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    ; Mr . Barnum informs us 4 hat he has authorised Messrs . Dean & Son io produce An

    illustrated coloured toy book depicting the scenes in his Great Exhibitionentitled

    , ' Barnum ' s Great Show / which will be pub' lished immediately . Messrs . Dean & Son

    ; have engaged the services of Mr . Dudley I Hardy to execute the designs for this work .

    1 George Sand ' s home is for sale . It has passed into the market in consequence of the

    death of her only son , Maurice , who took and kept the fictitious name rendered famous

    by his mother ' s genius . A monument is about to be erected to ¦

    Alfred de Musset in the Place Saint-Augustin , Paris . A cheque for £ 42 . 10 s . has been forwarded

    ; by Mr . William Baldwin , proprietor of the Clapham Observerto the Secretary - of the

    i British Home for , Incurables , as the result of s , Fete organised by him at Eagle House

    Clapham Common . The principal feature of , attraction was a crieket match between eleven

    ' devils' from the Observer office and eleVen - 'clowns , ' all in costume . T ? his contribution

    will materially assist the chances at the next election Clapham of tradesman Mr . White who , an is old a * and candidate respected for

    the benefits of the Home , . Mrs . Campbell Rae-Brown ' s new

    novelto be published by Messrs . Dean & Son—is entitled ' The Loveliest Woman in London . '

    Its scenes are laid partly in Switzerland and partly in the fashionable quarter of the

    t metropolis . Messrs . Dean & Son ( 160 a Fleet Street )

    have in the press an important new serial | with dealin numerous g with Dogs portraits , which and will publish be illustrated ed at one

    shilling . Amongst the , contributors are Dr . Gordon Stables , Mr . Everett Mitlais , Mr .

    i Mr Oeorge . A . J R . . Sewell Krehl . , Mr Articles . W . will K . Taimton deal with , and * To Muzzl TV / W i ¦ ¦ - » mr • ^ m « ^ - \* • •¦ '

    e or not to Muzzle , ' ' The Schipperke , ' ! i and ' The the Esquimaux Law' and Dog other , ' ' Dog interesting Diseases , ' top * Dogs ics

    , . ! From the same publishers will be issued a fifth j edition of Dr . Gordon Stables' well-known

    work ' Our Friend the Dog . ' state Messrs that . the Ward report % / , V ^ Jb Lock which AAA ^ & SAA Co has . desir appeared B ^^ Sm e ^ VA . us to in

    v « 'aa « . v «/ « SAA ^ r A K ^ V fl AJLMfM «^ W L / ^ S ^ w * A ^ Jk their two evening ¦¦ firm k with papers i # jbb ¦ o ^* ther - > - as to publishing the am inaii algamation houses of is

    ^^ ™ « w v v » ^« -- » - > r m m ^ ¦ ^^^ »* - ^ Co- * av ^ ^ y »«^^^*^ ^ p « -p i i k entirel Kma ind has has y devoid ever ever been been of truth entertained entertained . No scheme or or even even of sug auc the --

    gested . | We understand that the forthcoming ¦ ¦ f issue

    • • -v yiAlM V Jl M VI « JIA \« VAAU * V VJ 1 JLVS - ¦» - * - - » ' * * - - - - »^ M . KJ ** ** m ^ T I <> year f the of ' Stock publication Exchange ) will Year again Book be ' ( consider the 16 th

    -Jl bly enlarged . The first issue of the work I contained scarcelmore than two hundred

    pages , whilst this y year it will contain about ^ has ight O hundred * T ^ - ** JlVt JL . % J \ JL C and * Jl *\* fifty JLMM . % t J . m ' This JL , AAJLI 9 vast ? HWJU increase JLAJLV / A ^/ Mn «^^^

    with been the necessitated development in of order jointnstock to keep enter pace

    prise . \ —

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    The principal feature of Ghristmas Arrows ^ the extra Christmas number of the Quiver 9 is

    a one-volume story by L . T . Meade , entitled * Frances Kane ' s Fortune . ' ,

    Goethe ' s house at Weimar has lately become the property of the nation . Hitherto it | has

    been entirely inaccessible . Now it is to be thrown open to the publiceverything in the

    house being left , with the , most pious care , exactly as it was in the poet ' s lifetime .

    The publishing house of George Routledge & Sons , Broadway If J , Ludgate O Hill , started by

    the late Mr . George Routledge in 1835 , is , in limited limited consequence lia liabilitv bility of his company comnanv death . . , to The The be turned whole whole of of into the the a

    preference and ordinary shares , amounting to i ° 200 , 000 , will remain in the hands of the

    present partners in the firm ( Mr . Robert W . Routledge and Mr . Edmund Routledge ) who will be the managing directors of the new

    company ^ A Wesleyan Guild for Biblical Study has been organised . IJts purpose is to quicken

    G » i J . JT X studious and devout minds in the Methodist Communion , and thus to arrive directly and

    indirectly at * the defence and confirmation of "the Gospel . ' The circular is signed by all the Theojogical ¦ Biblicaland Classical Tutors in

    JO , , Wesleyan Colleges . Mr . Wm . Roberta states that from 1736 to

    1738 incluslve-fcfeere wereltwo monthlies bearing ^^ the name of — . the _ _ Gentleman _ _ ' s Magazine ^ j ,

    identical in size and price . That this fact should have been overlooked for about a century and a half is to some extent accounted

    for by the circumstance that no direct reference is made in Cave ' s Gentleiman ' s Magazine to its

    obscure rival . At a banquet held to celebrate the cen ^ _

    tenary of Messrs . Pears , the well-known soap manufacturersSir Algernon BorthwickBart .

    M . P ., announced , that the firm woul , d give , £ 1 , 000 to the Newspaper Press Fund .

    A new newspaper devoted to Art , has been commenced in New York . It is called

    Gargoyle , and will appear monthly . All arrangements have now been concluded

    for the issue of a daily illustrated paper by the Vr ^ B ^ B ^ v ^ r proprietors V ^^ V ^ V I v «^ ^^ v ffv . ^^^ ^^ ^ h ^ v ^ . ^^^ of ^ k ^ ^^ v the ^^ ^ . vp - ^^ r ¦ Grap " ^^ ~ v ^^^ M ^ hic - ^ ^ ^^ ^ . ^ Most ^ - ^ ~ - ^—¦— — ~ - ~ —

    wellknown men in politics and society , who write more or lesshave promised J & L contribute to

    its columns . , The signed article will be a speciality .

    Miss Isabella Bird , whose wanderings in the RockMountains and along * unbeaten

    tracks in Japan y 7 are so well known to fireside travellers , has just returned to the Punjaub

    from a visit to Leh , in Ladakh . There is fc some talk of a ¦¦ new English journal

    mimm *«^ r * *¦ ^ v w * *»< b ^ ' 01 ¦¦^— - ^ — ——— — - — - - - f j — being the f . lifi International Tvtt set . t > . < ^^ r < on nsitAxvnfil ^^ foot Ttrnes Tinman in Paris - . Mr Mr under . . Bottoml ± 5 ottoml the name ey ev - ^ . who who of

    stood as a Gladstonian in the last by-election , London in Hornsey journalist , and , Mr are . Leopold said to be Grahame the circu circu pro , - a

    mmers moters , , and and tnere there is is to to be be a a guaranteed guaranteed --lation of 50 , 000 copies . ; t \ — m

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1889, page 1477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111889/page/7/