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    description of the Baron of Kelderby and Swaffham and his wife , who are in the act of discussing their son Nathanielthen on a

    visit to London . The mother , hopes the young man may have travelled by Kendalto see his cousin Anastasia De Bury , though she owns

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    another direction , in order to visit a fair Quakeress , Olivia Prideaux . The story has much to do with the family and fortunes of

    Olivia , who is a pure and charming girl and a striking contrast to Anastasia De bury , who is beautiful — — —^~ - ^ and - ^ _^_ > BrfB » cruel ^^ ^^ vv ^^ b ^ t v . p ¦ ^ Indeed ^ — ^ ^ -f ^^ ^^ V *" bj , one ^^ r 4 V 4 ^ ^ V could ^ b' ^"* ** " * ~ ^* " *» ^ hard B * " **¦ # *¦» ^»^ B * l 4 y T

    imagine a more heartless creature than Anastasia , with all her beauty . Her brother too , is an inhuman rascaland meets a well-deserved ¦

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    sombre and painful . The characters have each a distinct individuality , and the plot is managed with great skill . ' Friend Olivia' is , in our

    opinion , the best of Mrs . Barr ' s many good novels . From Messrs . GriffithFarranOkeden — & — ^^

    , , "Welsh . —* A Biography of Isaac Pitman , ' by Thomas Allen Keed , illustrated . From this volume we learn that Mr . Pitman was born at

    Trowbridofe , Wiltshire , on the 4 th of January , 1813 , so that the inventor of phonography is now almost an octogenarian . He left school

    at the early age of thirteen , but , being fond of reading , he kept up his acquaintance with books and probably x . t / read more before he was twenty r

    than if he had remained seven years longer under the ferule of the master . On leaving school he became — clerk ¦ in — — a - factory - % / ; but ,

    though he had to be at his desk at six o ' clock every morning , he was still devoted to literature , and perused Watts' ' Improvement of

    the Mind , ' * Lennie ' s Grammar' ( which gave him * a transparent English style' ) , with great delight . Later on he read the English classics ,

    and became a fast friend of honest Sir Roger and Will Honeycomb . At the same time he read Walker ' s Dictionary from cover to cover ,

    in order to get the correct pronunciation of words , extend bis vocabular 3 , and correct his errors in orthoepy . This proves that young \

    A , •/ A V Pitman was persevering , and not to be daunted by trifles , a circumstance which made him what he is . While reading and writing he was

    also studying phonography ; and , in 1837 , appeared his first work on that subject . It was published at the modest price of fourpence ,

    and JL did not cause a sensation JL . In two years only 8 , 000 copies were sold . But Pitman was a man with a purpose , and he stuck to his

    project . His project stuck to him , and both are now a success . From 1840 , although Mr . Pitman had many difficulties to encounter that

    would have turned a less resolute man aside , his career was a series of triumphs , and very interesting is the story that Mr . Reed has to

    tell of them . Shorthand is now a subject of I es universal ted in t stud he su b , ject and this to as biograp many h as y of are | its inte real r- 9 oiiginator will be welcome . The illustrations I

    add to the attractiveness of the book . , 1 From Mr . William Heinemann . —' Work while j |

    l a te Ha d from ve the the Lig Rus ht , ' sia n b Lyof E . Tolstoi J . Di | llon . . Tran Per » - - haps no living author has given rise to such \ ;

    varied _ ji and violent _ _ t a criticism __ * •_•___ as Tolstoi tr \ _ i a _ . To tms _ his i . i admirers he is a man of supreme genius , at on ^^ " ce " ^~ - ^ B- artist W « B » OBI * W BJT aod VV m * V »«¦« moral BJA ^ ^^ B > « , | B / b 1 ^ reformer ^^ ^ B > ^ B » •¦> WBal ~ ¦¦ ^ B * ¦» ; B . to ^ V his V- | BV W' detrac ¦*»¦«¦ ^^ V * BJB / ^^

    -tors he is a commonplace person who is not ; saved from dulness , even by persistent obscenity . We are not going to decide — between _ _ these _ __

    f C 7 O - two parties , but Mr . Edmund Goese , who has more courage , essays to be judge , and the sum- ming-up is all in favour of Tolstoi . The author

    of * War and Peace , ' according to Mr . Gosse , has his faults . He is not an impeccable art-st . He is careless , he imposes on his reader . ' His : aVi A — ^ ta . ^ k ^_ a ^ B . d

    lapse ^ s of memory , ' says Mr . Gosse , his ^ negligence , may account for the tedious and inter- ; treated minable . length There at are which some certain country episodes scenes are in ; ¦

    * Anna Karenina , ' in the course of which the ? author seems to have gone to sleep , and to be writing on automatically . Occasionally Tolstoi ' s

    love of what is real leads him to distinct puei- ; ility . Yet he is a noble genius , diiferent alto- : gether from the realist with whom he is some- ''

    distinguished times confounded . ' Work . ' He while is what Ye have they the are Lig not ht — / while « * -vj » - » b •» *»« far « . *^ w * b from j * . jv \/ , aa being *« r Th ^ . * . Mia the % tm » vs best w ^ *¦ that v * - ** LW we » » ^> have *^«*» w ^

    read of Tolstoi ' s work , will go far to support ¦ Mr . Gosse ' s verdict . To say the truth , the work ! as a whole is a trifle dull , but there are

    passages in it of great beauty and power , and such as only Tolstoi could have written . From Messrs . Houiston & Sons . —* Mormon

    Saints , ' by W . Herbert Thomas . Mr . Thomas is an American journalist who has had exceptional opportunities of studying Mormonism ,

    where Mormonism is to be studied to most advantage , to wit ., in Utah . He is a shrewd and impartial observerand sets down the result of

    , his observations in a style that is sparkling and attractive . He has no theories to enforce . He ' simply tells what he saw . Much of that is of ;

    considerable interest in the present juncture of affairs in the West , and those who care to 8 pe- J culate regarding the future of Mormonism will

    find Mr . Thomas a chronicler to be consulted . From Messrs . Hurst & Blackett , Limited . —

    This Kestell is a of well Greystone written , ' by and Esme very Stuart interesting . 3 vols . ,. ¦ storyand will , we thinkadd to the reputation

    • f , ' , M . of it 8 author . Mr . Kestell is a lawyer who owns some land in which there is a rich mine . He is extremely •/ benevolent' , and is especiall ML y

    kind to two young orphan children who live with I him . As these grow up , Jesse , the boy , being curious regarding matters of pedigree , tries to

    discover who or what his father was . He questions Mr . Kestell , but Mr . Kestell is reticent - ^^^ p - ^^^ BB ^ B ^ ^ B" . ^ Finall . ^ fe ^ Bl *^ *^ ^* r ^ " " ^ ~* y ^^ M ^ , H ^ however ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ B ^ ^^ ^ " , V the ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ boy ^~^ ^^ g succeeds ^^ ^^ ~^ V ¦¦ ~ " " mww in ^^ i . ^

    his plan of discovery , and then it is found that Mr . Kestell has all along been playing the part of a robber and hypocrite , though , singular to

    V A w ** Vf say , he is a most lovable old man - . The land and the rich mine really belong to Jesse him- I self ; the discovery causes a catastrophe , which I

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    Dec . i , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 1561 I

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 1, 1890, page 1561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01121890/page/13/