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    • ——-: I L I J^O^. 188 Fleet Street, December 1885.
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      ——-: I L I J^O^. 188 Fleet Street, December 1885.

      —— -: I L I J ^ O ^ . 188 Fleet Street , December 1885 .

      Ifab^^S^ ^ L Withstanding The Lengthened...

      Ifab ^^ S ^ ^ l WITHSTANDING the lengthened prevalence of trade depression and the lt @ l It ill Eg occurrence of the General Election , the publishers of the country have this

      Ih H ^ 9 ^ jHW Hk 1 ISjl | m | year in quality succeeded or quantit in presenting y , is about to equal the public to the a supp quota ly of of previous seasonable recent book years s which .

      IH 5 § h 5 ™ 3 I A diminution , numerically , may , perhaps , be observed in connection with ^ s * - ^ i Q ^ | 5 3 jaL rO ! 5 3 gp ^ arrayed the issue table of the books more . But elaborat even e in works this , department of editions several de luxe works , and have splendidl been y

      V ^^^ issued which will be sure to win hearty admiration and unstinted praise . Of these we would single out the fine edition of ' Undine , ' with Hoppner ' s rich illustrations

      ( Griffith , Farran , & Co . ); the ' Royal River' ( Cassell & Co . ) , an entertaining work on the Thames from source to sea , magnificently produced in the finest style of book art and work ;

      the ' Journal kept by Dick Doyle in the year 1840 ' ( Smith , Elder , & Co . ) is a smaller work , but but its its store store of oi amusement amusement ana and interest interest , , coupiea coupled witn with the me handsome nanasome way way it it has lias been been produced produced

      , should bring it high favour ; the Rev . W . J . Loftie ' s ' Windsor ' ( Seeley & Co . ) ; the same publishers' ' Isis and Thamesis , ' by Professor A . J . Church ; and last , but not least , we must

      mention the beautiful volume ' The Last Leaf ( Sampson Low & Co . ) , a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes , which has been issued in a form that is at once unique and brilliant .

      Several important books not connected especially with the Yule-tide have been kept back on account of the Elections , although General Grant ' s Memoirs have attracted universal

      attention even amidst the heat of the turmoil . We may now , however , look forward to the appearance of Lord Tennyson's ' Tiresias ; ' Mr . Ruskin's ' On the Old Road ; ' Longfellow ' s

      Biography , by his brother ; a correspondence between Carlyle and Goethe , and another I between Carlyle and Emerson . Each and all of these books are bound to be of more than

      ordinary interest . But returning to the subject of Christmas Books , we note with satisfaction that the output of

      works designed for the people—for children especially—is maintained with unflagging energy . Those who thoughtfully examine the present number of the Publishers' Circular cannot fail

      i > o be struck with the amount of literary labour , as well as the commercial and industrial activity and enterprise , which its teeming pages represent .

      With regard to presentation volumes , a feature which is very prominent , and is yearly becoming in ore prominent , is the favour with which the annual volumes of periodicals are

      received . Publishers of such works now vie with each other in producing the volumes with all the advantages that is in their power to bestow in connection with literary matter ,

      illustrationsand external adornment . The moderate j > rice of some of these volumes must be a , cause of wonder to many purchasers .

      The writing of slight stories of a moral or amusing description is by no means an exacting task . With not a fewhowever , through a certain facility of composition in this branch of

      , work , it has become a dangerous pleasure . Yet the practice is not open to complete condamnation demnation , ror for the the ever ever--increasinsr increasing nooa flood of oi literature literature oi of this this quality aualitv shows snows a a continued continued rise ns « i m "

      , the average of general intelligence . These These writers writersana and most most of oi our our compilers compilers as as well wen , , may mav never never have nave to to adopt adopt tne the pplan « ui ^ of *

      Count Tolstoiwho , , recently apprenticed himself to a shoemaker in order to relieve his mental faculties after , a stress of literary work . Nevertheless , their labours are laudable , and the

      fruits are shown in the pleasure which they rarely fail to afford to the million . ¦¦ h The am ^^ approaching ' ¥ ip' w ^ ^ ^^ w ~ "" " ,, ,- ^— - |—^ ™ season — — — — - — is - — one - during * Ti which * good * i . r -will to all < t ' pre ^ L — vails , Jwhile well-wishers

      • are aj : e met represented tfl ^ K on every in hand our . pag Our es wi may sh , be in very the present widely f disseminated instanc ¦ ¦¦ e , is that h and w—— p ~* the that m multitude T ¦ their contents of books na that & y »

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 7, 1885, page 1262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_07121885/page/2/