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Books Received:— From 4l^Te 4k ^^Svv ^ M...
success are described with fidelity , and in a genial , pleasant style . It may be fairly said that , while
few authors have ever been entrusted with more p and leasan Mr t . subjects Irvingno for better descri l ption iterary than compagnon Miss Terry de ,
^ - ^ _ S- % f , voyage could have been found than Mr . Hatton . Headers on both sides of the Atlantic are likely to . vote this to be one of the most entertaining
books of the present season . From Messrs . Nisbet & Co . — ' Seeking after God
" in Whitmore Science . and A very Reli useful gion . ' b compendium y the Rev . of C . the J . higher forms of Christian evidences , put into the
shape of lectures delivered to the author ' s congregation at his chapel in Kentish Town . The teachings of astronomygeologyhistoryreliion
work brought life , , and love out conscience , , and and maj the , , as es author ty proofs of , brings God of the are , existence his clearl g little y , ,
volume to a fitting close with chapters on God as seen in Scripture and in Christ * From Messrs . S . W . Partridge & Co . — ' T . B .
Smithies ( editor of the " British Workman " ) , a Memoi ber the r , ' genial by G . Stringer presence Howe of . Mr Those . Smithies who remem the
practical philanthropy which animated him , , and the genuine sympathy which he felt for the toiling masses of the people , will welcome this interesting
record of his lifework and the portrait of the good man which forms its frontispiece . As editor of * The British Workman / he contributed to
popular literature in a direction where it is given to but few to achieve success , and the enduring popularity of the illustrated broadsheet is one of
his best monuments . The memoir lifts the , curtain from his inner life and shows that the secret and mainspring of his activity and zeal for
J others animated was him the . deep religiousness which always
fi , ' : From Messrs . George Philip & Son . — 'An / Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare and
Milton , ' illustrated . The object of this little f manual is to give a sketch of the leading facts of » the lives of the two great poets , a summary of
their literary works , a popular criticism on the ; chief characteristics of their style and genius , and a series of extracts from their plays and poems .
The notes on the language of Shakespeare and ; Milton students "will of matu be re found r years to than be worth the boy y of s and note girl by s
'; of the schoolroom . V From the Religipus Tract Society . — 'Wycliffe
\ Anecdotes ; or , Incidents and Characteristics from ^ the Life of the great English Reformer / by Samuel G . Green . It waswe believeDr . Green ' s
, , colleague , Dr . Macaulay , who gave us the volume of ' Luther Anecdotes' which formed such a p ^ leasant - - — — — companion — — — y- — - — ^— - to — - ^ the - ^ ^^ ~ - - ^ ^ recent - ^ ^»^ ^^ ^^ n * v v Luther a ^ B ^ . ^ v — ^ b # ^«^ ^^ ^^ cele ^^^ ^^ . v ^ -
bration , and this volume may be accepted as a fitting companion to the Wycliffe festival of the current year . In the ¦ preface ¦ ¦ Dr ¦ . Green gives a
very — — use - - ^^^ ful list of works H — — H beari ^^~~ - - ^^ ^^ ng ^^^ -- ^^ on »»^ " ^^^ the " ^^^ " ^^^^ B ^^^ K life H ^ » ^^^ WH ^ F of ^^ rf ^ F the from great all reform sources er , and then interest he i proceeds nfacts as to to glean his many g
career , his literary work , his connection "with the stirring events of the age in which he lived , his stay at Oxford , his literary labours , the charges
brought fruits of against his labours him , the . It clos is e a of most his life leasantl , and the written volume , fully charged with trustworth p y y information .
From Messrs . James Sangster A Co . — ' The Life of ^ rime the Minister Right Hon of . England William . ' Ewart With Gladstone coloured ,
portrait and profusely illustrated with wood .
w-S 35 »? engravings edition of Mr , by . Ritchie J . Ewing ' s Ritchie work is . likel This y illustrated to become I II
part a household y , for there book are , without but few reference Englishmen to who political wfll 11 II not be lad to have in \ is form
story of g ^__ Mr . Gladstone _ a ' s compendio life and a series the of I I
¦ sketches schools Ii r ^ ^ w ^ ^^ ijt « and w « of w « colleges ^ his r ^ v ^ M > ^ PBM birth ^ v « r ¦ in ^ fc -place » ¦¦¦ which vw ^ r , of he ^^» - — his spent «« rB « r ^^ ^ M home » ^ his a # «| ^ -v , student tjy « of « -VC i * Iff ^ the Hi y ^ II with of The Grand Old
days , portraits ' Man * himself and of his leading colleagues . Mr Ritchie
. brings his narrative down to a very recent date by a chapter presenting a livelsketchin the
manner of the descriptive parliamentary y reporter , of the debate which commenced on the 12 th of ,
February last , when Sir Stafford Northcote moved a vote of censure on ' the vacillating and
inconsistent policy pursued by Her Majesty ' s Gorernment — — - ^^ — — i — / — It — — — is — — not — - ^^ difficult — -- — - to — see that _ . _ Mr __ . Eitchie _^^__ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ . ' s ^^ i ^*
sympathies are with the Government , rather than and - with closes - the _ O his pposition book with ____ , but the ___ he following T ___ tells his declaration tale ¦ fairly :
, — _ _^^ - —^ — — - ~ — - ^ . - ^ ^ -j — — . ^ ^^^^ 4 ^ r «« a possession 'We now resi of faculties gn our unimpaired task , leaving by the our wear hero and in | tear of fifty years of noble service for the welfare
of his country and of the world / Mr . Ritchie has a strong grasp of the parliamentary history in which the subject of his book has occupied
such a prominent place ; and in these days when the old debating society has given place to the into local the parliament conversation , and of when the dinner politics -table enter , the largel draw y -
ing-room , and even of the school-room , he will have many readers . Prom the Scientific Publishing Company . —
annual edited * The Gas issue by and Charles of Water this W Companies useful . Hastings work Directory . carri The es , with eig 1884 hth it /
the and imprimatur undertakings of in the all gas parts and , wate not r onl companies y of the United Kingdom but of Europefor the inform * -
of tion the give various n is in organisations every case supp . lied It , tells by the us the officials date of of the him formation fftrmai . inn of rvf the fchA company pnmnanv . the the year vear in m wmen which
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companies , and there is a full index . Fro from m Messrs the Poetica . Smith l . Work , Elder s of , & Kobert Co . — Browning 1 Selections .
First 11 poets po vlLJ ecs have nave and / Uv . A- Second a a _ better oette (/ lv £ * __ l r Series » T ngui ri ght Au , . to mj V ^ fc New - «— tm antici - * . »* x ^ i . n Edition - . ' i pate ^ "" . '" a . coraiai * U e ., *
welcome for their works whether now or ow , than Mr . Browning in , whose volume oiuiuo , « Selections form « are tonea nere
the paper reprinted reprintea 14 . th The of May prefatory a a handy nanay 1872 , note forms , carry a q ing ^ h » upon : ^ us r ~ 9 01 eU - l > . a ^ <* " » . MrBrowning'part for doing for
which . in the majority s of cases poots l ^ je otnc f ^ l wo works to do for ami and them if ii it it — . was wnu making tru true e a then i /« selection ^« it — is — stm n ? «> ^ ; ; more
true nowthat he ' need not apprehend any " charges in tiousl the y careless first of , being of , these taeao or wilfull perve volumes rsel y obscure y ha consist rsft . « A " £ ft * * 7 ¦ £ „ » ,
in cne nr « i > or vujlu *«^«» ^ . t the number second of volume Mr . Browning has some ' s of shortest hifl more Pie exi c 0 B * ded ^ iveness »
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1884, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051884/page/10/
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