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, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 1746-^ 1753 HENR...
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St. Di/nstan's House, E.C. December 17, 1888.
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rFIHE capacity of certain reviewers can ...
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Diary-keeping.—The practice of Diarykeep...
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^ ¦ ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' " ^ 1 1 1746 The Publishers' Circular Dep . 15 * 1888 I
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, Literary Intelligence 1746-^ 1753 Henr...
, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 1746- ^ 1753 HENRY WARD BBECHER 1747 , 1748
THE LATE KR . ROUTLEDGE 1748 NOTES A . * p NEWS 1748—1750
CONTINENTAL NOTES 1750 , 1751 OBITUARY 1751 , 1752 ,
TRADE CHANGES 1752 REVIEWS , & c . 1752 , 1753
INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN DECEMBER 1 & 15 . 1754—1756
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN I FROM DECEMBER 1 TO 15 t 1756—1763 I
AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 1763—1765 I NBW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 1765-1774
MISCELLANEOUS 1779—1787 BUSINESS CARDS 1783—1785 ASSISTANTS WANTED 1786
WANT SITUATIONS 1786 BOOKS FOR SALE 1786
BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 1787—1791 I
St. Di/Nstan's House, E.C. December 17, 1888.
St . Di / nstan's House , E . C . December 17 , 1888 .
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rFIHE capacity of certain reviewers can J- never be judged - ^ nore fairly than when
Christmas brings its burden of books , which may or may not be brightened with golden
orain . Authors from time immemorial have to had to remonstrate against the published
misconceptions of critics . The author , especially if he be young and inexperienced , has rarely
any means , however , of openly expressing his retaliation . Editors have faith , or should
have faithin their reviewers ; therefore they , evidently do not care to publish contradictions
of their opinions or their knowledge . Still it is to be regretted that the books of
what is oddly called the festive season should fall into the hands of careless reviewers for
treatment . Not long ago in a country paper we came across a notice of a new edition of
Thackeray ' s ' Paris Sketch-Book / in which the reviewer roundly rated the author for his
io-norance of Parisian life since the time of the t" > siege and the Commune . Th ^^ is could hardly be
surpassed in innocence , and should be parallel with the declaration of the French biographer to the effect that 4 Dickens was the nova de
plume of an English novelist whose real name was Boz ' ! One may smile at these mistakes ,
"but nearly every day mistakes of less magnitude certainly , and yet aggravating to those
whose knowledge is exact , appear in the columns of the daily and weekly newspapers .
Whether it is that the books are passed inconsiderately into the hands of irresponsible
persons of imperfect tuition in literature , such as reporters JL out of work and other waifs of
the journalistic world , we cannot say . The evil is seen in the result . With few exceptions
the notices of Christmas books which haVe appeared in the press clearly indicate that the
books have been read in a cursory manner or not read at all . Even the Times is not free from
b } ame . Of Commander Cameron ' s now book , * Arthur Penreath / the reviewer declares that
Rfihe Capacity Of Certain Reviewers Can ...
'he is pretty sure he has met with it before i
In the same notice reference is made to Mr . William Dalton as a living author , the *
industrious Mr . W . Dalton' ! Mr . Dalton , it is needless to say , has been dead for years . Vanity
Fair speaks of John Newbery as * The worthy Quaker [ 1 ] who founded the house ai the corner
of St . Paul ' s Churchyard . ' Anybody who knows anything about John Newbery will say
he was as little like a Quaker as could well be conceived .
These errors are sometimes amusing , but they are at the same time exasperating to those *
» . A . \ J who have an interest in the authorship or
publication of books . - ¦
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Diary-keeping . —The practice of Diarykeepingsays Mr . Charles J . Lettsin a
interesting , pamphlet , is probably one , that very has occupiea occupied tne the tJtiougnts thoughts of 01 many manv . and and is is
nnmips-tionably a very interesting and , important unques one not not only onlv to to tne the writer writer him himself sell . hn but + also n . 1 « n to fcrw ,
many others , long years after he , has , passed away . But for it , many an important fact in history — -y many a leasant » -w » v ^^»» and w-m * vh instructive % /
oblivion ooiivion incident unrecorded ~ ^ y , . . in What , w private and nat ^/ ^ wondertul wonderful ^ passed p f * - ~ life ™ " , into would w r > eer the . > ., s s and and . have aaau reg i- ions -fc n sio gone - > i of T f « peepinsights ,
into hidden thoughts and hidden motives ; what thoroughly startling glimpses flash upon us from the ungarbled of a well-kept
diary , the written record pages of such ingenuous e enusions ffusions as as a a mind mind will "will only onlv venture vfmt . iirfi nr » rvn
in moments of fancied self-communion upon , far from - — ------ — . all — - - inquisitive . — . ^ — — - — —^ — - —w r - ^— - intrusion —^ ^ , ^ ^ « « ¦ n *~ a « b - ^** - tflBk ^ M I Hence ^¦^«^« B ^^^ Mk ^ b ^^^ ^^ the ^^^ L JL % ^ . # un % * 4 L * l J * - ^ B ft a j ^ c f' jmk a ^ k .
premeditated pages of such note- books ^ have long been amongst the most popular reading , and have rightly been regarded as precious material — for historical ^* ¦ ^^ m * - ^^ delineation ^ b ¦¦• ^ Bh ¦ b 4 The Jfc Jfc # most ¦ Tj
' — — — — —— — - — - — ^ — p- ^ - ^ ^— ,. ^ ^^ W ** ^ ^—^ •¦ -J 4 . P , M ^ , J ^ JJ ^ ^ ^ J J ingenious and elaborate narrative fails to convev convey to to us us such sucn a a living living picture oicture ot of the thft times tirrmH
and the doings and feelings of the men of those , jottings times ¦ , as of — is contained Evel ¦ - —— —¦ and —— , for — Pepys instance ^ . After j ^ , in the the ujiav / simp lapse le
of centuries f ^ - — we ^ yn _ F ™ find » -w- . -- ourselves . ¦*» * » - r »^^ p «» - face * f «^ s . 4 . to jlIjU face B _^ U \»^ that with have the hidden worked , causes man , a and strange mighty and influences puzzling ,
event . It is the freshness y of hue clinging to this kind of rov ^ lation which makes its charm |
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1888, page 1746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121888/page/4/
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