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    i 424 The Publishers * Circular Nov. i, ...

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    From the same . — True Tales for My Grandsons / by Sir Samuel White Baker . With

    illustrations by W . J . Hennessy . We are glad to see a new edition of Sir Samuel Baker ' s charming , True Tales * with the spirited illustrations by

    Mr . Hennessy , . Some of the stories are very wonderful indeed , and well suited to beguile the tedium of the winter

    long evenings . From the same . —* The Miner ' s Right , ' by Rolf

    Boldrewood Boldrewood . , and and '* Good Good News News of of God God , ' bv by Charles Kingsley . Two of Messrs . Macmillan ' s popular reprints . The type is clear and the

    paper and binding good . From the same . — ' Kirsteen : the Story of a Scottish Famil — y seventyw * years ago fc ? , ' by •/ Mrs . OlipXhant .

    3 vols . Considering the great literary activity of Mrs . Oliphant , and the time she has been before the public as a writer of fiction , it is

    really astonishing how she manages to keep up the high standard which she set herself at the beginning . * Kirsteen' is as fresh and charming

    a work as ever came from her pen . The pictures of Scottish life in the past are not only extremely interesting , but are drawn with the

    power and fidelity of a great artist in love with her subject . The character drawing , too , is without exception admirable . Drumcarro

    might at first impress a Southern reader as being slighily unreal at times , but he will be i found on fuller acquaintance to be true to the

    principles of his own being . In fact , he is but a type ° f ^ pa ? t , and such a type as was

    common enough north of the Tweed seventy ! years ago . Kirsteen herself is beyond all

    praise . Not for a long time have we read anything so good as the scene in which Kirsteen j and visits demands her dead Ronald lover ' s 's mother handkerchief in the . Hig But hlands the ,

    whole book is excellent , and it is idle and i unfair to single out special parts . | From Messrs . J . Masters & Co . — ' The Builders

    of the Church in Northumbria , ' by M . H . Hall . This volume consists of the biographies of I | tal twelve in founding of the men and who building were chiefl the y instrumen Church in

    -I Northern England . The sketches are interj esting in themselves and besides have historical ! value . A view of the interior of Wakefield

    Cathedral forms an attractive frontispiece . From Messrs . Methuen & Co . —* Cardinal

    Newman , ' by Richard H . Hutton (« English Leaders . of Religion' Series ) . In the first chapter Mr . Hutton expresses his opinion that Cardinal

    Newman was one of the greatest of our modern men , and speaking of the Cardinal ' s poems , he says , for grandeur of outline , purity of taste ,

    and radiance of total effect I know hardly any short poems in the language that equal them . ' That is saying a good dealparticularly when

    we remember that Wordsworth , with his fine critical drew the faculty line at admired his poetry Newman . Mr ' s . prose Fro , ud but e

    brackets Carlyle and Newman as the two men their who most generation powerfull . Mr y . influenced Hutton takes the thoug no account ht of

    , of we Carlyl think e Carl ' s influenc yle will e , be yet remembered as a maji of long ; letters after Newmanwith all his h charm tr of ¦ style f |~ 1 h will ¦ have ¦ ¦

    ¦ T — — — , w ^ ' — ^^ ^^ - ^^^ ^^ ^« mmw * r - ^^^^^^^^^ n ^* ^^^^^^ T — . a ^ - - * - « n « ' ^ j ^ , v ^ ^^ i ^^^^ r ^ . *^ r w ^^^ been than an forgotten . intellectual .. But it is that rather Mr . as Hutt a reli on gious deals , with - - — — i <« - Ne " » w " ^ wman ~ ¦* ^ ^ mi ^ rmr ¦ ^^ , m an m ^*<^ iw ^ » in ¦» power ^*» this ^ ' |»*» ia » ps ^ re « h - ^^ spect ^»* m ^^^^^ m ^ his * ^ ^»* w supremacy « ¦ ^ « Mfc W ^ Tfc ^^^ i ^^ s / f

    . is is incontestable immediately . evident The . biograp Newman her's ' s success position , too as , a religious leader is clearly definedthough his

    weakneesea and faults are not made , much of . Mr . Hutton , however , is far too perspicacipus m , " , - ' ' ' ' -

    and eulogy just as a the critic following to indulge pointed in indiscriminate sentence will

    , deal show : more ' I think than he ( he Newman need ) have has insisted done on a good the

    subordinate diflSculties before which the human mind reels , and a good deal less than he need on the commanding truthsin the warmth of which

    , the human mind expands . ' That criticism is as true as it is concise , and is only a sample of the many excellent things strewn throughout

    Mr . Hutton ' s monograph . Messrs . Methuen may be congratulated on the start they have made with the series .

    From the same . —* Anninell , a Social Romance , ' by S . Baring-Gould , and * Derrick Vaughan , Novelist' by Edna Lyall . New editions oi

    these popular , works . A portrait of Edna Lyall is given as a frontispiece to ' Derrick Vaughan . '

    From Messrs . James Wisbet & Co . —' The Blessed Life : how to find and live it , ' by N ^^^ v . v J ^^ . v Hofmeyr B ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ I ^^ v - ^ v y ^^ . Mr ^^ v ^^^ ^^ . ^^ Hofmey v »^^_ ^^ _¦ ^ ^ m r — is - ~ - r ~ senior - — Pro - — -w » -

    f essor of the Theological College of the Dutch Reformed Church , Stellenboscb , Cape Colony , and the addresses which make up this volume

    were first delivered to his students . They were into p ^^^ ^^^ ublished ^^^ ^^ ^^^ p English ^^ f ^^ J ^^^^^ ^ H ^^ ^^ . ^^ in . ^^ ^^ ^ V , Dut or ^^^ ^^ ch rather ^^ ^ , . ^^^ ^ and ^ ^ " — " ^^ ^^ " ^ ^^^ are rewritten i ^^ — w now ^^— ^ ^ ^ ^— translated in that — — — ^

    first language attempt . The at author English explains authorship that , it and is his it must be said that he makes a very creditable

    unction appearance which . cannot He writes fail with to help a and force stimu and - late .

    From the same . —* The Threefold Cords of the Hol This y small Scriptures work , ' is by desi the gned Rev ' . to William exhibit Lee the .

    the harmony Word existing of God between and to this the various end som parts e four of hundred of the , precepts of that Word have

    the been sacred taken triads as the filling basis upon its pages which . ' to We arrange think From it is the well same calculated —* Harvest to accomp and lish Thanksg its object iving .

    . Services . ' A volume of sermons and outline ( addresses 4 \ AV | JI VUM ^ v b iV ^ y r tjie */** Vi / Revs •»•* ^^ »^ . » Hug ^ - ^ ^^«^ h » - Macmillan ^¦ . «» mw ^~— — — - ¦»— -j , — D . D .,

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    From and some Messrs of . them Smith are , trul Eld y er eloquent & Co . . —' Pocket Volume of Selections % i from ¦¦ ¦ the ¦ k Poeti b »^ - ¦•¦» ¦ ca ¦ w- —^ l Works

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    AAAMkUI'A UV ^ Aa . From Papers Paners the / / . by bv same Hen Henry . — rv ' D D Anti . . Thoreau Thoreau -Slavery . . and Sejectea Selected Reform and ana

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    I 424 The Publishers * Circular Nov. I, ...

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 1, 1890, page 1424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01111890/page/24/