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    Books Beceivrd ;

    won for them a wide acceptance ; but while thou-! ' gauds few are hare acquainted admired ' with Tb & Raven many , of ' comparati the writing vely

    , in prose and verse here carefully collected , classi- * fied , and mi revised Graham from has the author his ' s tas tasK amended k with wita

    copies AAo scrupulous author ^\| ui ies * v * , . ; j and » Mr - —— care . . b u y -ranam group ^ and y ' i - with Jfc nas ing ^^ , the penormea performed a loving writings ¦ C regard 7 ms in section — for f ~ , — the s . w

    tlw Tales of Imagination in one volume ; the Tales laneous of Stori Humour es and in the the second J ^ oema ; in and the the third Miscel and

    fourth , he has thrown them into a convenient ! II _ _ fo of ^^ k rm the for author reading — ' s life or which for comp the ari edi -- son --- tor -- . has __ The prefixed __ — sketch _ . _— _ —

    , v " ^ ^ , 3 to the first volume , gives us a orief but succinct 1 j account tras trouble of his literall career from , the the cradle key-tone to the of which , y grave ;

    \ for trouble , as the : his writer misfortunes says , he have was been the deemed inheritor and of j | justl an actor y , to left hav an e preceded han at his an birth earl / The adopted son , of

    spent by Mr hi . , a John student Allan orp -life , a in wealth the U y niversity Scotchman y age , of , Vir he - ginia ^^— love — -makingverse-makingand — ¦ gambling —i

    being , among the occu * , pations of , his idle hours ; and then followed the complications which alien * . ated his guardianwhose subsequent second

    mar-, riage had given him a , son of his own to tako Edgar ' s place . Having joined ? the United States I army , he neglected to obey orders , was courts

    ; marshalled and dismissed ; and then , after other vicissitudes , he entered more directly upon a literary v » % career v / m « onlhowever * v m to exchange \ s the

    i troubles - »^» mp * i iwv , of ** a , m wasted ^ + * - *^ y w , - ***** youth ^ y w v . , for - \*\* r the ^ aviau troubles **^ S ^ l ^** v i of the author ' s life . Marrying a child-wife of

    ; fourteen week sults which , , an he < J when wo arnong rked an the on editor stori for a e $ time with of singular with two happ pounds promise ier re a -

    j ho wrote was * The Journal of Julius Rod-; man , ' the fragment of which is included in the | , lish present read edition ersIt , and is will specimen probabl of y be type new of to writing

    Eng-. a a ! in regret which that few it should have excelled never have , and been it is com matter leted for . j His young m «¦ ¦ % h wife l ' s ¦¦ misfortune kL h in h breaking ftJA k ft a p blood WLJ

    i I * that to vessel point £ '• broke ^ r ' a ^^ m ^^ * h ' in MMM m ^ m . Poe ^ ^^ 1 his ^^^^ * IO ^^ ' a history UlObVl ^ heart ^^^^ ^^^ V ^^ L ^ L ^ f ^^ m JT at K ^ F ^^ . ^^ JLJIIO L his ^ m the ^ K ^ v same ^ fortunes 1 VL ^ L _ l ^ r I . IIUOO time ^ B ^ H ^^^ H . ^ B ^^ fell 1 , C and 11 ^ K ^^ fl , , never UUV B from ^ L ^ V % ^^ v ^^ V ^^ L 1 ^^

    'The -, recove Ha —«^ ven — r , althoug . ' mad muu e u h him AtlllA for a the C' time X & C hero 11 ^ the 4 V of VTA publication the UAAV 3 hou liVfVtX r in HIM of XT w ^ ^ _

    his New lecture York . on Once 'The more Poets he and took Poetry a false of America step by / "which roused much bitter feelingand then the

    « told ioia nd soon upon Upon - ~« came - him him v ^* . , »** his hi UV l ^ v wife \ vJf ^ UlLLOJL rhy A '* s d rlAu and eat IQbllllg th h an in in , , invalided ailU 1846 1 Rlfi II 1 IVU a nlmnRf lmost wi V / ll fe ^ J

    crushed him , and , three years later he . too , passed < away from arriea . a daguerrootype with The it ik portrait partial , in etched Mr . lanation Ingra by m Mr ' of s . possession the Damman weird ,

    J « e and the » v »* strnn a a yni ^ oly LUil wild exp CApiUUUL episodes IUU of Poe l « O ' s WOIfU writings tiuns . by The photogravure numerous etchings add much and to other the beauty illustra of

    -U j ne -usoo volumes . lJke , narrative and the publication of Julius Rodman of the Robinson * and of

    - " »««** . *< fcuivci ui ' uui . iua iViUUinau nuu oi * « ° s me pecial hitherto interest unknown . We are poems however , gives the disposed volumes to

    , , In nor produced m chiefly with » it as , u that iuuii «• library and edition literary of the

    he . COUld vuuia . I , ¦ ? r- OXprosS ^ which ^^ ' - ^ v * ovel a a wish Wish > y departed fain fain caro u » ro have hnvn iuiu writer bestowed \\ f > iiierary at . mivari would n com cuiu nn , if --hi express ,

    Publication tJLi ^ - . ty ^ hose who , give them posthumous upon

    l 3 S » fc Hr ' - B * Platt ( Wigan ) . —' The Practical 6 et tae

    Ifca H th « ^ ii J » ^ 7 Uod n j <> » neatl raea y ^ pripted m , and requirement sold in . packets s of

    the adapted the large workmanshi to schools each p of of in the the Wigan ' H Standards ^ ad who Master also . ' of They ^ oae li a es re j

    with each packet copies of , the answers supp to the ; petitive sums , so examinations that those who by private are preparing study would for com find

    tnem them . most most useful useful .. ¦¦ ¦ ** * - « . . * From The BeUgious Tract Society . — ' How to

    bel Play la Ooddard the Pianoforte , Lady Lindsay / b y Lad ( of y Balcarres ; Benedict ) , , Clara Ara- j A . Maciro & e , Lindsiiy Sloperand Charles Peters . |

    A reprint , if we are not mistaken , j off tjie useful time and practical to time articles in the which GirPs have Own appeared Paper . from The | '

    of various pianoforte branches play of ing the are purel fully y dealt mechanical with , side an 41 j then the

    performance formation of some of of taste the most and sty famous le , and works the for the instrumentsuch as Mendelssohn * *

    4 Lieder ohne Worte ' , and Beethoven ' s * Sonatas i aro the subject of separate essays . All who play ;;

    the domestic instrument ought to read this book . >' f From brief Messrs memorial . Seeley s of Elizabeth & Co . — Phoeb ' In e the Seeleyv Light by : i j ; ¦

    her sister , with a preface by the . Rev . H > D . j Rawnsley like ¦ ~ Miss - , ^ Marsh M ^ v- ^ M . A . ^« The Sister rr r subject w « Dora v S of and M thi B B « the rB mem > r other r « # ^ oir k ^^ B # , ! * ^^^^^^ — —^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ , " ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^* ^^ ^ ^ , ^^^^^^¦ ^^^^^^^^^^

    schools Christian of women thought who in , belonging the Church to , are different en- ) ; I titled to a plaCe ~— in any modern i Bagiology BBh

    hprself — — ~ ^ r — — ^~ up for bj — ¦ m many ^^» —¦ ¦ ¦ years ^ » ^ . ' ^—^^ ^^^ as ^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ a ^ ^^^^ work ^ to ¦¦& ^ r ¦ . ¦ ^^^ qp er ¦ for , gave ^ BV ^ ^ the ^^ * ^^^ » British Syrian Mission , to the funds of which the , proceeds derived from the sale of the book will .

    roiisl be devoted y summed . Her up princi in a p sentence le of action quoted was in vi the go- ; I

    preface : 'If anywhere good , sound common and sense as is we a sine read qud throug non h it is pag in e the afrer mission page field of the '; i '

    record of her self-denying labours , we see that she carried out her creed . Born in 1844 , and : trained in the atmosphere of a Christian home ,,

    she spent some years aa a governess in this , country , but she yearned for some more direct \ when work for it became God , and possible the way for for her this to was go opened oat to , \ Syria . The vigour with which she * determined ' 1

    to conquor Arabic / and the tenacity with which , - notwithstanding attacks of illness , she stood her groundare clearly brought out in the narrative — —

    and C 7 the , letters which fill t 7 so many of its pages , ; give us a vivid idea of her religious and intoliec- , tual activityThe native whom CT she

    tUAL ll > V ^ l . l ) Vl * J' . JLUO 11 UVU O women VTVlIADLft UISLU DUC taught are said still to cherish her memory , but . ' she seldom spoke of her own efforts , and it was

    literally while in harness that sho passed away to her rest . A pleasant feature in the book is furnished by the introduction of some poems from ,

    her pen , which aro marked by much tenderness and descriptive power . ; From Messrs . J " . F . 8 h . aw A Co . — « John DeWydiffe

    the first of the Reformers , and What he did for , , i England , ' by Emily S . Holt . Few writers on . the England of the past have succeeded so com- ; :

    pletely as the authoress of this book has done in '' her ters historical of the ii tales times in presenting sketched in to us a the framewo charac rk - i ;

    model perfectly ^ v ^^^ ¦ ¦ * ^^*^ . ^^^ ^^ This ^ and * ^ p ^^ ^^^ faithfull volume ^» ^ ^ ^~ ^^ ^^^ ^^ , j r y ^^ ^^ f ^ ictures ^ fashioned ^^ ^^ ' ^» ^— - ^^ ¦ ¦ first ^^ - — on the r the earl ~ ~^ anti ^ » — que ^^ " — ' ^— ¦ ^ , ¦¦ of 4 the B F reformer l i and —— —w ¦ his p student-daysand y years then -- —^ - i ¦

    after - ^^ r *^^^ ^^^ a V ^^^ glance ^ ^^ ^»^ r ^ " w - ^ - ^^ —^^ ^ - ^ " at ^^ ^» ^ w ^» the ^— ecclesiastical ^^ ^— ^— ^^^ g situation ' , ^^ ~^ ^^ — -- — ^ __ in , which he was destined to become such a prominent fkrure , Miss Holt proceeds at once to describe his I

    life and work and the great trials in which he I

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1884, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061884/page/11/