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    1542 The Publishers' Circular * | ifecV6...

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    Where And found the Virg the in- lowly Mother stable lay - . shed , and Eve of certain 1794 . ' passages In the from poems * Reli of another gious Musings friend and ; a contemporary desultory poem of , Lamb written ' s— on ^ William the Christmas

    Wordsworth—I find the dedication of the ' Duddon Sennets , ' the first stanza of which furnishes this beautiful picture { : — The minstrels played theirbhristmas t J tune

    Wnile To The -ni encircling g , ht smitten beneath laurels by my a lofty cottage thick moon , with eaves , leaves ;

    Gave That back k rich ed and their dazzling natural sheen . I overpowergreen Then there are the ever-delightful Christmas Sketches of Washington Irving with

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    usher in my Christmas morning : — ~ \ Rise Draw , happy forth morn the , chee rise rful , holy day morn fro , m night ; the

    The O li Father ght that , j ^ ouch shone when east , Hope and li was ght born . CHRISTMAS BOOKS A CENTURY AGO

    . | yggByg | OOKI ! N"G at the piles of gaily dressed , extensively illustrated , and otherwise ex-ID In j MSKQH R / SSfl pensive challenge ly us got at -up every Christmas step , we books cannot which help meet wondering us at every whether turn our , and forefat , as it hers were of ,

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    category list »/ of VJt poets , of ! gift Theology -books— , just of ¦ VJTJL 4 tJourse many as Jo * then VAAVll hn Dennis as now— and UUAVI and Elk aa WV »* an will ah be Settl the , e case are ^ VV included o the # Aend in of the the

    ** distu chapter •** rbing — J ^ -V ^ greatl X ^ the WKP serenity y outdistanced AAV Wg — and , yVUI the every - dust , — other which |« U subj 11 envelops V 11 ect . Not , the for extensive f f XJLA worlds P ^ ^/ VA octavos * V would VMJW » 9 V « and we «> be 'V folios ^^ AA guilty ^« . of ^ - ^ *¦ the " of I

    worth Books y men of w ' ho entertainment suffered from / as cacotthes novels scribendi were theii —a painfu called , l were and expensive issued in sma mala ll dy numbers . , f "* I I the movement which has led the servant-girl and the ^ errand-boy to insist upon their ' share <> f I

    intellectual food was then unknown . Applying as a general rule the remarks a contemporary I f reviewer * . ^^ » av if v * . used ^« t ^ and % ^^« . in JL too Jk A regard A . V full >^ Wk ^ of « . to VV a UU | particular / UIJ . U 1 . V U . J . LVL book i ^/ m ^ X ^ A ^ . ^ , w Tf V e may AAAMV say MUI V that VAtlVVi , if XJL * somewhat lOVIMV TT AJ . UU defic ^ JfcX attentive - ' ** -V ient * " ^* -- — ~ m H I

    jb p hese robability volumes would at that hair time -breadth * ' scapes interesti / ' n stil l , to a reader tertaining not very ' We nice lead and guilty to , a I I

    degenerate taste which finds them neith appear er the one nor the other ; but we . will * obli p ge' our readers

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/8/