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    LEO XIII*

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    Rphe Pall Mall Gazette Has Gained And Co...

    1 Humors and Blunders' in the August number of the Library Journal might have been

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    which we find on the preceding page ? There we read that the publisher ( of Valle " e ) spoke

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    he We H should cannot have ascribe said , these '' le publie eccentricities lettre" francais of spell *^^ . "'

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    -are forced to suppose them examples of the * humor' which travesties * catalogue ' into

    * catalog ' and ' pseudonym' into sudonym . ' But - » ¦ »• ¦*»» — when . - — - -- we _ see - — — a proper - - - |— name — — of — onl — y w three — —

    letters , a name which is as well known in the United States as it is in England , spelt * Lowe '

    instead of 'Low , ' we are afraid we must call that a * blunder , ' a case of inability to spell an

    English word of one syllable . Booksellers' Provident Institution . —

    The usual monthly meeting of this Institution was held at 56 Old Bailey on Thursdaythe

    , 18 th August , Mr , John Wheldoii presiding . The sum of £ 120 . 16 s . 6 d . was granted in

    relief to 68 members and widows of members . Richard Jefferies . —The Whitehall JReview

    publishes the following in memory of this gifted writer : —

    All The woodland timid hare creature , the fox s weep , the him spotted : the snake shy deer ; ,

    All Lament the wild their peop poet les -friend of the th ¦ tufted ¦ eir sy brake lvan seer

    w ^—^™— ^ v ^ r ^^ ^^ v *^ h latest ^^^ r ^^ b ^^ v ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ of ^^^ ^^^~ ^^^ the H ^^ ^^ F ^^^ v fauns ^^^ *^ v ^^~^ ^^^ ^*^ ^^^^ r ^ m ^^ who " ^^ , ^ h ^^^ *^^ ^ hel - ^^* - ™ ^^^^ d ^^^^ ^^ them ^^^ v * ^^ r- ^^ ^^ h ^^^ r ^ r- ^ dear ^ m - ^^^ ^^^ p ^^^ , ^ h As few have done since , Thoreau left his lake , .

    And The trees are blossom veiled trembles with sadness with for a tear his . sake , every

    This brother , whom they mourn , was Nature ' s priest

    Who , in a , covetous age of care and greed And blind ambitionturned with calmer eyes

    To choose the better , portion of God ' s feast ; To walk with love a simpler way , to lead

    A life in harmony with earth and skies . How Thackeray named ' Vanity Fair . '—

    Tn the earliest days of our friendship . he brought his morning work to read to me in

    Fair the evening ' and . was He living had just at commenced the Old Shi ' " p Vanit Inn y

    where , he wrote some of the first numbers . , He often then said to me : ' I wonder whether ¦

    worl this J 4 A d will A read HA ^ n take _ ^ B it , ? the - ' 1 publishers remember ^ K ^ M A ^ A accept answering _ it , and him the ^ K

    that I had no reliance upon my own critical ¦ powers ^^ ^^^ v v ^^^ v p r ^ in ^ *¦«¦ ^^ literature ^~ v ^ ^« r ^^ <* i . « ^ v *» ^ . h . w ^ ; h but n * ^^ v * vfe ^ that v ^^ *^ v *^* «^ * I v ^^ had iff * w ^ v ^ ^ iwi written V v ^ . t ^« ^ iv ^ v ~ ¦ j ~ dkrf ^

    to my sister , Mrs . Frederick Elliot , and said : ' I have made a great friendship with one of

    the principal contributors of Punch — Mr . Thackeray . He is now writing a novel , but

    cannot cannot hit hit upon imon a a name nn . mft tor for it it . . T 1 may ma . v be " hfi wrong , but it seema to me the cleverest thing I ever read . The first time he dined with us

    I was fearfully alarmed at him . The next day all we about walked his in little Chichester girls , and Park of his , when great he friend told

    about shi shin p with with the the and TSrnolc JBrookhelds Ohesham fiplrltt Place ; and and . ' I When told t . rVlrl him liirn he you

    neard this , and my opinion of his novel ,

    he burst out laughing , and said : ' Ah ! Mademoiselle ( as he always called me ) it is

    not small beer ; but I do not know whether , it will be palatable to the London folks . ' He

    sacking told me , his some brain time for afterward a name , for that his , after n 6 vel ran , it

    ni came ght upon as if him a voice unawares had , in whispered the middle ' Vanity of the

    Fair . ' , He said : 'I jumped out of bed , and jl ran uiu three uuivu times vxui . va round x v uixu my my room a uvi-Uj , uttering uuuvxuig as tAit 9 - I « .

    went —From , "Vanity ' Miss Fair Kat , e Vanit Perry y Pair ' s Recollections , Vanity Fair . "'

    Mr . Thackeray , ' in Scribner ' s Magazine for September .

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    Sept . i , 1887 The Publishers' Circular 947 ; n ¦ ¦ . - ¦ — - ¦ 1 ' - ^'

    Leo Xiii*

    LEO XIII *

    The pontificate of Leo XIII . cannot be de d compared ecessor cessor . Pius Jrius with IX J . A ... rei m in gn so so far far of his as as momentous mnrrifinf great . pre nna

    respects events ar , the e concerne present , d Pope , alth ' s oug work h , has in many been

    more thoug — _¦_ - ¦— ht ¦ in , M and — accordance — — ^^ action r — in — with the I ^^ latter the ^ " ^ ^^ progress *^^ half ^^ iv «¦* ^^^ mm *^ mw * of ^ * * i 0 ^ the ^ ^^ of 4 ^ h ^^

    — _ — — — — _~_~ — ~ — — v —w ^— ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ - ^^ ^^ ^^^ mr ^ m ^^ ^^ —i ~ v ^ . ^^ j ^^ m ^ v ^^^ p nineteenth century than was that of the man who - , was ___ _ ___ unquestionabl — — __ — — __ _— _ — _ _ ___ __ _ ___ —_ y the __ . _____^ - ^ greatest _^_ i ^ m - ^ ¦¦ - _ r _ -v ^ - ^ ^ t ^ ¦ ^ r pontiff w ^ r ^^ ^__ _¦ . ^ r _ - _ k ^__^^

    of Pius the ¦ IX . _ century ' _¦ . will _^ Arecall r . J To memories many minds ¦ of _ the _ thoug __ struggles _ . _ hts ^^ ^^* __ of _ _^ _^

    aiiii of such A other A " hi storic unflinching A ¦ fi ^^ ___ gures _ i __ i fig as hters ___ Mazzini for I what _ , Garibaldi is called , . ^ '

    the One liberation ^^ of the great arid independence difficulties 1 which of Ital Leo y . XIII . felt himself bound toremove was the

    longwhich continued ^_ A the . ¦ ^_ l ' reli policy ^_ i __ g - . ious __ fef troubles _ Pius - ^ _¦ IX with . had ^^^^ Germany ¦ ___ . _ greatl - ^—_ y _ ,

    trouble aggravated — — — —— ¦ p leased - — 4 . — - — The _ rw - — _ .. . the _ successful _ — ' , Germ _ _ __^_ _ m ^_ _ __ an ^ ^_ smoothing ^^^ ^^^^ people ^ p ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ___¦ p ^_ , _ ¦> ^^ ^^ and i ^ ^^ —• ^ i ^^^ of i ^^^ ^^^^ ^ this ^^^^ the ^^ ^^^ * r

    result appealed — — ^— - was — « to that — — - the *^ the Pop great - _ - e . —_— _^_ to Chancellor . ^__ —— — *^ become ^_ - —^ —^^ —a ^ h * bT « V ^ ~ b ]_ P arbitrat , , in —^——^_»^_—¦— 1885 _¦ ^ p ^ - or B «» ~ bIb ,

    between respecting - H ^ ^ B ———¦¦ Germany the ——^ ^—^ Caroline ~~ and — — ——— Spain Islands _———_ — —^_ r ——_ ^^ qp , ^^^ in pa ^ g , —gv ^ gp pr ^ pp . ^ g the f The « P ^ H ^^ dispute ^_ qp ^ pi ^ ^ p ^— ex ^ p ^ p "i ¦¦ ^ ¦¦ * -

    perience of this country during the rule of — Leo _ . — ¦ - ^— _ XIII — - — ° ^ — ^^ Krt ^ - ^ n . — _> - has * — — — - P - ^— B - ^— not — _ . — ^^— _ i — — been - —— — P ^ ¦ pp ¦ ¦ , ^» ¦¦ _ i politicall ¦ ™ p" ¦¦¦ -- « hvpb ' pp ^ p- p ^^ - ^^^ ^^ f ^ r ^^^ B ¦ P » " ^ y , ^ JJ ffp so * ^^— a satis f « gpr v ^^ r ^^ ^ p ^ ^^^ . ^^ F - ^^^^^^^

    factory , His Holiness having resolved to leave the ¦ — ¦ affairs — — ¦ —^ of - ^ ¦—^ our - ^^ —~ —»—¦—p turbulent - » - ^ ^_ - «_ ___ v «^ v ^ ^ p- ^^ w - *^ p ^^ pb ^^ «^^ nei o ^ ^^ ^ b ^ F g bM <¦ hbours ¦ ¦ ^^ ¦ 1 ^ ' ^ p ^ -m ^^ m 4 ^ B ^ " ^^ of ^^^» " ^ Ht

    Ireland entirely in the hands of their own bishops . Leo XIII . howeveris strongl

    opposed to socialist , ambitions , which may y disturb the rule of papal Romeand this very

    socialist ambition pronounces the , disintegration of nations to be one of its chief aims .

    "Whatever one ' s religious or political ¦ op ¦ ^ " - - inion r—m m m ¦ w -m ¦¦ ^ h ^ ^ h- ^ pvw s - may p ¦ — -m w- ^ ^^ - ^ ^™ be v ^^ v- - ^^^ - , ^ jj it - - ¦ is — ¦ — - I impossible ¦ - ¦ - •* — - » r ^ ¦¦¦ ^ ^ "P ^ ^^ " >* BT pPP . p *^ H"B ^^^^ to ^^ ^*^ " deny ^^ *^ B ^^^ ¦¦ ••¦ ^""» V that ^ " ^ ^ "W ^ " ^ ^^^ ^ W ^^ r

    the life of Leo XIII . is a noteworthy and exemplary life . Dr . O'Reilly ' s warm enthusiasm

    has not been misapplied in recording its incidents . The power of his descriptions and

    his are more delineation vivid and of great rich than scenes we and are ep usuall isodes y

    accustomed to read in modern adulatory biography ; and he shows hownext to spiritual

    dutiesthe life of the Pontiff , has been devoted to the , study and propagation of letters and

    science . Papal Leo States XIII . in was the born year at 1810 Carp . inetto His , famil in the y

    nam X . e was Joachim , Pecci */ . The early years */ of his life are described with animation by Dr .

    ( Laval * Life ) . of London Leo XIIL : Sampson By Bernard Low , Marston O'Eeilly , , Searlo p . D ., L and . D . ¦ "niTriTiorf rk n ~

    "HWA V «» 4 £ 3 | >^ N . « p

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1887, page 947, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091887/page/5/