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Annually For Many New Years Designs Mess...
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way hundreds of cuttings may be accl mulated in such a manner as to be avaM
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< Jase wiu prove an invalid | able aid .
We have received Messrs . W . G . Stoneham & Co . ' s catalogue of bound booksin vhicM their * Pellisforft * binding is the chief attraction . The new manufacture , we are , informed !
has been very well received . And so it deserves to be on all accounts ; for novelty does ivM appear as its only claim to notice . There is strength in the workmanship and beauty in \ M
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I^ I It is a matter for some congratulation that the first work we take from the pile vhicM
lies on our right hand should be by that old and experienced master in fiction , Mr . Wilkifl Collins . We are thus forcibly reminded that we retain pleasurable links with the pastand
that we have still some of the old and well-remembered writers A with us . Tlie Guilty X Hi , -veil ^ ^ M ( J . W . Arrowsmith , Bristol ) , if scarcely to be ranked with some of the best of Mr . Collins !
creations , yet displays in a marked degree that writer ' s wonderful ingenuity of invention , and ! the " ¦ - - > w ~^_~ marvellous - _ - ^ — —^ i - ™ - — dexterit - ^ ^ ¦ ~_> - ^ ~_ r ^^_ ^ — y with - ¦— ¦— - ¦ which - ^ —¦ ^ " ^ - ' — ¦ he — ¦ ' — - builds - ~—~ ¦ '"^—¦ » -w up ^™ ' . his ^^ ^^^^ p h i ^ lot ^^ ^^^ - ^^ ^ . Unnatural ^ . i- ^^ ^ k ^^ * mm ^ ^ ^^ ^^ v ^^ m ^^^^^^» it ^^ ^ h . may ^^ ^ Pfc ^^ ^^ rf ^ w be r- *^ ~^ ar , v but ' — — - it ill ^^^^ h
none the less absorbing , and readers , we venture to say , call the book what they choose , wilfl not lay it down before they have devoured it to the last paragraph . I
A story which exhibits somewhat similar skill in construction is The Wine of Hearts , byl this B v ¦™» . »¦ . w L ^ work . ^ Farjeon ^ . « - ^~ - in * - » a . these v jm . ~> ( ^^ Ward * - m ^ r - ^^ pages m ^ jr ^ sv ^ , -v ^ Lock - » j , a but f ^ r ^*» « & - / on ^— ' « Co . . * the ^ J . *¦ ) ^ s present m . We ^ - « . ¦ *_•¦ v * -r ^ - have * J » . A ^^ occasion ¦ v- ^ ^ alread ^ X ^^^ f ^^ ¦«¦ ^ - ^ Jk Jk y a 4 . JV remarked few JL V / f I further Jft . V « JL . « j * A A . upon V / A word » T V ^ the JL \ AKJ s may ^ hi A . A l > g W h be P ^^ excellence ^^ devoted " *«•> ^ - ^ * ' * to ofl ^ H !
it . Mr . Parj eon ' s story turns upon a point that has often been made use of in fiction the ! spectacle of a crime , generall , in the y details speaking of , of which a man , by suffering extricating punishment himself , rather he will than involve confess others his innocence ; but the ! ! author i 4 has redeemed fc his Aa & M work from AJll thing Jikh like JLBk the % // lace bhis dexterous fc treat *
ment ^ -w u » v . > .. > . ^ r of . ^ . a . «^ the v «>> « . ^^ ^ situation - ^ v ^ ^^^ . m . m . ^ r »__^ . ¦ and v- the ' - ^ . A ^ * - ori JL ^^ g inal any «> W A A i ty VAAA in - ^ detail J . A . ^ - " VJ A he ^_^ commonp has VJLAAXJ im . A V / AX parted L / Xi * iV / V 7 to H' — y J T it . JL ** J \ Of jt ^* J « - course * - ^ *~ r ~ — ~ , it m needless needless to to say sav that that a a woman woman is is at at the the bottom bottom ot of the the matter matter— —indeed indeed , there there are are two two ; ; but out anan
takes takes important in in the the factor narrative narrative in the the the story reader reader is the will will Nine fand find of out out Hearts when when . he he What comes romea part to to nftnisA the , my the the sterious work work p tor for lay himself nimseu ing-card ,, peruse
and we should advise him to do so without delay . A more fascinating volume he will scarcely find on Messrs . Smith ' s bookstalls .
We have sometimes thought , if not spoken , in somewhat regretful terms of the Christmas published Numbers 9 •»¦ + of % as + Jt' b Mrs ygone _¦_ kj Lirri years , ' s when Lod /\ ings 1 Charles ' * Dickens bJunction the elder / and was VA 'Dr alive Mari , and gold such ' s Prescri annuals 1 tions were .
We -r * - » *^ r must *¦**» ¦¦*¦ ** ' - v ^ . hasten r * J J- » - ¦ . to . m J * correct . JA . A - « - per 1 / ^ - * *¦ apprehension * - * ¦* jIV - AC g » AIU » - » , . Mug - * - » A In * - * EL ** - artistic ? y J * J KJK . M . 1 V > U work 1 V 11 > Cv we JL ^ had -A ^ r M . . m nothing i . fAC * A X & V / lvl then * J - ¦ - AV ^ to w ^ -- ** compre ^ p' " with " ¦« - »>* i the uuvy magazines iiitogu / iiiuvn of -yjx the uuc present ^ JM . C * d ^ aj . u day Vl « , jr , ( and illU such ? UVjH wealth VV D ( Utll of KJX illustrative 111 UOU 1 C * U 1 V C 7 sp DIJIKJAIKX lendour KJU 1 € as * o "" now "< li *
tinguishes the Christmas issue of Harper ' s Magazine ( Sampson Low & Co . ) was quite unknownLooking over its we wonder how it can be done for the and some
The of the work printers . of Georg of e past H . Boug ages pages hton who , , are R . A still ., and alive Mr . must E . A . indeed Abbey open is especial their ly eyes money noteworthy with ; surprise ; but their
drawings other ii artists in iu each v > are Mary vaoo have Jiavo L . Gow been ^^ , A reproduced . B . Frost uiv , with Alfred Fredericks delicacy ctt 3 and , and fidelity W . H of . Gibson execution ixi / , and that - ¦¦ tf
« . * hiji ^ o c * v . case po x 0 j . fx v ^ va ^ cva wiuii a JL Hjcl « uV illlM . IJCi tJlltV UJ . t 5 A . CJ ^ ^** , names beyond as all Genera praise l . Lew Among Wallace the . contributors William Dean to the Ho wells literary . R portion FT Sf . nrlr of . » the . rt .. Sara book Orae we find Jevreih sucn
I B . L . Farjeon , T . N . Page , Henry Carey , Harriet Lewis Bradley , and ( authors as weU &
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1886, page 1466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121886/page/62/
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