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    1024 The Pttblisbera' Circular Oct. t6,1...

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

    borne . The original is a great favourite in GermanyIts name is Backfischcken * Leiden

    . tftui Freuden ; not Backfischen * s as the translator gives it .

    From the same . — ' Spielhagen ' s Skeleton in the House / translated by Marsden . This is a crown octavo of about 180 pages .

    From the same . —* Tagebuch auf Reiseii . ' A handsome small quarto , in gilt binding , and bevelled edges , in which we find photographic pictures of

    Constantinople , various views and buildings ; of Palermo , Athens , Taormina , Syracuse , & c . From the Leisure Sour Office . — Boy ' Own

    Annual , ' * Girl ' s Own Annual . ' Under the headings—adventure , archaeology and folklore , athletics — — , y biograp fj » r hies - - — — — , y competitions — — j-- _ . _ — _ , correspondence _____ — ^^ — __ _ , _ ,

    cricket , cryptogram , entomology , indoor amusements , note-book , outdoor amusements open column , poetry , scieniitie , & c , are comprised , in

    each case -L a series » C ' of interesting - * papers i or notes ; quite independently of some 600 separate items of instruction or amusement which the contents

    make mention . The coloured plates , many engravings & c ., all contribute to make this volume a veritable cyclopaedia for boys . The ' Girl ' s

    Own Annual / in its department , may be termed a similar cyclopaedia of pleasure and profit . Its contents comprise music , tales , answers to

    correspondents , hymns , elegies , illustrations of dress , engravings of needlework , & c & c . ; while a coloured plate ( frontispiece ) after a painting in

    the Hoyal Academy , picture end papers , and an emblematically gilt binding , make a pleasantlooking drawing-room table book as to externals .

    From Messrs . J . S . Iiippincott & Co .. Philadelphia , U . S . A . — ' Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Buchanan Read . ' In issuing this new

    cheaper , and revised edition of the Poetical , America Works of has one produced of the few , Messrs genuine . Li poe ppi ts neott which &

    Co . have thus wisely endeavoured to secure ior bis poems the wider andience they merit . Their efforts should meet with ready recognition among

    readers of poetry , for few poems in modern English literature better deserve lodgment in the memory than many in this volume . We select the

    following as having already become classics in America , viz .: * Drifting ; ' * Brushwood ;* and ¦ * Christine' ( charming Italian descriptive poems );

    The Stranger on the Sill ; ' ( a tender reminiscence stirring of ballad home of life the ); * Sheridan Ciril War ' s ) Ride * The ' ( a - Home

    spirit-; by 4 The the New Sea ; ' Pastoral ' The Waggoner ' ( a well of -sus the tained Alleg poem hani ¦ es of ;' Pennsylvania home life , and the poet —*~ ' - ~—^^ most

    ambi which tious ^^^ Mr . effort Read ); has and painted , 4 The Closi an — ~— autumn —~ ng ^^ S ^^ cen ^^ e scen , ' -w ^^ - ^ - in ^^^ r e ^^ with equal JL fidelity & and p icturesque A — power * . In

    descri all these ptions poems 6 T the natural poet scenery betravs , a and fondness in all for of ¦ which ¦ we — — — seem — ¦¦ »•¦ — to — " » " be — ¦ •¦ in - con - % ¦ . »¦ m ^ tact m «»™ ^» m * with mm m » mw a rnind m- Mm m U of ""^ ^^ ^* ^ ^ *• V ^ *

    original force . The volume is designated as the crown Illustrated octavo Libra , printed ry Edition with . ' red It line is a borders handy

    ill bound ustrations in handsome bthe sty best le , an America d contains n artists many . now In . additionthe book y has a now prefatory memoir of

    Mr . Kead , . From "Messrs . Macmillan A Co . —' St « rne , ' by

    com 11 . D e . to TrailL the mind The as only liavinjr two boo deal ks t which with the readily life n fifty nd works of are Laurence Mr Sterne Fitzgerald during ' the lume past *

    nndThackera years ^^ s ffumouriH . Percy ^ , * wlioro the s author vo of .

    the ' Sentimental Journey' occupies one of the lectures . Mr . Traill's very interesting . ^^^ and able - — — - —

    monograph may be called a summing up of the literature of Sterne , followed by a dispassionate I judgment which — keeps the mean betwixt Mr .

    a Thackeray « - - <^ Mr . Percy ' s undue Fitzgerald harshness ^ 's too on great the leniency one hand cm , -w the other . Mr . Traill ' s review of the books about

    Sterne brings to mind that Sir Walter Scott more has hh ^¦^ ^^» writ cu ^^ p vv ri ' en ous an than essay m certainl in whi w ch authen ^—r are ~ ¦ — some — tic — parti as also culars ~ of r b ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ . ^ " ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^*^^^*^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^™ ™^ " ^ ^^ y ; — ^™^ —^^ ^^^

    an intended biography by-John Wilkes , which was ( to the never regret written of Mrs . . There Sterne are and her readers daughters we ) many ,

    the have great no doub charm t , who of woul * Tristram d like to Shand know y * wh and erei of n the ' Sentimental Journeymf ' consists , but yet

    would not care to read the book . Such will here mt find curiosity extracts . To ;\ ll cop our ious rend enoug ers who h to value satisf a y piece their of

    fine and discerning criticism this last volume of the * ' Men of Letters' may be commended . From Midland Educational biuvuvxwucaA Company JiN ^ j Bir ¦ jim

    -A ivLu imm 3 » aa < a o ^ w -u f , j m-. Mr ming . Bot harn t , . — whose « William metrical Aubrey version , ' by of T . ' H Robinson . Bott .

    presents contemporary Crusoe' has us with won life a many and new favourable essay action in , of verse political opinions , a tale , now and of

    commercial struggle . It says something for the versatility of Mr . Bott ' s muse , that two productions , on widely differing themes , should have been

    produced in quick succession . From Messrs . James Nisbet & Co . —* A Noble Vine :

    or , Practical Thoughts on our Lord ' s Last Parable . ' By J . Jackson Wray . A volume of comments or meditations on the first eight verses of the fifteenth

    chapter of St . John ' s Gospel , in which the Saviour branches likens himsel . Mr f . to Wray a Vine and after His briefl disc y ip illustrating les to the

    the main teaching of , the parable , divides his volume into four sections : the vine , the branches , the fruit , and the husbandman , and subdivides

    each series of readings under a variety of heads . It is a practical and suggestive book , well fitted for devotional readers .

    From Messrs . S . W . Partridge & Co . — Facts to Impress ; Fancies to Delight . ' By Frederic T .

    Gammon . A successful little piece of book-making . The contents are classified under these heads : Biography , History , and Stories . Under the first we

    Howard have brief , Sir sketches Charles Reed of , and Livingstone John B , . Goug Raifces h ; , Pa — rt ^^~ — II i ^^^^ . ^^ includes ^» ^^^ - ^ ^^^ ~— ^^ p ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ~—^^ descri ^^»^» - ^^ r " ^^ m" ^ . ^^ ^^^ ^ h ptive ^^^ j ^^ ^ B y ^ fc- * v ahti ^^ F ^ m ^ B ™ ^^ P historical ^ B ^ v w 9 ^ r ^^^ ¦* ^^^ ¦ ^ ^ " ^^^ ^^

    accounts of Warwick Castle , Kenilworth Castle , Hol Castle y rood Part Palace III , . St . iv Alba es som n ' s Abbey attract , C i ve narvon little ; g

    abounds stories . are The all p up ictures to a good with standard which . the book From Life Mr and . Pearce Teaching . — ' ' b John Edmund Ruekin J ; . Aspects Baillio . of This his

    is an octavo of 64 , pages y , the aim of which is to convey to the reader , in a concise form , the opinions of Mr . Kuskin on the most important

    subject * . Thus we have chapters on style . reading litica , l education , art , science ethics , labour and , commerce reliion ,

    po j * v »»» «« . » * economy ^ sV'V'ijwiijjp , woma nuiunu n , cuiuo , , aiiu j . vm » g ^ j « w--p , illus writ ' ng ra « ^ ed . The by passage first chapter s from of the Mr . grea Baillie t master ' s work ' s

    is a ttiiort sketch of Mr . Buskin ' s lif «; the last includes a chronological account of his printed works . We may add that a s <* mi-offici < il character

    i sence * give of n to the the n ; im little » - «> f book Mr . Huskin before ' a us puV by the <« hpr pre on - the title pstfzi * in conMJKotion with that f f ^ - - ^ -jg

    1024 The Pttblisbera' Circular Oct. T6,1...

    1024 The Pttblisbera' Circular Oct . t 6 , 1882

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 16, 1882, page 1024, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16101882/page/12/