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    876 The Publishers' Circular August 16,1...

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    HSetoieto£, &c*

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    876 The Publishers' Circular August 16,1...

    876 The Publishers' Circular August 16 , 1886

    Hsetoieto£, &C*

    HSetoieto £ , & c *

    From Messrs . Cassell & Co . ( Limited ) . — Additions to the useful manuals— ' Helps to Belief—on r the religious difficulties of the day

    ^^^ m ^ ' ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^* ^^ ^^^— ~— ^^™ ™ - ~ - ~ ^ ^^^^ ™— ¦ —^ - ^^^ ™ — - ^ — — — —~ — *— — — - ™~ — — ^^ , are JMiracles , ' by the Rev . Brownlow Maitland , M by . A Mr . ; . and Newm ' The an Smy Moral th i . ty These of the books Old Testament it will be , '

    , remembered , are supplemental , so to speak , to the ' Heart Chords' series , and are edited by the Rev . T . Teignmouth ShoreM . A .

    Chaplain-in-- 1 ^ , , JL Ordinary to the Queen . ^ From ^* ^** -s ^ r » ^ . »» ^ Messrs m ^ Btm ^ m ^ ar " *^ ~ - r ^ K mr ^ . v Chap ^¦ ^ ^ m ^ mt ^ v ^ r ^^^ r ^ r ^ t ^ ran mm ^ p ^ p ^ n ^ sv & v w ^ Hall v ^^^^ ™ p ^ b ^^^ . v — G ^^ " eorg — - ^^ ^ g ^ e -w

    Meredith's novel , new edition , ' Beauchamp ' s Career / Mr . George Meredith's earlier novel , ' Vittoria ' gave us stirring — — and — pathetic pictures

    of the Italian , struggle for o deliverance x from j the Austrian yoke in 1859 , and while making us feel with and for the Italian nation in -the

    persons of its heroes and heroines , so delineated the oppressors as to show that they were lovable too . * Beauchamp ' s Career ' opens in France

    with the composition by \ a young Englishman of , a challenge to the French colonels , who , under the Empiredemanded to be led against

    perfidious Albion JT , . This is not too easily done in the French language , for Beattchamp finds that Messieurs de la Garde Frdn $ aise would include

    even the regimental eooks , and then that Garde iTwperiale is the proper phrase , and so forth . From France * Beauchamp ' s Career' leads us to

    Venice pretty young and to Frenc ' Love hwoman in Venice , is ' endeavouring where Renee , to make herself at home .

    From Messrs . Griffith , Farran , & Co . — 'As Yankees See Us , or the Customs of the Cockneys /

    is a smart , if scarcely over-refined , little book , setting forth the experiences and consequent opinions of one of our transatlantic cousins in

    England . The author , Mr . Leander Richardson , writes in clever , lively style , with a keen appreciation _ _ _ of _ his own jud - gment 1— -- and - if there _ _ are __

    — - — — — - — T , _ . — — considerable evidences ^ of exaggeration in the work , wo can readily forgive him in the humorous touches he has imparted to his book . The

    following extract will very sufficiently illustrate its character . ' The Prince of Wales is the model by which all Britishers swear . He sets the

    fashion , sits in judgment upon etiquette , and endeavours , by malting a veritable martyr of himselfto show people what they ought to do .

    , A . A * f ^^ D The adoration of His Royal Highness is carried to a ridiculous extent . Some years ago the Princ © of Wales came hurriedly out of a Pali Mall

    club . He was so pressed for time that he almost ran . In his haste he had forgotten his gloves . Half-a-dozen gentlemen saw the Prince in this

    condition , and for the following two years it was the fashion to use no gloves . " The Prince of Wales doesn ' t wear them " "was the reason

    assigned ; and , needless to say , it wan all ¦ convincing . ' From the samo . —Most people take an interest in

    hearing or reading of t lie way in which notable men havo got on , what money they accumulated , where and how they lived , what

    good they did , and the hundred and one other items that rnuke up the biography of a . prosperous and celebrated personage . In ' The

    Vanderbilts and tho Story of their Fortune , ' by W . A . Croffut , they are likely to have their wish amply gratified ----- . Our - - dispute with

    ' - JL «/ C 3 -JT the aiuthor would be that he has entered too much into detail , describing incidents in the hie-M . ^^ 1 - - -- - — , ^—— . ¦ - ,. ¦ ¦ ¦ -

    1 i -m can tory t , of the , devoting Vanderbiltfif too that little are attention Teally insi to gnifi the - avowed ect with which he 8 et

    grandsons to give obj a and biograp descendants hical picture but of to out sire consider —not , son merel , their and y

    relation to society , to measure , the significance and the influence of their fortune , to ascertain where ----- their money — came - - fromto inquire — whether —

    others are poorer because they , are rich , whether *¦* v A they are hindering or promoting civilisation whether they and such as they are impediments ,

    t he the extent welfare of h of is own the human ambition race , . Mr Jud . Croffut ged b ' y s volume can perhaps hardly be accounted a success ;

    we but think rated it by will the be desires found of an ordinary interesting readers and , pleasantly instructive little book .

    From Messrs . Hamilton , Adams , & Co . — * Reid ' s Patent Indexed Ready Reckoner * claims to be one of the most accurate works of its kind

    the figures having been checked by a professional ,, accountant , namely , Mr . T . D . Challoner , of Newcastle . Our opinion of the work is that its

    ¦ chief will be claim seen in to the the rap support idity in of which mercantile figures men maybe referred to the index system facilitating this :

    process in a remarkable , manner a / . The range t ^ i » — is from 1 to 50 , 000 articles at any given rate from one-sixteenth of a penny to £ l .

    From Mr . John Heywood , Manchester . — ' The Senior Devle , j ' byd ' Elij < j er Goff , ' is distinguished ^ y by »/

    the eccentric spelling which has characterised the author ' s previous works . No doubt to many readers there is a peculiar charm in this , but

    underlying it , in the present instance , the humour is slight , and very much forced . We scarcely think that on this occasion ' Elijer' has done

    himself justice . From Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . —There is a

    sympathetic skill and poetic style about Jean Ingelow ' s novels which renders them always captivating readingand if they have sometimes

    , failed in the past through want of constructive ability it may at lea-st be said that in her latest work , * Sarah de Beranger , ' this fault has been

    reduced to a minimum . A young woman , mother of two children , and afflicted with a worthless husbim _ dwho _ at the __ time the — storyopens is

    , , ^ , - r serving a sentence of fourteen years' penal servitude , happens to see , when tramping the

    country ronntrv . , and and almost almost reduce reduced d to to the the verg verce e of or starvation , an advertisement in the paper asking for her whereabouts . With , much difficulty sho

    manages to reach the place appointed , and there finds that a relative on her side has died , leaving her all his money . The sum is certainly not much ^—

    only one hundred and eighty pounds a year—but she is at once besieged by all her relations , and though she manages to escape from them , thanks

    to to fall the intervention into the still of more a kindl unscrupulous y lawyer , it hands is only of her husband ' s relatives . Eventually she changes

    hpiv her name namft , . jl and thI passes nnssps h h erself flrfifilf off nfY hpfore before the tho world not as the mother of her children , but as their nurse . It will readily be gathered from

    this alight sketch what absorbing complications are experi likel enced y to occur and , pathetic and these , a in writer the hands as of Miss s °

    Ingelow , lose none of their interest in the tolling . The disposition of Haunah Dill i ' part L /( llt / icular lV- "lCiL is » » J delineated - \ jg \ JA I AJ ^ Uf ^ VVA wi TT * th U gre fS * - & ' ** ' ** t power k / V # ^ v ^/* - an — - < l

    fineness of conception , though other , of the characters are by no means wanting in individuality , and the entire volume may be

    recommended as one of great merit . ~ ¦

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 16, 1886, page 876, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16081886/page/14/