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Rofep And !0ew$
The collection includes a number of Dickens ' letters .
Arrangements have now been made for the erection of a monument in Salisbury Cathedral
to the late Richard Jefferies . Miss Thomas , the well-known Australian artist , has received
the commission . We hear that a new prize has been arranged
in connection with the Paris Geographical Society . It is bequeathed by A . M . Fournier ,
and will consist of the interest of £ 2 , 000 , to be awarded for the best geograp C 2 Q JL hical book , or
map , of the year . Her Majesty has been graciously pleased
V t / O % / X to accept a copy of ' The Historical Families of Dumfriesshireand the Border Wars . ' The ,
book is written by Professor C . L . Johnstone , S . John ' s College , Qu'Appelle Station ,
Canada . Mr . George Allen will shortly issue a new
work , by Mr . Edward T . Cook , M . A ., entitled ' Studies in Ruskin : Some Aspects of Mr .
Ruskin ' s Work and Teaching . ' The book will be illustrated with seven full-X pagCDe and five
half-page woodcuts , specially prepared and engraved . We learn that George Ebersthe popular
novelist , has just celebrated O his sil , ver wedding X X in his favourite home on the shore of the Starnberg Lake . Amongst the guests were
Mr . and Mrs . Alma Tadema , and cordial congratulations O poured X in from all parts Xof the
German Empire . It is supposed in some quarters that the
selection of Canon Liddon X for an honorary degree «—> by ml the University «/ of Cambridge Ois
meant to be a protest , in an indirect way , against C _ 7 the teaching O conveyed 4 / in * Lux Mundi . '
Canon Liddon recently severely criticised the now famous book . The Tablet has celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary , and the event attracted attention in Rome . The Pope sent a telegram conveying
an Apostolic blessing to the editor and his staff . It is said that until the present
editorship not one of the editors of the Tablet had been born a Roman Catholic . Messrs . G . W . Bacon and Co . Limited
have issuod an exceedingly good map , of Eng- , land and Walesabout 3 ft . by 2 upon a roller .
Besides showing , all the railways , , canals , & c , it has no less than eight smaller maps of the
chief towns upon a much larger scale . We understand that the whole is reduced from the
Ordnance Survey . The Belgian Government _ . propose _ _ to _ _ open _
an in Jul interes . t The ing CJ Book show is Exhi - intended - - bition ^ , to a t be Antwerp a ^ , y very
comprehensive one . All that is related to the production A . of books will find a - p lace - ~ —type % jjt'y ,
composing and distributing machines , typographic and zincographic presses , applications
of photography to the illustration of books . We hear from Paris that an interesting
sale of autographs has just taken place there * Numerous letters of historic persons were sold
embracing documents of Madame du Barry , and Madame de Pompadour . A letter of
I Frederick the Great to Voltaire was sold for m-
dent £ 22 , and whose a letter name of did Voltaire not transp — to a ire correspon ¦»¦ fetched b - ^» m- # -
— - .. _ . _ _ . _ j— ' — ^ ^ m * j . ^_ j £ 43 . ^ ^ ^ M . Pasteur — of Parisj has been presented — \
with a gorgeous , , - album , in recognition - j £ - — - of *¦**** vv his great f ^} services --- to -- medical — - . _ . _ _ science . _ The __— — album wvk rv ^ . i x ^ |«
contains the signatures of numerous distinguished p j ^ - erson ¦ sboth in Eng -w-j land and
America ^ J . Amongst — , the signatures are those vw * . * . VA of the Prince —~_ _ - ^— and —m ^ — — — — Princess —~ - — — — — of — Wales — — ^^— ^^ r *~^ T . ^ Lord ^^ , JL . ^^^^^ H * ^ ^^^
a L tion ytton . was one of the witnesses of the present-The forthcoming - _¦ celebration - - -- of the - 450 th
anniversar y of th e inven — tion of the ar t «^ ^^ ^ of S A ^ printing promises to be of an uncommonl
J enthusiastic . CJ X kind . Mayence is making most yJ elaborate preparations for the eventwhich is
to take place towards the end of , June and extend over ___ several . days— . There _ _ will 7 amont
other things , be an at fresco printers , ' demon gs o - stration , and a grand banquet .
The German Emperor , we hear , proposes to summon a Conference at Berlin , with a view
to bring about if possible a fixed and uniform orthography for the German language .
Delegates will be invited from Austria and the German Cantons of Switzerland . Much confusion has been introduced into the
orthography of the Empire within the last ten years in consequence of reforms in the Prussian
schools . We have received the first number of the
sports Canine X and World sportsmen .- ^ , another _ . -It contains paper devo a coloured ted to
portrait ^ of Sir Humphrey De Trafford , with a biographical sketch . There are other
illustrations and a number of lively notes . The little paper promises welland we _ hope it will
not ' go to the dogs ' in , the sinister application of the term . We notice that the Canine
World is published at 23 Strutt Street , Manchester .
Everett Mr . Everett & Son , , Salisbury of the firm Square of Messrs , E . C . . , W wri . t H .
to say that , in response to his letter which appeared in the Publishers' Circular of April
15 AX , he has received a number of communi J- - cations from booksellers expressing a wish to
become members of the Booksellers' Union . ' He requests that all who have not given the
matter serious consideration would do so at onceandif satisfied ms that the system mm m + at work
in ^ ' ~ ^^ America ^ - ^ , w v--v ** n ^» - ** , n ^^ *^ would r ^ ' ^ s * r ** **•* ** ^^ ^^ ' ^ p improve ' ^ m ^^ ^ mm ^ ^ v ^^ v ^ «« m * ^ b' matters r \ -j w rv ^ ^^ ^ r ^ ^ »« in ' ^^ * * this country , to write to him without delay .
We are informed that the Sub-Coin mittee of the Incorporated Society of Authors
appoin vM jmm m le Jm m ted ted s ^/^ to their mmi JmJ draft Jm \ work r w - \* r jm , a Jm . Copyri We F w understand ^ i g m ht mJm JBi Bill r ± mv bavo the comp ^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ * , ^* * * * ^^ ** ^^^ * ^^^ ^ (^
principal points urged resemble those of the Bill known as that of Lord John Manners .
The the General draft , of Committee course , . awaits An endeavour the mi ht 9 approval will bo of
men ment made V 4 mm . ^* r v t ^^ before ^ betore to A n ^^ , get V ^ V J ^ ^ h' the tho ^ the ~^ KH A M ^ close close Bill fm mm ^* V ^^ ^ m * introduced 01 of m - **• the the < " * . mm mm ^^ m * Session ( Session ^^» ^ Tm * into w ^ . ^ ^^ v , tiiouga though Parlia * ' — - -
, it is too much to hope that any legislation on the subject can be secured this year .
exhibition Messrs . Oassell of ori & ginal Company drawings ' s eighth in annual black and white i will # . * be opened on June ¦ 6 at the
^^^» «* m ^ ^ rw w w ** f ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ w w ^^ . ^ w ^^ ^^ ^ " ^ w ^ ^^ " ^^^^ ~^~ ~^^ m - w ^~ ~—• — — — —— —r — , _ _ _ Memorial Hall , Farringdon-street . The ex- H
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I 696 The Publishers' Circular june 2 , T 89 O
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 696, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/8/
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