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    Feb. i, i8£8 The Publishers' Circular II...

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    Continental T\Ole$

    ^ and G . Hartlaub . ; It gives a . very complete and carefully ai ? ramgred account of EminPascha ' s

    labours in the Soudan . We have received * No . I * . of Ckronik fiir

    rervielfdltigende Kunst . This first number consists of twenty beautifully printed large quarto pages of letterpress with illustrative woodcuts

    printed X CD in the text ¦ and two separately printed illustrations of Holbein ' s Madonna of the Burgermeister Meyer . These illustrations

    represent the Darmstadt and Dresden pictures of the Madonna . We can only state the contents of this

    interesting journal of the Viennese Gesellschaft fiir vervielfaltigende Kunst . They are as follows : IntroductionHistorical Art Studies

    The Madonna of 1451 , , Early Dutch Painting , and its relation to Copperplate Engraving , Etching in BerlinA Paris Letter on the

    Exposition des Etampes , du Siecle , Reviews of new illustrated works * Finally , a supplementgiving an exhaustive account of

    Hoi-, bein's ' Madonna des Burgermeisters Meyer . ' This new periodical should be successful

    considering its general excellence , the low price at which it is published , and the wide interest taken , especially by bookbuyers ,

    "booksellers , and book and art lovers everywhere in the subjects of which it treats . In the Bibliograp * ' JL . hic de la France of the 28 th

    ultimo we notice advertised a new collection of contemporary novels , translated from the French , the forthcoming volume of which

    series series is is announced announced as as ' feabina SabinaZembra Zemhra ,. , par r > a . r Sir ( sic ) William Black . ' We had thought the ( iallican notion that the name of every English

    / gentleman should have Sir prefixed to it was as extinct as the old English fashion of putting Sir before the name of a priest ; albeit the

    fashion still flourished in the Bacon-Shakspeare age , as witness those immortal narnes Sir Hugh Evans and Sir Oliver Mar-text .

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    Feb . i , i 8 £ 8 The Publishers' Circular II 3 r i

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    The Publistiers * Weekly ( New York ) , remarking on ' The Turn of the Year' in the

    book business , says : ' According to most reports from the trade , the year 1887 . closes Avith a fair — record _ _ as _ a business year % j , iboth

    for the publishing and bookselling business , although the conditions of bookselling have not bettered as they should have done , and

    the desired boom in publishing has not appeared . This year is probably the last in which the i cheap library system wil ] be much in vogue

    , as the field for profitable work in that direction has evidently , / been -- — nearl - y . / exhausted t , iand it

    will not be practicable indefinitely to keep up rate periodical , now that publication the quota of novels must be at filled the present by so

    large a proportion of the poorest English trash that would not be reprinted except under the necessity of ' regular oxpublication 'to obtain the

    second-class postal rates . The new year will of open international with the most copyri vigorous ght that crusad has e yet in behalf been

    made , and with a union of the forces i and a hope *• of result such as no pre A . vious attempt JL * * ^ B ^ B ^ HH ^ B ^ H A ^ B ^ M ^ k ^& a

    has shown . There is also a general feeling that something must be done , possibly either . by shortening discounts or by doing away with

    published retail prices , to get the bookselling , trade out of the Slough of Despond into which current methods have brought it . '

    Messrs . G . P . Putnam's Sons , New York , announce 4 The Relations as among of their Church earliest and Stat publications e in the

    United States ; or , The American Idea of Religious Liberty and its Practical Effects , '

    bv by Key Rev . . Ph Philin ilip Schafl SchafK , D D .. D V . . ' 'The The Religious Relic-ions Aspect of Evolution , ' by James McCosh , D . D ., LLi . D . A second revised edition of Simon

    Sterne ' s ' Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States . ' * The Life of Abraham Lincoln / by Noah Brooks , illustrated . ' Essays on HysteriaBrain

    •/ « s , Tumor , and Some Other Cases of Nervous Disease , ' by Mary Putnam Jacobi , M . D . ; and * * Andiator . octe ' ; orThe Eve of Lady Day at

    ' , v % f Lake George and other Poems ,. Hymns , and Meditations / by Rev . Clarence A . Wai worth .

    Mr . H . 0 . Bunner , the author of * The Story of a New York House , ' and ' The Midge , '

    —books which have gained him many friends and admirers—is contributing to Scribner ' s Magazine a new story under the title ' Natural

    Selection , a Romance of Chelsea Village and East-Hampton Town . ' The third volume of Mr . Henry Q . Lea's ' History of the Inquisition during the Middle

    Age 3 , ' will be published soon by Messrs . Harper & Bros ., New York . The same firm

    have have just iust issued issued 'Mr Jylr . . Absalom Absalom Billinp ± 5 illingslea -slea . and other Georgian Folk , ' another collection of Southern sketches and dialect stories by

    Colonel Richard Malcom Johnston . The frontisp M . iece of the current number

    of the Book Buyer ( New York ) is a portrait of Mr . Hamilton Gibson , the artist-author . Among other writers to be portrayed during

    the year are Mr . Charles Dudley Warner , Mr . Andrew Carnegie , and Mr . J . A . Froudo . Messrs i . Benjamin & BellNew ¦ Yorkwill

    ^ m ^ ^^^_ — — n » ' ** ** ^^ r **^ w ^^^~^ - ~ ^ * ^^ ^^ . ' ^ ' — —¦ — ' - ^ — ' — " ^ " - , -m ^ ^^ • ^ ~*^ - ^^ m — ^ , « w W ^& ^^ ^^ b publish at once the long-announced * Shakspeare in Fact and in Criticism , ' by Appleton Morgan , author of ' The Shakspearean tyTyfrh . '

    The work includes ten chapters , of which the final one is * Baconian and other Ciphers . ' 4 Check and Counter Check' a

    brightingenious , and humorous novel , , by Brander , Matthews and George A . Jessop , is the principal feature of JLippincotVs Magazine for

    January . The number also contains Albion W . Tourgee ' s second instalment of ' With Gauge & Swallow' which tells in a vigorous

    called style an An episode Unlawful of , bravery Honour in . ' the Ed Civil gar Saltus War , cilso contributes a clever fancy entitled ' The

    Grand Duke ' s Rubies , ' and Edgar Fawcett writes of ' The Browning Craze' and Charles E . L . Wingate of * The Preferences of Our

    Opera Singers . ' Mr . Win . F . Gill is said to bo preparing

    for publication a new edition of his * . life M . of »

    Edgar Allan Poe .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1888, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021888/page/11/