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    I most , though programmes not all , of these , are also , marked , I by good taste .

    I The third of the ' O . U . R . Books ' has I been Ik- 'J written by Mr . Grant Allen , and will be H published AP ^ A ^ X / V % immediatel jla It bears l ^ r vw * the Jfc sensa JL

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    ^^^ H * ' . -r . V V- ' ^* IAXV X ^ r V / VV ^ R- ' W » V JLJL «^ V I new pictorial cover , and its forthcoming issues H will will include include . besides lifisidfiK fiction fintion . illustrated illnsi , rp . fcp > d r » a . r » ers .

    , , papers , H embracing drawings of the month , reprodtic-H tions of National Gallery pictures , art studies , H pen and pencil portraits of celebrities , public ¦^¦^¦ M and «« WAA ^& private i schools lkt Tyrolean Jb winter resorts

    H popular f- ' A ^ V flowers V ^ VV ^^ _ r V ^ , fern ^ V ^ A |^ , * gossi n W . * . >» r p ^^^ , «^ and V ^ TV miscellaneous JLA . * V ^ a S . ^ . ^ ^^ P ^ ^ w ^ ^ ^ « *^ , m H sketches . Illustrations will be published by

    H Messrs & Co . . Simpkin Marshall , Hamilton , Kent

    H The Rev . S . Baring-Gould , the author of I 'va John & au Herring , ' ' Mehalah , ' & c , will publish b this monththroug ¦ // i h Messrs f Blackie ajl & fs Son

    ^^^^ n m m *_ r m ml \ J r m , * ^^ . aa . v . c __ * Afjbvuux ^« . k—^^«^ w ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ v * a , « H * Grettir , the Outlaw : a Story of Iceland . ' H Long before MrBaring-Gould had lAi won % k -

    ^^^ H ¦ tation » J ^ _ " . » C ^ , K- ' as ^ b / A . V a ^ novelist - * - * wW . *_ A . . . ft ^^ VV- * he . A-JkACK was ^ ^ V-F V favourabl ** X- % . A ^) V ^ v T y "V r aa known repu a . - ^ w ^ r « w > H to to scholars aoTinln . rs b Viv his Viia , Iceland Ireland : : its its bcenes Scenoa and and

    , y H Sagas ; ' and if rumour speaks truly , he has in I I and ' Grettir stirring , the - romance Outlaw of written the heroic a picturesque in

    H Iceland . age H Professor Gilray % J % tJ of University LtJA College

    ^^^ B JL . A . \^ I . \ JK 7 VJV / X X »• XA-L m V ^^ L ^— ' * Jl A . ? " ^ - * % / 7 ^ - ^ ^ - ^ f ^ T H Dundee , has accepted , the Chair of A English , Language and Literature in the University of

    ¦ Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand . Professor Vivian Lewes , of the Royal Naval CollegeGreenwichhas written a work

    en-, , H titled ' Service Chemistry , ' which Messrs . Whittingham & Co . publish to-day . The

    book claims to ViVUU be the first attempt wbich has I ^^ H been I ^ WAA made AAlUIVtV to V ^_ T deal with TT 1 V 1 A many fAALVAA » important A A K . A | - * ^^ *• v *^* mv army m * W ^ J * M . M T

    H and navy questions from a strictly scientific H point of view ; it is , in fact , a manual of I chemistry in its lication to the naval and

    ^^ H mf app XT ET military requirements . I The Booksellers' Provident Institution held

    the usual monthly meeting of the Directors on B Thursday the 19 th ult ., at s * even o ' clock in the

    evening , at the Sunday School Union , 5 G Old I Bailey , when there were eighteen present—^^ H Mr -A . VJB . * 03 . . Arthur Ji . JkJb «/ J » 4 B X < m ^ Toovey - ¦ - ~\^ X ^ " V ^^_ T presiding f ^ ¦ ^^*^ ^ - « Jfc »* l « k . The ^ k **^/ ** sum ««« »^^ of < W «»

    £ ^ 1 . 18 s . Od . was voted for distribution I among 63 members and widows of members in temporary and permanent assistance .

    H The publishing trade in New York is nv > pidly reviving with the approach of the dark

    evenings , bat it has been more than usually

    dull ' * The The all book book throug trade trade h ' the says aava summer the the Amertcan American and autumn Book Hook ' - * I

    maker has of late , * had less to do than , for many years , ' and stagnation has prevailed .

    lavish lavisn Grocers m in this this and country countrv tea-dealers in in the the are use use perhaps tor for adver adver most --- j |

    tising purposes of almanacs . In the United ! . States Sffl . t . p . s the f ; l"m ¦ np > r » -nl le ft who - wlrr * mak malr e patent naffinf , mfirlipTnfia medicines :

    have pounced peop upon this method of keeping their nostrums before the eyes of the public all the roundIt is reported that one

    firm alone year has issued . in a single year nearly ; twelve f . Wfilvfi million million ^ nniea ies of of an an almanac tt . 1 m n . nAr > w "w hich ninli

    seeks to play the cop part of guide , philosopher , and friend to those who are in search of—advice

    gratis . The American edition of Robert Louis

    Stevenson's ' Wrong Box ' has what appears at first siht to be a slior cutting

    neatly pasted g on the outside newspaper coyer of p the book . The illusion , especially at the distance of a

    yard or two , is complete . An old lady in New England bought a copy of the novel and re- I

    turned it to her bookseller on the plea that it the f was . nf » . vigorous vi defaced orrkT » rniH arm by- a lication i nafi newspaper r » n of of anan scrap and fl . n , which water w ji .+ f . » r even had Vin . rl ¦

    failed to remove app . Novelty soap in bookbinding has its perils . >

    At the recent Internatipnal Typographical f Convention at Denver , U . S . A ., a scheme was be J

    mooted mooted for f & - the the erp erection . ^ tion of an an institution institution to be iI the called Board the Printers of Trade ' Home of Colorado . It appears Springs that has | f

    offered land for the purpose . In supporting , the proposal , the American Art Printer \ that the printers of the United States \

    mi urges ght easily erect a noble building , or series of buildingswhich miht be made * a blessing to |

    , g many a sick and broken craftsman . ' There is P no better mountai & n air in America t hair ^ .. &«> W ^^ in f

    M . M . ^_ - ^ m * S ^^ ^ ^ X ^^ ^ . ^^_^ ^« AA > W «^ V ^ **> - ** »* - a &^^ -A . JL & JLJI WA Ob % ^«^ W ^^^ L are n Colorad . T « directl riiv ^ o , +. lfT and " interested intf ii ? -r is » ftt to . *> rl be in in hoped such » n n / h that a scheme RohomP those who will "will I I j

    y not allow the present opportunity to slip . The Harleian Society has just published the * Visitation \ % of \^ r Shropshire tv jl of v ^ jw 1623 + ' in - »^* two

    vaav v j . kjx jjv *^ jux-r * . m . a . ^/ jljl . ^ - ^ ^ ^^ . ^ - •^ mm' * -r ^ ^< * v ¦* - * - volumes , edited by Mr . George Graze , brook , F "P . S . A A . and anrl Mr Mr . J . T . Paul Paul R Rvlnnrla lands . F F .. S S . A A . It Tt :

    be , mentioned that Mr y . Grazebrook , has ; contributed nnnf may . rihnfprl a valuable vn . lna . nlft Introduction Tntrorl notion to to thp the >

    4 Visitation , ' giving many interesting details , concerning ¦ Jk . AAJIAai heralds ¦ fc ^ and Jk their «/ & Jb ^^ duties « m «/ «_ r Accom Jk . -

    KS V-r JV JL ^ S ^ * J | , » JV ^ ' »> W » ^ - * «^ V a ^ - * * m . ^ - « . _ A ^^ . ^^^^ x ^ - « A A panying the volumes are four plates illustrating the seals l of the leading 1 gentry \ Jk of Jk the county «/

    and books hnoir i / Al V ¦ tJ ^ n that ^«< VJLfcJ have Vin . 'VA ^ - of *> V been Via * the . * ^ - / An J » . ^ - town /« jWV issued inmiArl ** IAGL of Ek' to to AA Bnd ^ the thft W V genorth ^ members niftrn •/ A a . ^ - * hprs ^ . % ^ m M The JL b hv w , « ¦ [ [

    y the Society ' s publishers , Messrs . Mitchell & Hughes .

    The Manchester Technical School has just issued its llabus for the approaching winter 11

    and And In Ak > KS « A the 1 UVb in in day the t . h * % sy 0 w ni Bchool * A ^ rnt » ht K ^ V * school Rnhnt U there AV * . ti UtVI are no n «^ UpUl Jess 1 ei aa g ht UllVllltlK than flinn departments ten t « n . 1 UVV The Tim 1 . . .

    m ^ object ia not to teach boys this or that particular trade , but to give them a * complete education education of of both both head hfuui and nnrl hand bund , in in the th « be b «

    t-lief that in this way their powers will , best be developed * and they themselves be best fitted for after-life . ' One now departure which

    has just been made consists in a special course cb II

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1889, page 1145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101889/page/11/