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    I Qi I » Our Hundred Days In Europe A C ...

    record with the columnar self-reliant capital letterto signify that there is no disguise in

    its egoisms , , ' After A A _ this * 41 b ^ admission ^ m a ^ the , ^ reader «^ is carried irresistibly along with all the familiar

    fascination A m . m of tffe humour 4 and descri » m ^ pti ve power which has made the author ' s name so

    singularly suggestive of honest amusement and elevating p ^^^ ^ b ^^ » p . *^ ^— — ^^^^ common — ^— — — ^^ — -sense ^^^ ^ pp" ^ p » pf ^ p * ' ^ pp ^ . Everything p ^^^^ p ^^ » ^¦ p' pr ^ v w ^^ p ^ Bp ^^ p ^ p ^ v ^^ SpfpfpK ^ is ^ "pIp *!^ de 'Ppf ^ . pi "p ^^

    -scribed with pleasant liveliness , and retrospects and reminiscences of his visit half a

    century ago are introduced most harmoniously throughout the text .

    Once across the Atlantic Dr . Holmes immediately begins his de & jriptions ; Liverpooland

    Chester first , then London with its continued whirl of excitement . In London many of his

    old friends rallied round him , and new acquaintances eagerly sought the honour of his

    friendship . The descriptions of Epsom and Windsor « ' — — — — - p —•¦ — k are - —— - _ -v full m > w ^ b > . k of - ^^ - p ^ livel pB ^ a > * " *^ ¦>» y s f sense ^ ¦• 4 ^^ «^ IV ^• l' . m ¦ ' ¦ Windsor " . Jfe ^ pA » . »?^^»» T ^ " ^ ^ ka I' * . ^ pffl * k - ^ b < ^ ^ H ^ ^ ^ ^^

    Castle / the author naively remarks , ' which ab every out bod , is y one knows of , the or largest can easil of y those learn huge , all

    caverns in which the descendants of the original cave-men , when they have reached the themselves h-eight of human / The grandeur allusions , deli to ght the to famous shelter

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    notice that Dr . Holmes has not forgotten the incident at his installation at Oxfordwhen

    ' — ^^ ~* ^~ ^ ' ^ ^* ^^ pp * *^ H tv ^ . ^^ V "Pflpr v . ^ pTtwp ^ p » t * % S *| F ^ p *^ b ^^ p ^ ^^ pM ^¦ p ^»» ^^ ^ p ^^ r p ^ Mp *> ^ to I ^^ ^^ i ^ B , M Tf W ¦ 4 k ^ PkaT ^ m ^ m some young wit in one of the galleries inquired , 'Did ¦¦¦» come w - down in the One - ^ p »^ Hoss Shay V

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    ~ — —* •^^•^^ ~^ r ^ ^ PHbk ^^ p ^ " ^ iP * ^^^ ^^ 1 fV from irom Dr Jiinglish Enerlish . Holmes readers rsad w era ill tor for receive this this pleasant " genuine nlftasa-nt account ao thanks . cnnnf ,

    of his sojourn among them ; a sojourn which men men was as as enj it it oyed seems seems quite to to have have as much bean been b hv by y our the tKe country autocrat antonrat

    himself . As an addition to the list of wise rank and witty even ¦ works with the * Our vi Hundred writings Days of ' may Dr

    Hol mes - — » ' -w- dh earlier ^* . v v . a . % *• A .. Jb years ^/ . < ft . &^^ . <* gorous - ^^ ^— ' •*¦ ^ - ^ % >« -tS ^ If . 4 * . A VJI . AAak 'V ^ vr * 4 b ¦ # - »¦ Jb .

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    Messrs . John Walker & Co . announce some new - ¦ volumes i / AV / KJ of their * Miniature ATJU % « Golden -Nn Floral ~ KS

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    Sweet Home . ' This firm is also bringing out a new ¦ series of ' Christmas 4 and New Year f

    " " »* ^* "p »» p *^ ^^ p \^ ^ - ^ Jb ^^ 4 ^ *¦***•] ^ b ^ p ^ ^ p * 0 *** wv p ^ p ^ w ^ r- ^ 4 ^ ¦* ' ^ *•¦• v ^ pw w * ^^ v *^ i ^ ' ^* m 4 » to booklets U „ supplant . i I 1 fj 1 ¦**** , ' « *•• which the i VJLJL ^/ comp ^ ¦» - are LAA I / JLX limentary intended AA Jh ¦ ^/ JL . C * J \ AlMt -i" i card \^ « LVJb in ^ - * # some s s » # exchanged VAAiVAAtVAAbk . degree i ^^ V ^ U

    during that season . The English Illustrated Magazine ( Messrs .

    existence Macraillan — — with ) enters the forthcoming JL upon , \ yj | i 1 / A the fifth October year fS ^ r of num ¦ its

    -- - *» v v m . VAA VJI « A ^ S % - *• . » AAAAACk * W- ^ V ^ « # >—r ^^ «* ^ * the her .- « . new j » v Among . v » volume VUlUUld * the ^^ list < are * lt ? of a promised series OOL 1 CO of \ Jl contents papers JJ ClJ ^ rCi , . O for on VJ » A JL

    * Coaching Days and Coaching Ways , ' by W ¦ Thomson . Outrain Tristram , illustrated by Hugh

    b article •* nomson H on D literary and and Herbert Ht , * rhprfc social , Kailton * Ra and . iltrm artistic ; : a n . monthly mon matters thlv , y . ^ Traill and two new novels b

    Professor t / . . ^ r m Minto . a . JL IAULJLJL and ; IMAA the V 4 . author V f » A- ^ AAV of * Mehalah » x-r w V- *> M P r y J ' respectively . Articles are also announced from

    J Macquoid ^ aurence , Oh Gr . phant L . Seymour , James , Sune H . Macallum , Thomas , ¦ ft )

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    H . Ryland , and Miss Margery May ; whilst among the shorter works of

    fictioncontribu-, tions will be supplied by B . L . Farjeon , * J . S . Winter , ' and Mrs . Moles worth . Lastly ,

    the editor has arranged with Mr . John L . Toole to write a paper on ' Personal

    Reminiscences of Charles Dickens , ' and also for the publication of a series of * Letters by Charles

    Dickens , ' and early numbers of the magazine will contain _ — _ poems -by Algernon Charles

    Swinburne and Georg _ e Meredith ^ o . The prospects XT of an enjoyable t > u literary % f feast by

    subscribers to the new volume of ' The English Illustrated Magazine ' therefore stand high .

    We have been furnished with tl e awards of Mrs . Rose Mary Crawshay for the best

    essays in English , written by women on selected works of ByronShelleyand Keats .

    The prize-winners for ' , The Witch , of Atlas ' are Margharita Daniels , first prize of £ 10 ;

    Henrietta Brown , second prize of £ 5 . For the * Adonais' Rose Ciindallfirst prize £ 10

    C B aroline yron ' s Prayer Prynne , of , Nature second ' prize , one prize , £ 5 of . , £ 5 For to ;

    C . E . Montizambert . For , ' Lara , ' first prize of £ 10 to Annie Kniper ; second prize of £ 5 to

    Gertrude Reinsberg . For ' Cain , ' first prize of £ 10 to C Stewart ; second prize of £ 5 to

    H . F . Mitchell . For Keats VE \ re of St . Agnes' one prize of £ 5 to F , M . Wilson . The

    essays on the fourth canto of * Childe Harold ' did not merit the prizes offeredand these

    were awarded as ex tra prizes for ' , Adonais' to Alethea Phillips and Marian Robinson . Miss

    F . B . Melly , who carried off a prize last year , sent in an essay on ' Cain' this yearand we

    hear that it was so excellent that she , would have taken the first prize had she not been

    disqualified by her previous success . An extra prize of £ 5 has , however , been awarded her .

    ' Verb de Yert's Eton Days , and other Sketches and Memories , ' by A . G . Lestrange ,

    author of the ' Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford / is announced by Mr . Elliot Stock

    for immediate publication . A popular edition of ' Manners Makyth

    Man , ' by the well-known author of ' Hotv to be Happy though Married , * will be issued

    almost immediately by Mr . T , Fisher Unwin . * William I . and the Grerman Empire ' is the

    title of a biographical and historical work by Mr . G . Barnett Smith now in the press . It

    will be published next month by Messrs . Sampson V ~^ pr f ^ ir ^ p ¦ * ^ PP » ^^ ^ " ^ ^ I H ^ p ^ ^ . p ^^ Low Ip ^ p ^^^ pp ^^~ f «/ , « H Marston p ^^ P ^ V P ^^^ v ^ P- ^^^ H « "P ^ -P ^ ^^ p ^ pp « & ^ B ^ ^ P ^ Co ^^ P ^ » . The I ¦ »— ' ¦—» -PP ^ author T » ^~ 'P ^ ' ^ ^ " — r ~ * ^ ^ " - P" '» s - ^~

    previous studies in contemporary history and biography are widely knownand in the life

    of the venerable Emperor William , and the foundation of the German Empire he has an

    interesting and popular theme . The late Mr . Charles Walkerof Brighton

    a well-known ecclesiologist , say , s the World , , has bequeathed the whole of his library to

    the trustees of the Pusey Memorial Fund , with power to sell it for the benefit of their

    trust . Mr . Walker is said to have possessed the most varied collection of works on ritual in

    England . On the death of his aged mother a further sum of £ 500 will revert to the Pusey

    Fund .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1887, page 1005, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091887/page/7/