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    6i 4 The Publishers' Circular Jy&ifcilNi...

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    -V^^W Ftetotefrtf, S:C. From Cei Ceivfid...

    affords some interesting information regarding J the Maories and the missionaries working ampng

    at them tractive , and , being the book further is distinguished distinctly readable by several and illustrations .

    Prom the same . — ' Crookside Lads ; or , How Bill Ferrers - — - was Won — , / is — a well-told - story - ,, very good t j in its inculcation of moral lessons

    —. Prom Messrs . Seeley & Co . —Mr . George

    Sutherland , M . A ., writes in a very pleasant strain , in his book , ' Australia , or England in the South / a work which gives an unusually good idea of the

    conditions of life in the great island continent . There are twenty-seven illustrations , and the book is one of the cheapest we know of .

    From Messrs . Simp kin , Marshal J , < fc Co . —Mr . Ludlow ' s reprint of Jaggard & Blotint ' ( 1623 )

    edition of * Mr . William Shakespeare ' s Comedie of " The Tempest , " published according to ^ the True Originall Copies / is a welcome little book

    which Shakspearean students should be glad to , have placed within their reach at a very moderate price . Paper and printing are all that could be

    desired . Prom Messrs . Smith , Elder , & Co . — ' The

    Heir of the Ages / by James Payn . It seems almost ungrateful to call Mr . Payn ' s work disappointing — f ^ - . But it is the author ~ ' s own - fault

    J £ " p previous —a strange novels contrariety he has led of us words to expect this— from if by his his pen something far above the average . In his

    latest j . workas in the immediate few c ? that have preceded it , , this something is wanting . Mr . Payn is always interesting , always clever—he

    brings to his task all the trained experience of an accomplished man of letters ; there is not a page in these --- volumesin fact ___^ that could ____ b __ y the _ most ____ _ __ .

    —___ _ — , — , exacting of readers be styled dull or wearisome ^ , but he fails to get a deeper hold of his subject , he is wanting in that subtle instinctive power

    that so many women writers possess , and he seems rather to move his characters about with the clever ingenuity of the skilful stage manager

    understands than the feeling v all touch their of mo the tives man and who sympathises thoroughly with them ^^ — — . But — frankl — ythis — is almost — a — h —

    ypercritical opinion ; , w in the present , dearth of good \ novelists we should indeed be thankful -that we have men . of Mr . Payn ' s calibre among us . The

    leading personage in ' The Heir of the Ages ' is Miss from being Dart , a a charming humble companion ly drawn character rises to , who be a ,

    most successful novelist , and receives , as much as a thousand pounds for her first novel—a circumstance , by the way , that we should scarcely have

    deemed probable after a perusal of Mr . Payn ' s 'Reminiscences / While in the position of companion she is wooed by Major Milburnan

    unprincipled scamp , who already has a wife , living , > and but happ is eventuall ily Miss y Dart the mean escapes s of fro rescuing m the snare from ¦¦¦¦¦ ,

    poverty clusive m the agazine editor in of which the Millennium she firat makes , the her exmark as a writer . By this act also she secures

    l her iterary own happ ' s iness wife , . and There subsequentl are numerous y becomes good a characters in the book—notably 'Aunt Jane /

    Roger —and Leyden the plot the is worked antiquary out , and with Mary a skill Milburn that renders its narration interesting throughout .

    ,,: From the same . —It was a felicitous fancy that caused Mr . F . Anstey to interweave his latest fic-

    tion with the story of a Buddhist idol , and he has unfolded humour --- - and his -r-- skill narrative . — - In -- with the - - prologue - characteristic - ~~ to ~ * A Fallen force HK , :

    * r % m m _ . , —— ^— __ — ^^ J A i — " ™ ^ ^ m ^ S ^^^^^ fc Idol history _ / we of are the given idol * , some which account from the _ of first the * seems previous to ! ' have been possessed with a mischievous ,

    malevolent . disposition In this the ; and idol then has . follows found its the story to proper , way England -j- — -i j and — is presented j ^ - by a young lady if Sybil ¦

    Elsworth ^ p , , as a present to her lover -C ? , . Ronald , If «*•¦ - __• Champion , an artist . From the time of its entrance into his house it causes everything to go

    mounting wrong . First a ladder Bonald to ' p s lace old it factotum on a bracket , Bales , falls , in down and breaks some valuable articles of vertu . - » _> « __* m m ^ --k ___^__ M ^^ - ^ M m « - __

    pet Next " . ^ dog it , is and the * for means this of reason killing ^ ^ ^ she Mrs * discounten . Willoughb ances ^ ^ y ' s Ronald ' s engagement to her niece Sybil . Then it is

    the clever fiendish but grotesque cause of p his icture painting of the an sai exceeding d niece . In ly short , misfortun e crowds — ^ upon — ^ . misfortune , and ^

    meanwhile the idol complacently squats with a diabolical grin on its face as if conscious of and glorying in the mishaps it has caused . How the

    l devi eave l is the eventuall reader y to ex find orcised out , . so Thare to speak are , we two must exceptionall t y t good characters in- the workwe may

    —mm ~~ — — — — . — , y — -w remark—Lionel Babcock , a talkative , consequential brother wielder oi the brush , and Herr Nebelsen , a Norwegian and believer in Theosophyand

    occultism . The latter is an exceedingly amusing from portraiture our . slight ' A sketch Fallen is Idol wildl / as y , imag will be inative gathered but ;

    undoubted for humour ly , incisive equal to force , anything , and brisk Mr . dialogue Anstey , it has is yet written . '

    From Th . a Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . —The publications of the Society

    have recently been very numerous , and include several works of a meritorious character . This is observable in their adaptability for teaching

    purposes , and in the healthiness of the tone which is noticeable in books intended for general reading . With regard to the latter we note with

    not a little satisfaction the inauguration of a new the t venture he purpose Tmrnose , entitled of of which whifth * The Penny is is to to Li supply surml brary v the the of Fiction million million / !

    price with . the Moving best ori in ginal that fiction direction at the the Society lowest

    has certainly made a fair start by , publishing 'Three Times Should Tried the / issue a sto of ry books by Mr of . this B . de L . ¦ \

    Farjeon . - scription be kept up , the ' penny dreadful' will , soon be knocked out of popular favour .

    From the same . — Man and his Handiwork / by the \ Rev . J . Gr . Wood . Avoiding wearisome details , Mr . ;

    skill Wood in here litera gives , treatment in that charming which have language won and for ; ry ; his books a unique popularity , a graphic ac- ,

    count count countries of of . the the A craftsmanship craftsmanshi considerable -n portion of of different different of the ages aetea work an andd , \ ¦ which v m ^^ m ^ forms ¦!» . ^^ jh r f ' a *>• handsome n w n ^ ~ ^ r r ^>^ mm ¦¦> ^ ¦ ^ ¦ volum v ^ - ^ , m ^ *^ m «¦ e «^ , is j » ¦¦* ¦ take ¦ r « u > nuM ~ w n m up w m * r by — ^ i

    is an a account remarkabl of y the interesting weapons contribution of mankind . . Navi This - ! ¦ k gation ^ -Wm /» M ^ * J * under ^>» JL . A ^^« ^^ Jfci A its M / W * J * primitive W ^ * »« - * •/ » W ^^ conditions ^/^ AkV ^ Ji ^^*^^»*» -r is « . Par the V ** V' rw sub — -

    ject personal of a ornaments well-condensed , the des preparation cription . Clothing of food , , | , basketworkpotteryand other industrial ioi occu- j

    pations ua . on . c 3 i / - * wux are so , , putioi skilfull ^ , , y broug uwidi ht under luuuoi the / i reader v »^^ « ' s i ; attention that the interest rarely flags . '

    From the same .- ^ 'The Gospel of Suffering * is a book frothe of MraColin Or f-

    new uaw u \ . njn . aiviu m . luu pen pou ui juturo . . kjvliu . V 4 . . Camp v ^» u « jf bell , author of ' Daily Prayers for Busy Homes '

    and other devotional books . ^^

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    6 i 4 The Publishers' Circular Jy & ifcilNis

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1886, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061886/page/20/