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    The Duke of Devonshire has just got his He splendid has promised library to at send Chatsworth surplusor re- arranged plicate .

    works to the new library of Toronto , University . , A French translation WA -V of V the -mm- —— ~ - ^ autobiography

    mA ance of i » -- ± J ^ fc . - * orator % B / AMfVVA . Groug Mf * ^ ^ — T ^» . a h ^»^ book , V > WAA ^ ^^ th V ^ A * e » which »» wor <¦> » ^^ ld " ¦ - was ¦* renowned —w— - ori - — — — g ^^ inall - - — t ( em Paris y / pub JL p er - -

    lished in 1869—has just been issued in . We are informed that the Elmslie Memorial it

    Fund has reached the sum of £ 1 , 560 , but also is still learn hoped that that a biograp £ 2 , 000 hy will of be Dr raised , Elmslie . We is

    nearly ready . The friends of Mr . Louis Stevenson were

    the looking beginn forward ing of June to seeing . He him is now in in London Sydney at , and and iitt . does dnfts not not seem seem at at all all likely likelv th tnat at ne he will win

    reach England until September next . MrAndrew Lang will publish—through

    -M- m m m . s ^^~ M . ¦ . M \ J . ± m ± ^ S » » aaW .. m ~^* Lt- * -Jm * - ± - —» — ¦— — — - - Friends Messrs . : Longmans Essays in — Ep in istolary a few Parod days y , . ' ' The Old ^^

    articles contained in the volume originally appeared in the St . James ' s Gazette .

    Harvard and Yale students , according to the - S — pringfi _ £ - ^ 7 , / - eld Republican L , have a curious super M .-

    stition concerning the Oxford-Cambridge boatfavourable race . When omen Cambrid for Yale ge wins / but , it is hen deemed Oxford a ;

    triumphs , Harvard men breathe , more easily . A very important collection of autographs

    May will , . It unders includes tan letters d , be written sold in b L y ondon Shelley in , JTWrnn 3 yron . Hood Hood . hcott Snofcfc . JJickens Dickens . Ooleridge Coleridge .

    Crabbe , , Browning , , Rossetti , , K , eats , Lamb , , Carlyle , Ruskin , Swinburne , and Tennyson .

    An historic cottage is about to disappear from a London suburb , namely , the old thatched house on Shepherd's Bush Green

    which Miles Syndercombe hired for the pro- , posed assassination of Oliver Cromwell in 1057 when he journeyed from Hampton Court to

    London . V V J . Another quarterly review is announced . It

    is to be called Subjects of the Day , and the editor is Mr . James Samuel ' son . Amongst the ' contributors mentioned for the first number

    are Sir W . Hunter and Sir P . Magnus . Messrs . George Routledge & Son . s are the publishers .

    We are informed that the Ruskiu Society , in addition to promoting the study of Ruskin ' s

    of works the , wi author ll make ' s an which effort are to scarce get those or ou books t of print 9 , repub M . lished . It is also proposed M . , M . to

    compile indices to those volumes that are without them . M . Armand de Pontrnartinthe famous

    literary critic of the Gazette de , France , who died the other day , had reached his eightieth year * F . It is noteworthy that , f on the very »/ day v

    of hia death , the Gazette printed the eleven hundred and fifteenth feuilleton from his pen . He made some fierce attacks on M . Zola

    whose works he detested . , M . Renan has just been expressing his

    opinions on the novels of Zola . The criticism

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    has the leader been promp of the ted realistic by the school proposal in — France — to elect ¦ wx ^ to

    a walk seat will in the teach Academy me more . than M . Renan a novel says of -vw ~ Zola : * A . There is another realism in nature

    vaster than and that the seen unclean by him there . By is the the beautiful side of the and ug the ly sublime in factZola does not

    ; , even interest me . ' The first ordinary general meeting of the

    Argus Limited Printing of Johannesburg and Publishing , Cape Town Company Kim- i

    berley , and , London , was held last month , at Johannesburg . This company , which is an

    T expansion own , was of formed the Argus in April ^ Company 1889 , of with — Cape — —» a v « !

    Argus capital and of £ Johannesb 70 , 000 , and urg to Star it . belong On the the Cape nin e —^

    months ended December 31 a dividend was declared of 7 ^ per cent . a balance of over £ 7 , 000 being carried to next , account .

    The May number of the magazine East and West will be the first of a new series published by Mr . William Heinemann . The

    magazine will be considerably enlarged , and the price is to be a shilling . A new serial by Mr . W . E . Norrisand a story of the time

    of Christ , entitled ' , Come Forth ! ' by the Fhei Rev Phelns . H . . will will D . Ward commence commence and Miss in in the the Elizabeth new new number number Stuart .. ¦ j ps

    Several , contributions from other well-known writers are promisedand among them one by

    Max O'Rell on ' Feminine , Traits' which will probably attract considerable attention , .

    issued Mr . an Alexander important Gardner book called , of * Paisley The Castles , has | an valua d Mansions ble contribu of tion Scotland to topo . ' grap The hy . work Amongst is a j |

    JL O I . •/ _> the historic houses dealt with in the work are Taymouth Castle , Kinnaird Castle , and Glamia :

    Castle . Historical information is excellently i blended with personal record of the great the families work connec is enhanced ted with with these fine mansions drawings , and of

    shire the buildings are the . onl As counties P \> rfarshire dealt and with in Perth this - volumeit may be y presumed ami that ala the 4 author

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    Tlie admirers of the works of Honoio do Balzac , and they are legion , will experience a :

    fee which ling the of regret great on author learning of that the the ' house Comedie in Humaine ¦ ' breathed his last has just been

    improved off ~* - ^ m 1 the ^ a ^ ~^ r ~ m * ^ mt a ^ face a ^ - ^^ ^ h ^ ^^ m of *^ ama am v *^ ar the a * a > ^ a / r- ^ a ^ ta earth * ^ H * ^ 4 Vi ^ t ^^ ar . ' w ^ m ^^ - >^ T ^^ ^^ It is but the other day we mentioned the

    literary forthcoming and historical appearance study of of an Balzac interesting ' s works , from the ~ ia * pen m mtW a ^¦ ^ a ** t of * . ^^ wamm Mariel » a * mt * m , - ~ - ~ aw ^^ - —^ ~^|^ **** Barriere aV *** ' - atr ^ m mamt * am aa > * % ** aat , ^ mr . aa This *\ a wa aam , *—* m m wr interest * m- * m -a-

    recalls ing wor to k , our just published all b the yM wonderfu . Calmann l studies L ^ vy , of characterthe memory instantaneous aai mat hotographs of

    scenery ~ - ^ ~ - aa * . * 9 * ' * , ar ^ ar o ^ i « -taT f , mm e xt ^ **• mm * ^ eriors * a' # ^ h r * mW ^ V ^ f ^ T *^ a *^ n H ^^^ d ^> «¦ - ^^ i ^ tMW n t ^ T ^ ' eriors p H ^^ ^ m > ^« -mar ^¦ r , ^— | V ^ an k ^^ ^^ d dra- i

    matic incidents which have fascinated countless " ^ W

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1890, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041890/page/8/