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    incontrovertible evidence , that the story of the destruction of the Alexandrian library is a

    fable . *

    Messrs . List & Franke , booksellers , of Leipzig , have lost in transit between that city

    and and Munich Munich , , a a parcel narcel . . oi of books books in in which wnicn was was a a volume Italian work of uni bound que character in brown . morocco It was an \ inside old

    the cover of which was a manuscript , ! letter of Savonarolasignedsealedand dated

    , , , despatched Florence , A last pril June 14 , * 1496 and . in The spite parcel of the h ue

    and cry raised over , it , it , has not yet been recoveredand Messrs . Last & Franke now

    ask dealers , in second-hand books to help them , in tracing its whereabouts .

    * * Mr . Washington Moon has in the press a

    novel which deals with some vexed ecclesiastical ^ - » r ^ -- » ~__^ ^__ " ^ v ^_ . v and _~_ r wm ^ m ~ _*^_ i legal ^ --- - ^__^ h |^ k ^ v ^ p ^ -. problems H *^ ^ b ~ " - ^ »^^ ^ - » ^_^ ^_ - ^^ fc ^__ i ^*__ r connected —^ —1 ^ ^__»^^^^^_^^ —__ r —_ ^ —» —^ - ^ " ^ with - - ¦ ¦ — ^__^— _ f the —_ - —«~^ v —_^'

    marriage laws . He states rather naively that he » ^^ does ¦» - ^ - «_* ^^ rm ^ r expect ^ r «* m ^ - ^^ - ^^ ^ there V «* V * ^__ r will * w . _» - ____ --- - be H .. P ^^ ¦ unanimity ^— — ¦ ¦ ¦ '» - __ -- _ -im- »^ — - ^ w of -a ^ - «¦

    opinion on the legal' question raised in the book 7 for he has discoveredby tentatively

    -, __ b __ l _¦__ ^ , _ k mf K -Hi __ h fe m / kb submitting ^__ _ the matter to the _ ^_ Archbishops ^ ^_ of Canterbury and Tork on the one hand and a

    distinguished Queen ' s Counsel on the other , that the Church and the Law are at present

    'diametrically opposed to each other * on -the subjoj ect . Messrs _ _ --.- _ — . _ Georg — — __ — _ , _ e _ Routl _____ edge _ - ^& Sons

    are to publish the book immediately . * * * *

    On the Continent there is also some interest ¦ attaching ¦ to ¦ » the publication « th « _¦ of a « v wkb hlet

    en" ^ - " ^ " " ^^ ~»^^ " ^«_| - *^ ^»^^ - ^ w p ^ «*» mt ^ ^^ h «^^ ^_ r ^ - ^ ^_> ^ pamp v w «*^ - _ - _ . ^ M ^_ . - ^^ w - ^ ^^ titled ' La 'Belgique et la Guerre prochaine . ' It is expected that it will cause a great

    sensation . The writer is Major Girard , of the Military College , Brussels . He holds that the

    fortifications which are in process of construction on the Meuse will prove a danger rather than a defence to Beliumand points out

    that Naraur is , with Liege g , the , centre of the new Meuse fortifications . Major Girard

    declares that if Belgium is to be placed in a position to maintain her neutrality and independence she must reorganise her

    thoroughly , and without delay . army * * * *

    zine The promises Christmas to be of number exceptional of Mapper interest ' s Maga both

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    pencil . — The — ~^ y W Rev ^^~~ " ¦ . ^ H ^—— . ^ . v ^ R . ^_^ Haweis . _ M ^ H « . W ^^ w ** ~ . ^ H . *^ writes VB—¦ ^ B * ^¦ ' ^ F ^ t ^ ^_ r alv on ^—^ v flw ' Oratorio ' ^ " # — — M ~~ ""~ ^~ and — ' ^ W "" ^^ J ^ ¦¦ ¦ Drama ¦ k «• «^ ¦¦_¦ ' <«¦ *; m Charles l - ^_^ ¦¦>!¦_> tf-h ^^«^ r Dudley -i ^^ r- ^ f ^^^ m ^ ~ h ^ W ¦ Warner - » «^^ J ^ ^_ fc ^^ ^ k ___^__^ V J ^^^ h __ __ ___ . ____________ __ ___ _ .

    on * The Spirit of Christmas '; and Theodore illustrated Child on article * Modern . Besides Russian all Art this '— i ¦ a there ri ~ i ^ chl is y

    — ^ — ^ " ^ —^ ^ ^ ™ ™ ~^^ — " ^ ^ -r ^ w ^__~ * - ^ r- ^*^ r ^** m * * r ^_ .. ^^ - » - ^^ , _ ^ » n »« . ^« ^^^ a v ^^ Goose a poem ¦ ' b called y Mr . -- ¦ ' R Busc . D 1 !¦ 0 . mbe Blackmore , or a Michaelmas and Vl » a

    complete *__ Mm - - — — - story , - — ^ » , ' The - ' _ ¦ ' ^ ' B - — ^_ I tt ^^™ —^ ^ First -. ^¦ ' ^ ^ m » - ^^^^» - Countess —^ t \ — fc —^ ^^ ^ MV ^ k ^ Ulfe ^ 1 ^ ^^ , ^ H of _ - _ ^ k ^ «^ Wesaex *^ ^ _> ^ W ^ -----i ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ Adb 4 ' ,

    by JMlr . Thomas Hardy , with illustrations by C . S . Reinhart and Alfred Parsons .

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    to There a forthcom is much ing interest book on in Prince Berlin Bismarck in regard .

    It wri is by alrea Hen d : Fedor favoura von bl . Koppen known to , a Jiis patriotic Prus--am y y ¦ ' m ! m > ^ k \ 4 m \

    si atl ^ feUow ^ ^ -countryme * n as the ^ author of a very popular biography of-the Imperial Chancellor . The new work is entitled ' The German

    Imand and perial tne the Chancellor places nlaces wnere where , Prin He he ce has nas Otto laboured laboured von Bi .. s ' mar One One ck ,

    of the ^ cnief features of the work found in the illustrations . They are some hundred and

    thirty in number , and are for the most part actual and authentic representations of the

    Prince taken exactly as he appeared at the very scenes of the most important events in

    his ¦• • career . The » work will *^ 1 contain a a portrait a . of the Prince ' s mother , executed by the famous

    painter Franz Kxuger . * * ? ?

    The Memoirs of Baron Haussman , to which we referred in our last issue , will shortly

    appear , and the work is talked of a good deal in the literary circles of Paris . Three volumes have already been issuedbut the fourth

    promises to be the most interesting , of all . It will describe in detail the inner life of » the

    Second Empire . Among many other matters , the narrative promises to throw a newv light

    on the discussions with Prince Bismarck , at Biarritz and elsewhere , as to the conclusion

    of an alliance between France and Prussia , and the formation of a German Empire at the ;

    expense of Austria . There will also be some negotiations unrevealed _ f = f . _ particulars for _ peace JL ^ ^ in fter connexion the war with of 1870 - the - , ,

    affording much information about the part which Napoleon III . took in them . * *

    Mr . James Samuelson has in preparation an important work on * India : Past and Present' based on the same lines as those which

    he has , followed in his books on 'Roumania ' and Bulgaria . ' The first part consists of an

    ' historical review , and the second discusses a variety of social and political problems which

    are just now agitating our fellow-subjects in the Indian Empire . Amongst the topics which

    Mr . Samuelson deals with are education , temperance ^_ — —— — — — , agriculture _ - _ - ^ r ^^ m — — — — — — ^ — , ^ B mission — ^^ , ^ W medical ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ reform ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ¦ ,

    land tenure , the subjection of women , native journalism and the political relations between India ¦»>! and Eng Mi « land «•« with d » bw « other social and

    •^^ m ^^ m s ¦ * « — ^^ ^ ^ - ^ •*>&*•«¦• , »¦ * m ^^*»^ many ^^^ a ^^ ¦ ¦ m _ w ^^ ^ »_¦_¦_ B ^^^^^^ b ^^^^ »^ m »« — political questions suggested by the author ' s long and varied experience in the East . The

    book is to be published by Messrs . Trubner & Co . and Sir yV . W . Hunterwe

    understand , , has promised to enrich it with , a copious

    bibliography of India .

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    We learn that Sir Robert Stawell Ball ' s new work entitled * Star Land' will be ready

    for publication about November 25 . The subscriptions to the Wilkie Collins

    Memorial Fund now amount to some £ 300 , but this is not at all 1 adequate 1 for the l purposes BPM

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1889, page 1476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111889/page/6/