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    j l6o The Publishers' Circular Feb. 15, ...

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    THE LATE SIR WILLIAM JOHNSTON. A BBB» JB...

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    I movable type only had been used in the manner I here described .

    1 ; work A bearing * Cyclopaedia this title of Education d now being . '—A issue new d

    in monthly parts by , Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein sf'hfiin & & r . Co Co . .. seems seems des destin tined ed to to be be 01 of signal siernal

    service . Pedagogy , is now being rapidly systematised in England , so that a work

    , which concentrates its salient features for of easy value refer . ence The , ev list en in of a cru contributors de form , must to the be

    new ' Cyclopaedia' embraces some prominent Princi educationists pal Donaldson , such as Mr Dr . . Oscar Griffiths Browning Rev . ,

    , , E David T > . F . M Salmon Sfll . Macarth . Professor Professor y , Professor Sully Siillv . Mu Dr Dr . . rison Wormell Wormell , Mr .

    & c . Biograp , hies of eminent , teachers are , included in the work .

    Schopenhauer ' s Hundredth Birthday . On the - 22 nd h inst bWh . will V V be n-r celebrated v -- - v ¦ the v -v ^ ^ ^^ J ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ H ^ V ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ' ^ ^^ ^^ " ^^^ " ^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ p—^^ ^^* ' ^^ — ' ^^^ ^^^ " ^^^ ^— ^

    p centenary hilosopher of , Schopenhauer the birth of . the Arthur great Pessimist Schopenhauer V » 5 */ iifvr w -wrfi ^ as . a born Vkorn a t , Dandier Danzig . . TTis Mis rather fat / her was "wa . s a a

    wealthy merchant and banker of that prosperous t town . His motherJohanna

    seapor , \ ¦ na Henriet tural ta gifts Frosina , develope , wa d b y woman careful of training ¦ great ,

    which she turned to good account after the ! death of her husband in the composition of

    j I The TVi some ft p elder - abl lHer y-written Schopenhauer Snlinnfinhaiifir novels and was was books tond fond ot of of travel travel travel . ; :

    1 p earl and > n . rlA , al -on thoug . rf t of of h t t t he he riP > m cen ren eans t t . ur nrv y were were locomo very verv tion far far in from from the

    affor y din par g the facilities for seeing foreign countries which we at t enjoyand

    notwithstanding the danger presen to which , travellers 1 were exposed A by the wars of the French 1 * ir » ^ ire i he t ured "i with * jtt his * wife m t * and t

    J I Emp travel England throug , . Arthur ven h the took Netherlands advantage , F of rance the , long and

    \ stay made by his parents in the two last-named countries to acquire a thorough knowledge of the language and literature of both England

    and France . Tn 1809 , he matriculated at the Universitof Gottingenwhere he at first

    s under tudied Professor Natural y G Sciences ottlob E , rnst and Sch Histo ulze ry , turned , but ,

    his attention to the study of Philosophy . On visiting Berlin , in 1811 , to attend Fichte ' s

    lec ler . t t . u iire re , he he was was much mnr . Vi disappointed diaarmointer ! and and betook betook himself as Doctor to . Jena The , where next , in winter 1813 , he he gradua spent ted in

    an Weimar f ¦ d stud , makin ing b jib g under the acquai Fr . n Majer tance of G Eastern « -ifl « oe t the ,

    an ^^^ r ^** m t ^*^* iquities w *^ ^ r ' ^ ^^^ y w . ** V' Fro ^ , ^^ m ^ ^^** ^^^ " 1814 ^^ ^^^ to ^^ v ¦ 1818 ***** ^** b ^ bi' ^ F , *^^ « m he , m . ^ resi ^^ - ^^«^^ ^^ d ^^^ e d d ^^ K in Dresden as a private tutor During this

    time he wrote his great work , ' The World as Will and Idea . ' He subsequently travelled for

    nearly two years in Italy , whence he returned to Berlin . After a stay of little more than a

    year at B ^^^^ ta . erl in i ^ , wh ^^ ere h *^» e de ^ n l ivere ^ d on l ^ fli y one p course . onrae o f lect ler » tvnre ures he he revisited revisited Ttalv Italy . On On

    returning to Germany , in 1825 he settled finally at Frankfurt-on-the-Mainwhere he died

    memorial on September will be 21 , dedicated 1860 . , , to In him that on city the a

    hundredth anniversary of his birthday . In view of the interest excited by the forthcoming

    ^ a cele ^^^^ F cheap ^ . v ^^^^ b ^^ ^^ ra ^ ^ K ^^^ r H t ^^ ' ^ ion edition ^^^^ ^^ ^ , ^>^^^ . ^ Herr 1 ^ ^^^* ^ . ^^ ^^^ ^^^ of ^^^^ F ^^^ . . Schopenhauer ^ ^^^ A ^ ^^^ ^ . ^^^^^ ^ Brockhaus ^^ V ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ - ^^ r ^^ p ^^^ ^^ v ^^^ - ' ^ s *^ i ^ announces collected ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ¦ ™ ^^|^ ^^^ v ^^ r ^^^ P ^^¦ ' ^ b

    works in six volumes , and a cheap issue , in twelve partsof the philosopher's ' Parerga und

    Paralipomena , . ' This Was his latest work , containing a collection of his shorter philosophical

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    widely known in these days when there are so many Pessimist philosophers ' sans le savoir . '

    Boston ( U . S . ) and Copyright . —A report of the proceedings connected witn the

    formation of the Boston International Copyright Association has been published . The

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    wish the new Boston Society all success .

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    j l 6 o The Publishers' Circular Feb . 15 , 1888

    The Late Sir William Johnston. A Bbb» Jb...

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    as one of the founders of the celebrated geographical publishing house of W . & A . K .

    Johnston , Sir William died at his residence ,

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1888, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021888/page/6/