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    Iotrenuous As Have Been The Efforts Made...

    drawn as that they shall be really illustrative . Thackeray never learned to draw , yet Anthony

    Trollope wished for artists of the same imag inative appreciation to illustrate his books .

    To be sure , we cannot approach too near to perfection . As it is impossible to have too

    good a style in literature , so it is impossible to have too much technique in art ; but , as style in

    itself does not constitute literature , so technique unaided will not produce first-rate illustrations .

    This , of course , Mr . Pennell knows as well as any man , though he may at times seem to

    forget V it . And we would say that publishers are not indifferent to good work in the matter

    of illustrations . Sometimes , indeed , they fail in getting work of real excellence ; but

    then , on the other hand , they often succeed . Illustrated books , magazines , and journals

    come to our table , in which it is not always easy v to detect the ignorance — and crudity which

    Mr . Pennell so sweepingly charges on English illustrators . At the same time it must be

    admitted that Mr . Pennell is not without what a lawyer would call a case , and again we wish

    him every success in raising the standard of illustration , and thus indirectly serving the

    cause of literature .

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    — m jaiy * - 15 . 9 ° . ^ ^ Wi ^ ers' Circular 859

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    Lord Rosslyn has reason to be gratified with his success as a poet . His * Sonnets and

    Poems ' have passed into JL # a second edition . ? *

    Mr . Rae ' s ' Country Banker ' has , we understand , been revised , and will be issued in a

    new edition by Mr . Murray . # *

    Messrs a four . th Longmans edition of Mr & . Co William . have O'Brien in the ' s novel press , When we were Boys . '

    # We understand that Mr . Elliot Stock will

    shortly publish the third section of Dr . Edleston ' s reprints of the Gainford parish

    registers .

    On the 2 () th inst . Messrs . Routledgo < fc Sons will ~ . ^ mi , publish m _ r v * fc W ^ Jf Jk M . KJ M . * a » JV * new A V ^ * * novel »• . ^ -r " »*¦ » by »* - » ¥ the — — — ~— author _„ -, _ — of _ _

    ' The Leavenworth Case . ' It bears the engaging title , of 4 A Matter of Millions . '

    # # issue Mr this . William month a Bryce new shilling , of Edinburg novel entitled h , will

    un 'A A Bachelor !> .. the _ 1 _ 1 nom ^ ' s Wife itT de 'A plu / me b y of a new 4 Ursa author „ . „ Maj i . l ~ „„ or writing .. . ' L ' . .

    # ? MessrsSampson LowMarston & Go .

    have just . published ' Life , in Uganda :

    ifmpenal &« v . R . p . Eng Ashe land , M ' s . A Latest ., F . R . G Charge . S . / by the i = T-r- . —

    immediate Messrs . C publication A . . Burnet & a Co popular i M . are preparing edition of the for

    late covers Dr . . Norman The first Macleod volume ' s is work promised s in paper on July 15 .

    We learn that Messrs . Vizetelly & Co . will

    shortly publish an English edition of the later poems poet . The of Mr book . Francis is ± i entitled j- ¦ - —¦ Adams --- * Songs - »¦!¦ -s , ¦¦ & the of Australian the Army

    of j the - — Ni ht - — — ' — — - — - — — *^~ —— . . — = —r — ^ _ . . ^ ^_ ^^ ^* rf" ^^ " ^ r ^ m ^* t ^ f *** ~^ h- *^* ^^ fc <^ w g , # # *

    Messrs . Griffith , Farran & Co . send us a copy of their ' Prize School Book Catalogue , '

    most which of conta the i best ns a -known long list writers of popular of the works century by in history , biography , fiction , and poetry .

    # # ? We understand that the ' Memoir of Robert

    Browning' on which Mrs . Sutherland Orr is now at work , will , with his last poems , form

    the seventeenth volume of the new edition whicli out . Messrs . Smith , Elder & Co . are bringing

    # * We understand that Messrs . William Hodge

    & E Co . Todd are to editor publish of the a book edition by of Mr . Ossian George ' yre , in the * Canterbury Poets . ' It will bear the

    picturesque title of * Sketch-Book of the North . ' Its contents have already appeared

    in various journals .

    publishing The Scots a series Obse of rver sketches has recentl of l Modern y been Men . The list includes Mr . GladstoneMr .

    BalfourPrince BismarckSir Frederick , Leighton , , and other men of lig , ht and leading . Mr . Edward Arnold will shortly publish a

    reprint of a selection from the series V . w

    Messrs . Routledge will shortly bring out a

    4 Cyclopsedia of Card and Table Games / edited by Mr . Angelo Lewis ( Prof . Hoffmann ) . Mr .

    Arthur G . Payne will write on billiards , Mr Major . L -Genera . H <* ffe l r Drayson on chess on whist , and and Mr < . 5 carte R " . ,

    M'Culloch on draughts . # # ! The # * - * moral text 1 it book for Government S ~ - * 1 aided * " ¦ * 1

    --ftehoola in India has at length been issued . It is entitled ' A Moral Reader for High

    Schools / and contains four sections , the last of the which stand treats point of of the ge / n Deity eral re , li prayer gion . , & As c , a f firs rom t

    trial it has A . been - distributed — throug ' hout the schools of the Punjab . #

    # We hear that the first volume of Prof . Alfred Marshall ' s long-expected treatise on

    ¦ ¦ ¦ and the F ¦¦» * w Pr ill inci be p published les id ¦ t of ¦—»— Economies ¦ very shortl ' is y in b the y Mess press rs . ,

    ^ Macmillan ^^» ^^*^ m w w ^~ ^^ ^^ »^^ ^~ - & Co ' . " — — " — — It is - an ^ m ' attemp ' ^ m t to ^^ present a modern version of old doctrines with the aid

    of the new work , and with reference to the new problems of the age .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1890, page 859, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071890/page/5/