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    1883 The Publishers' Grculax 105. 1

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    , , which final bit open of s penc the illed first chapter humour of at volume tht ) close one , of or a a chapter—it is a library edition of much richness

    and excellence . Pictures and text alike are so presented as to promise for the series , which is to have its own specialite in the introduction of

    some of the pieces public favour ver before . To publ the ish trade ed , a larg it will o share be acceptable as a book which will at once commend

    itself to purchasers , and will save many doubtful during minds t the he coining trouble season of deciding . upon a present

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    p B icture ritish -book Isles w , ' ith by a the purpose Rev , . its II . aim H . being Bishop to . give A the reader a clear idea of the architecture of

    England from the earliest date down to thd most recent volume times to a , close the . New The Lab author W Courts is not bring onl ing his the - y

    sound torical sense but cr in itical , and of his there remarks is a . good deal of many From the same— ' Optics without Mathematics' b

    the Rev . Thomas . William Webb , M . A ., F . R . A , . S y . in Tho medias author res for this without little contents work ¦ k p lunges introduction at once

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    a subject which is * very difficult in its fullest e matics xtent , . ' Mr . q Webb uires a we dee are p knowled bound ge to of ay mathe has

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    in all a else nd , concise there . is no At royal tbe same road to time learning in this , and , as caretul carefu though difficulties have been simplified , a very

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    ^ ill prove , an admirable p text-book . l ? the . ' r - ^ Juorfill . eame This , — is ' Sclavonic one of the Literature useful volumes / by W pub . It - .

    lished by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge under the title of ' The Dawn of I ¦ ¦ ¦ m ^» ___ _ _>¦ _ t _

    European Literature _ / and the author claims for it C that it is the only attempt which has been made jj to deal with the subjectwith the exception - ^_ of _ a I _

    work now out of date * i and » , out of rint __ which was I issued at New York in 1850 . In a p Russian , histOTy I of Sclavonic literature Mr . Morfill says # ^ he has -Ia

    found subject valuaLIe with much matter attractiveness , and he . has The invested | enormous his , 1 umber of the Sclavonic populationsand the 1 |

    freque ilU n . lll- ' C nt — \ references JL LUC ULiAt to them li ; jJ and ^^ UICiLI to their IiO , , tt . li history \ A . -UO t ] in m ai & current ^^^ «» ^ _ b ^^ »_ ^ ¦ m literat ^ b ' S + fc « jV ¦ ^ u w re ^ ^^ , make •¦• — ^ •¦ fc ^^ itdesirabl — v ^ ^ ^ m * s b * mjv " ^^ e ^^ that ^ — _ « —v «* young w ^^ v _» ¦> — aite i ^ fl

    people should have at least a slight acquaintance 1 with their works , and should know something of n the books of RussiaBulgariaCroatiaPoland \

    and Bohemia . Mr . Morfill , has , evidently , brought , 3 ¦ _ much r ¦« ^ d "I ^ — his ^ laboUT _ b v vr book ^ ^_^ ^^ ^^ ¦» ^ * and deserves v _ .. « ^ ^ ' genuine ff ^ ^^^ ^*^ * the _ " * ^ ^~^ devotion ^^ attention ^— ' ^ ' ^ ^^ * to ^^ ^ not ^ ^ his ^ ^ _ fr «« onl ^ task v > - «^ ^— of ^—^ , w >/ j ;

    an ^ y j the subscribers to the Society , which has shown B its enterprise by producing itbut of the literary V

    , public at laTge . J From the same . —' Word Pictures for Mission Ser- ]

    vices / by JE . M . P . An attempt to use well- n known addresses pictures each as illustrating the subjects an of important little reli truth gious . ' ) I |

    If a photo , graph or engravi ng _ 7 of the picture could are arfi be place read read d it ifc before co oould uld th scarcely scarcelv ose to fail fail whom to to add add the very v a ddr rv much much esses , ¦¦

    to their interest , and as the Society has published the pictures on cards this plan can be adopted at a

    _ mall 1 exponsa . JL ¦*• From the same . — ' Wives and Mothers of the Bible . \ _ . ^~ m > _ i - ^ m . ^^ V ^^ 0 _ ^ h ^ A * A A ^ A B I

    Short ^ ^ Readings * for Home and Mothers'Meetings _^^ / \ A little budget c _> of chapters i on the wives and \ mothers of the Old and Testament from

    New Eve to Eunice , each intended to occupy about five minutes in reading , so that with a hymn and

    prayer they may form a little devotional service at the end of a mothers' meeting . The book will fin be ding useful suitable in many readings cases where for such the purposes difficulty has of j

    often _ J been complained of _ J . X — From Messrs . Kaphael Tuck & Sons . —* Tablets j

    of selecte the d Heairt and : arran Poems , d Rh ymes the , and Rev . A Frederick phorisms , \ j gy Langbridgo 31 . A . with coloured illustrations by »

    J . R . Herbert , , K . A , ., Baroness Marie von Becken- ; dorff of c , Alice aed S ia quire of verse , & c s . ' This me volume of _ - whic . _ .- h forms - one — wo a sort uld — j i y ¦ p

    ¦ naturall —I r ~ * m ^^ - " ^ ' — y — ¦~^ r look - ^ — — ~ ~ f o r on — ' — Ch * , w ristmas — — — and other cards ; card and s tho now editor often suggests consist in his of pre pictures & icethat with as such un- j '

    printed backs , those verses may be written upon them . Tho comprehensiveness of the collection may bo gathered from the fact that thore are

    1 , 560 extracts from more than 350 authors ; and although , as we have said , many of the poems are b ^ rief enough for card useohers are of - ^— greater h

    length r ^ ir _ ^_ - ^ v- _ _ - . Tho — a m - original and copyri , — g ht verses - — * m in the volumo aio numerous , and many of them possess considerable poetic merit , while in the verses

    printed from other sources are many l > y poets of hi Christma gh repute s . New The Year contents Easter tiro Love classifi and ed under Court- :

    filli illustrations Birthday p , Marriage s , , an , d printed , Bereavement Birth in and , colours Bab and , yh , Affliction are , Friendshi marke . d The b p y ,

    tho perfect execution for which tho cards and other art works of the publishers have acquired a high reputation . Mr . Ilorberr , the Hoyal

    Academician , contributes an illustration to a poem b known y Miss manner Havergal _ and , on all Chv the istmas illustrations , in his well are

    effective . ,

    1883 The Publishers' Grculax 105. 1

    1883 The Publishers' Grculax 105 .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1883, page 1051, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111883/page/15/