On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    April 15,1890 The Publishers' Circular 4...

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Boo&P And E[Umou^ Of

    the It venerable is rumoured painter that is — Mr engaged . Sidney in Cooper writing » ,

    Uiiv * — — x , jf , C * C 3 > ™ -. w—^ mq his reminiscences . # ## * *

    We understand that a new volume of be Essays expected from shortl the pen y . of Professor Huxley may . M .

    w # * Mr . Clement Scottthe well-known

    laywriting wright his and reminiscences dramatic , critic . , is said to p be

    * # # We hear that Professor Knihtof St .

    Andrews , is editing a series of g Universit , y Extension Manuals for Mr . John Murray ,

    * * Some poems by the late Dr . Charles

    Mackay are being issued by Mr . George Allen . Mr . Eric Mackay contributes an

    introduction . # # *

    Mr . W . S . Lilly , the well-known author of ' A Century of Revolution' and other

    works , has just written a book entitled * Right and Wrong . ' # #

    * A good deal of interest gathers round M . Renan ' s new work'The Future of Science . '

    It is expected that , an English edition will be ready in about a fortnight .

    # ? * The novel which Mr . William O'Brien ,

    M . P ., has written , * When we were Boys , ' will be published on Monday next in one volume by Messrs . Longmans & Co .

    It is reported that Mr . Michael Davitt is

    engaged on an important historical work dealing with the origin and progress of the Land

    League in Ireland and America . # # #

    Messrs . W . H . Allen & Co . are publishing some of Mr . H . D . TrailFs contributions in verse to _ the _ _ Satwrday _ _ Review . The book is to

    have the title of ' Saturday ^ Songs . '

    Messrs . Macmillan & Co . are publishing a text-book on Mineralogywhich has been

    prepared by Mr . H . A . Miers , , of the Natural History Museum , South Kensington .

    * A local historywhich ought to prove of

    great interest , is promised , from the pen of Mr . George - w —m- - ^^ h ^^ ^^^^ V ^^^ Clinch ^ . ^ ^ " ^^ " ^ *^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ , ^ B of ^^^ ¦ m ™ the ¦¦ ^™ ¦ ^ British ' - » ' ^ - — - — Museum - ~ . This

    ia an account of Bloomsbury and St . Giles . # ? ? # #

    A new novel will shortly be commenced ¦¦ in Blackwood * 8 Magazine dealing with the

    European existing terrible Powers armed , and tensio particularly n that prevails with the .

    » It is stated thatin accordance with a

    promise made to the , Master of Balliol by I S-

    the late Robert Browning , most of the manuscripts of the poet will be presented to Balliol

    College . # * *

    Chauncy The mi well M . -known Depew American A is about raconteur to publish a , Mr * W ^ a .

    volume of his after-dinner , speeches . To these will - ~ — be ~ added ~— — -T- — - several -=- ~ -- - -- t ? - of - ^^ nrv his a ? ff « ' 7 « r ^ J most = ?«* 3 > ^ w *^ ^¦ TT v « interesting ^ k a (^ <^* i ^ F ^^ ^ b ^^ r W ^ r ^ F ^ ^ m ^ H ^ k

    orations . # 1 * *

    In a few weeks Mr . George Meredith will publish a new story called ' One of Our

    Con-— -- — — ^ m — — — ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ¦! " ^ ¦ " ¦ ^ . ^ ^^^ ** '' ^^^^ to querors a . ' visit We to hear Scotland that Mr as . Meredith soon as the proposes novel pay

    is out of his hands . # #

    Mrs . Emma Marshall has written another historical tale , which will be issued in a few

    days by Messrs . Seeley & Co . The title is 'Up and Down the Pantiles , ' and the scene is

    laid at Tunbridge Wells . * *

    * * A translation of Dr . Juncker ' s ' Travels in Africa / by Professor A . H . Keaneis being

    published by Messrs . Chapman & Hall , . The work will , _ we - hear — — ~ ~~ — , -j be — __~ amp — — — ^^~ ly ^ j — illustrated — — — ^^ ^^ with ^^ ^^ ^^^^

    woodcuts , maps , and full-page plates . # # * •

    from A new new lates library of the edition works , printed of Prescott entirel the y p

    historian is announced , by Messrs . Lippincott . The ' Conquest _ ^ - of - Mexico — - ' is , read . __ — __ y ^ _ , and _ ,, — — _ ^ it ^_ . is ^ ^^

    to be followed by * Ferdinand and Isabella . '

    ? ? * We hear that when the Emperor William and M . Jules Simon met in Berlinthey

    conversed freely and mainly on French , - ^ literature . When they were not discussing labour

    problems , this was the topic they immediately took up . *

    ? -M- » . M . Mr . F . S . Ellis is making steady progress with his ' Shelley Concordance' but the

    task is so formidable f that it cannot , be completed for some time . The book promises to

    be about the size of Schmidt's * Shakspeare Lexicon . '

    # * A valuable book in medical science may be

    expected in due course . We believe Sir William * r ¦—¦¦ — ¦¦ — — — ¦ Jenner — — " ° — — — is — gathering m m ~ ^ " M—^ together m ^~^ J — a number — f ^ ^ " ^ .

    of his contributions to important medical journals , and the transactions of learned

    societies . # # »

    We hear that a further contribution ia to be made to the Talleyrand correspondence

    embracing the period between 1833 and 1834 , . The ^ ¦¦¦ ¦^ ^ b ^ ir chief ^^ r turn vh * m ^^ r ^^ letters - ^^ ' ^ ^^ ^^» r ^^™ r ^ will » -- consist - _ .. _ . — of _^ _ . _ those , _ , — w _ . ^^ penned ^^__ v ^^^^ ^^—^ - ^ k ^ p- ^ w

    b and y Louis by Talleyrand Philippe , his himself sister . , Madame Adelaide ,

    Journalists will be interested in learning

    of that the a work olden bearing time and on newspaper of to-day is reporting on the i . T ^ mM

    April 15,1890 The Publishers' Circular 4...

    April 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 439

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1890, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041890/page/5/