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    engaged in preparing biographies of several notable Presbyterian worthies .

    Mb . BtaatY W . Shaw . —This writer , universally known as ' Josh Billings t ~ j ' died of apoplexy

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    Massachusetts , where he was born in . 1818 . ^ . Before he began , in 1863 , to write humorous sketches BBP b for newspapers ¦ he b ¦ ¦ was bb an bbbp bbb BBB auctioneer b BB * BBP .

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    remember a long talk with Josh Billings after one of his lectures in Chicago . He told me the story of his life and how he became famous

    by accident . The solemn cynicism of his speech , broken by the quaint wit that seemed a protest against the sadness of his manner

    , strangely impressed me at the time . His early life was spent in a * ' country store , " that school

    of rustic wit and humorous story to which so many Americans are indebted , and later on he settled in Troy , New York , as an auctioneer .

    He had a newspaper friend in New York city to whom he often sent short sketches for publication—ordinary articlescoherent and

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    " Josh Billings . " It made a great hit with the public , and from that day his literary career began . He soon gave up his auction

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    times . Whenever a thought " struck" him , he would jot it down ; then frpm a hundred such disjointed sentences he would sift and cull and

    th correct is * 'boiling until onl down y G . ve , " or together six remained with his . It wide was knowledge of human naturegained by hard

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    Fom T^Ponucitce* 7b Tf/.E Editor Of The ...

    fom t ^ ponUcitce * 7 b tf / . e Editor of the Publishers' Circular .

    instant Sir , — of In the the late notice Mr . V in . Brooks your issue , you sa of y the perhaps ] 5 th the Gate Street businesswhich he himself uf ted '

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    premises on the Gate Street site were erected by ^ tion yself with , the senior two partner brothers of Day and & that Son ¦¦ the , in premises

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    Llc\)Icuj^, Sec. From Mr. J. "W. Arrowsm...

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    be confessed that when "we first , saw the title , Lovart ' Too Fat M — . A . a / we Domestic imagined Difficulty \ re had to —b deal y Luke with

    a scientific , treatise somewhat after the fashion of Banting have propose , Ebstein d to , an re d li ev h ers su , w ffer ho in at g humanity ious times of *'

    too our m much istak flesh e . * . Too But Fat in ' this is the we title speedil of y a found short story , published in the shilling form now so

    misfortunes familiar to rea of d a husband , and having oppressed to do with with a w the ife whose sole fault apparentlis her ever-increasing

    corpulence . This the foolit y -h man takes so grievously to heart that he indulges in a series of speeches and actions that would at once consign

    him to the keeping of the nearest lunatic asylum smart were he ly and in the amusing rational ly world written . The in pl story aces , is but very is

    constructed on far too flimsy and improbable a basis , and is altogether of too farcical a nature , we fear , to claim the reader ' s attention throughout .

    This we the more regret as with the author ' s possible evident ability for him for such to write work it a shoul really d hav excellent e be 6 n

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    on especiall Amer y ican would girls and draw the attent way i in on which to his they remar are ks thinks b minded rought , and up than — so Miss her think Jonathan Eng we lish ; and , to after his French all accoun , is no sisters t stronge of , the he r I I extreme ¦ reverence which B « B t BT ¦ he BV BB A BBB mer BBB BBB i BB cans BV disp BB lay for

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    love accused of of every this thing to his that face , is he Eng would lish— most though pro- , babl vations y ind on fc ig American «•• nant * -W fill ly deny theatres it ; to the and b ^—— author f lay — i s - ' s and obser the - -

    reception V • V * "!_* -- ¦ ^ 4 » " ^ -- » of Eng B * - ^ - » " - lish " - "W - »— »*•» actors -. -- *¦ " > -- -W- " --- " - » across ----- > - p ~ - - the * , water . good Bur , indeed things , wi we thou mi t ght end go ; on the instancing book is fall these of themWe only conclude by quoti \ i /« * - «^ the »/

    LUC 111 . . HO can It . 11 KJUIJ CUUV . 1 UUC Krj ^ nv » ng _ -v C author remark -w \ J 1 AVA once - of -km a » heard thoug - ¦ - !• ~ w . « htful ' _« America .- ) - » ' ---- » Eng w-v - « -- lishman ' he -. - ¦ — — said which — - w 'is the a — * - * _** _ v ^ - * *_¦**** * . , j ,

    and democra England tic countr is y an wit aristocratic h aristocratic country tendenc with ies , ¦ democratic t _ 4 . KJ AAA WA % M \ J J . \ 0 tendencies % *^ S A * "v » ^ - * »* ^^ * ^^ •¦ . ' The ^ - * - » first "" ^ ~— -- ¦ part r ^ of this ___

    speech is very emphatically emphasised by a the perusal latter of Mr the t . Dale reader fci b ' s little more ——• book especiall ; of the y truth at the of

    present % j m a -fc * - % -b-v «/ -m time - _^ «« , ---it can % ^ ** - judge »^ - * --- » -- ¦ -- " , for — — himself — — j ^ . ^ From MessrsBailliereTindall Hh A Cox —» -bb —' New

    JL'JUVJJll Remedies -l JULLOPD / by - . a . _ J Thomas {« u _> . WbW , M , . Dolan * -- *^ - * , , , M ~> . D ., com » - . - prises ..-- ¦»

    -m a ore short nVirvrh recent npnnnnf account introductions - , in in neat neat and and into our handy handv Pharmacopoeia torm form , of ot the tne . II

    Instances of these may be mentioned in tne now ||

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 2, 1885, page 1129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02111885/page/13/