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      April 16,1883 The Publishers' Circular 3...

      April 16 , 1883 The Publishers' Circular 33 I

      * . Obituary*

      * . OBITUARY *

      The death is announced , in his 30 th year , of Mr . James Hay , late of the firm of Messrs . RA . & J- Bfoy 23 George StreetPerth .

      . Died at his residence , in Glasgow , , Mr . James Bell , late of the firm of Messrs . Bell & Bam , 41 Mitchell StreetGlasgow .

      The death of Mr , . James Miller , on March 7 , in the 61 st year of his age , takes froni the

      American book and publishing trade one 01 its oldest and most widely esteemed members .

      Trade Changes. The ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ Booksell...

      TRADE CHANGES . The bookselling rf b ¦ usiness carried on -ipP ~ for many p ^ pp- ^ pp ¦ ¦ years W - »• ¦—¦— ¦ bMr . George i h It . C . Mathewsat 130

      ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ pp ^ gp- ^^^ ^ ' ^ pjb ^ pb * p ^ pbbt ^^ r ^^™ " — ^ " ^ ^™ ^""^^ p ^ fc ™^ ^ p ^ pp »^ p » ^^^—^ m ^^ m ^ p ^ > pv ""^ pw - ^ . p- ^ r ~^ Pr ^ PV ^ p ^ ^ w ~^ p ^ ^ v ^ pj ^ v ^ p . ^ p « ^* - ^^ - ^^ v- ^ ^— ™ ^^" r — ^^— » y —^— ^ ^ p ^ - » — - ^ p— ^^^^ - ^^ ^— » —^ — — — — — — - — , -J — — — ——— — George The Street - « Ph printin . » . « . , g Limerick " ^^ * business * V , has ^ in connection been ^ purchased « with b the y Mr ^ fe ^^ Nor . J - wood . L ^^^ . Copeman ^^^ News J , hitherto . carried on by Mr .

      F Coventry . B . Marshall late , stationer at 25 Station printer Road and , postmaster South Norwood of Coggeshall , has been Essex purchased . The by valuation Mr . A . was H .

      made - b y , Mr -m m' . A . M -w * " . Burg ~ m v , hes i on , behalf t ¦« i /* of vendor 1 , and -i on behalf % t , r * of purchaser ^ b y Messrs TPfc _ - ¦" .

      Holmes <& © on .

      Correspondence. Arrangement Of Catalogue...

      CORRESPONDENCE . ARRANGEMENT OF CATALOGUES OF SECOND-HAND BOOKS .

      To the Editor of The Publishers' Circular . p Sir ^ ' ^ h ^ vf , *¦ —Will ~ v ¦ ^ p > p ^ ^™ you " ^ p ^ ^ r ^ m ^ allow pav ^ . b ^» ^^^ b > ¦ V me vp ^ pb ^ pb ^ p *^ throug ^* ^» p ^^ p ^ ^ p ^ ^ p' ^^^ pfc h ^¦ ^^ " your ^^ ~^^ ^^ widel ¦ ^ p" ^^^ ^~^ ^ " ^ y F -circulated ^ ^ " ^ — — columns ^™ ^^ ^ ~~ — ^^— — ^~ ^^^^ to ^^ ^^^ point ^^^ ^^^ ^ i ^^^^ ~^ v out - ^_^ — ~ - ^ to ^^ — ^ London ^^ " ^^ ^ " — ' — - — — and — — — —

      Provincial Booksellers who issue these catalogues that they would be vastly more valuable to both customer headingsport and under bookseller that if and they so were on ? arranged At present under one has subjects to wade , thus thioug —all h books a hundred on history columns under of small that

      type interested in , one . I catalogu often buy e to books see , if from by chance these catalogues there may , be l ) ut a onl book y from on such the special as are arranged subject in under which subjects one is . Life ^^^^ ^ ^» ^^ ^ is ^— ^— too ~^ r ~^ r ~— short ^ ^ ^^^^ r = ^^^— ^ pp- to ^^ ^ p ^ pprrnit m ^^ ^ ^^ " ^ i ^ ^ B ^^ ^ H ^^ p ^ niaDy ^ p ¥ B ^ B ^ V ^¦ v ^^** p ^ of ^^ p' ^^^ us ^ " ^^^ ^^^ to ^^ ^^ go ^ p 1 ^^* ^^ throug ^^ ^^^^^ - — ^^ " * ^— ^ pi ^ Bft h — — the — . catalogues — — — ^ p ^^^ ^^ ^^ arranged ¦ ™ ^^ ^ — ^ — ^ p ^ - ^ pfc ^ ~ - merel — — — — — y _ under authors '

      names , in alphabetical order . X am , Sir , your obedient servant , A PUBLISHER . THE LONDON SCHOOL BOAED AND THE BOOK TRADE .

      To the Editor cf The Publishers' Circujlab . provided ¦ Sir , — we In you are « Jf ^ r allowed H issue &« \/ of VK to March charg 15 e , the Dr . Board Gladstone schools throws the us prices down » fcrf which a challenge ¦ Mr . Lobb which —— we are he willing last meet to accept ing i of ,

      £ ¦ — — I — "p ^ «^ >^^ r ^^ - 1 ^ . ^ X _*» » W ¦ % S ^^ \ _ I < . * 1 »>¦ falK ^ p' ^ ^* *^ r *^ * - * F A ^ - » ' - ' ^_ f ^ V ^ ^ . *>^ fc ^ ^^ Jfc ^^ » - » ^ ^ - *^ *^ F » ^ •» ^^ ^^ »^ ^ ^ W » , ™—• - **¦ — »»» - , — — — — - — g ij could the London purchase School for 6 s Board . at any , asserted retail shop were ; as ink follow , 18 . a : — bottle ' 8 s . , he Ad . could a ream buy for retail ruled for foolscap lOd . ; , envelopes which he , 9 < — Z . per 100 he could get anywhere U-l » -i JL for 4 - » . % dslate fc * pencils & cnearldouble ¦ " ¦^ their »^~ — — — real — — ——— worth . —'

      - » va * v V , t * - V- « ^ p < V ^ Ui >\* b » V ^ *^ «^» Tl A--h ^/ ^ AV ^ -V O W » . ; U A W ^ k ^* -, ' a A W » * *~ , pens I "' ** , ^ V ^ - * « , * - * p »* - " - ^ y T » - ' " - " ¦ - * - " — "" ^ - to We act are u quite p to aware the sp that irit of such our sl communication proposition would to the not Times be entertained we are-willing , but to to undertake show that to we distribute are prepared the whole of the school materials at a commission of fir © per cent , on the actual cost price , and we can , if

      which necessary With , if , respe acce give pted ct the to , would name the item of save another of the £ 450 ratepayers firm for carriage which a would considerable , if Dr undertake . Gladstone sum the . thinks same this contract is a upon reasonable the sama charge terms for , the quarterl uvi distribution o £ books & cto \\ 300 tV / V 7 schoolsall we can l is 1 % that auiv the k sooner /\/ ho *» w retires ^^ from .

      the _ dilettante -j ""« . i . ji y vtlOVXlk business / UI / l of L / U play VSJ . M ing \ r \ JH . O at shop V ^ . > jJ the » better OV / liUUiJ it , will U > . LJL »» be \ J « for ^ Ui . JL the say owy ratepayers ¦ J , } ^ -. u ^ m . <_> ^ n ^ »»^^ . w .. ~ v _„__ 67 New Oxford Street ,.. W . C . We are , Sir , your obedient ALLMAN servants , & SON .

      March 21 .

      Books Received:— From 1 Messrs -~-.Wtjpj...

      Books Received : — From 1 Messrs - ~ -. wtjpj . rn . £ > . . Jl JZL . . . & % JU C V / . . Black J _» Atl «^ JV , Edinburg JLUVO . lLXLJUX ^ h l . 1 . — ' Ameri X 3 LI 11 OX 1 " -

      can Literature : an Historical Sketch , 1 G 20-1880 . ' Literature % ia John time Nichol in the , University LL . D . * , P needed rofessor of Glasgow of of . En If glish at

      ^ a refutation were England ' s fa long had - no standing literature reproach of her against own Ameri , or o ca f ,, that he once she mous ing ¦ Who reads an American boo \\ k ?

      ^« feel say " ^ con - ^ » fident 1 J »^ , , »» it JULVJ would Jl UU . VJLC 7 be Ull found iXlUV-llVilll within * SJJjn the an covers ablo of Scotch th vf is portl critic y known volume . b The his U 1 O volurn author 1 UU is

      ser Byr ies — o n of v , ' not Kj ' English * - * A L tho Vvi ta * . JL Oi ^ JLIUIV least JL Men ^ "A ; , , XJL A brilliant . I of V 1 - / L UWU Letters . J ^ Jv ^ U / L / y ^ in tJ , ' Mr ( also a VUIU * A . Morley for ^ V ^ o his X on Ull Jl A ' s

      primers ! ¦ English e Composition dited by the ' in late the admirable Mr . John Li R . terature Greon , both ^^ I'O . of or which which nave hava deservedl deservfidly v commanded oomrnandGd a a llarg ftrn-e «

      8 review ale in this is country divided and into in America twelve chapters . Tho work , extend under - Jftcludes J ng from the Colonial period to the present , and

      C ir « ^ American in ° r Pootry Representative / and « Rpcent Poets Novelists , ' « Poli-* M * a Humoriata . ' It i » not only an exhaustive

      sum-^ acute mary , JV ^ . t ^ b !» , ^ jr cr ^ b . o . m . f itical */ Transatlantic ^*^ --B > ^ » anal . *• « fc- « » . «»»¦ ys y *~ r is m m ^ , but r % _^ - - » writers ™ ¦**¦ it —• ¦»¦ - also — — — - - — , combined forms — — — a fitting with — g—j

      introduction to a literature that is now so widely limits road pffh and which appreciated were fc imposed ¦¦ ¦>¦ •¦ by ' ^»»» upon Eng » » lish Professor ¦ - — - peop le . Nichol - ^ - The

      -^^ t ^ M ^ fc -1 * * Ihiap" W T A * -V ^ -rf p ^ " ^* < W ^ ' p ^ ^»'' ^ " ^ *^ ¦>'^ p' <¦ " ^ p ^ ^ * nr ^ p . ' — - " - — — — him by the to extent and variety much that of his is subj of ect inteiest compelled and ^ attract Ut ^ pj ^ 4 4 mr ^ "p «*• ¦ ive ¦ * W ^ compress p ^ to ^^ * pp ^ the ^ fcp ¦•*» ^ fcip * literary - *» *¦ ^ ' ^ " ^ ¦ *^ ^ ^» f ^ student " *^ ^^ ~ ^ ^^ — . w- ^ ; j—— and — — - — even — - in cover — -

      as ing , this however there hastil must be y , such an nces enormous of favouritism ground or neglect , ; but , taking appeara the book as a whole , hia

      labours Inhmirft must must bo 1 > pi jfllowod allowod to to be be iairl fairly v successful sueeesslul .. euch lie justl wri y ters and as loving Ral ly h lingers Waldo over Emerson the careers William of p ,

      Cullen Th croft oreau , Motley Bryant , Irving and , Henry , James Prescott W . Long Fenimoro , Nathaniel fellow Cooper , George Hawthorne , Ed Ban gar - , t Alla a & ¦ n k Poe ^ j and ¦ James ** H •¦ " ¦ . Lowellwhose fame is

      now ^ m m _ mr »^ assured * m ~ » - » , * - • - » ^^ and * »« -- »» — whose — *^ ^ " ^ r" writi - ^ ^ -- ^ » w - ^ ngs , are eagerly { read Indeed wherever , the cha- the pters Eng in which lish language these authors is spoken come . -I

      in in for fnr- fcrAjitinent treatment constitute constitute by bv Jar far tha tha ablest ablest > Il portion of the book . Space forbids us froin | i

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 16, 1883, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16041883/page/7/