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    of Woe / by Mrs . Elizabeth Norman * - is highly suggestive of nightmare , and * Agitation of a quarrel with one ' s mother-in-law . * William and Charlesor the Bold Adventurers / i ^ quite

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    works of * entertainment * Were generally in two or three volumes , and ^^ ran from half ^ - a-crown to three shillings per volume . The money was ¦— worth it !

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    by the way , reached a second edition ) , and even * Matilda' ? And who , having read , can forget that happy momeiit of genius when James White , Esq ., in his poem on * Con of way Castle /

    described a fashionable wife to the moon 3 In these pages , also , the ^ enterprise Mr . Douglas , an Irish bookseller , deserves mention , for did he not institute an annual commemoration of the famous siege of Londonderry , by giving a prize medal for the best poem on that event ? The highly romantic subject of ' Suicide ' found a poetic champion in M . D . Blackettand .

    MBA B B & Bfc BB B , although it runs into . _ only eighteen pages ' quarto , we can assure our readers ^^ that . ^ B > _ it is . ^ a stiff . ^ . ^ K- ^ K . piece ^ of work . The following two lines possess a lucidity and poetic beauty which must have taken our grandfathers' breath away : —

    ' Coward And every , saysf brig thou ht idea , was restrain Caithness 'd , base ?

    For those who liked a little piquant scandal served up with their poetry , there was Peter Pindar ' s ' ¦ Expostulatory ¦ Odes to a Great iDnke- and a Little Lord' which Mr - ^^—^~ - . Kearsley hh -mm ¦ pub B -

    lished — ^^ ' - ^ — — — at — - ^— half — — ™ -- ^ -a - cr o wn — — — . The — — — - ^^ — houses — — — —— — of Longm — — an — — , Cadell — — — — , and — — — I , w ^ m ) odsley - ~ ~~ ^—^ ' ¦ ^^^ ^ ^^^ apparentl ^^^— - ~ ' ' ^ r ^^^^^^^^ ^^ r ^^ r ^^^ y w ^^ F ^ " ^™ ^ had ^^^ ^ ^^ " ^^ " no ^^ " ^ literary XIUVXLVA T * tasters UtV » VVi . U ' i AAA n - 1789 * - 0 ^ - ^ « - ^ , % but + ** « - * ** who **^ - ' can VM » AJ > imag AAAAlw ^ ine AAXV tfcp t ^ AA . ^ * taste WM / M VV ' which II AA . XVAX could ^ b /^ -T «*« .-k . V * AXACVAVV make / g & X ifts 4 t / U of V / JL books MVfVfXJkU

    < if such a kind 1 _ _ „ _ ^ of book During was the ever year a 1789 popular many one works with of * travel givers ' . and ' - 'A adventure Narrative were of Four pu blish ed , rn and this into class the

    eys Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria' ( 18 s . ) was Lieutenant W . Paterson ' s contribution + in * * quarto ^ J \ v «¦ 1 < VbV " w' ^* ' bL form V ^ JL bVAa , and m > W ~ v _ ft ^>/« k offered \^ AA ^^ Jb ^ b ^ ^>*» P soni ^ ^ T T e ¦ fc * ' novel i ~ ~ - ~ ~ V ^>«^ " attractions b >« f < v w « «^ v ^^ - ^ . & ^^ r ^^ w ^ m , m m as ~ J * t *~ r did - ^ . -b Jb ^« -fc i also ¥ i »> n . r ' A «» . ^ b > ^ Jotirnal ^ \^>^ tj , f * Tt Tf b » of V ^^ the " - JIA ^ Passage ft &> 'VI ^<^&< VGbW ^ - ^ * from ¦ ¦*• »* - " - ¦¦

    India ( 15 . 9 . ) b which y a route was the partl work y unfrequented of Dr . T — . Howel ^ Mesopotamia . An ungenerous , Armenia , posterit and H ' atolia y has , or forgotten Asia Minor both '

    authors , but it has not done so with the third author whom we mention in this section . The 1 Observations , and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France , Italy , and

    Germany' ( 2 vols ., 12 s . ) , by H . L . Piozzi , have themselves passed into oblivion , but the memory Pindar ¦— ¦»» 9- - » -- » - advised m"g- » fc of Dr ~ r S . her BBBB Johnson > --a ^ BBB to w ' s friend , still claims a kindly feeling in h ~ our hearts . True , Petej ? ^*^ . ^ ^ W * + ^^ * >_^

    And Give stud up her y housewifery anecdotical , instead inditing of writing ; but then we know that Dr . Wolcot was a rude person .

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    the period , was the , ' Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse , late Lieut .-Governor of Land ' printed guard for Fort the , and author , unfortunatel ' in two octav y , father o volumes to George ( 10 s . 6 d Touchet . ) But , Baro most n importan Audley , ' t which of all was was

    l ) r . Gregory ' s ' Life of Thomas , Chatterton , ' which claimed , to contain notjonly criticisms on tho — — poet ¦_ # - ^_^ - ^ b * b > 9 s ^ geniu 7 *^ ^^ ^ B »» B ~ . ~ . ^ ^ s B * ¦» and ¦ " » ^ B » < H ~* writings ^ * ¦¦» ¦ *¦• " ^ ¦ CTJ ^^ , but ^^ ^^^ """ also ¦ ^ " ^ * a ™^ " concise ^ ^ —»— —— ¦ ' BBB ^» -W view » — V W W of " ^^ — . the ^« BB B | -BJB" controversy W ^ B- —» — —» M . ^ B' » »»¦ B > »>• W con ** ^ ^ " cerning ^ 1 ^ ¦ "' - ¦—W *» *» * »« 1 ""^ Rowley •¦*• ^ ^ ' " " ¦¦ * " **^ T ' s f a ^^ * a * tt * ^ *¦ " > b ^ * A ^^^ m > ^ b « i a ^ TT # vb ^ bf ^ P ^ f * m ^ k vmw ^

    poems . ' It was published b y Kearsley ^ at 5 s . ' A Sketch of the Lives and Writings . of Dante . « md Petrarch , ' by ' a young gentleman of Oxford , ' was published at 2 s . 6 d . by Stockdale ,

    the the well wfill--known lcnown Piccadilly Pic « adillv bookseller bookseller . . A A seasonable seasonable book book , , which which would would naturally naturallv K be « in in iv anecdotes - < iuest f / , was of Jfc ' Historical the VAJbV famous 4 k Remarks prison A ¦* ( i 4 on s ) the bu Castl t w > thi i * s e hb of lik the e so Bastille others / with * ir * curious was - ^« rp ^^ merel bjrffc and a entertain tran i slation Vw # Jbi % V Vb /> in g

    iVom " ' - ' - ^> m . x the "fc / X > * *¦* French V-r . m- A m * m ^^ ^^ M more *<^ ¦ s- ' , » - » - **^ sedate «^^ » - " . * , a sort v ^ r ^~ * w of - » , » , book ^ . »* a - ^«* s was ' ^ - ^ many ma *« w J > ¦• w r . Mavor » . »» « - ** , s ' s * New - >» m —B ^—„<« -. Descri y w www * ' ^ »> ption V ^—>*^ of B' Ijr Blenheim' ( Cadell ) , but joits interest was not wide ,. For those who loved books relating to

    t'untry matters and country life , there were * The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire / by Mr . Marshall II " * - ** ^ AAi . «* A ( 1 XI NBB XV icol B \ / Vr * J l ^ , » j 2 » Ml v ? V ols ^ A *» P . » , m 10 .- » -X ^ s | - ^ . « 6 d « . ) # , y * ¦ and *^* jl »^>« ¦ p William - aa ** i « m * B Gil ^_^ - jlaj B p ^ aajl in ' p s * # ' Thre - « w - * - » --. ^^ e ^^ Essays 1 AiMV A UlT Pt # on X ^ AJb < V Picturesque Jft . AVVU 4 . VMU UV « 1 ^ ^ . " . *^ ^

    I » eauty ; ' whilst the * cotfntryman who had a penchant for London might present himself with from ' The the Adventures papers of of G . a A . Speculist Stevens , or the A facetious Journey author throug of h the London ' Lecture ' ( 6 s . ) on , which Heads . was ' compiled

    te R , Tfye .-- . wants ^* ^^ of the ^ well ^ -to L -do BB , shop BK ^ keeper were not at all «^ AB overlooked ^ «> «^ . He . ^ BBBBBB could ^ ^ f present his ^ _ w i fe with Richard Briggs' ' Eng an lish Art of riate Cookery return ^ ' ^ hich theJElobinsons would sell for 7 s . ; and

    I I » [» '" o lie , good Honours woman of , the cpul Table d mak , or ^ Rules appro of Behaviour p during by giving Meals her ' ( 2 lord s . 6 d and . )—perh master aps Dr an . equivocal Truster ' s *

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1543, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/9/