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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th January 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 6, THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN.* I

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      Gneist's History Of The English Constitu...

      GNEIST'S HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .

      * To see ourselves as others see us' is admittedly instructiveand when the * others '

      , happens m to be a man of learning and reputa-1 tionthe results of the observations must be ,

      worth careful consideration . In these two handsome volumes the learned - — professor _ _ of

      law at the University of Berlin ^ gives us a complete account of the English . Constitution

      from the earliest times up to our own day , treated from a profoundlGerman

      standpoint , though not without y an eye to English readers . Dr . Gneist is already an authority

      on the subject : he has written various wellknown works on various elements in our

      Constitution , and thus has prepared himself for this master effort , in which we have the ripe fruits of many years of study . The work —

      is singularly thoroug ^/ */ h and comp «/ lete . Thus , ! for instance , we have on one hand an j

      ; elaborate offices of disquisition the iJaldorman on and the Shir pre- - Norman Gerefa j

      whilst at the end of the work there is an , equally careful and exact descrition of the

      various officials who in our own day p administer the complicated affairs of the British Empire .

      but When of special all is excellence so good , a are selection the accounts is difficult of ,

      the development of the House of Commons ( Third PeriodVols ¦ . I . and II . ) and of the

      ¦ Kings kin str ^» uggle srs m in against — tne the , the seventeenth seventeftn ^^ ^^ pretensions ^ fh m m ^^^^ ^^^^ and an ^^^^^^ of il ^ . ^ the eighteentn * > i erh ^^» . Stuart f , fifmtli « . - ^ ^— ^— ^^

      centurieswhich ultimatelled to , their final expulsion , from the Brit y ish throne ( Fifth

      Period , Vol . II . ) . The history of some of the minor Court , of and Hig now h extinct Commission , tribunal and s , such the as Court the

      of Star Chamber ( Chapters XXXIV . and tion XXXV done with , the ., them Vol various . being II . ) obscure , fully is also elucidated points excellent in . connec ly wall

      executed The translatio though n we is , should on . the have whole preferred , admirably a

      less frequent , use of the present tense in the narration .

      One or two very minor points call for a word of notice . Dr . Gneist tells us in his

      of prefac Eng e land that ' has The hitherto History *~ ¦ ¦ - ~ —¦ of onl the y been Constitution written

      with centuries regard « ^ B since to the the — ' — Reform Middle » - ^^ ^^ ^ r —*^ ation A «^ ^^ ges ^^ . 1 ^ w / and ^^ r ^*^ ^^ ^* ^ . fe separate ^ w > . « b i ^ Ba " ^ w ^ k ^ ^ fc ^ ^ i » . ¦• ¦ ^ — — - ^^~ ¦ - ^ ~ r - ^^ r ^ - ^ - ^^ ^^ ^ r ^^^^ m ^ - ^ m ^^^^^ ^ . ^ **^ ^^^ r W ^ . B ^ Bf

      I ^ o w This \ it seems statement to us scarcel Mr . Ashworth y fair thus endorses so com . - pletely to ignore Mr . Taswell-Langmead's

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      valuable text-book , , is still something , more very than that .

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      make mentary every elections fresh ¦ - >— election - , even v « . ur « h at a pecuniary — the ^ . b present sacrifice time AAA ,

      amountin Mr jlvai . Ashworth ^ Buwortn — — g to several — ' s s translation Translation w thousands Mw bears Dears ^_ , . ^ ^ of AAAM pounds -WA the tne P ^ date date t-VVA . ' As of or ^ W" V ^

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      the current year , he ought to have intimated I that ' we have changed all that' some time I

      ago .

      The Pictorial Arts Of Japan.* I

      THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN . * I

      Perhaps the most amazing feature coti- I nected with modern international intercourse I

      is the rapidity with which Japan has been I opened JT for the reception X . of the influences of H I

      Christendom ¦ and the readiness whichin recent times , this most interesting country , I

      has shown in , adopting what we call institutions . I Half-a-century ago the Japanese had an ex- I B » . IB . A BB 1 A Bn — BVBBm ^ BBM _ B ^ B ^ B ^ B ^

      treme aversion to civilised strangers . Their I peculiar language was not understood by other I

      nations . The Dutch were the only Europeans I

      who had ¦ commercial transactions with the

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      country . And yet the Japanese were far from W several being an of untutored the sciences peop were le ; for taug in ht their , also schools rhe- M )¦ ¦ toricpoetryand history . From 1854 is dated

      ¦ relations the acceptance , ^^ with v ¦ > ¦ ™ »™ , other *—^ - ¦ ~ b y ^^ ~^^ ^*^ the parts bt ^ r ^ fc ^^ B * 0 ^^ country ^ B ^ ¦ F ^^^ of ^™^ •¦ the ^*^ *^* *^ ^ B ^^ of world w w ^ B commercial ^ B" ^ " ^^™ " ^ ^ ^ . ^ v i M ^^^^^^^^ h

      ¦ extraordinary The progress and made no exemp since lification ¦ then has of been the ________ I

      ¦ hitherto knowled — - - ge ^ almost - - - ^ _ - - which _ , - — ___ unknown ^ . , . _ . has ^^ _^ ^^ - ^ been ^ ^*^^ v land r ^^ r ^^ BV * * B * J ^ B ^ ^^ gained ^ ^ could » ^ " " ^^ " ^ ^™ ™ ' ~^ be " — - of found — -T- this .

      Anderson * The . Pictorial London : Art Sampson s ¦ of Japan Low , Marston , by "William , & Co- 1

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1886, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011886/page/8/