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    Messrs. Longmans Announce As In The Pres...

    From Messrs a variety . Cassell amounting & Co . have to 150 prepared , 000 subj a ects specimen , examp catalogu les which e of illustrate their stock almost of every electrotypes topic of . inq mnuiry uirv or or interest interest nay have e been oeen selected seiecxea , , ana and are are displayea displayed in in sixty sixty pages pases of 01 imperial imperial folio iolio ..

    genre In this and key juvenile catalogue engravings we find for representations stories , landscapes of animal from s , birds all parts , insects of the , rep world tiles , under fish , plants every , aspectcities and famous scenes both at home and abroadpictures dealing with adventure

    costume sea aoa hie liffi , in in and sunshine sunshine ethnology , , calm calm portraits , and and storm storm of famous , mechanism mechanism contemporaries , mining mininc , , the the historical antediluvian ant . prHlnviii scenes . n , world wnrlH battle p sacred sao ieces . tWl , , I I

    scenes , pictures of the , Hol , y Land , sports , and pastimes , , head , and tail pieces , ornamentat , ion alphabetswhich are a series of picturesillustrations of Shakspeare ^ Esop ' s Fables <& c .

    Miss Mathilda , Blind , who wrote a , biography of George Eliot , for the Famous , Women Serieshas written a novelwhich is shortly to appearwith the title ' Tarantella' and relates

    in part , to the south Italian , superstition as to the bite , of the tarantula spider , thoug , h its chief interest is more of a passionate and musical kind .

    September Mrs . Mary under Lovett the - titl Cameron e of * A North has written Country a new Maid novel . ' , which will be published early in

    Messrs . J . Walker & Co ., encouraged by the success of their tasteful ' crocodile notepaper and envelopesf have prepared a series of packets for occasions when the plainer kinds

    X of ^— X stationery are found . , desirable XX . The . characteristi -fc c of the new assortment is good A value for the money and pleasant appearance of the exterior . Thus , Messrs . Walker & Co . now offer

    us 'Regina' and 'Prineeps' note-papers from fine quality to extra superfine , each having envelopes to correspondand each in handsome-looking boxes . These varieties of note-paper

    and envelopes JL are also jL offered , in papeteries . The differences t ^ of texture and surface are such X that stationers are enabled to meet every probable want of their customers .

    Mr . Ernest A . Budge , of the department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum , is preparing for publication by the Religious Tract Society a volume on ' Babylonian Life and

    History , ' which will present a history of Babylon from the cuneiform inscriptions and indicate the parallelisms between these and the Scripture narrative . Mr . Budge will especially

    consider the daily routine of Babylonian life , its literature , commerce , agriculture , and its royal and other courts of justice . An exposition of the religion and mythology of Babylon

    wil be offered ; and a chapter will be devoted to an account of the cuneiform writing . At Chester Assizes on Tuesday Mr . Tomkinsona retired bank manager living at

    Carnarvon , recovered £ 75 as damages from the Gwalia , , a Welsh newspaper printed at Carnarvon MM b , for — ^_ a libel contained in .- an __ imputation ^_ ^_ that he had become a bankrupt ^^^_ m _ . a . PBB H ^— ^ m ^^^ ^

    The The collection musical included libra . ry of the Julian works of Marshal the ^^ principal l has ^^ been ^^ composers sold ^ ^^ b ^ , y many Messrs . ^^ ^^^ of . them Sotheb of y great on Tuesday rarity . .

    member figure Messrs has of . been Marion the Ministry the & s Co ubject . has have given of in a preparation special his autograph photograph a picture for . reproduction of Besides the present sitting . The Ministry for importance his , likeness in which of , each each this

    photograph to eight guineas will . be Messrs inferre . d Marion when we & Co stat . e hav that e also the nearl price y of read it will y a series range of from four fifteen heads shillings , which

    perhap will doubtless s may best be duly be described designated as when being they of an come ethereal before order the . public They . are female heads , and

    of Cabinet Messrs Goods . Waterston , and Sundries and Sons , with issue illu a stration new ' Catalogue s and descri of Stationers ptions / It ' Hardwar quotes a e , great Glass variet Ware y ,

    stands boxes articles nts , card of various likel racks y , to label material be required dampers , invoice , by date stationers cases cases , , letter drawing , such clips as p , ins files letter , desk , lawyers boxes ink- ' wells , bodkins letter , gum balances , call bottles bells stationerv , , , paper cash

    inkcabinets Wwwg eights , . , pen Den stamp racks ranka and . , twine trays travs . , boxes & Ar , c t * .. , slates alataa & c . & of of c . porcelain nornela Messrs in . . , Waterston parcels narcels post nosfc ' s catalogue scales scales , , rulers rulers is a handsome , , seals seals , , statio -looking nery quarto * A hlet of 56 l / illustrated JLXi , 1 / 1 , ba large number JIJI J ** * J \^ m of KSM . well \ sjlm - vavvuvvu executed diagrams v «^ . > . v ^ andit

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    pregre 6 ^ a ? at December ^ lexicoerranher lexicographer of this died diod year on on is tlm the the 13 13 , th th centenary ot of the the month month month . 1 1784 of 7 o 4 both . and and Dr the the . great exeat Johnson English . English and scholar sciioiar Wiclif . on on The tne the

    Press tost day a new of 1384 life . of We Dr . learn Johnson that . Dr It . Macaulay will be the , the , third editor , of the of The 4 Centenary Leisure Series Hour , has published in the by Mr . TFisher UnwinIt will be entitled ' DrJohnson His LifeWorksand

    Tablelalk . ' . . . : , , The cheap edition of Miss Braddon ' s novel * Flower and Weed , ' will be published shortly Dy Me 8 sr 8 J & RMaxwell ,

    catio Ihe n in cheap a a few ew . edition da dava y s . hv b t the . another h « . Ram same « of firm tirm * Rita . ' s ' novels , ' Vivienne / will also be ready for

    publi-Xr '^ * J ' ii ? - ? l Paths Jolln and Murray Green will Lanes shortly ' issue a new and popular edition of Mr . Louis . Jennings

    I I ^ n ^ 8 Alexander * name * Gardner The Antiq , the uarian . enterprising Library' Pai It sley will publisher consist , chiefly promises of ori a g series inal works , which , and he

    Ifl ¦ I II r La Wil ° n l x : *\ - introduced i . Remarkable « % l J _ -ii by Chapters the . « following - ¦•» in * the . Annals books ~ * from ** of * . Great the .- * pen Britain of and Mr 'kjr . William 1 Ireland ¥ T « 11 _• / Andrews A 4 Obsolete Jl : ' Punish Gibbet i ^ l LV » -

    ¦ 1 I I ** 3 *** S Poetry 1 tilBfcw . yof Bells , ' and 'Wells : their History , Legends , Superstitions , Folk-Lore ,

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    August i , 1884 The Publishers' Circular 7 o 5

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1884, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081884/page/5/