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    Vioaa. The ^ Publishers' Circular o<* 16...

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    CORRESPONDENCE. DISCOUNT OFF BOOKS.

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    Books Received—Prom Mr. Jolin amBeal r, ...

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    Trade Ohaito-Bs. Enlablished Into I Lut ...

    * Sunshine / edited by Meynell Whittemore , D . D ., will in future be published at i 6 r Paternoster Messrs . Dun Row n < , fe E Wri . O . ght , printers and publishers , Glasgowhare recently appointed

    ' Messrs The . editorial A . Palmer , publishing & Son , 12 , Patern and advertisement oster JEtow , their offices London of The agents Citizen , . have been removed to 132 Fleet Street .

    Street The , to Publishing 64 < fc G 5 Imperial Office of Buildings Legible Sho , Lud rthand gate Ci has rcu been s , E . C removed . from 2 Falcon Court , Fleet Messrs . Atkinson Bros . booksellers and stationers 17 Market SquareJBanleyhavein

    consequence of increasing , business , removed to more , commodious prem , ises , situat , ed ,

    5 Market Square .

    Vioaa. The ^ Publishers' Circular O<* 16...

    Vioaa . The ^ Publishers' Circular o <* 161882 f " , • - ¦ ! — ' -

    Correspondence. Discount Off Books.

    CORRESPONDENCE . DISCOUNT OFF BOOKS .

    To the Editor of The Publishers' Circular . Sir , — In your last issue you quoted an extract stating that a bookseller , of the name of Owen , retailed

    books at less than the published price about fifty years sine * . Some 20 6 \ years cfoi cent ago allowed we found all aii his Reviews ixeviews book label ( in a book j Periodical renouicai dated 1821 Publications ) , from -which and we Modern linxiern copy the Book dooks following of oi : —

    descri ' ption j per per as soon , . auoweu as advertised on on / , , m Maagazine gaziness , , jruuiications , , anu s every every His address was Homer ' s Head , 9 Little Bell Alley , lack of the Bank .

    Affixed to this label we have a note stating that he was the first who allowed discount , and that on London the publication publishe of rs ' to Scott prevent , 48 vols if possible . ' ( which discoun he retailed t — being at allow 4 s . per ed . vol . ) an Association Yours — respectfull was form y ed by the

    Bath , Oct . 9 . X , , 7 t ^^ . ^ W . & fc' E , . P .

    Books Received—Prom Mr. Jolin Ambeal R, ...

    Books Received—Prom Mr . Jolin amBeal r , Brighton a a . — ' Brighton as it « A . _ . ^ h . .. A ^^^ M to ¦ . _

    is in 1882 ^ . ' This is * a small quarto pamphlet of some 20 pages in double column , which touches on the various points of attraction in the ' Queen

    of Watering-places / The text is interleaved with tinted views , and the cover itself is a coloured view of the town as seen between the

    two great health-restorers , the downs and the sea . From Messrs . A . & G-. Brown , Edinburgh . —

    No Li . fe 1 . and Sk Nature and Sea Studies No . 2 , ' . Reflection by Hume Nisbet No . 3 . . The Drap y ed Model . ; The first three of ; a series

    of 12 papers upon art , which from their simplicity and clearness should bo invaluable to students . Mr thoroug . Nisbet hly understands is an art lecturer his subject and writing artist , of and it

    m ^ m ^ f ^ j , — — t t — — — in a way "which at once contains the largest amount of information in the smallest possible space — - ^ m — — and is withal — — -- endowed — — with — - — the ~ -m- ¦ V sp ^ - ^^ - ^ ^ B ^ r ^ irit ^^^^^™ " ^ ^^ of ^^^ ^^ ,

    poetry . For this reason the papers will commend , themselves to all "who take an interest in art and we shall look forward with pleasant antici- ,

    pations for future numbers of the series . From ¦ Messrs ~ — —¦— ~ - . — Cassell —— — — — ~ ^^— , Petter ^^^^ " — — - - ^ - ^ - ^^ ^^— ^ , -m Galp ^ m ^^ ~^^^*~ ^^ m ^^^^ r ^ i ^ H n ^^^^^ B , ^ H & ^^^^^^ Co ^^ i ^ V ^ U ^ F . ^ —

    wh ' Th ich e we Sea have / reissne received in month contains ly parts a . Part tation I ., plate called Saved' of , rescue from presen a wreck an

    which mother and , child are safely brought to shore ordinary b y engravings — life r ^ ^ - saving r ^ ^^ » aTe ^ ^ apparatus ^ m- representations -m * »^ n ^^ •**¦ m * r ^ . i ^ ^ ifci ^ A m ^ s mong •¦• •»• of X ^ the * the «•» A ^

    Victory Cape St . at Vincent Portsmouth ; the ori ; of ginal ' tween Merrimac decks in , and action the ; Monitor . ' Here is promise of a periodical

    visitor which will be welcomed by old and young . From the Cambridge University Press . —

    Verg English ili Maronis Notes -SEneido , by A . s Sid , ' Li gv ber ick , I M ., . A edited . —A volume , with of the ' Pitt - Press ' Series -w . The ¦»¦ desi & of > Bh the w « fe . -

    sent — — — volume is — to supp — — — ly . — — — an - — . — - ^ rm edition ^ gn _ a a ^ r . a of * ^^ pre » - ^ the ^ - ^ far JEneid advance ' for d i the in L use atin of . students It does who not un arc derta not k rery e to

    remarks supp — sarjr - l y element ~ - -- the -. — , the _ place —¦ use in ^— ¦ - ^ of ~*~ of education — - ¦— a a d dictionary ictionary m . — Lut - ^ - ^ , for ~^— it i s ^*^ , expla ^ as P ^ B JB ver IP ^^^ P the ^^^ y ins ^^^ VV nee edito ^ M > ^ t ^ en all ^^ y - r ^^

    mythical and liintoricHl allusion * , and noticeB all 4 tjif mf ^ T ^^ T ^^^^^ T ^!! TT . ^ T ^ ^ ' ^^ ' ' '' ' " mmmmmmmm * ^ ^^ mmmmmm '' ^' mmmmmm ' ' ^^

    j beg the inner grammatical . The introduction difficulties which gives mi a g carefu ht puzz l out le a -

    line of the structure and purpose of the poem . From the same . — 'M . Tulli Ciceronis , Pro P .

    Cornelio Sulla Oratio ad Judices , ' edited for Schools I and Colleges , by James S . Reid , M . L . One of Cicero ' s least-known speeches , copiously

    annotated and prefaced by an exhaustive introduction , supplying a complete historical sketch of the situation which called forth the oration . When

    we say that the notes fill a hundred pages , we shall give some idea of the fulness with which Mr . Reid has done his work .

    From Paul Messrs ' s Funny . Diprose Stories , that & Bateman will make . — you * Howard laugh out loud . ' When Mr . Howard Paul says he will

    babl make y you no man laug living h , you has may had believe more him experience , for pro in

    the the a art rt of of am amusement usement , , or or more more success success in in . its its practice . We need say no more to introduce 96 crown octavo pages of close print .

    From sists the of same 96 . — s ' Messrs octavo . in Diprose double ' s A column nnual' with conpage , numerous full-page illustrations on tinted paper .

    and Farjeon The other contents , James well-known are Greenwood prose writers and , poe E making . try L . b Blanchard y the Mess issue rs ,

    , an entertaining one . From the same . — ' Song Book . ' Messrs . Di edition prose

    and of popular Bateman books ' s contingent at sixpence to is the a quarto song book of 64 of four columns eachsmall print .

    We V * pages f need C > V not > AVUL tell L WAUlllllU our readers | \^ 4 » V 1 I , th very f at V & J this u > j ««* a means - » ^ - - - ~ a great many songs .

    From Mr . I > . W . Fowler . —* Mental Science , as Explained by Phrenology / by L . N . Fowler . Mr . Perceptive Fowler ' s treatise Faculties is divided IIThe into Beasoning chapters— Facul I . The

    ties ; III . The Moral ; Faculties . ; IV . The Selfthan ish Pro indicate pensities the . nature We hav of © this not little l space work to do more But

    we LAJOIl Cain ftUVIJU safel -CLlA y LUD say lintUlC that it is thoug LI 1 IO - » htfu v » . » v l and wv ..- . - calcu - - lated to do good .

    F * — 3 m The Messr C hildre * . Wells n ' s Pastime Gardner . ' Pictu , Darton res and , A gtorii Co- * ^

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 16, 1882, page 1022, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16101882/page/10/