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    978 The Publishers' Circular August 15,1...

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    I^Ctu Ewg , &Q. From Mr. George _ ^^ _ A...

    of Alfred Austin will thank Mr . Watson for this compact anthology and the graceful and

    appreciative He thinks * Mr essay . Alfred by Austin whieli may it is in prefaced a special . sense be styled the laureate bf the English

    seasons , ' and the present volume is adduced in proof . The selections are judiciously made , and show Mr . Austin at his best .

    From the same . —* The Laurel Bush : an Oldfashioned Love Story , ' by the author of * John

    Halirax ,. Gentleman \; and ' Sermons on . National that Subjects will , ' be by welcomed Charles Kingsley ball lo . ver Two s of reprints health y y

    literature . From the same . —* A York and Lancaster Rose , '

    by Annie Keary . ' Girls will be glad to have this cheap and well got up edition of Miss Keary ' s pleasant story . It is a capital book

    for the holidays , bright and breezy , and last thoroug . hly enjoyable from the first page to the

    From Messrs . "William Paterson & Co . — ' Love Tales — — : . Eng ^^^ m lish — w ~~ — , » I - — ¦ ^ rish - ^ "i ^^¦ » ¦ , h Scottish » *^™~ *^» ^^ - ^* - ^* ^^ ""^^ ^ " »^^ , v ^ American ^ ^ " ^^ ^™^^^^^» - ^^ «« ^^ - ^^ -m*—^ ^ mr ^^ m , ^ m ^ and ^ ' ^ v ^^ - *» ^^^^ B

    German , ' 5 vols . These five tiny and wellrepresentative printed volumes authors contain short of five love different tales by

    countries . Thus in the volume devoted to Eng Mitford land Theodore we have Hook tales Sheridan by Dickens Knowles , Miss

    and Mrs , . Gore ; in that , devoted to Ireland , , tales by T . Crofton Croker , Mrs . S . C . Hall , and William Carletonwhile the other __ volumes __ are

    made up of selections , , from the writings of su Nathaniel ch authors Hawthorne as Hugh Miller E . A , . Professor PoeTieck Wilson and ,

    Schiller . The literary , quality of , the tales , is therefore high , and the idea of collecting them in a handy and readily accessible form seems

    to us a happy , one . From Messrs . Percival & Co . —* The " Religion of

    Humanily , " and other Poems , 'by Annie Matheson . A volume of graceful and tuneful verse , with a sort of twilig C-J ht sadness running O through ™

    it . Miss Matheson has pondered much on the mysteries of time and eternity , and her thoughts naturally ' pack into rhyme' that is really

    poetry . We heartily commend the volume as a sweet sample of minor song . From Messrs . Perrin & Co . Paris . —* Le Devoir

    , Sociale , ' par L . Lef 6 bure , consists of six essays . They deal with distress and charity in Paris , S - ¦— unday rest from the socialf economicaland

    legal , p oints of view ; also wi , th artisan assur , - ances . The appendix gives * cartograms' of the condition of working men in Paris as to

    marriage , pauperism , proportion to professional men , proportion of servants , & c . The author's remarks on the value of one day ' s rest from

    labour in the week will be especially interesting to English philanthropists . From the same . — ' L'Ame Humaine \ par M . T .

    I Coconnier . Frere-Pr 6 cheur Coconnier , JL divides his II . work the proofs into ei of gh materialism t chapters : —I III ., . our the method soul a ;

    , « U » I ^ B 4 K ; , B J » t real unio ^ ity n of ; soul IV ' **¦ ., and the ^ bod soul y ; and VI ., im organic mortal _ i life _ ty of ; the V *^_ ., soul ; VII . origin . of the soul ; VIII — .

    difference between , the K . J souls - of men and __ . _ animals , . The author ' s motto is—M « t ista qiucstio una quam viftxime desidcrant homvrws sdre .

    From Mr . P . Reiss , Worms . — ' Shakespeare vom Standpunkte der Vergleichenden , Litte .-. & I >_ ratur \ Geschichte , ' von Dr . W . Wetz . Vol , . I . The

    Personages of Shakespeare ' s Plays . The introhistory duction consists ofliterature of an . essay Dr . on Wet the z comparative divides his

    . first volume . into , the following sections : I . Psychology v ical remark CJv of the the Earli . ' Later er Dramas ; II . Psy *^ « X cho y « i , §_ \ j -

    log Consciousness s on Freedom of Dramas the Wil ; l III & . c . Moral iv the Conflict ; V , . Right Feeling" and Conscienti , ; - . MoralObservations the

    Suffering Histories ousness ; ; ; VI VIII VII . * . . Obsc the Unmoral ' uration of Humourists Reason on through ( later with IagoFalstafff & cas examples ); ^ X . The

    C _ 3 , , , — X . ' ¦/¦ * ~ ^ - * -i \> Women of Shakespeare ' s Plays . There are six appendices , one of which consists of E ^ von Hartmann's essay ¦ on * Romeo and Juliet . ' Dr . Wetz ' s

    st ud y of / % -- Shakespeare /~ * ^ -- 1 is - , in effect — / MB — . , an - elaborate — ~_ -V v v ^^ ^ J ^^ ^ J philosophical work , supported by numerous citations — - — .. . _ At — the . same _ time the references ^_^ — , v ¦ . to ^^ ^^^ V ^^ \ ^^ M

    widely diverse authors are so thickly sown as to in make the literatures the book a of species different of guide countries to reading . On '

    one Benvenuto page we Cellini find , Calderon references , Goeth to e Froissart , and to , Herbert Spencer's * Sociology . ' To all

    Shakespearean students Dr . Wetz ' s book will be welcome . From the Religious Tract Society . — ' Not His

    Own Master , ' by Mr . Lucas Shadwell . Mr . Shadwell's story is attractive and well written . It exhibits no mean power of descriptionand

    the * character-drawing J _ is much above the aver , - age of what is met with in tales for young peop j . j . le . It relates the history i of a boy % iwho

    runs away from home because of the strictness of his father and gets into many troubles through bad companions . He is wrongly found

    guilty of theft and is imprisoned for a year , then he becomes a soldier , and subsequently fin ds his _ way — ^ to ~ Aus tralia , whither his family

    withou have preceded t revealin him his . id He entit serves until his the father father learns to love him g . Then there y is an interesting

    and pathetic revelation and the end is happy . Eversley Despite t he earl reade y filial r conc disob eives edien a str c o ng of affec Ronald tion

    for him . His mother , too , is a very lovable character . From the same— ' A Battle t- with the Waves ¦ ¦ ' by

    A . A VAAA W / M . JLSS UVVUJV * . AA JL _^ % ** f 1 ** ¦* ¦ 1 ~ f »* A UAA % fMA- ** S » W ¦>* ••** " , dealin C . J . Hamilton with the . adventures A stirring tal and e vicissitudes of the sea , incident ¦ L ¦ m » » m * Jf c g M ^ fc i to » i g the Ki ¦ , jfc j life m ^ t ^ L ^ t » ¦ of a » fisherman jk ¦ ¦ » j ^ i A » Jl-BL ^ WW J ^ Jk Just ^ rfv ^^» ^» the - ¦ - - - ^^* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^

    book to interest boys of eight or ten , and to teach them some useful lessons . From Lyster the same In . Heedless —* Heedless Hetty Hetty ' Miss , 'by Lyster Annette has

    is written , indeed . a , charming very heedless little , and story her for mishap girls . . Hetty s are , "Sin -in consequence nonctftnufinofi . v vifirv ery n numerous umerous , bu but t she she gets ffets

    over both her , heedlessness and , her mishaps and the bo is ok happy are not in likely the end to lay . Girls it dow who n until take up

    last page is reached . , From the the same Mountains . —' Help of from the the Bible Hills ' : Thoug A — book hts

    des the VJIJ on cribing lyllC ountains iJAUUIlUHUD , in mentioned a thoug VJJl htf ul 11 in the devotional XJlt . Bible tl \ s .- / and •* spirit ~ the .

    men t [ lC m H- whose lVU . Ul , M , lIin names JLUCUUIUHV are associated *» 1 HUVj ju »*« with ^* . v them . The author writes from the fulness of Scrip tural

    knowledge . From the same . — ' Health at Home , ' by Alfred and

    graphic Sch Schofield ofield manner , . , M M .. D D .., . , M M Dr .. R R . .. C C fc .. ^ S S chofield , . In In a a tre popular popular ats of « the » p

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    978 The Publishers' Circular August 15,1...

    978 The Publishers' Circular August 15 , 18 90

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1890, page 978, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081890/page/22/