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    ' ' ' - ' J ]l\ 76 The Publishers' Circu...

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    ! ¦ ease - ' will ¦ make a pretty gift . We learn from Itfielistof the sets that there are no fewer If than

    • ; ( % ** . M- ^ » l » U V / A WAIV K 7 V >« 0 tlt'lt VJUV & V / IVAV AJ . V O . V VX V 4 . AV »* - * . 'i ' iifteefl " little books published by Messrs . Bryce & , ' : ' Son in the same form , giving a choice of five

    : fe ^ ts . From Messrs . Cassell & Co . ( Limited ) . — 'The

    Forging of the Anchor , ' a Poem , by Sir Samuel Ferguson , XL . D . Illustrated by A . Barraud , H . G . _ . G — lind on _ _ _ iG — . W . _ — Harvey — f W . Hath — erell ,

    , ^ , Seymour Lucas , Hal Ludlow , J . Nash , W . H . Overend , C . J . Staniland , and W . L . Wyllie . In our Christmas number -we gave special praise to

    this beautiful little book , and we bave now to award still higher praise to the ncrrel and chaste style in Tvhich it is produced with a thick padded

    . cover of green leather ornamented with a gilt anchor , and the title in effective antique letters . The poem and the pictures are well worthy of the

    luxurious framework in which the publishers have here placed them . From Messrs . Ch . apm . an . <& Sail . — 'Herder and

    His Times / by Henry Nevinson . This volume is intended to be supplementary to Carlvle ' s Essays on German Literature / The author hopes

    that it may be helpful to some readers of those essays , as it might have been to him when he read them many year % j s ago C 7 . Among \ D the — literary */ figures C ? —

    that come before us in the pages of * Harder and His Times ' are Claudius the Wandsbecker Bote ; ForstexGleimGoetheHamannHeyneJacobi 2

    . Kant , Klopstock , , , Lavater , , Lessing , , Mendelssoh , n , Jean Paul , Spinoza , "Wieland , & c . At the end of the book is a dream , by Jean Paul , found among

    Herder ' s papers . It "was published by the author in a much altered form in Siebenkcis . Peaders of ^ Carly - le ' s - Essay - - - s — will _ - - recognise _ _ _ _ - _ j — _ ^ s _ - ^ rae __ _ _ of ^ -- his v quota — - - * . ^ -

    tions from Hichter in their earliest form . The dream must have been written in 1789 or 1790 , according to Diintzer . In these few lines € € we

    have nave said said enough enough to to show Rhr » w the t . ViA infprpst interest . of nf Herder TTfirrtar and His Times' for lovers of German literature . A wider circle will be attracted by a collection

    of Coleridge ' s marginal nrtes to various Biblical studies of Herder ' s . These are printed in the 1 appendix chapters . would An have indication been a of useful the contents feature . of the

    From Messrs . Field & Tuer . — ' Journalistic Jumbles , or Trippings in Type ; being notes on

    nature some Newspaper with numerous Blnndeis , their les / b orig Frederic in and Cond 6 Williams ; . A collection examp of comica y l cuttings

    from the newspapers , including literary announce-; inents , advertisements , and criticisms . Here is an adverti etent : —

    A . RESPECTABLE YOUXO WOMAN WAKTS WASHING . j In referring to compositors »—• ¦¦ ¦¦ ' blunders »•« fcJ tho writer

    \ J ^ XJL JL V * * *^ » *• ¦* ** f ^ * * - ^ ^ - ^^ - mr ^ r * ' m * . »^ > v * * J ^*» v > - * . « . M . * % */ WW JL JL , mj KS « ; mentions * d » jca < ss < mt what he terms 'prepared I blunders tW iR p * i ^ l » " ^^ B . ^ ii ^ ¦ »— ' ™ / the result T not of accident ^ " - —¦ — ~ — " " ^ but " ^^ " ^^ ^ " ^ of ^ t , ^ tfV > de ^ h ^^ ^ . V - y ^^^^ ^>^ J ™ "

    j liberate malice and epite on the part of subordij j nate within emp loyes last . Our twelve readers months will the remember Times that lias

    ] I been misprints more of than this once nature disfi , involving gured by the abominable necessity I r of - « r *^ " ^ withdrawing » ^ ^^ —^^^ ^ i—• — - —r — - » ^ — 1 from sale all copM ies which ^ — ^— could ^^ ' ^ ^^ ^^^^

    I be collected . The next chapter deals with 'blun-1 < J » literary and grammatical , * of which some ^ am ^ J ^ V A M using ^ B ^ V ^^^ i ^ ^^^ V ^ H ^ h instances ^^ ^ <^ * . ¦ ^|^^^^ *^^ -v ~^ v > ^ are ^ h- ^ ^^ ^^ given ¦—^ n ^ m ^ - *— — - ^^ , ^"' v such ^ ^ — ^ v ^^ as -v - ^ v ^ aw ' itchings 4 Wm T ^ V 4 M UK M ^ fc ^ B k ^ W ^ J '

    for ' etchings , ' ' on the Squib ' for ' on the 8 th instant '; while in a report Mr . Joseph Arch was sty mled the Priest of HHh the Agricultura A k l Labourers ' _ * . — . ^ ' . ' _ ^

    Unipn ^ , the word * Pri est' bei ^ ng the compositor ^ ' s reading of the reporter ' s « Presdt . / an abbreviation jM Jr . ' ' ' ' Pr ,.. ' ,. doiit . ' The JVew ' IW * TYwea in 1865 =====

    reporter described wrote the funeral * The procession . of William was Poole ¦ ¦ ¦ , and fj the

    also ^^ PB ^ tm ^ ^ gk ^ ^^ tr " ^ " was ^^^ ^ . ^ ^^» the ^ ¦ ^ ^ ^ sermon ^ ^^^ ¦ , j - ~ ^^ of the ™ ^— *• ^— minister ~— ^ ¦ ^ - ^ ^ ™ ^^»^^ . »^^ ' very ^ ^^ On j ^^ ^ reading ^ « Qe ^ M ^( , ag ^^ m y ^ a over ——— his — — MS — - . he remembered - the — exten ¦— - — t of th |

    .- - - -w »« ^ ^^ X 1-lln procession . —* . _ - ¦ . ^_ ^^ - - , a nd a _ ^ J add >^ . ^ J ^ J e ^^ d ^ J * t h ^ — e ^^ ' words ^ m * mWam . ^^ A * ^ J ^ h * ' and ^_ ^ B nearly ^ two " x miles in length , ' forgetting that they would alsolto the Next the

    appy sermon . day sentence appeared as follows : Here len The gth is , proce as another was ssion also was choice the very sermon item fine of and : nearl minister y two . miles in

    a sho During rt red the dres celebration s , which never a child spoke was afterwards run over . , wearing '' Literals terals . ' as as m many any of ot our our read readers ers are are aware a . warp are Q *

    letter the blunders or , fi made is accidentall by compositors introduced when . a wrong Thus , gure y

    an advertisement - ¦ • t appeared in the * 7 Times . m ^ as below : A KESPECTABLE YOUNG- PEBSON WANTED Age about 81 or 19 as Housemaid .

    Some of the most ridiculous blunders are , howeverthose which - occur in the reports -- of religious ¦** — ¦ . *«_

    , — — — v ^ *« W festivals and of events in society ^ , v / hile almost rivalling these are the errors made . in

    transmittiDg- telegrams . A famous instance of this latter type is the telegram in the Times during Sir

    Arthur Artnur nenneay Kennedy ' s s uovernorsnip Governorship ot of Queensland Queensland . to the following effect : ' Lady Kennedy has given , birth to twins , the eldest being a son . ' We

    might , however , prolong indefinitely our extracts from this lively little volume , -which is also noteworthy as a piece of typography . We commend

    it to all our readers and especially to those of the crafts concerned in producing the * Jumbles . ' From Messrs . Griffith . & iParran . —* Music and

    the Piano , ' by Madame Viard Louis , of the Guildhall School of Music . Translated from the French bMrs . Warrington Smyth . A very

    readable y volume , partly historical , partly biographical , and partly critical , tracing the history of the art from its earliest period down to the

    present time , then giving some interesting sketches of the great composers and their chief works , and , lastly , offering some observations on style nnd

    method which will be invaluable to young teachers and students . The value of the book lies in it * in essentiall schools y it popular would form and an readabl admirable e character text-book , and .

    prevailing There can be among very littl those e doubt who as constantly to the ignorance attend concerts , ability and eve -as n among to the history players of and the singers art and of

    its average master minds , ; and this work will do much to inform and interest the reader .

    From simp the le , same of Hints . — ' You and Should Instructions : a Manual for , Men brief unti and Women 'XWnnnn-n / b Vlit Nod "NTnA An A -n extre ovtuom el oliT clever /" . I fiVPP . USefu useluJ l , i

    and amusing y collection . of injunctions my as , to tho behaviour of and in the l » ir homes ana

    UotmVlUUX Ui men JI 1 C 11 CHILL women WUIJUCAi I" » nw' . •»* " husband iii society , as a wife host ( or The hostess perusal ) , as of a a guest few pages , as a

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    will althoug strike h som some e of of his his more readers minute as verging upon tbe . <¦ minutiae . . . of the . i eti . aa . book % 1- thny * Vi ^» r ar H VP « tor 10 "

    tho most part really practical quette nnd in in useful such such , & sentence . l » — eI

    is is a a vast vast fund fund of of worldly woildlv wisdom wisdom *« " . . as Von the should should following oppose orrnose : — a stead efceady v fron front t to to persona persons who wu « ha

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1884, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041884/page/8/