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    We Publish To-Day Some Facts Concerning ...

    account for every man , woman , and child in the country amounts broadly to £ 4 . On the other

    hand , we are economical in certain directions , as , for instance , in imported books .

    Literature from abroad , even if we include in that term maps and charts , does not cost us more

    than a quarter of a million . Less than threehalfpence a head , therefore , as Mr . Dymes in

    his article on ' The National : Import of Books ' points out , represents the sum winch the

    British public spend in the importation of food for the mind , whilst eig ¦ bb- ^ ' hty -w shillings V ^ a

    head is the amount annually disbursed in bring ¦ ing into the country food for the body .

    —— ^ -av The contrast is certainly startling , and may well supply moralists , in the trade and beyond

    it , with ' food for reflection . ' We need scarcely remind the readers of the

    Publishers' Cibcuxar , however , that imported books constitute , after all , but a microscopic

    proportion of the actual supply ; for , as a matter of fact , year by year the number

    of books published in the United Kingdomsteadily advances .

    The Board of Trade Returns are of necessity summed up in terse , not to say laconic ¦ ,

    English . In fact , in making up the meagre statistics to 5 which vre have refex * red , weight

    and and value value are are the the only onlv considerations ^ onsirle rar , i nn « which wTn r » Ti appear to impress the official mind . It is of course neither the weight of the arguments

    nor the value of the conclusions , but merely the ability to turn the scale in the avoirdupois

    sense of the term , and the cost of the volumes in the current coin of the realm . Modest as

    our national bill for the importation of literature is , there is no stagnation in that

    branch of the book market . Indeed , in four 11 years there has been an increase of one-third

    in quantity ; and , moreover , taking the same period , there has been a gradual lessening of

    the cost of production , which is equal to a reduction in price of seventeen per cent .

    Such facts are not merely significant in themselves , but are calculated to awaken hopeful

    ¦ Mm anticipations for coming years .

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    book on * Cromer ^^ a , Past and Present , ' T ^ hich will shortly be published by Messrs . Jarrold

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    x •/ Co . The book is interesting , not only on its own account , but also because it contains

    evident autobiographic touches . # * # # *

    We learn that the Delegates of the Clarendon Press have nearly ready for publication a

    1 Grammar of the Hussian Language , ' by Mr . F . W . Morfillof Oriel CollegeOxford . It is

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    Latin was written by Henry Ludolf , and was published bf at the Clarendon Pressin 1691

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    endeavoured O to give a concise , and clear , analysis of the - word - -forms and Syntax u of the Russian

    language . # # # #

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    Amongst the works submitted * to a critical examination are Marlowe ' s ' Jews of Malta ;

    Shakspeare ' s ' Merchant of "Venice' ; Scott ' s * ' Our Ivanhoe Mutual ' ; Dickens Friend ' Disraeli ' Oliver ' s T ' Coningaby wist' and '

    ; and ' Tancred * ; George Eliot ' s " Daniel t Deronda . '

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1889, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051889/page/5/