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    ¦ MMHIMHHnHMW ^^ aMBMMMHNM ^ HMaMVMHiMnwvWBawi ^^ BHMB ^ MMaMMMWMBMMHMHaaHMMWHMBM Books Received : — From Messrs . Chatto & "Windus . — ' Reader ' s

    Handbook , ' by Dr . Brewer . It is difficult to exaggerate the value of a book like this to the working man of letters , or its interest to the

    lounger of literature , who ( so to say ) plucks the flowers as he passes ; while a glance at the pages ives the critic an impression that the author

    g must be something like omniscient . Indeed , completely to execute a work of this kind he would have to be . As in every other branch of research

    what is done only serves to show what might be , done ; for , of course , every man in his own peculiar branch of inquiry will perceive

    something which he might have added . Let us give a specimen or two . '< - ?• broad Jacob be ' am s Ladder s of ligh : t * a fro meteori m heaven c appearance to earth & c resem & c bling

    of vessels It also . means wooden steps used in the , upper . rigging . Of the expression ' Vanity Fair' four different uses

    in literature are shown , including an analysis of Thackeray ' s masterpiece which extends to 45 lines . These analyses «/ or condensations are one

    of the most agreeable and useful features of the book . Of Shakespeare ' s plays Dr . Brewer says , ' It is owned that Charles Lamb has told , and

    told well , the Tales of Shakespeare ; but Charles Lamb has occupied more pages with each tale than the handbook has lines . ' Ho meansof

    , course , ' than the handbook has devoted lines to each tale . ' The following is a very good sample of the * Reader ' s Handbook' : —

    ad apted tor from ' s " Madame Wife ( The Bovary ) . A , a novel French by novel Miss . Braddon , From Messrs . Griffith & Farran . — « Designs for

    Church Embroidery and Crewel Work , from Old Examples . ' A visit to the Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition , now open in connection with the Church

    Congress at Leicester , is enough to prove how beautiful and artistic were the designs of olden times for church purposes , and the author of

    this little handbook has done well to open out to modern workers the beauties of the mediaeval embroideries . The designseihteen in number

    give upwards of sixty patterns , g , and each plate , is accompanied by a brief descripti 6 n stating the source of the drawing or the place where

    the original is to be found . At a time when decorative needlework for church use is not only popularbut furnishes remunerative employment

    a work like , this will be invaluable . The designs , and the accompanying book are inclosed in a neat portfolio .

    From Messrs . Hamilton , Adams , & Co . —* The Teacher — ~~ — —^ ' s Work - r - *^ warn - ~ : v ¦ What - * m * m «¦ d «^ it ^ ^^ is ^ W w ¦ and 1- fl »« ^^^ K ^ How V ^^ i ^ ^^ W to ^* ^^ do ^ - ^ ^^ it ^ ^/ . ' , ^

    By John Palmer . New and revised edition . No one is better qualified than the present secretary of the Church of England Sunday School

    Institute to write on the Teacher ' s work , and he has here given in a well-arranged and compendious form a genuine Teacher ' s Manualfull of

    instruction as to the best modes of reaching , the heads and the hearts of the children ; hints as to private ¦ preparation ¦ -.----- vw ^ ^^ imm for rfih ^^ ** Sunday w ^^ ^ v * ^ 4 « ^^ h « iw f school v * ' ^^ «^ j * ^^ ^^ ¦ ^« wo r ^^ « rk ^ m «« ; « ¦¦> and an x ^^

    the clearest suggestions as to the way to use the materials Mr . ' Palmer which does stud not y , and however experience , stop here will , supp for l ho y .

    writes thoughtfully and religiously of the benefits which the teacher may expect to derive from his efforts to do good to othersand he drawsin fact

    a very encouraging and stimulating , picture , of , the work on which he evidently sets the highest possible value .

    From Messrs . Crosby Lookwood & Co . —' The Boiler-maker ' s Assistant . ' By John Courtney ,

    practical Kinjaear boiler Clark - , maker C . E . . We Revised have and here edited a technical by D manual compiled on the very sound principle of

    combining ¦ with . a wilii 1-1 1 1 1 *\ « the tuo w « * « m « knowledge Kuuwieug M the A V * 4 V experience rf-k . mr % o of t » ± the tuo « M * % r ^ man xuau ot ^ k . A * a of oi practica science science i l •• , and and worke th the * r

    result is a manual of remarkable clearness and fulness . The book has more than a hundred illustrationsand includes full details

    latest inventions , and improvements . of all the From Messrs . Sampson LowMarston & Co

    , . — ' Australian Abroad , ' by James Hingston . This the second series of ' Branches from the Main EoutesRound T » i _ . TT » 1 the iL . Worl YVT 1 d deals 1 with ? ii r * 1 _ _

    and — Ec gypt «/ r . Thus far , ' the title-i page Cey o , lon but vuu , India from J » x \ jm the contents find that Palestine

    receive attention we indeednearl 200 and Syria also iven — - " — to — - — them — j and ; of the , engravings — — y j more a «« page v * . s than are

    g r half ^ - are occup , ied - with illustrations g ^ - » of —> Syria \^ vUuij and the — ' — "W —•— Hol —— — — y W Land " - . There is an amusing " — — — —» — — ~ - T ¦ *^ account ^ r ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ¦ ^^ ^ H ¦ ^ of effect of

    the dislocating . riding on camel-back how cannot spectacles be got to , * wi hold g , and on . ' other Syrian like boads apparatus about ,

    the women ' s foreheads give occasion for an the amusing forehead cy reference to home the present * sty •/ le of obscuringo

    nearer . From Maude the same Jeanne UiiiiV . —* Franc a . Beatrice xiAitiV / t A Melton pretty / x . / 1 ' s story uwi Discip of line home , ' by

    JJIMCU LIVAV' V ^ . - * .- » . ^ j . ^ . ^ T VI iiUlUO life among English residents in Australia , which includes a wooing and a wedding . The authoress

    is already known to the public by her stories of life at the Antipodes . From the same . —' Mountain and Prairie' bthe

    Rev toria . Daniel to Winni M . Gordon via . Peace A journey River from Pass , y . Vic A - distance W AAJ of \ about J * P ^ r ^« peg 4 « Bb « , 000 ¦ miles , — ^ * ^^ ^^ ^ had hrf ^^ . ^ w to w ^^ be ^^ ^^ traversed vm «^ v ^^ i ^^ v —v ^^ ^ | ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^ , ^^ ^^ ^^ ^

    before the journey told of in this volume wag begun . The illustrations of scenery are from recent photograp and hs authenti . The c maps iu the V 11 V are departments VtV k / fro Ui m »& the wm of w * most the

    XVlVlll fJblll * . UUIUVU ^> V A ** . uvm v ~ -w Canadian Pacific Railway and of the Interior . The object of the journey was to examine the

    Northern country from British Port Simpson Columbia on and the Pacific throug , h across the From Rock Messrs y Mountains Macmillan to the ¦ " prairies & , Co r « . — ' The Minor ¦

    X X vUA JUVDOX Oi . r ~ r irv"" " " * - "" - * J ^ ^ « . - — — — Arts expounded , ' by C are . Gk leather Leland work . The , porcelain minor or arts vitreous here paintingdesigning t and \ transferring patterns £ ¦ t

    wood IJCblJLllllltl carving , , VAvJOl , . fclA stencilling ' . ' - 'tj » nA , tiuugtuiiiufj modelling in clay or , gelatine , casting in plaster of Paris or paper ,

    minor mosaic mosa . iV . manufactures work work , - repousse reDousse . The work work closing , , silver silver chapter cnasingi chasing con- , sists DlOba \ of i \ useful UDD 1 UV rec ACVo ipes ^/ VJO . . There XUO 1 U are c *» v nearly » j ^»»* j ei —go hty

    engravings of examples and details of work . We extract The student from the second the small chapter arts cannot : — impress it *¦ too

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    en not who graving illumination painted , nor fine engraving . heads Etching i in on vellum on « wood k copp books ^ be « r made should , to not imitate ape w ins » * metal i _ _ i of _ ji kind i _ l ^ , , It Ti . is 1 / . A excellence awa ! 1 / ivt / ta in 4 n leather iftftFjllflr wk Wvf *

    on character when it looks appropriate any like wood . to carving miniature no , nor , water should colour pictures , or < x o » painting , be introduced on cups and dinner plates .

    Fro Ceremonies m S . W . of Partridge the Three & Co . — ' in The Craft Accepted tree-/ BAlbert EMason Degrees The fourth

    edimysterious doubtless tion masonry of a wo serve which y rk which to hangs increase , . to around the the . uninitiated the sense order of of , W tne tne

    and and 4 Antient which which , Free , for for , all all and who who Accepted have have been been Masons aamiu admitted of England » " to »> U — , »

    craft The JLUO , eUltlUU edition will , possess before UCIUIO us UO speci is * O al interleaved iuiwio features » iv » of with interest -- m »' a used _ J # * tt »

    nuscript paper , so that it may bo as Masonic note-book . J ~~~^ >

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1880, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101880/page/32/