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    99o The Publishers' Circular Oct. 15 - >...

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    The recent destruction of the island and...

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    way to improve on it , adopts this phrase intact , a tribute which he pays to several sentences of considerable length . Thisit must be admittedis an American tribute to English

    authorship which is even more irritating , to an author than , the wholesale republication of his volumes and we are not surprised to find that it is resented . It will be interesting to hear what is TVi ivxr T _ ¦* TT-T ± 'L »_ 1 1 «• i i tne a l

    . w esn s explanation or mauuer .

    99o The Publishers' Circular Oct. 15 - >...

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    The Recent Destruction Of The Island And...

    The recent destruction of the island and volcano of Krakatoain the Strait of Sunda " " b ^ T ¦ •¦•^ ¦ « * T * recalls Ti the ll 1 ft * ^ i , «• » c S a . m . . . )

    y a subterranean outburst , vividly story of the lost continent Atlantis' as told by Mr . Ignatius Donnelly in his bookpublished about a year agounder the , titl

    , , e author of A tlantis jj maintains m , the m Antediluvian m the # " 3 theory T * World T that M T 1 7 * . Atlantis In 'I' this A T _ * y was remarkable the ITT orig and inal most home _ i _ interesting * of the * human work ¦ ¦ race the

    where civilisation first arose , and from which the shores of the Mediterranean and North and South America were peopled , Egyptwhere the story was preservedwas its most

    * > i * ra ^ iv ill X * M . i t . ' ^ * X . , i i V *¦ X > i , i . — »»» X »» fcJV important tremendous ¦ colony volcanic voicam . That convulsion convulsion this vast continent once existed , and the tne that ^ it was of destroyed the tne by

    a a xremenuous c , , leaving leaving no no vestige vestige except except peaKs peaks or Azores Azores appears to be highly probable . In a similar convulsion , though on a smaller scale , the

    island or Urakatoa was destroyed .

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    story Ouida of intri , ' writing gueending to the with Times the on attemp what _¦ ^ ted she suicide terms Romance of a Genoese and gentleman Realism j -- , tells who had a painful T been

    - deceived ~ - ^ b y a ^^ Tuscan , J peasant ^^ J girl , and on _ thi s text she bases a homil — —_ y , the _ _ aim of which ^ - _ _ ^ is ^^ ^ to ^«^ prove that the equally tragic situations of her novels are notas some of her critics assert

    JL either unreal or impossible X . * f *— . Thus she writes : , , This is only one out of a thousand tragedies which yearly occur in this , the home of Romeo and

    Griulietta , where love is not a dead letter . Why are not those who can love and suffer thus as deserving of portrayal in fiction as the epicene beings who know no woes but a passing hysteria of conscience or a disillusion before the melting of a foggy and impalpable ideal ? Because passion has never touched -with .

    its fire and its glory the prim life of the aesthetic prig , or the rotund Philistine , it is not for that reason perished off the face of the earth . It exists in the same force and the same favour as iv the days of Othello and StradellaandI confessseems to me much more fitly a subject for the novelist or the

    ; , , dramatist than the fictitious * realism * of the spineless commonplace . The object of her letter crops up in her next paragraphwhenafter reminding the editor o *

    the Times that his reviewers have accused her of writing , fairy , stories , she indulges in the following rhapsody :

    To many of us , to myself , I confess , among the number , the world seems a marvellous union of tragedy and comedy , which run side by side like twin children ; like a ' web of Tyrian looms' with th «

    gold threads crossing and recrossing on the dusky purple of its intricate meshes . But there are , no doubt , length a number of huckaback of good and ; they tiresome judge peop by le -what to they whom have it seems known onl themselves y a Quaker . How mute is , one a suit to of pers homespun uade them , a

    that would their , no knowled doubt , seem ge is incredible not the measure to the of London the world litterate ? The ur with amorous his , magnificent prim domestici , heroic ties life bound of Skobeleff up in a duodecimo suburban h villapapered by Morrisor the rural clergyman solemnl ¦ pacing his treadmill «< ~^ r * of

    ^^ m ^^ v ^^ v ^^ ^ v ^ i ^^ ^^^»^ ^^ ¦ ^^^ m *« v m ^ r ^ ^^^ v ^>^» v « ^ ^ w- ^ w , m ^ - ^^ n ^ ^^ ^ ^ ir ^ m n ' V i ^^*^^ ^^ ^^ m mm ^ r * r , « ^^ *^ ^^ «»^ ^^ ^ h ^^»^* ^ r ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ Jk % ^^ J n 1 lw _^ f m ± 4 m 9 ^ ^^^ Jk ^^ Jl r B p mt y W m ^ % ^ V ^^ A &^ b & ^*^ - ^ P ^ r ^^^^ ^ -r ^ ^^—w - ^ — ' — goi weekl ng y up monotonies and down ; in but their Michael underground Skobeleff railway was just trains as , or the l' Reverend as are the Crawleys modern surrounded Puff and Wormwood with their

    olive branches in muddy midland villages . In at Tonquin another fli who ght the seems novelist according points to to her a young descri French tion author to be not who onl is , she a gallant says , now sailor fig but hting a

    paragon of artistic , and litera , ry perfection , for he is p ' a great , musician and y an admirable , artist / andhaving cited him as her beau ~ id 6 alshe indulges in a fling at the unfortunate English writer :

    , > Servi MlUf Well IVV ce desk UVP , is not and CHLKVi this C a * house UV man / UOO in AJU every . l South >_ rv ^ U . » whit . UL Kensington iX-CUOlUgLUU as ' real' , as or VL Mr Mr JJJL . . . Precisian Smallo kJLU . dil . JLO Joker U UJVOJL Dulle penning ^/ OJJ , passing 11 J 1 Jtl his XX 1 O his blameless MXCUllJlDiCOO life between AAW fiction ^ K-rii , a which »» Civil * .. ^—

    ' never brings a blush on the cheek / & c , with his six daughters playing lawn-tennis in his back garden , and * Ouid ¦ v ^ » . « his . VIM a p h then ysical branches and mental off vision on V ^ Ai candelabra VIUJLUVA limited to the arid ! chimney wax-li - pots ^ hts UUkl > ? She K ^ J . * . V has J . JLCII friend XXJ . VUVA who never ives a

    as reception " real " without * as ^* . a _» Jones VJLUIUVUUU having or Brown >^ AJL candles , whose V worth J > U UA housemaid Ul l * 1 , 500 . ^* . II UUV francs li g hts g lig his hted sing in le his gasalier K 3 a CW room , 1 and y UV All asks 11 this V T ' Is leads g he " ' not up to a plea for the fidelity to life of her own characters and to a defence of the French novel :

    The realistic novels of France are very fine of their kind , because they are not afraid to grapple with more vice and real dopravity than the in faded its worst daguerreotypes form , ; but of the our realistic grandmothers novel of , Eng where lish all or Engli the features & h-writing are authors blurred is wto n ° one indistinct brown cloud of shadow . I cannot suppose that my own experiences can bo wholly lso

    known exceptional AT /> Ant . i / some ) T 1 ftl ones rtTIAa very , yet Vflf wicked . I have "HmITA ones known lrnr , and -Uirn I very -l 7 * have » T * ir handsome linnriannn also known a peop i-vCk / M ^ many le l ^ k , I have Viava circumstances known L-r » r \ - «* rr » very - » T * k »» - » r so fine -fina romantic characters /» Via y » o nt'Ara that , I wer ll have fl / V e they 0 a > lt > 0 described t \ t \ crw \ l-LAri in in fiction nni- **\ ir \ they + r \ c ± - \ t would mmim be \\ ck ridiculed -rA rl -i n 111 i-k rt « n exaggerated swn n-tTm * m ** 4- *\ / i and ^ n ^ J impossible Zm -m ^ ^^ r <^ , i Mn i in - > - > real « nr > 1 life li'fsv there 4- I-im « £ i are ( 1 rA coinci CaiOiCl - "

    po dences rtray so them startling for fear , , mysteries of making so his singular work , appear dest as inies too so bizarre strange and , that too melodramatic no wise ; novelist . could venture to

    We have allowed ' Ouida' in a little less than the Times accorded to herto give an apology from the for her literary existence , , because it space is always interesting statement to look at an authors moral morai , eociftl works 4 w

    or tram literary tne standpoint standpoint sense , we of or do the tne not writer writer now pronounce : : on on the the merits merits any jud or of gment her her statement . , , whether whether in in a a , * u ^*> * Jk

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1883, page 990, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101883/page/6/