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    Doone The ' Has Sale Been Of The Brisk C...

    Treasury ' has long been a devotional classic , and still has thousands of readers , next to

    nothing is known , in England at least , concerning the remarkable career of its author , or the part which he played in the religious life

    X . Jl V U of Germany in the eighteenth century . Mr . Kelly is an enthusiastic student of German

    theology and ecclesiastical history , and in his hands a biograp «_ r j . hy of Bogatzk / 1 ^ y is certain to

    prove interesting as well as able . * * * *

    The Religious Tract Society will publish in October ' The Brook and its Banks / by

    the late Rev . J . G . Wood . The reader is conducted ^^^ ^^ 4 fc ^ ^^^ fc ^^ ^^** v ^**^ ^^^ along ^^ m *^ ^ k ^ ^ p »» « a the ^ ^* mm ^ # ^ banks ^^ w ^ p >^>> >»^ k »^* BV of - ^^ ^ - » ^ an *^ v ^>» . & Eng ^^ -paw ^> fc- » M- ^ ^ lish » ^ v ^ ^ b ^ fe

    brook , and in a bright and lively manner his attention is drawn to many m / objtects of interest

    in the stream or on , its margin . This is the last book which Mr . Wood wrote ; it was ap ^

    pearing , indeed , in the pages of the Girl ' s Own Paper at the time of his unexpected death .

    # # ^ The same publishers have in the press a

    book on the ' Sweet . Singers of Wales / from the pen of Mr . Elvet Lewis . Biographical

    sketches are given of the leading poets and hymn-writers of the Principalityand Mr .

    Lewis has added a large number of , new and beautiful — - translations of hymns 4 / which are

    classical in Wales though scarcely known beyond its borders . #

    * * Professor Henry Sidg vbb wick ¦¦ has - ¦ - - ~ in the press ¦

    ^^^^ ^^ - ^^ 4 f ^^ p » ^^ p * ^^^ ^ " ^ *™™ ^«^ - ™ ¦ ^^^— — —™ ^— ' ¦ » — — ^¦ » ' — ^"" ¦¦ - ^^ m ^¦ ~ ^^ r a treatise on the * Elements of Politics . ' Amongst the points which are discussed in

    the work are the scope and method of Politics ; the ^¦ V ^^ h ^^ m - ^ ps- general ^ p pp ^ K ¦ 1 —~ —— —^— —— — ~ m- - princi P | — — p ^ p . les of Leg r- ^ p islation , g Socialistic

    Interference , the Resources of Government , International Law and Morality . Messrs .

    Macmillan are the publishers . # # *

    The chief attraction in Harper ' s Magazine for September is likely to be Mr . Theodore

    p Paris Child vp > - ^^ ™ ¦ ~ —^ p- ' s Exhibition p * - ^ r ~»~ article ¦ » - r -- n — = on . ' It American ^ will m be Artists superbly at illus the

    trated from pictures by Whistler , Sargent , Millet , Reinhart , and other well \ -known

    American painters . Miss C . ~ E Woolson brings her novel' Jup x . iter Lights' to

    aeonelusion — ^ j , but Mr . , Charles / Dudl ey —9 Warner , still pursues his * Little Journey Round the World . '

    Parliaments Mr . John Lillie 7 and describes Harry some Furniss ' London illustrates Mock

    the article with , humorous sketches of Cogers ' Hall and the Cogers in the old days .

    m # * Messrs . Charles Griffin & Co . have in the

    press ' Magnetism and Electricity —an elementary manual specially arranged for

    firstyear students . It is freely illustrated , and contains examination questions .

    # # # A * Primer of Cursive Shorthand' for the

    use of beginners , will be issued shortl , y by the Cambridge University Press . , The little book

    is said to give a complete exposition of the ft system , and , if it fulfils its promise , it is sure

    ¦ ¦ ( to be popular with students preparing for the Oxford Local Examinations next summer .

    The Cambridge Press ha ^ ve also in preparation an * Atlas of Commercial Geography , ' by Mr .

    J . G . Bartholomew , F . R . G . S . mm "

    Pencil ' Russian 9 i ^ the Pictures title of a drawn handsome with and Pen artistic and

    gift-book which the Religious Tract Society will publish in October . It is written by Mr .

    Thomas J . Mitchell , C . B ., who has spent a great part of his life in the frost-bound Northern

    Empire . Mr . Mitchell is the author of that -standard work , ' Murray ' s Handbook to

    Russia , ' and his thorough mastery of the subject has enabled him to write a fascinating

    volume on the European and Asiatic domains of the Czar . #

    # * A n important ' Text-book of Organic

    Chemistry , ' by Dr . Bernthsen , formerly professor of that science in the . University of

    Heidelberg , is in preparation . The work has been translated by Dr . McGowan ,

    Djemonstrator in Chemistry at the University College of North Wales .

    Professor Meiklejohnwho holds the chair

    , of the * Theory , History , and Practice of Education' in the University of St . Andrews

    is bringing out ' A Short History of the British , Empire . ' The book will relate the

    epochmaking events in our national annals in clear and vivid narrative form . Ifc will also contain short biographies of the greatest Englishmen .

    # # # Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . have in the

    press ' Trooper and Redskin—Recollections of Life in the North-West Mounted Police ,

    Canada , ' by Mr . John G . Donkin . The author served in the mounted police of Canada from

    1884 to 1888 , and met with some lively experiences in outlying stations in the

    North-West . The book will contain a map and be illustrated .

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    Max O'Rell contemplates a fresh invasion of the United States . He is going across the

    Atlantic to lecture our American cousins , and proposes J . Jl to open A . the campai J . gn » - » at Boston in

    January . It is announced that there is to be this

    autumn an exhibition at Stockholm of copperp late engravings O tJ , woodcuts , lithograp CJ Xhic

    prints , and illustrated books . Messrs . MarlboroughGould & Co . have

    brought out some extremel , y useful pamphletcases fashioned for the bookshelf in a variety

    cases of sizes vpr pvaw ^ will V , from be 1 fe crown found «¦ r i . * «* - ^¦ ' ^ v octavo convenient « bf ¦^ vmm to Grap .. M ipr not oak bk hic r i only . These for

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1889, page 932, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081889/page/6/