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    August i, 1885 The Publishers' Circular ...

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    not only seasonable , but thoroughly amusing , and quite in keeping with the subject .

    From the same . — ' The Royal Academy , Illustrated , 1885 / This is certainly the best of all

    illustrated guides to the Academy . The facsimile drawings are wonderfully good , and the twenty Boyal Academicians' pictures reproduced by the

    Lefman process , are fully worth the shilling charged for the whole work . The prices of the p the ictures utility are of also the stated guide , . which adds not a little to

    From Messrs . J . Sc R . Maxwell . —* The Stockbroker ' s Wife * is the title of a new work written

    by Shaw Bracebrid stockbroker ge Hemyng . This and is edited a series by Mr of . Stock John Exchange , stories ; the title being taken from the

    first . Most of the stories are exciting ; and we have no doubt that the book will have a prosperous run . It should be very successful as a

    volume for holiday folk , and as it is associated with our mightiest and most irrational system of money dealingit ought to gain a wide notice

    among more general , readers . From Mr . William Paterson , Edinburgh . — '

    Narratives of Scottish Catholics / under Mary Stuart and James VI ., ' by William _Forbes-Leith , S . J . We were acquainted with the remarkable work

    now being : accomplished by Mr . Forbes-Leith , through his splendid 'Scots Men-at-Arms and Life Guards in France / The ancient connection

    of Scotland with France is one of the most interesting stories in British history . It has been left to Mr . Forbes-Lei th to be the exact

    historian of the league . In the work now published—the ' Narratives of Scottish Catholics 'we have an introductory sketch of the history of

    Scotland during the minority of the unfortunate Mary Stuart . As a matter of course , the sketch is drawn from a Roman Catholic point of view .

    The most valuable part of the book , however , consists of a large number of important letters hearing upon the history of the age and its events ,

    which now of the printed have Vatican been for the preserved and first other time _^ n collections from the secre orig t . inal archive These MSS s .

    letters torical is equi s th pped cenes row . for new It the is light to battle be upon hoped wh some ich that stirring will the likel editor his y -

    the themselves ensue book from is possess one their which much pub no lication writer interest . on , The and Scottish altogether letters his in - torical

    subjects can overlook . From genious Messrs Gentleman . Smith Don , Elder Quixote , & of Co La . — ' Man The cha In / -

    * Joh ot be tran this n Ormsb sl reall ation y y , . fine with Vol work , . introduction 4 . appeared When the , and we firs recognised notes t volume , by

    _^ ded fact to the that strength a masterl of y Eng translation lish interpretations was being and ° t fo ther reign _« is classics . The work that is now finished will ,

    _fftrn golden op no inions question for the manner Mr . Ormsby in which he _nas hat carried out his eminently useful project .

    _^ a _noering project of was the to great present work to Eng of lish Cervantes readers in a

    for _d * _? _tfte £ ae requirements e SUcn as wonl < and _* make opinions it especiall of the y suitabl present e ' work forms of the best

    of th * mod r 7 " _^ 9 _brary rms d D 3 book rs s , and t as such one we have not

    Place a ° ubt en ( that { wl © conc long _lu h _ding old a volume unique

    _l _^^ there # _g J ) _^ o _» _uixote ' ' JL * . _Angularly _^ / comprising _* ° interesting _^ _*** the editi bibliog ons rap hy the of

    original , and the chief translations in Eng _lish , Poli French shPortuguese , German , Italian Swedi , sh Dutch Him , garian Russian ( Magyar , Dan )*

    , , , Greek , Bohemian , and Servia i . The list , as Mr . Ormsby remarks , could no ; pretend to be completebut it is such a list * : is will put the history

    of the , book before the readerand enable him to judge of the relative importance , of the various editions and translations /

    From the same . —A cheap edition of the highly popular ' John Herring' has appeared in this firm ' s well-known series of standard works .

    From Messrs . Swan Sonnenscheiii & Co . —The study of insects has made so distinct an advance

    of late that students of natural history will find a very useful aid in the * Elementary Text Book recentl of Entom y been ology published / by W . F . . Kirb Judg y ing , which from has a toler onl - y

    ably careful examination of the work , we may safely say that it embraces the results of the in most the recent Zoolog discoveries ical Department . Mr . Kirb of y the is Assistant British

    Museum , and ia that position has exceptionally favourable opportunities for keeping himself practically up to date in entomological science .

    The book before us is an admirable proof of the wise use which Mr . Kirby has made of these opportunities as well as of his enthusiastic

    devotion to his especial study . The arrangement of the contents has been effected with no little ability . The various orders are Coleoptera

    Orthoptera , Neuroptera , Hymenoptera , Lepido- , ptera , Hemiptera , and Diptera . It appears that the number of varieties of insects known to

    inhabit the British Isles is 12 , 600 ; the number for the whole world being 222 , 000 . Not a little interest is connected with the following piece of

    information . 'Insects are usually abundant in proportion to the exuberance of the vegetation , but the richer the native fauna of any country

    the poorer will it become when that is destroyed . Hence it happens that cultivated districts in the tropics often disappoint the collector very much ;

    while a dense tropical forest , with its dim shade cast by the crowns of the trees a hundred feet above , is anything but rich in insects , though

    they swarm in a new clearing , or in other favourable localities . ' From these quotations it will be seen that Mr . Kirby ' s volume has a distinct

    interest beyond its indisputable value as a textbook . From the same . —Following the Marquis of Lome ' s

    monograph in ' Imperial Federation / we have Bart before M us . P * . Rep which resentation forms / the by new Sir John volume Lubbock of the ,

    ., , has ' Imperial already -Parliament reached its Series sixth . ' thousand The little . After work an introduction the various chapters are devoted

    Liste to Sing ; the le Membered Single Transferable Constituencies Vote ; ; Scrutin Reply de to Objections to the Single Transferable Vote ; the

    Commutative Vote ; the Free List or Ticket ; the Limited Vote . At the present time a handbook of this description must be exceedingly valuable .

    Sir John Lubbock is a high authority upon the subject , and his book is arranged in a manner that admits of reference at a glance .

    From Mr . Elliot Stock . —Under the title « Urbana public Scripta / a Mr series . Arthur of well Galton -composed has and given singularl to the y

    effective essays , principally studies of five living Swinburne poets — Tennyson and Morris , Browning . The , introductory Matthew Arnold essay ,

    , —English Poetry in 1885—is a very good piece of ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ _< — ' ' ' ' ¦ " < vKi

    August I, 1885 The Publishers' Circular ...

    August i , 1885 The Publishers' Circular 693

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1885, page 693, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081885/page/13/