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    nal page ' . is A another folio ' useful Rough publication Diary or , Scribbling with an entire Jourpage for each day . Covers with lock and key can

    be had for this work , and for others . For office use No . 38 will be found a convenient book . It is a long opening half . -breadth Letts' combined folio , showing ' Tablet a Diary week and at Blot each

    writing ting Pad ; the ' is diary sensibl is y al adapted ways at for the genera writer l ' s use hand in , and can be referred to in an instant without the

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    From Messrs . George Bell & Sons . —It is pleising to note bow well Bohn ' s Standard Library ' is kept abreast of the times by the issue of works ,

    such as ' Selections , chiefly lyrical , from the Poetical Works of Victor Hugo , ' translated into English verse bvarious authors : now first

    collected by Henry y Llewellyn Williams . With a poet ' s perception , and with true literary justice , the editor has performed his task in a manner

    that is , alas ! too seldom seen in these days of indiscriminate gatherings . The translations which Mr . Williams has presented to his readers

    g poet ive ' s high cause testimony . Many as sources to his have enthusias been m searched in the for good renderings of Hugo ' s works . Among

    the names of the translators may be noticed ' Father Prout '; Caroline Bowles ; John L . Sullivan ; the author of ' Critical Essays '; Gr .

    W . M . Reynolds ; Edwin Arnold ; Leitch Ritchie ; Lord F . Leveson Gower ; A . Lang , and others . Memories of the palmy days of various once

    popular periodicals are revived by poems extracted from ' Fraser _' _s Magazine , ' the ' Dublin University Review' Tait ' Edinburgh Magazine '

    , ' s , » Bentley ' s Miscellany , ' & c . In short , Mr . Williams has succeeded in bringing together an

    English collection of the poems of Victor Hugo , of a character that future workers in the field of translation cannot hope to excel .

    From the « Pall Mall Gazette' Office . —One of the most luminous and complete Guide-Books

    that has ever come under our notice is the ' Popular Guide to Westminster Abbey , ' by M . C . and E . T . Bradley . The illustrations and the

    architectural chapter are by Mr . A . J . Grahanie , and an introductory chapter is supplied by the Dean of Westminster . The writing is far above the

    usual standard of guide-book prose : it is strikingly descriptive , clear in the elucidation of historical associationsandwithout being flowery or showy

    always keeps , up , a lively interest for the reader , . The Guide is creditably arranged , and has a list of authorities , besides a copious index .

    The Religious Tract Society sends us another contribution to the History of the Italian

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    by J . T . Betrs . It gives an account—fro m ori Thoug ginal h , of MSS course . —of , but his a sli trial ght sketch and of martyrdom the Hol _. y

    learned Office well translate and from of 1 Carnesecchi the , and book pleasant , which , yet reading somethi , we . may ng may add , be is

    From Messrs . George Rout ledge & Sons . —The new printed * Pocket and prettil Library y bound ' of series this firm of books is a . neatl The y

    issue selection of ' of The authors Poetical has Works been of well Bret begun Harte by , ' the in as dainty a form as any lover of the poet ' s works

    could wish to see . From Messrs . Smith , Elder , <& Co . —A

    metropolitan daily recently remarked that it was ' a convention curious result between of the this absence country of and any the copyri United ght

    States , that American readers have long been able to obtain a far more complete edition of the works of Thackeray than was within the

    reach of the countrymen of that great master of the however art of , have fiction now . ' determined Messrs . Smith to add , Elder two volumes , & Co .,

    of the best of Thackeray ' s fugitive writings to their noble Standard Edition of the immortal author ' s works . This stepit appearswould

    have been taken before now , , but tho publishers , considered that some of the ' articles—many of them on topics of the day—were unsuited for

    publication in a permanent form . ' But now the public want as much as they can possibly get of Thackeray ; and the hearty welcome which has

    already been given to the newly published volume ( 25 of the Standard Edition ) is a strong evidence of this . Opening with '

    _FasHnable Fax and Polite Annygoats ' ( Yellowplush ' s amusing review of « My Book ; or , The Anatomy of Conduct , ' by John Henry Skelton ) , the volume

    contains no fewer than fourteen reviews , three tales , a lecture , and various essays , letters , _sketches & c . Iu these varied pagesas should

    be expected , , an immense supply of characteristic , wit may be found . It is a significant fact that admirers of Thackeray are . year by year becoming

    greater in numbers , and one and all of them will be delighted to welcome the genuine addition to their enjoyment iven in the new volume of his

    works . g From the same . — There is undoubtedly much ,

    whatever adverse critics may say , in the opening chapter ** of a novel . They fix the reader ' s attention ; they lead him to know what he may

    expect in the succeeding treatment of the story . In the early chapters of ' Adrian Vidal , ' by W . E . Norristhe promise is indisputably

    great , nor is it , belied by what follows . Many novels commence well , but fall off towards the endeither from want of a carefullconceived

    plot , on the part of the author , or y it may be — because after all he lacks no unimportant the necessary matter physical in strength a work

    of this description—for a long-sustained effort ; but not so Mr . W . E . Norris ' _s new three-volume venture . Indeed , we would find it difficult to

    has mention interested any fictional us more work thoroug of hl recent y . To years quote that the author ' s own words , very aptly used i a describing that

    happy the literary combination work of of romance his hero with , it has realism 'just which is Where so * sure all is to pleas good e and it is so somewhat hard to accomp difficult lish to .

    so , sing can le scarcel any y part refrain out from for especial noticing praise the character , but we of

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1080, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/20/