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    I5 oo The Publishers' Circular Dec 3t l8...

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    Books Receivkd : — From Mr.E. W. Allen.—...

    From Messrs . William H . Guest & Co . — Christmas Stories of the Old Brown Jug' is

    a collection of short pieces in prose and Terse appropriate to the season , with short extracts from the poets . There are also one or two Christmas

    carols JL . From ^^^ ^^ K - ^^ r w ^ v ^^ * ^ Home ^ B ^^^ M ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ " ^^ - Words — ^ m ¦ - — — ' Publishing — — ¦ - — ^ J Office . — — ' The

    Two Homes : a Story of Life-Discipline , ' by Emma Marshall . A well-written tale of English life , illustrating the trials ¦— ¦ and ¦ difficulties ¦¦ ¦ which ¦— beset

    V % ^ V ^ K ^ p ^¦ ^ p ^^ r 4 ^ VB ^ P ^^ V ^ B ^^^^ Mffk ^^ ^»^^ — - ^ ^— - *^" — » ^ ^— ^ — ^— —— —— -w ™ ™~ ^ — - — » — ' - — - — a ' second mother' who enters on the charge of a family , and pleading earnestly for the display towards her of a larger measure of the confidence

    and forbearance to which , in the -view of the authoress , she is so fully entitled . From Messrs . Sampson LowMarston & Co . —

    , , 'Jack ' s Courtship , ' 3 vols . Mr . W . Clark IfcusseU ' s new book is a sailor ' s yum of love and shipwreck . At first the scene is laid on shore

    V ^ v ^^^^ p pj B % pr w w ^"" —~ - ^^ ^^^^ p w ¦ " — ^ — — — — — — , > where Jack ' s suit does not prosper , owing to the father's opposition . He sends the young lady for a voyage with an Australian aunt . Hearing

    of this , Jack books a place under a feigned name in the same vessel . On taking possession of his cabi - ^^^ pr ^ ^ ~^ v w — n -m ^^^ he - ^^ — finds - — — - that - a — rival -- — — ¦ suitor — — — - " ^— preferred by ^^ M

    the father is to share his cabin for the passage . The other suitor does not know Jack by sihtnor does the aunt who is in charge of

    the g young , lady , and the latter does not know that Jack is to be a fellow-passenger . The complications which this state of things must

    lead to may be imagined by the reader . The story in itself is a stirring one , of gale , collision , refuge — on a desert islandgetting tJ C 7 away / i n a "brig

    — t ^ t , *—* that went bodily to leeward , and ultimate rescue by a powerful steamer . In th . e course of the narrative we get many of those sea pictures for

    which Mr . Clark Russell is famous , and he has taken new ground in dealing with the fortunes of a first-class passenger ship .

    From , the same . —Miss Mary Harrison ' s ' Skilful Cook' is a professional contribution to the science

    by a lady who is a first-class diplomte at South Kensington , and a lecturer on hygiene , domestic economyand cookery . The Skilful Cook '

    distinguishes if , itself by exceeding % f conciseness in the directions , and inculcating attention to the smallest minutiae . '

    From Messrs . Macmillan & Co . —* The Poetical Works of John Keats , ' edited by Francis Turner

    Palgrave . During the past few years worthy efforts have been made by well-known English and American litterateurs to do justice to the

    memory and work of the ill-fated author of that sublime poetic fragment ' Hyperion / A further outcome of this is the publication by the above

    named firm of the dainty edition of Keats' poems now under notice . It forms the new volume in their well-known ' Golden Treasury' seriesand is

    issued with all the care , both in printing and , binding , for which they sire justly celebrated . Tho i editor of the book is to be congratulated on his

    loving labour , for between its covers will be found all the poems which Keats left as an immortal heritage . It is also enriched with many helpful

    notes , explanatory of the origin of the poems and sonnets , the text of which Mr . Palgrave has reedited from editions hitherto not generally

    accos-C 7 •/ sible . He lias also included in the volume a few pieces left in manuscript . The little book should have a large circulation and ought to find a

    ; prominent what is best place in Eng in lish the poetry library . of all lovers of

    From b Traced Messrs and . Tracked Jolra , Memoi Menzies rs of to & a Ci Comp ty Detecti any ve . — ' I I

    y James M'Govan . ' Brought Bay , ' ' Hunted I periences Down , ' and , ' * recollections Strange Clues , ' , ' and respectivel * chronicles y the ' of ex- I

    city , _ . _ A . ^_« detective ^ J A ^ L . ^ - ^ b . L _ ^_ ^ h . , together ^ L * - ^> ^ L 1 ^ > v ^^ a with - mm L ^ Traced wm ¦__ ^^ . ^ _ Jm and Trucked ^^ B % « . . a ' I I form the complete set of Mr . M'Grovan ' s detectiVe

    stories Vm V ^^ V ^¦ V % ^ \ ** l S-P . We % / ^ - ^ hear fe ^ ¦ ^^ *^ ^ H ^ that ^^ L ^ ^ % T * thase 4 * E ^ ^^ ^« # ^ work ^ A ^^^ ^ k -- I s have been « ^ I I translated into German , and that at Geneva a I selectiof the sketchhas been rendered

    on es into I The French author by the indicates Countess the aim Agenor of his de publications Gasparin . I I

    b mented I .- ^ y ^^_^ m quoting ¦¦ ^ . ^ ^^ _ ^^ . ^ k him . Handel fl _ H ^ on ^ ^ k ^_ ^ ^ Bk amusing . M f ' s ^ . answer « k — ¦ ¦ _^^_^ ^ the ^^ ^ to ^ L . ^ public one ~» who . « compli Amuse ^^ ^ - I I ^^^ 1

    dem . j _ — f ? ' he i— _ rep . ^_ — _ li _ ed - «_ j . ' I do J __ not ~ __ —» a * want to j amuse I dem only ; I vant to make dem petter . ' 'Traced I and Tracked m lit ives * twent , j nine ' « . H

    ' gus y-new sketches . I From Messrs . Th . om . as Nelson & Sons . — 'On I

    Angels' Wings ; or , the Story of Little Violet of I Edelsheim , ' by the Hon . Mrs . Greene . With illus- I trations . A touching storyof the German war- I

    timeof a little hunchbacked , irlwho is first I broug , ht to realise her crippled g condition , by the I joke of a boy playmate in the streets , and is then 1

    only comforted by her tender mother ' s assurance I that some day wings will come where the pain I now lingers and that she will then fly away from I

    ¦ earth to a brighter home . Scarcely has the little maid grasped this thought when th « mother dies , I and then , with the inexorable law of service which I

    prevails among her countrymen , her father h I called away to take his place in the army , and I ere the tale closes there conies a telegram an- I

    ¦ company nouncing a his sorti death e of the as he enemy was repulsing from the with town his of I "Metz . » This final scene in the father ' s life occurs ]

    at the moment when Tiolet ' s ' little day' lias also I drawn and the to realisation its close , of \ J and her 11 with mother a vision 'promise VllllUV of angels that uu . u > v II II

    CiilM . UJ . 1 . U JLC 7 aiJLlOrl > L > lV ^ L CJ . JUJUJOUOl O s pi I ^ H some day she should have wings the pretty tale II is ¦* W brought ^/ IVUClUt to UV an UU end Ul-IVI- . f It J . W will IT Ul be KJ \^ a Uf JO favourite > V »*^ ivw book «¦«¦ ^— j ^^ g

    with young readers . ¦ H From the same . — ' In the Land of the Moosethe

    , Bear , and the Beaver' : Adventures in the Forest of tions Athabasca A genuine , by Achilles travel KJ -book IkS Daunt telling . * Wi ¦ 1 th of illustra ad ^ en - -

    UJIVUU * . XX faKS LA . \* 1 JLA ^ JL . IJV V KS * . W * ' -U- *} , V * - **{ -S ^^ ^^ H tures in a newly-opened district of North-Western Canada , which has many attractions for the told coia ex- h

    p i > lorer loreT . , and and of of which which the the bookmakers bookmakers have nave us ¦ numerous nuTTiprons comparativel . and and the the y little details dfttailaof . of The the the illustrationsf natural natural history histoiy are h

    of the country , are full and complete . It i 8 H emphatically a ' book for boys . ' H

    From Mr . John O . Nimmo .- Carols and Poems Edited from tions the newl by Fifteenth A desi . H gned . Bullen Century b . With to tho CWells seven Present illustra A Time hook . -

    bestowed which thoroug y xipon hl it y on deserves y ita Henry title the -page . title , where of . honour is it is

    pretty described &\ without wituuui as ' A Christmas it 11 is within Garland and , ' for the it thick as

    \ ji : j v > j as u < o > jo wjiuiii , , anv * »»* " ^ h and uncut the paper whit , © the vellum pink border like binding lines to ornamented the pa # es »

    with be be desired des spri ired gs .. ' of Mr Mp holl . . Bullen Jiullen y berries - . whose whose , mak qualiricatiouo Qualifications e it * a book ° to r h H

    his his ins volume volume task are into into familiar tliTee Lnree to socuons sections , all bibliop , , the nio hiles first ura" , deroten divides ' p H H

    to the genuine Christmas chants and cA 1 * I rangi Excelsis ng fro Gloria m the and old The favourites First , jNowell ^ uwdu such / us down * " H H

    to ii < xc the © iflis * casts Gloria from ' anu the - me anti jcith que ' which some - 01 ^ h our modern poets have given us ; the secon n

    ^ occupied with what he terms ' Carmina Sacra , H

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    I 5 oo The Publishers' Circular Dec 3 t l 88

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1884, page 1500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121884/page/12/