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    ^uim QQ4 The Publishers* Circular * 2 2O...

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    Books Heceitbd : From Messrs. "W. H. All...

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    there is no being as is hora a myth his , nep extremel hew has y useful made som for e bogey inquiries purposes —* He , but more liiv v » / The uncle gives the boy certain

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    the and { JIHJ - _¦ remaining Society I JUVU ** w and * . — ! J- » - institutions ~ feels ¦¦ »¦» ^ the ¦ friction and customs which of his _ reli _ _ stern g ion

    acceptance Turning „ _ J ^\ J ^ l ^ VJ to , of Oxford * . his ** — . _ uncle - — - » we - _ - ' s are creed introduced — inevitabl - - y to causes Mill .

    , College as ' the latest sensation / It has been built fill I 1 V by If Y $ subscri 3 ^^ KJtJ V ^ J » ft ptions r * r —¦*> V Utilitarian ^ * J *»^ of ^^_* persons »^ - >^«» * rf Cabman -w *^ ¦•» ¦ who " »» - < i ^ described ww -vn ^ v a « w ^^ -w ^ .

    themselves as * A , ' ' A Con-¦ ¦ ¦ verted Peer' ' A Great Unknown ¦ ' ' An I Orthodox

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    situated p ^ ^^ ^/« . ^ *^ » i *^ outside — ¦ ** Oxford — ^ j , on the road past t Xeble . The M | AW chapel ^^»»»*» p * -w ^ is — — used — as an - inciter to earl y rising f— , j /'

    anil the head of the College gives lectures daily in lieu of service on Fruits of my Philosophy . ' j Pericles Brum was the first pupil to enter the

    walls of this new institution , and over its portal is the legend ' Abandon Grod , all ye who enter here . ' Scenes of Oxford life fill several

    powerdeprived folly written of his pages office ; , the and Professor other changes of Exegesis follow in is quick successionuntil at last we see Pericles in

    \ London a member , of the Caucus Club , and dynamite plots proceed with a rapidity to which recent events give additional force as we read of

    ; them and suggest whether , after all , the Romance is in advance of the age . The conversion of Pericles is the last scene in the bcok , and as the

    ; i author reader with closes having it he will produced , we believe sl work , of credit genu the ine ; power and originality , but * not , one would fain

    Uop « , prophetic of the destinies of England . From Messrs . Morgan . & Scott . —' Full Salvation / as seen in Bunyan ' s ' Pilgrim ' s Progress / bthe

    y , the famous Rev Scri . W . ptural allegory Haelam theory , a M p . A icture of . five The of distinct author what he draw stage holds s fro s of to m the the be

    tlw Christian traced same in in life progressive , with their movement special characteristics that can be ,

    tlio xracea the tne ot history historv Christian ot of the the life Children Children as described of of Israel Israel b , , St in in . Paul raul progress , , and and in in the thfl very Vftrv life life * of nf the tho Son Snn of rvf Grod f ^ orl , him Viim y -

    tho fielf . putting These on stages of the are armour : JIAAVf Salvation \ of God , Del the iverance enjoy XJ 1 VT Jf - ,

    ment of the rest v * - » v of * V God * . * . W « J * JU the entrance Vi > V- ^ , of VJXAVJ the Pil I - grim ch into the Celestial City , . In his introductory

    experiences apter , Mr . in Haslam the history traces of the the parallel Israelites to , in these the liife 8 of

    th « <> n or he St st applies . . raul Paul , , the and and same in in the thn idea life life to the of of Christ Christ life of , , and and the individual Christianto put it in his

    - words intimatel : « These wwMCiifcru connected five , stage with or , s concern wellbeing us , and own Tha are

    jtten » w __ ord u , , armour a of rmour ~ V y God for tor is milk the the W warrior warrior for babes UUX our , sure sure , WOll meat - - rest rest UBlUg for for for . . young X tho tho Hoi

    « believer iAt shall , and be a revealed certain . hope Theory , to him and of the theology glory

    I ™ fl ^ » ph y pas , but s over experi all these ence mus distinctions t go more in one graduall para y - .

    We can only traverse these various states one at a time , or step by step . ' The book has some

    effective illustrations . From Messrs . Routledge & Son . — 'Men of the

    Time . ' This most valuable work of reference is in its eleventh edition . It has now attained a bulk of 1 # 175 pages ii and contains — — on a rough

    ,-- jl — , ^^ , W ^^ ^^ ™ ^^ ^^ r ^ ^^ ' computation , notices of about 2 , 000 eminent contemporaries . At the beginning of the work is a ¦ key ^ to — assumed — — names — — ~— ¦ — by — — means — ^ — " — ^—^ ^— ^^ ¦ of ^^ wh w — ^^^^^ ^ i i * ch ^^^ v ^^>^^^ those ^^ v ^^ b ^^ b ^^ r . ^ ^ t ^ r

    who only know an author by his nom de plume , are guided to his place in the alphabet of real names . ' Men of the Time ' closes with a

    necrology of the 434 persons included in the previous editions who have died since their publication . This table gives the dates of birthand of death

    and a reference to the edition in , which biogra- , phical notices appeared . Not the least interesting portion of the work before us is a

    quasiautobiographical memorandum in which the dates of successive editions of ' Men of the Time ' were published . In its pages as it now appears

    X JL O A . A , the careers of Eng ^^ lish and foreign statesmen are traced , and the services of naval and military men are chronicled . The notices of our authors

    give lists of their writings with dates of publication , and under the names of painters we obtain a catalogue of their greatest works with the years

    of their exhibition . There is no one who will not more intelligently read his paper by the aid of * Men of the Time , ' and , as everybody reads

    the paper , we are only saying that the book will be of almost universal usefulness . From . The Society for Promoting Christian

    Knowledge . — ' The Official Year-Book of the Church of England . ' Of the fulness of detail in this work there can be no two opinions ; in fact

    it what seems we to desiderate have grown in this in bulk 33 in since the last first year edition , but , is the action of a stronger l-J , hand in dealing CJwith ,

    the material here provided in such rich profusion . "We feel , in fact , that wo have before us the matter for the compilation of a Year-Book , but that the

    book itself has still to be supplied . With this criticism , which will probably suggest itself to every impartial reader , we may point out that

    the the book book supplies suTmlies copious copious information information as as to to diocesan institutions and machinery , the proceeding _ . ~ s ^ o ^ . — f co — _____ nfer — ences _ ___ _ _ . _ an _ d cong ___ j resses ,

    fmissionshome and foreign—and the work of Church societies of all kwodsY ^ and then we have some statistical tables which more clirectly relate to the work of

    the Church during the- past twelve months . Under the form of a species of literary record there are gathered together a number of short notices of

    books , many of which do not belong to the period to which the volume relates , while some of the most important works in the range of ecclesiastical

    and entirel relig omitted ious literature . A reference published to during our own 1883 are or to the y columns of the Athencsiim , would pages have ,

    enabled the editor to make this section of his work far more complete . The book is the work of an honorary editor , who acts under the

    direction of a committee , and it is just possible that be the the presence secret of of a the multitude somewhat of counsel heterogeneous lors may

    character of the volume . Regarded from the economic standpoint it is difficult to see how the Society can supply such a massive tome for the

    small price charged for it . From Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , & Oo . —

    Bieson s Our Schools and Colleges . It appears II —— . - _ iMa asa _ ^ __ > BMarai _ npvB ____« i _ ia _>_^ inn

    ^Uim Qq4 The Publishers* Circular * 2 2o...

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1884, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031884/page/11/