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    Nov . 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular I 495

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    It is reported that Sir Edwin Arnold has resigned — ' the editorship of the DailyV

    Telegraph . We learn that Professor Ewing , of

    Universit succeed y College Prof . Stuart , Dundee in the , has chair been of Mech elect anism ed to and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge .

    Mr . Henry Norman , the well-known ' special I . ' of the Pall Mall Gazette , has just V

    returned from a tour in the far East . The public may expect an account of his adventures .

    The one hundred and thirty-seventh Session of the Society of Arts will be opened on Wednesday next , when Sir Richard Webster ,

    ad Chairman dress . of the Council , will deliver an It was announced that the subscription list

    j . for London City' would close on the 17 th inst . As the number of illustrations has been increased at the last momentthe list will now be

    held open until the 29 th instant , . Mr . Alfred Holness , of 14 Paternoster

    Row , has now on view a choice selection of Christmas and New Year cards of all the publishers , including the Mildmay , Peniel , and

    other well-known series . Various calendars and almanacs are also ready ; as is the new volume of Faithful Words for 1890 .

    The library of the late Dr . S . M . Schiller-Szinessy will be sold by auction by Messrs . Jacobs & Hast , at Market Passage ,

    Camcludes bridge , on the Thursday best editions , the 27 of th some inst . valuable It in-Hebrew worksas well as standard editions in

    English , German , , & c . Mr . Frank McClean , of Rusthall House ,

    Tunbridge Wells , has done a very generous thing . He has offered £ 12 , 000 to Cambridge University for the purpose of founding three

    Isaac Newton * f Scholarshi JL A . ps for the encoura «—' gement of the study of astronomy and physical op Jt- tics . The offer is in response Ji . to an appeal JL . JL

    made at the beginning of the October term for outside assistance . Mr . Stanley ' s first lecture in America

    was brilliantly successful . It was delivered in the Metropolitan Opera House , which was filled to overflowing by an appreciative and

    enthusiastic audience * ' . When M . A- Mr . Stanley , accompanied by Mr . Chauncey M . Depew , ap peared A on the stage V ~» the audience rose in a

    body and greeted the explorer with prolonged cheers . Mr . Depew , in introducing Mr . Stanley , likened him to Alexander the Great

    1 and Christop m / r her Columbus . 1 The Christmas number of the Eng lish

    IlluMrated Magazine will contain illustrated papers by Archdeacon Farrar and Philip Norman . Mr . Norman writes on * Inns and

    T on av ' erns Nooks of and Old Corners London in , ' Westminster and the Arch Abbey deacon . ' The number will be strong in fictionand will

    include stories by David Christie , Murray , Mrs . W . K . Clifford , and othersbesides an ,

    F instalment . Marion Crawford of ' The . Witch of Prague , ' by Mr .

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    the After pursuit JE all of , there literature must altogether be '_ a fascination independent -M . about

    of emolument . Mr . William Waldorf Astor , the the — editor American — — of _ a _ millionaire transatlantic , has magazine been asked to write by

    a Writing story _ , and yields the him man more of mo pleasure ney has _^ than consented his vast .

    fortune , and he intends to devote the proceeds But of his is this new kind story of to p some hilanthropy charitable quit purpose e fair to .

    the professional novelists , most of whom did not inherit fortunes I Professor Drummond thinks that ' Les

    This Miserable is strange ' is perhap from s a the Scotsman greatest . of novels Wilkie . Collins — _ _ . _ thoug —^ ht — differentl — _ y . After more than

    thirty weeks years before ' stud his y of death the ^ : art * I , h consider e wrote , Walter a few Scott to be the greatest of all novelistsand

    " The Anti" isas I thinkthe , most perfect of quary all novels , . ' This is , emphatic .

    Professor Drummond declares he cannot read Carlyle , though he delights in Carlyle ' s

    discipies—Emerson and Ruskin . The Christmas number of Harper's Magazine

    lavishl will as usual illustrated be comp b lete Mr . in Edwin itself and A . Abb will be y y ey ,

    hart Mr . G Mr eorge . W . Du Hamilton Maurier , Gibson Mr . , C . and S . Rein other

    artists , of eminence . It will contain essays and stories by Mr . Andrew Lang , Mr . Charles

    Dudley Sarah Orne Warner Jewett , Mr . , Theodore Mr . George Child William , Miss

    Mr Curtis important . Theodore , Mr . series W . Child D of . Howells South will American , be and resumed others papers . in The the by

    January number . We are pleased to note that Mr . S . C .

    souvenirs Harding , the and well spor - t known ing specia publisher lities , has of been art appointed secretary to the Association of

    Royal Warrant Holders in succession to the late Mr . W . Johnson . The Warrant Holders dined together on Monday evening last at

    the Criterion Restaurant in celebration of the Prince of Wales ' s birthday . Colonel C . E . Howard VincentM . P . presided .

    , , thanks The ba mainl nquet to was the in every of the new success hon . , y energy

    secretary . On the evening of October 21 a testimonial

    was given to Walt * Zj Whitman at , the Horticultural Hall , Philadelphia , when over a

    thousand Ingersoll delivered people were an eloquent present . oration Robert on the 0 . veteran poet y of democracy - «// , his text being t- » # ' Let

    The us put poet wreaths sat in his on wheel the bro chair w of on the the living stage . immediately behind Col . Ingersolland at the

    conclusion of the oration f he rolled , himself forward and in a feeble voice tendered his thanks to the audience and to Col . Ingersoll ,

    farewell finishing ! h Hail is remar and ks farewell by exclaiming ! ' The , * Hail scene and is described aa being very impressive .

    The Critical Review is the title of a new quarterly magazine that reaches us from

    Messrs designed . T to . & furnish T . Clark a survey , Edinburg of theolog h . Lt ical is

    and philosophical literature , and is edited by I

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1890, page 1495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111890/page/9/