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    i 372 Tke ¦ Publishers' Circular Nov

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    tions are supplied by Mr . Vesey Stewart , J . P . The Year Book is the standard reference book

    relating to the colony . From the same . — ' Persia as it is / by C . J . Wills ,

    M . D . Those who had the privilege of reading a former volume by Dr . "Wills on the subject of Persiawill hail "with a sense of leasurable

    anticipation , another work from his grap p hic and amusing pen . Dr . Wills possesses in a marked degree the attributes that tend to make a writer

    successful . He is wise and incisive in style , quick peculiarl to see th y h p umour iquant o fashion f a situ to ati describe on , and able what , after passes a

    around him . Above everything , he has somesi thi ng to w say .. — ritin , an ~_ a ^ d for hi writing s work Jk ¦¦ fc ' i s t n sake ) j n o res The p —*¦ ect »¦» customs 1 be VKJ trays ¦»¦

    an ~ — £ - ^ d manner — — _ s of g h -wa e P . ers ^ - ^ ^ i ans * . — * j , the ^«~ . ^^ . a autocratic *—/ ^ , * posi V >*> - » * "' - - tion that the Shah ( 'Asylum of the Universe ' and

    * King of Kings' ) holds amongst them , the nature of a magistrate ' s duties in Persia , the marriage contract and method of carring it outthe

    position of slavescharacter and y dress of , dervishes Persian pictor , ical art , habits of the harem , and a , variety of other topicsare treated in so

    interesting and entertaining a , manner , so frankly , and without appearance of effort , that the reader cannot fail to be absorbedand will be led on from

    , been page thoug to p * ge ht unti by l some the end peo . p " le Finall that y the , it ma Shah y h was ave

    improved by his visits to Europe . This is true only to a limited extent . ' When he last crossed the Caspian , ' Dr . Wills tells us , ' he slept on the

    the floor table of the he ladies put ' his cabin boots under . . . the . Once tabl it e , an was d on a pleasure to the " Asylum of the Universe " to fill

    a boat on one of the large tanks of his numerous country palaces with the grandees of his kingdom clad in gala costumeand to into fits of laughter

    as the boat sank , and , the pillars go of the Empire crawled out , muddy , wet , and bedraggled . And

    they say on the last visit of the King of Kings to Europe , when seated between two Hoyal ladies at the dinner-table , on tasting and sucking a stick of

    asparagus , that he offered the half-devoured butt to the more auguEt of the two , with the idea that she should enjoy the pleasure he had experienced ,

    saying , with innocent enjoyment , " Ba , ba ! how good it is !"' Prom Messrs . Macnaillan & Co . — The Tale of

    Troy / done into English by Aubre }^ Stewart , M . A ., is a welcome addition to our native versions of ancient classic stories .

    Prom the same . — We have received the second edition of the late Professor W . K . Clifford ' s

    * Lectures and Essays , ' edited by Mr . Leslie Stephen and Mr . Frederick Pollock . The latter supplies an introductionwhich has been revised .

    Two essays are omitted , in the collection having been transferred to the volume of ' Mathematical Papers . ' We refer to those on ' Types of

    Compound Statement' and on ' Instruments used in Measurement / Prom M . Paul Ollendorff , Paris . —A fifth edition

    of ' Sophia-Adelaide , ' a contemporary ' history ' of a rather dubious character , has been received . Prom Messrs . George Philip & Son . — ' The

    ElementH of Euclid / Mr . James Martin has brought out , the first book , from Simson ' s text . Mr . Martin adds a good selection of geometrical

    problems for solution . Prom Messrs . Smith , Elder & Co . Wo havo

    received a now edition of Prank liuckland ' s ' Notes and JottingH from Animal Life . ' Mr . G . C . I 5

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    valuable . our it is peculiarly From the same . —The last serial story which the

    lamente 1 * . d Mrs 11 m" . Ewing T ~ % wrote . was ' Mary ~ m . W ' s Meadrtw — — _ . ' The It appeared storywhich originall is wri y in tten Aunt in the Judy author ' s Maqa ' s . zi most M ,

    delightful , style , is now published with illustrations by Gordon Browne , one of the _ best _ _ — _^ of _ our . _ v ^

    book artists . la the same volume appears 3 [ rs . Ewing ' s ' Letters from a Little Garden , ' which likewise appeared XA in Aunt Judy ' s Magazine iJ . With

    these attractions the volume gives delightful reading . From the same . — ' Home Sunbeams ' is a coloured

    picture-book , the prettiest we have seen this year . From the same . —A trio of beautifully % / -coloured

    books—in fact , printed with so much , regard to effect that they rise far above the level of ordinary pictorial publications—is formed by

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    From the same . —* Occasional Sermons , ' by the late William of these Gibson sermons Hump was Prebendary hry , B . D . The of St preacher . Pauls f

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    I 372 Tke ¦ Publishers' Circular Nov

    i 372 Tke ¦ Publishers' Circular Nov

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1886, page 1372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111886/page/14/