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    144:8 The Publishers' Circular Dec. 15, ...

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    A Tvtebioa3st News And In"Otes. ' The Th...

    Prof . Charles ~ F . Richardson , author of ' The Choice of Books ' and a ' Primer of American hical

    Literature / is said to be writing a history of American literature , on a philosopand critical planrather than an antiquarian or mereldescriptive one . An article bProfessor Hichards

    entitled , i The Perspective- of American y Literature / in The Andover y Review for November on ' though written without reference to the forthcoming work , outlines some of its positions .

    scri Messrs ption . a Charles ' Statistical Scribner Atlas ' s Sons of the , New United York States > announce showing , to be by issued Grap exclusivel hic Methods y by their

    subhav Present 4 ^^^ W ? e ^^ r decided ^»* ^"' ^^ Condition , 'fcj m ^^~ h » i b to ^ " ^ r extend ^^ ^ fc ^ , and ^ fc ^ ^ b ^ h ^^ vb their their ^^^ fe ^ h ^^^ - ^^» Political r series —r ^^^ ^^» ^^ ^^ r r *^ of ^ h ^ r ri ^ te , ' Social v Stories ^^^ ^ v ^» " ^ W ^^ ^ , ^^ r i f and b r ^ v' ¦ ^ American b * Industrial ^* «^ ^ b ^ B * ^ i ^ , ^ b ^ b * - ^^ * « f ^~^^ ^ Authors ^^ ^^~ Development ¦ ^ ^^ ^* ^* ~^ ¦ ™ } to " ^ ^^ ^ include ^ ^^^^ - . ' ^ v ^ " ~ " ^ The ^^ ten ^ p ^ r ^ b ^ same ^ volumes y - ^^ ¦ j ¦¦¦ firm m ~~ 2 f ^ ^^ y ^^ ^

    for it is said the series has gained a success beyond even the prophecies of many of its friends . The proposed reprint of the Dialthe celebrated magazine which Margaret Fuller and

    Kalph Waldo Emerson edited , will probabl , y never be issued . Only about one-half the number of subscribers that were necessary to warrant the undertaking have been obtained .

    the Mr ¦ j . " George biographical W . Cooke and historical , who was introductions to edit the to work the , will Dial , however which he , has publish now during nearly finished the winter .

    which ^^ ~ - — ¦ ~_ - The describes ^^ ^^_ Linnsean — — — the — Society — — c Vertebrates — — — ^^ of ^^ New — ^^ — - ^^^ -- York -- of - — the — — lias ^^ ^^ Adirondack just ^^ ^^ ^^ published ^^ — — — Heg the , ^ r ion second y and volume a new genus of its ' and transactions ^^ m species — ^— ^^ ^^^ ^ ¦— ^^ — ^ ¦ of , '

    the Sorecidse . The text is by Dr . Clinton ___ Hart _ _ Merrian ^ ^ . a ^^ j g ^ w ^ Messrs . A . C . Armstrong & SonNew Yorkhave now ready for publication a 'Manual of

    Preaching , ' by Prof . Franklin C 3 W . , Fisk , for the , last twenty-live «/ years J- Professor of Sacred [ Rhetoric in Chicago o Theolog cp ical Seminary . The work is intended to set forth and illustrate

    the principles and rules of homiletics in a brief and practical manner . The December issue of The Bookbuyer ( New York ) is a holiday number of that trade

    monthly , for which special articles on Christmas books and Christmas subjects were written by Donald G . Mitchell — ( Ik Marvel — ) Rossiter Johnsonand J . D . Champlin . There

    are also reviews % i of the leading - . > books of the i , season by G . P . , ILathrop , Professor j . Boyesen , Brander Matthews , R . H . Stoddard , H . C . Bunner , and others , profusely illustrated . A

    special cover has been designed for this number , which consists of nearly one hundred pages . Messrs . LittleBrown & Co * of Bostonhave in preparationfor immediate publication

    a new work on , Telegrap , h Law , , entitled fc , The Law of Communication , by Telegraph , ' by , Morris Gray of the Boston bar ; it will be an octavo volume and treat of the law peculiarly

    app edition licabl of e James to telegrap JSchouler h companies ' s * Treatise as on such the , and Law not of Personal as general Property corporations , ' in two ; also vols the ., revised second

    by the author . Under the title of the * Canadian Library' Mr i . G ¦ . Mercer Adamlate editor ¦ of the Canadian

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    with department new editions of Canadian of work history s of , permanent biography , interest travel , poetry such , as fiction reprints , and of historical adventure works , together and

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    the Friends' School of a portrait of John G . Whittier , accompanied by an address on character Other Utner addresses addresses and writings , and and letters letters of the poet Irorn from , by distinguishe distineniishe President d d Chace admirers admirers of Haverford 01 of Mr Mr . . Whittier W College hittier , . Pennsy added added lvania to to the tne .

    1 commemoration . , , Thousa Messrs » -- >»^»~ nd .-. aw . Miles Cupp i les with f . « . w , TJ . Shaksp p ham t , & eare Co / ., of b Boston Daniel ¦ , will EJiandmann publish MM shortl M edited V > y ' An Actor bBarnard ' s Tour fc Gisby ¦ ; or iw , Seventy . The

    Zealand volume ¦ -m- ^^^ r will * India . ^ . ^ a give . vm Europe * an interesting rwA « . and « K > . KJ 1 / VtVA elsewhere V * ' « descri K-T y W . . ption * tViAAV It will X of * . the contain -WL-rW- * M - tragedian . ^ ± M . .. fJVJLAJi a lithograp . , y ' s tour V *«* X , ^ h thro of y J the ~^~^ ug *¦*** . late ** h 1-WJL Australia . ^_ W *• . M . Hunfc , New s

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    a work The - * - * i long - fir »* . » . » * j- t v out number * A . \ A * A & of rJV print . « , of V ^ A . a VMi and monthl AJL 1 VJ . 1 scarc VtiA y V e magazine JLJLAC , with ^ U ^ CV-CJJL A A an \ J bearing Kf introduction \ JlAtM-. L * . M . CiL the UI . 1 V > title VAVAV by Baby JLfWV W . F hood ll . Channing / W will » T IAL appear C * f- ' K . /^ -V »«^ JL this * y *» -. " ^ interests month < .

    of It is the devoted nursery exclusivel . ' The cooking y to the and care nursing of infants departments and young children will be edited , and the by Marion general H arland ,

    The and Messrs the new me volume . dical Griggs and is & ' h Co Fichte yg ., ienic of ' Chicago b Science y Dr . , are L . of M publishing Knowled . ¥ ale . a series ' critical of ' German exposition Philosop b hical Prof Cl Cha assics . rles ,

    s ge , a , y . pnuosopn philosoph Carroll Everett er er , , and and . bv by It a a is table table preceded of ot contents contents by a short . . The The account last last , bv by of tli the the e mere mere life device device and writings ot of printing winting of the larger larger German than t ««»»

    usual . Another , is made interesting to look interesting series is the . ' American Men , of Letters' of which ^ enirnore Cooper , the Novelist / by Prof . T . R . Lounsbury Vi , is a new volume . , It appears that this is the 01 first ji 118 »«

    deathbed biooranh biography v inj oi of unction Cooper Ofionfir famil which wlri ^ h has ns ever fiv have < = r appeared annparpH been withheld ; and nnrl . that f . lin However . f . even ftv ^ n now nr we > w _ , have in in consequence r » f the > naeo history iienC 6 of ot tne , y papers , j publication uiiwiiv At of the the 17 end novels is , approximat of Cooper's bibliograp iiiaiiy literary hwhich contests brings , and the anal tale yses to UKJ 67 / i of publ his i cations m any

    beyond romances . * , co those . . x ^ v w hich . C * JJ * UL were JLO an CLX posthumous -l CljJJJX UJWXllX £ b . e There KJl MllUgJ is CipiiJ also y WUlKjlk a nice UllIIgH index and laid the frontisp v j- ^ mp ^ - iece - is _ I half-length of Cooper . Messrs . Houghton , Mifflin , & Co ., of Boston , , are the ^^^^^^

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1884, page 1448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121884/page/8/