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    Wr l 8 The Publishers * Circular 12 O 3 Xj

    II Dec . 6 , I 3 » g J "" J"

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    ! h aood with m . him -fashion when ed he prac says tice : of Given ' reading a reader aloud with ' is getting mind out and of taste date , . We good are book entirel , and y at

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    ° which if fllfjlx olv , that JXAt makes -v * - * - i t •»** is serious " ¦* ¦*• easier ¦ , h demands to point treatise out on affords the the attention class the of books would entertainment to be be absurd avoided . of . There To novel read are there men aloud to an whom others essay a — -

    whose rofound lightest metap literary ysical food is a constitutional easy history . Let such a readers , ; when they are enter the evening drawing hour -room should , leave not their be too peculiar serious tastes neither behind is rollicking them . The fun book admissible that is . read In the in last the

    I century considering that we know the . Tatler I of t improve he and presen Spec b t y ta da reading tor y t supp he varie aloud lied , t the y . is There infinite best sort is : nothing Miss of literature Austen j to excite ' s for nove one the ls in , p more urpose the p t han t we s ; an bu are y t

    which the llltH vu III v ' deli « 4 * J . places \~ W g »»•— ^ htful w ^ s ^ s v *~* « her humour — ¦** voice ¦ — , among —— jL — and which i ^ p the t gives first need — them «_ novelists -t of vitality of , the Eng and ~ i lan that d , of delicat humour t _ not e full discrimination wi y ^/ enj thout tf oyed «/ which alone of — X character . much They ' w ,

    need from of - - our t America he finest livin litera g and ¦ ture by ¦ , D ¦ fall ickens s hey dead wi upon th , whom the course ear it . , is Humour always sense ¦ / possible of a much to , spend broader an kind evening ¦ is so supp . And lied '

    in what our ii au j ^^ ^^ ^ thor . languag ^ , f j ^ m ^ Mb ^^^^^ is - r »*^» more ^ fc e «* - ^ - ^ a nd universall ^^— we — ^^ — — may 11 , w y welcome ^™^ add — 1 — _ — — also -- iT . — — than - the - - the _ L 1 most _ gentle - il pathetic _ - _ . . i ' Elia T 711 . , — ' It the 1 is most ^ indeed 1 humorous 1 ^* ^* — ~^ the ^^ — - ~— — - ^ ^^ ^^ s ^^ t essay ^ rain — — ^^ ^^ ^ ist ^ - of ^* i '

    111 v / V ** i * . ^* . ^ ' ^^^ f " - * l , * 1 T TiT ¦/ i t _ 1 * ^ "l * l- i J- i ? l Ti , 1 " 1 1 , /• i 1 ^^ melanchol Sir Arthur ¦ y in Hel Charles * ps side Lamb by side "that wi makes th a writer his essays so incomparable so delightful . . ^ It The would two be men unfair have to not j > lac a e — . in but 1 I the i 1 / Friends -T 71 ' 1 in Council /~< " T 1 and ~ 4 ' of Solitude l ~* "I i - ¦ '

    li are terary not among feature the common books Ellesmere tha ; t die quickl Milverton * y , and they do belong ' to ' Companions the books which my unwelcome please att '

    acquain intelligent tances readers for a . winter evening , . It is not , , however Dunsford , our purpose are by to no give means a list of authors i i who can in this ¦ way contribute „__ __ to __ _ famil . y enjoyment _ __ . Whereindeedshould - webegin - __ . _ f —| and !

    tlris where Lll v T 4 jD ^ ^ , illOUtlllL instance ^ , « . end - ^ . ^ . ^— / ? .. / , It CIO as — — — —— i in 1 s enoug OKJ so many lkiOlXlJ — — h if we ot « . < tllC hers have / l ) 3 j , is J reminded . O also OlJ — . S 3 \ J the V 1 M . VJ our ^ most 111 UOW readers deli VAtllgJIUl g that htful Ul , the j , and UlllU most that UHH , accessiblep . V < a M good Z ^ VJKJKA voice leasure r K . 'XKsiZ tUlU and in i

    a judicious choice of subject are the sole requisites demanded . Sir Stafford Northcote , in the course of an interesting address in the Town Hall , Binning-

    ham litera , ture as President as an essential of the Union t of of Local true Institu educat tes ion , , on and the said 15 th l . e ult fel . t , very put in jealous a strong of the plea way for } ; in whichlatterlythe study of the younger sistersciencehad been allowed to put aside the ;

    vas study no be , t tter he elder way , of doing ter , li so terature and than . to stud If they y the wanted course , of to its stud , litera y the ture his . tory Literature of a country was a there bond ; ;

    among amoncr was the men mrm great of r » f bond the t " hp . same sa between / mp . race ra ^ pj themselves , and it it , ¦ was was here a bond bond and also also the great between between nation men men of or of the dinerent different United races races States . . on What VVJiat the '' other side of the Atlantic ? Wliat but the common language and the common literature I Speaking

    of < lone Mr ho . Bri w much ght , whose the stud birthday of E it lish was , litera Sir Stafford ture could said improve that no one man had ' s powers shown and more charac than ter he . had Of

    to to course be betliat tliat there which wiiiV were . h should should many ways hp bear y . ar of upon unon ng training the the , conduct conduct the mind of of besides life life , Jie he literary believed believed studies tnat that , but literature literature if the training must must bear bear was a a ;

    considerable of late in the par au t dience in it . Sir to whom Stafford the proceeded national to literature notice , the is great addressed change . which The literary had taken acquire place -

    development ments v ^ - *^ A t— of > » m , Jk , x the ^ a & KJ . peop Formerly JL _ V- / le JL . X JL & had ^ - * JL Jfc 4 V , / developed they w A *¦ ^/ ^ T / had A JL ^ V X- *» their % in s Jk M , V * r a a . jl , m g t b ^ anner iants a * - ^ m & % * »^ - » which in Jfc ^ the «/ . » < h \/ was world » * i _ r quite <^ ^ -v » of ¦• » ^ as le w marvellous tters « r ^ v — w . v They ^ ¦« ^ ~ v as */ v were » the * ^ . ^ . * . ^^ scientific ^ men m m . ^^ a m > of ^—^ ^ , :

    great render book to erudi them the tion able peop , great to le appreciate at s large tudy , . grea it It t was It attainments was known not unnatural onl , and y to that the that which few in who those they had circumstances produced had the was education with a sealed less to I . ;

    calibre ta rapid ke a communica greater time tion in , with their less preparation of . an audience , and produce to address work , men s of should a larger work and more -more elaboratel , importan y t ,

    The , than le ri those which llwere were able now to appreciate produced JL . and ivaa Now to »/ *¦ they understand had * a wholl the ^— great y differen works Jk ak t audience that % jj +. were fc . ;)

    peop m ' ¦ ' '"^ i- ^ av / genera \ s j | X VJ JL C ^ w 1 JL y y iv \^* JL V ^ VW IkSX V- ' VV- / IV 1 ^ \ -r ^_/ V ^ aw w v ^ ^» . ^ - ^ - ^ a a ^ - - » . " * -- »¦ ^^ ^ - * rw *» * - ^ -- » . w *» , -u ^ ^ ^ . ^« . ^« v * r » v- ^ , *_• *«^ w «^ v w ^^^ ^^ ' prod the litera ir u attention - ced — ¦» # wvAi , if uj . \ j they x Jl CAil and X VA were to vv be YJXJ writ comprehensible \ - » V ten / X . M . M l . r X . in wJ , X V a JlUi form P- / X X > to and *^ v ^ them «^ it shape * ^• a * m . ; » and « which . «<* « . > - » . * it «* aviis » was « . *^ - ^ here * * sufficientl x ^« . x ^ that *^ * w wf they v y ** popular - ' W k saw /*« ¦ ? that v * to » . vw * a ttract while »» a ^ jl j *^^ \ .

    took possession j ture ^ w " ¦¦ ** V- » itself KJ fcj k \* r IkM , . mi of \ JX . g the vl h t not hearts XXV / CJUXj have , t- / kJ and CviAVX made feelings A x ^ V ^ X so X X X ^^ LKI great ** and A <* V- * an in JL a A tellects V ^ advance >/ JL * X ^ ^ y V *»* of ¦* - » , in the ^ . a m . regard - \^ peop m . r - ^ s •*~ r £ ' » le to , ) the it * had mode * -w ^>»» , ft nevertheless * * X ^ in ? ^/ * which , *** * V / »^^»^ P > it -F ,

    ijiade Rege nerate a great into advance what indeed was popularl . It would y called be a sli sad pshod thing . There for E was ngland no if decay our literature in a period were more to ked or , j unsatisfactory than the decay in the character i and * irit of \/* its iko literatur iiuuiauui e

    par *> ut the ~ - ^ literature A more AllA'i \ 3 UHOti would l / lDLclL follow / l / UJL Y the l / lltl / 11 demand tllv / UCVt , and * y l *« they tiiv > must tiiimuv endeavour u ^«» « . <_» . sp toj ^ not ^ mjLJiu only to encourage Vi . ; among their fellow-townsmen and their neihbours and friends a taste for readingbut a taste |

    g , store they * or good loved for reading and ap — p a reciated taste for it . reading Let them that depend which was upon good it that because there it we was re good great , and pleasures because | in

    Jtevotion and those of who real would appreciation really give They themselves had treasures up to the unending study of in literatu the great re in literature a spirit of of

    . «« e . r own country .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1883, page 1203L, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121883/page/39/