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    Terre avant le Deluge , ' ' Le Lendemain de la Mort — / and other well-known productions have

    7 A had . so great success on "both sides of the Channel .

    Encouraged by the favourable reception of \ his booksM . Figuier conceived the idea of

    embodying , similar conceptions in a dramatic form . The first l drama of c Le Theatre Scien 9 -

    tLiique' was Les Six : Parties du Monde , in 5 acts and 10 tableauxfirst acted in Paris in

    1877- This was followed , after an interval of five - — years , / , b - y ' Denis Pap , in , ou l'lnvention

    de la Vapeur . ' M . Figuier ' s most recent production is said

    to possess dramatic interest , which JL we can well believe — . For _ is there _ _ in fiction _ anything more

    touching than the little we know of ^ the real , __ , life of the great inventor of printing : the modern

    Prometjieus who jgave us that power of -the Press so , fateful for good and evil ? How

    ungrudgingly and unselfishly he worked at perfecting his artwhile the shrewd calculating

    man of law , Johann , JTwst , was scheming to get all the credit and the profit of the invention

    for himself ; how courageously he struggled on after he has been turned out of the firm by Fust ,

    and how at last he died worn-out and brokenheartedevery schoolboy ( as Macaulay would

    say ) knows , , and every one connected with the trade ought to know .

    M . Figuier , however , has not given us in his drama — ( and how could we expect it ?) a history

    which can be taken on trust . *¦ There is said to loe much in the play about Gutenberg at

    Haarlem , a sort of revival of the Laurent Coster legendwhich seems to have been

    dragged into the , piece because the administrator of the Paris theatrical troupe is a

    Dutchman , the author perhaps being actuated Toy the same principle as that which moved Mr .

    Crummies to introduce the real pump into Nicholas Nickleby ' s play !

    Yet another French book on ' John Bull and his manifold backslidings ! This time they

    are chiefly political . M . L . Nemours Godre gives us a bookpublished by the house Rene

    Haton , entitled , ' Les Inconsequences de John Bull , ' a lecture in several chapters JL on our want

    of logic or consistency in action . The chief divisions of the work are : Knights of dynamite

    the entente cordiale , and the Salvation Army , . We are told for our comfort that dynamite j

    outrages have served us right for the complacency with which we have looked on when

    subversive operations were being executed in foreign countries & c & c . The eleven

    introductory t-J chapters are , occup > 7 ied with our attitude towards the French Republicthe German

    Chancellorthe United States , and our own colonies . , ,

    Algeria Most as Eng a winter lishmen resort , we may of delicate suppose persons , regard ,

    or as an exercising ground for the French army . The inhabitants of the country l do not

    greatly occupy our thoughts . L'Amour au Pays Bleu — ' by _ M . Hector ~ - — — _ _ .. _ France — — — — _ ia .. _ a story . __ _ . _

    and a very , remarkabl ^ j e one - indeed , , of the , hopes and the --- fears ---- the - loves -..- and . the - - hates of

    the Arab population , of Al geria __ . There are

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    two editions of this book , one published lately by Messrs . Martin & Hubertof Coventry

    Street , with additions , and one , published a year or two since by M . Alphonse Lemerre , of

    Paris . ' La . J-iUf Baronne J » ri ^ A . \^ AAA ^ V V v dra ¦** SA . MJV ' is Aft- * the VA *^/ title % / + * of \ -r +- a volume W \ y * * 4 AA V V ^^ «

    by M . The ' ophile Gautier fils , -which is published by ~ M . Calma , nn-LeVy in Paris . There are

    gerol three , novelettes * La Maison in the de book Poste — , ' * and "Virginie 'La Fou Ba - - ronne Vera . ' They are nice straihtforward

    storiessuitable for a railway journ g ey , which can be , left about in an English household

    because without apprehension the author . of This Mademoisell is worth say e ing de ,

    Maupin ' distinctly did not write for the use of boarding-schools . * La Baronne V £ ra has

    already gone through several editions . M . Paul Ollendorfof Parishas published

    an authorised translation , of the ' , . "Memoirs of an ex-Minister' by the Earl of Malmesbury . The

    French version , 1 / does not appear to be -v at all abridgedbut by compression the whole of a

    work which , occupied two octavo volumes is comprised within a few hundred cro » wn octavo

    pages , offered for three or four francs . This issue of M . Ollendorf ' s has already gone

    through several editions , which may be considered as a tribute to the accuracy of the

    original with regard to foreign affairs , and especially those of the Second Empire .

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    8 The Publishers' Circular jan . 15 * 1 SS 6 \

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    On the 21 st of January Messrs . Puttick &

    Simpson will sell ancient and modern music . The same auctioneers willon the 25 th

    b h ah k A H K K K , K K iBm A and two _ following ^^ days | , sell ^^ the ^ Moxhull ^^^ ^^ mm ^ ^^^ Hall m ^^^^^^ . Library and other booksstated to be the

    property of v a well-known bookseller , . Included X are many bibliographical works .

    The engravings and drawings forming the private collection of Mr . Ellisof Bond Street

    will be sold by Messrs . Sotheb , y on January , 25 and 2 C .

    Messrs . Sotheby announce a good sale to tak ^ * ~ pv ~^ e ^ mr p W *^ lace ^^ ^^ ^^ on ^^ the ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ " ^ ^ 20 ^^ ^ " th ^^ ^^ ^ inst ^ *^ *^ *^^ ^ ' ^ . It ^^ ^^ consists ^^ ¦ ^ T ¦ " ^ K r f ^ ^ f ^ f ^^ r > r of ^*^ r ri ^ the ^* ^* ^ b ^^

    remaining portion of the books and engravings of the late Rev . J . Griffith 3 . Included are

    BartsclTs ' Peintre-Graveur , ' 21 vols . in 10 , i large paper ; ' Wood ' s Athenae Oxoniensis , ' 5

    vols ., imperial paper , with proof portraits and rare cancelled leaves ; Hasted ' s ' Kent / the

    folio edition , < fcc . Mr . Hodgson willduring the present

    month , sell the KJ professional , library CJ of the JL late Master of the Rolls , Sir (* . Jessel . Some

    valuable law books are included . Messrs . Giddy & Turnerof Pall Mallwill

    on the 19 th instant mS sell 500 , vols . of books , at , Great Baddow . ,

    Three sales are advertised to take place on the i 20 thviz . V by V - ^^ v Waters & Lawrence FP 1

    Salis-^ ¦ - ^^ ^^ r ^ ^— , ^ H w ^ —• — - ^^ ^ , H ' ^ f ^^ *^ ^^^ ^^* W f . V ^ P ^^^ ' ^ ' ^^^^ . ^ W ^ V V W ^^^ ^^^ ^ .. b ^^ B ^^^ ^ V ^^ , V ^ H W ^^^ V ^^ ' ^^ ^¦^^ ^^ . ^ W ^^^ ham bury , at * val SnelPs uable books Park ' ; Richards 300 volumies , of Totten 7 and - ;

    Tootell 4 1 . 100 , volumes & Son . ' , King , Street , Maidstone ,

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1886, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011886/page/10/