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862 The Publishers' Circular ju]
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Ilolef And Hew$
quarterly periodical entitled Zeitschrift der T ^ eutschen Gesellschaft fiir Volksknndeone
, of the prominent features of which will consist - in reviewing — C 3 books relating Oto folk-lore .
Messrs . Asher & Co ., of Bedford Street , Covent Gardenwill be happy to receive books
for this purpose , , and transmit them to the editor .
In the new edition of his useful book on public libraries Mr . Thomas Greenwood gives .
some interesting statistics of the benefactions of Mr . Andrew Carnogrie . ITp to the present time Mr . Carnegie has spent £ 360000 in
providing free reading for the people , . His g , __ ifts _ in _ America - are — t _ he — Alleg - 0 hany — «/ City — «/
Library , £ 60 , 030 ; Carnegie Library , Braddock ' s , Johnstown Library , £ 8 , 000 , Pittsburg
neg Librarr ie Library , £ 200 , ^ 000 . t his ;; native and in place Scotland Dunfermline the
Carwhich Y * ^ cost £ fT-K 0 000 /~ V V % . rf-V , and ¦ ^ the a m Edinburg l m ~ ¦ ^ , « h « Public fc • , Library , which cost £ 50 , 000 , not to mention
large contributions to other libraries . Mr . CarnegQ _ J ie has a very ¦ gracious £ - ) - and — practical £ — — - — - - way - - — ^ j
of spreading knowledge . A report has been going the rounds of the
press lately to the effect that Walt Whitman was dying 1 and that his physician was in
attendance f O . , We are glad to be ¦ ' able to state that the report has no foundation in fact . His
physician was simply paying the poet a friendly visit , on the occasion of his seventy-first
birthday , and had not been summoned owing to any change for the worse in Whitman's health .
That remains just as it has been for a considerable time past . Writing so lately as
June 16 , the poet says , ' I am keeping on fairly—have been out in a wheel-chair to the
river side ( Delaware ) to-day—pleasant weather here . ' It will be remembered that the aged o
poet speaks of this mode of progression in previous letters . A good story about 'The Autocrat' is told
by a writer in the Boston GW > e . Dr . Holmes . was in a Boston book store one daywhen a
woman came in to buy a book for a , holiday present . One of the first volumes shown her
was ' The Last Leaf / a poem which ' The ¦ Autocrat' prizes as one of his dearest . ' Who
is this by 1 ' asked the customer . ' Dr . Holmes ' t * The pictures are very nice . DM he draw
poetry them ? ' ! ' Is Oh that , no all ; he ' / ' wrote The clerk the poetry looked . at * The the
doctor , who had overheard the dialogue and was enjoying n quiet giggle . When the laHy
if i / r ^ j x * * CT > T » 4 / went * The out poetry , the ! doctor Is that repeated all I' very Yet comicall there are y ,
those a recent who sale value under Dr . Holmas the hammer ' s writings the , manu for at
script of ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ' went for 315 dollars .
A writer in the New York Critic gives an interesting ¦¦ t % ¦ limpse of the manner in which
• m . mm w ^ r , a , v ^* v ^ m g fm , » » » f- ' , ^"^ ****** ^* r »»»• - ** * m mm . ¦ xsjm . A «* TV *»* X ^ » * V Messrs Harper & Bros , transact business . * I remember once / he says , * when I was a
youngster , 1 ) earing a member of the firm of . Jfrv Hamper - writing # Bros abusiness , — " ^ " say —ril W ^ that letter —¦ no time hurriedl was ¦ gnined and t ««!¦«
' tha P ^ A * I 1 ^ t tnorie ' ^^ ' ^ ^^ « so ^» ^^ T written , - " ~~ r was - '"^ - allowed - ^ " ' - ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ to ^ ^ ^*» leave r * ^^ *^^ y , « - t \\ ^* - ^ w ^^ B « [ ojHc ^ I hav e often thought of this when
it " dashing has broug off ht " a me letter down at li to ghtning a jog- speed trot for and T appreciate its truth ;
letters from the Harper . Anyone establishment who must receives be struck by the neat aiid legible hind in which
han th ^ L L » ey ^^ ^ h d , are ^ " ^^ ^^ and written ^ m ^ *« . _ ^ L has ^ L ^^ — - . descended It I ^_ is __ _ a regular , not onl ' " HarDer ^_ fro father to sonbut from employee to y loyee m
Editors , clerks , , book-keepers—all write emp it . It is rather an English handand is *¦ seen Mvvii at its
Harper best in jun the . letters Not ^ j only written do , these by Harper ¦» " »¦ Joseph ^ i letters C * U W i . \ j ( $
there Liiere give the is is , impression % f an an appearance appearance of care or of in luxury lu —— the xury ^ - .. writing m , about about wv > X \ s , tlvJlB . but the tihn ,
generous r cream ' -tinted marg double \ j ins and -sheet wide note spacing jl paper , between with s ^ ^ - 'v f ? v \ its ^ j |
the lines . ' on Mr the . question Andrew Lang of International writes philosop Copyright hically .
Referring he sa ^ ys : — ± to ' We the , in defeat this of country the Copyri , are no g ht w ** Bill Q orse ** V » ,
off than we were beforeandat all events doing in this matter nothing , , to be ashamed , are
of . We only continue in not receiving the money which we never did receive . This
philosophy comes easily to a British author whom it does not pay to pirate . I myself «/ hug
the delightful reflection X •/ x that , when any American adventurer has robbed me he ~ has
lost money by it . Of course the feelings , of writers whose labour has enriched pirates must
be vastly different . Cantabit vacuum coram lairone poeta . But the poeta who is not vacuus
whose work A has " money 1 in it " for the pirate , , cannot be expected t > sing for him without
see regret that . their The own Americans Dockets , and in the interests long run , mora . will l ,
pecuniary , and literary , are not served by pouring indiscriminately all the trash of
English fiction on their homn market . And possibly we may learn somethingtooin this
, , public controversy is rather and publish stingy cheaper about book books -buy . Our ing .
e Bich ^ h ^ lse jm ~ 'F ^ - * , m l grud j p eop t _^ . ^^^ ge ^* le \ ^^ , five \^ who w ^^ shillings r * r a ^ deny . ^ ^« ^ k ^* ¦» " V 1 *^ themsolvcs ' ^ for ^ a book nothing ; still
for more all do that they I know grudge a guinea one da . find Publishers a better , infir A ket MmS % f - , le , may who ¦¦¦ are not mi y rich . Yet
it * ^ « is W . difficult . y . among W » V- ^ m , to peop I- break ' ^^ V ^ r ~ r « v ^ the » " J * ^^ Eng ' ^ - * lish <^ *~* ** of —* a habit so confirmed AlLIi ft / \ in % them % Vrf & as that % «/ of \/ Jk never ^ buying
W » A Vy « , M . M , J m , M . " A A LW ^ V * . A « . A » >^ »—• ' t _? even a shilling story , but soiTtling for it to the
circulating library .
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In France , as in America , and indeed Stanley everywhere ' s book else , ( ' Dans the publication les T < $ nebres of Mr do .
in TAfri the que book ' ) has world been . The the second engrossing French incident edition
was announced for the 7 th inst . by MM . Hachette & Co .
In this connection it will be of interest to that many Father readers Sch of i In Darkest ' s Journal Afrida has ' just to learn been ynse
published . with _ i i « Stanley i _ i under and _ i * * Emin the xv _ i Pasha t tie i _ : : ' Journal Across A ~* . A of A frica f *» the i /» n
Travels o ^ FatherSchyme , 'edited by Charles
Hespers . '
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1890, page 862, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071890/page/8/
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