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    pleted a very perfect survey of art history and criticism will be placed before the public . In architecture the volumes already published

    relate to Classic and Early Christian styles , a subject treated by Professor T . Roger Smith and Mr . John Sinter , and Gothic and Renaissance

    period * , described by Professor T . Roger Smith and Mr . Edward J . Poynter , R . A . Painting is represented by Mr . Poynter ' s review of the Classic

    and Italian Schools ; Mr . Gerard Smith on Spanish and French Schools ; German , Flemish , and Dutch . Schools are treated conjointly by Mr .

    H . J . Wilmot Buxton and Mr . Edward J . Poynter ; while Mr . H . J . Wilmot Buxton and Mr . S . R . and Koehler American unite in painting writing . the The account history of of ^ the English

    development of Sculpture is clearly set forth in Mr . George Bedford ' s successful manual upon the sculptures of Egypt . AssyriaGreeceand Romeand in

    the work which has , just been , published , , and which we particularly notice , namely , *

    Sculpture : Gothic , Renaissance and Modern , ' by Leader Scott , Mr . Scott introduces his extensive subject by a concise sketch of Early

    Christian art . The subject proper opens with a consideration of thirteenth and fourteenth century styles , including Sculpture of the Pisans and the

    Florentines . Subject matter connected with the fifteenth , sixteenth , and seventeenth centuries includes pleasantly-writtenand withal critical

    notices of the great masters , , the artist families , , the arcbitect-sculptors of the Renaissancethe

    Sienese School , Renaissance sculpture in Europe , . Mr . Scott closes his manuaL by d & seanting upon

    the attributes of modern sculpture , as exemplified by Italy , England , Germany ., and France . From the same . —' Dogs : their Management and

    Treatment in Disease , ' by Ashmont , of which a second and revised edition has been published , affords much useful information on the ailments

    of dogs , and the best way in which the troubles may be detected and cured . Th & book is very

    full and exhaustive . From - - — -- Me - ssrs - - - — . James — ~^~ -- _ Madjehose — ™ i —^ - ^ -- ^««« - * - ^ - ^ b ^ h ^^ - v « v - ^^ - & ~ t if Sons rir ^^ ~ mi " >^ , V Glas ^»^ l * +-AI»—»

    -^• ovr . —Few novelists of the present day have Mrs . Oliphant ' s charm of telling a story , and it is pleasant amid the superficial smartness and

    straining after effect which is characteristic , wo make bold to say , of the age , to come across a tale that is all womanly and true , depending for its interest

    on reveals the keen rather anal th ysis an on of meretricious homely character colouri that and it exaggerated , incident . Wecan indeed no ng hiher

    compliment to Mrs . Oliphant as a pay writer than g to say she takes her heroes and heroines from the everyday world in which 1 ¦ ¦« ¦ «» ¦ wo ~ live—that JBf \ J she ik

    w ^ j - — — — — — - ^^ ^* * r jm *« , ^ ^ — ^^ ^ 4 ^»^ ^ % ^ endows them ^ with nomoretranscendant attributes whom than are we to are be found surrounded in hundreds —that she of the passes being them s by

    through no abnormal trials or exceptional actions ; and yet , by the force of her insight into human nature and her delicate . sympathwith the

    workings of the human heart , sho renders y their doings undeniably interesting . In ' Eflfie Ogilvio : the

    Story apparent of . a Young Effie is Li but fe , ' a this simp featuro lo-hearted is markedl Scotch y lassie , truesturdyand honestafter the fashion

    any of her girl race mi , g , ht and go her throug , experiences h , and , yet are how onl extremel y such as y

    hor engrossing stepmother they , is such are ! an one Agai as n , many Mrs . of O us g have ilvio , mot—there aro hundreds of sucli women in the

    Mvorld , well-meaning , but wanting in fineness of

    perception , and densely , rather than selfishly ,

    worldly ; but we certainly never took so much interest in them as in Mrs . Oliphant ' s creation . Even vulgar HVTr . Diram we know to be a type m— of a

    — ——[ j — — — — ^ y * -r ^ (^ familiar rt 1 class V , and as he 1 stands j " 1 on his 1 * hearthrug 1 , 1 , perfectl _ , ^^ — — - _ . ___ y . g ^^_ lowing — f—j wi - th money ' ^ , and talks — ^^ to * - ' \^ as ¦ _ ^» • . 1 *• ¦ a .

    his girls about * furnishing ^ their visitors with ' a g- > od spread' and * giving it ' em grand , regardless of —~ expense ¦— ' we feel that we have run across this 4 \

    gentleman ~^ r — — , j - more -- —— tha — ~ n once - in a lifetime , and - —~ that v ^ A J he is right in saying that he makes people knuclle under on account of his wealth , and that there is

    strict if somewhat unpleasant philosophy in his view . But the story is full of good characters , noteworth — — — - _ y among — - whom — are the Miss Dempsters ^

    the two . maiden ^ J ladies ^ J who live at Gilston ; and ^ to -, readers who are partial to an old-fashioned novel , the like of which we are afraid is rapidly dying

    away , the perusal of these two volumes should give genuine pleasure . From Messrs ¦ . Marpon & 1 h Flammarion .

    —Al-^^^ ^^ **^ a > * ^ k * ^^^^^^^ m ^^^ ^^^ " ^^ ^^» ^^^ ** w ^^ r *^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ v - ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ " ^ ^^^ —^ — —^—— ™~ ^ — — -r —— ^^ - ^ ^^ phonse Daudet ' s * Tartarin sur les Alpes , ' cheap edition , has had great success . Between seventy and eihty thousand copies have been sold . The

    book if g in effecta humorous account of the incidents which , may , befall anyone who , as an amateur climber __ — , attempts a . the mountains and passes * - of

    Switzerland ; but there is so little real exaggeration that the fictitious narrative amounts to a very fair picture of ordinary experiences in the

    playground of Europe- There aro a number of elegant little illustrations , which makes this edition - ^^ — - _ . ¦ ^ v - ^^ 1 of * Tartarin — — — — — sur — — les - Alpes w — ' a pretty m —

    jreminiscence of Switzerland for those who are already familiar with it . From — _ _ M . Paul — — _ . _ Ollendorff _ — _ Paris . —* Ecrivains et

    , ^ penseurs' is the title of a volume of critical essays by M . Jean-Paul Clarens , which has just been published . The subjects of the papersare : —Paul de Saint-Victor * Homines et dieux ';

    Paul Pierre de JLoti Bourget , and and Sully his -Prudhomm psy , cholog e ical , De romances l'Acade- ; rnie Franchise , ' with extracts from his poetical

    pieces . There is a preface in the form of a letter from M . Sully-Prudhomme . From Messrs . S . W . Partridge & Co . — ' Rachel ,

    the Little Captive Maid / is an adaptation from the German , by Julie Sutter , forming a pretty and simple story , very acceptable to children .

    From the same . —* Out of Step ; or , the Broken Crystal mJ , ' by C . M . Clarke , author of ' Polly |/' s

    Petition , ' is a dainty volume brightly illustrated . The literary merit of the story is considerable . From the same . —Titles like ' Ling-Nam ;

    orIn-, terior Views of Southern China , ' are rarely very popular . Such , however , is the designation of Mr . B . C . Henry ' s new volumewhich includes

    notes on explorati ons in the hitherto , untraversed island of Hainan . As a contribution to the descriptive A . topogra 1 . CJ p hy •/ of China the work is a

    good one , conveying a very clear idea of life and its surroundings in South China , that is to say in ' Ling-Nam / which means 'South of the Ilidge .

    The literary treatment of the wubject gives additional interest to Mr . Henry ' s book , which , onee taken up , will be read with attention from

    beginning to end , especially by lovers of descriptions of travol and of rcsidenco in little-known lands . From Messrs . Kegan PaulTrench & Co . —

    Tho contents of the ninth , volume of , the Avon edition of Shakspeare includo * Borneo ?* nd Juliet , ' ' Timon of Athens , ' and ' Julius Caesar . ' . _ . _ -r

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    tM | W' * " *~~ ' —* " I ' . . ¦ . ' i ¦ i ¦ ii . i i - 498 The Publishers' Circular May 15 , X 8 S 6

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1886, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051886/page/16/