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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 6th December 1887, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1509

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      _ About Christmas Books And Numbers. •Me...

      7 ' •; ' i The faext great epoch in the publication of Christmas books dates from the time when Charles Dickens , in 184 3 , commencedhis classic ' _¦' Christmas Books , ' which ' possessed . at least the charm of the novelty machinery and the of profession a ghost stor of y a ' purpose ( observes . Through a writer in Fraser ' _s for January . 1851 ) , * worked up in a quaint way quite peculiar to himself , Mr . Dickens and opened he was a new speedily vein imitated of pleasure in the and same instruction maimer , * as Ackermann had been . For over thirty years the practice has grown and developed in a most extraordinary manner . But the movement was almost solely confined to literature , and for a long time scarcely touched upon journalism proper . Another era in the history of Christmas books trated dates from London December News for 23 , the 1855 first , when time the issued Illus its - Christmas number printed in colours . This is the father of an innumerable off spring . The coloured little pictures more were than , as Mr ordinary . Mason Woodcuts _'Jackson points with tints out , arose printed throug over h them the ; breakdown and many other of machinery imperfections and the great hurry in . which they were produced . The succeeding _numbers exhibit a decided improvement upon the first , which was , however , a marked innovation . ' Its price was tenpeiice , or stamped one shilling . Among the artists were Birket Foster , John Leech , Harrison Weir , J . Gilbert , and Phiz , wbilst its literary contents were supplied by Cuthbert 13 ede , Shirley Brooks , _Horace ramificati May But hew , , as J ons , S we . and Coyne have hases , John sufficiently of Saunders Christmas in , dicated & books c . , and the Christmas numbers p are so intricate and so varied , that we must rest content with having touched the outskirts only of a subject that assumes vaster proportions at the anniversary of each Christmastide .

      From Mr. George Allen, Orpington.—' The ...

      From Mr . George Allen , Orpington . — ' The Lost Dauphin , ' by A . De Grasse Stevens , is a monograph which revives the half-forgotten hypothesis that the unfortunate boy , Louis XVI 1 ., was not poisoned but banished beyond the seas , and Miss Stevens here identifies him with Onwarenhiiaki , the Iroquois Indian chief . On this question the author speaks clearly , and the romance of the story is fascinating to a degree that can hardly be imagined without a perusal of the book . We are accustomed , in these days , to the growth of startling speculations on historical and literary topics , but in the present instance Miss Stevens does not hazard any indiscriminate conclusions , being content to relate the coincidences which exist , and in a measurejeaving the reader to think for himthere self . can Whatever be no doubt judgment that the may story be formed told is , the most author remarkable upon the , and facility we must of expression congratulate and absorbing intelligibleness interest of to arrangement the narraf which ive . The give an - traits in the book are produced with skill por and taste . _From ' _Puitesance Messrs . maritime _Berger , Levrault de l'Angleterre & Co . . , ' Paris This . — pamphlet English colonies is , in and efl ; ect dependencies , an enumeration , showing of their value in defence of the empire . The ' ¦ fe =- ¦ ,

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      _ author is an officer in the French ; army , who ¦ shows on numerous plans the military or naval points of the various stations . For intelligent readers of the newspapers this exposition cannot fail to be of great interest . At the end the author gives comparative statistics of the great naval powers . From Messrs . Bickers & Son . —* A Short History of Architecture , ' by A . L . Tuckerman , supplies a want of the student or , at any rate , of those desirous of knowing something of architecture without having to absorb the contents of _. * voluminous works , 'like Fergusson , for instance . But Of all things a book of this description should certainly possess a glossary of terms employed , otherwise it is of little value . It is of no use speaking of travertines , pediments , entablatures , and plinths to people who do not know what As those well members talk , of are the or differential where they calculus are placed to . children learning the alphabet . This , however , may be remedied in a second edition . From Mr . _. Friedricn Brandstetter , Leipzig . — ' Deutsche Dichter von _Grottsched bis auf unsere Tage , in Urtheilen zeitgenossischer und spaterer deutscher pichter , ' von De . K . Mahrenholtz und Dr . AVWunsche . This work gives ___ us the critical opinions of contemporary and later German writers on the works of about one >; hundred and fifty of the most popular . authors of Germany , from Gottshed , who died in 1766 , to those of the present day , such as Gustav _Freytagiand Paul Heyse , and those who , though dead , still live . in > their works , such as lander Bertliold Victor Auerbach Scheffel , Frit _^ and z Reuter others , F . . W There . Hack is - very little , biographical material in the work , but its value to the student of German literature is undeniable . It is a guide to the treasures of literary Germany written by the best critics of the Fatherland . From Messrs . Charles Burnet & Co . — ' Love the Fulfilling of the-J _ aw' is the designation of a new volume of extracts from the published writings and M 8 S . of the late Dr . Norman Macleod . They have been selected and arranged by his daughter , Miss A . C . Macleod , and together form an . affectionate tribute to the worth of a great and good man . The lovable nature of Norman Macle < < d , and the strong , manly spirit of his Christianity are manifested well in these pages , which we are confident will be read with avidity by thousands who have benefited by the teaching of a truly noble Christian . From Messrs . Balden & Son , Stafford . — ' Sanctuaries , ' by Thomas John de * Mazzinghi , M . A ., F . S . A ., Librarian of the William Salt Library , Stafford . This is not only an absorbing subject , but a very important one . More may be gathered from a complete work of this description of the social state of England than from most _histories . We say a complete work advisedly , for though the present work before us is a valuable contribution to English social works , and though it is carefully collated , as we may expect from Mr . Mazzinghi , yet it is not in a form which can become popular in any sense . Much , too , might be objected to in the ind form _^ x of as the a table index of , contents which is . not The so subject much an is , _indeed , very-wide , and is well worth being , fully worked from the time when the six cities ' of refuge were appointed for the Israelites to j . d _5

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1887, page 1509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121887/page/87/