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    uested Upon to Mr relate . Samuel his experiences Mullen , jun he ., readil being y

    req stated that he began his career in Melbourne where he was born . In ' 78 he came over to ,

    Eng — Bickers land , & an Son d was , after for three which years he managed with Messrs the .

    London ^ agency for jm his % * father j » . v m 's business « . o . This ii n — ~ he did solely for eig ht ye * S ars—in fact , until

    his father arrived . Our representative then examined two beautifully illuminated addressespresented

    to Mr . Mullen upon his leaving , Australia . The first was presented by the booksellers of the Colony , in recognition of Mr . Mullen ' s

    services as President of the Booksellers and Stationers' Association . The other—which Mr . Mullen said he valued most , was an

    extremely gratifying farewell address from his own assistants ,

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    May 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 563

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    EDWARD AUGUSTUS PETHERICK . The subject of our sketch has been

    associated with books all his life , having been born March 6 , 1847 , at Burnham , Somerset , where

    his father was a bookseller and librarian . The younger Petherick emigrated with his parents A , to Australia ^ in 1852 . At a very early

    age he was ( like Benjamin _ 'Franklin ) engaged as compositor in a printing office , but subsequently attended Mr . Alfred Brunton ' s public

    school At / in one of the suburbs of Melbourne JL — Mr . James Bonwick , by the way , the author of ' The Last of the Tasmanians , ' being then

    one of the visiting masters ; Professor Cook and Mr . W . L . Rees , both of New Zealand fameassistant masters . Mr . Petherick did

    not , , however , remain long at school , for he secured a clerkship in the local municipal offices . After four years V thus spent JL , he found

    more congenial occupation in the house of Mr . George Robertson , bookseller and publisherwith whom he remained until 1870 ,

    when , he was sent to London as buyer , and representative of the firm and its numerous correspondents in the Australasian coloniesa

    position x which he filled for eighteen years , , when , on the firm relinquishing a portion of its

    business , Mr . Petherick opened the Colonial Booksellers' Agency in Paternoster Row . In association with his brothers and former

    colleagues , he has since established branches in Melbourne and Sydney . In connection therewith he started his colonial book circular , the

    of Torch the , best a quar books terly issued publication in the , various containing branches lists of literature a special featuresupplementing

    the catalogue proper , being lists , of publications relating to , or issued in , the British colonies .

    In this respect the publication referred to is unique and extremely valuable . Notwithstanding the pressing cares of a

    busy time for life a , Mr creditable . Petherick amount has of found reading leisure , and for much valuable bibliographical work . His

    Bibliography of Australasia ( one section of whichviz . New South Walesis now

    appearing in , the Torch ) fills ten or , twelve closely written quarto volumes of manuscript , and

    was begun upon a thoroughly systematic plan

    Edward Augustus Petherick. The Subject O...

    as far back as 1865 . Mr . Petherick also compiled the catalogue of the York Gate

    Geograp work which hical has and since Colonial been expanded Library ( into 1882 ' ) , An a Index of the Literature of Geography and

    Travel A feature in all A of ge Mr * and . Petherick Countries ' s recent ' ( 1886 publish ) . -

    with ing has London been , publishers and is , the , issue of special , by arrangement early V cheap X

    and editions he has for circulation lemented in and the much colonies enhanced only , the value of supp his series , by editions of older workssuch as ' Ivanhoe' ' Vanity Fair' ' The

    , ,, t N ewco ' * m Annals es , ' * David of a Copperfield Quiet % — - Nei , ' g ' hbourhood The Gladia- '

    & c . , All these works are -j uniforml o y issued in , his own covers , and form a ' Petherick

    Collection of Favourite and Approved Authors . ' One of the latest additions is ' The

    Bondman series , ' . b Among y Hall other Caine noteworth , number y ventures 38 in the of Mr . Petherick in Colonial publishing have been

    editions of Lumholtz ' s Travels x in Australia ' and Woodward's ' Visits to the Solomon , Islands . '

    the Mr Royal . Petherick Geograp is hical a Fellow , and of oth the er Societies Linnean , , and he is a recognised authority upon Colonial

    matters generally . He has collected a most extensive and valuable library , chiefly relating to the Australian Colonies and New Zealand ,

    at his private residence on Brixton Hill . He has also been long engaged in preparing an elaborate historical work for the press , with

    discover maps an i d c i h ar th ts , illustrative Southern H of voyages ihere and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sp .

    Going to and coming from the Antipodes , in late years 4 / , Mr . Petherick is himself a

    ' travelled' man . He has lectured upon occasion , is a member of the Lambeth Vestry , and has been heard of also as a possible

    member of the London School Board . Few men are more modest and retiring than Mr . Petherick ; rbut his rich stores of

    knowledge are ever available to his friends , and where his own information fails , he will spare no time or pains to ascertain whatever is

    wanting . In a word , he is a man who , if he does not himself know a thing , invariably knows how and where the requisite knowledge

    may Order be obtained has been . called the sanity of the mindandcombined with methodcan

    accomp , lish , wonders . It has done , so in Mr . Petherick ' s case , and he is , moreover , a

    energy man of . tireless Far too industry busy ever , and to of be inexhaustible hurried , he is all in all a living example of the

    dictumnot always rightly understood—of Carlyle that the modern majesty consists in work ,

    and that what a man can do is his greatest

    ornament .

    How To Furnish A Study. ¦ On -^_Rr ^¦ ^ ...

    HOW TO FURNISH A STUDY . ¦ On ¦ the wall immediately in front of us

    hang ^_ rr ^^ two —— — - — — large - - photographs , sent from the other side of the Atlantic by an ever-considerate friend , one of Emerson ' s study ,

    the other of Longfellow ' s . The subtle plea-

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1890, page 563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051890/page/13/