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    5ooks Eecbived :— From Messrs. Bailliere...

    Headers . These books give , in separate parts , The Favourite Picture Book , ' which , in its

    complete form , proved to be one of the most popular nursery and Farran boo . ks iss ' The ued Nursery last year Compani by Messrs on . Griffith '

    introduces the young reader to ' Old Mother Hubbard , ' Cinderella / ' Puss in Boots / and other favourite nursery tales told in verse , each stanza having its

    - Folk woodcut 1 tells . in ' Fragments leasant rh of Knowled of the chief ge for features Little I of the month p sthe histo ymes ry of a loaf from the

    seed to the oven , , of a cup of tea from its first stage to its last , of a pound of sugar from the cane to the tubof a scuttle of coalsand other

    common objects , , and then , after a few , pages of pictures of what maybe termed proverbs in practice , each golden rule being illustrated by a

    picture in which it is carried into exercise , there are * Talks about some Birds and Beasts / capjtally written . 'The — Picturesque Primer' gives first a

    A . « 3 picture alphabet , then a key to telling time from the clock face , two pages from common objects , each illustrated , and then ' Uncle Charlie '

    rewards the young reader with a budget of nurser y rhymes with illustrations , which , when not picturesque , are at least grotesque . ' Easy Reading

    for Little Readers' finishes the set which was , we believe , prepared by Mr . Charles Welsh , on whom it . reflects very considerable creditfor he has

    con-, trived to combine amusement and instruction with a success not often achieved in the domain of purely nursery literature .

    From Messrs . Hamilton , Adams , & Co . — ' The Teacher ' s Work : What it is , and How to do it /

    by John Palmer . New and revised edition . We have on several occasions welcomed the editions of this useful manual b — y ^/ the Secretary ^/ of the

    —Church of England Sunday School Institute as they have passed through the press , and all that remains to be said in the present case is that the

    value of the book is increased JL Ly the revision which its author has once more given to it . The chief recommendations of the manual are that it

    combines in a singular degree the fullest technical details with a genuine religiousness of aim and tone .

    From Mr . John Heywood . — 'Health Lectures , delivered in March 1878-79-80 . ' The fruit of the labours of the Manchester and Salford

    Sanitary Association is here placed within reach of all who choose to pluck it ; and readings from the lectures would be most serviceable in towns

    where the people have not enjoyed the advantage of addresses from their authors . The subjects include the majority of sanitary topics on which

    it is essential that the public mind should be informed , and although they are dealt with by scientific men they aro popularly explained , and

    are full of common-sense directions for preservation of health and the avoidance of disease . From the same . — ' The Scholar ' s History of

    England , ' by J . S . Horn . New edition . A brief but compendious history of England , arranged in paragraphs , and brought down to the close of the

    a Zulu matter war in of the fact year to 1879 assert . Whether that 4 in it 1878 is strictl war y declared by England against Afhanistanwhich

    after a short campaign resulted in g an easy , victory for our troops , ' is , however , a matter over which , perhapsSic Frederick Roberts might be disposed

    to differ , from the author . From Messrs . Hodder & Stoughton . — 'New

    Zealand : Past and Present , ' by the Rev . James Buller . The author of ' Forty Years in New c - ——* - : :

    large Zealand connected portion , has with a fair a of colony his claim life in to time which be heard and he has on spent matters so I I

    produced a a thoroughly readabl -, e account he has of' here The I I Britain of the South' describing its natural

    features condi cuuuiliuu tion , , , its poli puuiictM abori tical , , inal ccu om imuorciHi , m inhabitants ercial , , and ana , its social social . present and and I I I

    are forward the some prospects when good he illustrations to goes which out . the to emi its grant shores may . There look

    From Messrs . Houlston & Sons . — 'The Silver Star' by David Murray Smith ~ " . A romance MM of

    , W " — — ~ — ™ ^ - ^ ^ >^ .. % \ JU » I >_ l \_ f V # l I logy the North of the Land Northmen , with . an This account book of places the mytho before

    youthful English readers some of the stories to I p which licit credence our ancestors . Their of names ' long are long ago ' gave Kino im ' - I

    s Mission Knoll , " , ' In 'Wanderings the Plague-stricken of Freyj City a , / 1 'Hable 'Iduna t ' ' s s I

    App Gift , les ' ' Miolnir , ' ' The A pples his of Master Immortality , ' * How , ' Thor ' Thekla went ' s to Jotenheim' ' In the Wolves' Lair' ' The

    Bind-,, ing of Fernvir , ' 'At Work in the Mountains , ' and ' Hablet ' s Dream . ' The ' good people '—they are offended if we call them fairies—are duly

    honoured by engravings , and the cover represents them , in its gilding . From Messrs . LongmansGreen & Co . —

    * Blues and — — Buffs — ^ ~_> : a ^^^^ Contested — ^ , ^ " ^^ " ^^ " Election ^^ w ^™ , j ^^ r ^^ and - ^"' ~^ w its Results . ' This reprint from Fraser ' s Magazine . bears the name of Arthur Mills as its author ,

    and there was , as our readers may remember , in the last parliament , a Mr . Arthur Mills who I was member for Exeter , but who failed to secure I

    re-election in the recent general contest . In a j prefatory note the author states that the period of his story is antecedent to the ¦¦ changes ¦>¦ » in our

    ^^ ^ ^— — . *^ n * ^ r ^^ «^ w ^» w ^ ^^ v m « ^ i ^^ ^ ir «^ 'fc" » ^^ ^ M ^ f ^ m ^^ w ^^ * fc ^ ^ t ^ ^*^» M ^ fc ^^ **^ ^ ^ electoral system effected by the Ballot Act eight years ago ; but he adds the pungent observation :

    ' * It It would would appear armear . , however however , , from from recent recent disclosures disclosures petitions before W-r ^ rf *» * v »» >_ r M the * » - , that ^/ jud * - « - ¦» \ 'J ges constituencies ^ f \ s AIM appointed *^ * * t « 4 k X- > m * M . 1— M % * f *^ to bearing f ^ try V ^* JVJ ^ M certain + M Mk some ™ " ** r *¦ " election »» sli — g nht

    resemblance to tho typical borough described in j these pages still survive . ' The story opens vith ;

    a a scene scene in in the the House House ot of Commons Commons , which which brings brings ; , before us a Juuior Lord of the , Treasury discussing with the Secretary the prospects of the

    boroug declared h of to ' look Shamboro for nothing , ' the electors but of ' bank which -notes are , Government lacesand strong beer . ' Tho \

    p , ing process this of august competing constituency for tho honour is well of described represent- , , j

    and and it at , if if least at at times times bears the thft evident sto Rt . orv ry marks is is a little little of having overdrawn overdrawn been , , | , written 41 bone who has himself been over ^ ¦— - the j

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    or if it outside reminds the one walls somewhat of Sr . Step forcibl hen ' y s . of The a certain cover , parti-coloured 1 poster / OtVL which we occasionally s ^

    | y *** . » , « VVVUJIVU , UV *» A 1 . A \_ , AJL If ^ V ^ VUWiv *** -.- ^ on the street walls , is at any rate appropriate , for in colour it is half blue and half buff .

    Fr > m tl » same— - « Yellow Cap ; and other Fairy Stories elders for of Children today , ' occasionall by Julian reflect Hawthorne DUCl / that " »»> ' their . H

    ch our imi ildren CJ . U . OJL are O Ul born lAi - -UlIi in a more ^ tXalUllllLLJ favoured y I age than thei - " ; r So own much , they is really done have for fair boys excuse and for irls so in thinking the way .

    of K t bo hat > U diversion tlJ agreeable UUJU itwill ID now UUW and Ha , and UUUO nAAH enli good g ( htenment Ui l fnn KHfJ conduct B th , disci g gl ho so *** p line £ ? profitable *** O back " is made tO * , | | me | r mm « r «« tmm — ¦¦ j -

    thut the ™» « - » m ^ w v proven * m true happ p hilosop s ^* iness ^^ ^^^^ hies a , of , , ^ childhood ^ and Jfc ^/«* remind ^« w does y— themselves not eojl | ¦* I ¦¦ . JIM ^—— I . .. ¦¦¦ - I ¦ I - ¦!¦¦¦ ' i _ TT ¦^^^ ' ^^ ' ^^ Vff'T

    W " . ¦ . ¦ ¦ J ^Il 996 The Publishers* ...

    w " . ¦ . ¦ ¦ J ^ il 996 The Publishers * Circular Nov -15 , 1880 !

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1880, page 996, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111880/page/8/