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    Books Received :— From Messrs. Zblackie ...

    of Burke ' s confession . The story of bodysnatching W ^^ W ^^ V ^^^^ ^^ ^^ F ^^^^^ ^ B ^^ v ^^ ^ B ^^ B in ^* ^^*^ P ^ B V Scotland ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ™^ ^ b- ^^ ^^^^ ^*^^ commences ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ' — — ^ -with an — entry ^^ g

    dated that offence 1678 , . when Three fou or r g four ipsies of were the 43 hanged chapters for of the book are devoted to the predecessors of

    Burke and Hare . We then have an account of Dr . Knox ' s relations with them , the criticisms of other doctors , popular tumults , report of a

    committee tragedies , Kng , relations lish newspapers of doctors on generall the West y to bod Port y I snatchers & c . & c . After that we come to '

    burk-, and ing' May in London , tho passing , and the of tri the al of ' Anatomy Bishop , Will Act / iams and , the effects of the resurrectionist movement . The

    appendix . _ contains the _ _ case against . Torrence . and I Waldie , an account of an interview with Burke in prison , and the confession of Bishop and

    Williams , the London burkers . Burke ' s confession contains a statement which may be worth quoting :

    unders 4 You tand have ? ' been a resurrectionist ( as ib is called ) I I ch * urchyard No . Nei . ther AJ 1 Hare we sold nor myself were murdered ever grot a save body the from first a

    de one ath , which in Hare was ' s house that . ' of the woman who , died a natural The songs and ballads arising out of these events

    conclude a volume of very uncommon interest . From Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , & Co . —' Mr .

    William Shakespeare ' s Hamlet . ' The publishers offer us a careful reprint of the first folio edition of the plays dated 1623 . They quote Mr . Knight ' s

    printed opinion , as that the ' th first ere n folio ever of was Shakespeare a book so . correctl ' Only y , Mr . Knight always printed the name ' Shakspere . '

    However , in about 160 pages 16 mo . we have here a very excellent reprint of Hamlet , which is to be followed by the other plays in monthly succession .

    Prom Debt Messrs , ' by Basil . Smith . This , Elder is a , new & C edition o . —' Love , in one the

    volume , with illustrations , of a novel which was received with considerable favour on its first publication in three volumes . The scene is laid in

    various in the course parts of of the Eng story land and very in vari the ous colonies aspects , and of life are depicted in a way which implies much

    feeling and observation . The % f writer ' s comic vein I is election well . shown in depicting tho humours of an

    From edition ouii / the ivu same of ui . a a , — popular jjvjpmcn 'Airy , Fairy novel iiuvci Lilian by uy the Hie . ' author auLUur A cheap of vl

    r its Ph bold yllis print , ' ' Moll and yBawn general , ' « Mrs get- . up G , eoffrey this is , ' & a c model . In

    a ' railway book . ' From the same . — * Henry Greville ' s Diary . '

    Second series of Selections . The extracts now published 1852 , at -which take time the Louis reader Napoleon from September was only

    President , to December 1856 , when the Empire had existed four years . The events of about four years and a half are touched upon

    from the arrangements consequent on the death , i of ence the and Duke the of Wellington outbreak of , to war the Paris with Confer China - .

    from There the are mission many of notices Mentchikoff of the , to Crimean March 1866 war , , when Mr . Greville writes * I believe that

    every-, thing ^ K A on which ^ A A peace and war depended ^ H ^ k _» is ^ arranged . ' Between those dates two-thirds of tho book are comprehendedand the numerous entries

    , referring to the progress and events of the -war are opinion exceeding in Eng ly lish interesting and foreign as aociety a reflecti . There on of is

    II abundant The following matter is , from however a letter , of of a Fanny different Kemble kind .

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    to Mr . Greville in 1856 : —' The whole state ' of America , moral and politicalmakes w one ^ '

    ' X ' , ^ vr « jj s hair hension ™ - . ^ k ^ m ^^^ U stand ^^ ^^ m ^^ h ^ b ^ K and - * on - ¦ — to end - what ^ with ^ ^ k _ m .- issue M— amazement > it is — driving A- and H ^ ^ appre wi If th .

    its hard nara magnificent and anu , sad saa tto -o frei surmise surmise ght of . . material Everything JCiVeryining prosperi is is horri Horribl _ ty , , it hl Al is ' v

    distasteful to me here . The theory of the government government still sun ob ooLains tains my my entire entire aanerence adherent ?

    but have the deteriorated people , instead ; and the of saddes improvi t thing ng , appear of all to is

    their to hear own the condition best peop . le here Meantime themselves the speak material of

    vi prosperi gouractivity ty of the and country success is of a all marvel but the , and noblest the I I

    mJ , m , ^^^ ^^ - ^ **^ t *\ j \ j m hension interests that ^ fills one of The the with nation Ameri regret is , admiration a civil portentous , and spectacl appre e - I I

    . ' can war broke out I early in 1861 . Among the literary memoranda I we described find — - in b the — —— Grevill book ^^ - ^ - — Madame — — — — — — — — ^— — b —m - ^^ George - ^— - ^ ^^^ ^^^ Bj ^^ b ^^^ Sand *^^^* 4 < BJI ^^^¦ Bj ^^^ k is IJ ^ I ^ H

    y Mr . e as y no means of an I jowl attractive , but has appearance immensel — y large ' short and , fat expressive , with a eyes large . ' I I Again it was amusing to see Mr . Dickens aid I

    Madam , e Sand aux prises . Dickens was very funny I ners about and the littl illustrious e person were authoress not what ; her he quiet expected man . - I I

    He said he had always figured her to himself as I and a sort dumpy of gl , orified with a month di & agreeable ly nurse mouth . She — is a gentl short e I I

    voica , and as Dickens said , a gentle manner . ' I The desultory reader will find abundant matter I of interest in this octavo volume of 400 pages , I

    which has unfortunately no index . The many I readers of the first series will be glad to see the I memoir which Lady Enfield has prefixed . I

    From Messrs . "W . Swan Sonneaschein & Co .-- I * The Logical English Grammar , ' by F . G-. Fleay , I

    M characteristi . A ., Trinity c of College this , little Cambri manual dge . The is that special it I I follows throughout what Mr . IFleay calls ' the- I

    log before ical accidence analytical , ' a system order which of treatment is , he — ¦ ¦ maintains syntax , * the order of historical development easier for vi I h

    LUC UiUCl VII . lliDLUXlCaX U . CVO 1 U LH 1 JCJ-IU CclOJCi * the Another ^ vixutjjitj learner r feature ltJiiLux and leading in ill the bii w volume vuluihu to many is is the Liie simp ¦ iiiiruu introduction lifications uuwv . ' h I

    of etymolog a binary ical , classification and he suggests of words several ¦ ¦ , log new ical prac and - tical arrangements for and analysis ¦ ¦ aia of of ui sente duu sounds nces , h

    parsing pH ( until spelling a'sin it ££ , , reaches ) , ptira parap the -purawi hrasing the anal elementa Lig ysi , , s being ry analysis aiiaiy word ¦ carried ¦ components forward »"" . ¦ Mr TVTr . Fleay "PIarv also nlsn gives ( rivfts a ^ rum-jlfttft lete sound sniind - a allptiaDct phabct m

    with its relation to the written comp ¦ sign-alphabet , and this The , ground he tells p us lan , is of an his ori manual gin ¦ ¦ al ¦ feature as set in forth his hoo in L &

    Professor sy PttAfaoonn his r ,.. llabus iin pup u .,. ¦ . ils which __ v , de A »; a received « i , " he i M »~ ^ -nrvn printed : - n the i . _ Dr T j \ -n approval in i ¦ _ Latham T 1859 t ofllOTrl o r . Ck for ¦(? / - > of . ¦» tho fl P Processor - the » rofCSSOf A use lAfift l ^ ' ot M ^ 1

    Max competent Miiller teacher , and Morgan , Mr the . , Fitch manual ¦ ¦ . . With is calculated tho , aid of to a give a pupil a thoroug and hl ¦ it it ¦ y intelli t gent also ihhl view bo ad of vau t » e -

    tageousl English ji . ngiisn y lanffuage language used as , , ana tho basis migh migiiD of a course wu " ^ ° ill lectures luwulAX OCJ . H I ^^ H

    From fulness the : sa an m Autobiograp e .- ' Prard ¦ ¦ Battl hic Record es for , Life also and a K « vi U « £ of the Boots and Remedies of London Misery ¦» Jiav » J \ M

    of tion the Rev b Jttoots . the J . Inches ana itemeaios ¦ ¦ Walter Hillocks . C 01 Smith With ijonuuu an V . V "J . tr ' J 0 ^ * , ¦

    worjLM works volume y under uuuer includes one one Rev cover cover . three . . Fi xhdi distinct rst . wo «« have * but »«« , .- connccc the iA w » « ^ j IH h h under w n

    of title the of author « Battles ' s ear to ly Live life in and Scotland Learn , ; n «» m have ¦ the account of his earlier work in ^ rVj ^

    under the title of Battles for Life an ^ J ^ L == . dH

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    7 I 2 The Publishers' Circular August i , i 884

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1884, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081884/page/12/