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    4 The Publishers' Circular jan. 15, ^1

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    Rtvhe Onward March Of Education, Despite...

    Elementary Mechanics , ' by William Paice , M . A . ; * Outlines of European Geograph y , ' W * m . arm m * * *¦*¦* . . . m ¦ / n mm j * j ~* ¦ ^ -nj ¦»•* m « m ¦ ¦ ^ ^ * _ _ .

    Miss M . A . Bennett , late Scholar of Girton College . They are about to publish ' First Lessons in German Reading , ' by Fraulein Jagst , fully illustrated . We notice that Professor

    Morley's ' First Sketch of English Literature ' is now in its tenth edition ; and that MorelPs ' Manual of Spelling' has reached its 78 th thousand . 'Energy in Nature , ' by W . Lanj

    Carpenter . _ . a , has ^ reached ^ V its a * second edition 4 B 1 m * A ; and Leslie ** P * ^ fl ' s ' Manual *^ B ^ P * ^ of Music ^ Bt ^ Btt A ' a ninth A ^ edition whilst an eighth edition of the ' Little Folks' History of England' has been called for . To _^ . __ - ^ ^ b . ^^ 1 al B > ^ Bi ^¦»^ BP-B » a ^ 0 ^ 4 ^ B ^^^^ k A A 4 ft .

    Messrs . Cassell * ^ ^ & Co . ' s series of books ^ ^ on Water-Colour Painting * has been ^ recentl y added * Animal Painting in Water Colour , ' with 18 coloured plates by Frederick Tayler late

    ^ q ^ - » ^« b ^ ay , — - " ^ W ^ JF President __^ . a . of the . « Royal ^ w m Society ^^ J a ¦ of Painters ' t . * in a > Water 1 — 1 Colours > " ** . This b * ot « * is * the . •* best < bb _ series » of the kind kin a we we know Know , . Cassell t ^ asseii ' s s - ' French xrencn JLUctionary Dictionary' ' has nas now now reached reached its its 186 lobtn th thousand thousand . which whiVfc

    , need not excite surprise considering its sterling merits . Ca « sell ' s German and Latin Dictionaries have also each sold between 40 and 50 thousand copies . The new edition of Cassell ' g

    ' Lessons in French ' has reached its 107 th thousand . The series of books prepared for use in Marlboroug ¦ h College appear to be finding their way throughout the country , as the French

    | ,- * ^ mt ^ ^» ^» - ^^ B ^ ^ , * ^^ ^ — H ^* B > Grammar has reached an eighteenth edition ; and the French Exercises , German Grammar Arithmetic Examples , and Arithmetic Rules have likewise passed through a number of editions . ,

    ' Animal Drawing , ' consisting of 96 studies in nature , by A . T . Elwes , is a new addition to the superior series of drawing-books issued by these publishers . With regard to Elementary

    Schools , Messrs . Cassell & Co . have revised their well-known series of 'Modern School Readers ' , ' Historical Readers , 'and 'Geographical Readers , 'to meet the latest requirements of the

    Education Department ; and . have recently added to their Modern School Series ' a set of Arithmetics and Test Cards by George Ricks . Messrs . Cassell issue two Educational

    Catalogues , one embracing their manuals for upper-clas 3 schools ; and the other , particulars , with specimens , of their elementary school-books .

    To those who are looking for School Prizes the volumes of Messrs . Hurst & Blackett and

    the illustrated books for younger readers of Messrs . Dean & Son may be safely commended .

    4 The Publishers' Circular Jan. 15, ^1

    4 The Publishers' Circular jan . 15 , ^ 1

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    is ^ ^^^ ^ a most ^* ^ " ™ ' ^ » quaint ^^^ - ^ - ^ — - ^ and — y ^ choice — — , little book ; it has no , . _ _ head -lines _ ^^ , and _^ rw ^ ^^^ ^_ no —a ^ pag ^ w ^^ - ^^ ination ^^ ^^ B ^ r ^ p ^^ — , Mj - ^_ ^ this ^ ^ ^^ B ^ ^^ is f ^ ^^^ a whim ^^^ p ^^ ^ f of ^^^ j ^ the ^^¦¦ h av ^^^ author « m **¦¦ ^^^*^ - *^ ^^ s . ^ — ¦— perhaps ^^ —¦ — - — - ¦ - — - — because — ______ — it _ _ contains __ , _ __ — _ — onl __ __ __ __ , y _ forty ___ __ __ _^ ^ _ pages _^— _^^ , __^ ^^ , ^^ all ^ ¦* »^^ told ^^ ^ . ^ *« ^^^ . w Within w v jk ^^« A Jk & 4 A the ^* AAV ^^^ covers ^^ ^^ » ^^** "v

    which contain those forty pages will be found a list of the sinners who combine together to spoil ( 1 ) the our author new Eng ( 2 ) the lish publisher books . There ( 3 ) the are printer no less ( 4 ) than the reader ten of ( 5 these ) the composito conspirators r ( , G ) viz the . :

    pressman or machinist , , ( 7 ) the paper , -malcer , ( 8 ) the , ink-maker , ( 0 ) , the bookbinderand , ( 10 ) the consumer . In what proportion each one of the above sinners contributes , towards the

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    , y way , the it must old books not be have forgotten as a rule that , come on the down princi to ple us of ; perhaps 'the survival after of all the our fittest ancestors , ' only of the the best book of

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    inevitabl fear that y they , tha were n ' shodd not y ; but ' church books towers made . of Of rubbish late years disappear there has more been quickl a great y , thoug outcry h for not , ch less eap and Sir Oharlea e , ver cheaper Trevelyan - •¦ ¦» . literature and ^ b ^* b ^ , but the *¦— - the Board f # cry * i of has ia Trade ari sen who not from would ww the hav AUi public e it produced , but from at theorists sac ^ rifice like

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    -, enough ' : Mt ia not the amiable public that is so hungry for cheap printing . and . cheap s books says , but ;

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1885, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011885/page/4/