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    Hugh Conway Memorial.—At a meeting

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    Oct . i , 1885 The Publishers' Circular 95 I

    Hugh Conway Memorial.—At A Meeting

    Hugh Conway Memorial . —At a meeting

    of the subscribers to the Hugh Conway Memorial Fund , held at the Council House , Bristol , under the presidency of the Mayor ,

    Mr . C . Wathen , it was decided to have a medallion and tablet of the late Mr . Fred Fargus at a cost of £ 100 to be placed in Bristol

    Cathedral , and to invest , the balance of the amount subscribed ( £ 099 . ISs . ( jd . ) for founding an intermittent scholarship at the Bristol

    Universit <_ J y College , of £ 40 per annum , tenable for three years , and then to drop for three years . It was also resolved that the

    scholarship should be open only to natives of Bristol and those who had resided there not less than seven years previous to the election . It was

    decided that the scholarship should be founded for English literature . —Times .

    The International Litjbrary and Artistic Congress . —Madrid this year was to have

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    determined table centre that for Antwerp the members would be who a more con-¦

    sequent accep ^ Saturday ^^ F ^^^ ^ h ^ ^ m ^ w ^^ ^^ ^*^* w l ^^ y ^^ , September assemb ' ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ v ^ r ^^ " ^^^ led ^^~ ^*^ —~ 19 in ^^ —^ . ^ ^~^ that ^ The ^^ ^— —r historic places — , M of city meet — on

    ing Vienna in former Rome years Amster were dam Paris Lisbon , London and , Brussels , . Quoting , the words of , the Athence , . um

    correspon ings of authors ) have d been en and t , artists conducive ' tho results in a to clearer ( of plac prev ing li ious t ht h . meet This ghts - g

    may firmer be preparatory basisand to the their advent establ of ish the ment time on a when these rig , hts will receive legislative sanction

    t in he all efforts civilised of the countries Association . It is even may yet hoped be that successful States v ^ i to in ad inducing mitin a ¦ practical h ^ f the - peop fashion le of the that United alien

    perl authors be T ^^^ T *^ ^ r ^ W respected ^^ ^ p r represented ^^ ^^^ and ^^^ W " ^^ . W ^^ ** ^^ artists ^^ and ^^ , ^ m ^> r " ^ ^^ cherished ^ at ^ - ™ - have the —r — —w ^ ~^ meeting v ri — — g . ' hts " — Britain which the , m delegates was ough pro t to - . , It 11

    being y Mr . Adams , Her Majesty , ' a Minister . tMft 9 the Berne , and Mr . Bergne at , the superintendent Offio oO

    ^ phe Treaty American Department representative , Foreign . ; tfor ,, obyipiia ^ ., I I not to to take * in xn-

    the reasons reasons ^ onlerfefl , , was was < S not 6 . empowered empowered One of ftie , cKief ^ auwa concliisIoiiB a a part par | - 1 I

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1885, page 951, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101885/page/35/