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    226 The Publishers' Circular March i, 18...

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    yearly a volume edition dealing of the exclusivel * Anglo- y Ameri with can the Annual English I

    and American colony in Paris and environs . The contents incluae a concise directory of j Anglo-American residentsand professional and >

    commercial houses of the , capital . Information is also given for the guidance of intending !

    residents residents , , studen students ts , , and and visito visitors rs . . The J he orhciai official section will contain the latest reports on all the Anglo-American institutions of Paris

    , charities , mission frork , commerce , and sport . ; 1 ? * !

    | Messrs . Griffith , Far ran A : Co . have in preparation a quarto illustrated volume on

    ! ; ' that * Living the Leaders book shall of the contain World . * ' grap It hic is intended biogra- j ;

    I ! phies' of contemporary 7 kings , queens , ! 11 statesmen , inventors , preachers , authors ,

    and other men and women of light and lead- j ! ; : ing Ameri . The cans list and of the contributors Transatlantic are origin nearl of y the all I

    i - book i graphic is bi further , ographi suggested es' of * millionaires by the fact ' are that also j to be givenfor the benefit , we presumeof the i

    . ' Stock Exchange , . ? # , i | *

    I Messrs M ^ k ^^^ . Truslove ^ B ^ B ^ ^ k & Shirley r * . . ^ ta ^ ^ tai , of St . Paul _ ' s ; Churchyard , are about to publish a work on

    * Norwood and Dulwich—Past and Present . ' , 1 latter The liistory place of will the be well g - iven known and college also at many the '

    ! interesting facts concerning , the life of its i celebrated founder , Edward Alleyn . of whom j

    ! an etched portrait will be given . The illustra- ' j tions have been either specially drawn or re-I produced a from rare engravings <—i ^ 5 , and — two ~

    in-| teresting maps of the district , reprinted from ( Rocque 1746 , ^ will ' s * Map also of be London included . and The its Environ author of s ,

    ; the work iB Mr . Allan M . Oalerof Worcester ' ! . College , Oxf <» rd . ,

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    We hear that Mr . Henry M . Stanley has been elected a life-member of the Savage Club .

    • * A Lover ' s Litanies' is the name of a new ' j volume * Lotos Series of poems ' by Mr . Eric Mackay for the !

    . 1 j Phonograph } 7 is now in _ use in the following : languages : French , German , Dutch , Spanish ,

    I Italian , Welsh , Hindoo , and Malagasy . 1 I We regret to learn that Mrs . Campbell

    Praed has been unwell of late , and we understand that she contemplates a prolonged visit to the East for the benefit of her health .

    k Matthew There Arnold is an ' s Writings appreciative / from estimate the pen of of

    Sir M . E . Grant-Duff , in the new number of Murray ' s Maguzim .

    We have received from Messrs . O . W . Bacon & Co . a Photo-Relief Map of Scotland

    on rollers , allowing the mountainslakes , riven , < fcc ., in a clear and vivid xa & nj & er , . ,

    Free Libraries have within the last few years been established at Richmond , Twickento ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ " ¦" ¦ ' ' ^

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    ham , Ealing , Kingston , and Brentford , and now a movement has been started in the same

    direction at Chiswick . Professor Ripperprincipal of the ¦¦ Sheffield

    the Technical Government School , of . has New , just South been JL Wales appointed general o — - * b y -

    superintendent of technical instruction in that colony . We learn from New York that Mr . Andrew

    Carnegie has founded on a generous scale a new public M . . library % / in the City of Aileg < J hanyJ .

    He has onVred to enrich Pittsburg in a similar manner . The concert at the Prince

    AlbertGreenwich , on the 22 nd ult ., in aid of the , Alnishou * v- Extension Fund of the Printers' Pension .

    Aluishouse , and Orphan Asylum Corporation realised the sum of £ ' 21 . Accounts from Hartford , Con ., modify the

    previous reports of the health of the author of ' Uncle Toms Cabin . ' Mrs . Beecher-Stowe is able to take walking exercise when the

    weather is fine . j The March number of CasselVs Magazhw

    will 4 The contain Work of an Public article Speakers by an old , ' which reporte will r on be

    illustrated by a series of portrait sketches of Eminent Parliamentary Orators , by Mr . Harrr

    Furniss . Messrs . S . W . Partridge * fc Co . are now

    announcing their fourth CJ edition of i H . M . Stanley , the African Explorer , ' by A .

    Montefiore , F . R . G . S . The third edition , enlarged to 192 pages and brought up to date , was disposed of in three weeks .

    Mr . Astor , the American millionaire , has bequeathedwe are glad to learna sum of

    four hundred , thousand dollars to , the Astor Librar y , and by his will many of the artistic

    and literary institutions in New York have also been enriched . In our issue of January 15 Carlos

    * History of British India' was incorrectly priced in the list of new books at 7 s . & J . The I ook _ is one _ of the Pitt __ _ Press _ _ . _ ' series ~ , publ Xished ,

    by Messrs . C . J . Clay and Sons , and the price is \ s . We are glad to learn that the Institute of

    C 7 progress of Journalists late . is the One is fac of making the t that most rap a noteworthy id Royal and satisfactory charter features of

    tute incorporation has now has a membershi been obtained of . nearl The insti two - p y

    thousand . " With '" ¦ ¦ a m'm view - J * - *~ r w -r to « r -i , r the ^^ m- ^ discussion V * M m * r V ^ >^ B f ^ fi _ r Jl Tr M Jm of ^ r * L t Indian ^ mJm ^ - ** . ^ »• ——1 ~ affairs , y _ ~

    a number new journal of whic has h has been juat established appeared , the The first

    paper with the is pressing named Itt problems / lia , and recently deals exhaustively debated at

    the Bombay Congreaa . Society At the of annua Arts of l meeting the News last pape Saturday r Preae at Fund had the

    it it was was reported renorted that thAfc the th « sum aum of of £ £ 11 ., 191 1 ^ 1 xxau D been reaii--inea inen granted or or during their their w w the idows idows year . . to The The necessitou inves invest ted * presn

    fund A ^¦ im- * amount rare mrnmm *** librar t > m >™ to rmi * w £ y * w 20 , will ww 000 »»» , be wim * in *»*»~ tha w— . —market

    ton « hortly , Hwwex f that . of In Mr the , Thonum department Gaisford of , 1 Offing **^

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/8/