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    Boor ? And I^ Of

    Mr . _ . __— . _ Messrs Charles — _ . — __ . Cassel S . _ Miall — l _ & ' s Co Life . have of Henry in ^ the Richard press _ , ^

    M . P . ' Stress is laid in the book on Mr . Richard ' s services as secretary of the Peace Society , _ -- — — — ^ j ; j his visits ~ to the Continent on behalf

    of International Arbitration ; his intimacy with Mr . Cobden ; his work in Parliament ; and other topics of widespread interest .

    # # * Professor F . T . PalgraveM . A . has in

    preparation ( A Treasury of Sacred , Song , / It will be published by the Clarendon Press .

    A complete editionedited and arranged

    , by Mr . W . H . Wright , of * Gay ' s Fables , ' may be looked for shortly in the Chandos Classics .

    The book will contain a biography and notes , and will also be illustrated with many engravings . It is proposed to publish a

    large-C paper 3 O edition , limited X * . to two X hundred and O fifty copies . #

    # # Professor Robertson Smith ' s forthcoming book of lectures on the ' Religion of the

    Semites / which Messrs . A . & C . Black announce , will be devoted to a comparative study

    of the fundamental practical institutions of the Semitic religionsuch as the religious

    community ; the idea , of holiness as applied to p laces , persons jl , and -- things a ; the orig in and

    development of sacrifice and the like . # Professor Masson has edited for Messrs .

    A . & C . Black a new edition of Thomas De Quincey ' s collected works . It will contain the most complete and systematically classified

    collection of the great essayist ' s writings which has yet been issuedbesides several

    most admirable papers long overlooked , . The edition will be comp x leted in 14 monthly */

    volumes , suitably illustrated with portraits and views . #

    Messrs . Eglington & Co . are about to publish an important work on ' The Origin of the

    Irish People , ' from the pen of Mr . W . Copeland Borlase . The book deals with the antiquitiesfolkloreand superstitions of Ireland ;

    and special , attention , , we understand , is devoted to a comparison of Irish legends with those of Greece , Rome , and Spain .

    * * Messrs . T . & T . Clark , of Edinburgh , are

    about to add to their ' Foreign Theological Library a translation by the Rev . William HastieB . D . of Professor Luthardt's

    well-, , known ' History of Christian Ethics / * *

    Messrs . Methuen & Co . have in preparation a book entitled ' Strange Survivals / by the Rev . S . Baring-Gouldauthor of ' John

    , I Herring . ' ## * *

    The Rev . A . D . Crake is about to publish , through Messrs . ^ Mowbray & Co . of Oxford

    , a tale of the Devonshire . Rebellion , * The Heir

    of Traherne .

    Messrs . W . & R . Chambers are bringing out an entirely new series of ' Sixpenny Books

    for the Young / published in cloth / with illustrations . The first will be written bMrs .

    y Molesworth , and is entitled ' Nesta ; or , Fragments of a Little Life . ' This will be

    followed by ' Poor Miss Carolina , ' from the pen of Miss L . T . Meade , author of ' Scamp

    and I . ' #

    ' Q . / the author of 'Dead Man ' s Rock , * is about to try «/ his hand at — an historical romance .

    The book in question will be published by Messrs . Cassell & Co ., and is called ' The Splendid Spur / being memories of the

    adventures of Mr . John Marvel , a servant of his late Majesty King Charles I ., in the years 1642-3 . *

    Dr . Parkes , Assistant Professor of Hygiene at UniversitCollegeLondonhas written a

    y , , book on ' Hygiene and Public Health . ' Mr . H . K . Lewis has the work in the press .

    M . Paul du Chaillu ' s long-promised work

    on ' The Viking Age ' is announced by Mr . Murray . The book deals with the early

    history and primitive customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking race . We understand

    that M . du Chaillu illustrates his subject from the ancient-Sagas and Eddas . V

    # * Dr . Harvey Goodwin , Bishop of Carlisle , has written a work on ' The Foundations of

    the Creed / which Mr . Murray is about to publish .

    * Canon Wace and Prebendary Row are both

    again preparing to take the field with foo ~ 0 "ks in defence of the faith . The title of Dr . Wace ' s volume is ' Some Central Points of Our Lord's

    Ministry / whilst Dr . Row has chosen as his theme 'Christian Theism . '

    # * Professor Munro , of the Victoria

    University , Manchester , has written a work on ' Canadian Constitutional History / which will be published shortly by the Cambridge

    University Press . # * #

    Mr . W . M . Conwajris about to publish , Literary through the Remains Cambri of dge Albredht Universit Diirer y Press . ' ' Th The e

    book will contain transcripts from the British Museum MSS ., and illustrative notes .

    # # # We are glad to notice that the ' Iife and

    Letters of the Rev . Adam Sedgwick , ^ LL . D ., F . R . S . ' is announced . Dr . Sedgwick was

    Woodwardian , Professor of Geology at Cambridge from 1818 to 1873 . The work , which

    is dedicated by special permission to the Queen , has been jointly written by Mr . Willis Clark , -M . A . formerly Fellow of Trinity Collegeand

    Professor , McKenny Hughes , of Cambridge , .

    *

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1889, page 1141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101889/page/7/