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    S28 The Publishers' Circular Sept. i, 18...

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    Magazines Mr. Payn ^^^ m .— 's contribut...

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    Magazines For September. Illustrated Mag...

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    We that , on it is the the contrary ' very , indifferent hold with spelling Charb 8 ' Lam which b , keeps the ordinary H h reader I from dipp H V ing into his

    pa modernise ^ BJ ^^ B ^ ^^^ ge ^^ p ^ B |^^ s BB ^^ , and ^ B- . Bj BB > ^ qppr if v * r a , for comp ^« — ~~ - — - ^^— the m lete - ™ multitude - — ~ " - — edition - ^^ - — — , Mr of . the Ai — — nger * ^ B ^*^ B Tales > — - would - / he wouLd , probably , do much to promote the end which

    he has in view . Mr . Lang on ' Cricket , ' ancient and modern ; a pretty ' Village Story , ' entitled ' Friede / by Mary flullah ; and the closing chapter

    of ' The Armourer ' Prentices , ' from which vre part Harper with ' s New no BlaBBk great aa . Monthl bb sorrow y Magazin , complete e ( Low the number , Marston . ¦ . — , - >~ ^ ~ ^

    Searle , & Rivington ) gives us a specimen of ^^ the work of a famous American portrait-painter in ' an ideal head' delicately engravedas the

    frontispiece of the present , number ; and a , portrait of the painter himself , with his fine head and expressive countenance , also illustrates the

    interesting sketch of his life . Fifteen years spent in farm work may seem to be a singular preparation for an artistic career ; but this was Fuller ' s

    of apprenticeshi his after success p , and his to the biograp firmness her attributes with -which much be ^ followed ^ ^^ r .. b . *¦ a ^ g ^ ay ar aajp * ¦*•*¦*¦¦ what "' ^ . ¦¦* ¦¦ ^ " » ¦ # ¦ " he aa »^ a > ^ aF' held ^ p" aa ^ aa- p" *¦ a" to - ^ ^ aa ~ be a aa the ^ aa » ¦¦— ^ . » path mv *^ ^ a ^ ^—^ aa of ^ bb * — duty * p a- - ^ " - - " ¦ ^ —a

    —para success tivel unhapp y earl il y y death destined . Among to be the cut travel short by sketches a comof the number we have 'A Hun Ashore at

    Queenstown / with some pretty glimpses of scenery and character in the illustrations , and some interesting ^ ft at »^ h ¦* " " ^^ dafci ^^ "aW ¦* . » » » b "" Vl ^ k information ¦»» M ^"" •¦•» ^•• ^^ ^^»^ ^^ - ^^ •* »^ ^ h ^ v ^ in the ^ ir w" ^ ^^ letterpress ^» - ^^ - ^ ^^ ^^ ^» ^» ^^ ^*^ ¦ . ** . ; w and - ^ — —

    then there is the first of a series of papers on account ' Wheat Fields of that of Columbia icturesque ' which emigrants give ' a land graphic its

    p , scenery , and its people . The 'Artist ' s Strolls in Holland' tells us something of the domestic Jife of the humbler classes in the minor towns ; and

    the pictures of the women-folk at their work , ' hanging out the clothes' and ' gathering cab-I bages' are capitally drawn . A genuine English

    , contribution is given in another paper on "Ihe Great Hall of William Rufus , ' with an abundance of — illustrations _ ^ of _ kings — ^^ , dukes _ — , and -r cardicaJs _ —

    and chancellors . Such portraits as those of I Wol and s the ey young after Houbraken Edward A . ! , ., More are equal after to anything Holbein ,

    which even Harper has produced . ' A Personal Reminiscence of Charles Reade / with a portrait of the well-known author , coming as it does from

    the pen of Robert Buchanan , wilL find many grateful readers not only among his literary friends , but |^^ ^^ ^ with If A ¦ ** *•» the ** * ^^ public r ^ ^^ fc " *** ¦^ ^^ to * ^^ whom » w ^^ *^ » «^ this ^^ m ^ « ^^ brief ^^ ^ k « *^ ^ tribute « rf dk ^ 9 >^ i ^ 4 m ^/ , * with mr m % n m

    its truthful record of Iteade ' s eccentricities , will had be i weloome a weakness . Lik fur e buy other ing eminent things which persons ii he , did he i

    ^ ^ B ** ^ j ^^^^» ^ m want ^^ r ^ ^ " * v , ^ ^^ " ^ . ^ on - ~ ' ^» ' — the — comforting w w ^^* ^ p lea — v ^ ^^^ that — ^ ^ - ^ ^^ »^ ^ ^ some ^ ^»» ^ ^ ^¦ ^ day ^ v ^^^^ they would ' come in useful , ' and on one occasion he filled a wastepaper basket with new boots ,

    which he had ordered wholesale , after a pattern that pudiate took s the his suggestion fancy . Mr that . Buchanan his friend warml was y onl re y -

    failur '' a a co ftooious e pious to attain pamphleteer DanuDhleteer high ra . Dk , . ' aand as nd an he he author exp expl lains ains to his hi his lack of acquaintance with the art which is called

    ' humouring one ' s reputation / aod ' which , in our men England to sit / add in the s Mr great . Buchana places n , and * has mediocre enabled littl men e

    to reap the honours of ephemeral , godhead . A

    II little talent , a great deal of reticence , a spice of

    " ¦^ " ^ coterie ignorance glory soon , p ^ ws constitute a la rge a amoun bogus t reputatio of public

    by which speculative resembles , builders the bogu where s residences everything run up is finished to the in admirable

    perfectly eye , taste and temper , but where nothing in the long run will stand wind and water . ' Mr . Buchanan ' s

    paper and it is is , however as a friend , personal rather rather thao than as a critical fellow ; author that he thus smartly descends upon those

    whom he not naturally regards as the traducers of ^ some P ^ Bpr ^ BJT ^^^^^^ Mr ^ " ^ B ^ . Reade leasan m ^ B ^ P ^ ^^ V ^ " ^^ ^ " «^ . t ^ P * ^ P A ^ P ^ ^ . P' ^ .. ^ gossi ^ . ^¦^¦^ ' ^^ . ^ . P and ^ V p ^ . *¦ ^ ing ^ 4 p *^ pV V fiction .. ? . paper .. ^ ^ .. F ^ BPr . > ^ . ¦¦ .. ipr ^ on and ^ . ^ .. P ^^ b ^ PS ^ V Tro ^ H another T ^ p ^ V ^ u P ^^^ « rille PJ B H PJ _ , p ^^^^ poems , ^^^ ^^ ^^^ & _~ ^^ p » ^ M A A >&< A bK ah ¦ >

    section number of of ' Judith this trul Shakespeare international / comp and lete a good y cosmopolitan magazine . —2 / ie Magazine of Art ( Cassell

    &; Co . ) has an admirable engraving of Cecil Lawson ' s painting , ' The Minister ' s Garden / and many interesting papers and illustrations .

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    Magazines Mr. Payn ^^^ M .— 'S Contribut...

    Magazines Mr . Payn ^^^ m . — ' s contributors In the Comhill — — are — - ^ r * ( down — Smith — - ¦ on ^ BV , Elder ~ the ^ P- ¦ ' ^— ^ Parson P ^ B . , & ^ —^ m . JBpT ^ Co ^ B- B > J . | s . ^ . ) '

    1 he opening story , « The Curate of Churnside , ' sets before us a most repulsive specimen of the parsonic genus who cooJly determines to — marry

    j . policy rather than love ; reads the will of his uncle , the vicar , when the old man ' s "back is turned ; determines to alter it in his own favour

    by an impudent forgery , for the successful perpetration of which he practises assiduously ; next sharpens a knife to murder his uncle and studies

    medical books to see the precise point at which a wound would be mortal ; next murders the old man while walking Ati with ¦ him in AA the 1 grounds

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    him the way to the that veterinary he must hasten surgeon , or , telling * he will a man be late on for B . ) Pi — ^ BBB evensong ^ B- « ^— BBB-BBI f * BBP - ^ ^ ^—«( , » ' ! ^ He BB —* B . B » ^ is . ^ 1 B ^ bF , « VBp however * B > fc IV V » ^» B * ^ ^ BB B . ffb , H saved I ^ bT ^* " ™ » ^» W ^ IP" ^ " fro ^» P » l * ^ B » m ^ B- this

    discovered piece of blasp and hem the y , murderous fur the Ticar curate s bod has y has to b take een while off his surp an unluck lice and poacher go back to has the come house 11 \ across . Mean the

    dead * * «¦•» . LA Va , body » - **» , oa -. 1-V % whi > % W A ^ y T ch V he / iAvllVAi has accidentall L . VjU kJ V ^ X / AJ y «^ v stamped . J . v »'" - » , and - » X * . fearing a \_ t . * A . # *^^ 3 * lest ^*» J * / he AAV / mi ^< U •*• ght ¦¦« . 1 , * W himself HA . U-bI UVIJi be KJ \~ f suspected Kf *^* - 'f ^ ** " »¦— - ,

    gives no alarm , but in retreating is seen by a servant WVXJk V IVXJ «/ , y who ff A « V naturall > JUV VtX U ^ l y T suspects O IIWL / C ^' L O him J . JI * Aim and M- -UV « secures » -r ww —

    his arrest . AVhen the trial comes on , the curate the poacher conceives at the intervals idea of d swearing uring the that day he of saw the

    murder and at times which made it impossible t a that he verdict poacher he could of * Not to have leave Guilty committed the ' is country returned the crime , . coup A , an led bribe d with thus to

    a virtual " % viwtivnl admission c * . M » -y ^ inf ] i /\ n of * . 4- his V *» r < own r \ iwm guilt /> nilt" , ope / " » nf'Tm ns the lIIo miserable he he lacks lacks courage curate ' s to ey mwkfi es ke to thft the offer reality ffer of of of marriage marriage his crime to ; courage

    pave property the , way he had for hitherto which , by persuaded gaining his himself uncle ' to s be his motifor the criand thon—after

    uu iiio inuu ve vo jur mo cii me xixu : ouva « . * a ^«» the severa L-UO bowie MUW l ot he knife r W 1111 ep isodes with W 1 L 1 X — which WV he illUU comes , he 11 D suddenly * murdered i * i **^ - * - upon HJ proceeds

    calml unc btor le y , which and to commit will a rabbit be suicide voted has . uncovered b Verily it , readers an is d a strang to be

    it oiAjiy ' too em y , , is bad aim a poem to has win be based u « true chance vui on / . tju the . The uy of © y theory i many luftiij other pularity that anti o <"" a - parsonic niarric ~ but

    clergyman clergyman narrative is open no no to cnance the criticism po pupuia that . x * v > , the co gre ^ reggation -acion who who leave leave the cue church cnurcxi when ww ^ " they - —j '

    cover that ' the Deceitful Vicar' is engaged ar evea more contemptible than the vicar who cl c

    * cea Dynamite led the , ' state on ' Oar of Fi his rst affections Glacier Expedition . ^\ . J , 4 Viait to N / and a descrip tive <** £ "

    'The Bohemian orway Forest / complete the numW ^ Jl ^^

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1884, page 828, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091884/page/8/