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    Easter Monday has its phrase . from ' As You Like It ' : How I am in a holiday humour ;

    and then again , for the last of the four bank holidays , Boxing Pay , we hare the question—Is this a holiday ?

    spenre from pointed * Julius lewda out himself but Caesar this / to The little quotation way book in need which shows s not Shak in to the be e-

    happiest fashion , how completely he has a word for the every memories season of . the Many of at the day who s are died . linked to

    them cretion , . and How here exceeding again the gr ly e apt editor men for shows instance ~ r his i upon s dis the

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    To Xord Beaconsfield he gives the lines from Henry VIII .: Exceeding He was a scholar wise , fair , and spoken a ripe , and and good persuading one , ' .

    But we might fill our pages with illustrations of the success with which the Diary is compounded . In conclusion we need only say Vthat it is issued

    in two forms : in blue cloth , g-ilfc lettered , and in roan with a pocket and pencil . From Mr . Henry

    BZistemaeckersBrussels—Goncourt ' s En 18 ' This work , of Messrs . . Edinond and Jules de Goncourt , otherwise

    designated Un premier livre , has a history . This history E . de Goncourt is related . "which in the in form fact of resolves a preface itself signed into - a critique of the novel from the matured mind of

    one of its authors . It appears that on the eve of the famous Coup d ' etat iu Paris , of December 1851 , the brothers de Goncourt , with the happy

    to expectance expectancy rest with of 01 visions the the auth authors of ors ies 01 of exhibited a a hrst first hook book in , , went went copevery bookseller ' s shop , and of placards on every wall ,

    of Before editions the after day dawned editions , call news ed brok for , e and in upon so forth the . unlucky youths that France itself was making a

    book—of history , and that suitable announcements novel had ecli . Thus psed the all book advertisements has come to of bo the nearl coming lost until now . In the course of the preface we y have

    a quotation from a feuilleton of Jules Janinand the wo find ^ premier that Madam livre * e as George containing Sand s in poke a later curious , of

    manner the germ of the future novels of MM . de mingl Goncourt ed instruction , and as being and amusement in itself . a library of

    From from Header Messrs Flowerland . A Longman Birthday : original s , Book Green coup and lets , So Co by . — Emil ' Vo y ices E of .

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    days 1 Language of the of year Flowers , so that ' and we a birthd have ay an book amp under lified one cov « r . Couplets on four flowers are given

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    tunate attachment / is commemorated in two lines vhich if sad true

    are : If It mast ivy clings fall with to a stack the grain of wheat at the reaper * s feet .

    The ousl red characterised dahlia , as a : symbol of ' unbelief / is vigory He rests i \ broken vtt reed i indeed iuuccu

    Who J . J . C csva puts on ju any a a uj trust .. cu in your godless creed . The passion flower wins the following tribute as emblematic of faith

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    Here to attract our , extracts as an att must empt to cease leave . The the beaten book ought track and giro original thoughts in the stead of the tracts frora standard workwhich

    ex s " form tho staple of the birthday book . From Messrs . Sampson . Xiow & Co . —' Mansfield

    Humphreys , ' by Richard Grant White . The exact title of Mr . Grant White ' s new work is * The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys , with the episode of Mr ,

    Washiogtoa Adams in JSngland , and an Apology . The author ' s previous work is probably the best serious book which has been written on English

    life ; for the French John Bulls must be regarded to some extent as yeux d ? esprit * ' Mansfield Humphreys ' deals with the topic of English life

    and manners through the medium of a series of fictitious sketches . At the end of the work is an appendixentitled ' An Apology' which is sure to

    , , engage the thoughtful reader ' s attention . In it are noticed a number of English writers on

    America , among whom may be named Anthony Trollope , Grenviile Murray , Lord Honald Grower , Mrs . Trollope , Mrs . Grant of Laggan , SirLepel

    Griffin Arnold . , Mr In . Laurence the cours OJi e of phant his , remarks and Mr . Matthew on these observers and their inionsMr . Grant White

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1884, page 1108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111884/page/16/