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    4 Tlnirsday > October 29 . ( Eighth day ' s prison . ) lean hear no news , but was held upby Psalm xxx ..

    which came with great power . A hyena howled near me last night , smelling a sick man , but I hope it is not to have me yet . '

    Possibly before the ink was dry the assegais of M ' wanga's soldiers closed Hannington ' s heroic life .

    From Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall & Go . — 'We want at once the putting aside of all class

    distinctions and privileges , the abolition of primogeniture and entail , the protecting by law of class interests of any kind . ' This quotation

    , which indicates a mild form of what is called Socialism , supplies a key to the opinions-expressed by Mr . James Platt in his work on

    ' Democracy , ' which takes a place alongside the same author ' s books on ' Business , ' ' Economy , ' ' Life , ' and ' Morality . ' This quartette of

    exemplary guides are much better , we think , than the new work on ' Democracy , ' which , though interesting in style , thorough , and convenient in formwill xiot add much to modern

    political knowled , ge . v From Messrs . R . Sutton & Co . —' Political

    [ Economy , ' by E . C . K . Gonner , M . A ., of Lincoln College , Oxon ., is a new elementary text-book ft ' /» ¦ T /* ~ w i *¦ i

    K of the economics of ommerce . It belongs to v ths ' University Economics Series , ' and seems f : particularly good in its treatment of theoretical

    [\ questions which are commonly abused in ele-•? . mentary books . mt . . ' TI ^ the J _^_ _ . c The _ _ " I ~ "T __ _• l _ C \ t 1 *

    Y ; Prom same . — 'University Shakspeare . ' I The play most recently added to this well-pro-1 i Fifth duced ' educational edited by Benjamin edition is Dawson ' King Henry B . A . who the

    supplies , introduction , notes , and glossary , . , One ; or two new features render this edition unusually well adapted for study .

    From Messrs . Swan SonnenBehein & Co . — 4 — Blarney — — — — ^ j Ballads — — — — —_ , ' b — y j C —— . ^ L ™ — v . Graves - ^* - » ^ ^~* w ^— - - »• , m with w v rfk . ** ^ &

    illustrations by G . R . Halkett . The illustrations in this volume are exceptionally clever and — — -w ^_ comical - _ - ¦ m — — ' . * - We w " ^— are " ^ — " ^^* " surprised I _ —^^ m h H ^ i ^ — - ^^ —^^ ^»^ ^ k , ^ ^^ that —! - ^ h ^ ^ b' ^ V ^^» more ^^ ^^ ^^ b ^^^ P ^^* ^^^^ is J ^ ^^^^

    not heard of the artist ^ Mr . Halkett . Mr . ¦{ self Graves a , keen the writer satirist of the with ballad a read s , proves y pen him for

    -/{ humorous versification . His hits at the orators , , ; . of Home Rule proclivities are intensely funny . . ' , We quote some verses the metre of which will

    1 !> at once be recognised by those who know Irish fc songs and melodies : — ft ' I ' m going on the thramp '

    Sa ^ -s the Grand Ould , Man ; ' Wid ten postcards and a shtamp , ' Says the Grand Ould Man ;

    ' I ' m going- on the thramp , Wid iny hatchet and my gamp , By the light of Freedom ' s lamp '

    Says the Grand Ould Man . , • « a

    * And when I ' ve done my chopping / 4 My Says chang — the ing G and rand — my Ould chopp Man ing ; - '

    •/ Says the n o Grand Ould •/ Man JTX ; ,

    • ¦ With I ' m going my dear landlord friend -popp , Colonel ing , Dopping— I

    Of course wid empty rifles , ' II Says the Grand Ould Man . I From the same . —* Out of Work' by Mr . John

    , Law , is a story too pathetically melancholy in _ its realism . And yet the slums of East London afford many similar instances of struggles such

    as those of the carpenter Jos who leaves his native village and comes to London for work . The story of his life in the metropolis is very

    painful , and in despair he at last walks home to his native village to die . There is a grimly-artistic power shown in the writing of

    the story , which is interesting enough , but hardly pleasant . From M . "Victor-HavardParis . — 'La petite

    , reine , ' par Rene Maizeroy . This is the latest volume of a series of stories by M . Maizeroy , entitled ' Les Parisiennes . * Its immediate

    predecessor was * L'adoree , ' a tale of unhappy marriage , written with great power and beauty . * La petite reine ' is also occupied with

    unhappiness in wedded life . The heroine consoles herself by devotion to the care of her only child . The work is dedicated to * Madame * * *

    the most maternal of all mothers , who have devoted and will devote yourself even to absolute sacrifice for the welfare of your child ;

    who have with almost superhuman virtue ascended the steep way of the cross , & c . ' English readers will find in ' La petite reine ' the

    story of an heroic and sorely-tried Parisian woman , poetically told . From Messrs . Jolm "Walker & Co . — The

    " Pocket Gazetteer of the World' is a marvel of condensation , and from a somewhat hasty examination JU ^ 'Uh rfJai we are i inclined ¦ to - ^ think ¦ — ¦ it remarkj ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ »* ^^ " *^ ^^^» » w ~ m ^ — ^* ' - ^ - *^ —~ ^^ ™ ^ - ^— ^ ^^

    ably accurate . No dictionary of general geography has been so judiciously reduced to so small fc a compass wiMrf . Of course there are

    inequa-¦ ^ L _^^_^ t M J ^ J ^ fc ^ fc a ^ ~ |» ^^ ¦ ^ ^^ ^^ ¦ ' ^ — ^ ¦ ^ ^ ^»— ' ^^ " ^ '"' — ¦ ^^ ^ — T ~^ ¦—¦ - ~~ m — — lities which could hardly be avoided . Edinburgh , for example , occupies more space than London in the text , and there are other

    instances of a like nature . The maps showing some general features of geography are excellently done . We must say , however , that the

    text t . ft-jrt-. of nf no no book book of of this this kind kind could could be be compiled eomrjiled without the aid of authorities , and it would have been well if Mr . Bartholomew had

    men-Honed some of those to whom he was indebted for his information . From Messrs . "Whittaker & Co . — ' Electrical

    Instrament-making for Amateurs , ' by S . K . Bottone . This is a second edition . The author is naturally gratified by the reception accorded

    has to his been work established , the useful . instructiveness Most of the of modern which | j electrical instruments are spoken of and the

    manner of construction described with perspicacity . Amateur workers will find the illustrations most serviceable aids .

    From Messrs . Efflngham "Wilson & Co . —An eleventh edition of the ' Buyers and Sellers ' Guide to Profit on Return' a book which shows

    , at once the net cost and return prices , thus facilitating purchases and sales at the

    respective rates per cent .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 2, 1888, page 760, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02071888/page/14/