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    958 The Publishers f Circular Sept. r, i...

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    there was only one house in Paris which could at all compare with Messrs . Nelson ' s

    establishment , and even it did not combine lithography and printing .

    The eighth volume of the Homilistic Libraryby Dr . David Thomaswill appear

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    in London by Mr . Andrew Crombie , 6 Modern Method * of Illustrating Books' is

    the title of the new volume of Mr . Elliot Stock's Book Lover ' s Library . '

    The Christian Million is to have a very strong Christmas number this year .

    ( Society' has been reduced in price . Mr . Win Reeves has issued * Work and -

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    -trated by Miss Kate Greenaway . The result is already spoken of as a combination of one

    of the most English of artists with one of the most American of authors . The book will be

    published by Messrs . Chat to & Windus . Mr . Georg ¦— jh e Coonibesof New ¦ - Yorkan 4 Bb

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    . Mr . Albert Alstonwriting masterof

    Burnley , has patented a , new set of pens , , intended for scholars and teachers . They are

    called ' Alston ' s Royal Pen , ' and are announced as being ada-pted for all hands .

    Messrs . Hildesheimer <& Faulkner will publish Mr . Frederick Weatherly's new book ,

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    Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire' and I ' Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire . '

    We understand that a new series of the Churchman will be commenced with the

    October y ~ V II number " 1 , and that Jl 1 the A 1 _ price will .-. . be jreduced . The magazine will be uniform -with

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    M . Chevreul , the distinguished French chemist , who yesterday ( August 31 )

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    -bers to the healing art , and longevity is a tradition in the two families . Chevreul

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    the laboratory , when but twenty years of age . His progress was rapidand at thirty he was

    appointed special professor , of chemistry at the Gobelinswhich appointment he has held ever

    since . He , has been for sixty years member of the Institute of France . It may interest

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    as in his youth . Chevreul ' s way of living and marked that of the contrast Great . Frederick We have of been Prussia ¦¦ h reminded present of a

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    of the great king , by the recent commemoration of the centenary of his deathIn some

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    of Prussia ' s He intemperance lives on eel must pattiea , preve and nt Peri his

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    work till the end , and I shall die in harness . 1786 And i ¦ so : ' it Frederick ¦ ¦ ¦ was . ¦ The the Comte Second writes died , August the day ID ,

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1886, page 958, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091886/page/8/