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    June 2,1890 The Publishers' Circular 693

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    June 2, 1890. "I Ta"Ny Great — And Unexp...

    Longman , a youth from Bristol , was app renticed to Mr . John Osborn , bookseller , of

    Lombard . M . Street , E . C . He served seven years , and at the end of that time married his

    master ' s daughter , and in 1724 established himself at the ' Ship and Black Swan , ' in

    Paternoster Row . Shortly afterwards Mr . Osborn followed his son-in-law to the Row ,

    and remained in partnership with him for the rest of his life . In due course Thomas

    Longman took into partnership his nephew , and for many years the title-pages of their books ran :

    * Printed for T . and T . Longman , at the Ship , in Paternoster Row / The subsequent history

    of the world-renowned firm which now becomes the oldest in the trade cannot , of course , be

    indicated even in outline in this column . Amongst the famous names , however , which

    immediately suggest themselves when we think of the 'Sign of the Ship , ' are those

    of Samuel Johnson , Coleridge , Southey , Wordsworth , Scott , Moore , Brougham ,

    Sydney Smith , and Lord Macaulay , to mention almost at random a few of the

    celebrities of the past . The members of the great firm in Paternoster Row have always

    proved themselves munificent friends of the various institutions which exist for the benefit

    of 'distressed authors' and worn-out printers , whilst in other directions they have ever

    taken a foremost part in every movement which seemed at all likely to uplift the

    character or to widen the influence of the entire trade . As to the relationships of Messrs .

    Longmans & Co . with other than ' distressed authors' perhaps it is enough to quote the

    following passage written just fifty years ago by Tom Moore in ft is Diary : ' I will venture

    to say that there are few tributes from authors to publishers more honourable or more

    deserved than those which will be found among my papers relative to the transactions for

    many years between myself and my friends of

    the Row . '

    June 2,1890 The Publishers' Circular 693

    June 2 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 693

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    JLJKJVJ l \& s Mr . F . Marion Crawford ' s next novel will

    l > o named A Cigarette-Maker ' s Romance / ? # jt # J

    * The title of Mr . W . E . Norris ' s new novel , which Mr . Spencer Blackett will publishis

    ' The Battled Conspirators . ' , #

    # # Mr . R . W , Lowe is preparing the next volume in the ' Eminent Actors ' series . His

    subject will be Thomas Betterton . ' } ¦ 1 - ¦ - . 1 ..

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    Mr . It William is reported Morris that , are Mr preparing . Belfort a Bax compre , and

    hensive history of Socialism . * Messrs . Cassell & Co . are about to issue a

    selection from the poetical works of Aubrey de Vere , prepared by Mr # . John Dennis .

    # We are informed that * Dr . H . O . Sommer has prepared a reprint of ' The ¦ Kalendar « % > v of

    ^ t m— ~ — ~* — — — r- — - — — ^ - ~ " —¦¦ " ¦ ^^ - ^ m ^^ m ^^ te ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ Shepheardes ^ , ' well known in connection with Spenser and his poetry .

    * * It is stated that the autobiography of Sir Henry Parkesthe Premier of New South

    Wales , has been , placed in the hands of Messrs . Kegan Paul & Co . for publication .

    # * Mr . T . Fisher Unwin has issued ' The English Novel in the Time of Shakspeare , ' by

    M . J . J . Jusserand , author of * English Wayfaring Life . '

    # ? # The Rev . Henry Latham , the Master of Trinity •/ Hall , has p xrepa x red a work

    entitled' Pastor Pastoruin ; or , the Schooling of the Apostles of our Lord . ' ##

    * * The ' History of Plymouth / published in 1832 is being revised by the authorMr .

    Worth , and willwe understandcontain , a great deal , of fresh , matter of considerable ,

    interest . # The next volume of Professor Henry

    Morley ' s 'Carisbrooke Library' will be 'Ireland under Elizabeth and James . ' It will be

    published by Messrs . Routledge and Sons , on July 25 . #

    . 14 . JA , # * It is announced that Mr . Rudyard Kipling has nearly finished a new novelbut

    intends « w > first to % f publish a volume of , short stories entitled 'The Book of Forty-Five

    Mornings . ' # # * *

    Mr . Joseph Forster has in the press a volume entitled * Four Great Teachers . ' The

    book , we understand , is made up of critical essays f on Carly le , Emerson , Browning O , andt

    Ruskin . Mr . George Allen will publish it .

    Messrs . Sothemn it Co . are ottering just now for salo a fine copy of the rare first folio edition of * Mr . VV illiam Shakespeare ' s

    Comedies , Histories , and Tragedies , ' printed by Isaac laggard & Eel . Blount in 1023 . it

    # # An interesting contribution to literature i » about to be issued at Stockholmnamelythe

    works of the King of Sweden , in isovera , l volumes . TJ 10 work is made up of poems ,

    translations , essays , and speeches . * ¦ # #

    Mr . T . Fisher Unwin is publishing in a volume the various papers written by Mr . Edmund Gosse on Robert Browning . The

    book will bear the title of 4 Personalia . ' Browning ' s portrait will form a frontispiece .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 693, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/5/