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-- 9o* Ttfe Understand That, With One Ex...
institution at Oxford ' under the Copyright Act have not been exceeded in any previous
year ; and the progress in other directions has been equally marked and satisfactpry .
In round numbers almost fifty thousand additions oi one sort or another are reported
by the librarian , and quality , as well as quantity , is well represented in the new
arrivals . The Curators state that one of the most
precious manuscripts ever presented to the Bodleian has been received during Ihe year .
This is a copy of the most important part of the Avesta , the Yesna in Zend , with a
translation made in the earlier park of the fourteenth century . . This treasure was the
property of Dr . Jamasp ji , High Priest of the Parsis at Bombay . Overtures were made to
the owner with a view to the purchase of this document , but he declined to sell it ,
generously preferring to bestow it as a gift to the world-renowned library at Oxford . The
generosity of such an act will be seen more clearly when we add that the owner had
j refused ten thousand rqpees for the manui script ; whilst its literary importance is
brought out by the fact that the manuscript was written within a few days of the oldest
known manuscript of the * Yesna' which is preserved at Copenhagen . They were both
transcribed by the hand of the same scribe . Amongst hthe more prominent purchases of
* «> mm the year were upwards of a hundred manuscript volumes of revenue and other public
accounts , of the reigns of Charles II ., James II ., William and Mary , and Anne .
Edward Pudssy's Common-place Book written | at the beginning of the seventeenth century
and containing extracts from English . authors I of the age , including Shakspeare ; and Pope ' s
* Essay on Qriticism ' in the handwriting of the author , oug rht also to be mentioned in this
connection . In all , the Library has brought nearly two hundred manuscript volumes ,
many of which are of great historical or literary interest . The chief purchases of old
printed works include at least a dozen works of more or less renown printed as far back as
the fifteenth century . We m , are glad to notice that steady progress has been made during
the year with the subject-catalogue of printed books—an undertaking of great importance
^ p ^ ^^ am , and , we need scarcely add , of much labour . Readers at the Bodleian in coming days will
have good cause to be grateful to Mr . Nicholson for thus rendering the contents of the
great Oxford Library so readily accessible . . . 1 « o » ' ¦¦ — wtiv
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Boo & $ * JEux Mundi' is about to be brought out
in a cheap ^ edition in America . . . # ?
We hear that a cheap edition of Miss Betham EdwardVs levels is in contemplation .
( Yery Much Abroad ? ' is to be the first volume of the collected edition of Mr . F . 0 .
Bumand's works .
The next volume in the ' Adventure Series ' ot Mr . T , Fisher Unwin is to be Robert Drury ' s >
c Journal in Madagascar . # *
Scandinavian Bider Haggard romance ' s new , and story is s ^ id * to Eric b ^ f ' brim is a -
ful of adventure and bloodshed . Mrs . Fitzgerald has written a work named
1 A Protest against Agnosticism , ' which Messrs . Kegan Paul & Co . will publish .
# ' * * - A monthly re-issue of their sixpenny
edition of Charles Kingsley ^ s novels , to consist of a million copies , is announced by Messrs .
Macmillan . I ¦ 4 The Red Fairy Book ' is the title of a new
work whicK is edited by Mr . Andrew Lang . ^ It ^^ m ^ v ^ is ^ ^^^ * intended ^ r ^^ ^^ ^ v - ^^ r ^ mw ^ ~^~^ - ^ m ~^ r ^* as ^^ t . *^^ ^ a ^^ companion ^^ ^^ — — i— w ^ ^^ — ^^ — volume — — ^^ to — the ^^
' Blue Fairy Book . ' »
Mr . Leslie Stephen , we understand , wilj contribute the live n s of Johnson and David
Hume iji the coming volume of the ' Dictionary of National Biography . '
Messrs . Jarrold & Sons are bringing out
this summer a fourth edition of * Summer in Broadland : Giing in East Anglian Waters /
by the author of psy Friesland Meres . *
Mr . F . H . Revell , of New York and Reli Chicago ious , has Tract made Society arrangements to become their with solo the
agent g for the United States .
The academical addresses of the late Dr . Dollinger will be issued by Mr . John MurrayI
The volume will include the well-known essays , on * The Jews in Europe' and ' Dante as a
Prophet . ' # #
We hear that Madame Darmesteter isorrang The ing lady a will yolume we believe of lyrics contribute lor publication an artidte ^ , i ,
to the FortnfyhU , y Review , on the * Book-men .
of Pans 1 ., in „ the F . ourteenth ' Century ' . ' . i ; ' ssssssoHm . ••• • ••' .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 16, 1890, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16061890/page/5/
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