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6 98 The Publishers' Circular June 15, 1...
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GOUT IE3 3STO7S
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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 698—708 NOTE8 AND ...
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St. Dunstan's House, E.C. June 15, 1888.
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IVrOBODY seems to read Samuel Butler now...
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LiAuerman's Composing Machines.-During h...
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6 98 The Publishers' Circular June 15, 1...
6 98 The Publishers' Circular June 15 , 1888 __ 1
Gout Ie3 3sto7s
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Literary Intelligence 698—708 Note8 And ...
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 698—708 NOTE 8 AND NEWS 699 ., 700 CONTINENTAL NOTES 700 , 701
OBITUARY 701 , 702 TRADE CHANGES 702 BOOK CLUBS 702—704
G UIDE BOOKS 704 SCHOOL PRIZE-BOOKS 704—706 REVIEWS , & c 70 G—708
INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN JUNE 1 AND 15 708—710
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN i FROM JUNE 1 TO 15 710—715 AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 71 . 5 I
NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUB-! LISHED 716—731 , 748 MISCELLANEOUS 732—740
BUSINESS CARDS 736—738 ASSISTANTS WANTED 739 I WANT SITUATIONS 739
BOOKS FOR SALE 740 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 740—74 7
St. Dunstan's House, E.C. June 15, 1888.
St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C . June 15 , 1888 .
Ivrobody Seems To Read Samuel Butler Now...
IVrOBODY seems to read Samuel Butler now-- **¦ ^ a-days . Even ' Hudibras ' is neglected .
The only quotation that is half familiar to the public is the curious jingle
c pulpit , drum eccle 3 iastic , Was beat with fist instead of a stick . '
Students of English literature , a limited lot we fear , examine Butler more on account .
of his wonderful versification than to weigh the sense of his muse . The correspondence
. Aon the right of quotation which has recently been printed in the pages of the Athenseum
may have reminded some readers of the existence of Butler ' s rhymed thoughts ' On
Plagiaries . ' He speaks of despoiling those — c Poor orphans of the pen and j ) ress
¦ M- -A . - * - Whose parents are obscure or dead Or in far countries born and bred . '
And further says : ' 'Twas counted learning onceand wit
, To void but what some author writ , And what men understood by rote
By as implicit sense to quote . ' * The employment of quotations has
undergone some strange changes in recent years , and the newspaper press is mainly responsible
for faults . We now Und that quotations besides being adduced b }^ way of authority ,
illustration , or to give additional force or euphony to the writing , are abstracted in a wholesale
fashion in order to give prestige and profit to cheap newspapers i and magazines . This is
a . . _> manifestly unfair to the authors of books . Publishers and authors ouojlit to take
advantage of their legal privilege of protection to a greater extent than they do . Newspapers or
magazines should not bo allowed to thrive by pelf from book writers . An assertion to the
effect that the publicity given to titles benefits the author carries some weight certainlybut
, the scale is uuequally balanced . Wo recollect the case of a magazine which was and still
is published weekly first and then in monthly parts . One of the newspapers which devote
• " ¦ JL A . ___ themselves to plunder used to seize regularl —
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Ivrobody Seems To Read Samuel Butler Now...
articles from the weekly numbers , the result ' being that purchasers of the monthly part who
were also purchasers of the plunderer were apt to think that there was little use in taking the
magazine when they could get its best articles in the newspaper some weeks beforehand . A
lawyer ' s letter , however , put an end to this . | The art of reviewing has fallen sadly away .
I •*— ' ** is At best the reviews of the greatest books of the day are merely a series of quotations .
• / 9 t ¦» - Editors of newspapers do not show a desire to do justice if to a work , their sole object W ' , J . perhaps A .
naturally , being to make their own paper entertainincr This accounts for the fact that c ^
literary conversation in ordinary society is so shallowmost of it springing from cursory
, newspaper reading and not from a perusal of the books themselves . The ' reviewer ' takes
the pith out of a work , quoting copiously so that his reader is satisfied and does not care
whether he sees the work or not . We pity the author who get 3 a friend to review his
book . It is certainly to be deplored that this
prac-* s ¦* - - *¦ tice of unlimited ' quotation' should have been allowed to become so prevalent . Instead of
being beneficial it is often positively injurious to the author . Extracts cannot give an
adequate idea of the character of any book . ' Whoever , ' says Dr . Johnson , ' tries to
recommend Shakspeare , by select quotations , will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles , who ,
when he offered his house to salecarried ; i , ! brick in his pocket as a specimen . ' \ m t ~ * ¦ v
Liauerman's Composing Machines.-During H...
LiAuerman ' s Composing Machines .-During his stay in London the King of Sweden and Norwayaccompanied bCount Wrangel |
, y , ]> aid a visit to the printing office of Messrs . ^ Richard m ^ v ^^ »¦ * j ^ ^ l «>^ w ^ L ^^ . ^ fc Clay ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ v w ^ & ^ ^^^ p Sons ^ . ^ m ^ ^^ j ^ ^ b pt ^ to ^ w ^ - ^ inspect ^^ « % ^ k r . ir v ^ ~ — ^^^ ^^ the ^^ a ^^ ^^^ ^ new & ^ k ~ — v v com ^^^ * ' » « ^
posing machines , invented by Mr . Alexander Lagerman of Jonkoping , in Sweden . His
majesty thoroughly examined the construction ^ and V ^ rf ^ T ^ i working W * V ^^ ^^* ^ > k JL ^ A ^ H ^ k of ^^^ ^ k the v ^ ^ ^ k % ^ composing ^^ ^^ A ^ k ^ L m ~^ ^^ r * . ^ ¦ Bfc ^ ** ^ p ^ k and m *^ ^ i ^ ^ - ^^ justif ^^^ r ^ - ' ^^ ^ *^ y W ing ^^ ^ ^ ^^^
machines , spending a considerable time over the detailsand expressed his great satisfaction
and amazement , at the ingenuity of the
invention . By this visit his majesty has show . n the | great interest he takes in practical improve-
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1888, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061888/page/4/
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