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Dec . 6 , 1889 The Publishers' Circular 1561
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are Tbe Jackdaw of Rbeims and ZTetley Abbey , both , we need scarcelwritten b
y say , y the inimitable pen of ' Thomas ^ I t ^^ ngoldsby ^»^» ¦ Mk ^> m * ^» ^ fca » p ^^ r \^ w « , ' and fci ^ fe ^» ^ tft ^ v both v ^^ ^^ r «^ « V ^ M ^ illustrated ^^^*^ ¦ » M m ^» ^^ »*^ ^^ ^^ H
with abounding humour and great technical skill by Ernest Jessop . —If
these—volumes—do—- ~ ^ k ^ w ^ r—^ ^^ r m *^ » ^ mm ~ «^ ^ v ^» * v ^«^ n' i ^^ v ^ b ^ ^™ ^*^ ^^»«» ^ fc ^ v ^^ ** ~ ^" not take their place with the most attractive gift-books of the
season , we shall be both disappointed _ r " - ^ ^^ ^» - *^ ^»^ ^ ^ and i' ^ f ^^ ^^ ^ ' ^ - ¦ surprised ** ^^^^ ^ a > m ^ ^^ ^^ — * ^ i ^ ^ hv ^ . V The «^^ b ^^ «^ ^ fc *»
accompanying illustrations give but r ^« r v ^ w vr a ^>^ g ^ faint B * mm ^ <^ ^» ^ b ^ i ^ ^ idea ^ ^ '' ^ 1 ^ i ^ ^«> ' V of ^^ ^^ the ^ e ^~ ^» ^ B ^ strength rnrf ^ w ^ B * - ^^ ^^^^ fc ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ fe
and beauty of Mr . Jessop ' s fullpage designs . It is , of course , impossible for us to reproduce the charm of coloured pictures ,
which abound in both of these exceptionally handsome volumes .
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—7 r ^ flr £ te ££ t £ * jfiriD & QLucr . It was decidedly a happy thought on the part of Messrs . Field & Tuer to print a facsimile
of the first book issued by the Religious Tract Society , Ttie Christmas Sox , or New nallin Year 1825 ' s . Gilt The , which Rev appeared DrGreen ori has
giy . . written an interesting introduction to this quaint reprint i in the course of which he
traces —¦ — — ^ ^ ^ v the ^— - ^ r m *^ wonderful — ^ a a »»» , jb * Jk W ^ ^ strides ^ . ^ ^ m ^ ^—^ * - * ^ P » - in » ^^ ^ j popular » ^ L . T T ^ A ^ ^— ' Jk JL art A * ^^ and literature ¦ ¦ ¦ k which rfk Jk have been fV made AA
— — —• — — — ^^ " •** ^ m «^» " ^ ^ " ^ ^^ . ^ ^ w ^ ^ . m . ^^ ^ ^ V"V » ^— ' ^ r ^ . ^ ^^ JL A JL .. V ^ V % a > V ^ m ' during the last sixty or seventy years . The little book contains some Christmas
carols , and a number of other simple verses . The illustrations are often very
rough rouffh . , but but , many ma . nv of of them f . liftm possess nn »» pnn more mn-rp > realistic vigour than is often the case with the more ambitious books of the day .
Tbe Age of XMCarle Antoinette , by Charles Newton Scott . This is an attempt
I 1 ti Htholarl sentatives to » depict mention the such at last men hap phase hazard as Prudhomme of the onl ancien y a , few Goethe regime great , — Gainsboroug a , names period . which A h , Mozart suggestive had amougst , Burns glimpse , its Burke foremo , enriched , Mirabeau & t repre by - ,
y notes , of a critical phase in the history of Europe . Jimi The Bairns Annual , edited by Alice Corkran , is filled with old- fashion » ed fairy i tales ,
< ; uul » f last adorned adorned century with with . a a We number number have ot of borrowed original original one woodcuts wood of nuts them , , like likft for those tViopm the which wVii article ^ h used ns ^ on rl to ' Christmas charm nhfirm tbe . ^ children r Book » Viilrl T s a 1 / 1 _ . j a m-a •¦ - » *» ... . — . — _ _ _
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/27/
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