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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th August 1888, Edition 1 of 1, Page 909

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      1o1 !Qo¥E£ And Ileves

      son ; ¦ ' Art in the Theatre , * illustrated ; ' 1807 , ' after Meissonier ; the * Salon , ' by Claude P Phill hillips ins . illustrated illuatratftd t ' Mr Mr . "Ku R . ii sk rViti m '' s Museum TVFnsmirn

      , ; at Sheffield , ' by E . Bradbury ; * Twenty Years , 'by Walt Whitman , illustrated ; * Men ' s Dress in the Reiof George I / bRichard

      Heathillustrated gn & e . . y , ; The Trustees of the British Museum have

      given directions that the remarkable recension oi of tne the ' Bo xsooK ok : of ot the the Dead JJead ' ' snail shall be be reproduced reproduced

      : in facsimile , with the illustrations in the

      colours colours of or the tne original orierinal , . and and the th « work wnrk is ia now now being executed by Mr . Griggs . This hiero-*! glyphic flvnhifi nanvrns was Wfl . n written wri +. f . < vn for far a royal -rr % xm !\ hpti scrib Via e

      j Ani , about papyrus the commencement of the 19 th , dynasty—circa 1 , 400 years B . C . It is complete , the first and last vignettes being intact .

      The liie series series of of vignettes vicnp . tt . p . s is is a mine mine * , of of archaeo n . rr . hflp . o - logical information ; their artistic excellence is ) 1 of Of equal the tTl l y < * great Book BooV . of of The the fVi papyrus ft Dead Tlfinil contains ' . th + . Ti e 175 T 7 a th chapter . li not Ti ^ f

      , ¦; found complete elsewhere . , Also one of , the I illustrations , a group of lamenting women in j violent —¦—¦ action of % griefis unknown in

      j hitherto * — v — '" - ' *¦* » . w published *^ % s * . ^ -- * - ^ r * . G « .- * copy - ¦* -V ^ -JL , AKJ of «_« the JLJL JLJk . JL J- book V _^ » T JLJL . X 1 JL It any U > 11 is i expected that the reproduction will be comi \ pleted nifif . fiH in irt the f . l"iP » cours fnnrao e of r » -F the flioaiifiimn autumnIf Tf accom apnnm -

      . panied by a translation of the text in English , the Times remarks , the value of the work to

      tne the general ereneral reader reader would would bp be . greatl crrpatl . y p enhanced / nna . TiriP . rL . A new book on a popular subject is about t — o — b »—— e — ¦ - publi w-r " " » ** - * ^^ . — sh ^ ^^ ed - *** ^ s ^ b ^^ y j w subscri ^ r W » ^^ m ^ ^ s A A . p »^ tion ¦ ¦ wa . »*¦ . * . A . : we T * ^^ speak »«^ »—^ ^ V ^/ ^ of V _^ A .

      ' Americanisms , Old and New , ' by Mr . J . S . | Farmer . This dictionary of words , phrases , and ¦» colloquialisms ¦» —— Pt /_/¦ ises iw \^ K ^ to be more JLJL * com r ¦ ¦ -

      —™ — v » -v ¦^ - ' — ^ -J « - » . * . *_« . *» a AAAM prom » A . ^_ r JLA * V X- ' f . ^ ^^ ... \_^ JL > ^^ ^•^ - * fl plete than any of its predecessors . As a souvenir of the Lambeth Conference ,

      ! needle the th-fi Church CThnroh Street . A Acr , gency has p / nnv issued , . Cyrown Crown an Court OnnH autotype . , Thrpa Thread of the . d --complete group of assembled bishops . Although

      no fewer than 128 portraits appear in small | apace ( 12 in . by 10 in . ) , each is sufficiently disi tinct for recognition .

      j On September 4 the Library Association < of — the United aai Kingdom will assemble at

      ^ - ' - v ** ^^ - ^_ ^ w ^ . ^ ^_^ fc » ^ . M AXCb ^ t _* . V- ' A X *> T f jL & A . M ) hJKJ >*»» A . AA ~ ^ ' ¦» . ^^ V ^ V *^ ! Glasgow ^^*»> J ^ b . The ^^ i ^^ i ^^ ^ president ^ m will _ ^_ ^ be ^ m Professor v ^^ F ^ h- ^ b i W . P . Dickson , D . D ., of Glasgow University .

      Messrs . Alfred Boot & Son , of Old Bailey , have just issued a new edition of the

      successful 'District Railway Guide to London , ' a justly popular , useful , and interesting work .

      Mr . Heywood announces for publication about the end of AugustLange ' s ' Guide to

      , French , ' being a graduated series of lessons adapted to the practical requirements of

      technical and commercial education , also for private study .

      Messrs . Reeves & Turner will in future be the 4 publishers of the Rev . Joseph Bosworth ' s

      Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary . '

      Mr . Edward Foskett has written a Cornish romance in verse , under the title of 4 The Wi Window ndow in in the fchft Rock Rnfik ' which which will will shortl ahortly v be be

      issued by Messrs . Simp , kin , Marshall & Co . Messrs . Ward T . Lock & Co . promise ' Storm-:, light : a Story of Switzerland and Russia' b

      Mr . J . E . Muddock . , y

      g- '

      'Popular Poets of the Period' is the title of a new serial to be published by Messrs .

      Griffith Ctriflfit . K , TTarrsm Farran & « fe Co Co . . Tlie The editor editor is is Mr Mr .. F . A . Heyles . The object is to supply biographies crraTihifiS- and and selections aftl fiction a from from the the works worKs of or the tne

      , poets of our own time and country . We regret to learn that no tidings have as yet % J been received \/ V / X ^ J V / VC of MrMay h of - ^ - ^ Messrs ^^ " ^* .

      W V ^ KyW ^ X A . * . W V > JL . - * -T _«_^ . . ^ . « . * . ^ V r , « — .. < w vrr . -v w Whittaker & Co ., White Hart Street , E . G ., who TT AJLV ^ left XVX V Sandown K ^( 4 ; AXV «\^ FT AA last ^ . «^ V » - « « # Friday - » - Jfc . , » .-v ^ fc »^« t week »* ^* " *^ " - ~* with •¦ — - ™ " —"" ¦ a - ""

      friend and a boatman in a little boat , intending to go for a sail . Though they have not since been heard ofit is still hoped that they

      have been ick , ed ban outward bound may pup y

      vessel .

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      August 1 $ , 1 § 88 The Publishers' Circular 909

      Continental *Qofe5

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      Sir Mprell Mackenzie's report on the illness of of the +. > ia Emperor F . mnprnr TTVp Frederick » rlfiri < Vk- _ which Tvhich . we we under

      under--, , stand , will shortly be published by Messrs . Sampson LowMarston + J / Searl rw ^ e & Riving —— ——^^ ton — —

      Limited rV- / CV 4 AX 1 / tJVll should JLJV 7 F » , JL have . V ^ -WJ . CV a - - * large , ^^*^ »— sale — . ^^ ^ -- , if we - — may v , judge from , the success attending ' Kaiser Friedrichs TMo"ha Leidenstag T . ckirlcxnaf . jvrr e ' von von ( Curt ^ nrt , von VOtl fechmettwitz

      SohmettwitZ-, , a pamphlet giving a professedly impartial account of the Emperor's last days . Of this publication fb h no t - * less b iw- *~ than -- 100000 copies are

      m- ~ r m .-m ^^ - - ^ ^ ^^ ^^^ g ^^^ - ^ ^^ jm * ^^ ^^ ^^^ w *^ ^ ^—^ ^^^ ^ - ^ — — , ^ L said to be sold . 4 Lutherdrucke ¦ auf den + Hamburger ¦ +

      Stadt-^ « UU 11 V 1 VA . A . « - * . \ J 1 VV « JU ^ - % * . ^ - * - * S-m .- »> -m —~ -- ~ - - ^ " ^ * - ~ — j ^ - ^ — - ' - ^ - ¦ * -w —m w bibliothek , 1516-1523 , ' von A . von Dommer , just publisheddescribes the collection of

      Luther ' s writings , in the City Library at Hamb ^ L which IaJ consists 1 JU »/ l of the larg ^«>^» i ^ e number ¦*¦» ¦—¦ of ¦»— — 405 ^

      ** S urg 1 ^ 4 A c « , FF . V ^ M . JL V * XO ^ V ^ *• w a . ^ ^^ . £ & ^^ ^^ « . - ^^ " - — . >* r ---different publications . Of these as many as 100 bear the imprint of Johann Grunenberg ,

      in Wittenberg . A sketch of the life of Joseph Victor

      Scheffelauthor of ' The Trumpeter of Sakkingen ? en . bv b , Jrrofessor Professor J « Toser oseph > h fetocxle Stockle . will will be De puo

      Dlib-lished , y in the course of the present , month , by Herr Ferdinand Schoningh , of Paderborn , who

      al al so so announces annnnnnfi * Part T * n . rt T I . of of the the zi 29 > th th year year ' s s issue issue of 'Chrysologus , ' a monthly journal of Catholic pulpit eloquence .

      Of ' Ferdinand Lassalle , a biographical character Portrait , ' by Georg Brandes , a second edition has appeared .

      MM . Firmin-Didot & Co . have just published the first two divisions of the fourth

      volume of * Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Frangaise . ^ This work is of similar character and equal importance with the new

      English dictionary in course of publication by the V & » - ' Clarendon > M-i' ^ VJV JL . \ S A- JL V > fc ^—& Press * . JL . ^—r ** f . ' The ~ A . A . ^ . ^ first » . « . ^ " > -r »^ three ^^ . — — .. » , ¦» r - ^^ r ¦ volumes . * r ^ V > B « . Mi - ^ . ^ ^™ # - >_/ * » * ¦ J ** * —

      comprise A to Ascension . The same firm announce 4 4 Les Lps . q Guerres friiP ' T'r the ' Pt . ci sous arm sixth s Louis T ; nnis volume XV X AT . _ of and and Count a a . new nfiwwork Paj work ol ' s

      , on the horse' Lts Cheval du Bourgeois et du , Sj ^ ortsman , ' par H . V . de Loncey .

      Messrs . Marpon & Flammarion announce what should afford instructive reading for somo

      of our legislators during the Parliamentary recess : 'Moeurs parlementaires Anglaiaes ' (!) par Georges Denis Weill .

      Bibliotheque Charpentier has juat produced

      ' Rodolphe et Cynthia , ' an unpublished romance i of Arsene Houssaye . I

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1888, page 909, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081888/page/7/