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      £ 10 . 10 s . ; John Milton's * Poems'both

      English fine and copy Latin measuring , with rare 6 Jin portrait . b 3 , b Jin , y Marshall . in the ,

      original sheepskin , binding , 1645 y — £ 65 , . 10 s . ; Lynton ( Anthonie ) , * Newesof the Complement

      of the Art of Navigation and of the Mightie Empire of Cataia , ' 1609 , rare book on

      navigation plates — £ b 12 y Boucher . 15 s . ; 'Les Eisen Metamorp Gravelot -. hoses Sec d . 'O — vide £ 15 , ; '

      JL «/ , , _ , j j ' Sir Hugh the Heron , a Legendary Tale , ' by D . G . Rossetti , first edition , printed privately ,

      1843— £ 16 ; first edition of Charles Lamb's * Tales from Shakespeare , ' designed for the use

      : of young persons , plates by Blake— £ 18 . 15 s . ; first edition of Shelley ' s * Queen Mab / with

      genuine title and suppressed last leaf with imprint— £ 12 . 12 s . ; James Shirley ' s ' Poems '

      , three volumes in one , 1646— £ 19 . 10 s . ; Israel Silvestre ' s ' Veues de Maisons Royalles et

      de Yilles de France / Louis XIV . ' s copy , with the king ' s arms and his crowned cypher — £ 14 ; Whitney ( Geffrey ) 'A Choice of

      t / \ «/ / , Emblems , and other Devises ^^ , for the Moste Parte Gathered out of Sundrie Writers' 1586 ,

      — £ 26 . A remarkable collection of first editions of Moliere ' s works included the following C" > : —* Amp hitryon / , ' 1668 , with many curious

      variations in orthography and punctuation , due to Moliere and not to the printer— £ 13 ; 'L'Avare' 1669 prepared for binding— £ 23 ;

      ,, 'L'Escole des Femmes , ' 1663— £ 30 ; 'L'Estourdy , ou les Contretemps , ' 1663— £ 26 ; ' Le

      Mariage Force , ' 1668— £ 35 ; * Le Misanthrope , ' frontispiece , by Chauveau , represents Moliere

      in the character of the Misanthrope , 1667—£ 50 ; * Le Sicilienou 1 'Amour Peintre '

      1668— £ 15 ; 4 Les Femmea , S 9 avantes , ' 1673 , , published only a month before Moliere ' s death

      — £ 42 ; 'Les Fourberies de Scapin , ' 1671—£ 32 . Spenser j . — ' s ' Faerie Queen •¦/ ; , ' with

      autograph of Sir Everard Digby on title— £ 7 . 7 s . ; ' Anselme de Sainte Marie ( P . de Guibours ,

      P . ) , Histoire G ^ ne ^ alogique et Chronologique i de la Maison Royale de France' — £ 12 . 15 s . ;

      1 Heures al'Usage de Rome , ' MS . on vellum , miniatures and illuminations 15 th

      century—£ 20 . , f

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      Dec . is , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 160 5

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      Mr . W . T . Stead has transferred the advertising agency for the Review of Reviews

      from Mr . T . B . Browne , 161 and 163 Queen Victoria Street to Messrs . John Haddon & Co .,

      3 and 4 Bouverie Street , Fleet Street . Mr . W . A . Hinch is opening an

      establishment as English and foreign new and secondhand bookseller at 36 Wicklow StreetDublin a 4 4 v a , v r , . _ . ^^

      off Grafton Street , and will trade as W ^^^ . A . Hinch & Son ¦¦ from which i ¦—¦ ¦ address second-hand

      catalogues 11 ^ 4 , ^^ 01 % ^ M 0 IK ^^ # ** H ^^^ ' ^•^ J ^^ will ^^^^ ^ ^™ , V . ^ be ^ ~^ r ~^ w ^ issued r * m w » —» ^ " — occasionall ~ y . i i l A

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      Dean Church . We greatlregret to record the death of

      y of the St Very . PauFs Rev . . K . Dr W . . Church Church , had D . C been . L ., in Dea ill n -

      I health for some time , and early in November JOBk- 1

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      went to Doverwhere he died on the 9 th inst .

      Dr . Church was , born in 1815 . After a distinguished University careerhe took his

      degree in first-class honours , and , shortly afterwards became a fellow of Oriel College . He

      was from rector 1853 to of 187 Whatley 1 , when , near he was Frome appointed Selwood to ,

      the Deanery of St . Paul ' s . The salary attaching to the post is £ 2000 with residence .

      Dean Church ' s essays and , lectures , stamp him as one of the most graceful and penetrating of

      recent critics .

      Mr. William Bell Scott. We Also Regret R...

      Mr . William Bell Scott . We also regret rv to ¦¦ record ¦ the death of

      Mr . William Bell —— — Scott — ~~~ on ^^^ ^^ — " ^ November ^~^ ^^ ^^^^ ~^^ ^^^^ " ^^ ^ i ^^ ^ 22 ^ ^^^ at ~^» ^^» the ripe age of 79 . Mr . Scott was born at

      Edinburg Hig £ m h School h in in — ¦— 1811 ¦ that — , and city — - ^ - ^ m . was He ^»^^^ ^ educated ^ earl ^^ ¦ * i ^^ y w began " * r ^ t ^ jk at (^^^ the to ^^ ^^

      write , and was a contributor to Tait ' s Magazine . In 1836 he settled in Londonand in

      1840 began to send pictures to London , exhibitions . His literary labours were various

      and included both poetry and prose . For , some years he was on the staff of the Academy .

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      From Mr . Edward Arnold . — « David Copperfield , ' b * Dombey y Charles & Son Dickens , ' and , * abrid The Old ged Curiosity and edited Shop by /

      J . H . YoxTall ( Arnold ' s English Literature Series ) . As a general thing , we do not like to see the masterpieces of English literature tampered with . We believe they ht to be iven

      to the public as they oug left their authors g ' hands or not at all , for it is to be presumed that — —— —— — an - ™—_ author m <« . v » . * -u a himself UAAUWVAA . knows -m ffift ^ . * IT tj best K ^ X ^ KJt / what T » ¦ * T ^ ** he AA ^^

      wants to say , how much he wants to say , and how to put it . It was a bold enterprise on the part of Mr . Arnold and his editor to take

      liberties with so popular favourite as Dickens , who who understood understood as aa wpII well as a . < * any anv man man who who ever F » v « r

      lived precisely what his readers desired to have \ He we have three of his best works cut

      down * .. » € * » j . . to jljl the ^ vv dimensions vx iiO /» U UU 1 CC of a 4 shilling 1 O UCD ' l \ y shocker \ JM . M \ . Q IJUU ' "" bo * - that — , 1- — —— — school r ^ r * mr — j . ^* x ^ - ^ children - ^^ »• AV 1 A , W A >» may AJUM T have A Jl M » T ^* something P ^ 7 V ^ tJJk V ^ »/* A A *^ tab

      entertaining to read . We quite concur in the opinion that young people ought to be brought into — ———' - * - ' touch — -w- - * - i ^_ a with * * » w «« the vaa % / great t ^ j ^ v . «>««/ popula i ^/ V t- ' * - « X *^* r » authors * ViL W * - » V * Jk ILJ of V ^ J ^ but must

      England , we ask , in the interests of literature , whether it is well that readers of a tender age should get their first impressions of those authors from garbled or imperfect

      editions . Assuming , however , that it is proper to abridge well-known works , then this series

      may mav be be heartil heartilv y commended nommfindftd . Mr Mr . Yoxal Ymrall l has has retained what is most essential to a perfect understanding of the several storiesHe has

      . 4 left , like out the all progressive the moral gentleman reflections in . * * Rasselas On the /

      contrary , the moral reflections trip each other up , if we may so speak . If these reading-books beget a taste in readers for healthy

      literatureMr . Arnold young will deserve well of his generation , . The results of his experiment will be watched with interest by all friends of

      education From Mr . J . W . ArrowsmithBristol . —

      , * Murdered or , ' by Mrs . Boyse . Lady Eileen

      Xxonayne goes to a oaii witn ner sister , JLady Morna Delmore , and in the course of the night ,..

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1890, page 1605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121890/page/15/