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      Sal^ Joihti Gf There Is To Be A Sale Of ...

      Sal _^ JoiHti _gf There is to be a sale of rare books at Leyden in December , but it is as well to note the books are to be sold with all faults . Commencing on the 14 th instant , Messrs . Sotheby sell the library of the late Mr . John Hirst . Among the books are : Breeches Bible , first edition 1560 ( with all faults ) , many editions ( but nearly all imperfect ) of the Holy Scriptures , some early MSS . of the Bibiia Latina , < fcc . The sale occupies nine days . A large and fine collection of MSS . and deeds relating to Shropshire was sold very cheaply at Puttick ' s last week , the lot bringing £ 36 ( Quaritch ) . A similar collection relating to Gloucestershire brought . £ 43 . ferred The in Kilmarnock our last , was Burn sold s , the to which other we day re at - and Messrs at . Sotheby the end ' s . were It was thirty in -three the orig pages inal cal of f , autograph poems by Mrs . Dunlop . She will ever to especiall whose be y known ) kind as one and patronage , Burns honoure and himself d ( by assistance Scotchmen has sai he d , owed the most . This interesting volume was ' sold for £ 66 ( Pickering ' ) . .. } * _*¦ '' - ' —• ' .. ... I ¦ I . , -v " _^ _z _^ M ¦ ' ¦ ' i . i . . ¦ .. ' i . i ' ¦ * _*

      I Hmeificatv Liew F And Iqofef Messrs. H...

      I _Hmeificatv _liew _f and _IQofef Messrs . Harper Brothers have in the press for early publication ' Modern Ships of War / being papers by Sir Edward J . Reed on the British and Continental Navies , and by Rear-Admiral Simpson on the United States Navy , with supplementary chapters and notes by Lieutenant Kelley . _/ The work will be fully illustrated . This firm will also publish at once a volume of poems by Wallace Bruce , entitled ' Old Homestead Poems , ' illustrated , and the first two volumes of Henry C . Lea ' s imjportant * History of the Inquisition of the Middle nificent Ages . ' Among Plebeian their , ' b y Julia novels Magruder are 'A Mag and - ' Narka , the Nihilist : a Story of Russian Lijfe / by Kathleen _O'lVjteara , just completed in _Harpers Magazine . ~~* ~ The prospectus of a new illustrated weekly journal , to be calledSylva _,, ' a Journal of Horticulture , Landscape-Gardening , and Forestry / has been issued . It will / be published in New York , under the general editorial management of Charles S . Sargent _^ Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard College . ; Expert- have been engaged to superintend its various departments , and it is expected to _< take its place as an authority in the various branches of which it will treat . The first number will appear early in the new year . Mr . Edward Eggleston , author of the famous ' Hoosier Schoolmaster / will furnish 1888 a serial . It novel is entitled to the The Century Graysons Magazine , ' a story for of Western life , giving the popular version of a trial in which Abraham Lincoln was a chief actor . Among forthcoming volumes from the publishing Boston , are house ' The Fortunes of Messrs of . the Lee Faradays < fe Shepard , 'by , Miss A . M . Douglas ; ' _Qa Ira ! or , Dantonin the French Revolution / by Laurence Gronlund ; ' Britons and Muscovites / by Curtis Guild ; 'Educational Topics of the Day , ' by R . L . Klemm ; 'First Steps in the English Classics / by Albert F . Blaisdell ; and Robert Collyer ' s ' Lectures to Young Men . ' ¦ at Messrs once . ' The Brentan New o ' s , Honduras New York / , will edited publish b Thomas R , Lombard . It will give an account y of the history , physical geography , resources , opportunities , and _prospects of that Central American Republic . Mr . Henry James will contribute to the Atlantic Monthly for 1388 a serial story entitled ' The Aspen Papers ; ' and Mr . Edward H . House , who has spent many years in Japan , will contribute a serial story entitled ' Yone Santo , Child of Japan . ' Another volume by Henry Thoreau is nearly ready for publication . The new work is en ? titled * Winter / and will be a companion to his 'Summer' and 'Early Spring in Massachusetts / both of which were compiled from his journal . The new volume has been edited by Mr . H . G . O . Blake , to whom readers are indebted for the others - m V" ¦ - " ¦¦— " * '

      The first number of a new monthly magazine with the title Woman will soon make its appearance in New York . Among the writers who have agreed to contribute to the magazine are Mrs . L . C . Moulton , Marion Harland Harriet Prescott Spofford , Helen Campbell , , and __ Richard A . Proctor . The magazine will be illustrated , and . will contain , besides the accustomed range of 'light literature / articles pn household decorations and suggestions , and a resume of monthly events . 'A Garland for Girls' is , the title of Miss Louisa M . Alcott ' s new volume of stories , of which the author says by way of preface : ' These stories were written for ! my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion . The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work . ' The Volume will be illustrated . One of the most picturesque . _personalities ' , in American poetry to-day is that of Robert Burns Wilson . This young poet hails from the south-west , where he was born a little over twenty years ago . He began writing before poetry his at a poei very _^ is early made age their , and frequent it was _^ appear _oot long - ance in the Century and _JJorpe _^ s _^ M They are now about to be issued in a collected edition with the title * Life and Love . ' illustrated ' Down holiday the Islands book ' h is y William the title A of gnew an issue Paton this , which season Messrs . It .- _^ - escribes 0 . Scribner a cruise ' s Sons to will the Caribbean The narrative Islands is described , and a journey as 'bri among ght and them en . - tertaining , full of curious bits of information , and enlivened by many touches of humour . ' A feature of the book is the illustrations by the artistJ . Burnswho visited the localities for a , the purpose of making them .

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1887, page 1506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121887/page/84/