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    1204 The Publishers' Circular | Dec

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    Magazines for§I>ecembeb— . Harper's Maga...

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    1204 The Publishers' Circular | Dec

    1204 The Publishers' Circular | Dec

    Magazines For§I>Ecembeb— . Harper's Maga...

    Magazines for § I > ecembeb— . Harper ' s Magazine is a genuine Christmas

    Number , and a marvellous combination of the most exquisitely-finished engraving with really

    highclass letterpress . Its frontispiece , * Under the Mistletoe , ' "by Frederick Dielman , pictures a

    young couple literally ' under the bough * in the open—not under a shrivelled sprig tied to a hall

    gas-lamp—and is a natural and charming sketch . The ' leading article' on Christmas cleverly

    "weaves together tradition , sentiment , and realism , for Luther's Christmas board , the Little Waits

    at Bracebridge Hall , a reproduction of Kenny Meadows' picture "' of Christmas in the Illustrated

    London News of many years ago , and a New England scene of * The Puritan Governor

    interrupting Christmas Sports are among the pictures . Mrs . Thackeray Ritchie ' s paper on ' Tennyson '

    Trill , however , be held by the majority of readers to ' make the number . ' Its picturesque

    description of the poet ' s birthplace , its personal and family details , and its notes on his works ,

    form , with the rich collection of plates , in which , a full-page portrait of * the New Peer' takes the

    first place , a budget of * Tennysoniana ' which has never before been within reach of the public . .

    Space forbids us to name in detail the contents of the number , but we must mention Mr . William Black ' s « Gossip about the West Highlanders '

    , Mr . Austin Dobson ' s poem , ' The Milkmaid , ' Mr . Whittier ' s poem , * The Supper of St . Gregory , ' and Mr . Abbey ' s illustrations of Pope ' s poem ,

    * The Quiet Life , ' as among the gems of a number which , even in this age of cheap literatur ~^ ^ r _ t ^^ e ~ l ^ and ^» i » ^—^ ——^ ¦ cheap —^ ^»^« —^ _ n ^ art — — ^_» * r , —r has ^^—_ p _ ¦ ^ , m we — * —¦ " ¦ b — el - — ¦ ^—¦ i » eve " —— —— , — ' never — " —^ T ——* ——¦ been " ** " — ^ ~_ # ^ ^*

    equalled . —Longman ' s Magazine has a tribute to moriam our departed ' bJ friend F 3 Dutton the Cook Rev in J _ G * In Wood II

    MeJL _ H _> X . ICtUJ . , , K / y J V . J _ . _ -LJ \ oyes JJ _•_ ; y UliU - _•_> » . . » . . V ^ . . * _ VJV . I . introduces us to The Mole at Home , ' and describes ~» ~ rtr the - ~ i i ~ animal i —~~ - ' »—— s marvellous ¦ ——• - - structure ¦ with » ^ w ^—^^» v ^^ ^ ^~» ™^^~—*—— —w—— *— —— ——¦ ¦ ' — — — ——— — — — — — — —— — , " ^—^ p ^^^»

    his strange * digging apparatus , ' fitting liim for his underground excursions ; Mr . A . H . A . Hamilton tells the story of ' The Modern

    Nebuchadnezzar , ' who found a new sensation in ' cropping the herbage' after the manner of tho famous king and the less famous four-footed creatures ;

    Mr . Haweis tells the story of Liszt ' s career , and introduces some personal glimpses of the Abbe , gained bvk ~~ during ~ ¦— ¦ — his — ¦ - - visits » - »— - to his Roman - ¦— villa - ; and

    th - " ^~ en " ^»^ " ^ , ^ ^»^» on ^^^ " the ^ ^ h ^^ i ^^ ft last ~~ — — page —— — — , we — — have — — — — a subscri — pt y ion - list headed 'At the Docks , ' - which shows that literature and # philanthropy ¦ ~—~ ¦ ¦ i ¦ _ ^^_ V are in this case going ¦

    hand ^™» ^ v ^^— ^™»~ ^^ ^^^^ - in r ° " ^ w _ ^^ - hand ~^^ — w ^ i ^ ^^ ^^ ^ , and ^ r ^ r *— * " t hat —* ^ - ^ ..... a ^^ good — work at the ^^^^^ East ^^ r" ^^ k End is being done by means of the contributions of the writers and readers of this popular serial .

    — current TheJEng of public lish Illustrated feeling , g Magazine ives to Luther , following its open the - i —— ng — ^ p ^^ k pa h v — ~ g f ^^ i es , f and ^^ ^^ ^^ an interesting — — — ^^ ffB paper 1 B on the monk — -

    reformer his portrai by t Professor by Cranach Sime in , ^^ w the ith Pioacothok engravings at of Munichthe Luther-haus at EisenacliLuther ' s

    study in , the Wartburg , and Erasmus at , his desk , will prove interesting to all who do not possess Kostlins work . - Some Forgotten Ktchers '

    chronicles the performances of Henry Davy and George Cuitt , jun ., us topographical etchers , Crome and Constable as landscape etchersand

    Geddes and Wilkie , whose etchings the reviewer , who characterises if they had as l ' a ft p more henomenon work of in th art is -history class bo , hi ' nnd nd

    them would Bcarcely have been placed in the Ws *

    is category the title of of * a forgotte nature n -paper etchers by . ' Grant ' Com Allen Coddee with ' 1

    some ^ 4 ^\ . ^ A 4 ^ ^^ pretty — - ^^ M ^ ^ L ^ . ^ illustrations all __ __ ¦ A ~ — - ^ . _ - A- _ _ - ; and then 1 , in m — obedience "' - 'I * , -WltQ I II II to the popular hehest for fiction as a part of evePr I feasthThe of

    , we ave * Story a Courtshi Stanley J . Weyman , and the continuation p *^ rf

    Miss Yonge ' s ' Armourer ' s 'Prentices . ' Mi . Theo < - dore Watts' charming essay on ' The New — - Hero "

    comp A A WM . «~ letes I ^ i . . ^ ^ . a --. capi ta J l — number _______ T __ , in which 1 « . the , _ .. J head -JL ^ iy - II III III pieces and t initial letters and other engraved

    ornamens deserve a cordial word of praise — just — Merry tribute England to the ( 44 ori Essex g-inator Street of the , Strand Bank —— ¦ ) Holiday — pays \ a

    _ » y _ . | 4 Q v b y presenting . _¦ its a readers _ with _ . — an etched portrai t of Sir John Lubbock , by Damman , and an article I

    by George Saintsbury on ' National Holidays , ' the 1 principle of which it upholds as a retracement to 1

    one of the good old customs of our forefathers 1 , and as a safeguard for the world ' s workers against 1

    the greed of employers and | the pressure of coza- peting interests , both of which tend to reduce the — 1

    rest-times of the toilers and moilers . ' Cookery I in the time of Shakespeare , ' by Mrs . Cowden- 1

    Clarke , is a sketch redolent of olden-tim « domes- 1 ticity . Wilfred Ward ' s ' Memories in Music '

    opens up many suggestive thoughts as to music ' s po ^ wer of awakening ilr ^^ V asso ^^ cia ^^ — — ti — — ons . The ^^^ ^^^ — ^ little ™ " V ^ - « V I

    in stor it y , ' makes a ' Haunted a seasonable House contribution / by' a . Lad to y who a number lived j I which will -- — be — rea - — — - — d — at ^ — - - ^— many — — — — — firesides — ^^ - — —H——— — ¦ —i at —k ^^ -w Christ ^^^ H 4 M ^ ** r W -

    p mas letes time the , and page a . — sonnet The Magazine by John of OldcasLle Art ( Cassell com-< — & — ¦ Co ^— . — ) m is ^~ ~ ~~ as ^— — - —~ a ~^*~ r— rule ^^ - ^ ^_ - ^ . ^^ —i as ~—~¦ ^* - ^~ catholi —^^ ~ _ ^^ ^ m— —^ m _ i ^ r ^^^ ^^ -- c *^^ in ^^ ^^«^ its ^ - * ^^ ^ h ^ embrace ^^ ^^>^^ p ^^ - > ^^^» ^^ n ^^ " ^ ^^ p ^^ cf ^ ^

    the ancient and tha modern as it is in its -wide welcome to all schools of the present day , but the number before us — is almost exclusivel I M devoted 4 bh ¦ fl

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1883, page 1204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121883/page/44/