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    744 The Publishers' Circular August 15i ...

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    The Royal Colonial Institute is removing from its offices in West Strand to Northumber-I land Avenue . .

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    We have to record , with much regret , the death ^^^ Bbi ^^^ j B ^ BB ^ p > ^^ BBt of ^^^ ^^ ^ Lord ^^ m ^^^ ~*^ ^ mm —•* " " ¦ Houg ~~— ~—¦— - ¦ ^^^^« hto * ' — — n , ^ m which — — —¦ — took - ¦ - —~ ¦ — — p h ^ lace ^^ ¦ ^^— ^ ' ^ at ^^ - ^ ^^

    Vichy on the 11 th current , his lordship being in his 77 th year . It has been the lot of few

    men to occupy the position held by Lord Houghton in connection with English literature — ——— — . Without — personally giving to the world

    ^/ X . J * * any material examp ^^ le of his splendid literary attainments , he yet exerted a singularly powerful influence in the world of letters . This

    circumstance has been attributed to the remarkable strength of his conversational facultiesto his aptitude and accuracy in poetical

    criticism , and his wise encouragement VX of genius . , Thus no man was more intimate with the greater lights of the past generation .

    Richard Monckton Milnes was born in 1809 , and was the only son of Robert Pemberton Milnesof Fryston Hall and

    BawtryYorkshire . , At the age of 22 he graduated as , M . A . at Trinity College , Cambridge . In 1837 he was returned as member of parliament for

    Pontefract , and continued to represent that borough until 1863 , when he was raised to the peerage as Lord Houghton . While his greatest

    service to literature is , without doubt , the ' Life , Letters MP A V , and Literary - Remains B of H John Keats , ' ^^^^^^^^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ ^

    Lord Houghton was the author * of several successful works in the form of poems , songs , "books books of of travel travel , an and d contributions contributions to to periodical no-rindir . nl

    , literature . His songs , such as ' Strangers Yet , ' ' The Beating of My Own Heart , ' & c , will

    long retain a hold upon public favour . The last work which his lordship gave to the world was ¦¦ K entitled tfM B ' Monograp A K tJ M JL hs , Personal H and Social , ' ^ ^ a ^^ - ^ ^^ a ^»

    and dealt chiefly with recollections . of celebrated persons with whom he had been acquainted = ^— ^ ^^ f 1 ™ —~ —~ ^ ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ — ^^ ^ - ^ - * - . ^ The _ . _ . _ -mr honours w — _^_ - — — — — ¦ ¦ - ~^ w conferred ~^^ r - ^^ r ^^ m ^^ m ^^ m - ^^^ m ^^ v ^ V ^^^^ ^ . »^^ 1 ¦ ¦ upon ^ fc > " ^ . ^^ ^^^^ HBh ^ Bk

    Lord Houghton were numerous and distinguished . He was an Hon . D . C . L . of Oxford and LL . D . of Edinburgh , a Fellow of the

    Royal Society , a Trustee of the British Museum and the Royal Geographical Society , Foreign Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts

    President "V ^** . A « M •/ of the . BB ¦ ¦ Statistical ^^ J % / ^ ^ Societ A A A y and of the _ ^ , London Library , and Grand Dignitary of the Brazilian Order of the Rose . In 1866 he acted

    as chairman of the Royal Literary Fund anniversary , in 1873 he held the same position at the meeting ¦ of the Social Science Congress t and — — - in --

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    deceased privatel ^^ - — - _ — — y _ printed were — — , — almost they - _ are without — ^— ¦ well ^* exception known *¦* to ,

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    of Devonshire . , ' * The Bells of Exeter Cathedral , ' 'The Bells of Somerset / & c . He also wrote a ' History m of —¦ ¦ Clyst ¦ St - » . George i BWh ' and a

    * History " ¦—bT — — of /» the I * ^— Manor - » ** of Bitton Tf- * ¦ k - ^ V " ^ ^ . ^ ' ~**^ ^^ « ^ " ^^ , V ¦ _ W . BL J . ^^^ ^ B At Manchester , Vermont , U . S . A ., on the

    loth 18 th J Julv uly . , died died tthe he lt R , ev ev . . teamuel Samuel Irenseus Irai-ismis Prime and author , D . D of ., editor about of forty the New volumes York of Observer miscel , -

    laneous works , besides many successful tracts . The ' Editor ' s Drawer , ' in connection with Harper ' s Magazine , was for a number of

    years under the charge of Dr . Prime . The deceased was in the 73 rd year of this age . Mr . Robert PottsM . A . h the editor ¦ of H

    — - ^^— ^ — — — - ^— —m- - ^— — —— , —^ ^^^^ — m ^ p ^^^ v ^^^^ ^ p , ^ - ^^ ^^ ^^ h ^^^ p ~^^ - ^ r ^^ v ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ * Euclid , ' died at Park Terrace , Cambridge , on the 5 th current . In addition to his * Euclid / which is known to mathematicians over all the

    world , the deceased edited ' Paley ' s Evidences / 'Horse Paulinse , ' and the 'Liber Cantabrigiensis / the latter being an account of the

    prizes and scholarships of the University oi which he was so distinguished a member .

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    Correspondence the Editor reserves for this the Co ri lumn ght to free publi ly sh o vite nly d s , ttch but matter as he may consider suitable .

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    general All these Tule matters being are payment methodicall on publication y manage and others d , , althoug — h a few — do pay on acceptance

    - - ^^ J ^ ml JL , when the proof is passed for press . American severe Kevero unon Poetry Mr Mr . . . Whittier Whittier —* Anti- . . Jonathan I I have have ' a a is notion notion surely tnau that too upon

    I have s ^ en in English verse some rhymes similar to that which * Anti-Jonathan' condemns . Everytoois acquainted with kindred rh such

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    appeared Publisher * in ' Circular the . sam , aa e number Whittier ( July ' s * W 15 elcome ) of toe t ; Let him look at them and for himself :

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1885, page 744, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081885/page/12/