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    April i , 1886 The Publishers' Circular 349

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    HURST & BLACKETT'S PUBLICATIONS . EDNA LYALL'S NOVELS . EACH IN ONE VOLUME . Crown 8 vo . 6 a . DONOVAN : A Modern Englishman . k This is a very admirable work . The reader is from the first carried away by the gallant unconventionality of its author best sermon . " Donovan ever written " is a very or deli excellent vered extempore novel ; but . The it is story something is told more with and a grand better simplicity . It should , an do unconscious as much good poetry as the of eloquence -which stirs the very depths of the heart . One of tne main excellencies of this novel is the delicacy of touch with which the author shows her most delightful characters to be after all human beings , and not angels before Standard their time . . ' WE TWO . I from ' This lacking book in is incident welt wri . '— tten Times and . full of interest . The story abounds with a good many light touches , and is certainly far and a " clear We - Two headed " contains thinker . ' many —ATHEN very -aeuM exciting . passages , and a great deal of information . Miss Lyall is a capable writer Altogether * A work this of story deep is thought more and and better much than power a . novel Serious . '—Mornin as it is , g it Post is now . and then brightened by rays of genuine humour . IN THE GOLDEN DAYS . figure * Miss of her Lyall story has is giv Algernon en us a vigorous Sydney ; study and this o : figure such life she and invests character with a as singular are really dignity wor and th reading power . about He always . The appears central it with , absolutely effect , but consistent no liberties as it are is taken with historical with the facts truth of , gives his life it . reality The as plot well is adapted as dignity with . Some great of felicity the scenes to them are . remarkably His part in vivid . The escape is an admirable narrative , which almost makes one hold one ' s breath as one reads . *—Spectator . WON BY WAITING . NEW AND HE VISED EDITION . book heroine * The there , who Dean runs endures ' s a daughters golden tbeir thread cold are hospi perfectly of tality pure real and brotherly at ch last aracters and wins sisterly — their the learned affection love , . which Cornelia , is thoroughly pleasantly especially charming reminds —th ^ little us , while that impulsive the throughout making French and the marring * " Won of marriage by Waiting is not " is , a after very all pleasing , the sum and total well of -writte real life n tale . '—Academy ; full of g . raphic descriptions of French and English life , with incidents and characters well sustained . '—Freeman . London : HURST & BLACK ETT , Publishers , 13 Great Marlborough Street .

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    NEW EDUCATION CODE OF 1886 . JTJST OT 7 T . NEW AND THOROUGHLY-REVISED EDITION OF THE NEW NATIONAL READING BOOKS . ILLUSTRATEDJVOTJS 7 . —In this edition , which has just been completed by the is » ue of the books for Standards XV . and V . the paper and illustrations have been greatly improved , ; many new and interesting lessons have been addedf and the reading matter has been brought into exact accordance tvitli the requirements of the Edtication Department . INFANT PRIMER 32 pp ., cloth limp , price 2 ± d . INFANT READER 64 pp ., „ .. „ Ad . STANDARD 1 112 pp ., cloth boards , price Qd . STANDARD II 128 pp ., „ „ Qd . STANDARD STANDARD III IV 174 167 pp . ., „ „ ls Is . . 2 d . STANDARD V 176 pp pp ., , „ „ „ ls . 2 d . STANDARD VI 184 pp ., „ „ „ U . Ad . N . B . —The old edition of the ' New National Reading Books' is still on sale . Note . —Please state clearly , in ordering the above Beading Books , whether the Old Edition or the New and Revised Edition is required . NATIONAL SOCIETY ' S DEPOSITORY , Sanctuary , Westminster .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 1, 1886, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01041886/page/39/