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    jan. 15, ***' ^ke Publishers* Circular 9...

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    Books Recei\Kh:— ^ From R Mr ' • . ^ ^ D...

    in keeping is of a with martial this scarlet latter p ornamented has « of the with book gold , its .

    We corer cannot help thinking ifc would hare been better _—^ j ^ that the * 0 ^ book »» "had —— » — name — which is familiar — __ .-, . _

    _____ ^& mVBU m *^ ^* ^« — - » —^ ~ r - - hence fiAnofi to Eng . search searcti lishmen is is generall made maae in in y . a a catalogue catalogue Suppose , of ox some the trie usual usuai years

    kind , for a book on the Like of Constance whicli yj j ^ l i W I * is * ** known ^* ¦ w — to — — b exist — the , but the author will ' s the name word is

    Bodensee not remembered readily occur y to inquirer an ordinary ; assistant in a library or a bookshop ? It is no new thing , of

    course AnnMa for fnr the thfi title title of of a a book book effectually effectually to to hide what , it is written about . But one ' s atten-¦ tion I ¦ II I is ^ O especially ^{ 1 mJ ^ J ^ m *&•* fc J drawn ^ Bhei J + ^^ JB * T ^* here »^^*« fc **¦ by found mj the " - ^^ fact in »»^^ w that ™*»»^* w w the » —— ¦—

    name ' Stein am n' ( so Murray ' s Rhine Handbook 'while ) is ' g Davos iven by am M > . Plat Capper 2 ' remains ' Stein on in the its

    natural . state . However -w-w , Mr * m W . Capper J ~ % ' s book 1 % is pleasant reading , perhaps not least so in the

    account suwvnnt of of a a sledge sledce rid ride e to to Davos Davos , , and and on on the the lake lake dwellings We are afraid of ( may that we a book say ) the enti Lake tled ' of Rambles Constance b . y

    the Vierwaldstadter See * would not be found in England as good as ' Kambles by the Lake of

    Lucerne T . nr » ftTnA . ' In In any anv case case , , we we h have ave sincere tmcere pleasure pleasure in in noting German th & at c . Mr . Capper names ' s book ives , which them abounds so far proper g ,

    Fro as m we the can Gardener perceive , faultlessl ' s Magazine y . ' Office . —' The Garden Oracle and Floricultural Year Book *

    for berd 1881 . Edito ( 23 r rd of annual The Gardener issue ) . ' s B Magazine y Shirley , Hib The - is here set forth in such

    science claim complete to of the gardening fashion title that of Oracle uraci the book for lor may there tuere fairly few iew lay a

    queries claim to on uio the title subj 01 ' ect which e ,, ' could not are are be answered ^ . v ^*^» ^^ * w ^^* ^^ ^ nw ^ " *^» by wt ^ w ¦ a " ^ p ^^ roference ^ m - ^^ ^ m - ^^ ^^ ^^ f- ^ r ^ m - ^— to ^^ r its ^^ - ~ - ~ - pages ^ r ~ ^ F ^^ t — — . In — addition — — —

    to a good deal of ordinary almanac matter , there are table ¦ many table of usefu the l cost tables of draining , such as on hard the p subsoils lanter ' s

    metrical tables ——»^ v ^ w ™— - ^ r , v ^^ of b - ^^ ^ m tables ^^ heating - ^^ ^^ ^^ v ¦ ^ ™ , —— tables ™ ' ^^ ¦ by T ^^ — hot © ^ ^ " ^ - f water ' — sizes — B ^^^ — of — p ipes — flower — , thenno -pots - , , fixtures of flower-shows and horticultural

    exhibitions for 1881 , and a diary with space for MS . notes Garde . n Following Work * for this the we greenhouse hare a * , Calendar stove and of

    flower farm orchid , poultry garden house , , farm fruit forcing garden and houses ap , i kitchen ary , , pits arranged garden and frames , under homo ,

    to eac be h done month in , and each showing particular precisel department y what duri oug ng ht tha month . A list of ' New Plants of 1880 /

    'Selections for 1881 , ' and many othor interepting chapters useful work completes a very comprehensive and

    . Fro ^ r-m Sunday — m — Messrs School ^* . VSVA Hamilton : its History JAIOVUi , Adams and C * UV 4 , & Development Co . —' The

    » - ^* - *»^ PWJU . JtO T JL / U 1 VAVUlJlVUl . ' t oo "With f r 1880 1880 an / / Account By Bv Joh Joh of n n the Palmer Palmer Sunday . . School With With Centenary an an intro

    intro-duction but ing of memorial tho by the history , Archbishop not of only the of of institution the York Centenary . An which interest year has - ,

    — - ' # uiain / j . jr v » . uto iuotii . ui . iuu iriii ^ ii iiao rerLched this venerable age . The story , like all and Mr . if Palmer there / is writes anything , is simp to desiderate ly and forcibl it y is told that ;

    » - " ¦« - ' » . » - » Kf U 4 « HAI UK l « - » ULOIUC 1 UIU A U 1 O WllC & l ; a chronicle little of more the Centenary space J had Festival been given to the

    * roitt B « y y Hodder Charles ^ naries Stanford Wta & nford Stoughton . JD > .. D D . . . —Phili A A new new . p Dodd v volume olu ridge me of of . '

    the it would publifihers , it may ' 'Men justl , Worth y be said Remembering , be difficult / and to find UI 14 M . a A . subj NY ! ill ect Al > r Wk # ** . ¦••** th ^ l-fc ^ -k ^^^ VH n . U hl mw in n keep 1 » j-v ^ v »» ing l * * X j- ^ with « n « l- »

    the general titl more e of the oroug series than y tho old Nonconford J ° ™ ha . 8 tfl Preacher evidentl and left no hymn stone -writer unturned . Dr in . Stan order - to get at the facts y of Doddridge ' s life , and he ^

    Princi acknowledges pal of New his College indebtedness fot giving to Dr him . Newth access ,

    , to the MSS . of Doddridge ' s ( Jbrrespondence in the library of that institutionand to

    , many others and of . his The minister sketch ial of life Doddridge is a most ' s pl earl easant y days bit

    of r cord biograp of h the y , and part scarcel which y less he took interesting in what is the the author terms Vthe great revival . ' Apart from

    the claims of his ' Expositor' and his ' Rise and entitle Progress him of to Reli a hi g gh ion p in lace the in Soul the / estimation his hymns of

    all ^^ Christian — ™ ~~ peop ^^ le ^ p ^ H - ^^ ; ^— among ^^ r — h - ^^ ^^ r ^ v his ^^^^ ^ r ^^ verses ^^ ^^^ ¦ . ^^ ^ V ^ B ^ being ^^^^^ - ^ p ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ p ^^^^ p the ^^^ ^^ famous Table spread Communion '—which Hymn , regardles ' My s God of , its and Noncon is Thy

    formist authorship , the Queen ' s Printers bound up with the Prayer Book—and ' 0 God of Bethel / , Incidentally the book introduces us to much

    movement interesting of matter the reli connected ious world with in which the Dod busy - dri < Jge occupied so prominent g a positionand it

    is in every way a worthy piece of work . , From Messrs . Houlston < te Sons . — Our Visitors :

    how to amuse them . ' By Fred . Davis . If the Eng an lis ra . h be * tak be e credited their pleasure with a sadly desire / they to fulfil must , the at y

    duties of , host and hostess to the best of their ability ; and when they err it is more frequently from lack of knowledge than from any lack of

    desire to give pleasure to their friends . The experience of not a few persons who are in the habit of going into society is that a large

    proportion of the entertainments given , not in one rank of life only , but in all , are marred by want of experience — until it may literally — & be said — that

    they often ^ furnish , on a costl ^ y scale , illustrations of * how not to do it '; when , by the exercise of a little judgment and discretionmoney might

    have been savedand the leasure , of the visitors materially increas , ed . It p was , we imagine , with some such conviction as this , that the author of

    ' Our Visitors , and how to amuse them' set about the preparation of his little book , and when he I remarks in his introduction that ' we have not

    acquired the art of mutual entertainment / he at once hits the mark . To give people a practical guide to the reformation of their manners and

    customs is his object , and his instructions both h as to ess the and personal as to tho procedure arrangement of the of host parties and

    from the , issue of the invitation cards up to the and ^ final ^ V ^ V ^^^¦ *» ^^ " ^^ good ^ PH ^ . ^^ adieu " ^ ¦ ¦—~^^ B taste ^ m ^ ^ l «^ V , ^» are ~ W . ^ ^ p * ¦ " In characterised ~—~~^ the - ^ r ^ m ^^ m ^^ winter —w » ^ ^^ ^ " ¦ ^^ ^^^ " ^ p » months b ^^ y * ^* ^' ¦ - ^ c ommo such — — ^ n a — sense book

    as this will be invaluable , although its contents the are b garden y no means party confined and other to spri indoor ng and gatherings summer ;

    fetes being carefull , y dealt with . From Messrs . Macmillan & Go . — Essays of

    Addison . ' This is a new volume of the ' Golden Treasury Series / a collection of books nearl which ¦ '

    approaches perhaps , than the anything beau idkal in we literature are acquainted more with y . , I ) r . Johnson , wo believe , said that tho best books

    are without those discomfort which you while can sitting hold in in a the chair . hand It would 4 Golden almost Treasury seem Series as if the ' had proprietors these words of the in

    agreeable their mind is when each examp planning le , whether it , so lig for ht and the pocket ¦ h or the hand 4 fr .

    ^ ^^ p ^ Pro ^ r * WB ^^ ^ V feesor ^^ V ^ b V ^*^ m ^^ Green W ^^^ vm ^ *^ p ^ V , who har edited and chosen shal the Essays l introduce of Addison it here for in tho the volume last words before of his us ,

    preface "To Addiaon : — , " saya Macanlav , " we are bound by a

    Bentinen Bentinent t as as much much like like affection affection as aa any anv sentiment sentiment can can bo boIF

    Jan. 15, ***' ^Ke Publishers* Circular 9...

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1881, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011881/page/9/