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A neat little volume , Britons in Brittany / by the Rev . G . H . Frewerwill be published
, The by Messrs work . g Sampson ives an account Low & in Co simp . in a le few and days un- .
ambitious form of a holiday trip spent by five young English people on the Continent .
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/ May 15 , 1 SS 6 The Publishers' Circular 493
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Few devotional poems have attained so extensive ^ * ^*^^ ^^ - ^ " - ' — ^ - ~ - — - — and — — — enduring - ^^ — — ~ . ^ . ~ — . —^—_ a — — popularit __^ _ _ — — — — — _^ . y _ as , ^^ ^ the . ^^ _— , ^_ - ^^
famous German chorale ' Nun danket alle Gott' ( Now thank we all our God ) . The
author of this heart-stirring composition was Martin Rinckart , the 300 th anniversary of
whose birth was celebrated on the 26 th . ultimo in his native town of Eilenburg by the
unveiling of a memorial tablet affixed to the house in which he was born . The date of his birth was
really April 23 , 1586 . He studied theology at the University of Leipzig , and after
ordination was appointed Archdeacon of his native town , and Rector of the church of St . Nicolas
there , and filled these offices until hia death in 1649 . Those were troublous timeswhen
Germany , distracted by religious dissensions , , was ravaged by the contending armies of the
Catholic and Protestant Princes for thirty long years 1 / . It was to celebrate the Peace of
Westphalia , which put an end to that long and terrible war , that Rinckart wrote his glorious
chorale . The number of members of the English
Goethe Society is now 96 . That of the Weimar Society is no less than 1 , 775 .
F . A . Brockhaus , of Leipzig , announces the UJ . AC 3 immediate illllllCUlXCIiUC publication \ J W \ Jl . Wj <\>\ lWJ \ . l . of KJL the llLLKj fourth 1 . KJU . XU 1 M . com KiKJlLL - -
pletely revised edition of his small Conversations-Lexikon . ' Brockhaus im '' '
Conversationsf ^^ ^^^ tf ^^ ^ b ^* r t ^^^ P ^^ ^^^^ v ^^ r ^ k ^ b rf ^^ fe ^ h ^^ r ^ M ^ fr v ^^ f ^^ ^* ^^ ^^ ^ b ^ v ^ H ^^ ^ r ^ ^ ai » p ^ q ^ ^^ ^^ « v v ^^ * ma ** «^^ v ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ v rm ^^ Lexikon ^ is so well known that it is only necessary to point out that his * Kleines
Lexikon' is a careful abridgment of the larger work intended for those students whose
leisure time or whose means are too limited to justify the purchase of the larger work . It
is published in 60 parts at 25 pfennige ( about in 3 d . ) cloth ; or in for 2 18 vols m . arks sewed ¦¦¦ T k 4 . , Mr 15 b bb ¦ ¦ . mark bbbi Brockhaus bb s ; or bound also
M ^ ^ m ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ , f ^^ ff ^^ b ^^ B ^ B ^ b ^^^^ ^ V ^ B ^^^*^^ ^^^^ ^ PV ^ ' ^ b *^^ ^ b ^ ^ ^^« p ^^>^ r ^ m" w ¦¦¦ ^¦* ^^^ bp ^ ^^^ ^^^ a h ^^^ * h ^^ b ^¦ ^ ¦ ^ b » ^ f" ™ —^ v ^^^ ^ bb ^ ^ ¦ r ^ ™ announces the second volume of the * Memoirs of General Grant . ' Of the first volume two
editions have been already demanded by the German public . In this connection we
cannot forbear reiterating a significant fact illustrative of the injustice of the present state
of the International Copyright question and of the liberality of English publishersthat Mr .
S . L . Clemens ( Mark Twain ) , when , examined recentlbefore a Committee of Congress on
this eubj y % J ect , stated that he had received cj a larger royalty for his writings from . English
than from American publishers ; for an American author can secure copyright in
England , though an English author cannot do the like in the States . He also stated that
the royalty paid in England on General Grant ' s book was the largest paid on any book
in any age of the world .
Another publication of Mr . Brockhaus is
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Karl von den Steinen ' s * Durch Central-Brasilien im Jahre 1884 / with more than
100 -tl / "V / -V illustrations ll I i " and 3 pf" \ maps . In TT thi I 1 s work ^ Dr . von Steinen describes an expedition
undertaken to explore the Schingii , river in South America . The scientific results of this
exploration of a region hitherto untouched by civilising influences are of the highest interest
and importance ; and the illustrations add considerably to the value of the work .
The well-known firm of E . J ~ . Bull , of Leiden xj ^ xu-v ^ u j , has iiciio issued looutu a tu jji prospe . wojJb vctus > u ua of \ jx . the iuj-v ^ ' Ecclesi xjv /^ iooi " -
astical History of the Hungaries' ( Historia Hungarorum Ecclesiastica' ) by Peter Bod .
This work relates the sufferings , of the Protestants of Hungary during long years of
oppression . The history which was the fruit of much painstaking research and labour was
supposed until lately to have been lost excepting some few fragments . But the first three
of the four books forming the work have recently been found in the Library of the
University of Leiden , and the fourth has been discovere — _ . — — d _____ at Transy ______ lvania — _ — _ -. _ The — — MS _ - ___ — . _ will _ .-. — be — _
collated by M . Carolus Szalny , a competent _ , scholar and compatriot of Peter Bodand the
work will be edited by Dr . Rauwenhoff , , Professor — — - of Divinity - ^ £ at — the — — Universit — — - — y of Leiden — .
It will form 2 vols . 4 to . and the price will be 30 ..
The original MS . of the celebrated German patriotic song , c Die Wacht am Rhein ' ( The
Watch on the Rhine ) , has just been purchased by the German banker , Herr Reiff-Moppert ,
of Bern , in Switzerland , from the Chief Ranger — — — __— — - —__ __ - — Manuel — — - — - — , __ of — - _____ Burg _ pri ^^ dorf — ^^ — , _ r an ^^ — — old ^^ —— — — friend ^^^ — ^^
—of Max Schneckenburger , the author , and has been presented by him to the German nation .
A publication which . has long been awaited with great interestthe * Geschichte der
Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst , , ' von Antonius von der Lindethe celebrated Dutch antiquary
will shortly , appear . The author is well , qualified by his previous studies and writings
for the difficult task he has undertaken . He published in 1870 the * Costerlegende' an
exposure of the attempt to deprive Gutenberg , of his just claim to the invention of letterpress
printing . But the work excited so much illfeeling — —towards its author that he — ~ was - — obliged
to leav < p e his native country . He has since o resided in Berlinand has published a life of
Gutenberg ( 1878 ) , and other works . The rich materials illustrative of the history and progress
of the printer ' s art which are stored up at Berlinand the munificence of the Prussian
Ministry , of Public Worship and Education , at whose expense the work has been
luxuriously printed , have materially facilitated and lightened the author ' s labours . Messrs .
Asher & Co ., of Berlin , are the publishers . The following list of recent English works
prohibited by the Russian Censorship , taken from the Borsenblatt , is not without interest : —
Benson ( M . E . ) , ' The Story of Russia , ' Russia Riving ' A Short tons , ' Smi ; Historv th Hare , Elder of ( A , < . fb Russia J Co . . C ; . Little ) , Sonnenschain ' Studies ( H . W . in ) , :
Noble ( E . ) , * The Russian Revolt ' , ' Longmans
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1886, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051886/page/11/
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