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55 8 The Publishers' Circular May 15, 18...
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We understand arrangements have been made by the Council of the Camden ' Society ¦
for the following publications : —The Visitations the first of volume the Colleg of iate 4 The Church Clarke of Papers Southwell ' ( con ' - ;
taining new letters and speeches of Cromwell ) ; and ' Accounts of Henry , Earl of Derby ,
afterwards Henry IV ., during his Travels Abroad . ' The last-mentioned workwe
believe , will have some specially interesting , featuresbeing a valuable contribution to
, chivalry . # * #
The publication of the first volume of the ' Queen ' s Prime Ministers ' series will take
place early in the autumn . The demand for these half-crown biographies—of which Mr .
Stuart Reid is the editor , and Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . the publishers—already
prowith mises a to remarkabl be great , and brilliant the book series on will Lord open y
Beaconsfield' from the pen of Mr . James Anthony Froude . Fresh light is cast in the
volume on many hitherto obscure points in Lord Beaconsfield ' s memorable and widely
influential career . * We learn from Paris that a good deal of
interest is aroused through the publication of M . de Mauguy O % f ' s ' Souvenirs du Second
Empire . ' The work is largely made up of personal reminiscencesand in several important respects
gives a new colour , to the princi X pal events A of an unusually striking historical period . A
noteworthy feature of the book is the virtual denial it furnishes of the oft-repeated charges of certain French and Engolish writers as to
the excessive corruption that characterised the court of the late Emperor Napoleon . There are some && 4 t touchi J ^ M . incidents respecting . A . the
% ^ f ^ ^^ ^ rf X ^ ^^ ^ rf ^^ ^^ ^^ * ng A A C ^ A JLJL ^ mS JL ^^ ^^ A A mJ ** J ^^ ^^ M ^ X- ^ X ** ^^ JL A ^^ \ J ~ M ^^ Empress Euge ' nie in the work .
• * lish M immediatel essrs . Crosby Loc new kwood 4 Pocket & Son Book will ' pub for y
electrical engineers , which has been written by */ Mr . H . R . Kempe X , , of the Postal Telegrap CJ 17 hs
Department . They have also nearly ready a new work on ' Electric Light Fitting , ' a
practical handbook for working electrical engineers , by Mr . John W . Urquhart , whose book on * Electric Light' is well known . The same
publishers have in the press a new elementary treatise on ' Light , ' designed for the use of
architectural students . It will form a new volume of Weale ' s Rudimentary Series , and i »
written by Mr . E . Wyndham Tarn .
With the J une number of Harper ' s Magazine a new volume will commenceand a strong
programme has in consequence been , provided . The frontispiece consists of a full-paged
portrait of Alphonse Daudet , and the brilliant French novelist contributes to the number
* The Last Adventures of the Illustrious Taron tarin the . ' * Laurence American Hutton Burlesque has a illustrated critical paper by
photographs , old prints , and sketches , . Under the title of the ' Best-Governed City in the
World descrip , tive ' Mr . articl Julian e on Ralp Birming h has an ham illustrated ; whilst
Herr ^ Moritz ^ k ^ r * * . Wahl ^ r ^ r " ^ ^ ^ enriches ^ a strong ¦ number of the magazine with an estimate of Prince
Bismarck as man and minister . # # *
respecting ^^ b ^^ n ^ vi V ^ " ^^ ar ^^ ^» ^ i ^ ous » ^~ VM ^ h the ^^ ^™ rumours ^^~^ ^^ avocations ^ ^ — ^ have — ¦ b of Prince afloat Bismarck recen — — — — ~^ < ¦ ^ ^ k tl ^^/ y ^ j
since he retired from the Chancellorship . We believe h t there is no doubt that the Prince _ _ is j
preparing v ^^ r ^^^ r ^^^^ - ^^ ^ ^^ p ^^ ^^ . ^^ ^^ hi »^ - ^^^ ^ s memo ^ - ^— — " ^ ^ - ^ irs — ^ , .. but . — they — will not ^^ mm ^ be ^^ ^^ disposed ^^^ fc ^ fcf . ^ m *^ ¦ ~*^ U ^ . ^ - »^^ of -tarf- ^^ to — —r- an American - — — firm . The work » » . ^ ^^ ^^
will cover the whole of Bismarck ' s public life . It ^^^ ^^ ^ is n . yi ^ probable h ^^ - ^^ - ^ . ^ r ^^ ^^—^ " ^^ ^^^ " ^» - the ^ F ^ ^™ ^ " ^~^ ¦ book —^ - " ¦ - — ~ will - - be ' ^ — more remarkable ¦ — ' *^^ ^ ^^/
for its character-sketches of eminent personages in than f i or h any sensa ___ tiona _ l descriptions _ of
political Napoleon — w- — —^^^ «^ . . . ^ v ^ v ^»» " ^ ^— and ^^ will ^^ - ^ - — military fi gure « » large — events ly and . not The unfavour Emperor — ^^ -
abl M . y , in H Bismarck oux , who ' s has pages just . had We may an interview add that
with the late Chancellor , and returned to Rome , marck says the submits world need a sen not sational be surprised theory of certain if
Bisevents . * * *
An extremely interesting letter by John Stuart « -rf- » Millwritten ^_ - _~ - in ~ the autumn of 1837 ^^^ ^^^ aj ^^^^ m ^^^ " ^^^^^^^ ^^ , « ' w ^^ — ^ — — — ,
and condemning an article in the Westminster youthful Review , b Queen y Harriet appears Martineau in Mr . , Noel on Con the way then ' s
new catalogue of , autographs . In the course of the letter these words » » occur ~— : w ' I have read F-^^^ ^^^ ^^ P ^^ ^^ ^^^ T tf ^ t ^ t ^ T ^ i ^ ^ 1 ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ . ^ ^^ ^^^ ^ ¦ ¦ ^^ ^— ^^ ™ ^ ^ — —
Harriet Martineau ' s article again with the greatest disposition to do it justiceand the
result is more unfavourable to it than , ever before W ^^ ^ b ^ ^ b ^^^ ^^ ~ ~ . V .. V . V I " ^^^ think ^^ — ¦^~ ^^ ^~ " ^ the — ^ " ^ paper ¦ |™^ M — altogether — ¥
to contrary ive fc the to i the review character name which la we character are trying of ¦ ¦ y
mos dignity ^ mr ^» ^ ^ ^ - ^ = r n ^ g ^ b t ^ > ^ ^ w com ^ ^ ^ s , **^ ^™^ and fc ^ ^ ^ w ^ p » *^ * letel ^ <^ . — ^ ^^ , ^^ ^^ ' ^^ besides ^ — ^ ^ y » ^^ unpractical — ' — — , » b — ¦ , — — — of ^ — — —^ — practicalness - ^^ — — — — w , ~ m ; j - it is what . It is a
woman ' s view of practical affairs is supposed to beand what the view of a person ignorant
of life , always is . She always treats the Queen lik ¦ e a oun kk ¦ now ¦ the Q / ueen cannot
be ^^ ^ k - ^ ^^ ^ ^ 1 ^ y W ^ . ^ ^ ^ fc ^ k g ^^ person | 1 ~ ^^^ ^ I " t * . ¦ ^ - in ^ ^~ ^^ ; ^ i ^ " — ~ " — — ~~~ of » — the world and young kings , excep queens gnorance are that even at sixty . ,
canno She 0 dk always t be artless Lk treats as the a person Queen r full as of artless anxieties —¦ ; she
or ^^ ^^ A who M , A ^"^ ^* T will **^ ^ ^ r *^ W ^ be ** *^ ^"^ "S so ^ r *«^ ; ^ about ^^^» r * - ^ v *^ v ^ r ^* - her »» ^**^ w' ^ ^— dut ^— ^ » ' — ' y to ' •— " — - ~ her ' —~~ — sub- , jects . There is , continual trying hard for
p or hilosop observation hy in the in it article that , you and may not not an op drive inion a
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JSover before , we think wo may assort with confidence iven of Booksellers , has so ' comp Catalogues lete a as rfaume been in
g this number of the Publishers' Circula appears r . We have given our readers in all parts of the
to hand globe see the trade at a gist , lance so of that the where specialities it is to possible turn of for the for books second anyone in - any department g of literature .
Analogues A second / by instalment Mr . John of S . Farmer * Slang and will its bo
ready next month . ,
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1890, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051890/page/8/
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