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    580 The Publishers' Circular May 15,18 9...

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    Booksellers' Catalogues. * God Be Thanke...

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    order that her design of taking her place may be accomplished . Neglecting to administer a medical ^ restorative _ . _ , she hastens __ _____ the fatal end ,

    and the baronet becomes a widower . Sir Alan , now stung with remorse , resolves never to meet Miss Murray againand leaves - _ - the

    checkmated — — adventures — — — - ^^ j s — — ^ r to — — — — — — make , — — _ the - — - _ - best of her disappointment , and , we suppose , to lapse still further from honour and rectitude .

    From Messrs . Blackie & Sons . —* British Landscape and Coast Scenery , ' by Edward Duncan .

    The favourable reception given to the elementary works on * Water-Colour Painting ' of Vere Foster ' s Drawing Series has led to preparation

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    has the recentl more y important been approved illustrations for science . The and book art prizes by the Education Department .

    From Messrs . Brentano . —' The Anglo-American Annual . ' This is a concise directory of English

    and American residents in Paris , with street reference English-speaking plan colony and maps in the . French The resident capital

    now numbers several thousands , but this is the I first attempt which has been made to compile a hand-book which deals with itand with the

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    s concerning chools English a and nd clubs Amer ica esides n chur a c hes t , variety , of newspapers hints about , French , customsta g riffs

    hotels , theatres , and postal arrangements , . The , wi bo t h elastic is daint band ily bound and in flexible has been cloth wisel covers space y

    , reserved in its pages for travellers' notes . From Messrs . Burns & Oates , Limited . —* Life

    of St . Justin Martyr , ' by Mrs . Charles Martin . she The had writer in view has __ c ertai namel nl __ y y ^_ accomp to _ present __ _ — lished the the life aim of

    , , St . Justin * in a popular and readable form before the public' The style is bright and vi _ g ___ orousand the arrangement concise and

    methodical , . An opportun ^? e moment has been seized for the publication of this sketch , owing to the Pope ' s mandate for the celebration of

    St . Justin ' s Office and Mass by the entire Church . From the same . —* The Church and the Sects / by

    C . F . B . Allnatt , second series—five letters . The author continues his defence of his pamphlet entitled * Which is the True Church ?'

    A which JL he commenced , in his first series of letters published some time since . He is an able controversialistand bases his arguments chiefly

    on quotations , from well-known writers , both Protestant and Catholic . Whilst vehemently opposing _ _ « _ » the special « . tenets of Protestantism he

    attempts to show that Humanism and Catholicity are identical terms . From the same . — ' The Church of my Baptism

    , and why I returned to it , ' by W . F . H . King . The author states that his object in writing this I book is ' to point oat certain inconsistencies of

    I I the ^ Hi Anglican A dH A theory . Mi . ' He ^ h ^^^¦¦ b relates . the . ^ mental J | distress experienced until he returned to the

    Roman Communion , and then proceeds to discuss numerous theological and ecclesiastical topics wherein he considers the Established

    Church to be at variance with the New Testament . Had Mr . King ' s style been less vapid and his arguments couched in a more temperate

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    story . Mrs . Molesworth never introduces us to pert little men and women on the one hand , or painfully good — y ^ -good — y ^ young 1 / people on the

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    shows character us , w reveals ithout itself the aid for of good sage or homilies evil in , how acts which to careless eyes seem too trivial for

    notice . Mrs . Moles worth ' s latest heroine , * Little Mother Bunch , ' is worthy to rank with should

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    delightfully illustrated and tastefully bound . From Messrs . Armand Colin & Go ., Paris . —

    * Causeries litteraires , ' par Maxime Gauchet . For 1872 more to 1888 than —M fifteen . Gauchet years has —that charmed is , from the

    readers his weekl of account the Revue of literature poUtique and et litteraire the drama by . In the volume y before us the publishers have

    assembled some of his most prominent criticisms on books . The subjects of the papers are : —IJugo , Nisard , Kenan , Sully-Prudhomme ,

    Zola , Daudet , Guy de Maupassant , Pierre Loti , Paul Bourget , Jules Lemaitre , Emile Augier , ¦ ¦ ¦¦ Dumas filsSardou fcl fc PailleronHenry Becque .

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    emotion which are found in his novels . The graphic and yet unimpassioned qualities of M . Pierre Loti ' s descriptions of life in distant

    lands are well set forth . From Mr . 3 _ . Upcott Gill . —' Games of Patience

    for one or more Players , ' by Miss Whitmore Jones . ( Second edition . ) Comprehensiveness has been the author ' s aim in compiling this

    useful handbook for lonely hours . All known many forms of hitherto the game unpublished are described and some , including taken

    — ' JL , from a French book on the subject . From Messrs . Charles Griffln & Co . — ' Official

    Year Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland 189 > . ' This invaluable handbook to national progress , in in ,

    in in 1884 science science and and and literature literature b , , was was since first first then published rmbliahed no effort appears mmtw , ^ w ~ r - ^ rmsirm , p , ^ - to % . - ^ r year have ^ mmsmr w ^ r been w y -r ¦ % ^^* year ^* - * spared M |>/» w » "V ~^~ i by pt ' _ r its " T" comp ~ ^ ^ - ^ m ~ m * m ^ . r ilers —~~

    reliable to render . The the new work volume both comprehensive gives an account and of what has been done during the past year by

    the small as well as the great scientific societies u ' '" - "¦ ¦ .. ' '¦ : . I . ' ' ' . ' . . . ¦ . _ - __—^"'" 'flj

    580 The Publishers' Circular May 15,18 9...

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1890, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051890/page/30/