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    enthusiasm among the officers , and marriage in the ranks as the chief blobs of the English army , and he gives a vivid picture of the condition in which the families Pfc of most of the PJT men ordered on

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    an Englishman in . Paris . ' I / armee de John Bull' is not merely interesting and amusing , but derives solid value VPB from the fact that its author

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    admirers of Henry Ward Beecher will be glad to see a volume of * Proveifbs from Plymouth Pulpit / being a selection by Mr . "William Drjrsdale of the lamented preacher ' s most pregnant and

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    in part revised by him . In addition to other recommendations , it contains an introductory note by the Rev . Dr . Parker , of the City Temple .

    From Messrs . Griffith , Parran , Okeden & "Welsh . — ' Massage , ' by Thomas Stretch Dowse , M M .. D D .- F F . . R . C P . P P . Plflin Edin . . The Thft author Author of of this fchis little little

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    treatise on ' Nervous Exhaustion . ' In his present work he treats of the modern treatment of disease bthe system of massagea medical

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    however , the system has only come into extensive notice within recent years . Dr . Dowse points out in these lectures—originally delivered at the West-End Hospital for Nervous Disordersin Welbeck ¦

    ^^^^^^ m ^^^^ -m ^ . ^ pi ^^^^^^^ - ^^^ - w *^ BMP * ^ ^ PF ^^^ PT ^ Pb ^^ K ^ pF pBB ^ PPP ^ ^^^ ^ P * ^ ^^ ^^^ P ^ P 7 ^*^^^^ *^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^* ^^ ^^^ ^^^ , V ^^ ^^ n ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ v ^ Street—that massage is of much benefit in cases of infantine paralysis , liver troubles , hysteria , and nervous complaints generally . His work directs attention fc to an important h and interes ¦ ting branch

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    tivity , ' the new volume of the Ancient and Modern Library of Theological Literature , is an interesting ¦ " ^ pf addition to this useful serieswhich

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    the Church of England . By command of Charles I . his sermons were collected and published by Bishops Laud and Buckeridge The short notice

    of Andrewes which appears in this volume is generally fair ; but in speaking of the Bishop ' s scholarship , some mention might have been made respecting his famous correspondents , such as Casaubon pj Peter # pi de MoulinCluveriusGrotios

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    From Messrs . Hurst & Blockett . — ' On the Scent , ' by Lady Margaret Majendie . This is a sing — — — i bT—> le ^^ -volume » ^»^» p » -w ^ t ^^ mqm - ^^ novel aiHavmr ^ ^ ^ by — y ¦¦ a " ii lady p > ^ w ^ y whose ¦ " — ¦ ¦ ¦— -w " -PF- ¦» " former ^— - ^ p- " — - ™ ^ ¦ ^^ i p , ^ j _ PI . ¦ Pi ^ ^ «¦ A PBl ppiBBBfe 4 B

    stories were exceedingly well received . The vivacity of style shown in the new novel' will be r

    much appreciated : The characters are Icon- I sistent , and drawn to the life , while the story I rarely flags . A little fliin apk flkBh some laces I

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    Niagara' has written an extremely clever and highly humorous novel . His satire on tendencies of the time is polished and to the . point , striking home ¦ with a keenness of perception that

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    like an unworthy motive for his conduct , but that is all . For the rest , the two volumes furnish most ^^^^ PPr ^^ PPJP' ^ deli H PI ^ i ^^ v ^ v ghtful ^^ ppi ^ ^ pp ^ pi VP >^ reading ^ P > ^ PT ^ tfPV ^ riPBk ^ P 1 PPPJPM . PJ Naturall 4 PPP > v ^ BF ^ P 1 ^ VBP ^ B * ^ riPV ^ PP y V the PaPt ^ pOPi ^ pF p BhpT lot flb ^ pp ^ p ^ is « V ^ p # VU a ^

    secondary matter , and it mainly consists of an account of the chief incidents in Jeremy Diddler the ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ Younger ^ i ^ p ^ - ^* - ^^^ m *^^^^ PH ^ h ^ PF ^^^ '* s ^ . F li ^^^ v fe - ^ b - ^ until - ^ p ^^ ^^^ v ^^ ^ ^^ v his ^ ^ ^ b ^^ p * marriage ^^^ i . ^ pj ^ p ^ ^^^ ^^ . ^^« pjb > ^ PPF and pvpp p . ^^ ^ i «^ B ppjp sub * WP > ppjpv - . m IP ^ . • appia pb

    sequent entrance into Parliament . There it leaves him , a highly successful and prosperous -man , though by what sordid and thoroughly contemptible -r means the reader should learn for

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    ^^ ^ ppv ^ pp * ^ ip ^ p » vpv . ^ p ^^ ^ . ^ pi ^^ ^ ipf ^ pi pbf ^ pf •>«¦¦ ¦ ^ pf manager ^~ mmmw ^*^ ^ . ^ w v ^ ppjpjh ^> p ^ ^^ , pvp' ^^ ^ ^^ ^~^^ ^ m * p ng ^^^^ x b' Bi ^ " ^ ^^^ ^^ ery ^ BF ^ BBh w prominentl m y . But ^ pjb ^ b . _ , perhaps m , best m of all ^ p is Count ^ pb ^ Pfeiffer , alias Jeremy Diddler the elder , the promoter IF of the Perseveranza rPP « V ***< mi HiPk ne B and » B the PP Electric PPK r T > T ^ P ^ PB ^ Bi ^ pF ^ PF . ^ ^ pW ^^ ^ ^ P ^ P * ^ P 4 PPJ * ^ BJV ^^ ^ V ^ ^« p ^ ^ ^^ . " ^* pk ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^ p ^^^ BPJp ^ . . . ^ pF ^ pk ^^^ pP ^^ p * PJp ^ p ^^ ^ p

    Bootjack Company—gigantic swindles , both of them . The same gentleman afterwards starts as racing tipsterunder the title of * Old Joe Clup

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    be greatly interested and heartily amused . From the same—A little time we had

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    gave a very full account of the province of Alaska . Even although a volume of that description appeared so recently , we think that English

    readers rflRflflrs will will be he p nlleased eafled to t , o welcome welcome the the sprig snrifrhtlv htly volume , ' Shores-iand Alps . of Alaska , ' by HT ^ W . Seton P ^ T ^^ F KarrFRG fc . S . The author is under the

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    original diary , * penned in situ from day to day in tne teat , the forest , or the canoe , on the shore , the glacier , or the mountain-side . ' Be that as it

    may nrmv- , readers Traders will will admit admit that that Mr Mr . . Seton Seton Karr Karr has has limned with effect the features of the country through which he passed . His observations are of nf a ch r » hara aracter <» tflr that that describes flftso . ribes not not onl only v the the

    scenery but also the sport and natural resources of Alaska . Starting from Winnipeg , he shores passed | throug of Alaska Jmm h Bri unti tish l Columbia tEe island , and of 4 along pppt Kodiak the

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    de-From scri the ptive same writing . — ' Sketch . of the Forestry of West Africa , ' by Alfred Moloney , C . M . G . Those who look

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    unusual in connection with African books . Ad - we wa venture are fl . r « , usual nftiiH exploration . llv lfavou favou , sport red red , with with and so and and forth perhaps DerhaDS are what the tne

    abundance of y these has made , many persons v indifferent to new writings upon what they - consider a threadbare subject # ¦ A practical f work -- — —» ppjp ^

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1887, page 621, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061887/page/15/