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    to Mount Athos and to Thessalian monasteries in search of MSS . He is even reported to have bargained with the Great Turk himself for a shiload of Greek books in exchange for

    the release of an important Turkish captive . He sent p copyists to Florence and to Romeand indeed ^ his dped library . accused accused was the mm him joy or of tne the and vice vice the proper "proper meeting to to -p bibliophiles Di la oiiopniies ce of scholars . . it It from was was widely widelv all part believed believed s of Ital short shortlv y . Sland ly , after after er ,

    Mendoza , ' s death that he had purloined some of Cardinal Bessarion ' s manuscripts from the | library of f the ¦ Escuri of St . al Mark . But ' s , and Mendoza that -- these found -- with a stout - the —¦ _ rest and had convincing found « their K defender way ¦ into in a the certain gl oomy mW Jfc Spanish shade b

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    that in eacn case tne ikle > . Dorrowea is subsequently marked as returned .

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    Matthew / being the first volume of a Commentary on the Historical Books of the New Testa ^ ment been , for on many which years Mr . engaged E . B . Nicholson . , the principal librarian of the London Institution , has

    Mr . Elliot Stock , who recently issued the English New Testament for a penny , is about to tribution publish ¦¦ on an illustrated the Continent New . Testament We believe in that the nearly 9 French a bw language quarter 1 at of the a million same price copies tk , for of dis the

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    A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette corrects a statement ma . de by the writer of one of its occasional notes to the effect that Mr . Thackeray never wrote a play . ' So far from this am— - m being r— ¦ -- —— £ - ^ A a fact —— — b- — , J the •—¦ —— h - —¦ eminent ¦*»¦ ^— — ^^^ m «>*• w " novelist * _ . ^ - *^ » ¦ ^^ ¦¦>!/ _ »• '» s ^ ' Wolves » W V ^ A » ^^*^ and MMJbVk the V ** ^^ Lamb ~ , |~¦ 1 ~ . * T ^ H *^ ' -fct ^ J to ^ ^ _ ^ be W . ^ " ^^ ^ found W ^^ . ^> _ 1 p . *<* i ^^ in MET _ his 1 m m 1 _ collected ^^ - \^ -b ^ L ^^ ^^ _ ** - ^^^ . ^ ' ^— ^^ — *^

    writings ^ , its plot being identical with that of his story 'Lovel the Widower / The piece had for a no few success nihts at . the It London was also theatre acted at b which an am it ateur was produced , at only a keep house ing -warming the boards at

    g y company Mr . Professor Thackeray Whitney ^ s , at Palace of Newhaven Gardens , when U . S . A the . the author famous himself hilolog spoke ist the and prologue Sanskrit . scholarhas :

    received the honour of , Knighthood of , the Order , of Merit p of Science and Art conferred by the Emperor of Germany . This was one of the few distinctions which Carlle accepted .

    y A new monthly journal of home and penitentiary work lias just made its appearance . Skeffington & Son , 163 Piccadilly , are the publishers .

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    heterogeneous tisements are concerned mass at the , alread end of y the been paper adop , , the ted advertisements in the Athenxum are . distributed Instead of in occurring the Artist in by a being placed — ¦ with ¦ » those bb sections itSmf of V / X the VHV literary matter to % J \^ which they A-tJk » -V be severallallied ta .

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    volume who of need poems a b hel y Will pful Carleton guide in au the thor formation of the popular of a taste ' Farm for Ballads reading / . is A also new now copyri read ght y . U It will Will be V \ Ci entitled / - \> - » 4-i 4-l ^> J \ C !_!!_„„„ Festivals 17 '^ J . ^ 1 , 5 and will be T * L 1 -I ? . 1 with -J-l-x the J . 1 ^ . ^ ' Farm Ti 1 /^ - ^ .- ^^ - » Ballads T 3 r > 11 n rl rt /

    f ^ f ssrs riends . Sampson Low 'Farm & have also , ' in the press printed a n ew story uniformly by Miss E . S . Phelps , entitled a Duet / which will form the first volume of ' Low ' s Select Novelets /

    Professor , Eanke , the German historian , whose ' History of the Popes' was reviewed by tne ^ acaulay publication more of than forty years lish ago edition , proposes of his to works visit London The Professor shortly , who in order i 3 to contemporary arrange for

    Place ml Ahe at ^ annivers e > \ s sa ^ ary to a now dinner t > e in Eng excellent of the Ne health wspaper , and Press by no Fund . means is , past as literary already , announced work a . , to take Willis on Saturdav nextthe 18 th instunder the ui of Sir oixStafford l

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    Bened assist in m tJie the musical musical programme nrn < rranimfi . wmcii whinh wi will ll be be under under the the . direction direction of ot cmt j uiius . , * "he w libra library ry ot of the the Italian Tf , alislti Senate Son « .+. « at n . f . Rome Rnmfi which whinli now nnw contains nnnhaina about about 2 25 o . 000 0 UU volumes volumes , is is

    ^ ^ um Oi re K > 8 ed and rearranged- I * proposed , to take as a model tlie library , of the Athe , - to Fr

    PreR thft A ' l - ding 85 < J and the > las ch t in paper 1872 , . the The first manuscri sheets of pt M contained . Littrtf s nearl great y dictionary 500 , 000 sheets were . sent Had TK tp ^ vllCr . ] ° r > r » OT » TT- b 'U ^ set i t -. tin measured 37 rn-r 525 rrr > cr metres \ j . _«^> The T ^

    ^ ork f nary - UP in a sin S column it would have , . . ^ sign Th d S f ? 1 ? gious ?? 8 ^ 011 Tr act Societ y interrupted y has just during issued the several war . packets of pretty illuminated cards use > as rewards to Sunday scholars for regularity and good conduct

    In 8 Th ram z > vf , - ^ w ^ papcr , started by Messrs . Cassell , Petter , & Galpin , has been . sold to Mr . # WvJ ?? publishes it with illustrationsand runs it in conjunction with the Boys '

    ^¦^ - * -News . Both periodicals are said to , tnjoy large circulations-

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1881, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061881/page/3/