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    • OUR EDUCATIONAL NUMBER. I
    • 188 Fieet / Street : July 31, 1886.
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      822 The Publishers' Circular August 2,18...

      822 The Publishers' Circular August 2 , 1886 I

      Our Educational Number. I

      OUR EDUCATIONAL NUMBER . I

      In Accordance With Our Usual Customthe N...

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      August 18 will contain a list of the Educational Works of the chief London Publishers ; I and the heads of public and private schools ^ and all persons interested in Education , will I

      thus be provided with a complete conspectus of Educational Literature , I As at large number of extra copies will be printed for gratuitous circulation among the I

      principal Schools and Colleges at Home and Abroad , this number offers a peculiarly I valuable medium for Advertisements addressed to persons engaged in tuition . I

      188 Fieet / Street : July 31, 1886.

      188 Fieet / Street : July 31 , 1886 .

      ^T ^ Iterary ^^ Men Are Somewhat Out Of-...

      ^ ^ ITERARY ^^ men are somewhat out of- place -U in the active arena of politics . The

      number of politicians who become authors is certainly greater thanx the number of authors

      who become politicians . The reason foT this is obvious . Men of letters who delight in their

      seclusion away from the 'deafening inanity ' of tjie outer world , would find little

      satisfaction in any endeavour to gratify parliamentary ambition . They stand aloof from

      the madding crowd , viewing its disturbances with equanimity , and calmly forming

      unprejudiced conclusions for the guidance of their fellow-men . The sage in Parliament is

      generally a failure . It would be difficult to I imagine Thomas Carlyle as having occupied a

      seat in the House of Commons . The same may be remarked of Mr . Ruskin , whose illness

      at the present time the whole nation deplores and awaits with hope and anxiety every

      announcement made by his physicians . Properl V y unders understood tood , , these tnese pnnosopners philosophers nave have done done .

      and will continue to do , more good to the , human race than a million party fighters .

      The lessons they teach are lessons arising from keen observation and a knowledge of

      the bad as well as the good qualities of mankind .

      At the same time it is curious to notice how many of the men who enter Parliament

      have devoted their attention more or less to literary pursuits . This curiosity may be idle ,

      but it is interesting ; and possibly it is for this reason that a writer in the Times has given

      singularly close attention to the authors in the new House of Commons . The writer ' s words

      are charged with so much that is interesting from a bibliopole's point of view , that we take

      the liberty of quoting the details he has supplied : —

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 2, 1886, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02081886/page/4/