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    l Europeans ack of works . Of on late Buddhism years there but these has have been for no the most part been of a comprehensive , and

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    historical A , facts are happily blended with those , of fiction without any tendency to improbability or exaggeration . The book is well adapted for

    From elder Messrs boys and . Hemington girls . & Co . — Becollections

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    had engaging his hear class t i of n his books work . The and author has has iven clearl us in y picturesque language accounts , of his g journeys

    in Peru , Australia , New Zealand , Venezuela , America , Spain , and Canada . One of the most interesting chapters is that which deals with

    books and libraries in the colonies . He thinks found that Melbourne in any of the ha co 3 the nies finest , and w library rites in to high be

    terms of the Parliamentary library at Brisbane . The Americans , he tells us , have a passion for purchasing old booksand will willingly pay

    * 25 dollars t * for an old Burnet ' , bound in hal « - ' f -calf A . low Even one a S . Lackhouse The stamp has JL of its age price Oand , and the that seal not of a

    the autho rich rity or always the well command -to-do the le of attention the United of States . A well-arranged peop index is supplied in

    this volume . Fro 4 J m Messrs ' by Al . George phonse Daudct Routledge ; translated & Sons . by

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    poor afford Jack to skip . are I .- ' . told The with sorrows Kj a genui and ne ad pathos ventures and of a true conception of a type of boyhood in which

    tenderheartedness and keen sensitiveness are Jack the prominent ' s mother features , consumed . The with representation vanity and of

    of worldliness a woman , is lost a perfe to the ct hig though her feminine painful p g ict races ure . The minor characters and the vividly-painted m-

    w background scenes of Parisian to one life of make the best up an of attractive Daudet's

    novels . From the same . —The new volume of the ' Pocket

    There Library is * contains an anal the ysis * Poems of th of e Samuel « Pleasures Rogers of . * Memory' given , and the little volume also

    contains a number of concise illustrative notes to that and the lesser poems in the collection . From Messrs . SmithElder & Co . —' Charles

    , The Frankl action yn , of of the this Camel powerful Corps novel , ' by takes Hasmbi place b . partly V in London drawing-roomsand partly in

    A . Egyptian Desert and the hospital , at Cairo *> . Charlie Franklyn , whose means of livelihood are of somewhat cramped proportions , falls

    of in returned love havin with . g such The a duke duchess a son ' s - in , - dre law ghter ading contrives . the His prospect love to get is

    Captain Franklyn despatched , to Egypt as an intelli tion . gence Whilst office abroad r of the the captain Gordon h relief ears a expedi report

    that the woman whom he loved had become heedless bet ' " ™ - — " ~ rothed - "" " ¦ - - ^ of —— to the —~ a rich f —¦— uture ~ ™ " ™ ~^ "" lord »» he ^™ - ^~ . - *^ ¦ joins Disappointe ^ hW . . . a ^^ H Wmr the ^^ " . ^^ ^ a ^ Mahdrs . ^ .. " . ^ . fc d *^ ¦¦ ^» ¦ * and ^ h *^ p * ^ . k — —

    ranks , and becomes one of the actors in a finally striking is car rom ried ance to w the hic hosp h ends ital at — trag Cairo ically where , and

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    sp Of ire course of seve the ral story improbabilities has a happy the ending novel . In is i \

    skilfully skilfullv co constructed nstructed , , and and is is certain certain to to win win popularity . The author appears to be a soldier who is acquainted with the scenes in Egypt of

    which he writes . From Knowledge the Society —' for Zealand Promotin ' ( Coloni g Christian al Church

    Histories D D . Dean ) , by the Chris Very t Church Rev . Henry New Zealand Jacobs . , The , history v of the Church of , the province JL of

    New Zealand , as recorded in this valuable work , Period is divided 7 The into Period three of parts Organisatio —The n Missionary and The

    ment Period . , of Each Subsequent period is Growth treated KJ and in , an Develop able - , I [ though not exhaustive , manner ; whilst the

    dioceses statistics , staff they , and now other exist details , present of the many seven features of interest for readers both at home

    and in the colony . From Ellicott the , same D . D . . — Definite ' Salutary teaching Doctrin in e , ' Christia by 0 . J n .

    hel truth pful is book the . general The top subject ics briefly in treated this wise on and are * The Authority of Holy Scripture ' ' The Nature

    of Sin / ' The Atonement , ' and , * The Future Bris Life tol . ' Orig the i addresses nally delivere have d to the been clergy adapted of

    statement for ordinary , of readers orthodo , x who Christian seek belief for a . clear i The Bishop takes a rapid glance at various hostile

    pretation views , and as then taught forcibl by the y su EvaD mmarises gelical the party inter - the Church of ftngland .

    From Messrs . Swan Sonnensohein A Co . — 4 A Visit to the Trausvaal , * by Pearso Morrison . The author contrives in a rough and ready

    manner to combine a certain amount of useful information with numerous entertaining desc ¦ riptions . * " — of scenes - and incidents -- which came

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1890, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021890/page/17/