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    •- April 15 ,1890 The Publishers' Circul...

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    we Dickens HAAV encoun - — — — combined ter the with humour the satire and of Th pathos ack f of ^ j j - *¦ . ***» —¦ . eray — _^ r

    and the constructive ability of Wilkie Collins . T — he —— — house in which Balzac wrote so many

    of far his from -- matc - the hless Arc productions de Triomphe was at situated No . 15 Rue not

    de * w » - — Madame Hamelin . This JL , houseof no ¦ v *» t — ernal pre x tension , was richly furnished , , as

    the The " ophi t le novelist Gautier who found was on almos pay t ing inaccessible a visit to grea

    to visitors . Congratulating , his host on the prosperity which the splendour of the furniture

    poorer x deno — ted than , Gautier ever . was None met of with this the belongs repl y to ' I me am .

    I have furnished this house for a friend . I am only the hotel caretaker and the

    door-Eva keeper de . ' Hanska The friend to whom in question Balzac was was Countess united ,

    he earl had y in been 1850 long . He and broug devo tedl his y a wife ttached , to whom , from Russia to Francein February 1850 . He was

    for at the tune hei . g Every ht of thing his , < fame _> seemed , his wi to fe smile had a upon large J .

    him . In four short months he was no more of this world . He died , in a room which has just

    been demolished , on June 20 , 1850 . M . Calmann Levy publishes the libretto

    of Saens ' Arcania . The , ' the new bL opera ouis G by alle Camille tis founded Saintpoemy 7

    which on Paul had Meurice a grea L t ' s , vogue p */ lay some ' Benvenuto fifty , years Cellini ago , '

    and whichin its turnis founded on a novel , of Dumas , the Elder . , As to the mysterious

    disappearance which so much of has the been opera said tic composer it , of , may

    rather solitude attri after buted hard to work a desire than for to repose insanity and or

    any throug 1 other h M . cause Calmann . The J ^ vy composer a new work announces entitled

    lis Harmony her will produce and Melod immediatel y' ; and y the * The same Future

    pubof Artist Science ' s Honour / by / M b . Ernest M . Octav Renan e Feuillet , and . ' y

    as MM an . Easter Hachette gift & Co ' Les . have Gourmandises just published de

    Sarnary Charlotte , wi ' ( th ' Charlotte a preface ' s Gluttony by the well ' ) , b - y known Jane

    ing dramatis <_ 7 thirty t - M two . Edouard coloured Pailleron illustrations , and b contain y Job . -

    The mine patriarch would Job once write exclaimed a book , ! ' ' Oh It that has enemy

    then been have irreverentl cut it y up surmised in a slashing that Job cri wou tique ld .

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    illustrator . in in MM their . Hachette series of & Co . have also publiwhed th ,

    capital their story series , * The ot Foreign Jb Fate oreign of Silas lloman Komances Lap ^ ham oH . , / that b at y Mr . W . D . Howells .

    appeared The illustrated two or thre issues e times of Fi a garo year which and have have

    f obtained uture be a issued great and monthl deserved . The success first , , number will in y

    I will appear on the 16 th inst ., and will contain

    a facsimile of one of M . Edouard De'taille ' a striking military compositionsa portrait pf

    the Duchess d'Uzesand a number , of illustrated articles by Jules , Claretie , Jean Richepin ,

    Henry Gr ^ ville , and other popular authors . MM . Firmin-Didot & Co . have published

    in a te vo res lume ting to of military historical men memoirs in ' Marshal , especiall Han y -

    don ( 1795 -1871 ) , from */ his , memoirs and unpublished documents / by A . Kastoul .

    M . Ernest Hamel has added to the Fifth Series of his * History

    Revolution by the publication till the Fall of of the the secon Second d volume Empire of / the ' Reign of Louis Philippe / which completes

    F the ebruar History y 1848 of ) , the MM R , evolu Jouvet J . JL t ion & ( J Co uly . 1830 are A . the to

    publishers . M . Ernest Daudet has publishedthrough

    M fro . m Ernest unpublished Kol b documents , ' Coblentz ' cludin ( 1789 — , - l 1793 etters ) ,

    from the Count of Provence , ( Louis XVIII O . ) , the Count d'Artois ( Charles X . ) Gustave III .

    Count de Calonne , and others . , ~ This volume , is a sequel to the same author ' s * The

    Bourbons and Russia during the French Revolution / and ' The Emigrants and the Second

    promises Coalition' ( ' 1797 Berlin -1800 as ) . it The is / same by publisher Edmond

    Neukomm . MM . Marpon & Flammarion have

    published illustrated ' The b Filibusters Monte " t / ' b The y Le Heir * A of llar the d , y l

    M A ontardons of Life ' / ; b and Dr . Camb Man o and ulives Woman . at all ges y

    (M . H . Welter has just published the first volume of Analecta Liturgica / a quarterly

    Mr pub . lication W . James edited Weale by our and t learned he Abbd compatriot E . Misset . ,

    It forms in some sort , a supplement to all the hymnographical collections hitherto published .

    M . Welter also reissues in ten parts the reproduction of the rare edition published in 1 G 88 of 'Du Cange ' s Glossary . '

    The Gutenberg Professional School at Paris has produced an octavo volume of great

    in * Notions terest and of Typograp value h to yfor printers the use , enti of Pro tled

    fessional Schools f JL , ' wi JL th v , a preface on the origins of printing , by E . Desormes ,

    technical director of the school . This work is not a mere compilationbut a new complete and

    methodical treatise , on the printing and cognate arts .

    M . Ludovic Barchet announces the * Salon of 1890 / which will appear in twelve weekly

    parta May , 1 the . first It will of which comprise will be 72 published large photo on

    gravures and 28 photogravures in black and colour or etch wi ings thout in text colours , and ,

    printed in the text . MM . J . Hetzel & Co . publish a new volume

    of the series of tales of i College Life in All Countries KJUKIAIVILUO ' b M y jr t 1 / hat lfCdU KjXKJ clever WM . w WJ ri . 1 I / t C 7 er J . w HUUOa hose '

    of pseudonym school life is in Andre Russia " Laurie , and . is called It is descri ' Memoirs ptive

    ot a Kussian Collegian . ¦ IM * fl . M . I ^ H

    •- April 15 ,1890 The Publishers' Circul...

    • - April 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 443

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1890, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041890/page/9/