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    June i, 1888 - * The Publishers' Circula...

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    Continental !Qofes

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    Catholic Mr . Lau Publication rence Kehoe 1 Society , President of New of York the

    has arrived in London to make arrangements , for fche coming season , and will visit the

    principal publishers in France and Germany before returning to America . Mr . Ernest Nisterprinter of the

    cele-, brated nionotint ' Seasons ' book , also the children ' s booklet - — — « ' All - Round — — — the — —™ - Clock v _ " ' & c ^ , , ^ m ^—m ^ ~^^ ^ , ^ m

    which were so successful last season , is about to commence business on his own account at 24 St . Bride StreetE . C . ; his arrangements

    for the coming season , include booklets by Mrs . Oscar Wilde , John Lawson , Fred Hines ,

    Mrs . Mack , G . Clifton Bingham , Harriett M . Bennett-Robert Ellice - _ - Mack —j E _ - . v Nesbit -. ¦ i — i - — — h & - ^™— - ^ m— c , — — — — — — - - — — — — — — , , ^ - ^^ ^ , - ^ p

    at prices ranging from 4 c ? . to 42 s . each . The Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , in

    acknowledging the receipt of new editions of the Book of Common Prayer and New Testament in phonograp ¦ hywrites ¦¦— : * I thank you for

    your obl - i g ^^^^— ing — — _~»~ gift , ^ m , and —¦— ~ I am ¦ very — - ^ ^^ — m < - »~ - ^ m * sensible ^—^^— w - ^ m— -mr ^^ m ^^ of ^^ - ^ . v the great interest attaching to the question — —

    <^ j cr » . l which they are designed to illustrate . '

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    June I, 1888 - * The Publishers' Circula...

    June i , 1888 - * The Publishers' Circular 645

    Continental !Qofes

    Continental ! Qofes

    Two new French periodicals have just appeared . The first 7 and perhaps the most

    important AX , of them is , La . Revue I X de JFamille , a bi-monthly publicatio A . n' , which will ~ be under

    the able editorship of that literary and political veteran Jules Simon . Its sub-editor is the well-known novelist Louis Ulbach . The price

    is 2 f . 50 c . The second of these ventures is La Petite Revue , to appear A X weekly */ at the low

    price of ten centimes . Its contents are to be of a very varied nature . According to the prospectus it will offerf besides romances

    x news j , recreations , work , patterns , music , , fashions , caricatures , & c . The list of

    contributors comprises some of the best writers of fiction , as well as prominent savants . The Maison Quantin announces one of

    those literary and artistic productions for which it is noted— ' Lcs Zigzags d ' un Curieux : Causeries sur l'Art des Livres et la Literature

    d'Art '—par Octave Uzanne . This work will treat of all the literary , artistic , and bibliographical questions of the day . The edition is

    limited to 1-, 000 copies , and it will not be reprinted . Henri Rochefort has written 'Fantasia '

    which the Maison Quantin has published , with , 100 drawings by the clever artist known as

    Caran d'Ache . Two more volumes of the hitherto inedited

    works mous poetical of Victor writings Hugo , entitled containing 4 Tbute his posthu Lyre - , ' have just been published by the same firm .

    A French translation has just appeared of the * History of the English People , ' by John Richard r Green . The translation has been ¦ ¦ ¦

    — — j ~» " w ^^^^ ^^ H ^ mw ^^^ mW " ^ ^ m ™» ^^^^ *^^ " ^ mm ^ ^^ mr w . ^ mmm ^ r ° ^ * " ^^~ ^^ — — ~ - " ^ - — — - ~— - ^~ ~ r — — ^^ - — — — -- — — — made by Auguste Monod , and forma two volumes 8 vo . - ^

    That clever artist Mars has collected ill a volume 120 of nis his of

    quart quarto o volume xzu or arawings drawings or fiignts sights

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    ' ¦^¦"" ' ' ¦ ¦¦! ¦ ¦ - ! II I I I ¦¦ - I- ¦ " , ^ ¦ ^^¦ Ml «_^^ -M ^_^_ M _^_^ VMHKM ^^ - ^ lfMM ^—HM and 4 Les scenes Piages at de the Bretagne sea-side et , J w ersey ith th e title of

    Messrs . Hachette & Co . are publishing in fifty weekly pavte 'X ^' HistoiredeTArt pendant

    la Renaissance , ! par Eugene Mixntz , Oonsertrateur de FEcole nationale des Beaux-Arts . A life of David Humeby Ldon Saywill

    shortly appear in the series , 4 Petite Biblio , - theque des Economistes , ' to which a life of Jeremy Bentham r by Madame Raffalovich 7

    has been ^ recently , added ^ . - - , A popular edition of 'La France Juive '

    par 4 Gertrude Edouard et Drumont Ve * ronique , has ' is just the been title issued of the , .

    new volume by Andre Theuriet , whose novel , ' Josette , ' is the latest addition to the Petite

    -JBibliothkque Frangaise . We acknowledge t ~^» with ¦ pleasure the — recei — — - — ¦ ¦ — pt f * —

    of the Meviie de VEnseigvbement des Langnes Vivantes for the 15 th ult ., which shows clearly enoug C [ h the value which .- ______ is at __ tached ^_ to _ _

    ^/ — the study of modern languages in France ^ at the _ present — day . _ The . — . — ' Observations 7 — — — — . _ — — _ — — — . ^ — ^ on __ ^_ __ the .. ^ ^^ ^^ , ^

    Pronunciation of Germandisplay an intimate knowledge of the varying pronunciations of the language which obtain in different parts

    of Germany . The article 4 Les Interpretes de Reserve ' lets us see that great pains are

    taken to teach German to the French soldier . The thejnes and exercises in French , German ,

    and English will be appreciated by teachers fessor of languages A . Wolfromm . The Revue , and is printed a edited -- and - b y , pub Pro c — — - -

    lished at the office of the Journal Le Havre in that town . A new life of the poet tSchiller by Oti > o

    - - «/ Brahm is announced . It will be comprised in two volumes , of which the first will appear J 7 X

    very shortly . The author has had aeees & to much material 'hitherto unprinted , which is said to be worked up into quite a dramatic

    narrative . Gustav Freytig has congratulated the author on his undertaking . A new illustrate d History of Bavariain

    sixty fortnightly parts at sixpence , is , announced by the Suddentsches Verlags o -Institut .

    The first number will appear immediately , and the first volume at Christmas . All copies of 'Mutter Erde' the German

    , translation of Zola ' s novel 'La Terre , ' have been seized and destroyed in conformity with

    the decision of the German legal authorities on the — leading of the Imperial German

    Solicitor-General p . The sale of i the work is strictly forbidden in Germany .

    We have received the third number of tlie Chronik fur vercielfaltigende Kunst ( Vienna ) , which fully maintains the high position as an

    art-critical journal which its first issue gained for it . Perhaps the mo . 4 interesting article in this number is that devoted to Max IClinger ' s

    ' . Federzeichnungen und . Radirungen . ' It is lamentable to read of the bad use made by Max Klinger of his great artistic ifts . A

    ^ striking lesson , however , is to bo learnt g from this article which tells us how the artist ' s skill and umt correctness ¦¦ ¦ in ¦ drawing ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ left ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ him i as vtr his

    sub-^ m ^ m ^ mm ^^ v ^ w ^ m ^ ^^ v *^~ ^ mim ^^^^ ^ Uw ^ ^ m ^ * W v ^ —^^ m ^ m * m ™ ^ «^ ^^ ^ " ^ - ^ — ~^ m wm ^ P ^ V ^ h ^^^ ^ mr ^^^ ^ m m ^ r ™ •¦ ^ mr *^ mw W ^ ^/ m' ^ jm w ~ m ^ J ^^ ^^^^^ " ^^ ject " becatpe more and more base and ignottl ' e . •^ ^ 3 < : ^ a * QBB jttB .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1888, page 645, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061888/page/7/