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    Nov. i, 189a The Publishers' Circular i4...

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    'lobd beaconsfield:* Much was expected o...

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    ^-^^"^¦¦ ^ Bookj^Elle^ Of To-Daip.

    mixed ' No with , except stationery that the and country — fancy — goods trade . is ' more

    * ¦— rlasting ' I need discount hardly as ij system k your ? op ' v inion y ? upon the

    out * now Well . , I If think we can the keep subject the discount is about p where layed

    it is we had better drop all past history and go on . '

    coun ' t But ry trading do you 1 ' not find it disastrous to

    ' The whole secret of the effect of the discount in the country » f lies in the quanti i . ty Vthe

    bookseller h it purchases but not . If otherwise he can . ' buy largely enougpays ,

    c Is It is the hardl profit y so on good stationery owing what to the it decrease was ?'

    in the price . The shilling , packet of paper now sells for 6 £ ^ , d , so , thougo h the proportion JL JL- of

    profi ' t Well is as Mr good . , Burlei the retur h n I is will less now . ' ask gyou

    for an ou , tline of the - C 3—7 , London Booksellers Society from its beginning up to date % '

    of 1889 ' Quite a so lett ; you was may say lis that hed in from the summer Lupton

    various Brothers p , of t Burnley s which , calling they thoug attention ht needed to the

    them remedy I . wrote Being - and entirel proposed y in t sympath hat join y tly with we

    should issue a circular letter to the leading booksellers in many townsasking them to join

    with us in a memorial to , publishers , calling attention to our grievances . '

    burden In response of the to labour the query and as to who bore of this the expense

    that under he taking had it Mr all . Burlei to himself gh modes . Continuing tly admitt he ed

    said The : — result was a vast number of letters

    siderable from all par propor ts of the tion country of leading , and a booksellers very con

    -Bi was gned sen the t to memorial every publisher . In due . Many course of a these copy

    sympath politely y acknowled and regre ged tted the their recei inabilit pt , expressed to move

    in •/ the JL matter •/ . ' " ' ' Then what did you do 1 '

    Mr . In Calder the Turner spring of at this his year house I in called Bathurst upon

    • Wi Street th the and utmost explained cordialit the posi he tion under to took him to . y

    over invite the a matter few gentlemen and to see to if his house united to action talk any

    could course ^ - * V ^ **» JV + % *^ mf be Mr * - » ^« - A taken , . Turner -JH-i *>» J ^ * b * y « b carried - the Vrf *^** » . » A London ¦ Xrf' ¦^ ' ^ out " ^^ * - ^ ¦ " » — his - ~ — trade r— promise W - . In , Jwit due h

    the result that a committee was formed and the London Booksellers Bh ^ h ' Society came into

    existence held m ^—r 4 flh ^^ . ^^ at m * 0 m You m Stationers **—^ ^^ r ^*^ know r *^ ^ Hr ^^** ¦ ^^^ ' ^ the ' Hall m ^*^ rest ^ a ^ ^^ r ^ ^ and ^ , ^^ how v ^^ a a dinner meeting at was the

    Holborn Restaurant . Mr . Stott was elected chairman of the committee at Mr . . Calder

    man Turner 4 we ' s could house hav , and e had he for has the proved position the . ' best

    But it has been a heavy undertaking for you ' ? It ' has & been hard work * vrf «¦* and m ^ w—— - —¦ - I have only

    jl , J AVVM Iv ^**^ + mm * ****^«* k . —^ m > « - ^ . . — — done I consider it by the getting first up earl t y st and wor ined king b la the te . Societis in so grea members ep ga of the y trade y many

    having other . been There brought are together useful to points know to each be dealt with besides many the eternal 3 d . in . the *> - ¦

    stopp shilling ing . the But price if there from going is any down difficulty and the in

    publisher then , we must cannot endeavour or will to not do find so ou a rselves , remed . ' y ,

    Society * Then ?' we may hope great things from this Mr . Burleigh smiled and looked like a

    man k who could say much , but he simply replied

    I think so /

    Nov. I, 189a The Publishers' Circular I4...

    Nov . i , 189 a The Publishers' Circular i 4 I 5

    'Lobd Beaconsfield:* Much Was Expected O...

    'lobd beaconsfield : * Much was expected of Mr . Froude as the

    fame biograp and her that of of Benjamin his subject Disraeli assure . d a His work own of

    curious unusual interest to know , and wha the t a public disci were le of extrem Carl el le y py

    thought of the adventurous member of the Hebrew racewhostepping into the arena of

    English politics , with , everything against him , seized and held the reins of leadershipand

    in became terest th th e head volume of a sa powerful tisfies all government the anticipations , . In

    of those who knew Mr . Froude as a writer of history and biographyand Disraeli is- shown

    precisely as he was , a , brilliant and striking figure ; a politician successful beyond the dreams

    and of ambi generous tion ; . Mr n . good Froude -na ' t s impartiality red , courageo im us - ,

    mediately impresses the reader . We have the spirited though often slightly ridiculous Disraeli

    of ing earl leader y day s , t middle he energetic life , caus t t ic , command dignified

    bu t still caustic statesman of , later times , exactly , as they existed .

    boy % / T hood he rap and id and you graphic th is very sketch •/ interes of Disraeli ting oan ' d s

    ins desire truc to tive appreciat , and oug e the ht to man be in studied later life by . . F rom ho

    his ambi childhood tious to make it may a fi be in sai the d Disraeli world . was He gure

    loved was ye % / t t a dream mere roman youth i / t he ic dreams boldly , declared and while that he

    not of E hing ngland would . His satisf ambitions y him bu were t the thoug premiershi ht ex p -

    travagant and absurd ; there are always wiseacres to laugO h at the asp JL irations of energetic iJ

    and talented young men . But happily Disraeli was not to be diverted from his purpose JL J .. He

    thoug absurdi ht t , planned tillas , s Mr trugg . Froude led , persevered he in made his says

    himself master , of the fleets and armies , of the proudest of Christian nations , and the leader

    of those who had most despised him . Not only did the singu ¦ lar youth at whom people

    but laug he hed led become -- its - aristocracy CP Prime Ministe . To gain r of the Eng victory JL land JL ,

    tures he travelled and vicissi a long tudes road b , the and had than more adven man - y way any

    of his time . Hence the story of his career reads ^¦ k —I i ~ v ^ v ^*«» r ^» " more ^^ ^^ ^ " ^*~ *—™ w like ' ~ - — — a - " romance -- — — - -- ~«~ — than - ^ — — -- n a -- sober - — -- history ^ g *

    First strenuous there long is the -sustained audacious effort dreaming , and finally , then the the

    to triump ^^^ - make B < H / Km m han H his ^ mw t realisation hero ^ r- ¦ - ^ p- ¦ - » so - brilliantl r — . The i 1 — - ~ novelist — r success ~ - - who ful would dared ^^ ^^*^* ^*^^^ ^^^^ y

    be t accused Mr . Froude of borrow ' s hero ing achieved from Orien his tal victories romance in ye

    the sight of all men , and hence Mr . Froude ' s The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria ^ Edited by Stuart

    , , Mareton J . Reid . , ' Searlo Lord BeaconBfleld St , Kivington , 'by , Limited J . A . Fro . ) nde ' . ( 8 ampa 6 n Low , , ,. i ' , ' . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ - . . . ¦ ' . - , hm

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1890, page 1415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111890/page/15/