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    «A The Publishers' Circular P '"I Z , **...

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    Catalogues received from Messrs.

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    Books Received :

    permission the the Rev Right . Frederick Rev from . the the Burn Lord ' Theop Har Bishop hilus v Ang of M Li . licanus A n . coln Those , ' b of y ey ,

    who are engaged in the iustruction of the young on Chnrch of England principles will welcome well this - popular known adaptation work , as affording from Bishop a supp Wordsworth lement to ' s

    Church f ! lmTi » h Catechism n « t . pr » Viism . It Tt gives mves , . in in catechetical catechetical form iorm ,. full information on all points connected with thfi Church , her authority , and ministry , and adds

    some definitions of tenets of the chief nonconforming for the use bodies of sen . The ior scholars manual is in intended Sunday not schools only

    , but for pupil teachers and for adult classes A somewhat similar work , but in a smaller compass , is published in the Scottish Episcopal Church with

    the sanction of the Bishops , but this is the first work of the kind for the Established Church of England , which has come before us /¦

    From Messrs . W . Swan , Sonnenschein , & Allen . ' Primer of the Industrial Geography of Great

    Britain RrifAin and and Irela Ireland nd , . ' bv by Cx G . . Phillips PhilliDS Bevan 15 evan ., F . G . S ., E . S . S . Tho importance of ' Embodying into ocr educational system some acquaintance

    with the industrial condition of the countries of the world in these days of technical activity , ' is assigned in the preface as the raison d ' etre of

    this new series of primers . Tho work before us is admirably compact and handy , and appended to ^^ - ^^ p the ^ ^ h ^ B - * -tj chapters ^^ * * ^ » H ^ F *^ ^ " ^ « fc ~ n r on ^^^ ^¦¦^» the ^ ¦ » ¦ ^ ^ ^^ various " ^ ^ w ¦ — ^^ ^ - ^ ~ industries - ^ — ~ r — — ~ — — ~ and — — — ¦ ' ^ their " ¦ - — ^ ^ " ^

    homes is a ' Lesson Table of Industries ' arranged under the various counties , showing the special industries of all the chief towns .

    From Mr . James Thornton ( of Oxford ) . —* Questions and Exercises in Political Economy'

    ar-, ranged and edited by Wolseley P . Emerton , M . A ., B . C . L ., Christ Church , Oxford . , The growing

    importance assigned to political economy in the universities , and the popular interest excited in ¦ the subject b i the lectures delivered under the

    aus ^^^ ^^^» ^^^ p ^^^ ices ^^*^^ *«^ H ^^ ^|^ of ^^ " the y ^^ ^^ ^— University ^—^ ' ^^ ^^ ^ ^ — Education Extension Scheme , have made an opening for manuals of the science to which this volume will form a useful

    complement . The questions given in its pages have for the most part been actually set in University gf examinations i and thus the book - has - - - a

    practical v - ^^^ ^^^ p ^^ ^^^ _ ^^ value ^^ r ^ r - ^^^ —^ - for ^— — —r - undergraduates — - — , — — as well as for students generally . Each question is followed either by a direct answerwith the name of the

    author from whose work , it is takenor ba reference to one of the text-books named , in y the opening pagesin which a reply can ¦ be found ¦ .

    The —* r B . r ^^^ ^ " ^^^^ ^ manual ^^^^ ^ r ^^ B M ^ ^^^^ ^ r ^ u ^^ is , ^^ ^^ thus in effect . ^ L . ^^ f an exhausti — ^^ ^ ' ve > ^^ ^ catechism , with the additional advantage that as it does not tell tho student everything , it must

    stimulate research . The chief authors referred to and quoted are Adam Smith , Ricardo , J . S . MillFawcettThorold RogereBonamy Price

    Travers , Twiss , , and Macleod . , , From Messrs . Ward , I * ock , & , Co . — ' Intoxicating

    Kirton Brinks , : thei LL . r D History . Althoug and h M this ystery work / by is J . not W . necessarily to be considered as a contribution to

    the literature of teetotal ism , its author makes no secret of his conviction that temperance is the great need of the English nation , and especially

    of the working classes . He shows in a series of the interesting chief intoxicants chapters , what and are their the influence constituents of those who drink them ; and the moral of upon his

    work ifl , that the Government and the nation unrestricted ought to combine li to traffic put . an end to the present quor

    Fr Book om Messrs of Facts . Ward in Science , Lock and , & the Co Arts . * ' Th J \ V a ? James Mason . The year covered in the !?

    r lume October is from 1879 the , 1 and 5 th of the October work , printed 1878 to DrJJ in tlfi doS J ^ column piled t ) iled . . , Jt It seems is is classifi classified to have ed nndpr under been very a a variety rQ carefully ^ u of .,. head ?*

    inventions and embrace there ail is and an forms index improvements of to natural the subjects in science industrial treated and ' recent Jjf \

    pations . occ ^ J From Mr . Effingham Wilson . — 'A Trftat ^

    the Coins of the Realm , in a Letter to the ; Kin !! by Charles , First Earl of Liverpool -- ' This

    was Chancellor , we learn ^ of the fro Exchequer m a prefatory from r— Messrs letter - ^ "w reprint ifpnni to Biivk the

    published & Grenfell , in Governors order to of supp the , ly Bank information of England not

    ¦ onl ^^ ^^^ y ^ K ^ h in * a _ reference _ a ¦ ^^ ^ k ^^ ^^ B ^ b Mh ^^ ^ V to ^ k ^^ metallic ^^^ h ^» ^^ ^ h ^^ I _ circulation . bat a also as a » to lu the Lue abuses auuees of oi which wuicn me the issue issue , of mm

    money is susceptible . In an introduction to paper the volume hbrief from biograp the pens hical of the sketch sKetc same of gentlemen we

    uuave , ve a a uun uiugrapuicm n oi the the author author by Lord Liverpool , and it appears that in this into into work the tne we sub have ect the of oi results of his investigations

    while member suDjjecu of the coinage coinage Committee and ana currency currency of Counci made m l *< on \ * Coins appointed ___ in _ 1798 — and __ of v the i Select % / Com

    mittee 4 obstructions J which ^^ 9 / took the reports w up ^ W ~ , — its of "" — . work . these ~ — v « » - » * r . * ' r ¦** > s-r committees VV Owing AWU * UIUlbVUVS Will to

    wer an illness e never of printed four , and Lord Liverpool ied his , time during in writing the present w years ork . , occup The book is thorough

    and exhaustive , and as a proof of the soundness of Lord that the Liverpool present ' s views Mint regulations on the subject are , in we exact find

    conformity with his suggestions , and that the existing laws limiting the issue of bank notes were devised to remedthe evils to which he

    called public attention y in his remarks on paper currency . Historically the book is of value , as presenting a complete record of the changes in

    our coins since 1760 , and also as offering a trustworthy and compendious summary of the views of the chief authorities on coinage and currency

    among whom the author eminently deserved to ,

    bo reckoned .

    «A The Publishers' Circular P '"I Z , **...

    « The Publishers' Circular P '"I Z , ** - vi $

    Catalogues Received From Messrs.

    Catalogues received from Messrs .

    Baer Hexen TTp . TP & Co , und i / , ru ., in Zauberwitsenschaft 7 Frankfurt . a > u . hp'mivijifum . a . M > . h . . ; Alch Medicm Hfp ymie . dicin , Ma iw iw gje « " ** ,

    cellanea ( magic , witches , medicine , , miscella , - neous ) , 3 parts .

    Friedlander Zool . — Reptilia — M — & Soh — , 9 Amp n , in hib ^^ Berlin ^^ ^ ia ^ , 9 & ^^^ ^^ , c ^ N , ^ f . W 2 part ^ L . ; Miscellanea *; Natunu ;

    novitates t new part . Harrassowitz geschkhte , Bib ( P . liograp ) , in Lei hic pzig , Buchhandd ; Knnst , LUeratur ( art , nt «* '

    rary history , bibliography , bookselling ) . Kaeseberg rusaisoher Sprac Oelsner he ( second , in -hand Leipzi Kussian g ; W * booWf r * . ?

    Ki 3 rch parts hoff & ; W tftaafc igand , und in Lei KameralwiamtcW pzig ; Jurupnd * ^ -

    IAt & ra ' rgeachichte , Bilcherkunde , schone Kun »«» Baukunst -- --- — -w , ^ p & i ^ ^ c ^ v , ^ B » 2 ^^^ parts ^ PW ^ ^ " ¦ ^^ F ^ ^ »^ r ^ m . ^ m

    Kohler ( K . F . ) . in Leipzig ; Numismatic ( secondhand , on coins ) .

    Kuh Literarieoh l ( W . H en . ) ffinterlaasenschqft Niederwallstrasse Hnes , B er amt lin ; * w

    part II ; from ifhe library of a collector . , ^ j

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 2, 1880, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02021880/page/12/