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    •»* v % j * j «/ ^ 3 a eketch of President Lincoln ' s career , under the title ' The Pioneer Boy and how he became President -- / would have been welcom _ , _ e at - any ~ - timebut

    ^^^^ . _ y — — — - — , „ . _ . _ , - — — ~ — at the present moment , when General Grarfield ' s I state has been the subject of so much anxious interest on both sides of the Atlantic , its

    publication is specially opportune , and this English issue will be widely read . G-arfield , like Lincoln , was born in a log cabin , and rose from the

    ranks , and the story of his school life , his college course , and his subsequent work as a teacher , gives a most attractive picture of the man whose

    attainment to the highest honour his country has to offer marked him out for the attack of the assassin . Throughout his earlyears

    punctuality and promptness were , we are y told , G-arfield ' s distinguishing features , and his personal devotion to religionincluding actual work in the

    , pulpit and on the platform , was equally noticeable . His capacity for reading is described as almost incredibleand it was no uncommon spectacle

    , to see him going from a library with his arms full of volumes . Macaulay and Mill were among the authors he specially commended to students

    for study , and he much admired ' Tom Brown's School-Days / When asked the best way to purt-ue a certain study , his answer was * use several

    textbooks ; get the views of different authors as you advance ; in that way you can plough a broader farrow . I always study in that way . ' The book is so largely occupied with the earlier dajs of this

    able and distinguished man , that liis more public career is but slightly dealt with ; enough , however distinction , is said he to won show when that - he he was richl elected y deserves to the the

    Presidential forms the frontisp chair iece . to A the well volume -engraved . portrait Prom Civil Messrs Service . Crosby Coach : Lockwood a Practical & Co Exposition . — 'The

    to of the the Lower Civil Service Division Curriculum of the , Service and Guide and 5 ts Competitive Examinations / BStanley

    Sayille , of H . M . Civil Service . The y reforms the which Civil have Service been introduced have comp of letel late y changed years into its

    character , and there is now a strictly-marked distinction between the two grades of the service and both —the the v is «« vj Ixi in result iuumu gher nearl is and y that every the there case lower must by . public bo The wide competition entrance demand to ,

    . lo uiiciu i / Uuiv uiuau k / u a a tv tuc uouiiiuu for such a book as this , which describes fully the examinations division clerksh prescribed iwhether for candidates boys for lower Mr

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    with are admitted the subj ^ to ects compete in iJU which , proceeds they to deal examined seriatim

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    copi Ha ving es of been ¦¦ — papers — ¦ through actuall the y set fire at the tA the 4 author examinations is able .

    I to give , some valuable ** * ^~ r ** f * m . A A hints VllV JLJI to J . V ^ , > those \~ t t * L 4 who % , J | A V- * . wish AW » - * « w * to * . V ^ ^

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    enrol themselves ' under the Crown / and his little j manual is one of the most comprehensire w © have \

    seen . From Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall & Qo . — 'The

    Historical School Geography / by Charles Morison , . M . A ., Ph . D . Second edition . The characteristic feature of this work lies in its arrangement of \\

    the dependencies of each country undet the head of the power to which they belong or are indirectly attacheda tribute to imperialism in geography

    which has , a decided advantage in so far as it , accustoms the student to connect in his mind the great kingdoms with their colonies . At the same

    time , in days when the shifting scene of politics so often changes the ownership or patronage of an islandif not of a more important piece of

    territory , , the book will need to be watchfully used . As a proof of its recent revision we find the independence of the Boers in the Transvaal duly

    noted , although we are significantly reminded that out of the total population of 630 , 000 only 40 , 000 are Dutch Boers . Under each section of

    the book the natural features of the countries , the mineral and vegetable products , the maans of internal communication , the centres of the chief

    industries , the political divisions , the religious "beliefs , the educational advantages , and other facts are duly chronicledand the book is so

    admirably arranged and so , clearly printed that it may be commended as peculiarly adapted for school use .

    From Mr . Edward Stanford . — ' The Hindoos as they are : a Description of the Manners , Customs , and Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal / by

    Shib Chunder Bose , with a prefatory note by the Rev . W . Hastie , B . D ., Principal of the General Assembl ' s InstitutionCalcutta . This volume

    which is y not onlthe work , of a native writerbut , bears the imprint y of the Caxton Press in , the Indian capital , comes to us with the imprimatur

    fulness of a clergyman , and he well tells qualified us , in a to prefatory judge of note its truth , that it is ' a faithful delineation of facts within the

    author ' s own experience . ' Babu Shib Chunder Bose is , Mr . Hastie says , * an enlightened Bengali of matured conviction and character , who , having

    received the strong impulse of Western culture and thought during the early period of Dr . Duff ' s work in the General Assembly's Institution , has

    continued faithful to it through all these long and changeful years / As it is a book written in ; English by one whoso own tongue differs

    materially from ours in its colouring and its idioms , it presents an interesting illustration of the extent » to which our connection with India has enabled the

    educated classes among her people so thoroughly I and to imbuo expression themselves as to with "be able our to modes produce of thoug a book ht J

    like this , which , so far as its diction is concerned , might have come from an English pen . The sketches iven include literally every side of

    Indian society g , from the cradle to the grave , and describe minutely tho customs of the people and their social and domestic relations . The major

    part of tho volumo is occupied with a sketch of the position of Indian women , and of the strange and oftentimes absolutely cruel rules

    which govern their lives , and not unfrequently result in their premature deaths . I From the same . — * A Year in Fiji ; oran Inquiry

    into tho Botanical , Agricultural , and , Economical Resources of the Colony / by John Home , F . L , S ., Diroctor of Woods and Forests and Botanical

    Oarto dens Fij , i Mauritius paid by Mr . . An Homo exhaustive , at tho account invitation ot a of visit the

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1881, page 735, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091881/page/7/