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    i8g4 The Publishers' Circular IO9

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

    f , neW its ly " walls -forin being ecl Institute Arthur , the Hacker exam ' s p p les icture chosen of

    ' The m Mother , ' a genuine and homely bit of life ; Fred Morgan ' s * and Meadow Sweet Waller '; E . P Letter . Brewt of

    -Introduction SuTs ' Fatima / ' Ht ; . Lofti S . E e . contributes ' s ' a cap i ital

    a ketches vof rticl LrOv *» e hes * uv on * /» * ' and ana The ¦*• Inns — a & discrimi uiscri of Court ininating xj , aiju ' with ^ some criticism criticism effective — ¦¦ on oil

    two CafHeri bold ' s ' and work admirab at the ly Comedie eDgraved Franch reproductions ise , with of 111 il | 5 his items busts *¦* i ** - ' •*¦*¦ in of - — the Corneille number— and The ^^ Rotrou Cornhil , form l the

    zine other iece ( of Smith fiction , Elder in , which & Co . the ) . opens buried with rom a ance Maga trag of ic - p Oxford professor , is exhumed by bringing the

    scholar an J | U VA 1 W * face — £ to face with his early love , now the grey dinner lUiivi -haired party , but at the vivacious Deanery Mrs . . The Annesley professor , at is a

    her asked U son by , a the wealthy w gay widow young to officer assist *' . , from dau her hter the •* in clutches rescuing of the

    of a fascinating woman—* a g reg the iment venerable , ' of scholar a somewhat ' s well unorthodox -intentioned type efforts — and to

    counteract' the harpy' by inducing the young man to W too »* V ^^ ¦ and *< - ¦—— - —¦ wed - — the — - daug t T hter of one of his academi -- _ ___

    -cai brethren are cleverly pictured . In the final resort he appeals to ' the harpy' herself , who tells what proves to have been her own tale ____ —of _

    jpVB V V » * w - — — J— ^ . a voman married young to a husband , who ill-! treated her and deserted her , while she , being fond of — ^ society —p —— —p ^_ r ^— ^ _ , — still follows - — , the _ reg r K ^^¦ _ iment — — . to v which — — —V —— he ^ - ^^

    belonged , and finally resolves that when her husband dies she will marry one of its men as a means of escape from her painful life . The ¦

    Professor - ^ r- - ^ - - _ - — listens — calmly , and has — - onl — — y just _ - ^ - ^_ - declared ^^~— ^^ -v —^ p his opinion that the lady in question ought to resign __ j her prey _ ^ _^_ , when __ . _ . _ Bob _ __ Annesley — _ . _ . , the __ second __ ^ ___ - ^ ^_ ___

    subject their of the tete conversation -a-tete . The , sudden Professor ly breaks in and upon afterwards iearns from Bob that three escapes weeks , «<_ _ _ _____

    before the conversation took place he had married the When lad the y on Professor hearing again of her visits husband this new ' s death -made .

    bride she confesses to him that she has made a because mistak he e , and had that promised Bob to onl do y married soand she her

    talks of an overdose of chloral as a , means of escape from the situationA -scene in the hunt

    . - ing Harr imrn * field t % ington n gton brings ^ , , as as she she the _ is is story still still believed to believed a sad to to close be be . . for Mrs hpr her .

    and ouu leap second . Anneslev An She marri nesley is age , . ' be bein killed has inor g not thus thus like been a released released flash announced of , marrips marries lig , , htning takes the tha , '

    Miss Cecil on whoso behalf his , mother had meets invoked the the Professor Professor j ^ ji . afterwards auoi ' s aid . Bob and asks Annesley him

    purpose hesitating ( -. ' .-w ? ly , ' I * Do ^ v do »» v you not believe think uaius , ' that he , , clijia she said aoiva did gravel it ill on y , that we .. _ have ri jLiiiu ht wh wnniever atever to iu chsi ast h

    an 10 "ory llie aspersion will not , „ , „„ as fail any any that to g ^ keep upon the her reader memory fhirH ' s c at / tention hucu s The uc

    Pl uterary easant . ee ^ nd Recollections , » sad sad as as it it is in ' . . giv The Th es ^ third somo p n ^ an per more ^ of ^ f i - personal r - - _ v . » ju _ _ reminiscencea cjj _ ujuir > L , oiJi ; - » of ui jixuxi Harriet jcl ivjlui Mar - -

    ji anT Q pothecary Q xtraits U a * Shakspearean Q ' Anste and in Romeo / S 'Giai essay and -fs Jul on Robe iet ' Petti ' some is cont and < Polish inu the ed ;

    jo ; a pirates' story , < Tho Rock «« co « rpjons rtay Magazine ' complete ( Isbister a cap & ital Co . ) umber in add , — iti The on

    thfi Pa e uitta Pi LDO l ^ , continuati P , OTlfi y by Hesba mi Charlotte _ 4 i <> / -v Stretton ^ n of ^ i ? French i ts 4 , - and two a , has ' The , n a thoug Secret stories ht f of ul . er Joh

    — Kte { "H 15 on - uincentenar n Imtterworth Wioklif Wlcklif y nnr dici _ the til ng * the proposal r »^^ present o «» i to to cele ^ year i « - .

    5 ^^ ^ a ^ died *^ ^ at n . f . T .-i-i ++. rv-.-.,. ~_ - « . i ^ on ^_ . the * . _ . _ last i day j _ of __

    December , 1384 ; an essay on the importance of titled small * duties Pin Pricks and thei ' by r Mrs — faithful — -. . F . G _ . performance Faithfull _ — ; a __ , en lay - \ I

    , - ^ J - ^ J sermon George ____ on Macdonald * Jesus T _ and _ ; and " ___ the the ( rich first 1 ) Young "V 7 of som _ Man T e papers , ' by ; on ' A Child's Reliion : How to Hinder and (

    i gj ^_ Procter How ^^_^ fl * ivi / in to . i Hel writes niuot ^ h ^ ^ b p it ^ with irxuu . , ' b y Sop leasant hia ^ a ' Wilson ^^^^ fulness ^ ^ m > a ^ . of \ Mr ^^ ik ^^ informa . W ______¦ . C . ^^ . . ¦

    - _ . } p pit / doaui / iuiucocj _»_ luiuxuia" - K tion contri contributes butes on * Palm two two or or Tree three three ? , ' Daces and of of Mrs reminiscences remimspences . Johnson kk pages

    ¦ ¦ t of he F Georg title , e ' Eliot The Tru ' s father e Story , Mr k of . Robert Adam A JBede Evans . '— , under Good ^¦ ^ B ^ M— —i A ^ v i _ ^ _

    W ^^ _ ords ( Isbister & Co . ) has an important article ^ by Sir Lyon Playfair on ' Petroleum ; ' a second article , with clever illustrations , by Mr . Edward

    Whymper , on ' Greenlaxad ; ' and a characteristic essay by Mr . Harry Jones on * The East London Poor , ' in which be sagely remarks , on the so-called

    * Bitter Cry , ' that * it comes from those who have Been the suffering rather than from those who are feeling it / and that ' it would be more hopeful if

    they did intelligently cry . ' An article on * Janet of Hamilton a little , - ' known by Professor Scotch p Yeitch oetess , the gives daug a hter sketch of

    a shoemakerand a remarkable , instance of selfcultnre . The , Professor offers some pretty specimens of her verses , and tells us the curious fact

    learn that , thoug to write h at until five she she could was fifty read . — , she The did Quiver net ( Cassell & Co . ) is filled with brief and forcible

    practicall papers with y useful a relig item ious s bearing in the , and number among is the an account of — * Our — — Ni - — g ^^^ h ht — School —— —i — —— - ^ - for - ^— — —v Young ^^^^ - - ^^ — -v * ^^^— v Men ^ rv ^^^ ——¦ — , -m '

    by the wife of a Sheffield clergyman . Mr . George Weatherly gives a sketch of Bishop Hooper in tho series of ' Heroes of the Faith '

    , and Dr . Hiles Hichens writes vigorously on * The Sceptic and the Moralist' as typical instances among * The Young Men of Society/—The

    Tortfolio ( Seeley & Co . ) gives for its frontispiece sentation a sketch by of Mr ' The . Gilardoni Birds' from of Aristop the recent hanes repre at

    -Cambridge , when the Birds were on the stage at , the opening of the second act . It is a clever bit of drawing , and gives an excellent idea of the .

    readil scene , y the be forgotten pieturesqueness by those of who which were fortunate will not \ | enough to witness it . Either intentionally or j

    with accidentall rf ^ ^ » ^ . ^ k a « J _ some —^ —^^ ^ L ¦ I \ y scenes ^^_ the ^ L 1 . ^^ ¦ which sist __ _ - A . er _^ . will Universit IV deli ght ^ i _ y every is supp Oxford .- _ ^ . lied w . *» l j . man in an article on * The Thames at Oxford / ) '

    giving us two interesting views of Godstow—one a reproduction of an antique sketch from the >' Gentleman ?& Magazine of 1791 i showing the /

    «• • , - - CD < and nunnery then and we have St r ~« . . Leonard T on another i ' s Chapel /^ i page i two still . i i charming roofed /» i — ) ' etchings of Godstow nunnery and Iffley , by 3 rlr .

    Alfred Dawson . Mr . Church's letterpress is excellent . A review of Palmer ' s * Eclogues of Virgil' by the editorMr . P . G . Hamertonaffords

    him an opportunity , for ' correcting / mildl , y but judiciously , the ignorance of tho Spectator reviewerwho , in dealing with this noble work

    pointed , to a reproduction of a drawing ( that in , the seventh eclogue ) as the type of execution in the quite different art of etching , and who made

    other unfoundod charges against Mr . Samuel Palmer and the publishers . Mr . Hamerton not unjustly complains that the editors of high-class

    papers should entrust the criticism of art works to gentlemen ignorant of technical matters , and ; he bitterly but truly says that ' art criticism is i the only department of criticism in which men 1

    exercise authority without knowledge / In a paper on * The Master of San Martino / Mr . A . H . I Church writes ablv on the Dortraits lent bv Mr . I f

    M . mr »

    I8g4 The Publishers' Circular Io9

    i 8 g 4 The Publishers' Circular IO 9

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1884, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021884/page/13/