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    From Messrs. Brown & Wolan (Dublin).—Mr.

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    disheartening ; but Mr . Willock ' s book is a good effort . He has collected a vast number of good anecdotes showing the humours of legal life .

    Many of these are well worthy of preservation in volume form . The anecdotes have no purti -ular arrangement , but the irritation one might fefl

    a about copious this and defect good is index allayed . by the appearance of From 4 Handbook Messrs . of Sampson Commercial Low , Correspondence Mars ton , & Co / — b *^ W ^

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    experience may be benefited by its lessons . From the journal the same Health . —Dr . has Andrew been Wilson before , the the public editor in of

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    skin skin , , and and the the hai hair r ; : the the information information on on the tho last last--mentioned into consideration mibject being the importance remarkabl Jt y of full the . Taking subject « i

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    scientific of readers . Fi' ti oni ful Messrs Years . ' Morgan This little & Scott work . consists — ' Nineteen of sketches

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    and and health graces fu were l reli sanctified gious experience by a deep , free but from cheerful cant , affectation ^~ ^ ^—^^^— ^^» ^^^ - ^* - ^—^ - ^ ^^^ ~^^ ' i ^^ , ^ . or —~ ^^^ p bi ^^^ ^^ " gotry ^ bHbBB ^ p ^^ ^^^ y . ^ p ^ Her ^^^ " ^^ " ^^ " ^^^^ ^ - ^^ sister »^^ ^^— —^^ ^^ ^^ i , ^ . b ^^ y ^^ whom - the — —

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    illustrations ^ ^ ^ consist of ^^ portraits of Mary _ . Willard , her mother and her sister , and a view of Mary ' s I birthplace . I

    From The National Publishing Company . — ' Glenessa / of whom we have not hitherto heard , has sent us a volume entitled * The Discoveryj

    and BpS ^ ^ h ^ BBT ^ . PT W Other *& ~ E ~ BB *^ B > W ^ W Poems ^^ pT ^ B ^ Bp 7 ^ ^ p ^ / ^ fBp > ^ B ^^ Bk The ^ BH ^ BP * ^ BBF ^ Pk ^ BB writer ^ BP ^ ^ BP ^* ^ BP * ^ P ^ seems BP ^ P ^ ^ v ^ a to . ^^^^ ^ be ^ ^ > of ^ ^^— ^ m a , H H ' sympathetic and affectionate disposition , was strongly in favour of Russia during the unhappy

    and useless war with Turkey , and is even now - averse to the * rampant fanaticism of the Tory party'in this country . * Glenessa' shows some

    skill in poetical construction . The book is very neatly bound in morocco , with gilt edges . From Messrs . IP . Orr & Sons we have received

    Number III . of the 'Standard Series of School Songs , ' arranged , for three equal voices by Alexander Patterson . The Tonic Solfa notation is

    adopted . F . ^^ v ^ r rom w ^^ - ^ p ^ - — ~— m Mr BPBB *^^ BBPBB . ^ BBBr . "P * " Willi ^ ^™ ^^ ^^^ am ^^ ^^ ^^^¦^ . ¦¦^ F ¦¦ Pater ^^^ i ^^ ^^^^ B" ~^ r —^—~ ™ son I ^^ ^^^^^¦^ , ^ h Edinburg ^^^^^^^ ™ ¦ —^ ¦ ^ ^ — V ^ BBh h . ~~ —Books ' ¦ ¦ ^~^ ^ ~ ^^~ ^^^

    of anecdotes are numerous enough and , usually , wearisome enough . But the plan adopted by the comp V iler —¦ or com ~_ r p p— ilers - ¦ - of - — the - ~ m * w- —m ~ four dai p- nty 1 little

    ~_> - « - p ^ . — - ^ , — — — _ , - — — - — volumes coming under the name ' Nuggets for Travelterii . / ia _ xnost sensible . The anecdotes have been nationalisedso to speakand distributed ;

    the separate volumes , being devote , d to England , litt — Scotland — _ le — — books . _ . — _ , Ireland , neatl — __ , y , and printed — — _ — America ___ , tasteful _ — __ . They ly bound are - bri — , and ght _ —

    cheap . Each contains a large number of anecdotes , which have been well selected from various sources .

    From Messrs . George Routledge & Sons . —The edition of Robert Chambers' * Vestiges of Jbhe Natural flip- ^ ^ mt "fc ^^ « 4 W % JV ^ B . History ^^« BP ^ ^ *^ l ^^ ^^ F ^ W ofeCreation ^^^ ^ B ) f- ^ haflT ^ ^ H « ^^ 4 ^^ T ^ k ^ Bt ' which W W ^ pK «¦ - ^^ ^ ^ ^ has ^ ^ WT ^ P been *^ P * ^ * ^ B' ^» B * B added ^ Bf VB ^» ^ P ^» ^^ ^^ . B > ;

    o to n Morley account ' s Universal of the introduction Library is chiefl supplied y interesting by Professor Henry Morleywhose name alone appears

    , for on the by title the -pag fact * . that Possibl the work y this is may reprinted be accounte from d the ori - ^^ r inal edition . The book itself is too well

    known •^^ r ^ « . ¦ ^ p > ~ ^ p g ^| B ^ k to ¦• ^ P ^ P ^ B" ^^ ask ^^ ^^ P ^ ^ " ^^ ^^ for ¦• ^ . P ^ ^™ ™^ attenti ^ ™ on - ^ - ^ - ^ fro ^^ — - m — ~^» ^ any reviewer — ~— w ' ^ . It its f was authorshi published p 4 openly in 1844 declared , and althoug only recentl h for y many was

    years — - _~ - ^ - V ^ m- - ^ it ' BV BB ) was ¦ . PJ . I ^ ^^ ^ HP tacitl V ^" r ^ P * ~ ~^^ ^^ y ^ understood » ^ ~ , to be ^ the ^ work ^ ~ of B ^ F ' Robert Chambers . Changes which have occurred i 1 the domain of science prove that this work

    gives the author a far higher intellectual standing than any other of his numerous books . His only other B notable r book on science * was the much

    ^ p ~ - ^^ ¦» p | ^ pV p ^^ B >^ BI ^^ p" ^ p' V ^ V ^* P ^ ^™ ^ PP ^ T ^**^ ^ ' ¦^ ¦ I— *¦ ^ . P ^^ I ¦ ¦ ^^ ~~ V ~ " ^ ^ P ^ - ^ — ¦ ^ I ¦ ™~ ' ^™~ ^ "" ~ " - ^^ - ^ v ^— ^^ neglected work entitled * Ancient Sea Margins / From BBI mA ^ bb the same V V BV . f # — ¦¦ The iV ^ pr new p ^ hw ^ pp v « * Pocket « pv * 1 ^ p' - ^ p ^ *¦ w ^ pp ^ pr Volume — . ^ ipr . . vm ^ w ^ p- Edition pmwp ^ » s V . i ¦ f «¦ ' ^ ^ , ^ J ^ ^ V « w 4 * ^^^ ^^ r * ^ ^ hp * ^^ ^ " ** ^

    favour of Lord . T L ype ytton , printing ' s novels , piper will , soon and general be in hi ap gh - pearanceare all that could be desired . ' Pelham '

    is the first , volume of the series . ^ From pK ^ BlV ^ . P ^ ^* *• ^^ Mr BBPJBPP ^^ . ^^ . ^ V . B ^ Walter ^^ ^ B > ^ . " ^^ ¦¦ ™ ^^ > ' v ^ B . ^ Sraitn ^ B ^ P ^ ^ . —* Through ^ — ~— — — ^ — ^ B ^^ BJ the ^ D ^ i ¦ ark ¦¦ " - " ~ - ^ ^ M . ^ . h ^ id A ^^» ^^ m dBBia . ^^^ H ^ _

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    subj and ects law , such self-denial as want and of the reality Christian , prayer life , , God the > little ¦ ¦ ¦ joy H of ¦ i Christians h i ¦ futurity & - c - . These » - - r- ...

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1887, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021887/page/15/