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    48o The Publishers' Circular june f * ' ...

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    Books Received :—

    England to claim her , Ned bearing him company . Ultimately Ned and his -wife resolve to follow

    Buth and her father to the land of gold , and there meet with an ample reward for their meritorious conduct .

    From from Messrs the Diary . Smith of Henry , Elder Greville , & . ' Co Jt . — is ' Leaves

    impossible to open this book without thinking of Mr . Charles Greville , whose memoirs of the reigns of George IV . and WilLiam IV . made a noise about

    ten years years before ago , . by These Mr . Raikee , again ' , diary were , preceded which is , full ten of particulars about French society and politics

    and what the French call high-life , in England . , From Raikes' Diary we extract the following note upon Mr . Henry Greville :

    attache 1844 . " to Henry the Embassy Q-reville afc has Paris resigned . his situation of paid Mr . Henry Greville ' s Diary , although it has no

    clai his brother m to the ' s book piquancy , is full ( and of interesting perhaps ill memoranda -nature ) of on politics , literature , and musical performances .

    Here is an example , which has more than one point of interest : I have been reading * a novel called ' Jane * which is

    Eyre , just Kemble now ?) making who is a greatly great sensation struck by .. the ... . Mrs talen . Butler t of the ( Fanny book ¦» fancies ^ v » ww it is aw written by Chambers Iks \ ( Robert * % S ^ \> 1 I /* of \/ i course WUi ) who ,

    »< w » a v . r * . « . a v v «^ A * ** J * I'T » 1 a ' ^ J > * # . « US , * O W / f VT * tV is 1 whoever a and . — nd the ^ L . from from * . author _ . _ J wrote . % _ its its sentiments sentiments of « . J ! it * Vestiges Tt must j _ , from be be of -U its Creation a a Unitarian Unitarian language l -l , ' because . , , : be and and _ a Scotchman Chambers Chambe she * thinks ¦« , rs « . , , , ;

    mate besides friend answering who believes to all , these in supernatural peculiarities agencie , has an s , such inti- , as are described in the last volume of the book .

    Those who remember Palmerston ' s famous instructions be amused to by Sir the H following . Bulwer on extract Syrian : affairs will

    Bulwer Guizot ' s account was in very of a Interview good spirits he , had and with laughed Thiers much on the at became Syrian affair so alarmed , when when he began Bulwer by showed oiiv talking f him so big the , and despatch then

    begged he * www » had - ^ - ~« ,. » - written Bulwer v u- ** - w «*«~ va . *^ would - home »^^ va vr ma- not relating ^ sm-M . . ft- say * v ** . vt that *^ their A he conversation | ( \> Thiers U LA . M . J-M . M . ) had -M \} VlVDMtVUVll , sai that d all he . this , mats qu'il Vavait lu sur sa figure .

    contents It is a pity nor that an index the reader for a has guide neith to the er a contents table of of the volume .

    From the Society * for Promoting Christian Knowledge . — « Roman Britain . ' By the Rev .

    H Christian . M . Scarth Knowled , M . A . ge seems The Soci to be ety entering for Promoting largely upon UDOn the the field field once onftft taken taken up nr > at n . t . t t . he hft instance infttnTir » *» of nf

    of Charles Useful Kni Knowled ght , by the and Society such , for volumes the Diffusion as the ge ,

    this series forms of Handbooks the most on recen ' Earl t issue y Bri , tain form / of case which in knew point . Prebendary Scarth , as an antiquarian ,

    ' Britannia well . where Roma to / go the for ' his Monumenta facts , and Horsley Historica ' s seventh Britannica volume ' of the of Record the * Corpus Commission Tnscriptionum , and the

    Iiat he he tells tel inuia ls US us * . . , of formed formed the Royal the the basis basis Academy of of his his of work wnrk Berlin . . At At , have . the th « ,

    same time he has not omitted to turn his investigations ligionand to good one of account the aims in the ho interests has sought of re to

    -, accomplish is 'to show how every event that has Almi happened ghty in to past man ' ages s event has ua been l good overruled . ' He g by ives the a

    succinct sketch of Britain under the Roman of vasion occupation the Roman of Julius , practicall remains Caesar y discovered , commencing and a graphic in variou with descri the s parts ption

    inof the country . Of Roman London he concludes that its area was considerable and extended with tho the growth Romans of left Roman Britain power reached . The fro wall m Lud s , when ato , g

    — = ^ on the west to the Tower on the east about extended limits mile Thames in of , l half ength across the city a , the mile and were river ; from at more an on London earlier confined the Wall , period . It to one the the l 80 Kentish iuiou side

    , ¦¦¦ . v . oiue wher position e remains was not of villas fortified have . He been also found traces , "but this the other Roman cities throughout

    various landing-places and fortresses Eng , land including , the tthose nose on on the the Kentish Jlentisli coast coast , and and tha tha roads raaAa which r ^ v ^ u

    , Scarth ' remain gives unto some thi — a chapters - day — . ' In on — his * Roman — appendices 4 i Influences | b Mr .

    CJ __ j— - — - -- » — . «« »^ _ j | i j ^| l ~ f * N Roman existing ,, Armi in Britain es / on after ' Recent the Departure Continental of ^^ ^ Dis the

    coveries Changes effected tending in to Roman Throw Britain Light -J and upon the Way the

    they j 1 t ^ 3 were broug 1 ht Y . about I . / 4 on — ' The m , —* ^ Method ^ •¦ VI . A | . Q of J \ Apportionment Planted b of the Land wherever a Colony

    of was Roman Inscri y the ptions Romans found / and in Britain on ' Specimens or pertaining to it . ' The book is thus made as

    complete as possible , and takes note of all the most recent discoveries . From the same . — ' Diocesan Histories : "

    Worcester . " By the Rev . I . Gregory Smith , M . A ., and creditable the Rev . Phi and pps scholarl Onslow y sketch , M . A . of An the history eminentl of y

    the diocese of 'Worcester—a border sec- in a border land , and a district which , whether viewed irom the civil or ecclesiastical standpoint , is full

    of interest . Part of the kingdom of Mercia , it in still which has , according BritishSaxon to the wri and ters Ang , * lian a population elements

    are "blended together , , and , comprises within its limits the mines and factories of the North as well as the pastures , cornfields , and orchards of

    guing Southern from England the provincial . Looking idioms at the of map Worcester , or ar - - shire it one , one of mi our ght northern almost hesitate or southern whether counties to call . '

    Worcester was from the first the scene of monastic foundations , and its cathedral was ori authors autnors ginally

    on one of © this of of volume tthe he monastic mon with ashin an churches chnrches evident ; : and and to the the thevisdom of utilising the , facts of history as eye a defence against

    the attacks of political Dissenters , say : — It are can so rife scarcely on the be origin repeate of d what too often is termed , while misstatcments the

    Estalmshthe ino merit m into /^ . 4 land iaiKi one ' in < n organisation England TOn by oy i-l tlie cue < -. « , ! efforts enorxs , that + 1 ,., 4 through - the + of or K « Archbishop Arcnuisin English ^ .. the n'li ' oti length - » Clmrch r ^ p loirpil Theodore l ucwuwiv and was WflS Lrca , welj WCMt « in — ltL 1 tut led - 01 'i the several kiiig"

    b were seventh Deeiore fore united tney they century were were under , counties many unt one years king , , he nerarcnueacumi . r before archdeaconries England had ^ he » aiul " r *• pirto ' dioceses <«> "" » to ) ,

    when and careful progress counties student of and of the history Churc manors h can in were fail Mercia to beginning . see Ho this will in see the «• , io rise * » , what is often forgotten by factious disputants other otuer , how jw uw

    various various endowments endowments of of the the Church Church , , here here as as in in ot par legislature of kin England gsnobles , , bu were and t were nob others the voted . gifts A by right of any individual understanding formal ^ crcc benctjewinj ol in uw '

    nnd two ¦ # - . \ irr * fundamental fnnrlomAn plausible , , misrepresentations facts -ft \ r > + a gives oivAQ a solid cr \ lir 1 which answer fl . nfllVCr Bonietmiea tO to ljiu tlJO V » v j unchallenged .

    The chroniclewhich closes with the eig hteenth , centfurnishes , interesting illustration }

    t national h © u intimate un ry , Ch v ^ xi urch urcu connection and uuu an the tu which « ij national « , exists n < j ij t « betwee painstawns life . n *} J _ | \ j

    justice authors . is done to both by these | |

    Fr Business om Mesars & uide . AATyman : a Practica & Sons l Manual .- —* The for t « } J "

    ujl of manual entering , g Life iving / the full By relations remtiuuH informati Experientia between W on . on ^— A the empi - com c P J ^ |

    and occupations occupuLions employed , preparation , , me for examinations w »« - ^ j ^^

    48o The Publishers' Circular June F * ' ...

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1883, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061883/page/12/