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    resorting measures . the Nihilist Executive Committee to Alexander III . on his accession to the throneto which

    reference is made by Stepniak , certainl , y commenced Nihilists peacefull would be y to enoug use h violent —how means sorry —how the

    anxious they were * in the interests of the cause ' to did avoi it d amount violent to revolution ? A threat —but and practicall nothing y what else

    rendered all the more forcible , by the attempts , Alexander lhat had been IF . mad However e on the , * this Empero is a r ' s top predecessor ic that we ,

    have not space to enter upon , and we must rest content with saying that readers of the ' Russian Storm-Cloud ' will find it a most interesting work

    which will probably give them new information , on a most important subject , and perhaps in some ways cause them to modify their views .

    From Mr . T . Fisher TTnwin . —It was to be expected that a book so charming as * The Dawn of the XlXth Century in England / by John Ashton

    would "be issued in a new and popular form , . The work is one of the most interesting social sketches which we are acquainted withand to

    the investigator who scans life and manners , in the days of our grandfathers it is invaluable . Hardly a page in Mr . Ashton ' s book is devoid of

    interest , and it can be read with pleasure at any time , for it may be said to possess the best qualities of a well-planned story . The

    illustrations , which are numerous , reflect very truly , and often with humour , the aspects of English life in past da ^ s .

    From the same . —In commencing to read ' Melita , at a Turkish first appeared Love Siory as if / b the y Louise authoress M . Bichter ' s avowed , it

    desire to give an insight into life and thought in the Levant would be unduly protruded , and thus override the essential requirements of a good

    novel . This impression , however , rapidly passed away the further we progressed in the book ; and we eventually found ' fflelita' to be an

    agreeable , pleasantly-told story , depending for its shown interest with rather the on various its sty scenes le and dep the icted familiari than on ty

    any striking or original development , of plot . Some cellentl of j delineated the surroundings . to the story are

    ex-From the the "Nations same . ' — Library The new is volume 'The Jews of * The in Ancient Story of , Mediaevaland Modern Times' by James K .

    , , larg Hosmer e portion , Professor of in the Washington work is devoted University to . the A modern side of the story of this the most interesting

    world as well . as Professo the mos r t Hosmer persecuted has race acted in the wisel civilised in paying so much attention to the part of his very y

    direct interesti the ng current study of which inion is tli and e most enli likel hten y the to public view . opg

    From Messrs . J . Walcli & Sons , Hobart , Tasmania . —The 1886 issue of' Walch's Tasroanian Almanac ' has come to hand . In its twenty-fourth year of

    of publication information the regarding almanac is thi a s perfect very storehouse prosperous colony in Hobart . The . book is printed as well as published

    From on t Messrs he excellent . Ward selection , Look of , & famous Co . — authors Following in

    lishers their * have Royal now Library issued of a volume Fiction , ' of these stories pub by - Victor Hugo . These are ' Under Sentence of

    Sfe ueath , a powerful and in some respects , on =

    account of its very fidelity , almost repulsive I analysis of a criminal ' s last thoughts and feel- \

    ings ; Told under Canvas '; and 'Claude Guaux . ' i j forc All uxtc are the tuu alike uoi distinguished igrammatic b language y the dramatic and the i

    e , , nervous » uuo ep opigiaiuiuatii ; lauguagc , , auu > u . o : admirable descriptive power of the * deceased . author . Sir Gilbert Campbell is the translator .

    From Messrs .. Wyman & Sons . —' The " J . E . M . " The Guide fifth to Switzerland year of its , ' b publi y J . cation E . Muddock shows , F that . R . G this . S .

    handy guide to the Alps and how to see them is steady in popular favour . The route map is a good ¦ y one . All the instructions ¦¦ are distinctly ,

    given ^ ; . — S — ~ peci al — articles ^ — ^ —~— - - » ^"" are — " ^~ " ~^ — supp " — - ~ lied upon the subjects of glaciers , avalanches , mountaineering , ;; hotelsthe dress to wearguides k 3 baths 4 and

    UV / bV / lO U 41 U IA 1 L'Ui ? IV VT V-t * l % tl L ^ lVLV > a KJUV V * -W 3 J Uf »\ A springs , y , & e . , , , i From the same . — ' Monkraven : the Story of his :.

    Betrayal the , ' by cade Aramis ts at . Woolwich Opening pleasantl with whose y enoug life h and among difficulties when they first enter , the college

    as . ' snookers' the author shows much familiarity , the somewhat plot of dubious this story society presentl by the y takes side of us Miss into

    Lottie Vance . This young lady is one of the ballet at the Frivolity Theatre , managed by Mr . John Higginsand the heroa cadet of some

    twenty summers { jt ^ p , , accidentally , makes her acquaintance protecting her , as fro he m is a drunken going home man . one Ultimatel night , by y j

    we confided find to him his introducing careone Olive a * T > Lovei oy' who to has her been and the said boy falling , passionately in , love , with

    a to her complete Monkraven , only to fool be unwilling the of himself actress ly by rescued is his sincerel friend fro . m attached making Indeed , y ,

    his and estimation it is only , for by ob the taining reason a of respectable raising herself position in , that she encourages Lovel ' s matrimonial advances .

    Monkraven , however , is ignorant of this—and , indeed , it would scarcely matter if he weren ' tinnocent and so presentl young g y irl he who falls doesn in love ' t exactl with y reci a pure pro- j

    cate his passion but , nevertheless marries him . Unfortunately , sonoe months after the cereiridriyT she discovers that she does care about somebody ,

    and Lovel that and somebod she eventuall y is not her after husband a , somewhat but Clive , y , novel but coarsely-conceived climax , runs away

    with him . Monkraven pursues them , determined in broug the ht hei to g ht a sense of his of passion what is to ri kill ht and Clive reasonable , but is

    now by no widow less a of personag the late e Lord than g Laxminster the little actress and , he contents himself with suing for a divorce ; .

    cou This rse being united obtained and the , reader tlie gailty is left pair to surmise are , of whether , after , all Monkraven will marry the

    actress , now a reformed ami much improved one woman thoug . The h not story remarkable is an exceeding for great ly vigorou refine- s

    ment , aDd few readers are likely to take it , up satisfactory without ending perusing . On it the to the whole somewhat we like un the

    scenes at Woolwich best—life at a fashionable cleverl French y watering portrajed -p ; lace but ia the also events amusing of theatrical ly and

    life We are must coarse protest and also , to against some extent the attempt , exaggerated which . has been made to ive a ¦ ¦¦ fal ¦ se " - ^ interest - to the

    £ Bh | % U fb ^ ^^ ^^ * f ~ •*^ - * fc ^^* f ^*^ ^^* ^ ^^ g v ^ ¦ * * ^* ^ " ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ — — — — —— - — under story by a introducing thinly-veiled at cognomen least one . well If -known tbe picture man

    we wnrA the re portrait tr t . piifl ue , , it \ t as wou would in this ld be be case bad , is hopelessly enough enough .. ; : "but distorted but when wnen ,

    the practice deserves only the severest censure .

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    juiy r , 188 ^ ± he Publishers Circular 733

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1886, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071886/page/15/