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    ccunt Christmas books cards and printing , p laying ; Messrs cards , . menu Charles cards Goodall , and , fancy XaUKj stationery DtebClVMlOt . JT , ; UL Messrs CODI Di . KJ Spalding £ tm l . 1 A . X ± Xf £ v & */ Hodge . M-v ^ f , * --,,

    hand-made and machine-made papers ; Messrs . H . b Sotheian ookbinding & Co ; Messrs ., art publications . Triibner & Co and . work specimens s relating of

    birttday grap to ?« India Ttidia hs , chrowos ; cards Messrs MftfiRwj , and . Christmas Raphael Tfanhael Messrs , Easter Tack Tii Waterlow ek , & & wedding Son Sons & s , , Sons oleo oleo and --

    ; . , station Caslon ery & tCo of sent every speci vari men ety s of . type Messrs and . printing H . W .

    . ¦ apparatus Eyre & Spottiswoode P ^ , ; and iii * the showe rf ^ fine- ¦» art - d *™ their ¦¦»*•¦¦ s ¦» ection — — lithograp — — — , Messrs — hic .

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    ' . This sory History quaintly of but Swearing appropriatel / by Julian y-titled Sharman volume . takes us into •¦¦» a ¦ bypath / fT of ¦¦ literary ¦ ¦ " ¦ —~ historyand

    ——1 ' from WMaW the ^ " »^ ¦» earl " >^ y »» oath ** " ^ . ^ - *™ taking w " ~ ^ ^ , half - " — w paga ^~ " — " n , , half ~~ . barbaric harharift . down down to to ail all the the modern modern varieties varieties ot of tne the

    curse , he , traces the growth and progress of the j habit of using expressions "which are so often

    sacred in their origin , although in modern parlance ^ latform they . have S »* peaking ¦ reached of the a secular etymology — — if not of the a , vicious word

    j * p _ curse v ^^^ w ^» ^^ ^^ , ' ^*^^ the ^ m author ^ r' ^ r - ^^ mi ^^ mm ^ ^^^ r ^ says % ^^ : ^^^^ mf jj ^ # — — — - — --- — - f fondly ' Don imagine 't care a- to § AJ curse' or ' somethin O not ' worth UUJi 1 a of curse poetic tfVWi * we imagery & uj might t

    f ± The . % JkX \ AM : learned j / JLUICk ^ AUp in derivations poss pUOOwOQ ess undecen »* JU »^^ g r e us V / i- . They ^ say th ^ at jr . the word cwne is here identical "with the word cress . In - that tUaV sense 3 » CUot 7 * HVf not V worth WUltU a Cb curse fUl > 3 C ' will wi # l be fcJV iWLAJLXU found lil . in ' Piers O . 1 VJ . O Visionthe remarkable ork of the four

    . teenth Ploughman century ' s * * * w-Proceeding to speak of the rapid " ~ development - " - ¦— of

    ^ H ^^ p ^^ . ^^ ^^^ n , ^ ~^^ r ~^^^ ^^ B ^ p ^^ HH ^ K ^^ ^^^ » ^ ^^ ¦ ^^ - ^ ' ^^ ^^^ - - - — ~ m ~ ^ ^ v ^ r * — — — ~ — - - - ~ - the habit , the author writes : Since the days when City mechanics and Fleet Street apprentices CSUPL / JtCJUl WlVV < 3 flocked XM . \ J \^ M 3 ^\ j \ JL A round UUUU the * . * --IV ^ dusty UMkJVT and rallied scaffold frJW ^ - ^ JUl . mvi X of ^ J . another the fMW Black J >^ 1 UVA - ~

    friars levelled possibly play at took -house this passin newly and g umbrage -nurtured laughed at word the , satire what one that a remarkable was being , or , , . what niiav c an * u astounding oawuuu . LUg ascendency « ovsviiu . « ja * xjjt has huu j it , u enjoyed waaj than ^ tjt «^ u has . ! » No xiu this xjuiuu mint

    has chequer ever of issued bad language its metal , or more given swlfLly It a more unmistakable exgood impression in it . From And yet the there disorders UIOU ^ ia nothing -which UJ . VU healthful first A & 1 OV environed VJUV , nothin UUVU it g

    f £ \* % JUl AJ-f it / . # JL'A ^ FJULi V < U «^> UVIO W __ AU , y ¦ ft unhealthiness it has 4 never yet and 4 recovered when it . has It ^^ A _ lives ^ rid * itself . __ only 'ft of by 4 disease disease ^ ff and and unhealthiness , , it will die .

    Our author holds that the first literaTy notice of the entrance of the abusive element into English conversation is in a passage in an epigram of Sir

    John Harrington which appeared in 1613 . No longer , ' says Sir John , ' do men swear devoutly by the cross and mass , or by such innocent oaths

    as the jjyx or the mousefoot . Now they invite damnation as their pledge of sincerity / Passing onMr . Adams shows how swearing mostlowed

    its , favour and its audacity to the practice y of really cultivated men , and he quotes Carlo Buffbne ' s words ww ^ p « to ^ w * r * r in •>* » . ¦ — Ben ¦ ¦ * «¦¦•• Jonson - " ^ ¦¦» ¦¦ —•• - «^ " «^ '¦ s " >• - copy - ^ ¦* - ¦ y * » , a * Every i"w » - ^ w ** p « fc ^ w a Man * - ^« m >* va Out ^^ « v » V of ^^ . »

    his Humour ' : 'To be an accomplished gentleman that , no have man two else or swears three peculiar . ' Reaching oaths later to swear times \> y

    our author is able to quota from contemporary records evidences of the use of strong language p , b ¦ ¦ * . ¦» y » public HV V «« « 4 pv « B «^ »^ officials ^« P- ^ m ^ m—^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ m ¦ bi , h ¦ and bb . . 1 - ¦ bb bj then — p ^^ — v ~ brings p- ^ ^ v *« Pfe * iHK « . # ? us 'ffc" ^ J ^ l on ^ J ^ to Vb * W ^^

    Jpnathan Swift ' s ' Bank of Swearing , * The attacks of the Puritans on blasphemy and swearing W . P liament are ^^ " ^ Bi I BP ^ - ^^ dul P" » —^^ «^^^^ ^^ y of —~ noted ^^^ 1645 ¦ ^ - ^( pV and ^^^ , and to ~^^ - ^^^ check the '"B' ¦ I * B ^~ ^^» action ^^— swearing I ¦ " ^^ —^ take ^^ ^ HBm n is ^^ *^» b chronicled " ^ y BBPBB ^^^ the ^ ^^ PBP ^ V BBft B Par ^^ pB ^ ^ B ^ ^¦ P ' VbS . -

    ^ s a curious interesting fact in this connection 1 JMfanners we find that / fou the nded ' Society in 1700 for the had Beformation for one of ita of i , prime , objects tne entire suppression , of oath-t

    . 8 taking " ' , ana ' » ir unnetopper ¦¦ - - *' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ wren ¦ ¦• ¦ " ¦ trained , rules to

    prevent building the of St use . Paul of ' s oifensivo Cathedral words . This — during movement th

    towa capable rds leader a more in hopeful Joseph state Addison of - — things of « - » ' whom ¦ 'u found 'OUie th ]]]; a

    , writer blunders uiuuuci trul s , , y it > says was wao : ' impossible juij Whatever -njooiuitj his for Jior own him ill Dl person to to pi PTT al ^ .

    protests in a point against of literary the profane judgment use of / the Addison Divine ' s

    contemporaries name ^ BBB > JB . BB » A ^ ^ — undoubtedl — ^ ^ hBh . _ ^ J ^ "b B >^ flV ^ ^ ^^ , and ^ y B ^ PBBft — carried dK B * B ¦ > the &^ fe ^^ h ^ «^ ^ J purgation ^ m ^^^^ ^ uch A ^ — ^_ L w ^ . - wei _ w ** ght of % *¦ * literature * with i t / cm ah —^ ( . ti his rfl froeedless letives owed much

    attitude m n . The exp appen if dix to — the book to his contains manly

    • ~ ww *» some interesting documentary evidence vuwnug on the matters dealt -with in the preceding pages .

    From House _ Messrs _ _ of _ his . Kisbet Friends _ _ _ & 'by Co F . . — ¦ M ' . Wounded Accepting Bk in ; the the

    theory that the well — -known , j w ords — m of B » .-. ^ BT the ^ k ^^ , / «^ W Prophet 4 bUCbL' Ul 1 r fr i Zechari iends / ah refe reier , ' I was to wounded the tne Lord in the house of my

    nenas , r no juora Jesus Jesus Unrist Christ the t-U author of this little book writes a series , of chapters — —— —— — — — - — - on — - —— the — —— — various — — — ¦ ¦ - ways in which the lore

    - - r *~ w " *• ' »«**» wi AAi >\/ tiA viXv XwVC of God ^ is slighted and a deaf ^ ear is turned to His ™ ¦ - — entreaties — — ^^^ — — - ^ - ^ — — w . ~— V The — ^ ^ line — — ^^ taken ^ P" BBP ^ " ^ B- ^«| p in ^ «« the " 4 ^ ' . ^^ VP 1 hook lI | 1 | 1 ¦ 0 ^_ ¦ is H __ _ . __ - _! 't but __ A what T- A is _ true A of ^ • m .

    personal , individuals in of reli — — congregations — g ious —¦—j -f — ^ matters ^^ — — — -- , , as so — — a that — —— rule —— — , the ^ ¦¦ — is ¦— true chapters - ^ p » >•««» , more ~* r VafA ^*« , each or * less > of \ Ja ,

    which as the has groundwork its separat for e sermons text-sulgect . , may be useful From Messrs BBPPBBV WBIPPV V . S P / P . W . Partridge PPPBfPJW & Co—' Pantomime

    —^— — " - — - ' —^— ^^ - ^ ~< - ^— ^^ ^ ^ ^ W ^ P ^ PB ^^^^ . ^ P- ^ P * mm ^ JW ^ ' ^ P ^ ^^ bI ^^ ^^^ ^^ . ^ Bp ^ P- ^ Vb ^ bB V ^ VaAsL' | UV the Waifs ^ bTY ^^ * Author B ^ V ; or , of a ' Plea ^ ff ^ Our ^ V ¦ Homeless for ^ ¦» « ¦ our »^ ir City ^^ Poor A . bV Children ^ . ^^ * & Bl ^ c With , ' by

    —— — ^— — -. — —w ^ — ™ ™ - "P- . " - ^ P" . ^» pIHbb , - « ^•¦¦ , » T >^ ^ V . ' 1 » * *¦ *« Introduction ^ B ^ _ ^ . M by tt the ^ Bi ^ BPh HI ght -m Hon -bb— -bbb > . the m ~ Eail —— — of Shaftesbury - ~ - " - - * - ~ ^ , — j K — , . . v G - ^ - . w Miss w ^ W ^ Barlee BP ... P- W ^^ BB ¦» ^ m" ^ BP' ' PBbT s efforts ^ p * « % « Vai ^^ B . B « f «^ ¦• to ^»

    promote helping th the em welfare to help of themselves the London are poor so well by known that ¦ ¦ Bi ¦ ¦ a book P from B >« H her describing BBI Bfe ^

    — — — - ^ » — condition ^ - ^ —^ ™ of V ^ BT ' ^ - those »• ^^^ B | ^^ ^ PPT ^|^ . whom ^ p ^ BB ^ P ^ B ^ Bfl ^ she pen HbT ^ B ^ "" JB" * desi ^^ ^^ ^ p gnates TBB at V P ^ P' ^^^ f ^ ' Pantomime Waifs ' will find many readers , and will » ™"" 1 , it ¦— »» may ¦ i ¦ ^ F be ^^ ^ " ^ hoped ^^ *^ »¦ . ^^ * , m have mtm ^ mt w ^ p ^ its ¦» vn / fruit . » . a . vm ^ ^ # » in ^ •»*» an ^«» p *™ effort w - »—

    —to care for and raise those for whom she so I of eloquentl the scenes y pleads amid . which Her p they ictures learn of their the business homes ,

    of the stage , and of the schemes already in ¦ nrnOTARR for frvr their f . hfiii * ppsmifi rescue from -firnm some cnmn at sit . least Ififlst . or Of

    progress , , their and are evil well surroundi 4 calcul n ated t gs , are to drawn astonish from those the who h'fe ,

    « -v ^« V « V f ¥ V-A . VUIAV U . A « WXV < . l > V-f ** KJl / S-rAJA **** VAA ^""^ ' little fancy that the bright pantomime throws such a dark shadow .

    From Gath Mr ered . Walter from the Smith « ' Sermons .. — 'A for Daily the Text Christian -Book and

    Year , " by the Rev . John Keble / by E . H . F The . H writer . With of a the preface preface by the to Rev thi . Peter little lvolume Young .

    makes the AUO WHIDI an made apology \ JX LillC of Mr ^ which l OlaCD Ke is " ble scarcely ' MJL 1 D s *^» needful - * v » on »« the for

    ground readil refl UXXV dilv use MOID to to that UIJOMlD the tiiA th \ ey JX rnnso JJU do . » not for fnr XVO which whir UAtJ lend s h sermons themselves th thev ey -IA * Vf hav nave « " , , ~— e Yery been v ™»

    inasmuch used . y This as is the , purpose perhaps sermons , true nearl to a always certain present extent ft , on comp the lete other working hand the out direct of some bearing y central of each idea , aw on

    course each other on the , renders events them of the speciall seasons y , suited as they for follow lt suca text treatment books dookb . avowedlv avoweaiv The great fault lonu forth of the books m ^ ° for / ^ tn ^

    exceptionable use lejtx- of - Church-peop as rel le ig , ious is put that manuals , althoug ao as , it h is they »« ofteirai — are m- - cult l to discover uiwcover their waeir connection with wj the —uro" ^ ^

    cua seasons w . Here there couuocuuu can be no doubt ^** - as to . appropriateness of the extracts to the ***?

    which Keble they chiefl are y as appointed a poet , will and welcome those ™ o tj Kaow »^ p y ^

    lansation ot his prose worJca . j . no mw > - ^ _ ' tltiiinlii . il i mm ^^^^ mmmm ^

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1884, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041884/page/10/