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    Feb . 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular i 7 i

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    BooK $ We hear that the Rev . J . W . Ebsworth

    has finished his last volume of the * Roxburghe 'Ballads . ' * *

    Mr . George Manville Fenn has completed a new novel which Messrs . Frederick Warne

    & Co . will issue . * ## * *

    It is stated that the poems of Mr . Lewis Morris are about to be issued in one volume

    by Messrs . Kegan Paul , Trench , Triibner & Co . * * *

    The three volume edition of Mr . Blackmore ' s new story »/ of West Middlesex , ' Kit and

    Kitty , is already in its third edition . * * *

    We are informed that Miss Dorothea Gerard is the writer of the attractive story

    called ' Lady Baby , ' just completed in Blackivood's Magazine . * -fti . _ M-

    That clever book , 'The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow / / by Jerome K . Jerome — , has

    gone into its eightieth edition . Messrs . Field & Tuer are the publishers .

    Jfc M . # * Under the title of ' The Work of the Irish Leagues O ' Messrs . Cassell & Co . have published L

    the speech of Sir Henry James addressed to the Parnell Commission . w * * Professor Gold win Smith haswe learn

    completed his book on ' Jane Austen , ' for the , ' Great Writers' series . We believe it will

    prove of great critical interest . • #

    Lord Ronald Gower , who is already favourably known as a writer , is busy

    preparing a work on the ' Maid of Orleans . ' It will be in the printers' hands # shortly .

    * * We understand that the novel-writer known as Marie Corelliand whose work has

    excited some interest in , literary circles , is a daughter of the late Dr # . Charles Mackay .

    # # A work on ' The Folk Lore of the East

    Riding of Yorkshire' ia nearly rea fiy , the author being Mr . John Nicholson of Hull .

    It will have a good deal # of interesting material . # # ? ? '

    ¦ ' Part of the Propertyis the title of a I new novel which Messrs . Hurst & Blackett

    will issue , the author being Miss Beatrice Whitby , who wrote * The Awakening of Mary

    Fen wick . ' * has Mr comp . Rider leted a Haggard fresh story , we . It are will informed give us ,

    another of his African studies , in which the central figure will be a Zulu king named

    Charcoal . fttr- '' ' , , , , ^ , '

    issue Messrs ' Vanity . Smith Fair , Elder ' at & the Co ' . price are about of one to

    shilling — - — . - — — - ™ - In ' — — w form ^^^^ ~^*^ r ^^^^* it ^^ " ^^ ^^ will ^^ ^ " ^ ^^ r be W ^ ^^^ one ^^ ^^ ^^ volume ^^ ^^ - ^^ r ^^ ~^^ demy 8 vo ., and is to be enriched with several

    full-page illustrations . # ## * *

    Messrs . Kegan Paul , Trench , Triibner & Co . announce a new novel bTasmaauthor of

    ' Uncle Piper of Piper ' s y Hill . ' , The book , which 6 will be issued immediately , is entitled

    In Her Earliest Youth . ' ## * *

    We learn that the seventh volume of the * Calendar of State Papers Relating to England

    preserved in the Archives of Venice' is ready . It relates to the period embraced between 1558 and 1580 .

    * Mr . Wilfrid Ward ' s work on the < Oxford Movement' we are toldcontinues to be read

    widely . A , new edition , is being prepared which will have a fresh instalment of matter

    of a most interesting kind # . * * We % A / A hear TtAftV * that ^ \\ rt ^ during S ^ « 1 Wr * * t * W his ! - »*« residence % » AA 1 / t /\ Vl / kA at €% 4 " All A II

    Souls' College , Oxford , Mr . Gladstone was engaged in preparing ¦ his papers on * The

    Imp O regnable Qy Rock « I of Holy Scri X 1 pture , ' which are to be published this spring in Good Words .

    * Mr . John ' Murray is about * to publish a new

    edition of Buddhism , 'the well-known work by Sir Monier Williams . We hear that a considerable portion of the book has been

    revised , and a most comprehensive index added . Dr . Dowden iswe understand — as busy as

    ever with literary , work . He is , editing •? a I reprint of the * Lyrical Ballads' of Wordswortji for Mr . David Nuttand preparing a general

    —, i , "if O CJ introduction to the * Henry Irving Shakspeare . ' #

    * * The work of Canon MacColl , which created some interest when it first came out , has been

    revised , and a third edition will be ready in a few days . Interesting contributions from the late Bishop Lightfoot and Mr . Gladstone will

    appear in it . # # ? ?

    The biography of the Queen of Roumania ( Carmen Sylva ) translated from the German ¦

    by v the Baroness . / ft , Deichmann , is nearly ready for publication . The book will contain four

    portrai Paul , Trench ts , and , will Triibner be issued & Co b . y Messrs . Kegan

    # Mr . Lewis Carroll , author of * Alice in

    Wonderland , ' is again busy with the pen—this time volumes , however is to , consist as a comp of iler selections . One of from his new the

    Bible , another is to be an arrangement of Shakspeare suitable for young girh .

    We learn that the unpublished Chinese

    journals of the late General Gordon axe in the / ; ' r ' '"' ¦ ' ' ¦ " '""' SSCflB '

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1890, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021890/page/5/