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    9 it> The Publishers' Circular August i,...

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    Owen as Secretaries . It is further proposed to open two other departments in connection

    with the College in October—a School of Eng Company - ~^ m * ov ^ w ^ ineering h arid pbp ^^ , liberall ^ a Day b ^ p ^ - y ¦ endowed ¦ Training ¦ i » bp-- pw by ^^ pavm the College - - Drapers wv for '

    elementary ^^ nr ^ p * w ^»* v m , « a teachers ^ r ^ w m p » in accordance ™ ^^ ^^ pp ^ —p" with ^^^ v J *^ ^^ the ^^ ^^ — provisions of the new Code .

    An Indian Research and Aid Society has been formed at Ottawa , Canada , under the

    patronage "JVilliam Dawson of the is Governor the President -General . and the Sir Iter - . E . F . Wilson ( well known r b » for h his , labours pbbb B | bp hbb b bb ¦ ¦ ¦

    ^ ~^ p ppp ^^^^^^^™* ^ pr ^^ - ^^— p ^ y — » ^^^* r ^ ^ bp ~ ^^^^ p m p ° » * p « " ^^ ^^ p " ^» p ^ p ^ pbbp *^^^^^ r- ^™ - — —— — — — ° — — — — — — in behalf of Indian children ) is Secretary . The object of the society is to promote the

    welfare to ~^_ - —^ preserve _ - _ - — — — — — of the their — Indians history — _ _ — — , ^^ to ^ , j - traditions guard — — — — — ~^_ - — - - their — — , g and interests folk- ,

    lore , and to diffuse information with a view to creating a more general interest in their progress . A monthly journal is to be

    published , containing papers of an ethnological , philological , and archaeological character . The

    Mohawk chief , J . B . Brant , is a member of the council . ; Another new candidate for public favour is

    Pearson ' s Weekly . It is edited by a gentleman who until recently was manager of Tit-Bits

    and has , therefore , had experience of what , suits the popular taste . The paper is

    projected is very on promising original . lines Its object , and the is ' to first interest number to

    elevateto amuse' and the editor is deter , - mined , to give only , the best literary fare .

    Guessing competitions are to be rigidly excludedbut readers are not to be debarred

    from competing , for prizes , and the first number contains particulars of an ingenious

    and interesting scheme for benefiting the supporters J > 1 of the paper JLA . Pearson — ' s Weekly */

    promises to be one of the best of its class . * A Catalogue of Binary Stars for which

    Orbits been presented have been to Computed the Royal ' Irish has , we Academy learn ,

    by Mr . J . E . Gore , F . R . S . A . The Catalogue , which will be published by the Academy

    contains the elements of all the orbits hitherto , calculated —~ ~~ ^ — , the ~— magnitudes ¦ — ¦ — ' - ^ - v ^ PB ^^ k ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ^ - ^ - ^ ^— — ^ HB- p-Var and ¦/«/ ^ B » ^ i ^ B ^ BB ^ BJP colours ^ BbP ~*^ T PBB 1 ^ B ^¦¦ BPJ pBB of ^ b *^ ^ " ^ " the « V B « * W ^ BBT

    II components , spectra , ' hypothetical' and measured parallaxthe relative brightness of

    each compared JL with , a standard star , and data for computing M . % ~ 9 the velocity in the line of sig ht ,

    for use in the spectroscopic method of measuring the stars' distance from the earth . The Catalogue is followed by a series of notes

    i giving further details and the most recent measures of position of the component stars .

    i The Pure Literature Society ( an Indian ; Association ) is in difficulties . It was founded

    some time ago to give the natives wholesome ; English of Dickens fpipMw literature had kt » - ^ to , be and considered , of course , Some the claims

    mem-^*^»» p ™* - * , - *^ i ^ .- »» -. ^ B * . * pv v ^ - ' ^^^^ ^ \/ JUiM & V 1 kvJL ^» # ^* % . ri ^ vAAIV Jk »*^^ JkJt * I I bers * Pickwick of the Societ ' but y proposed others — to give Nonconformist the natives

    | ministers , it , is said—raised objections . They I thought Messrs . Weller ipid Stiggins hardly

    I I to fit be representatives feared the immortal of British Samivel fiction would , and it lose is

    I ¦ - half « -a A his « charm <• if a . s . his im * proverbs _ were translated _* ' __ h I ' into * the dialects of India . Sam is a character

    I that cannot well be appreciated outside of

    these islands . It remains to be seen whether the Pure Literature Society will * Pick

    wick Orientals unentais 1 _ ' over , , as as , or a a rule ruie indeed _ _ 1 , , are are _ T / L 'Dickens TV not not ? -1 numorous humorous ' pass altogether m . . _ and an # i . -

    them the fun . of Dickens might be thrown away , on

    York Mr - journal . Hall what _ Caine he has thoug __ been ^_ ht asked the effect v- by » -mr - a of New his

    own * ¦ You -p- writings ^ ask j - — i * me -p- if has ¦ ti I have been » any so thing far * , _ and to replies «^ about ^^^ AA- ^ fJ :

    the ^ — " new — ™ direction " - ^ given p" * ' mM W ""^ to " . ^ --W fiction * ^ ^^ say n _ i ^* y w b y TLr \_ my J 1 ¦! M own writings ^^ j . It is not a new ^ " direction ^ p » ^» p ^ - *^ - ^^ ^^ B-h VA | 4 .

    In style and substance , in character and passion is merel , it y is simp as licit old y as and the old virility Sagas . . The It

    only aim of which I am conscious is that of having -- a story to tell that shall awaken * ' the

    heroic — — ^ ^ — bT ^^^ V that — is in ^ all men — , " and that ^ — ^^ of ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ telling ^^^ ^^^^ . ^^¦•^ p it ^^ without effortwithout ostentationwithout

    allowing the vehicle , to stand for one , instant between the reader and the subject . This is

    all my art , so far as I know , and my ambition will A be well satisfied AA if I can - bring back , to ^ «_ _ . ^ _ .

    times demoralised by a literature that has gathered up half the impurities of the literary hotbeds of Europesome of the simple speech

    and homely thoug , hts and lofty faith and healthy imag ination of the strong c _» and pxious

    souls who wrote the old English chronicles of how they went down to the sea in ships . It is not for me to say what success has yet

    is attended coming this and endeavour is near , but when , indeed some , the robust time i J

    writer must arise to banish , the unmanliness which is now the dominant thing in French

    novels Bunyan ^ ppT VVbm w ^ i W ** and —¦ comes *^ ^^ » Eng . vai * ^^ r ^ r , V lish the ^ VH—V ~^ dramas adulterous me v ~ v ^ ^ B ^ i ^ fe q ^ —|^ ^^ . -Vi ^ ^ 0 W * When _* woman V « J ^^ « w « ^_^ rw — that p - ^ , v who - - — new is

    to everywhere consume W- » -- »»~ r in the SAJfc imag A interests inative wrA M «/ M literature of those «> , who will vv - ¦—¦ - * - cease — read — WV ^ '' ^^*** " * - ^ ___ ^ ' ** ^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ . ^^^^^^^ _

    take novel lust s and for sit love at , the as p Tolstoi lay . He is doing will , not . but mis he

    gen will will seem flaam tl be hft em to to with with an fand find in that that nothing nothing his noble nob contemp " le in in writer writer lire life t for but but and and the love love hiorh high auth , and a --minaea minded na ors next next who ;

    to nothing in love but lust . ' , ; In the UltV August number of Scribner ' s Maga — -

    ____ _ . _ . UtglAOU AJLlA ___ ILrVX VI WVI « V »» H " _ . »_ . — jj zine Mr . Edward Marston tells how Mr , Stanley wrote his bookWhile busy the

    . rule rnfft explorer anxra did . Mr TVTr . not Marston ATn like rHfnn to be he het interrupted shut nhiif himsell himself . up UP As m ID a

    his bedroom , says and there , he wrote from early morning HIKJX XJ . XJ . 1 . ^ till U-Lli , lat MtUD e at Mil / - ni -.- ¦ . g ££ ht _ -. V , C and *_ X-l . woe »» vv betide - _ - -

    anyone who ventured unasked into this sancstroll tum . round He very the garden rarely went His out whole , even heart / for and a

    Btl soul were 1 UUI 1 U centred l / IJUO gitX on UClI . his . JLX work 1 O « f . JL _ V He _ l- - » v had v » - set himself a certain task , and he had determine * to f __ f » nm _ Vl lete ftf . a it if to fn the t . hft exclusion AvnliiHinn of of every everV ou other -w

    comp object in life to . write He . said I of know himself that , if ' I I have do nop so many lete pages this work bcertain time when

    comp me uuiu other , jjioiio I shall and biijrB imperative never comp xv h > duties y lete y a a it udjl at are w all * ih imposed . When talk taiK »*^ 7 , Upon Wit my

    work work is is accomplished AccomnliBhed . , then then I I Will will »» riae »•• you with , laug you h to with your you heart , and ' s play content with ; you but , or ot let : bw alone _ . i for i ? tt . »_ sake -. _!__ > ' ¦ ^ Int . lilflff

    worried now Stanley ; more Heaven than ' s a tap . at the ^ 5 <* ^ while he was writing ; he sometimes gw ^ ^*

    even upon Mir . Edward Mareton liKej * j » a ~

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    9 it > The Publishers' Circular August i , 1890

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1890, page 912, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081890/page/8/