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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th January 1890, Edition 1 of 1, Page 2, St. Dunstan's House, E.G.,

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      Literary Intelligence ,..,.... 2 Books A...

      LITERARY INTELLIGENCE ,..,.... 2 BOOKS AND RUMOURS OP BOOKS / . 3

      NOTES AND NEWS 4 CONTINENTAL NOTES 6

      CURRENT EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE 7 THE EDUCATIONAL ANNUAL FOR 1890 11

      A MEMORY OF EDWARD THRING 12 IT PAYS 13

      THE SCHOOL OF MODERN ORIENTAL STUDIES .. .. 13 WORTHY OF ATTENTION 13

      DISCOVERY OF A NEW TESTAMENT MS 14

      TRADE CHANGES 14

      IN MEM 0 RIAM 15 REVIEWS , & c 16 I

      INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN JANUARY 1 & 15 22 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM

      JANUARY 1 TO 15 23 NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 2 T

      MISCELLANEOUS 88 BUSINESS CARDS 90 , 94

      SITUATIONS WANTED ,.... 97 [ ASSISTANTS WANTED 97

      BOOKS FOR SALE > 97

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 98

      St. Dunstan's House, E.G.,

      St . Dunstan ' s House , E . G ., January 15 , 1890 .

      N The Educational World, Nothing Is More...

      N the educational world , nothing is more Iremarkable than gradual raising of the

      standard to be reached by the pupil , and of the methods to be employed by the teacher .

      While in the past , England for long years had to regret her imperfect educational methods

      and results—at any rate outside her great universities—it may ¦ rbe said now , without fear ,

      that education is elevated into a science . Toward this end many things have contributed .

      There can be no doubt that the abolition of University tests , the admission of women to

      degrees , the promotion of the University Extension Scheme and Local Examinations on one

      hand ; and the Education Act of Mr . Forster , the keen competition of Board Schools ,

      and the development of Technical Education , on the other , have given to learning in this

      country such an impulse , that this great question has very nearly assumed the importance

      to which it is entitled . I Toward this end it is impossible to say how

      1 largely the press has contributed — . Nothing is more remarkable than the steady way in which

      books have kept pace with new demands . However apt the teacher , or eager the pupil ,

      or high the aim of both , little could have been done in reaching to-day ' s educational

      distinction but for the marvellous facility with which the press has kept pace with its utmost demand .

      The modern manufacturer could no more attain his results with the old * spinning

      jenny' than the schoolmaster of to-day could rise to his examination results with the books

      ; of twenty-five years ago . In this way , educa-¦ ; tional text-books have in recent times not

      only met the demand for higher results , they , have also very powerfully strengthened that

      : ; demand . To those who were at school thirty / m years a S ? it is a niaryel that results were even

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      as satisfactory as they were , considering the

      kind of books then in vogue . In the Publishers' Circular for last month

      we presented a very suggestive analytical Table of Books published in 1889 . From this .

      it appears that the first place , numerically , is claimed by fiction , with 1 , 040 new volumes ;

      the second place is filled by Theology , Sermons , and Biblical Literature , with 630 volumes ;

      and then—a very respectable third—come Educational books , with a total of 557 new

      works . This fact , more perhaps than any other , will show the vitality of the education

      of England to-day . It is not so mucli that the total number of new works is high , as that

      their quality , their exquisite adaptation to the end required , and their power to present great

      principles in a concise , intelligible form is continually observable . In accordance with

      custom , books on Education receive special attention in this number of the Publishers '

      Circular ; and a careful perusal of the list will prove that if the demands of the day are

      rapidly growing , the supply is abreast of the demand in every branch , whether of classics ,

      mathematics , art , science , or literature . While speaking of the production of

      Educational Works , we are reminded of the fact that the very industry of printing is largely

      dependent upon this branch of it . Every new avenue of thought or of labour opened up

      by books creates an imperious demand for further reading . It is , perhaps , owing

      to this fact that Mr . J . H . Youncr was able to say in a recent lecture before the

      Glasgow Typographia that the Technical Schools on the Continent are principally *

      supported by the master printers . This is as it oug ^^ V ht to be , # seeing — —— ^ ^ th — - — at — — — in - — - — -w— due -n w ^ r time ^ r ^» v ^ sa ^(^ th WAff ey ^ fr w

      will place at the disposal of the masters the services of a greater number of efficient

      workmen . Thus education and industry act and

      re-act on oach other . Alderman White , in a

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1890, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011890/page/4/