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* Notes on the Churches of Lancashire and Cheshire _^ , -mvr — — ¦— / made — about ____ _ fift . _ y years _ _ . . __ ago ^_ — b , __ - y the __ __ _
late details ^ v Sir concerning — Step y hen - R the . Gl architectural ynne . The features book g ives of
down many ch during urches the which last have half been -century either , or pulled comp * letely altered rr «« by the process known a w ' as __ ¦•« ¦ _
restoration . The original manuscript belongs to the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , who has catio placed n b it y in the Canon Chetham Atkinson Society 's hands . for
publi-# # Admirers in this country , and their name is legionof genial great-hearted Oliver Wendell
Holmes < J , , will V _ - » read «—9 this scrap from one of his recent letters to a personal friend with sympathy as well as interest : — ' 1 am writing
this with my own hand , but I expect before very long to put most of my correspondence in the hands of my secretary , as I feel myself
utterly unable to answer the letters and read the books sent me . I may find it necessary to gC ive up A all correspondence J . , except * ¦ with a few
old friends ; and I am preparing my distant re friends lation , with to expect whom no I have reply not to been their in letters close
which come , down upon me daily like an , avalanche . My sight is getting imperfect , and the fatigue of writing is wearing upon me ;
and , altho tJ ugh it will cos t _ J t me an *_/ effor -L . t , I feel ' that , in justice to myself , I must throw off the
load , which at " threescore and twenty " is too much for my old shoulders # . '
* * A taste for rare books is apt occasionally to land a man in rare trouble . A young man
named Albert Sutton has just come to grief in Paris through his devotion to literature . It seems that he was in the habit of visiting
the National Library of that city , and in process of time he became quite enamoured with some of the chief literary attractions of the
books place . In t wise fact l he Ibved t too well a number and t of he choico desire to transp JL lant these y objects •! of , affection to his
own home proved in the end irresistible . The method he adopted in accomplishing this purpose possessed the merit of ingenuity . He
purchased line the south at side the of focondhand the Seine an stalls armful which of books venerable in aspect _ . but worthless in
yout character h adroitl , and y these substi frayed tuted veterans for the the coveted wily treasures . It was not the ' narrowing lust of
action gold ' . which The promp wretched ted this culpri unhallowed t was in trans truth - merely a bibliomaniacwhose moral
educa-I tion had been neglected , , and almost all the ! precious volumes about which the perturbed librarian had naturally raised a fierce hue and
cry were found reposing peacefully on the modest shelves of their misguided
worshipper .
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June 2 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 695 ]
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go to We press extremel , of the y regret painfull to y hear sudden , just death as we of
and Mr . Samuel bookseller Mullen of , Melbourne the well-known and j . London u , bliaher .
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o Mr ' clock . Mull on en Thursday died at his evening residence , the about 29 th eight ult ., and , up to the , moment of his fatal - seizure
Number Onl was y in a the fortni a portrait full ght enjoyment ago of we Mr . gave of Mullen his in usual our and Export heal some th , .
honourable slight sketch as from well his as own successful lips of ca a , reer singularl . We y shall probabl , y have more to say concerning , his
content business ourselves life in our with next expressing issue , and to meanwhile his family
irreparable our heartfel loss t sympath which y they in have the sudden been called and to sustain .
Mr . W . Weeden ' s promised work on ' The Economic and the Social History 4 / of New
England' will appear in the autumn . The widow of the Rev . J . G . Wood , the
popular Civil List author a }) ension , has of been £ 50 a granted year . from the The ladies who had a * literary dinner' last
year ford of have Paris arranged being one for of another the guests , Mrs invited . Craw . - We are glad to hear of the proposal to
establish a School of American History in connection with the University of Pennsylvania .
A young Oriental who is a present student at Yale has written a book entitled ' A Japanese _¦_ Boy / by Himself . ' The book is said
to be really clever «/ , «/ . We hear that a granddau ( j gf hter of the
author of * Pickwick' is writing a complete story for the Summer Number of All the Year Hound . Her name is Mary Angela Dickens .
The subject of the Rede lecture , on June 11 , at Cambridge , is to be * Erasmus . ' Professor Jebbthe renowned Greek scholar
is the lecturer . , , A fund is being » - _ ' _ raised for the purpose JL Jof
providing the far-off island of St . Kilda with a library . The books will , of course , be all in the Gaelic language .
From a recent return presented to Convocation , it appears that the income of Oxford University will this year exceed £ 60000 . The
University Printers' bill is £ 1 , 500 . , We are glad to learn that the recent sea
voyage taken by Professor Huxley has greatly improved his health . He lias now returned to his home at Eastbourne .
new The novel first B edition Order of of Mr the . Josep Czar h has Hatton been ' s , y ,
exhausted within three weeks of publication . A second edition will be ready in a few days . . We are glad to hear favourable reports of
the health of Mr . T . H . S . Escott . It is of hoped Eng land hat b he y h will is residence be able on shortl the y south to resume coast J
his literary work . The Academy of Moral Sciences in Paris
has , we learn , selected * Poor Relief in pr Eng ize land essa ' y as for the 1893 . subj The ect prize of the is a handsome Beau jour
one , being no less than C , O 0 Of . A library exceptionally rich in Spanish
It work belonged s will be to j > the ut under late the Mr . hammer F . W . ahortjy Coaeiu . . .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/7/
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