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Works , ' Horace at Athens , Ladies in Parliament , and other Pieces , ' by Sir George Otto
Trevelyan , M . P . Messrs . Masters & Co . will shortly publish
the * Joy author ful Years of / Charles translated Lowder from ' the and Latin ' Words by ;
in Season to Working Women , ' by Austin Clare .
Mrs . Weldon having commenced actions for liber against several booksellersall members
of the trade receiving any claim , from her or her solicitors are requested to communicate
at once with Hamilton , Adams & Co ., 32 _ Paternoster M- % Ai WA * , * , \ JKJ WXa'A - Sow LW X- ^ IT ; X or ~^ A . Simp f ^/^ A-JLX |_ F kin ' J M A , » Marshall > 1 T ^ VVX UiltVXX & ^ J ^/ Co V ^ V ^ . ,
Stationers' Hall Court . ~ Messrs . Triibner & Co . have brought out
a special form of their revolving bookcases , adapted to the requirements of the volumes of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica . '
Two new pens reach us from Mr . John Heathof Birmingham—the * Elongated J '
and the , ' Go as you *¦ iP Like . ' The advantage \ mJ of the first is that the length of the pen enables
even a careless writer to keep the index finger free from ink . The other pen is particularly
adapted for easy and rapid writing . L We have also received from Mr . J . G .
Smith , of Queen Victoria Street , E . C ., the ' Sun Fountain Pen . ' It is constructed on the
principles of a suction-pump ; the up and down movement of the piston being accomp jllished
by means of a movable a . screw - _» rod through a fixed worm . A movement of the handle to
the left fills the pen , and a movement to the right rierht withdraws withdraws the the ink ink . . Tt it really reallv seems seems as as it if
the secret involved in the lon ^ search for a satisfactory penholder of this description had
been solved at last . A new monthly journalcalled The Office
appears to-day ( May 15 ) ; it , addresses itself to , ' practical men' and proposes to deal with such
X H , XX . J . ' IH 4 B subj ^^ ects as shorthand ^ ^ ^ , type _ * - -writing ^ ^ , bookkeepingforeign languagesand other matters
of general , commercial interest , . The first number is both readable and sensible .
The complete works of ' Eiijer Goff , ' collected and published by Mr . John Hey woodof
Manchester and London , both large and small , paper X . IT editions , have already U been exhausted ^ .
A reprint is nearly ready . Dymond ' s * Essay _ Bri on ght War is , ' now with read a preface y in the variou by the s bindings late John tfas
announced of Grimm O , ' s . Fairy An illustrated Tales •! 1 has edition just been for schools issued
by Mr . Hey wood . Messrs . GriffithFarran & Co . will publish
, on bery «/ Jul — H y ouse 1 the Magazine % opening a number monthl of y illustrated the
Newshilling review for the ' , Clergy and •/ Laity of the Church of England . The new magazine
promises to give ' emphatic prominence to the great ¦—k - ¦ ^ ^ " ^ ^ r central ^^^ - ^^ ^* ^— - ^ r . Pt - ^^ ~ " ™ truths —^ - ^ i— w ^^ w - ™ - of -i— - — Christianity - — — — — —m — - —¦ - — M W / and to
take its stand on the * fact that the Church of England is the ancient and historic Church of
this country . ' It will also * oppose a firm front to all — who --- — — . seek --to -impair -. her efficiency or to
hinder her progress __ . ' A strong list of ^
contributors is announced ,
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May 15 , 1889 ^ he Publishers ^ Circular 52 * j
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Our Transatlantic cousins are at present gravely discussing which flower shall be i
selected as the national emblem . The wide area and diversified climate of America is an
embarrassment in the selection of a flower which shall be representative in every part of
the United States . A common field daisy is thought by some to be the most appropriate ;"
meanwhile , the stationery trade is endeavouring to test public opinion on the subject by means <
of a system of voting . j The steel pens- sold in the United States
number no less than one hundred and thirty ; maj millions ority a of year them . A were score imported of years but ago now the j ;
nearly all are manufactured in America , . 4 Needle-craft , Artistical and Practical is I
the title of the first volume of a new series of i books devoted to home-art , which has been ! commenced in New York . It is full of \
illustrated chapters on the numberless useful \ and ana ornamental ornamental articles articles which wnicn ladies laaies are are
accustomed to mak ^ . The latest addition to Messrs . Belford , [ ^
Clarke & Co . ' s Household Library is a sensa- [ tional story by Selina Dolaro , called ' Bella-Dembnia / the scene of which is laid first in
Russia , then in Vienna , aiid finally in ¦ England . ^ !
Messrs ~ m tr . Lee ^ " ¦ " & r * Shepard *>* i ; . t of /• Boston - ¦ - ^ ¦ . an / iounce f ' Decisive Events in American History / by j
outline Samuel Adams sketch Drake of the . American The book contains invasion an of j j
Canada in 1775-6 . The Interstate Publishing Company of !
Chicago and Boston have ready a series of j small books for ' beginners in literature' ;
entitled ' About Athors . ' The first volume- deals with 4 Favourit u e Authors for Little J
Folks ; the second ' English Authors for Young X UUUg JL Folks 1 KJ ± X \ i 3 ; f ' CbXXVA and the tfJlX ^ third UJ . tXJ . VA ' American i . Xlil l / l xuuiix j |
Authors for Young Folks . ' ( The forthcoming volumes iD of the \&\ t Knicker XAAiJVXltvi
bocker J- 11 V Nugget Ivl UX 1 V > Vililllfl Series ' \ J JL of M-M Messrs -M-KsKJ JL J . Putnam s . are .. { ' The Wit and Wisdom of Sdney Smith '
y ; Charles Lamb ' s * Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets ; and De Quincey ' s ' Murder
as a Fine Art . ' The same firm are publishing in their ' Great Cities of the Republic' Series
' The Story of Boston' by Mr . Arthur Gilman .
Messrs . Cupples & Hurd of Boston announce a biogra . J p hy «/ , by % f F . F . Cooke- , of
Theodore Parker . Messrs . DoddMead & Co . of New York ,
are publishing the , ' Lifeof General , Lafayette / with a critical estimate . of li . ' s character and .
public acts by Bayard Tucker man . ; A new and attractive claimant for literary
favour is Poet ' -hore , a monthly magazine mr ! devoted —• — - — — to ' Shakspeare - — — j ^ , Browning ^—p , iand the
comparative study of Literature . ' The quality of its contents—at leastif the standard of
, £ jie * first two or three numbers can be maintained—is sure to awaken the interest of many
readers .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1889, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051889/page/11/
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