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    f August i, 1890 The Publishers' Circula...

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    Fjihe August Number Of Harpers Magazine ...

    commentators . And criticism of all sorts has more or less effect temporarily if not

    perm anently , No critique , however feeble , however unfair , is perfectly innocuous . In

    some remote , undreamed-of corner it has its baleful effect , and turns aside an intending

    reader . Malicious or incompetent criticism j nay be powerless to injure an author ' s

    posthumous fame , but it often seriously interferes with his efforts to earn his bread .

    Carlyle ' s place is secure now , but Mr . Froude tells us that there was once a time when

    Carlyle came face to face with starvation . ! The fact is scarcely creditable to the criticism

    I of his day . Nor can that of ours gain credit by being * savage and unjust . ' The astute

    Scotsman , though an empirical philosopher and no high moralist , declared honesty to be the

    best policy . It is so in every calling and relation in life . Thieves are said to have a code

    of honour , and critics are surely not without integrity . We think Mr . Howells exaggerates

    in saying that anonymous criticism is * almost wholly an abuse , ' but it lies with itself to

    i disprove the charge .

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    * Lux Mundi' is in its ninth edition , * M , M .

    • * 1 Mr . J . Norman Lockyer is editing Ame'de * e i Guillemin ' s work * The Heavens . '

    * # * Messrs fc . Kegan fc f PaulTrench jf > A 4 & Co » . 9 will ~]

    publish ™—• ^^ --wr »^^ Mrs «^ v ^ m . ^^* ^ Elizabeth ¦ ' ¦¦»*»^» ^^» m ^ v ^^» - , « Harcourt ^ m ^ ^ ^ B ^^^ ^^ » ^ r ^ Mitchell r ^^ f ^*~ V V M ' s new book , 'Forty Days in the Holy Land . '

    ? * Herbert —1 c The Burrows Prelude \ , ' is a volume issued this of poetry week by by Mr Mr .

    T , Fisher * vv * % J . JL ^ Unwin UJL JL J WT O . , JLW XU 13 Vl « i > VA . 1 /&& JU 9 TV VV A . ^ J "aJl . * txr . understan ji _ . 1 d that it 1 t . Alfred k 1 <• ¦» de 1 Musset •»« - *

    We ' ' Classics * ill be for the Eng next lish volume Readers' in series the . 'Foreign

    * The third volume of M . Kenan ' s * Histoire du Peuple d'Israel' will be published early in

    October . ¥ r . A H third ¦• . M ¦*¦*¦*¦ . St edition anley of is in * In the % / Darkest i ^ and -v Africa ^ -m ^ will ww , ' b be y ¦**¦

    published ' »»• in rWMUAAV a few j , 9 *** days ** » by mmx ^ press ^ Messrs rm . -mm ^ w ^ , y . *» Sampson r » »•» .-- » r ** •^ w , Marston & Co .

    * * M $ c f _ We hear — " — ^ ¦¦¦*¦¦• that «> MW «/ VV ! ¦ Messrs !»*¦ ^» TTWTW g * . T » Ward ¦ V ¦ ¦¦¦• - " , Lock ^ r * & Co ,

    shortlissue Mr . Oscar Wilde ' s novel jltypoared JJJ The * Picture in y LippincoWs of Dorian Magazine Grey / * which lately ,

    * Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling ? is the title of a work on which Mr . Charles G . Leland )

    is at present engaged . Mr . T . Fisher Unwiij , ' will be the publisher . • #

    it his Concordance We f »» hear m that ill to Mr ^ A" Shelley . Ellis vif v « thinks on the 1 ninety of publi 1 - ei s g hing ^ hth

    anniversary of the poet ' s birth instead of the hundredth as was first intended .

    Lady Florence Dixie has written a new tale of adventure , it is entitled * Aniwee ; or ,

    the Warrior Queen , ' and Messrs , Henry & Co . will publish it , *

    out F Mr an » . illustrated Patchett volume Martin r on will » the shortl Children y bring o r f F » '" — — — ^ ' — ^— ¦ " - ^^^^^^ B I I — ^ ^^ ^ V ^ F" ^»^ ^ F ^^ W ' % ^^ " ««^ ^ Ff ^^^ B ^ i ^ ^¦ F' ^^^ ^»* M ^» ^^^ ^^ . . ^ ^ ^ . ^ ^ F ^^^ ^^ ^^ ' ^»^

    Two Worlds' ( England and Australia ) . The illustrations are by an Australian artist .

    Mr . Moncure D . Con way has written a life

    of Nathaniel Hawthorne ; it will , we understand , form the August volume of the ' Great Writers' seriespublished by Mr , Walter

    Scott . , # *

    ' Creation ' s Hope' is the title of a new work which the Rev . M . S . C . Rickards , author of * Sonnets and Reveries' will shortly

    bring out . Messrs . E . Baker & , Son will be the publishers .

    • * New Zealand is slowly building up a literature of its own . It is about to be augmented

    by a tale of local interest , entitled * Ko Meri , or , a Cycle of Cathay . ' The author is Miss Jessie Watson , of Auckland .

    * * * For Mr . Unwin ' s ' Adventure Series * Mr .

    E . M . Edmunds will contribute an Eng lish edition of the * Autobiography of Kolbko

    C 3 MT mf Kenes . ' The volume will contain an historical introduction on the Klephts .

    * * Messrs . Longmans < fc Co . announce ' The

    Life of the Right Hon . Robert Lowe , Viscount Sherbrooke' by A . Patchett Martin . The

    book will contain , a brief memoir of Sir John Coope Sherbrooke , at one time

    Governor-General of Canada . I

    Mr . Robert Louis Stevenson has written a I defence of Father Damien , whose memory was

    aspersed by a Presbyterian missionary . The defence is said to be one of the most vigorous pieces of writing ever put forth by Mr .

    jr Stevenson . Messrs * - » . Chatto & Windus are * f the | publishers .

    ? m r ; Smokers should be interested in a book that ! Mr . Quaritch is to bring out in October . It

    colours is ^^ 1 F ^ F *~ ^* to m ^ F ^ ' ^^^~ be wmm w ^ , ^ m ¦ made of - . ^ w " ¦ the ¦ - ^ ^^ » up p ^ r" ~ ¦ i' p ^ of m —~ es - ¦— T" ^ fifty and ^ " - » " ^ — — —» sketches s — — t — yles ^ g " — ' — - —¦ - of — — ^ , smoking printed .. __ ... _ . , _—^^_ in of —^

    —all civilised and uncivilised nations . Mr . R . T . Pritchett is the author , and * Smokiana , ' the title . / :

    ¦ . aafts-y

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1890, page 909, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081890/page/5/