On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    a% • • - ' ' ' : . -— a

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Books Received :— Messrs. A. 8. Barnes &...

    I II than volum not e in e its the handsome appearance crimson of case the . half-yearly

    From Mr . Elliot Stock . —The 'Antiquary , ' Vol . I VIII ., July to December 1883 . "We can scarcely I accept an indexfull though it isas an argument

    ) I for expression dispensing of a with , wish a that table such of , contents a table had , but been the added to this volume is the onlcriticism

    \ there is to offer goodl on y its general arrangement y and ! appearance . Binding , paper , and print are

    sumptuous and in perfect keeping with the second title t . of the serial as ' a magazine devoted to the study ¦ of the past , ' and we congratulate Mr . Stock on

    ¦ the t . hft success RiHWARfl --whir which » . h has has attended attended his his eftort effort to to supply suddIv i anti illustrations quaries — with veritable an organ casts all from their the own anti . que The

    add much to the value of the magazine , for they "bring before the reader , in nearly every case , genuine curiosities . The editor has gathered

    branch round him of an the able subject staff , of national writers , , local and , ev and ery ecclesiastical , is fully represented .

    From Messrs . Wyman & Sons . — ' English Dates in Rh ' Memori yme , ' a by Technica Edwin Ellis ' as Griffin an aid . to The the idea pup of il the in

    fixing facts , dates , and events in the mind has often been turned to good account , and * Wheeler ' s Scripture — - — _ History — _ ' ' Donaldson _ — _ ________ ' s Latin Grammar , '

    k and many other , - kindred works , have made the j most to lean b vva of this f ^ plan In ^ k M- ^ the « of ^^ u _ k g little iving book the b » memory before us »»« something ^ we have ^ ¦ - ~ - a

    * , _ w ^ - » ^^^ upon *•• m ^ ^ - _» . _ ^^ ^* * . w a ^> » m * s ^^ ~^ __ m ^ ~^^ ^^^ ^^ * w « r » - « - — ! , clever use of rhymes not only to suggest ' dates ' which are apt to slip out of recollection but to

    connect them with historical events . Thus we have * the Signing of Magha Charta , 1215 / described in a couplet , which serves the double

    purpose of characterising King John , while it notes the year of the famous document : — ( , \ ' John Signed the Magna tyrant Charta , cruel , Twelve and mean -Fifteen , /

    I The Plague and the Fire of London are tersely i but effectively combined in the following lines : — if ' Took The / Plagu place \\ e in wMch Sixteen left Sixty but few Five ¥ alive \ ,

    jl __> __ yjx < xjz ill o _ - _ ircrV-JI toia . i / y - - _ . ' _ j ¦ The _ Cau V ^_ fe ^ sed Fir I _ London e in A Sixteen ^~ , * _ to be Sixty ^^_ _| built - Six Jh of K bricks ; , . " The union of the Parliaments of Great Britain

    and Ireland is commemorated as follows : — * On Great the Britain very first and day Ireland that this were century joined begun into one . ' ,

    These will serve as fair samples of the ingenious way in which the author has done his work , and althoughas might have been expectedsome of

    the events , lent themselves more readil , y than others to the jingle of the lines , yet in nearly every case he has given us verses which will be

    easily caught up and retained by young folks . As old Fuller observed , in justification of the attempt A . to put A King U David ' ' s Psalms into metre ,

    verse is as easy to carry as twice the bulk of prose ^ and a manual like this cannot fail to be a genuine assistanceespecially in a day like this

    when the difficulty , is to find room for the old and essential subjects of education in our overcharged school course .

    i Magazines fob Fjebruary . — It can scarcely be said that the new number of the English Illustrated Magazine is in literary interest

    Kf it quite up to the mark of the four previous issues . . The continuation of * An Unsentimental Journey ( through Cornwall' gives us some pleasant gossip

    I by the author of ' John Halifax / and some prettily drawn pictures of the scenery and the fishing folk of r this western » w—^ county ; * The Post

    ¦ — ¦ ^ H ¦ ¦ — - ' I ^ H ^ K ' ^~ ~ " ' " ^^^^~ ^^ ^^ * m ™ ^^^ W V ^^ " ^^ ^^ —i ^^ —^— —mr — ' —v ^^—_ ^— — — ^^^ ^^» - ^^ SP ^^ fe ^~ ^ H ^^ Office , ' an anonymous article , with drawings by ^^

    Harry Jburniss , deecribes the history of the

    Gi reports -overnment , and with D g epartment ives some a graphic descri , as d ption etailed illustrations of in its the intenl oflU — - . ^ 1 i

    R economy . L . Stevenson , writes on The Character ^ M ^ Uog Does 8 ,. ' ' with witn Mr mr . . Calde uamecott cott as as his nis apfci artist af . a « t _'

    » on ' The Humming Birds' Relatives' hasrS beautiful drawings engravings ; and then we from have Mr . ' the Charles opening Wh chapta ymw ' ! of tale titled Julib

    a new ' a , y Walter BeE in The the his City scen pictures e Road open , we and s in will as a Mr g bookbinder ive . Besan his descri t is ' s always workshop ption of clever the fr interior and its master—

    : fiftee It was n feet only long a small ; there slip was of a a place smal , l eight fireplace feet at broad one 3 and g side eiae - and wooden a the safe chair at tli ; there e other there uiere was ; ther a high e was desk also and in it a a stool table andb with £ i

    vne fireplace nrepiace was was a a cupboard cupDoarct . . This This was wu the tin office living , and or keeping above it room was of his Mr bed . Bradberry -room , because , as well he was as not Wi ashamed ashamed to to live live in in his his place place of of business business , , and and indeed indeed could <* nu

    smells not first afford time which one to liv seem observed e elsewh to the a ere curiously outsider . On entering sour as if smell they the , place mnstahran one of for that tie Income the more unpleasant the longer one remains amoc ?

    them fhfim army and ; : a n . smell smel put them l which which to would wonlii flight ; very verv a smell soon Roon to enMrpl entirely whic h rout no - >* one a whole twi cm ^ u the ever *; ? WJ . smell become KHZKs \ of JX ± JL \ s accustomed OVVUOi'V / Ul ^ U ; 9 in AU that UXXCbU the respect ! VO smell | [ JvVt , of a CV sm OlUCU ell like UK

    ture , or that a of poulterer vinegar . ' s shop To those or , however , familiar new farnl with . the the unvy industries tuuuonwo meant \ of J ± . the nut country ks \ j and uiiv the j . jr , , the vuv > smell Diutu meant jjucaiiu meant books paste pofilc and , , | and Q | J

    books paste meant bookbinding cases , . In cases fact , this was the workshop , the of ui or studio the tuc craft iiai of a and bookbinder mystery oi ^ , one whose of the workmen nuiiwiu humblest and ttUU followers work

    vi girls ew « to ar e cheapness few <• _ u » , and - much whose . ij _^ rijr more ; , operations v one uc than J n * uuoc _ to are ___ artistic conducted _^ cu finish « with . wort . Mr * - . Bradberry , in fact , knew nothing of the history and masters splendours Bpiouuuiuo yJL of jjj bis cf Grolier own unu craft uitu de . v , ( ua had Servier u never ucvci knew h ucai eard u of vx th bucgitw e at grat iD

    even by , even hearsay , of blazons , mottoes , , and nothing geometrical , patterns at came to and , him and six in was stout and quite in cloth whole content , at ninepence leather to bind with ; everything in half ilt extra leather thtfc at ,

    to three J * U VJ one keep 1 - and - -UX 1 - his U six - - BXJL people ; ; , and U / liU hoped employed Jll W 1 for JUIC little , IUUiUJLICI and more to , , pay VT than 1 U 1 his g gllU to way get DAUO work iith ,, regularity .

    add zine Leaving for that an our it acquaintance is readers likel to to go with win to the the pages plot addi , of we tional the need maga onlj sub - - scribers JL for iS Jk this & alread y VUivl deservedly VtVUVJk many popular serial

    » -r ^ S > V *~ T * % */* . »¦> X ^ VAAU ( JVAJL y T T ^^ v « . T l " ^ X frontisp — Z %

    U-. A . I . UX y gure tS VA M -,. M . U J O cryJ O D painter tbe LTU 1 UI wal / V 1 , , l C Vy , . » its V T . title Lemoch JUClUUtlll being . In J . H * The connection ^ UUllVVl Orp han " with , ' and this th «

    beautiful work of the Russian artist , Mr . Cosmo Monkhouse writes pleasantly on ' Some Pictures thai

    ot of Children Children . ' ' his his main main con contention tention being being w » children c realism hildren is and and suited , that that art art to no can can subj do do little little ect so to to much improre improre as an aa to

    their instantaneous L / U . CJ . L natura L 1 < X U , , LI J . a l Jl attitudes UiCL photograp / i L > UC 1 CJ 9 . . ¦ h His » of W the typ K / J jJl i ^ cal f little * M . jix illustration *"" peop — hat — le u

    well accord with this view . The 'W I Manson it ? ' of the sets lamented before young child artist kneeling , Mr on . a George chair

    peering * Tic xic Tac x : » , in Toe j wonder . otJ ,, ' representing xtsyr into csieii us a the biug face thre ciix- of co e an children ^ w « old «*~ - cloc -of * .

    with by Mr bare Shi arms elds —playing of at the most favourite talented gantf cot , u -

    tempora MJ JL . TJLX . . ry ( JlilOlUD artists , . one VS 11 R From \ JX our UUJ the . UiVD same pencil «**• we n ^ a clever little scene of a boy firing off his holds popg ^ J

    * it at «^ is * his Pv * impossible M . aaa bab m * r \ S + y ~» KJ ft brother t < J * . »^ to »> V ^ . question V ^ \ A ^ B ^ Mr t > - VJ ' & ^^ . Monkhouse his A A > ¦ ^ jud **¦ gment f _ 5 , tha , a J « *

    and painters many of of the the past artists , like of Sir the Joshua present * , kyn uWJ ° " T * Leslie ive , Mr too . much Millai of s the , or portrai Sir Frederick t in their WJjPJJ c 1

    g J naturalness fiices * A \ U us UO and lAiVJ attitudes 1 UUCU which is , LJJD and ( after JJUl too LX all CblU ) little 1 one »* u *»~— of of J- the ^ 116 " w ^ ^ ^

    its bftau beau buildings ti ties fifl of of such Himh and work wnrlr its peop . Al Aloi le , giers forms ers . , with witn the P pict en 11 ^ bji' ^ . an an intereetinir intereeting paper DaDer . , and ana anomtu another ? "V , -. ? . _ jj

    article has for its eubject the first exhibitF ^

    A% • • - ' ' ' : . -— A

    a % • - ' ' ' : . - — a

    \ IO 8 The Publishers Circular Feb , ^

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1884, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021884/page/12/