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    Nov i, 1881 The Publishers' Circular 935

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    TRADE CHANGE.

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    Books Received :— From the Bazaar Office...

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    Coreespondenob.

    [ The following interesting communication was by accident omitted from our last number . ]

    To the Editor of ' The Publishers' Circular . ' 339 High CT 7 Street , Edinburg C-3 h , Oct . 6 , 1881 — .

    Deab Sm , —With reference to tho statement regarding the fathership of our periodical literature is ( see still Pub alive lishers printed Circula and r , p . published 794 , Oct . 1 a ) , magazine I have to remind The Kaleidoscope you that my in uncle 1821 , Dr and . William commenced Chambers Cham , bers who ' s

    7 ^ r « a £ in 1832 , . Mr . Francis does not , therefore , , rank alone as a publisher , , of fifty years' standing . &

    i am , iaiuiumy yours , ju-di . uniiiYiiiji . no .

    Nov I, 1881 The Publishers' Circular 935

    Nov i , 1881 The Publishers' Circular 935

    Trade Change.

    TRADE CHANGE .

    Welica Mr . E te . health Barnby , , been bookseller compell , ed of to Malton relinquish , and the proprietor above old of - The established Malton Gazette business , has , which , owin h . g

    has disposed of to Mr . R . Bradley . The valuation was made by Messrs . Holmes & Son .

    Books Received :— From The Bazaar Office...

    Books Received : — From the Bazaar Office . — ' The Chrysanthemum

    , its history _ . * , varieties ft . # , cultivation ^ i b . a , and diseases ^ b b . . ' i By D . T . Fish . An account of the popular hardy I j lint which ¦— will soon be one of the few flowers

    I ____ p left ~^ % > v " ^~ in *^ ~ " our — — — gardens — , and — ^ the ~^ present — ^ — — ^ perfection — — — ^^ ~ * — of ^— ^—I which is , Mr . Fish tells us , very largely due to I the patience of the Chinese and Japanese , as well

    I as English growers . The fullest directions are I given as to the cultivation and propagation of the I plantand there are engravings and descriptions

    I of its , chief varieties . BKBKBB I ~— From ^ Messrs b ^^^ " ^^™^ - ^^ - ¦ — - ^^ —^ ™ . Burns ^^ " ^^^^ - ^~ ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ & ^ BB ^ BV Oates ^ b ^ B *^ - ^ P" ^" 1 ^ BP ^ BB' ^^ . B ^ — ' The ^^^ " ™ ™ " ™ ^» Children ~^™~ ^^ ^^™ »» ^^™ ~^ ^™ ^^« »» ^^^ - ^^ ' s"

    ^^—Pictorial Mass Book . ' IBy the Rev . James J . I Charon . This little book , published with the I imprimatur of Cardinal Manningis intended as

    ci handbook to be used by children attending , mass . I It contains devotions suited for children to be I used at the various points of the Roman function ,

    I accompanied by pictures which are , by the way , in point of execution , far above the average of en-I glarings used in such works .

    I From Messrs . G-riffith . & Farran . — 'We Four . ' I By Mrs . Reginald Bray . Illustrated by Miss W . Eriehsen . A story "with ^ what "we may term an

    H old natural -world descri flavour ption about of the it , experiences giving an easy of four and children who had ' run wild ' in the freedom of a

    ^^^ H — " ' ¦*¦* ^^ AmAVVV >«> Jk UAA IT AJk . \ 4 i ALt \/ AA ^^ «» . J . V ^ ^ ^ . ^ ^^ «¦* - * VA V ^»* to country London home . The , and aunt -who , who were is suddenl the bane y removed of the

    children ' s life , and whose hardness lacks any H oi 0 compensating ^ power POWer . and n . nH virtue there tViP 7 » o is ih , is a drawn life UfA - -lilrA like with touch t . onp a h good about nKont deal the tVin

    ^ iiole of , the narrative . From the same . — ' Everyday Life in our Public ^ Winchester chools . ' Sketched by Head-Scholars of Eton ,

    , AVestminster , Shrewsbury , Harrow , Ku onef gby notice , and of Charterhouse St . Paul ' s . and To Merchant which is added Taylors a ' ^ chools and Christ ' s Hospital . Edited by

    m paries Eyre Pascoe . The editor tells us that H lacl ? ou uding own nt 8 contributions of the the historical to introduction the pages before and the us ,

    H three last-named Schools , origi-^ jp ! Just * 08 v of ations 'Appeared tho which in add the so Leis largel ure y Hour to the , with attrac the

    -I I Pe gj ? f \ . and ^ ^ present tne ° ther volume instances . Tho are sketches from the of I rHu * ° ^ boys ' in th © respective colleges and

    Sin ^^ they in sch deal ° with he [ u 8 all described sidos of the with sub the - ^ B Dlft Q Care anc and * com comr > lAt letenesa , finfi « i 4 as n . « the f . hn life liffl in in the t . ho

    H ^ un (? ' the cricket p -fieldand tho rivor . As ¦ ¦ III U II a tetd caa Q nmlir n ^ ^ , ^ ° f * ° fail g lis a nmen ^ subject meet are with in interested , wh ich widd a very , tho circle largo book of

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    Books Received :— From The Bazaar Office...

    men will be glad to have it at hand for the sake of their sons .

    From Mr . John . Hogg . —' Girls and their Ways-. A Book for and about Girls by one who knows them . ' With Illustrations . This hatically

    be described as a book with a may lofty emp aim , for it declares itself as intended * to encourage girls in

    the pursuit of the Higher Life , to secure from them a recognition of the fact that they are not to live for themselves or for society , but that each ,

    in her sphere , may do some good , true , and honest work , and may give unto others according to the measure of her own ifts / The authoress—for

    g we imagine the writer is a lady—deals with every phase of girl-life , and treats of her at home , in her leisure hoursat schoolabroadin the gaxdeiv

    in ^^ ^ b ^^ ^^» tha ^^ ^^ ^^ country ^ ^ i ^»^ m ^ h ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ r ^ 0 ^* ; ^^ and ^ , m m M ^ " ^ then ^ ^^ ^ —~ ^ ' ^ — there ^ - ^ ^™ , ^ — " ¦ ' ™ is a , j capital — c y hapter , on the girl's library . The book is cleverly put togetherandin addition to a vast mass of practical

    teaching , , it gives , interesting literary notes and draws upon the biographies of women who have illustrated the virtues and graces which are being

    commended to the young readers . From Messrs . W . & A . K . Johnston . —* Mechan- I

    ical Industries explained , showing how many useful arts are practised . ' With illustrations I By ^^ M Alexander Watt . Whether ^ ^^ —^^ this ~^ ^¦—^ W ^^ *^^ work W W ^^ ^ B ^ ^ v ^^ ^ is v *^^ takea Vl ^ ^ W ^ V ^^^ VB ^ BBV H ^ bW I B

    up by those who practise the arts described in its 11 p devoting ages mere their ly as energ a h ies obby to , or them by others as a means who are of I

    remunerative information w emp ill be loyment uall , its valuable plain and in exac fact t I I those who have never tried y a ' handicraft ; ' may , II

    the wel well l subj be be ects stimulate stimulate with which d d to to make make he deals an an are effort effort the . . carvi Among Amono- 11 II of Irish bog-oak , etching , book-binding , litho ng - 11

    casting g majority raphy , , and of iron which -founding a variety are within , type of other - the founding capacity pursuits , b || ro of ,, nze the all - II II

    who will devote to them a reasonable amount of If time and attention . Such a book as this would II be --- a boon - to — elder -- — boy — ^ g s r during - —m ^ . , ^ . , /^" A the ^ - •» ^ B » winter » W m Bl Vi * ^* JB « even ^^^ ¦ W V ^ ^ BBV ¦ * - II

    ings , while in these days of industrial exhibitioD * III men it would ' s clubs bo and welcomed kindred b institutions y members . of working if IjJ

    From F . B . Longley . — ' Good Coolcery : a Culinary I Catechism for the use of Schools and Young I

    Persons / By Mrs . L . D . Brown , This is , as far I as we are aware , a novelty in the field of domestic I literaturebut as an accompaniment to the prac- I

    , tice of tho art on which the comfort and health I of every family so > largely depends , it is calculated to be of considerable servico . The catechetical

    method of instruction is -unequalled , and if all mothers would put their daughters through a

    course of such lessons as are here supplied , the I result could scorc « ly fail to be beneficial . ¦ 0 ( fr

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1881, page 935, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111881/page/15/