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    1242 The Publishers' Circular Dec 6 j '"...

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    188 Fleet Steeet : December 1884

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    S an avant-caureur of the Yule-tide fest...

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    1242 The Publishers' Circular Dec 6 J '"...

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    188 Fleet Steeet : December 1884

    188 Fleet Steeet : December 1884

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    S An Avant-Caureur Of The Yule-Tide Fest...

    S an avant-caureur of the Yule-tide festival the Christmas Number of the Publishers' Circular once more asks house-room from the kindly reader it

    V - ~< w * . claims a coign of vantage on the well-covered desk of the head of the firm j j ^ whether his ' location' be in the venerable How , the classic byways of Covent

    Garden , the busy mart-line of Fleet Street , or the cool shade of semi-scientific Albemarle Street ; it hopes for a friendly perusal from the assistants at

    counter and in warehouse ; it courts the discriminating and genial criticism of the journalistswhose daily and weekly volumes run the book and the

    , ' booklet very hard in rivalry for public favour ; and last , but not least I from the great world beyond , from the book-buyers and the book-readers !

    it looks for acceptance as an impartial guide , while from the little ones its ultimate ' contribution of pretty pictures to album and scrap-book will at least ensure for it a

    smile in every home . And , if anticipation makes up the larger part of the pleasures of life , our Christinas number is fairly entitled to some such * all round' welcome , for it

    enables those who are in the inner circle of the London trade to take a foreglance at the wares of their neig hbours , it saves our provincial J . subscribers the trouble of a jv ourney

    to town , and gives them a ready test to apply to the * packs' of the gentle traveller , while for all who are in the happy . i . j . i / valley «/ of indecision as to the g *¦* ifts which they » feel bound to

    purchase in duty bound , it offe with rs a wide all good field Christmas for selection greetings . Thus , and preluded if , in , the the bi Christmas g ^ orl d Circular of commerce opens , the as

    , , year is going out less brightly than might be wished , the greater the reason to shed over it the aureole which robs life of half its gloom and shadow , the genuine Christmas gold-dust

    which speaks of a better time to come . Turning from what some may perhaps hold to be a sentimental view of the season and its

    C _> «/ X . M . teachings to the more solid realities spread out before us—and even the old English revel , with its masque and mummerywas intimately connected with the sumptuous repast in the

    , holly-decked hall—we have but little fear as to the judgment which will be passed upon our exhibits . For the staid and sober taste we have the marvellous ' Family Bible' which Mr .

    Frowde has bidden the Oxford Press bring forth in a fashion and at a price distancing at a bound the itinerant vendors of the venerable Matthew Henry and other ancient tomes ,

    while his clever transmutation of the Book of Common Prayer into an * Annual' gives a happy extension to the range of Christmas gifts for this and future years . Passing from the

    service book to the material fabricMessrs . Cassell & Co . hail us with a book of splendid i illustrations - | — T «^ m *>^ •¦» Jk VW V / * - V- ^ A M . •*» of V- ^ JL . the % S AJL ^^ old V ^^ *• ^^* . mother M . M . M . ^~~ r ^/ A . ^ ^/ ^ L . churches ^^ JL JL \ J ^ * , V' * ^ ^^ r *^ of ^ - ^ Jt the ^^ i » -ah ^^ land ^ fc « - ^»^ ^ > - ^» »• in i ^ ^ their »¦ ^— ¦— - ^» ^ - ^ * Cathedral —^ — — — — ^— ¦— Churches — of Eng ^ jland

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    I Bishop Walsham How telling us of 4 the godly deeds' which , as Charles Kingsley said , | * alone endure VAlVi ' and which 14 in JLMJL this \ case VLAkTV be F * - ' said + * i ism to — ¦ have —v— added — -w » ¦ to ^ the , » . ___ roll of * boy

    I mart « -W * - > - ^» - yrs * . ^ - ^ , seeing . U & V , * that LWJ . JLVA the IT AJL Bishop VJL .. ' s hero . M . M . *~ J voluntaril may ^ . M . M . ^^ 1 y ^^ sacrificed r-rsm .-. - * r ^ * himself . . T v --v to * . **¦ -w * save » - ~ a little friend ' s life . In the deep things of science the season ields some goodly volumesamong which the

    y , translation of Professor De Bary's exhaustive treatise on 'Ferns , ' issued by the Clarendon X Press JL \ S * s ? t _ 7 , * X is * J likel Alii . V / Jl y r to W bear K ^ V ^ CAIX the til . \> palm |_/ t * A XJi-A . In ^ . A JL the VJL J . V- ' literature * -X «»/ V ^ JL C « V * - * JL X- * of "V ^ ju travel «/ jl 1-v » ^ - ^ » . , which »» ** . . » . v- *« . seems r >* ^/ ^ - ^ A a * . r ^ to *^ ^_^ * increase — — * - ¦ — . — — year ^ j by «

    year as the facilities for indulgence in the popular pastime of running round the globe are multi A A . A . t _ 4 JL UJ . p 1- / J lied LA ^ V * . , y Jii * JI JL A g CL h J » JL A rank . UtlA-JL J . W will T » 1 JLJ . be ^^ V »/ U accorded * VW 1 . ^_* . V / x ^ . to KJ \ S Lad jk ^ iVMk y f Brassey ^ - ^ - * . * - < VK ?* -r \ S T ' s f * s p *^ icturesquel * ^ - » w - » - » -- vwm * - » * - * m y . j -titled va v * . ^^ - -s , » volume » - « — ~ - ¦ — , j' In the

    Trades , the Tropics , and the Roaring Forties , ' sent forth by Messrs . Longmans , for not only on \ JX JL the % JAX \* s princi \ " * - * -AM \^ X p % JJL le \^ f V of / JL * p mJ lace ± UvKs \ S C aux * * - * ^ K dames V 4 . C 4 I A-XJl V- / » J / * but * -J V * V A for v ^ JL its a vk « intrinsic aaiu * a ^ . * . * j * . ^— ' merit « -m _» v ^* . ¦* * - ^ , it * deserves v ^ v ^*^^ - ' * . 7 » v f- » to - » ^ - ^ be r- » - ^^ well » » — - - ^ received — .

    Near to it will stand * The King Country ' and ' The Moquis of Arizona , published by Messrs . Low , Marston , & Co ., which may be cited as distinctly original works , dealing with ground hitherto Vnili p H ^> untouched uiitrinfVhnri . In Tn the t . Vio art n . rt gift < rift - books biM > lc n of f ) f the th « season sftasnii . Messrs Meaars . Cassell CasHfill ana and < Co Jo .. s s spit splendid »« lu

    , setting of * Romeo and Juliet / with Mr . Frank Dicksee ' s original drawings , will , for the present , take will W JLJL l probabl the I- ** * ' UMUl lead y V , while justif J uouji . y y Messrs the i / iiv aill antici . Seeley ^ l ^ pa <* tions uiuiiu & Co formed . . ' b * promised *« . v >\^ . v of * it m . v , , volume <«& and x ^^ may <* , x . < wjr 'Landscape find < . ^ . <« . v ^ . its * . uu , way »? ' by ij to w Mr ^ the . Hamerton tables of ,

    Low fortunate Marston collectors & Co by . ' Chri s volume stmas of , althoug 'Etched h not Examp in time les for of Paintings detailed notice Old and in our New pages / a . gallery MeBsrs of . admiration famous , picture and , s , as cleverl a specimen y prefaced of and the described delicate finish by Mr w . John hich our W . Mollett American , B . cousins A ., will win contrive general to , 4 noieu

    put upon their plates , the same publishers' issue of Nature's Serial Story ' should be .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1884, page 1242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121884/page/2/