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Dec. 3i, 1886 The Publishers' Circular 1...
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Booksellers' Puovident Institurioy.— The...
member of all the Cabinets , every United States Senator , every Speaker of the House of Representatives , and every member of the Supreme Court since the formation of the Government ; all the Signers of the Declaration of Independence ; the most prominent Governors of States and Territories ; all the most eminent clergy , judges , and lawyers of the land ; all the Admirals and other distinguished officers of the American Navy , and all I the Generals of the Army . No name eminent in literature , art , music , science , or invention I will be omitted . The work will be completed in six volumes , of 700 or 800 pages each , similar to ' Appleton ' s American Cyclopaedia . ' Each will be illustrated with at least ten steel portraits ; . and these will be supplemented by between one and two thousand smaller vignette portraits , made by a new process , from original drawings by Jacques Reich , accompanied by facsimile autographs , and also several hundred views of the birthplaces , residences , monuments , and tombs of distinguished Americans . ! Scribner ' s Magazine . —The revived issue of this magazine has commenced auspiciously , and is published in this country by Messrs . F . Warne & Co . The contents are peculiarly American in tone , indeed the whole magazine shows the general characteristics of its native rivals . The illustrations are beautiful , while the reading-matter is of the best quality in all the departments . Illustrated Catalogues . —Some very fine catalogues of this description are familiar in the output of American publishing houses , but it is evident that the publishers of this country intend to rival these productions . Messrs . Cassell & Co . have recently issued a ' splendid catalogue , in quarto form , of their illustrated publications , and another has appeared from Messrs . Sampson Low & Co ., showing the beauties of their books for the < season .
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; TENNYSON'S NEW VOLUME . It would indeed be a noteworthy poem which at this date would add to the reputation of England ' s Poet Laureate . Such a work j could Hall hardl Sixt y be Years expected After . / But is seen in * Lockaley a which , very y closely approaches the grandeur poem ; of the master's genius when in the full flush j of its rich productiveness . ' Sixty Years After' concludes the poem ' Locksley Hall / being an address to a grandson who is presumed to have met with a fate similar to i \ that hearted of the Amy unhappy . The lover grandson rejected has by shallow likewise - been jilted , and , in his unhappiness , is inclined to curse the wealthy rival . Replying to the grandson , the old man says : Amy loved me , Amy fuild me , Amy was a timid child ; But your Judith -but your worldlinghhe hi \*\ never driven me wild . Bbe that holds the diamond necklace , dearer than the She golden Umt finds r . ng . a winter sunset fairer than a morn of Bprdnpr , Lockaley Hall , Jcc . By Alfred , Lord Tennyson . London : Macmillan & Co .
She that in her heart i . s brooding on his briefer leaBe of While life she . vows ' till death shall part us , she , the wouldbe-widow wife , She , the worldling born of worldlings—father , motherbe content , Ev ' n the homely farm can teach ua there is something in descent . In a soothing spirit the grandfather tells of his own life , and the narration says : Hope the best but hold the present , fatal daughter of the part , Shape your heart to front the hour , but dream not that the hour will last . A v , if dynamite and revolver leave you courage to be wise , When was age so cramrn'd with menace ? madness ? written , spoken lies ? Hupsia bursts our Indian barrier—shall we fight her ? Shall we yield ? Pau 3 e before you sound the trumpet ; hear the voices from the field . Those three huadredmillions under our Imperial sceptre now—Shall we hold them ? Shall we loo ? - . e them ? Take the suffrage of the plow . Nay , but these would feel and follow truth , if only you and you , Rivals of realm-ruining party , when you speak were wholly trae . Step by step we gained a freedom known to Europe , known to all ; Step by step we rose to greatness—through thetoMgue-Bfeis we may fall . You that woo tue voices—tell them ' old experience is a Teach fool your ;' flattered kings that only those who cannot - read can rule . Bring the oM dark ages back , without the faith , without the hope ; Break the State , the Church , the Throne , and roll their ruins down the slope . Authors—atheist essayist , ndvelist , realist , rhymester , play your part ; Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art . Kip vobr brother ' s vices open , strip your own foul passions b ire ; Down with reticence , down with reverence—forwardnaked—let them stare . ' Locksley Hall' is the only new thing in the include volume Lord . The Tennyson reproductions ' s verses which on fo ] The low - Fleet , ' the ' Ode on the Opening of the Tndian and Colonial Exhibition / and the rather unfortunate effort , ' The Promise of May . ' The press has generally been quick in its recognition of Lord Tennyson ' s new poem , so that even now it is widely known . But it would be wrong to overlook , even in mentioning the work , the compliment which has been paid to its value by Mr . Gladstone , in his article , on ' Locksley Hall and the Jubilee , ' which appears in the current number of the Nineteenth Century . Certainly Mr . Gladstone has used the work as a huge peg upon which he has hung his opinions , in an unusually brief form , of the social and political condition of the English people during the past half-century . He himself anticipates that there actually exists a ' circle of elect spirits to whom the whole strain of the paper will , it is most likely , seem to be beside the mark . ' But , this apart , admirers of the Poet Laureate will agree with Mr . Gladstone when he remarks : * Now that he gives us another LocJcsley Hall , * ' after Sixty Years , " the very last criticism that will be hazarded —or , if hazarded , will be accepted—on his work will be , that it betrays a want of tone or ijibre . For my own part , I have been not less fmpressed with tlieform than with the substance . Limbs will grow stiff with age , but minds not always ; we find here all undiminished thatr
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1886, page 1695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121886/page/7/
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