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    natives , but even under these favourable circumstances a man may become colloquially familiar

    learning correctl with a y language . languages The Gaspey and is a yet valuable -Otto be unable -Sauer aid to to method learn write ers of it

    for it combines theory and practice . The pupil , learns the grammar while he is obtaining a colloquial - ^^^ ih — k — — knowled - — —— —— ~^ w r h ^^^ ~^ v ^ ge ^ h ^ b ~^ m' of *^^ ^^™ the ^^ ^™ ^™ ^ mr language ^^ " ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ hh ^™ ™ ^^^^^ M ^ fc ^^^ ^ . This ^^ " ^ " ^^ ^» ^^ «^^»

    method is a great advance on the Ollendorff system so much extolled by Captain Basil Hall in his ' Schloss Hainfeld' which book and its

    author are even more out , of sight and mind than Ollendorff . Yet Ollendorff did much to popularise £ - ~ i the stud — y •/ of living languages O ^ J , and

    Cap gratefull tain Basil y remembered Hall's name by , too all , should who prize ever the be writings of Scottfor he commanded the good

    ship on which the , Great Wizard of the North made his last voyage in search of health . With regard to the Kussian Grammars and Spanish

    Header o now before us we need not say x more than that they are quite up to the mark of the . other volumes of thelGaspey-Otto-Sauer method .

    Mr . Groos has well earned the thanks of students of modern languages by these additions to his excellent series . The Russian

    Grammars , indeed , especially merit commendation The cost for their of production careful and must elegant be great typograp , and onl hy y .

    a large sale can compensate the enterprising publisher for the care and expense bestowed in producing such good and useful books at so

    low J a price KJ . < -J From Messrs . Abel Heywood & Sons ,

    Man-Chester . —This firm send us a series of their illustrated penny guides to English and Welsh holiday resorts . The letterpress is generally

    accurat ancient e . , bu The t some guides of the can illustrations be had with are rather maps for twopence each .

    From Mr . John Heywood , Manchester . —Merely to enumerate the penny guide-books which Mr .

    than Heywood we can sends us . w Suffice ould take it to up more ¦ that space his list contains guides spare to all the popular say

    wateringplaces laces in of Eng interest land as and well Wales . The , and guides to mos are t inl illus and - trated p , and contain much information in a small

    compass . From Messrs . Houlston & Sons . —* A Week in

    North Wales for £ 4 10 s ., ' by A . Walker . Unhappily , expense is always a serious consideratiowith the of

    n mass our population , more cannot particularl call y £ in 4 10 the s . an matter exorbitant of holidays figure . for One a

    week he had ! s for outing seven , an days d M amo r . Walk ngst er the tells Welsh what moun sport - tains for that amount .

    From the same . —Messrs . Houlston 6 c Sons also \ s f ^ j end ^ / A M , VA \ vis m t . r district V- * M . * . I */ » i < w >_* * J maps » »» ¦ /* » - ^ •• - ' of ¦» - ' ^ ¦ Kent " •¦ " ~ ™^ ¦ " — — ' , p Surrey »¦— — ~ — ^ , D - evon — — ^ ,

    and other places dear to the tourist heart . They easily are reliable carried , and in the vest a convenient pocket . size , being

    From Mr . Thomas Laurie . — ' The Philosophy of Clothing / by W- Mattieu Williams , F . K . A . S ., & c . Carlle did not exhaust the philosophy of

    clothing in y his grimly humorous and speculative W romance illiams , ' s ' point Sartor of Resartus viewhe . did ' Nay not , so much m M as r .

    touch upon it ; eo that there , is ample reason for question the appearance of clothes of this . fresh We cannot volume on eve the n if great we

    were so minded , exist in the pr , esent era by ——I * _ ,

    striping our persons with variegated paint . Climatic conditions are not favourable . We

    must all wear something , and Mr . Williams very closely and elaborately considers the best methods of keeping the body covered . His

    book is full of shrewd and sensible remarks on matters affecting health , and will certainly repay J . •/ a perusal X . Mr . William — s does something

    for art too ; he has adopted * Clarendon ' typo in preference to the ordinary , being convinced that it looks better and is easier for the eye .

    From & Rivington Messrs . Sampson , Limited Low . — , M * Eng arst lish on , Searle Lands , ,

    Letters , and Kings : from Elizabeth to Anne ' , by Donald G . Mitchell . There is a style of essay popular with our Transatlantic cousins

    which is not much attempted by existing writers in our own country . Modelled on the plan of Charles Lamband the — gossi — py genia —— ———l

    ^ essayists who preceded , him , and ^^ introduced ^ ^ ^ n ^ into America by Washington Irving , it has survived — - all the — sharp - — h — changes - ^— - — — — ^^^ H " ^^ ^— and ^— " — " ~— —— — — ^ fluctua ^^^^ ^^ r- ^ m ^^ ^ V ^»^ ^ V ^ P -

    tions of taste that have marked the literature di of scu the rsive past , rather half-century evades . than It seeks is light the , easy deep ,

    p the laces romantic of thoug lanes ht , and and loves secluded to linger by-paths among of ancient h lore and legend hh . Of h this h kind of

    himself essa - ^— — y Mr - . a Donald — master — — — — — — — G . and — Mitch ^^ - ^— — — — the — — ell long ^^^ - . sent ^ since — — ^^— . ^^ volum — proved ^ ^ aH ^^ B ^^ ^ .. ^ v ^ . ^ e ^*^ from his facile ¦ — — pen _ — — , will not ~ - disappoint * pre _ H— — - ^ ^ his — ^— ^ H ^ - ad ^^ - ^ ^^^ B -

    mirers . Mr . Mitchell loves old England , and has been a close and appreciative student of her history . In the volume before us he deals

    in his own affable fashion with a great variety with of old the -time Stuart characters line , he and ends topics with . Beg Swift inning and

    Ireland , and by the way discourses of kings and queens lanes and , men flowery of state meadows and men broils of letters and battles , green

    and all that made England lust , y , energetic , and , fascinating in the old time . His criticisms , whe — . ~_ - t ~^ her so - - r c ~ v— ial — - , — p _ — olitical ~_ - -- ^ — — , H or - ^* " ^ 4 — li ^ m terary - ^ " ^^ ^^ ^ t ^^ f «¦ W , H V are ^^ - *^

    always etrative gen . , His and remarks , though on light Add , inva ison riabl and y pen Swift are especially good , and the fact that he

    has something fresh to say about these muchbewritten writers is evidence at once of his insight and his industry .

    From the same . — ' The Scientific Education of I D ^¦»^* ¦ o ^ r g ^ p ^ h s » — for ^— ¦ — — the — Gun — , g ' b ¦ y m H . H . ~ H . ~ r H —~ . " ^ — is an - ^^ - ^ ^^^^ en -m ^ ^^^ m -

    thusiastic sportsman and lover of dogs . For special n thirty , | w v — — -seven study m / years , try * t ing K he ^ r many has •/ made experiments JL the latter with a

    varying success , and now he gives the result of his labour and his observation in a volume that sportsmen will find extremely useful . H . H . is

    not dogmatic , but abounds in suggestion . He does our canine not pretend friends are know not to be about fathomed dogs even , for

    students in seven on and the thirt riht y track years ; but he sho will ws th put em how they may conti g nue inv , estigations on their

    never own account obscure . and The never book tedious is well . written ; it is From Messrs . Maomillan & Co . —* Fifty Years of

    Science . Being the address delivered at York to Bt . the Hon British Sir John Association Lubbock , Au Bt gust . M 1881 . P . / & b c y the & c .

    The fact that this is a fourth , , edition , of , Sir John preciation Lubbock of the ' s address book . Asa shows scientist the public and man ap- I I

    of letters , Sir John Lubbock has charms and II

    claims to public attention all his own . Jj

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    July i , i « 9 © The Publishers' Circular 8 i 7

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1890, page 817, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071890/page/23/