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    Boo (I F And X^Umoui^ Of

    ' The Life , Letters , and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnesfirst Lord

    Houghton , ' by T . Wemyss Reid , , will be published by Messrs . Cassell & Co # . early next month .

    * * Mr . George C ? Clinch , author of ' Bloomsbury v

    and St . Giles ' s , ' has in the press a history of Marylebone and St . Pancras . The book is illustratedand will be published early next

    month by , Messrs . Truslove X & Shirley . ? # *

    Messrs . G . P . Pufcaam ' s Sons are making a welcome addition to their excellent ' Heroes

    of the Nations Series' in Mr . H . Fox Bourne ' s * Sir Philip J . Sidney «/ : Type */ JL of Eng t _> lish Chivalry «/

    in the Elizabethan Age . ' * JL . 4 k

    * * Messrs . Sampson Low , Mars ton & Co . will publish in the course of a week or ten days a

    translation , by J . Bentall Endean , of 'The Care of the Sick at Home and in the Hospital , '

    a work by Dr . Billroth , the German surgeon . * Maj Tlit \^ - ! ~_ XT' T > Wingate XX 7 Z ~ , * of « * the « T Royal > - ~ 7 Artillery A ^ . l' 11 ^^ .

    has written or F . a R book . on the , rise and progress of , Mahdismwhich Messrs . Macmillan & Co . will

    publish . , Major Wingate , we understand , is now serving with the Egyptian Army .

    # f ' Impressions and Opinions ' is the title of

    a work by Mr . George Moore X which Mr . Nutt will publish early next year . The book will

    be made ; up of essays that have already appeared in the magazines and reviews .

    ? Mr . Tom Smith , jtf oint author of a history */

    church of Ribchester of Preston , is writing . The a work volume on the which parish is

    , based 1 1 mainl * i y upon the 1 ^ registers s i and the ¦ t church i ^ - wardens' accounts , will contain a map X , p lans ,

    and other illustrations . *

    Lockhart T 11 | 1 ' s ' Life T r of Robert T > 1 1 Burns 1 "i t ' will -11 form /• the next volume of Messrs . WardLock & Co . ' s ,

    ' Minerva Library of Famous Books . ' The work will contain important additions by Mr .

    John H . Ingram , besides the essays of Carlyle and Wilson on Burns . *

    Mr - |» «• . E -m . Sidney t- \ ' 1 Hartland tt 11 i ? ' s 1 ' Science c * i of Folk 4 Contemporary Lore' will Science shortly Series be added ' published to the by

    JL . «/ JL Mr . Walter Scott . As Mr . Hartland has long ^ been a close student of folk-lore , the volume

    ougfyt to be interesting . ' # * * *

    Messrs . Seeley & Co . have in hand a series of books which ought . to prove at once

    popular- and useful . The series is to be - ' called ' Events of Our Own Time , ' and the

    first volume will be a concise history of the Crimean War , by Sir Edward Hamley .

    * * * Mr . Lewis Morris has in the a new

    poent somewhat similar in style to press ' The Epic of Hades . ' It ia entitled * A Vision of Saints /

    the tne and present present will be montn month published by oy Messrs iviessrs during . . the ivegan Kesran course ram PauL of

    TrenchTriibner & Co . , , # #

    * Professor Dalton , the ' Channel Hero , ' has just completed a manual on ' The Art of

    ox Swimming , ' which will be published immediately «/ by Messrs . Dean & Son . The treatise

    sea contains -bathing v observations , river swimming on the , training saving , of & c . life ,

    # * New additions to Messrs . Dean & Son ' s

    series of 'Plays for Young Actors' consist of ' Jack ' s Ashore' by Miss Maud Hodges

    and ' Sir Rupert and , Cecily ; or , The Young , Cavalier , ' by Miss Amy Whinyates , which will

    contain two illustrations by R . Andre * . # # **

    The latest announcement for the ' Social Science Series ' ( Sonnenschein ) is a volume on

    ' The Principles of State Interference /¦ , ' by Mr . D . G . Ritchie , of Jesus College , Oxford .

    It deals with the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer , J . S . Mill , and T , H .

    Green . # # #

    Further reminiscences of the Emperor — Frederick arewe learn about to appear in

    print . The writer , i 3 Professor , Shellbach xx , who was teachtr of mathematics and p hysics «/ to the

    late Emperor . As he was on intimate terms with the Prince to the last , the book ought to

    be exceedingly interesting # reading . #

    Messrs . Macmillan & Co . purpose bringing out a work on ' Natural History' which will

    probably extend to eight volumes . It will be under the general ( -J editorship of Dr . J . W .

    ments Clark , of will Cambri be under dge , and the the care different of specialists x depart- .

    The work will be lavishly illustrated . * 1 The Partition of # Africa # ' is the title of a

    small volume by Mr . J . Scott Keltie , which will be issued shortly by Mr . Stanford . Mr .

    Keltie confines himself mostly to what has been done in Africa during the past six years .

    The sketch introduction of African , ho loration wever , from gives the a earliest rapid exp

    times . # *

    Messrs . Macmillan & Co . will publish shortly a selection from the correspondence of

    Mr volume . Smalley will be for entitled the New ' London York Triburw Letters . The and

    most Some brillian Others . t ' of As London Mr . Smalley correspondents ia one of the the

    book may be expected to be entertaining , reading .

    # # Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Co . will publish Keatley next Moore January and a Mme translation Michaelis by Mrs of .

    . their Froebel edition ' s ' Letters of his / forming ' Autobiograp an appendix hy . ' The to

    the letters Kindergarten are of special system interest in its , actual as showing course

    of formation and development . . ! ' ¦ ¦¦ ~

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    1408 The Publishers' Circular Nov . 1 , 18 90

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1890, page 1408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111890/page/6/