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    March i, 1890 The Publishers' Circular 2...

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    standard ceased to float above its Walls . Many important historical documents , which cast con-¦ siderabl vh e light on the social and civic h life of

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    history of the place from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries . The work reflects the utmost U V ¦ " — — credit not only on its - __ comp __ ^_ ilers , wbut ^

    also on the local publisher , who has produced the work in a manner which certainly would not UV » discredit — any ^ p house — in the — publishing B— ftrade . ^

    This is the sort of work which ought to find its way promptly into every public library . From Messrs . W . & A . K . Johnston . —*

    Sixpenny Atlas ' ( Modern Series of Cheap Atlases ) . Fifty-two maps in colours are contained in this wonderfulty cheap atlas . The names are

    printed in clear type , whilst the binding is sufficiently strong to stand a moderate amount of rough schoolroom usage .

    From Messrs . Lindley Jones & Co . — The Mercantile Year Book , and Directory of Exporte ^ rs / edited - - by - Walter —„ Lindley Jones . The

    . _ _ _ _ — — _ — — _ editor has w aimed at producing 'the most reliable directory of shippers in existence . ' So far as we are able to jud » i — — ge » r * — , this hand — — y book — — possesses % r — — —

    unique features and accurate information which render it a valuable work of reference for men of business whose h dealings abroad are carried

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    divided into districts , and , besides the list of firms furnished for each district , particulars are given of the special class of merchandise

    exported by each house , as well as the names of the colonial and foreign ports with which the firms have dealings . Similar lists are also

    provided respecting the shippers of Manchester , liiverpool , Birmingham , Glasgow , and Bristol . From MM ¦ wb > . v ¦ H < v ^ bv ^ b . Lecene « fllal baa » < fc H la . a Oudin ' ^¦^ > tvak viv «»¦» . k Paris < jk . «> w a » v . — , ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Hr ^ MW ^¦¦¦* ^* ^ ** *^ * T * _ . _ _ _

    4 Popular Demosthenes Classics , ' by : H * . Cicero 0 uvr 6 , ' ; ' by The M Chroniclers . Pelisson , , Froissart and ComrnineV by A . Debidour . These three volumes form part of a serves of

    classical writers of all agea and countries atlapted cise yet for readable popular account reading . of the They lives give as a well

    conas the writings of the various authors , and are this distinguished country b from having similar illustrations collections and issued being in

    printed in bold y type . It would be , ungracious fo expect ---jjvvu JLl for / J . A 1 fran A . A MllVV c C 50 \ ' VV centimes > tUAHUV > tJ a CA . durable V « UAMIK / 1 U bind K ^ a . **^ - * - . but

    ' « g , the margins of the 250 or more pages are so without large disfi that gurement the volumes Some may good be rebound le

    . peop o Channel t )] ect to call what vulgarising our nei classics ghbours ; but across in these the

    ^ ^ at ya of every pressure reader it seems can study too much all the to expect great

    l he s iters to linguistic inherit whose ; productions knowled neither ge does we requisite everyone are ho fortunate for possess their study in the language in which they may J ^ been written . There 1 is no doubt a

    demand e 'W / V » for l » ff such 1 » WWW »« a series . aV m \ M % * B KJ as * . J the ** V ^ one ¦ ^^ V ^ before ^ - ^ ' " ^» % and it is so well done as to deserve { Access to Popular . We Classics are quite is sure calculated that a to perusal do good of many

    ways , for even if It do not induce ^^

    the reader to go to the originals it will at least show him that the social questions

    agitating the world just now are not new , but have perplexed statesmen in the ancient commonwealths of Greece and Rome .

    From Skipper Messrs in . Arctic Longman Seas s / , by Green Walter A Co J . Clutter . — 'Th - e buck . The author of this worklike many

    more who take long journeys by land , or sea in search of sport or of health , J ^ as been induced to give us a record of his cruise . It appears to

    have been a most enjoyable one , and many will peruse the narrative with the interest that comes — — - — fro ¦ - ^ m — the — — — ¦ ¦ novelty ^^^^ - ™» - ^ r ^^ ^» of —i r ^^* adventure » w " «^^» ~ i ~ ^ ^ m ^^ ^ v ^ ^ M - ^^ a . ** It m 9 f is at ^ _ r ^ a . ^^

    straightforward , simple record , the writer dashing off his descriptions as naturally as the breezes swept around his ship . The accounts

    of the seal-shooting will be particularly enjoyed . Numerous very fine illustrations are scattered through the volume .

    From Messrs . Sampson Low , Maraton , Searle and Riving ton , Limited . —* Journal of H . M . S . Enterprise on the Expedition in Search of Sir

    John Franklin ' s Ships by Behring Strait , ' by Captain Richard Collinson , C . B ., R . N ., edited by Major-General T . B . Collinson . Though vk its

    ^ — - » W ^^ — — — — — — ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ — ^^ ^^ ^^^^ —^ ^^^^ ^^^ *^^« ^ . ^ ^^ v ^ v *^ v ^ » ' tardy appearance must give rise to regret , this intensely interesting and faithful record of Arctic exp ----- loration - - - ~ will — be ~_ - v ^ - ¦ regarded ^ H ^ K — — ~ H —— ' - ^ ^ as ^^ » r one ^*^ ^»^^ ^^^ of ^ rn ^ T . ^»

    the few standard works concerning the tragic history with which the name of Sir John Franklin is so closely identified . By many ,

    whose judgment may be relied upon , the voyage of the Enterprise is considered the most remarkable of all the h expeditions to * the Land

    — — ~— - — — —» - ^^ ^ —m ~ — — ~^ r ~ r * ^^ ~ - ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ n ^^ . ^ p V ^¦ . F ^^^ F ' hi ^^ " ^ ^ V ^ . ^ ^ B . ^» —*^ ^ B « ^^^ ^ 1 ^ W ^ V ^^^ F 4 ^ V ^^ V ^ H ^ V ^ V ^ V ^^^^ fc of the White Bear . ' The courage and dogged energy of the reader ; the patience , fortitude , and devotion of officers and men , together with

    the privations and sufferings borne with true British pluck , are sufficient to render this book as absorbing as a work of romance . The hih

    character of Admiral Collinson is amp g le guarantee that the simple , straightforward , narrative here presentedof gratifying

    discoveries and painful failures , , is an unimpeachable record of what actually occurred . The book appropriately concludes with a

    wellwritten memoir of the' Admiral , whose aims and aspirations through life appear to have been summed up in the words , which once fell

    from his lips , * I should die without some duty to perform , so I had better die doing it . ' From Messrs . Mac mil Ian & Co . — ' From Strength

    to Strength . ' Under this title , Canon Westcott has just published , as a tribute to the memory of his life-long ¦ friendthe ¦ late Dr . Lig vh htfoot ¦ i

    — a —r — — , « - — — — - ^— - ^— ^ — —r *— — — - —— ^^ - ^^ —~ , m Bishop of Durham , * Three Sermons on Stages in a Consecrated Life . ' The first of them was preached in Westminster Abbey , at the

    Consecration , in 1879 , of Dr . Lightfoot to the See of Durham ; the second at the Dedication of a Church which Dr . Lightfoot built at his own

    expense in 1889 , in the town of Sunderhiml , to meet a pressing local need , and in commemoration of the tenth year of his episcopate ; the

    third was delivered in Westminster Abbey last I December , when all England was filled with sorrow by the tidings of the Bishop ' s death .

    ? In As a eac brief h occasion introduction came , Canon I Westcott ht to sny what s : the occasion told us throug , soug h him wh say «» m we

    loved , of the office with which he was charged , of the Hociety which he served , of the character by which the servant of God is enabled to do

    hi" * work ; and in each region the description of

    March I, 1890 The Publishers' Circular 2...

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/29/