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    R R*- &9i% George Cauldtorif*

    The Woman ' s World , for 1889 , edited by Oscar Wilde . This volume is in every respect a great improvement on its predecessor ; there is greater variety and vigour about the literary contents , and the illustrations are far in advance of those which appeared in the

    previous are written year with . Most a li of ht the and papers deli- I with cate subjects touch , and which deal g are gracefull more or y ¦

    less prominent in the sphere from which this most artistic magazine

    gains its title . ; Cassell ' s Saturday Journal ,

    October October ± 1888 « 88 to to September September 1889 1880 makes quite a bulky volume of , 1200 pages . It contains upwards

    of , 200 complete short stories besides the five serials by Julian

    Hawthorne , Frank Barrett , D . . AddeBarclay Northand

    Flo-, , rence Warden . There are , moreover ¦ r w h a number of Detective

    ^ ^ fc ^ ^^ v , ^ ktf ^ p ^^ ^ m ^*^^^ ^ ^^^^ " ^^^ ^^^ ^^ " i ^^~ " - ^ - ^^ ^^ - ^^ - ^^ ^ m «^ f * , i * Stories , written by Mr . Henderij i \ son son . Uniet Chief ( Constabl Jonstable e or of JLdm

    Edin--K burg , h , the outcome of his own j ™ experience , as well as a great I variety va . rip . f . v or of -nlftastaTi leasant t , and and p n ractical rantio . al i :

    papers on all p manner- of subjects , j The illustrations are numerous j and spirited . j

    HI wM . households are Two The welcome all over guests and the in world many j ^ HH ^ nQfii Quiver

    Cassell ' s i ^ ^ P ^ Family IMCagrazlne . The firs t has ! been established favourite

    ^ B with long the whol an e communitand Wm WaM . the +. "h p characteristics > Tiava . f » fp ! riat . ir' » . by hv whic -whio , h h y , it it has has

    | Wj Wm / jyy jVf served * won < j * m *^ * v- ' ^ and > fc circulation ^^^ . ^ ^^ kep « - ^ c f « - «> v vjt t v its a * , are ^ sva great . ^^ all «^ w . v >« apparent — " — and p-- |— — -- — t ! eySysAm . . , i a » i '

    wm \ in the new volume . At the same wfi' time the editor is evidently deter-W ? mined not to rest on his laurels

    , and several new and attractive ^ ' y features have been added in the

    ' course of the year . Short expository vivid and papers -ink and , wholesome portraits sympathetic niwi of fiction oiw sketches celebrities , clever in , pen and the

    -V 1 V 1 U . Cl / iivi . sjy yaiuii .. v uvnww * . ** . reform reform wide fields are n . r « of given m reli van g . . ious . Perhans remaps activity and the tne social most most ,

    Lions notable Tiinna . / ' b hv story Professor ProffisRor in the book Church Church is * To written written the

    with a comp y lete master / of the , period , S and tanley with used that to \ term uclui rare ' niouvm historical gift which / ti imag ! Dean ine

    uuaiacv itocu jvj * j .. **^ ^ -, — tion . ' CasscWs Family Magazine contains t . aina as n . a usual nsiiial papers nanfirs bv by the the c Family Jtfanun

    Doctor , ' bright and lively literary and social essays , and pithy , practical papers serial

    which * Under touch a Strange the interests Mask , ' and of ' every The day Gatherer life . 5 Frank has bsen Barrett even more contributes diligent a than powerful usual . The , illustrations are numerous , graceful , and often fresh and unconventional .

    princi Polly pal , character a New-fasbioned is shown Olrl to be , by L irl . T with . Meade . good This qualit is a ies story but in alie which is too Poll fond y , the ot

    is is having quite miitft her young vouncr own and and way , . having Viavino She - to tn sustains mn . na . of an ft a her liAr unspeakable g father fn . f . ViPir ' s fauail fn some . loss vnilv in she ahft the makes makfls death many manv of , her ranures failures mother , ana and while ntiA lieeils she ^

    many irl lessons painful to , bring because her of to the herself manage foolish . By-and-by she Wilt her ives relations y her lltsx with The jl ijl sequel Flower of kji , a Flower jl very iu h , passioii * running > tc

    away g giJLA , , ai are with o j ^ diiixxui Polly , , ' s ucuauao baby-sister % JL me , of 1 UUJL her 18 U teasing LtJcialll falling into ) g yivoa the hands . . of thieves ooljudi , of the loss ** of *» --- l ltl - diamonds , of the severe illness of Dr . Maybright , Polly ' s father , and of the reforming influent

    I which this has on his daughter ' s character , is told in a very effective style . * J ^ J

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    1556 The Publishers' Circular Dec . 6 , 188

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/22/