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      [I A I Ls . * To Ist Be Of Stewards Held...

      Among the master printers of the metropolis we find Mr . Henry L . Hansard and Mr . J W to the Government

      ^ head Harrison nw - ^¦ ^ m * v ^ r ^ w of ^ ta * ^^ the ^» , ^»^^ as ^ t ^ ^ firm »^ " ™^ the ^ i gr which w r ^ b e - at » - ^^ ^—^™ typographical bears *^^ ^^ - ¦ » ™ —^ ^ his — ' name — purveyors — and ____ . — which _ _ prints j - — the — sheets — — - of ; Mr the — , ^ . Ptiblishers G . *^ A r v w . ^^ S ^^ pottiswoode ^ ^^^ ' Circular ^ j \ mm m m M ' WMM a M * W ^ ' - i -m « - -r-fc ¦ s- * 11 • 1 Johnson TT" 1 TT » " I nd Jt TTT in _ addition _ " 1 1 i ¦ - ' »

      and Messrs . Burt , Collingridge , , Rivington , aWyman , to members of favourable other well-known ices firms will i . bring It may to be the hoped ¦ exchequer that this of fe "this stival excellent , held as institution it will be under the substantial peculiarly Jfc

      support Vb ^^ w V ^^ T « ^ ^^ V »^» which ^ fc ^^ ausp ^^ V V ^*^^ B ^^ ^ it * ^ a ^ ^^ needs ^^ , V ¦ r *^»^» , and i ^ " ^» ^^ - ^^ hk it ^^ may - — - — - ^^ be - ^ - — — well — - — —» — — - to - — suggest —* — -- ^ — to - — our - — - ^ — — readers - — —— - — — — v — ™ ^ that " — ^* . ^ ^» 4 b they Vdbft ^^^ 0 ^ ¦ cannot ^» ^ LJflij II III do — ¦ 1 b The xne etter benefits oenents than add conferred conierrea a mite to by ay its me the funds corporation Corporation even JL £ in in they anoraing affording are unable an an asyium asylum to be present in in time Time at of or the old old banquet acrft to fn . age

      members of the craft deserve to be c writ in letters of gold / but in order to do its work firms effectivel , both y the metropolitan Con > mittee and mu provincial st have incre , oug ased ht to support join as , subscribing and the workers members in all . As the far great as the general public are concerned , the institution has received very scanty assistance , and it .

      woul outside d be the well various therefore trade circles to use to the take opportunit a seat at y the afforded dinner by -table this and festival send of in inducing a subscription persons .

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      »¦ .... . . , . — —^^ j ^ ii 47 The Publishers' Circular June ^ i 8 gj

      The Popular Theory, Stoutly Supported By...

      The popular theory , stoutly supported by the medical profession , as to the unhealthiness

      of post-prandial literary work , received a striking falsification in the case of the la . te M . Littrd who , according to a document written by himself and published in the Temps , worked at his , famous dictionary not only from day to daybut almost from hour to hour . He rose at 8

      o' clock « w , and took ¦ ^ some work ¦ downstairs ^ ¦• with a *« him 4 , while ^ 1 * 4 his m » room was being ¦«• put in order _ . At - 1 9 o ' clock he went up again and corrected proof-sheets till breakfast time . From . 1 o ' clock till

      3 he worked for the Journal des Savants , and from 3 till 6 at the Dictionary . At 6 he went one r down » nA should sh " rmlrl to dinner not r \ ni . . recommence rpw It lasted » mAT » r » A about work WArTr an immediately immp hour . ia / kfil He says after af +, PT he dinner rJinTi constantl ftr . and nnfl y violated lift he never tipvav the suffered an ffpirftfl princi from p frri le that it \ i . [

      From T till 3 next morning he worked again at the dictionary , , and after work slept at once and as soundly as man could desire . The great work of M . Littre has naturally formed the

      subject of some interesting articles suggested t > y his recent death , and comparisons have been made between the works of Grimm , Littre ' , and our own Johnson . The Times doubts whether ijittre TiittrA was was . m m pure Diire torce force or of intell intelle ect ct as as well well as aa in in literary literarv aptitude ar > titude and and mastery mastfirv . more more than than tiie the

      equal of Johnson , , but as regards the results of their work , it gives the palm without , question to the the calibre dictionary of the of French 1 Ijittre work * , and it questions will be whether produced , if E that ngland ever bthe possesses initiative a dictionary and under of

      the DJLJLC 7 VCUJ directing . AHJJLC KTL . guidance VX 1 . \ Z > -LX CyJJLiaj of a YVUlJV sing , j ill le man VYUJl , 6 who £ J ± UUUUCU would , , stil as CliO l . have J . C & U was WCliO taken , , KJJ y hi g h rank . A J . A UJ . CK as UJ . V a savant C 4 iXi . VL Uiiw even if he had never produced it . ' In this anticipation "there is probably much of certitude , for it would be difficult to point to liv ¦ in ¦¦ ¦ author possessing the UA 1 U abilit IVXJbAU who AAV would -v- ^ « - ** —— be —

      willing If \ S \ AJLV * PuT to ^ mT ^_ devote * i ** JLX * ' « - « . » . W the V \ J IJVilAV energ ies \/ any « JVXJU of V J . X a lifetime g Cr , tVUUlJLVJL to such / Mk 7 V ^ k ; KJAXJ a task C ^ ; necessary J but . AVWk' we UtVX V may iV look y T IT with w > every confidence VAJJ . J . JU . VAC / . L . Ll'C ; to UKJ the UUC volumes Y « - » A U . IJULC / O which W 111 U 11 the D 4 . J . C 7 Clarendon VXCli KjIlXKJLKJXX J Press . 1 CDO will tTXU g glVC ive us US . . JLTJL M . . JUU Littre . UU . LC has Jll . C * O * left v * - « -an

      imperishable the possibility memorial of winning behin a like d him fame , and may to be those a sufficient who valu inducement e the monumentum to gird to aere the perennius work and

      persevere until it is completed .

      Oi Of Honourable Honourable Among The Ma...

      Among the many useful functions performed by the Society of Arts , none is more deserving have in i

      oi of various honourable honourable ways been mention mention associated than than its its with p effort fforf the , to to memories rescue rftsnnfi from from of obscurity ohsrtiirifcv some of the the the houses houses greatest wnicn which men navo , both » Eng XJlXgJ lishmen . iOI . XU _ l . CiJ , . and CtlJLU . forei lUlClgUCi gners . 13 , , who WUU have 11 UjV « either eitlltJJL beea Ut / CiJL born UUUl in XiJL London JL 4 U 11 U . UI . JL UJL or hav JUOli V e O made ulm . ou \ a . j \ the v **~ great o -

      two city their artists temporary have just home been . distinguished The residences by of the an society empero with r , two the statesmen china p , lat a p e hilosop , recording her , ana the . good rrr » r ~ krl fortune fnrfnno of r \ f the 4- \~ * a . house Tinnaa and anrl in -in past noo ^ - times + ii-rt ^ i « n-m / i- \ -r »<~ w the + T »/ - » houses TiAnaaa similarly oimiiafiTT marked TYiarlrAfl have haVG oeei Dt > cU ,

      the the homes resting- of places Byron of , great Dryden ; men , and is worth Johnson y of . all The among praise effort and thus it made is ^ - satisfactory - to preserve to some find record that 1 t o i

      I owners and KJ JL . tenants of the houses thus distinguished X . , have made . no effort ^ to prevent hA

      erection oi the tablets in a prominent position on the front of the buildings .

      Eminent Uuuuuu We .Oi1.U Learn Young Juu...

      eminent We learn from scholar the Pall MCharles Mall Gazette that describes , in a book the recently of pub the lished various by Hachette collections , the

      UUUUUU . OI 1 . U young juuuiy ; fauuuiai xn .. . wxuaixtsa Graux vxJLfciUJt tLOacriLHSa tuc history liiabui y ujl i > xxo v < wiwup ^ - . Escurial Greek MSS catalogues . now housed are fragmentary in the Escurial and . imperfect The task , and was tho one library of enormous has suffere difficulty d more , * ^ I moat moat libraries libraries irom from those those two two toes fooa ot of hoolc booksa— —iign onorance amncA and a , nd nre fire . . JML M . . Uraux Graux . , « however " j- ^ , ' ^

      the enabled Escurial by his to wide far-distant technical sources knowled , to convent ge of all libraries th © minutiae in Sicil of y MSS and . Calabria to track in the tne , many or Bscuriai t to ° xi * u p * ^ ania nC xn 3 ? t

      accordin collections collections g "to at at M feiena Siena . Graux or or 1 " Plorannft , ^ lorence from the . . famous The Th « most mnst library , important imnnrbnt of Diego , ( Greek " rrAftk Hurtado - collection collection de Mendoza in . o » , ' Onari «**<* - e y 8 Ambassador at Teniceand the witt ' This

      reached the Escurial in , 1575 the y author of its of owner ' Lazarillo ' s death de was Tormes collected . mostly " "ra a & ^ yen ice . , year , v oy

      Mendoza , however , was far from confining himself to the V enetian market , xao . ^^ - ^ sf

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1881, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061881/page/2/