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Mr . Burne-Jones is reported to have received £ 22 , 000 for his four panel pictures ,
entitled ' The Legend of the Briar Rose . ' M . Rothschildof the Rue des
Saints-Peres , has published , an excellent record , historical and personal , of the Paris Exhibition .
It is satisfactory to find that the Printers ' — Almshouses Extension Building Fund ? which
cj , was started a year ago , has reached to nearly £ 1 , 500 .
' New Holidays in Essex , ' an illustrated handbook to some of the best-known country and coast districts of Essex , will be ready early
in May . Messrs . Cassell & Company are about to
issue a new Little Folks' Painting Book , which will contain over eighty pages of outline illustrations suitable for colouring .
Messrs . Frederick Warne & Co . have at press and will shortly publish a new novel
entitled ' In the Sunlight , by Miss Angelica , M . Selby , author of 'On Duty . '
Mr . Harry Furniss' ' Royal Academy Antics' has proved M . a decided hit . The first
edition was exhausted within a week of its publication , and a second edition is rapidly disappearing .
Mr . Clark Russell's book on ' Nelson and tlie Naval Supremacy A 1 / of EngOland' is now
ready . Mr . Russell has recently settled in Bath and is hard at work upon a new novel entitled 'Helga . '
We learn that the International Geographical Congress will be held next year at Berne .
The six hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Swiss Confederation will be celebrated at the same time .
It is expected that Mr . Stanley Lane-Poole ' s Memoirs of Sir R . Church ,
Generalissimo of the Greek Army during the War of Independence , will be " concluded in the July number of the English Historical Review .
The Toronto Public Library was only opened six years agobut it already has
55000 volumes on its , shelves . Mr . Bain the , librarian , has wisely given special attention ,
to collecting books printed in , or relating to , the Dominion . Cyclists in the north will bo glad to hear
that an interesting and useful book will be It insued is called by Messrs i Speciall . George y Surveyed Philip Roads Sl Son in .
Scotland . ' The work is arranged on an entirely new plan . TheWesleyan «/ Conference Office has arranged »
» - for a series of handbooks for the use of preachers . Professor G . G . Findlay , B . A ., will deal with the Pauline Epistles , and the Rev . W . L .
Watkinson , a most popular minister , with the Epistle to the Hebrews . We hear that the Jubilee edition of the
works of Martin Luther , commenced some years agois nearly finished . Dr . Lutherof
the Royal , Library in Berlin , has been engaged , to prepare a collection of the writings of the
Reformer printed before his death .
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A new volume of verse by Mr . Ernest Radford will be published j . shortly by i / Mr . Elkin
Mathews , of Vigo Street , W . It will contain a frontispiece by Mr . Walter Crane . The edition will be limitedand is being printed
at the Chiswick Press on , handmade paper . We understand that Mr . J . Passmore
Edwards' gift of £ 20 , 000 to the Bethnal Green Free Library is not accompanied by
any condition beyond that the institute should be erected in some convenient position Xr , and
that it should remain open free to the public . We learn from Paris that , at a meeting of
the Geographical Society there , Dr . W . Capus , who had been travelling in Central Asia , submitted a wonderfully interesting account of
the Pamir , or 'the roof of the world , 'illustrating his descriptions by the oxyhydrogen lantern .
We are informed that the Nizam ' s Government has resolved to establish a public
library at Hyderabad , the main purpose of which is to assist the movement for translating high-class English books . A deputation from
the Nizam is coming to England with the view of further aiding this scheme . Professor Morley ' s edition of Shakspeare
is to be published separately in thirteen volumes in an ornamental box . The Professor has expended much care and research in the
preparation of this edition . The introductions to the various plays contain a mass of information of the greatest interest .
We are glad to hear that most satisfactory progress JL V- * is being <—* made in regard * --Jto the efforts
put forth to assist in the restoration of the library of Toronto University , recently destroyed by fire . Nearly all the learned
societies in this country have sent copies of their journals and other publications . Those interested in genealogy and heraldry
will find a valuable work in a volume published by Messrs . Sotheran & Co ., and prepared by Mr . J . A . Timmis . In a series of charts the
royal descent is traced from Egbert to Queen Victoria . There is also in the work an excellent representation of crests and arms .
The new premises for the Allen Library , in connection with the Wesleyan body , have
been opened informally . Situated near the historic City Road Chapel , the building occupX ies an appropriate M . l ~ M . site . The library * shas
over 15 , 000 volumes to start with , but in order to carry out the scheme effectively additions must be made .
The new number of EtujlUh KtchuiyH , a quarterly publication of original etchings by
English artists , edited by Mr . W . H . May , contains three exquisitely delicate and brilliant examples of the art with descriptive letterpress
of a critical A . kind . This periodical « . is not half * aa well known as it deserves to be ; each number is full of good and moat artistic work .
Walt Whitman according to an American journal refuses any longer to see callers upon
any pretext , and secludes himself almost entirely . He is getting very feeble in body ,
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May 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 559
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1890, page 559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051890/page/9/
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