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LITERARY/ INTELLIGENCE 406—418 EDITORIAL...
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' St. Dunstan's House, E.G. April 15, 1889.
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rilHERE are many unmistakable signs at t...
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We publish to-day a letter drawing atten...
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• ., ' r I " o 6 ' .. ' The Publishers ¦ ' Circular - ' ' " ¦ ' April ' 15 , , 9 1 I
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Literary/ Intelligence 406—418 Editorial...
LITERARY / INTELLIGENCE 406—418 EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 407
BOOKS AND RUMOURS OP BOOKS 407 , 408 NOTES AND NEWS " . 408 CONTINENTAL NOTES 408 , 409
AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 409 , 410 JOHN BBIGHT ] 410411 , ME . FROTJBE'S IRISH ROMANCE 411
BOOKSELLING- IN ENGLISH HISTORY ] .. 412 READERS' SPECIAL PENSION 41 & , 413 I THE SPRING TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES .. 413
THE BICENTENARY OF SAMUEL RICHARDSON .. 413 OBITUARY 414 , 415 FIRST IMPRESSIONS ... » 415 , 416 1
REVIEWS , & c 416—418 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT
BRITAIN BETWEEN" APRIL 1 & 1 & 419 , 420 BOOKS . PUBLISHED IN < £ REAT BRITAIN
PROM APRIL 1 TO 15 421—124 ' ' AMERICAN NEW BOOKS . . 423
NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 426—112 MISCELLANEOUS 442—450
BUSINESS CARDS w . 447 , 448 ' ASSISTANTS WANTED 450
WANT SITUATIONS 450 BOOKS "* WANTED TO PURCHASE 450-456
' St. Dunstan's House, E.G. April 15, 1889.
' St . Dunstan ' s House , E . G . April 15 , 1889 .
Rilhere Are Many Unmistakable Signs At T...
rilHERE are many unmistakable signs at the J- present moment of renewed activity and
enterprise in the publishing world , and the prospects of the spring season may fairly be
regarded as hopeful and encouraging- A revived interest in books and book-making of
course quickly makes itself felt in the condition of the printing trade , and iii London at
all events there seems to be no lack of orders ¦ in the regions where compositors most do
congregate . A straw is always enough to show how the tide is running , and fortunately
the one which is floating past us on the stream just now is progressing in the right direction .
We refer to the fact that remarkably few men engaged in the printing trade of the metropolis
are out of work ; indeed , the average in that respect is less this month than in the
corresponding period for several years . The state of the general printing trade of
tho . country is hardly , however , as bright and satisfactory ; centralisation , though inevitable
i under the conditions of modern life , is apt to draw away from dven the chief provincial
towns work which formerly never went far from home . This tendency—so far as it
relates to the book trade—is attracting attention in the New World as well as in the Old .
Indeed , the American Bookseller—in an article from which we have quoted in another column
— ( concentrate refers to the business inclination in the which hands prevails of the to
leading houses in the larger cities . ' The spring prospects in the American book market
are reported to be fairly good ; light literature and Editions de luxe of standard works appear
at the present time to have the vogue .
We Publish To-Day A Letter Drawing Atten...
We publish to-day a letter drawing
attention to the fact that the present year brings
round the bi-centenary of Samuel Richardson ,
one of the earliest arid greatest of English
novelists . The writer , Mr , Lovell , makes two , practical suggestions , and we heartily
commend the first to the consideration of the 'trade , ' and the second to the sympathy of
the public . To be quite candid , we cbnfess we are somewhat doubtful as to whether the
demand would equal the supply if any enterprising publisher issued Richardson ' s novels
in a ' cheap and popular edition . ' It is easy cult enoug y comes h to print in when a ' cheap the edition popular '; aspect the diffi of
the undertaking requires to be settled . About the desirableness , however , of ' placing a brass
in a prominent position ' in the stately and histori c church of St . Bride's , in which the author
of Pamela' is buried there can be no two opinions , and it would be strange indeed if
mm , either the Publishers' CikcuiiAr or ^ its readers turned a deaf ear to such an appeal . Few
JL M . men , indeed , have greater claims to remembrance in the circle which this journal v repre **
-sents than one who was both a master printer and a master novelist , a brilliant writerand
, a successful distributor of books . Sir Walter Scott , no mean authority on such a subject ,
acquainted used to declare with the that huge only those folios of who inanity were
over which our ancestors yawned themselves to sleep ' were in a position to estimate the
services which Richardson performed by writings distinguished by an ' unexpected
return to truth and nature . ' Dr . Johnson regarded * Clarissa Harlowe as the first book ,
in the world in knowledge of the human heart ; Diderot , as Mr . Gosse has recently reminded
us , ranked Richardson with Homer and Euripides , whilst Alfred de Mussefc asserted
tnat the printer of Salisbury Court had written the best novel in' existence . When due
allowance is made for generous exaggeration , Carlyle is probably not far from the mark in
placing the name of Richardson side by picte with that of Defoe . We invite an expression
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1889, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041889/page/4/
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