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      Oobrespoktdenob.

      OOBRESPOKTDENOB .

      THE H . B . CARICATURES . To the Editor of ' The Publishers' Circular .

      hare - Ken been ewod secured interest by in the these Treasury once famous for the p British ictures is Museum caused , the by the purchase announcement money being that the £ 1 , originals 000 and not £ 2 , ( KM ) as stated in the House of Commons . As your readers of the present generation probably

      them know . little H . B about . was them a pseudonym , it may interest adopted the by younger the artist members Mr . John of Doy the le trade , father to know of Richard something Doyle concerning , formerly a contributor of designs to Punch . A complete set of the picturesI believedoes not exist * except

      occasionally in private libraries . There were 917 published , some of , them being , coloured by hand ; but now these living , as well , but indeed amongst as the them plai may n cop be ies named , are now The very Queen scarce ( who . in Very her few girlish of the and characters youthful dep days icted figures are

      frequentl most prominent y and prominentl defunct celebrities y ) , Mr . are Gladstone Lord Melbou , Mr . rn Bri e , g Xiord ht , and Brougha probabl m , y . Earl a few Russell oth , ers Lord . Amongst Beaconsfield the , Sir Robert Peel , and O'Connell . Sheet Keys were issued to 900 of the series , but no key was printed to

      there the last were seventeen Historical . The Keys Sheet published Keys to mere a grea ly g t ive number the names of the p of ictures those , these portraye gave d in a descri the p ptive ictures account ; but of the subject illustrated by the artist . It miht be inferred from the hs which have gone

      through the press announcing the purchase by the g Treasury , that a complete paragrap set was secured , but this I on think June is not 21 correct 1877 ' , Five inasm hundred uch as Messrs Sketches . Christie of Desi , Manson for the , & Woods celebrated announced HBPolitical for sale Sketches at their rooms being

      , , gns . . , all announced that were by preserved Messrs . . Christie ' The tha sale t , have however been , did purchased not take by p the lace Treasury , and probabl . y it is the ' five hundred '

      AJS OLD BOOKSEL-LEK .

      Book Spoilers. To The Editor Of ' The Pu...

      BOOK SPOILERS . To the Editor of ' The Publishers * Circular . '

      Mr . Henry Stevens indicates merely secondary agents in book-spoliation , for the real cause is fashion , ( II ustom . ) r by , haste scientific ( or improvements the A- habit of "being which in op a erate hurry in ); a all direction produced opposed I t ^ ( I . ) by to efficiency trade and ^ in literary sty le . competition ;

      general mean Thus s of use , competition the ; excellence telegrap in h has , time makes its necessitates value the , but careful tim haste e el beats aboration , hence process a decline of . perfect of workmanshi finished production p seem ; intolerable electricity , for by

      whether Steam for drives good on or , for and evil as , to the feed work the ? nust machine he kept . ' going , so all subsidiary processes are hastenedlish This ingpri J ~ haste nting , harnessed paper J ~ -mak to ing competition binding ; , and runs —~— to through favour haste all the the combined id products agencies of machinery of authorshi supersede p , pub

      careful — — ^ J , hand ~ ^ — - labour ^^ m , W ^— . ~ — ^ Machinery ^ — n , » cheapens ^ J J — ~ production — - ^ - ^ ^ ' ^ ' ™ V ^^ ^ , ^ and ^^^ w ^ competition r ^^ ^^ , « ^ ^^ ^» rap ^ X ^ -V »^ ^ ^* in V m ^ price ^ b ^^ ^^^ ^ A ^^ dri ^ P ^^ ves V ^ ^ ^ » down M ^ ^^ AA ^^ wo ^^ ^ k » rkmanshi ^ ^ ^ tf ^ Si ^ ^^ ^^^ >^ ^^ p ^^

      to the very lowest ebb . P . JV . K .

      Booksellers* Provident Institution. To T...

      BOOKSELLERS * PROVIDENT INSTITUTION . To the Editor of The Publisher ' s Cibctjlak .

      for the Sik purpose , —Will of you correcting allow me an to erro ask r the which favour appeared of your in inserting some of the this dai notice ly news in your paper valuable s , stating periodical that the , Booksellers' Provident Institution had been fined £ 5 for not having made their annual report to the

      t Registrar anot he newspaper her Society of Friendl re which porter y Societies also in eubstitu holds ? its ting That meetings the report name in had of the been the Old Booksellers made Bailey ; and and the which Provident error Society arose Institution throug was fined h a for mistake as that above of of

      stated 5 . Warwick , Lane , Paternoster Row , London , E . C .: , Samuel Ivks , Secretary .

      September 27 , 1882 .

      Obittj.Ajry. To To 1 L« William 863 T>«5...

      OBITTJ . AJRY . William Henry Allen , M . D ., I . L . D ., President of Girard College , Philadelphia , from 1850

      had to to 1 l « 863 t served >« 5 , and ana at from trom different 18 1867 (> 7 times to to the thft as 29 29 tli th President ult nlf ., died rlinrl of on on Dick the tV » p > inson latter laffftr College day rlav , at af . and the fhft age fLO of -pt the of of Rpvfinf sevent Agricultural y . v -four -fnnr . Col "He He - lege of Pennsylvaniaand was known as a contributor on educational , and other subjects to

      various riodicals , I > r . pe Robert Tomes . well known in New York as a journalist and literary mandied

      recently was entitled at his * Panama residence . , ' in This Brookl was yn followed , U . S ., at by the the age Lives of sixt of y- Richard five . His Coeur firB de t publishe Lion and d volume , Oliver

      Cromwell and 'The Bourbon Prince . ' He was for a time United States Consul at Rheims , and a . uu . while nuuo there wicic he ins wrote V / 1 UIA 3 and i & uu . published puuiLsnea an an entertaining enLerxaiiinig volume volume enuueu entitled * The xue Champagne ^ iia , nipagiJit ?

      Coimtry / Dr . Tomes also contributed a large number of articles to ' Appleton ' s Encyclopublications paedia , ' the of Boston Harper ( U & . S Brothers . ) Literary . World , the New Yprk Evening Post , and the various

      » large The number death of i » German announced periodicals of Herr . Edouard Krauss , printer of the National Zeitung and = 1

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 2, 1882, page 912, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02101882/page/40/