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    ments . It is written in an attractive style , marked by exceptional clearness ; and many of the charm descriptive . The book portions glows are with possessed animation of a from real

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    tions , and little dreams of the disastrous results of the alliance which she thus arranges . The __ . _ author _ ___ _ lets her ¦ off ¦ almost scot-free

    way , the — sli ^ ght ^^ v ^ penalty ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^_^ -- of «*« v disappointed ^ »^ * j *—r % / B ^^ y ¦ ^^ v- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ X expec ^ ; any ^^^ ^ * - tations is quite out of proportion to her wrongdoing . She trieshoweverto make atonement

    with her conscience , and , with one or ¦ two people whom her misguided , action injured . In her case the consequences of transgression

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    principal transgressor * is Bertie Lyall himself . He cannot love the wife with whom he is saddlednotwithstanding her amiable and

    estimable qualities , , and soon begins to chafe at the marriage tie , and to pass through rapidlysucceeding stages of the modern rake ' s -

    gress . The good in him every now and then pro struggles to assert itself , and he appears to ¦ possess ^ some ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ¦ of ^^ the ^^ w ^ >^ v V ^ talents ^ i' ^»^^ P ^ H ^^^ ^^^^ ^ V ^^ for < H ^ ^•^ ' ^ ^^ the ^ ktf ^ B ^^ ^«^ making ^ B >^ H » ^ b fl ^ - ^ ^^ H ^^ ^^ ^ h ^ B ^ pVh of ~ 1 ~ ^ BB ^ a fa" ^*

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    consistent . He commits bigamy and gross fraud ; and when on the point of absconding with his ill-gotten gains Bl his career f suddenl Bb ¦ y

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    midnight and is killed on the railroad . The virtuous and high-principled people in the novel are far more numerous than the *

    transgressors , ' and several good and brave women are depicted , who suffer for other people ' s sins , but contrive t to find happiness and 1 contentment B * «¦ / BkH # b

    ^~ ' ^^ ^ ^ ^ B , f * V ^ * B * ^^ »^ , * B ¦ JB , JB ^^ 1 B ^ k ^ V >¦ ^^ I » i f ff ^ B ^ JBi ^^ g B ~ , f Flf T ~ F ( B ^ B ^ ^^^ B ^ fT ^^ f B ^^ 0 bW tfV Vtf' * T ~ B « ^« in active occupation and devotion to duty ^ . From Messrs . Moffatt & Paige . — ' Twelve Years '

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    Examiof time and labour . The appendix , containing eoiswers in arithmetic , algebra , and mensuration , increases the usefulness of the work .

    From Messrs . S . W . Partridge A ? Co . —' Gold in Prophetic Mines / by Marturia . The author has

    I studied for many years the profound question

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    judgment with which the subject is handled . In the first part of the book th 6 writer discusses the " •* - ¦— ^ B ^ relation B ^ - ^^ ^ ^ H- ^ ^^ BB ^ b > ^ Bi ^ B * of 'B ^ BBk the ^ ^ B ^ ' ^ J- Apocal ^ B . Bl ¦ Bta ^ - ^^ ~| ~ B » B ^» ypse B ^^ - ^ B > ^ B » to ^ P' ^ B" prior B " ¦ " B ^ ^— " ^ F- — re — vela - — -

    tion , summarising the prophetical aspects of the Old Testament . He proceeds in the second part to interpret the Apocalypse in detailwhich

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    In Scottish Fields , ' by Hugh Haliburton . —This is a collection of papers reproduced from the Scotsman J % W W f W X «¦ Good i » B ^ - | B Words B « r H and Bh' ^ V the 1 Bl ' ^ P » Scots F" % ^ Observer B ¦ B .

    We ^ I * B ^ B think ^ m " ^ ^^^» , ^ they B ^ , > are ^ W ^ well *^ B ^ , ^ worth ^^ " ^ ' ^ B ^* " » r reprinting B ^ " - — - ^ - ^— ' ^ " — " » in a volume . They form a most interesting series of essay « B * II ' ^ S—** V »/ ¦ s * " * dealing ^*™* » B * ™^ " »^ BB »* ^ Jwith » ™ " •**•» " Scottish b * " «» ^^^ ~* ~* "" *^ " ~ - ^ "" life * * " ^~ ^^ and ^^ ^ ' character ^ , V

    but they are presented in such a way that the English reader need not be debarred from perusing m ^ V / A B _^ B ^^ « * b . « i ff ^ ¦¦ them B ^ J ^ b ~ b ^ AAAP . The B *^ B » B » « B # small *« # ¦ *^ B » BVJ proportion B ^ BB ^^ - »«¦ ^^ » - < *> " ^ ^^ of - ~ r Scot -- ^ - ' V - -

    tish expressiveness words and and phrase natural s , connection retained for , may their be found Bib \ J + ~ - lained Bl BBb % in Bl a short b glossary «¦& BB W - 'B- VP F at the end

    » B ^ r ^» "fc exp » b ^ B * V ^^ < ., «^ * B ^ ^^ W » A S > V "* ™ " ^ ' ^^ —* *» ^^ - » ^ ^ J — ~ " ^ of the book . These essaj's , in our view , are marked by freshness of treatment , and by commendable »^™» BbT discrimination l Bl Bf b « B » B > B ^ bB I 1 1 V W BB BBBB where _ - —— - — - _^ the - - author ¦ ¦ ¦ " b * ^ » HlTy ¦» b' B * j ^««* _«^ — ^* ^> . *> < -

    has to approach matter that is more or less controversial . He has rendered a signal service life by placing that mi on ght record have some been phases onlimperfectl of Scottish y

    BB bW B ^ " fc ^ ¦ " -Bk * l % *¦ * " b * F m * ¦ i ^ *** ^ Bi ~ —W—W ^^ »^^ ^^ ^* ""— " ^^ ~^ ~ y ¥ ^ ^ - - ^^ remembered , or , perhaps , forgotten altogether . This remark especially applies to his paper on « Whipp ¦ ¦ _/¦ ing the Cat' which BBB B laces ¦ -- before us in a

    realistic J J _»¦_! _ fc _ # -h - way h- « * B _ k *• M-Jk an ~ »^ V- * aspec -- » ' " •» , * - » t of — V - -. Scotch p | W — —— --- — - " rural life — with which only a few in these later times are acquainted mJV 4 m fe ^\_^ —Ml *^ " * ¦ —» » % Vrf ~ B ^ *—*» . « bb His ^ Bi Bib * essays ~ b * r ^ iB * "ta ^ —^—F F - *^ on ~ W —• * the -w ^ - ^ » ' Hol " " " y f Fair — , '

    The Revolution in the Rural Districts , ' and those papers dealing with several aspects in the life of Burns , the poet , are all excellent in their

    way wnv ; and nnrl thpt the volume vnlumft closes r . lnses with with a a caref caret ul ul study studv of William Dunbar , whom the writer calls 'Our Earlier Burns . ' There is much in this

    lastmentioned essay that will repay perusal . We can frankly say that we have not for a long time read p | ^ # \ s % - * . ^ s % a ^ V book **^ ^ -J ^ ' b *»¦* that % J m m b ^ BbT *^ gave ¦** % — - ' —• ^^ us ^*~ " ' at " *¦ - — once ~ — " ^— ^ so — ' much " — -.

    —genuine pleasure and sound information . It is a work possessing the somewhat rare element of permanence in these days .

    From Messrs . Perrin & Co ., Paris . — ' Less evolutions de la critique francaise , ' par Ernest TissotM . Tissot divides Frencli criticism

    . into three classes , the literary , the moral , and the analytical . Literary criticism is again divided into throe periods , the seventeenth

    century , the eighteenth , and that of the present day literary . The criticism representatives and selected b of y M contemporary . Tissot are

    MM AT i \ T . Bruneti l * riinf » ti < ^ re n ; inrl Lemaitre Lomaitre , . of of whose whose method method moral he B JJ J ^ m J g ^^^ 0 i ves ^ criticism ^ , * Bk flBj anal ^ BB ^*^ " 1 ^ ^ ytical -.- ^ r ^ we v , ^ v ^ find . — n studies ¦ -- ~ - i the — . names — — - — Under — — of - ~ - - MM the . head Barbey of j _ — ¦¦ b ~ . ^~ Bk ^^ r ^^ nft

    D'Aurevilly and Edmond Scherer * . Under analytical Paul Bourget criticism and ¦ Emile we - have W Hennequin B studios in of their - MM ~ .

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    seen in his celebrated novel' Andre Corn 6 Hs . ' In his prefatory words M . Tissot dwells on the prominence of the fact that pure imagination

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    wane in proportion as the spirit of analysis has = 7 «!

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    June 2 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 705 —

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/17/