 3 vols . Miss (?) Shipton has written an agreeable book ¦— — - without any consp icuous fault , if also

    without any extraordinary merit . Alwyn Craufurd , Mr . Beresford ' s step-son , falls in love with Isabel Fenwicke , the last of a family that

    has descended financially and morally almost as low as it is possible to descend , and is shunned by all with a decent regard for themselves .

    Isabel , however , is different from those who have gone before her , and is as good as they are bad . The Beresfords object to Alwyn's

    choice , and hence much trouble and many difficulties . Isabel bears herself bravely through it all , and at last the course of true love does

    run smooth . The plot is skilfully managed , and on the whole the book leaves a pleasant taste on the palate .

    From Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston , Searle & Rivington , Limited . — ' Recollections of My Childhood ' s Days _ _ p ' by Louisa ___ .. _ M . __ . Alcott __ . __

    ^ j ^ j , — ^ _ — — — — — — — — Nothing that the gifted authoress of ' Little Women' ever wrote was uninteresting , and this graceful and delicate sketch of her . early days

    is certainly not the least attractive of her many works . Besides the autobiographical sketch the volume contains some seven or eight other

    pieces suited for juvenile reading , all written with Miss Alcott ' s characteristic charm of style and displaying not a little of her fine gift of

    humour . v C _ J tJ From the same—' Memorials of William

    Mul-_ L' J . VSJ-U \ Jll \ j CCUA-lV- ' . . HJLV / J-UWlia-J- ) XIM . TT AX _ IXC * 1--JL IUU 1-Artists ready , ' R Seri . A . / es b . ) y Frederic Mr . Step G hens . Stephens compares ( ' G Mul reat

    ready and Wilkie , and is of opinion that the former shows himself the greater artist of the two . We do not know whether this view would

    be sustained in a court of criticism , but it must be admitted that Mr . Stephens , as pleader , makes out a very fair ~ — case _ _ _ _ _ . To say - ^ that

    -Mulready had higher . qualities as an artist than Wflkie is , of course , to say that he was a man of rare genius c _ j , and such we think he was . His

    achievements speak for themselves , and may be of studied critic and or jud biograp ged independently her . The closer of the the op stud inion y ,

    the and greater the more , we unanimous believe , will will be the be ad the miration verdict , that __ ___ Mr . _ — . Step __ - ___ . __ . — — hens — ___ — ___ . has ^ , — written _ — — — _ _ . ^^— not — . — _ merel — —^_ . . — y a _ , __

    readable and sympathetic biograp , hy , but one showing ready ' s position discrimination is clearly and defined insight and . Mul con - -

    vincing — ^ w - — M reasons ^^ ^— ^^ — ^^ are ^^ g ^^ iven __ v for ^^ — eve ^^ , ry opinion ^^ ^ " ^ ^^ expressed . A score of illustrations add at once to ¦¦ the attractiveness wj ¦ h —t * phi - ^* r and ~»* «/ value t of the w book » .

    — — —— w vwp w m ^ p ™ ^ m " ^^ ^ % ^ p w ~» ——* ' 11 —¦ w nj «^ pr pp . ^» - " > -vw— - ^^ ^—q —pmk—« - ——» ^* - ^^ " - optpph > pr ^^ From Messrs . Macmillan & Oo . —* Landmarks of Homeric Study , ' by the Right Hon . W . E .

    Gladstone Gladstone . ' s love It of speaks literature volumes that in the for midst Mr . of his — —¦ ™~ » manifold —™~™ - ™™ wh —**—¦ n * —»» ^ a ^ w pp . political B ^ "WF ^ rfpp ^ * PJ ^^ ¦ " * ^^ w ^ v am wp avocations ^ v w " ^_^ ^ pF ~™ " ^» v * P * ^ h ^ M pWi Pj ^ p" , *¦ ™ and . *™ p »* Pfc ^ P I ^^** after vp ^ v pVt « " ** Vvr Jkk

    sixty years spent in the public service , he should and publish a great a study literary of epoch a great , evincing literary such character fresh- ,

    enthusiasm ness of interest combined , such youthful however ardour with ri and accomplished , scholarsh , ip , as the , work before pe

    us . Mr . Gladstone ' s devotion to Homer has reflect long honour been known on the , public and his life Homeric of our country studies .

    They show that our statesmen still have

    , sympathies outside the ballot-box , and are not 6 " i

    *> . * ' ' ' wholly Macaulay engrossed hoped that with the the youthful caucus . author Long ago of [

    * Church and State' would not suffer politics so entirely to occupy him as to leave him no leisure for literature and philosophy . When he

    is fourscore we are able to congratulate ourselves that Macaulay ' s hope has been at least partially ^¦^ . r ^ . ^^ . F ^^^ ^^ ^^ v- ^ f ~^> ¦ ^^^ ^_^ F fulfilled ^^^^ * ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ " ^~^^~ , ^ v and ^¦^ 'B' ^^^^^ ^^^^^ that ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ v ^ v after ^^ ' ^^ ^^^ ^ v ^ . ^^ ^^ v engaging ^ . ^ r ^^ b ^^ ^ P ^^ B ^^^^ ^ r ^^ H ^^^^^^^^^^ r ^^ k in ^^^ ^^ " . ^

    many fierce political conflicts and sharing the highest political honours , Mr . Gladstone still remains a devoted student of literature . In

    the work before us there is no perceptible diminution of fervour , no falling off in that eager interest in the productions of genius

    which has ever distinguished the ex-Premier . Nor in the present instance is the subject treated in a less scholarly fashion than in the ' Studies '

    published more than thirty years ago . Beginning with a general consideration of ' The Homeric nomenc Question question ,, ' ' Mr Mr . . Gladstone uiaastone proceeds proceeds to to

    discuss Homer as Nation Maker / ' Homer as Religion Maker / ' Rudiments of Ethics / Rudiments of Politics / « Plot of the Iliad /

    and' The Geography of the Poems / and ends with an ' Essay on the Points of Contact between the Assyrian Tablets and the Homeric

    Text . ' We have not space to follow Mr . Gladstone from point to point of his interesting and valuable dissertationand must content

    ourselves with saying that , all his other labours , which would themselves overwhelm most men , have not prevented him from making himself

    acquainted with the most recent researches affecting Homeric questions and the latest results of scholarship . To students , we conceive ,

    the book will have an especial value . From the same . —' Leaders in the Northern Church — _ _ w / by _^ the _ late __ Josep — — ^__ h — Barber _ — Li — g ^ j htfoot _ _ ,

    D . D ., & c , Lord Bishop of Durham . For many years—we are told in a prefatory note—it had been Bishop Lightfoot ' s intention to

    publish some time or other a volume of sermons bearing upon the history of the Diocese of Durham , and the present volume is made up

    of as many as were written of the proposed series . Bishop Lightfoot ' s name on the titlepage is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence

    of the contents . From the same . — ' Wild Beasts and their Ways :

    America Reminiscences / bSir of Samuel Europe W , . Asia Baker , Africa illustrated , and by Harry y Dixon . 2 vols . A , daring and

    accomplished sportsman , with an experience that covers the four great divisions of the earth , Sir Samuel W . Baker has in these two handsome

    volumes told stories of wild beasts and their ways that are more enthralling than most works - _ of imagO ination . It is hard to imagKJine

    an adventure with wild beasts and big game that Sir Samuel has not had , and as he is now a veteian with the pen as well as with the gun ,

    his descriptions are full of the true spirit of sport His . IVfe—JH ^ 0 ft W ^^ range * X , VW Pbn and f ^ ^ " in * " * PV make ^ awj these —A * *• ^ ^ B *~ » ' —¦ | | the ~ two W W ¦¦ ^ W blood volumes W ~) t ~ ~ m « V »« leap VMB > « T W * W is *~~ —* as ' practicall U ^^ ^ we ^ ^^ read y _ tV .

    as wide as that of Nature herself . The elephant , hi the ppopotamus PHV PH ^^ lion PW -nr , the Pf hi i rr —¦ tiger the w i- ^ , the rhinoceros H m- leopard -mP ~ H , the the boar bear , the the ^

    man p hyaena . * w pH ^^» more , the ^^ ^«~™» ••*—» crocodile are —^ , described ^ v *^ , ^_ , the ^~ n ^ — — deer in —^* p » ^™ their *^ . , , the ~—^ native " wap .... iti state , , _ and . , ^ ¦¦ and Ppipi ^ P / 4 P ^ ^ P ^ W y most P ^™^ flPJ * ^ W ^ ~^^^ ^^^ of ^ P ^ PF fPi ^ PJ the ^ P ^ ^ PPPPV ^ P | p ^ hunting p 1 P > ^^ ^ v ^ . ¦« . pal ^ pr p ^^ B ^ w'v ^ pKm incidents ppi * pbv ^ i ^ i ^ m ^ ^^ ™ ~— ¦¦ ^~ — ' ^^ are ~ - - ~ — —~ extra - - — - - ~ ;

    ordinarily vivid and realistic . To a boy with a taste for adventure and natural history we can imagine no more acceptable present than 8 ir Samuel ¦ w ppB ^ piH ^ Baker ' s account ¦—• of his --- travels - 7-- - ~~ - - and —¦— r ¦

    adventures | f ^^^ v _ . . ^ " ^» " ^ PPP' PP "" P ^ P ^^^^ ^ PP *^ . ^ in ^ ^ ^ _ " ^^ TP ^^ P . man ^ W ^^ ^^ y ^ ppv ^ ppv lands _ ~ mmw ^ " ^^ —~ — _ ^ . ^^ - ^ - ^ It ___ - should H — « K PPPb — be MM — added PPPfe « P — * k ^ . tal that the illustrations are admirable . , jQ 0 Si

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1890, page 1423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111890/page/23/