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    fMay I i _ 5» ioo .eg* j The Publishers ...

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    Jiooks For The Present Age Can Rarely Be...

    ¦ s = eW Bible , publicity has been given to the following letter : —

    „ , ^ Cambbidgb University London , Pr March ess Warehouse 31 , 1885 . , To J- Pnblishers T > B nMish . Lippincott ep 8 . occ & c . , Co Philadelphia . Fhilaaelpma ., ..

    , Pbab Sirs , —I have been very much surprised and annoyed to learn from your agent in London that statemen 11 ts * are being made in America

    respectmtt of ing the v the Di Bible " * forthcoming """ , to to the effect editions t—> that of the the Revised Oxford editions Version x the Cambri din

    superior ge type , paper , printing ^ I beg , and that binding you will . in every tray in your power

    mvn the the most most absolute absolute contradiction contradiction to to this tnis most most pre assertion . erroneous The uw Cambrid -w ge and Oxford — — — books — are — printed

    j ^ ^ j - - - - - j ^; j the from lilV sty ** identical J les of bindings plates , on are paper agreed tJ made and to made match similar ; and

    in all cases . pray make this clear to your American public in the best way you are able .

    I I am , dear Sirs , yours faithfully , C . J . CLAY , For C . J . Clay & Son ,

    Representing the Cambridge University Press . Respecting the question of popular editions

    I of the — Revised mmmmm ^ . m % » m Version ^ fl ^^^ m % * Z mm ^ - ^ m ' writes A * as fellows aaa \ « ^ Jto the Times : —

    I ' There is a considerable show of reason in the I complaints made against the University Presses for publishing no popular editions of the revised version

    of the Old Testament without the New Testament . The case is not , however , so simple as it looks . People who have bought one or other edition of the

    New Testament in the revised version ask why they cannot buy the Old to match . They forget to ask iknselves - ¦— — ' — "w v mm * * ^ m * rmmr what V V O ^^ V ^ BdV ^^ ^ an *^ M ^ B Old —| g— A ^*** Testament ^™^ ^^ W ^ mT V ***** ^*^ m ^ m ^ mW mmimWI W pri BV ^ V ^ n mmm ^ ted mmr ^^ ^ Hf to W ^^ ¦ match ^ JtJ ^ ' ^ il ^ mmf ^^ . MOW

    would look like . The Old Testament is more than three times as long as the New , the exact propor' tion being — ¦— ——» fc ^ 131 mt ^ ¦ -m . W . flb to * m V ^ 41 ^ h A ¦ . ^ A « Ma volume V ^^^ | " * " » . ¦* ^^ containing V / Vy » A «** , Vrf * *_* >** k the «**_ A ^^

    edi Old tio Testament ns of the revis and e printed d New T to es ma tame tch nt would of the be ¦ intolerabl ¦•— ir d Vi w-r No rational Jk being , would if use \« kj

    llta ythi - — - »• - ng J so ^* » umpy ug ^ i ^¦ * ly . and - ' > - ^ so * - ** v i nconvenient ^^ * ^ v mm r ± * w v > jt *» aem . v Without ^ ^ fcA ^*» ^^ | jeounting preface or American variations , the number

    Hoi llofp p ages aees would would be V » fi 1 1 , . ( 022 \ 9 M in in the the smallest small fist , and and most most , ¦ Hi KBopa [ pleasantest lar *•— " »» edition ***»* of \^ J-. , the I « and JL 4 W medium 1 ULAWVtA , 546 in MA the editions % - > V * A */ A * long mJM . ** J . 9 primer The . JU Alw / onl % ^ AJI the A y T

    ¦ Ipossible escape from this difficulty is to cut up the Hjte Ijwok p could into two be t or aken three if the volumes revised ; and Bible no is more meant fatal to

    liM Hffl . ¦ book « for _ the peopl e at large . Books ___ in two or Ijaore volumes are bought by rich folk and by pro-Hwd studentsbut they would be

    l » | okedat by the ; multitudes who buy never Bibles even and I ¦ l | I fttyer ' , 7 V - books wv ^ *¦ . »„» and MfAAV * h XA y T mn AJLA JUi - books h ^^^ V / JUkU * .

    » , ' After all , how many houses are there in Eng-Vm fiu Old afc ^ Testament ^ momen t ? which There poss are ess Bibles a separate innumerable

    Engf-IJumerable W llJIhJ " Testaments n \ but in "— most that . is , New an Old Testaments Testament —in in - we authorised ; version would eyes be onla rare curiosity

    y . ri ( Wted ? ' ^ ese b are the to such be Uni twHmtm excellent versity Presses of reason kiv that s v ^ n ^^^ for ir ^ the they course !¦¦¦! mi

    ¦ ' W k clai y ftf ^ w ^ ^^ - ^^^ V ^» r »* b ^ h ^ # a «^ v vi ^ m * ^^ p ^ v . ^ ^ mt ^^* uch w * v ^* w \^*^ m ^^ ^ M may v l ^ jjy ?? tion m ve as a wish acquitted to force any le s into stupidl ing

    ^ it oA ^^ i ^* al revised New Testaments peop . But pay it may « : ^ caution " ° Ubted in whether they from are not showing to an excess

    | | ^ ffi ^ ^ taste ; . # J hand for y refraining separate little volumes portions . try It of ing is the also Old develop a mystery Testa- a

    |^^ y ; promise no reasonably portable edition EjitAVc'i--- . ¦¦¦ ¦ . ¦• • . ¦¦

    except the smallest , which is a dense mass of typography . ' These errors , however , if errors they be , are of no great mom ¦ ent ¦—' and —» ¦» are ¦«¦ - * r easil im rectifiedThere -trm

    is no ^^ 5— — solid — — evidence — , —^ » for the v *« a . ^ allegation y m ^ b ^^ *^ «^^ ^^ ^^ B . > v that <^ ^ k ^ the ^^ - ^ m University Presses have been sacrificing the interests

    oi the public to a narrow and mercenary policy .

    Fmay I I _ 5» Ioo .Eg* J The Publishers ...

    fMay I i _ ioo . eg * The Publishers * Circular * *** *<>*

    L^Ote^ Anti I^ Rtus.

    l ^ ote ^ anti i ^ rtus .

    Dr . Lansdell ' s new book on Russian Central Asiaincluding KuldjaBokharaKhivaand

    - » *¦» , mm •« a . , ^ . , < k __ , I The Merv — work , ' is extends promised - — to within nearl ¦ — - — about 1 -- -m ~ 500 m- a fortni in mWMW ^ mmWm ght two r V W . y , *^* ^ —* p _^ ages C ^ V ^^ ' — , ^*^'

    volumes and ethnolog , with ical 70 maps engravings , showing , and the with Af route ghan

    frontier as marked in new Russian publications . of The ¦ a journey w h ork is of intended 12000 ~~~ miles to be b not y railway only a water record

    — — - ^ — - — m - — tt , ^ m * m ^ ^^ ¦ ~ . A ^^— - ^^^— ~ m ^ ¦ AM »^^» ^ . - ^^^™ ^^^^^ tMm ^»^»^^^ " » « ^ mr- ^ m g , mg w W ^ mW ^ mT WM ^ ^^ mr ^^^* mb , ^^ V book horses ^ upon , and the cam count el s , but ry , it each aims province to be a standard of which ^

    grap is treated hy , meteorology systematicall , geology y as , regards botany , zoology its geo , - ethnology , and political economy . The history

    of the Russian advance into Central Asia is traced therein from the sixteenth century down to the annexation of Merv . Four chapters are

    several devoted mt B A , of to course the anti Wh ~ , to quities Hk the prisons of ^ H MMm Samarkand _ , mmmm the *^ mm visitation , and ^^^_ *^^ ^^

    of which took Dr . Lans'dell * m * to Turkestan ^^ as before to Siberia . Another prominent feature of the B mt ^ A ^ m \ book A is its appendices AitA \ mmtAr'm A of fauna MB , flora , and

    a bibliography of Russian m ^ * Turkestan ^^^^^^ _ . The ^^^^^^ ^ natural history species enumerated amount to 4300 and the literary titles to 700 ; the whole

    being AWm , , completed ^ H a > V by < K an index m % ^ B of 50 a-. ^ ^ m ± pages . The ^^ .. 1 ^^ . ^ editio princeps will be limited to the number already printed , of which the type is in part

    distributed , and nearly half of the edition disposed of—more than one-third being sold to America .

    Messrs . Cassell & Company will publish in a few days ' Our Colonies and India ; how we

    got Ransome them , , M and . A . wh Oxon y we ., keep Professor them , of ' by Modern Cyril Literature ¦ MMMW 4 # Itmt mrmAT Y 1 P-mAmr and mWAr mmm mmrmgm History tAmmmt mAW «¦ in i mrm amAM the mAf "mAfAW Yorkshire B t

    Col-^ P ^ V ^ mm ^ gT *« ^^ . » ^^^^ « rmmr ^ UT ^ . m / ^^ ^^ V ^ *^^« r . ^ . v «^^^ W ^ mW WB ^^^ ' ^^ H ^ aaw ^ mmmr ^^ v . V ^ lege , Leeds . Messrs . J . and R . Maxwell announce the

    issue of a new novel—an entertaining story of love * Sweet and Christabel sacrifice—in ' by three A . volumes M . Hop , entitled kinson

    author of ' Pardoned , / < fcc . ; and also an in- , teresting three volumes contribution entitled to ¦¦ Corinna English bv fiction Rita , in /

    author tnree volumes of * Dame , , entitled Durden ' tormn ' and ,, ' ' other oy " ' Jttita well - known works . Both these are announced as

    novels for the season . A cheap edition of the facsimile of the * De

    Imitatione Christi' is announced to be published editions shortly by of Walton Mr . Elliot , Herbert Stock , , and uniform Bunyan with . his

    of industrial An American schools paper for says coloured that there is l e . need If a coloured 9 fmAmt man h wants «¦ mAw to study 7 Latin mm ¦ peop wi i ¦¦ ¦ Greek mr ¦—• ¦¦

    he ^ Hebrew fy ^^ has ^ aaW rmt ^^ ^ good * , ^ tr m p astronomy » vv ^ facilities v ^ a v ^* v «« w w ' ¦* * mipm , , r ^ and r metap ¦ mmw - ^^ perhaps r ^^ ^** ** h mn ysics w »* ^ " **• , all * theology free , mm ~ mw , ^^ bu ^^ * - , t , ^ m

    if he wants to learn how to make a boot , there •¦ . ' . , •; •¦ opening ¦•? ;• ' '' ¦¦ . iiu ' . ' ij " : ; .,:. " :- , ] ,.:. ;¦ .. ¦ ' , ;] ' •• .. . •;*• ' " . * ¦ ' ' . ' ' ' "¦'' " ^ m ¦¦ ¦ Jm ' ii , i

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1885, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051885/page/3/