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    literary work . The book ought certainly to be read by all students of modern literature . There

    is an appreciative essay on Mark Pattison , which is worthy of fixed attention . . _—_— ¦ ¦ — 1 , 1 . ¦¦ w — _, __

    Books in Paets . —The newest addition of these publications is Familiar Trees , by G . S . Boulger ,

    F . L . S ., & c . ( Cassell & Co . ) . A feature that will be sure to be highly appreciated is seen in the 6 lendid coloured lates by W . H . J . Boot . In

    other p respects this p new venture has a wide range of interest . Although considerations of space in most . instances do not allow us to

    quote , we have much pleasure in giving an extract from the paper on the * Oak / which will be an index to the general character of the book : —

    timber Whatever will always may be be the of peculiar extension value of the for use man of y purposes iron , oak , cient though that important to considerabl bye-product influence , the bark the , is of English

    suffiforester consequence ' s treatment of his woods . y There is more tannin in the other bark season in spring and it , is when therefore the sap the is common rising , than tice at any , prac

    i to fell the trees at , that season , instead of in winter , though j J latter for tim period _» er only . The it is best admittedly judges cannot preferable separat to e the adopt woods the

    I of the two best varieties . Few woods are so durable under I crooked all circumstance branches ,, are few valwable so gene in rally ship useful -building . Even ; but the the

    familiar inky stains round the nails of many a park-fence show that the tannic acid in the wood is detrimental to manufactu iron , converting re of that it , in commodity fact , into from ink oak , as -galls it does and in the

    vitriol , or in its union with the bog-iron of peat-mosses green that yield the well-known black bog-oak . The concluding Part ( 8 ) of Messrs . Ward , Lock ,

    & Co . _'s fine edition of Waverley has appeared this month . The whole forms an unusualJy rich volume . Scientific Recreations ( WardLock &

    Co . ) contains a continuation of a well- , prepared , paper on Geology , also a large instalment of an interesting contribution on Physical Geography ,

    both subjects being treated in a very popular way . From the same publishers we have received Part 45 of Amateur WorkPart 10 of Haydn ' s

    Dic-, tionary of Domestic Id edicine , Part 4 of Beeton ' s New Book of Garden Management , Part 9 of the Universal Instructor , _« nd Part 9 of the Library

    of National Information , the latter containing papers on Julius _Csesar , Alfred the Great , and _Gustavus Adolhus . Cassell's Technical

    Educator ( Cassell & p Co . ) has reached its eighteenth Part paper , on which 4 Closets contains and Traps a very . ' useful sanitary

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    j ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINES .

    The Portfolio ( Seeley & Co . ) for this month is enriched by three valuable and very fine etchings ,

    to wit , ' Hastings / by Stephen Parrish , ' Windsor Castle from the Berkshire banks of the River / Murray by H . Railton after ,. Cuyp and . ' Milking The note Time for / the by G first . O - .

    mentioned , of these is written by the Editor ; the second illustrates the eighth instalment of the Rev the . third W . J is . Lottie from ' Cuyp s fine ' s descri picture ption in the of Windsor National ;

    illustrated Gallery . Mrs articl . e Pennell on ' The contributes Stones of a Rome finel . '— y-R Who . A ., fo is rms it ? ' a fro fine m the frontispiece painting by for Alma the Tadema current ,

    aft ' - number ¦ of ' the Magazin —¦ e of Art ( Cassell & Co . ) .

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    to Mr New . J . A Bri rthur dge Blackie / is of more ' s ' The than Dart ordinary : Buckfastlei interest gh

    especiall the illustrations y worthy by of note Mr . . Allan Attention Barraud should being be , to Daniel Chodowieckib

    paid '/ a paper y Mr , Mr Austi Percy n Dobson Fitzgerald , and ' Old . The London editor Doorways contributes , ' by

    ' The Book of Rembrandt / a very readable article . ' On Calais Sands ' is the title of this month ' s " icturethe b

    poem-p ; poem being y Mr . Andrew It Lan shows g , and the the end desi of gn an by * affai Mr . r Seymour of honour Lucas ' on , R the . I .

    & sands Co . ) at presents early dawn to its . — readers The Art a Journal lovely facsimile ( Virtue of * A Reverie' an original drawing bMarcus

    Stone , A . R . A . , ' Music at the Inventions y Exhibition' is the continuation of a paper dealing with some ancient exhibits in the music department :

    it is full of interest . We have already spoken of Mr . Kitton ' s 'An Old Coach Road , ' which is this month brought to a conclusionleaving a

    , very agreeable impression of the writer ' s skill and taste in d _< scription . Mr . F . G . Stephens' ' Hammersmith and Chiswick' should be read with

    interest ; while connoisseurs will turn with pleasure to the account which has been written of Mr . Alfred de Rothschild ' s collection . — London

    Society ( Office , 51 Great Queen Street ) appears to be much better supplied with short and readable sketches than in used to be , although

    the familiar full-page illustrations are not so p and lentiful full . of amusing This month reading 's part —Harper is very ' interesting s Monthly

    . article ( Sampson on Low ' Eng & lish Co and . ) has American a thoroug Railways hly abl , e '

    readers which . will The give part novel is otherwise information of more to general than ordinary interest . — bod Not of onl the y politicians general public but

    a very numerous y will find on interest the ' Croft in ers reading / which Mr . James in Sime the ' _s paper appears

    English Illustrated Magazine ( Macmillan & poor Co being . ) . but illustrated Mr . homelv Sime and b speaks ictures health with y of race feeling life , his and about rem scenery arks a

    touching in the western little story Hi y ghlands , p written . ' Bill by M Judge iss M ' is . E a -

    Hullah . Mr . A . Hastings White's ' Pilgrimage of story chapter the , Thames ' A — Famil The ' Century is y concluded Affair / Magazin reaches , and Hug e its ( F thirty h Conwayjj Warne -third &

    all Co . ) respects is . a Midsummer equal to its Holiday promise Number of rea . , and l enter is in - tainmentThe hical sketch is of William

    referred Lloy the d First Garrison . to Year in the biogra . of The the articles p War American * / A * The Virg Civil inia Last War Girl of tM in w

    Seven ( Part Days V . ) , ' and Battles ' Memo / * Recollections randa of the of Civil a Private war .

    All interest story these . The Mr contributions Rise . W . of D . Silas Howells are Lap of ham concludes the and AW _« ni u _%

    Bostonians Henry , James ' . ' When gives us every the body seventh is on of part , the or _vw

    just now we would advise a perusal un Keep Isles . — ing Two , Present capital and scientific Future / articles by Mr , . ( * _^ _

    Food ' and ' The Birth of Mountains , appear amusing Cornhill part ( Smith of , Elder the magazine , & Co . ) . _n 1 _Jww ne » U lufl .

    the trated most sketch app . ' ropriate A Cheap at Nigger the . pres But Peru . _^

    perfect is ' Unparliamentary store of antiquarian Boroug facts hs , , _^ tne _^ w t _^ _Vordf b xand _^ _^

    ( Isbister & Co . ) has an article on _*\* other |

    Crofters / by Mrs . _FleemingJ _^^ _, _^^^ 0

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1885, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081885/page/14/