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    sented To match to the the British series public of little what volumes will in in time which be Mr a comp . David lete Doug edition las , of of Mr Edinburgh . W . ] X , Howells has pre / - '

    writings , Messrs . Macmillan j . & Co . announce an 18 mo . edition of Mr . Henry James's novels vAivj WAaK and > % *¦¦ tales Wl"V c « - ^ -SK- ? , * to W \~ r be K ^ fKS contained VX / XA VI ^ VXAi . V VI ¦ 3 in * ^ , fo JL . " ••• u «~ -h . rteen JU V ^*^* - _ - >« , volumes * ^— ' «¦» V ^* * JL * ^—'"" - ^ , of " \»^ -k which * T . &__ . <« . ^ aS- * - _ M the */_ m , __ -X ^ * Portrait " — ^ - * - _ -- V *• vw * «_/ of >— ' _¦» a *^ V J Lad »^ VVVL y V ' will y ^ 4 . J » i fill 111 1

    and tliree the , Roderick Europeans Hudson ' one and each the whil c American e the remaining ' two each volumes , ' Washington contain Square the shorter / * Confidence stories , '

    ' Daisy Miller ' , ' the ' International , Episode , ' the ' Siege of London , ' the 'Madonna of the I Future , ' & c .

    The December number of Harper ' s Magazine will be a Christmas number , and will contain besides r r ^— the _ usual features __ _ of the _ magazine _ ~ a variety of contributions - of special - - - holiday ,

    significance , ^_— __ _ — . Mr . GTeorge William Curtis | - has — , — written _~ — ^ _ the opening article , which _ is _^^^ , ^ called ^ % - ^ rfc ^ i-y w c Christmas j ' and which will be profusely illustrated — . The frontispiececalled 'Under the #

    Mistletoe ^^ k *¦ * * - - 4 * a ' is , by « Mr *^ A mfm . Frederic ^ m ^^ t mm m Dielnian ^ v ^^ k JL . , and is ^ an out -of -doors ^ scene X . Besides ^ to , * ^ * ^ this b ja # there _ _ will ^ . » v ' be _ _ four _ _ full-page illustrations on _ plate paper _ _ . _ Among _ the __ writers .. _ who will contribute __ _ to this

    extraordinary George __ <^ H . Boug j ^ ^^ number Q hton - , Austin are J . Dobson G . Wliittier , j ^ Charles _ j ^ , Miss Reade Thackeray , ^_ and , E . William E . Hale Black , and , among W . D ( J . the Howells artists v ^ v ^ B - * ,

    E George . A . Abbey H . Boug , F <* » . hton Dielman , F . S , . C Church . S . Reinhart , A . B . Frost , Howard , and Pyl W . e L , . Alfred Sheppard X . J . Parsons . , W . H . Gibson ,

    A new paper called Bohemia will make its appearance on the 2 nd instant . It will deal with ' the workers of societyand will be devoted to the sayings and doings of authorsactors

    dramatists , essayists , journalists , , musicians , painters , philosophers , poets , sculptors , scientists , , , and of all who comprise the world of Bohemia in the modern meaning of the term . ' Ii ; will

    be issued at the price of one penny . It is said that Dean Church is making — ^ y rap id — progress XT --J with a monograp C 3 J . h on * Bacon / # which

    he is The writing papers for by Mr Mrs . John . Lynn Morley Linton ' s s on eries The of ' Girl English of the Men Period of Letters / ' The . ' Modern Mother' and

    so on , which first appeared in the Saturday Revizw , are about to be issued in volume , form , with other articles' , under the title of ' Essays «/ upon A ______ Social Subjects __ - t __ . '

    The ' Library Handbook' is the title of a work by Messrs . H . R . Tedder and E . C . Thomas , shortly to be published . It will contain an account of all the libraries of any

    importintroduction ance in Great devoted Britain to and library Ireland management , as well as arranging the chief and libraries cataloguing of other books countries library , with build an

    intended ings and to app mak liances e the , binding * Library , & Handbook c . The price 9 , of use will to , all we — who - understand _ either possess , be moderate books , or , frequent as it is

    libraries . % l JL X For M ^ m - ^ - * m the ^ r ^ m- ^ -fc ^ _ new ^^ v ~ v r w volume r **^ - _ * ^ w ^^ m-rm - ^ i ^ of - * mw -- » the « r - ^ m * ^ - ^ ' En _ - _ p ^«^ ^_ cyclopaedia ^ - ^ w ^^ ^ mr ^^ m—r ^ h *^^ i ^ m ¦ ¦ ¦ Britannica —¦ ^ j ^ *^ v- ^« r j »_^^« i ^ -f * ^>^^ ^ f ' ( s Vol ^ ^ - ^ ^ m . XVI - __ b- _ -i ^ w *_^ . Men mbrfl ^ ^^ - ¦> - * -Mos >< -- i r » B . ^ . ^ ^ # ) v , v which p v - » ^^ ^~ - ~ ^ 'will - - —

    be Mr published . George Saintsbury during the , present who is month one of , the Mr . best Andrew -versed Lang Englishmen has prepared on the an article subject on of Moliere French ; literaturecontributes on Me ' rim ^ eMicheletMontaiand Montesquieu an article

    on Michael , Angelo is papers by Prof . SMney Colvin , , and , one on gne Jean , F . Millet by Mrs ; . E . F . S . Pattison Prof . Robertson Smith writes on the Messiah Prof . Minto of ' Thomas Moore ;'

    Prof . David ; Masson , the author of a life of Milton , furnishes ; an essay on the poet ; another on on Mil Milman man is is bv by _ JYLr \ Tr _ . Kichar , i < Vha . rd r _ Uarnett Ga . rnf . tf .. and and TVTr Mr . "W W . o . R Kockstro onkatro writes ivrihfisi of of Mendelssohn Mfinrlelsaohn and ana

    r Meyerbeer The November . number of The Century magazine has a portrait of the late Ivan Turgenieff engraved from Jki ± a ^ f painting mj _¦ ¦ t from life \ made especiallfor JL . the magazine JiJIAVVCikLWXJ MM . The biographical *——— and

    lated critical i VAAQ uiuvu .-L % A * b ^ y ¦ S'V sketch ^ . ¦ Mr "_ - ¦ »• . -r * M Henry jljl . J which vi m -j . jk ^ VA . James tr __ accompanies - u « A -kJLVh » . » «_ - . i VAAJL ____ An * _ . Essay _ - __ ~ the S o » AAAUIX _ > c * y portrait on v _ / _ » . i the » uiju ^ B ^ v ^ _* V was ' /^ ¦ Life V- _ ¦ ¦ y written » - ^ vj of V > j . Dante j __ ^ ci J-.- / x V b i y / v ^ j / M by *~ . ^^ Al Christina w p ^ - > honse , . « iA » u _ i _ u Daudet S G v _ ^ . . V j Rossetti - 'tij . v \ stjn «^ W and »^ *~ > - w >* - - *) w , trans with •¦ --

    -papers on his * Exile / and another on the * Portraits of Dante / by Sarah Freeman Clarke , are On also October promised 12 for a very the p same leasant magazine meeting of the principal members of the Edinburgh trade ,

    numbering twonty-five , was held in the Edinburgh Hotel , to pay a tribute of respect "to Mr . and L Whittaker . C . Gent abl , & who Co presided . , , for has the been long b visiting Mr period Francis Scotland of fort Black . y The -two ( of gathering years Messrs , as took A the & representative the C form Black ) of President a of luncheon Messrs of , .

    croup KjLK the IA ^ Edinburg was JXKJx ier , ' s O UH chair y (* h . . Booksellers The XiiO over toast WHO . ' of \ JJL y Societ the UILK . y evening O , OJUUJLJlg Mr . Robert was W 0 ( 0 proposed l / XA Clark _» IJl ^ OCJUL , in Xli the felicitous J . OAlCJlf . eminent . -- UCJ terms l »« printer 7 . A IIICJ b KfJ y , the VI , occupy * . *? Chairman v _/_ . _ - ing « -- trad the . .

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    invariably received . Various other toasts were proposed , that of The Bookselling Trade » Scotland The Pictoric ' being ( an given abrid by gment Mr . Gent of the , and Pictorial responded World to ) by is the Mr . title John of MacLaren an illustrate . d threepenny

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1883, page 1044, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111883/page/8/