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    ' accessibility to bribes . ' On page 13 Mr . G & lton alludes to Cromwell ' s' sturdy independence , ' and

    on page 52 speaks of the * subservience of the Court officials , among whom no doubt was Cromwell' while on page 79 he writes to

    the clergy , and state prisoners lie was coarse , blustering , and truculent . At court we hear of stoutness and subservience . ' Sturdiness and

    subservience are scarcely coherent terms to apply to the same man . Yet Cromwell was a great mana necessary manand though the

    author has , failed to grasp the , full significance of his character , we are bound to welcome an honest attempt to bring him in Iris true colours

    prominently before us again . Towards the end of the volume the style vastly improves , though it is to be feared that the mantle of the-great

    past essayists has not fallen upon the shoulders of the author . '¦ ¦ 'I- '

    . From Messrs . iHurst & Blackett . —* Reminiscences of Eton ( Keate ' s Time ) , ' by theTSev . C .

    Ailix Wilkinson , M . A ., author of ' Beminiscences of the Court and rimes of King Ernest of — — Hanover ¦ . ' Dr . & eat r e was one ¦ of the most ta

    " ^^^ " " ^ " ~ * " ™ " ^^^ » ~^ P ^ ^^^ — ' ( pP ^ M ^*^ V ^ . ^ ^ VB ^ p ^ B ^ . ^ PB ^^^ . ^^^ P * ^^ " *^ P ^» " » ^ . ^^^ P » " *^^ ^ P ^ " ^^ " ^^™ ^*^^ ~^^ ^^^ " ^ ^^»^^^ ° " ^^ r ^^^ " . ^ P ^^ P" ^ fc ^ F ^ V - celebrated of Eton masters ; and the period of a- portion of his quarter-of-a-century rule is happily chronicled by Mr , Wilkinson , wlio has

    reminiscences a very delightful . ^ BLis gift enthusiasm in the way and of affection relating for his Jkfc old school UV JkLW and his pride in the dignity * A « -

    . — --v ^ ^ . a « F \_ A A . v ^ - * , « . ! # •* " *>^ - * . * , * . * - » ' P * ' - ^ - ^¦^ - ' * - * . J . WA * v _/ 'v-va ^^ *^ T of * Eton fellows , ' are unbounded . This gives a zest to the story when under the eyes of

    ordinary readers who know little or nothing of Eton life ; but it speaks volumes for the thoroug * — — w ^ K hness - — ^ m ^^ . h pi ^ W * of ^ k . ^ ^^ b that ^* ^ k ^ K ^^^ V ^^ life ^^» ^^ *^^ ^ fc ^ to ^^^ ^^ " find ^ ^^ ^""— " ^^^ a " ^ ' ^ ^ man —^^^^^ k ^ ^ - ^ b ^ like ^^ ^^^^ —| — ^ Mr ^ Vba ^ v ^** «^ . BJ

    Wilkinson , after a lapse of years , chronicling in so charming a manner the ups and downs of his schoolboy days . His work should be a

    favourite wherever it is read . From the same . —* A Double Wedding' by the

    , Author of ' St . Olave ' s , ' ' Janita ' s Cross , ' & c , Lady Matilda , the aristocratic wife of Mr . RakeridSquire of Willoughby Clayswas after

    - .. » - v * £ ge ^ \ - / , , KJUUJL 1 V / \ JJ . TT A 11 V UglJ k ^ jr V / lMjr q , »» C 4-O ClXt ^ X all only human * she liked to be important and a ~^ H leader ^™ ~^ v vf ^ v ^ u «* ^^^ v Mta among ^ h ^^ . . ^ KH " ^^^ ^^« Vk Vi ^ K ^ her ^ ^ " ^^^^ «^* kind ^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ - * - 'w . V ^ Her ^^^^* " ^ h ^ ^^ lofty ^^ *^^ ^^ " ^ i * « ^ inter ^ ^ b ^^ ^ i * ^^^ ^^

    -ference , moreover , only brought disaster on the ritualistic clergyman , Eowland Berrithorne , who was certainly a much worthier man after

    his and fall well than -written before novel . Headers will hav of e this greater graceful S 3 m-

    pat V ^*^^ ^ v' ^ h y V V ^^ ^ with te ^ iV V Jk ^ the ^^ w ^ J * M , ^ sweet -A X ^ ^ ^^ Jk - dispositioned V A ^^ 4 fe rf *^« m ^^ LJ T ^^^ 7 **\ ^^^^ % heroine ^ ^ Lmi' ^^ P * * V ^ -t «« , Marjorie ^^ ~^ ' ^^ ^^ ¦ ¦ ^ k ^ ' ^^ ^ 1 ^ fHB Hazeltine ^^ ^ V ^ V ^^ I ^ V ^^^^ * BV ^^ f ^^ ^^ k ^ V ^ ^ . ^ , ^ H ^ and ^^ r ^ p <^ B ^^ ^^^ J ^ f ^ her ^^ ^ 1 * ^^^ T ^ lover IV ^ ^^^ ^ ^ M ^ ^^^ , V ^ Michael " . * " ^»^ i ^ ^^ ^^^ *^ ^ . V ^ V ^ T ^^^^ *^*

    Forrester , and in the description of the home circle at the vicarage , which reads so truthfully as apparently to have been taken from

    real life . Not a detail is missed , not a single line that would add force and emphasis to the picture . The result is charming . * A Double

    Wedding' IkM hardly a book to be taken up and hastity skimmed through , but rather to be reserved for the quieter hourswhen the mind

    , is at ease and peacefully contemplative . "We tenderly follow the troubles of brave , unselfish Marjorie » ~ - ¦ — ' " ~^ r ¦ »—i —~ throug — - t ^ ^* ^^ — ^ ^^ V % hout ^* ^^ ^ " ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ; ^ more ^^ > " *^ ^^ T ~ than ^ a * |^ 4 W ^< B . ^ ^^ once " ^^ ^ ^ — - ^^ - we ^ ¦» — )— hal *^ ^ . ^^ W " ^ " f ^»»

    close the book , and reflections somehow come stealing- over us that partially dim the eye with tearsand we lay down the last volume with a

    feeling of , thorough regret . The sympathetic power of the author is very great , and of her grace in diction -v ' - -v ~ —> - ¦ - ^— •— ' ~~ - we * * ^ w- can « # » ^ ¦ . give f" ^ *^ ^^^ no ^^ v . * ^—r better r >^ ' ^^^ v ^ M ^ t ^ r ' ^ proof K <~^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ . ^^ ^ ' than ^^^ ¦ % tfv v ^ ' ^ p fudft the . ^ 0 tm ^^* ^ % ^

    following quotation . Describing the close of Marjorie ' s interview with Michael Forrester in the churchwhen they discover how cruelly

    their lives have , been wasted by the designs of

    the Seline low Cons evening et £ , she sunlight writes : was ' But streaming as we turned more , I I

    ¦ window bri w t ^ ^ k g ¦ s htly * fc t _ j w , m than and m * ^« fc- ^ ^ w ^ fc ^ not ^ ever ^^ im ^ ^ r o ' ^^ nly » through ^»<^™ w the ^^ ^ m ^^ - ^^ glory ^ p St ^ K ^^ - . -mm Christopher * round the ¦ x s I I ^ H

    head of the child Christ , but the worn face of the weary saint shone as with a radiance from Jm heaven > C 4 lVtJX itO itself & U . . J And - ^ . \ JL \ A . ¦ the UIJIO waves HHIIVO thro VUXVUgu ugh Il which illVU

    he toiled were turned to gold by that setting--- sun lass , so mingled that they with seemed fireeve as n it that were glassy a sea sea of

    upon g which they stand , , the saints of God , the ihappy ones who have overcome and are at

    peace for evermore . ' In face of such graceful writing - - — £ j as this — , y what , are . a few slig % ^ j ht errors

    ofconstruction ? From Messrs . Xjecene et Audin 5 , Paris . —

    Collection de classiques populaires . This is anew series of biographies . The first two volumes are devoted " to Plutarch and to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 'from which we learn that the collection will include

    \ not merely French but ancient -writers . The account of Plutarch , besides his own life , gives specimens of his famous lives of-Greeks and

    Bomans . The volume de voted to Rousseau is divided into chapters on his infancy and childhoodon his ^ life in Parisat Mont ! Louisat

    Mo tiers ; , and in England . , It then gives us , a sketch of the sentiment of nature in France before Rousseau wrote , of his manner of dealing

    with landscape , also of his descriptions of alpine grandeur , and lastly of the effect of his writings . Both volumes are well printed in octavo , and

    have illustrations—in Plutarch these represent the busts of celebrated Romans . From Messrs . Crosby Lockwood & Son . —The

    «^^» ^ n . ^«^ ^ k ^ w ^ b ^^^^ w ^^ m ^¦¦ ^ v ^ n ^ ^ Ht ^^ p ^ ^^^ r v ^ v ^^^ r ^^^ p ^ m ^^^^^^ v ' ^^^ " ^^ p ^^^^^ v ^ ^^^ ^^ v ^^ F ^^ ^^^ " ^^ v ^^^ ^^^ ¦— v - — — new for volume Handicrafts added ^^ ' ¦ to ^ is the ' The series Patt of * er Etandybobks n Maker ' s

    Handybook , ' by Paul N . Hasluck , an author who has been hitherto very Successful in this class ^ ta ^ S » ^^ f * V > r ^^ —]_— of ~^ m ^ W descri ^^^ V . I ^^ r ^ ^^^ ^^ tf ^ ptive ^^^ ^ . ^ - ^^ V ~| ~ work « ^ ^* P ^^^ ^^ . «« >¦ . The ^ V . ^ *^^^^ ^ k . >* present H ^ ' ^ f . * ^^ " ^ *^^ ^^ ^^ is ' ¦ ' ^ a ^ - — -I

    practical manual oil patterns for founders . Information is in like manner given respecting ; the toolsmaterialsand other appliances used

    in their construction , , . From the same . — ' The Atnbulance Aid , ' written

    by a pupil of the St . John Ambulance Society . First aid ^ to the injured having been widety studied " and practised lately , this very clear ,

    though slight little work , should be found serviceable in simplif 3 ing the subject . From Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . —* Ran i ¦

    ^^ - ^ ^^ ¦ ^ ' ^» ^^ o ^^ - ^^ vim ^¦ ^^ b w ^^ ^^ . ^ v ^ r- ^^^ ¦ v ^^^ p ^ h ^^ v ^^^ r v ^^ r v ^ p ^ ^^^ la ^ B ( m ^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^ s ^^^ r ^^^^^ ^^^ V ^ . ^ ^* >^^^ Away from the Dutch ; or , Borneo from North to South , ' by M . T . H . Perelaer . This work , which describes the adventures ¦¦ of four deserters fcf

    — » —¦ ' — " ^" r ' ' "' ¦¦ » ¦ ¦ ' - ' ^ - ^ - ^^ ' T ~^— ^^ - ^ - r- ¦ ^ ^ ^ . ^ m V - ^ ' ^^^ ^" fc » ~^^ M ^^ Vt " «^ V ^< - ^ h » ^^^^ ^^^ ^~| |~ ^ B V' ^^^ ^ ' . from the Dutch fort at Kwala Kapoeas ; is most readable throughout . The deserters in question were " ¦ - -m ~ r S 1 -m chlickeisen -- •—~~ -- W-+ r and It Wienersdorf W Wl f / 1 k natives » of ^^ *^^ ^ ^ — p ^^— ^^ ^ ^ ^ . ^ ^ ^ ¦ ^ *^ . ¦> * ^ ^||^ «^« ^»^ *^ V ^^^ fc ^ ^^ ^ H , S <• «» 9 J ^ t V w *^ ^^ T f * - * ^ . ^^ ^'

    Switzerland , who had been led to join the Xjd Dutch ¦ Cueille - ¦ armyi ' ¦ w the - throug »^ * ¦¦ comic fcMa h man false * as f # representations it fft # were of the ;

    ' ^—^— , " ' ^^ —^ ^^ " - ^ ^* ^^ ^^» ^^ ^ " ' ^^ ¦^ ' ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ««^^>«« ^^*^ # ^ h J ^ ^ c *^ . ««« « ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ r rf ^^ * •* ^^ party , a Bel , gian by birth ; and a Sumatran named Johannes , born at Padang . The account

    of their escape , with the exciting experiences that accompanied it , admits of much acceptable information in regard to the of the

    islandthe habits and customs scenery of the natives their , superstitious beliefs , modes of warfare , , method of justicefashion ¦—^ - ^ " » r- * -- i i i of bartering ¦» w ~ and so

    forth ~ —^ — ~ — . — ' ^ ^ Of — —¦ - -th ~ - — ¦ — i s - ~ opportunity ^~ " * -r , p— ' ^ - ~ m i- ^ ' ^^ »¦¦« much j- ^^ m i ^ ^^ and " ^ . ^ im ** r ^\ able , ^ ^^*« r i ^ tm ^^ . * use »» ^ is teresting made . by The reason book of is the therefore livel not character only in oi -

    the incidents that are described y but derives additional attraction from the knowled , ge of

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    1290 The PubKshers' Circular " Nov . 1 , 188 7 1 * .... ¦ -

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1887, page 1290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111887/page/16/