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    Books Received ;—From Mr. E. C. Alden, O...

    From Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston & Co . — < The Cruise of the Walnut Shell . ' Instead of

    sighing for new worlds to conquer , the author of the fantastic production before us has achieved the feat of conjuring a new world out of this

    battered for the inside sphere is not of ours touched ; or . rather The , little from heroes off it , of the tale did not ' inquire within *; butlike all

    great navigators , were eminently superficial , . We have had scientific explorers , who have told us ranch about new countries ; and we have had

    unscientific explorers who have wearied us with the too well known . We are now introduced to a third variety , / which p leasantly takes a—

    turn round , while the world is taking its turn ; underneath * all creation , . and ' agreeabl Water-lilies y holds are converse paddled with by

    while ^ K ^ ^ H great red flamingos . ^ B A look ^ ^ down ^ B J , on the - ¦ - tiny i _ t / , bark ; a dolphin is played leap-frog with , or driven about with strictly nautical reins ; mon ~ -

    sters of the deep are interviewed from the bow of down the * Walnut ^ two Shell Arctic ; ' a polar lorers bear a beni walrus gnly scarc looks upon exp j ; ___ e

    deigns to _^ — look — up as the tiny - — — travellers ™ - — - - approach — - - v » . ^ _ — - ^^ ^ v to tickle his fat sides into laughter , instead of sending him into a future of blubber ;

    Ching-Chinaman in yellow contrasts with a reindeer in grey surroundings ; an eagle gives the little craft a , sail in the air ; j a gorilla u amiably offers — the

    young lady some fruit ; an ornithorhynohus pterodactylus looks up from a gully at the antipodes ^ ' ; a tig j-p er is fended off in the - jung % j ¦—¦ le with a —

    tie parasol ' Walnut ; ostriches Shell are * becomes ridden a gondol over the a in Venice desert ; , and is a sledge when Vesuvius has to be scaled ;

    a finall . 8 , the y , gulls turtles hoveri take ng the over ' Walnut her as she Shell goes ' in , she tow is , homeward bound ; and a lecture to a delighted

    audience ends the work . Such are some of the coloured scenes—with verse description—of a new Christmas bookwhose chocolate-painted

    cover , with its neutral , envelope , is grateful to the eye . It may be worth adding that two or three tropical scenes are valuable for their fidelity to

    fact ; which , of course , in a book of professed instruction would not be matter for remark . From Messrs- Macmillan " & Co . — ' Fifty ^ Years

    o » f the House of Lords / reprinted from the to Pall premise Mall Gaze appeared tte . These in the essays Pall , it Ma may ll Gazette be well

    tlh under e expression its present , of management the views , and of what are therefore may be termed - — —— w vw an dVAA i advanced < nT ¥ » . ^ M .-M «»» Liberalism i wtr r <• r ~ - m r-mr m ¦ in « m m reference ¦«»¦— - » m v m * - ¦ - ¦ ! to w t ^ , *** ^^ ^¦<¦ ¦» ^ . ^*— — ^^ ^ ^

    in tlhe far hereditary from comp chamber limentary . It represents terms , and the in Peers effec ¦ t charges ^—¦— them with presenting at m-m % i turn v ** . **¦« an

    obstacl - » . £ ~ ****** e to * vUi usefu > ir j > v l * -fc leg r *** islation - ' ^*** v * a . * . ^— The s every v v writer * j v 1 con •*•** - cludes in the following terms : — ' It may be said

    tliat the House of Lords has been unable to peraeing yere in in the its case opposition of Ireland to ; popular and in reform the case s except of Ire - *

    land its success has been as signal as it has been pernicious delayed and . marre In Eng d measures land and of Scotland reformin it Ire has

    to land cast alone a glance has it at rejected the present them . condition We have ; of onl the y tlireo

    the House countries of ' Commons tosee the results and government of government by the by House of Lords /

    From the Office of the Bookseller . — ' Some octav French o of Bibliograp not many hies pages / b , y but J . containing D . O . A ' much small poatter / consisting # 91 f 3 LiJi of which U . JIUU have JUIU appeared

    L c wi % laim - the ~~ s | onl ' Bookseller ~ VJU y that the V / p J work ^< apers » A J ^/ V 3 JL modest O ajives V « an prefat introduction V D C ory * JJ £ "V » note ** V »\*

    searches to the . subj But ect and a one key who to has mor been e extended in the habit reof seeing the * every Bookseller ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' must -r-rw ¦ we » think M have l

    been struck ^ J by the ' " ^^ ^^ knowledge » ~ " ^ ^^ ^^ ' ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^ and * ^^ , J attention ^^ - ^ ' ^^^^ ^^ " ^^ H «^^^ , ^^ with ^^^^ V ^ V W ^^^ which bibliographical matters have been treated in its pages . We anticipatethereforethat

    literary virtuosi will be glad to possess , the , tasty of littl vellum e volum with e before g m ^ j ilt — —— — top — us — w- " - , and — in ' —¦ - its untouched - ~¦¦ - appro - ^^ " » r ^^^ - ^^ r ^^^^ pri ^^ ^ ate ed ^^ - ^^^ ges V costume ^ ^^^ ^^^ ; T the ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^

    rather limited . that the number of copies available is so From Messrs . E . Steiger & Co . ( New York ) . —

    hel ' Dictionary p for those of who Education are engaged / Mr in . the Stei great ger ' s work new of teaching is a closely-packed crown octavo of

    about 300 pages . It is a reference book on theory iled and b practice Messrs . Kiddle for parents and Schem and teachers on the , compy

    , foundation of their ' Cyclopaedia of Education / Culture and education of the eye , newspapers , and , more especially m w obj - ¦ h ect teaching - h are h subjects ¦ h

    which — receive — —— ™ — — — —— — — — - — extended ^^ , - ^^* - — — - ^^ attention ^— ^— - — — — . m ^^^ , ™ — We - ^ mention ^ - ^ — — - ^ - ^^ - ^ r m ^^ these merely as showing the kind of subjects treatedand the broad field of inquiry which is

    occupied , by a modest-looking book . From Messrs . Whittaker & Co . —* The Story of

    the New Testament told in connection with the Revised Edition—the chief divergences between it and the Authorised Version compared and

    criticised / By the Rev . Andrew Carter , M . A . A miniature volume of New Testament bibliograp - ~ - r ~ hy telling _____ us _ the _ story of _ the sacred writings

    l from ^ j — —— qJ its earliest | | _ forms in MSS . on through its c ^ j ward printed s until editions the recent in Eng revi lish sion from is reached Tyndal and e down dis - -

    cussed . Mr . Carter has several tilts with the revisers , whose work is , he thinks , likely to remain long , as King James ' s did , without formal

    recognip tion lace , while of the he present doubts accepted whether text it wi . ll ever take the We have wi also f received— M * Cree ' s * PoetsPainters

    w w ^^^ ^^^ m ^ r ^ F w ^^ ^^ r ^^ *^^ ^^^ ^ " ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ w ^^^ ^^^^ , , M and are Poe Players , H . ' Coleridge ( Nat . Temper , Burns . Depot , Shelley ) , whose , Turner names , Haydon , E . Kean , Gr . F . Cooke , & c—Bookseller

    no and . — , Literary Stationer News ( J . F . ( Leypoldt Waggoner , , New Chicago York ) new )—StJames 8 zine ( G \ -rattan l Marsh i all & Co )

    — KJV . . Wlt Illustrirte // ICd O Maga IUUUUiv s Oesterreichisch I' / DI' » ^_« vu _»» , , - ungarisches . •_«_» _« * . va . vw Pa _> v ^ . . - tent-Blatt' ( Michalecki & Co . in Wien ) No . 1 —

    Rosebud ture—The { Jas . Welcome Clarke ) ( magazine S . W . Partridge of nursery & litera Co . - ) new im part—Hand ¦ # Heart ¦— ' —— - — - ( Office ) new

    part—American j p * v . ' ^ p ^^«_» »* S pecialist —^ ^^ —*^ i ^^ ~ . ( Philadel t -vi -i i I . _ phia l . ? . ) September C 1 . _ j ^ L 1 — Journal Literary ( Leypoldt World ( Boston ) new no , U . — . S . Beetoris ) new no Great . —Library Book

    of Poetry b , Sanmol part 11 Johnson ( Ward , Lock Akenside & Co , . ) Lord , containing Lyttelpoems y , I ton nst , Goldsmith tor ; part , 12 and ( Ward many , Lock others & — Co Universal . ) , with

    Ba many nking excellent ( Rhodes engravings & Co ., New —Journ York a ) l of September American . — ( Griffith si BlakiBton & ' s Farran ' Earl ¦• ¦¦ - ) y introductory Glimpses , ' with to engravings ' Glimpses

    of ^_^ the m «^ ' ~** ™'"*<» G lobe " ^^ ——• /— ' - ¦¦ ^ _ The ' " m , w ^ Welcome " ~~ ^ ^— ~^ ^^~ " ^ ^ — , magazino — rtf for the home circle ( Partridge & Co . ) October part—The Union Jack ( Low ) October part—Boy ' s Own

    at Payer Home ( Rel . ( Rel Tract . Tract Soc . ) October Soc . ) October part . —Sunday part—Leisure Hour ( Rel . Tract Soc . ) October

    part—Illustrated British Ballads ( Cassell ) October , co con ntaining nell / « Th Scott e Grey ' s ' Glenfinlas Monk / / 'The Helen Hermit of Kirk or

    -Edwin and Angelina / & c . & c . ,

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    Oct . i , 1881 The Publishers' Circular 799

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1881, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101881/page/39/