Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 6th December 1884, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1356

SAlPSOtf LOW , lARSTOtf , & CO . 'S PUBLICATIONS . I Wahmts JSrafaMe ( ax Christmas fjraettfs , it . I Second Edition . With numerous Illustrations . Demy 8 vo . cloth extraI price £ 1 . Is . , I A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE I REV . SYDNEY SMITH , M . A ., I Rector of Combe-Florey , and Canon Residentiary of St . Paul ' s . Based I on Stuart Fami J l . y Reid Documents . and the Recollections of Personal Friends . By I I Poems The . book It is illustrated contains more by a than new fifty Portrait unpublished of the Rev letters . Sydney , and Smith several , engraved unpublished on steel Essays , from and a I I with miniature numerous on ivory Illustrations , the property speciall of y his executed granddaug for its hter pages , Miss , and Holland also one . The of great volume interest is enriched , drawn I I in 1840 , by Mrs . Grote , whilst Sydney ¦ Smith's guest at Combe-Floiey . There is also a facsimile of an autograph letter—now in the possession of Six Michael Hicis-Beach , M . P . —addressed to I Mrs . Beach , of Nether Avon . It also contains a considerable amount of fresh information con- I cerning the life at Nether Avon , Edinburgh , Foston , and Combe * Flor ^ y , and the Author ' s endeavour I has career been , the to practical illustrate , benevolence by an ¦ appeal which to facts marked , Sydney his private Smith ' s life fidelity , and to tbe duty courage at every with stage which of his he I used his great gifts for the public good . I 6 Mr . Reid ' s life of Sy ¦ dney Smith is a most painstaking piece of literary gleaning . Besides to sifting Sydney carefull Smith y a ' s ¦ mass livings of famil at Foston y documents and Combe placed -Florey at his , and disposal has , searched he has been diligentl on a p y ilgrimage for any I reminiscences which might still linger there of the great ma . ii Anything new of Sydney H Smith ' s is worth having , and ¦ one may take what Mr . Heid gives us without The Pall asking Mall questions Gazette . ' , I received * There from was Miss room Hollan for ¦ ¦ d much , Sydney profitable Smith's gleaning granddaug , however hter , from ; and Mrs with . Malcolm the assistance , the daug he hter has of records Archbishop from a great ancl Harcourt traditions many other , he one ¦ ¦ could competent ¦ of the obtai few n hel at surviving pers the , various as friends well places as of by in Sydney a which diligent Smith his collection hero 's earlier resided of manhood all from the time , local and to time , Mr . Reid has produced ¦ an interesting and useful book . ' — The Athenaeum . Illustrated with charming Wood Engravings . I NATURE'S SERIAL STORY . I B drawn * y E . P . W Roe illiam . With Hamil 65 ton Full G ¦ ¦ ibson -page " and and F other rederic exquisite k Dielman Illustrations en graved 1 b 4 y to . Wellington cloth y extra , Whitney ilt ed , Hoskin 24 s . | , Wolf , Tinkey , and F . Pettit , . Demy I , gges , in been .. * . The cultivated . The story illustrations is in one America of country are . singularly They life ¦ ¦ . are . ¦ beautiful , varied the characters in specimens character are we of . ll that ISoin drawn e fine of and wood them very engraving contain distinctly figures wine ^ . , 1 . - volume i interiors mpossible as ; a others to whole exaggerate take is one us their th i at nto should delicacy the fields be and prized ¦ and ¦ ¦ beaut ¦ by the y . any woods . . one . All . into In of whose regard them deserve hands to the it hig latter may h p , come r Scotsman a i t wou , . an <• . ^ , I London : SAMPSON Crown LOW Buildings , MARSTON , 188 Fleet , Street SEARLE , E . C . , & E - ~ IVINGTO . N - = == J

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