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    the manner pocket-, y a pencil loops . | ¦ Among Hannibal 4 (^ fc»— the Julius — —— authorities Caesar _ - _ j quoted Joan _ of are _ Arc _ _ Napoleon Turenne __ __ _ - _ _ , ^^| | ^^ * , , , ,

    I Vauban Welling , ton Marlborough , Foy , Sir , Frederi Garnet ck Wolseloy II ., Suwarroff , and , Moltke .

    From ' A Alfred ^ k *> Messrs « * ^^ ¦»• " Tennyson — . Macniven ^ ~ * , his Life & "Wallace and Works , Edinburg ~ , 'by "Walter h . — — — m ¦ ¦ - This rr ^ i i little * ^_ ^ 1 i book is * i far y * the m t fullest ^* ii j

    E . "Wace . by collection of facts regarding Mr . Tennyson and his works that has yet been published . Mr .

    "Wace endeavours , out of the slightest materials , to make a connecting-link of narrative on which to hang BW BP the V information about poems _ - - ~ ~_ r and -M books F V

    which ^^^^ F ^^^^^^^^ r ^^^ it — - ^^^ is evident — - — he has collected _ ^ with »^^ ^^^^ ^ no ^^ , little have pains , escaped , and previous he mentions , gleaners some . incidents One is which that

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edgar Allan Poe were born in the same year with the Poet ^ Laureate ^ v ^ p ** v v ^ v - ^ r ™ ™ " ^ - » . » Another ____ — is _ . that . _ — . he — is ___ sai — ^_ — d — , in ^^_^__ ^ his ^^^^ —^ ^ boy ' ^ v ^^ ^^ m -

    hood of Scott , to . have He been mentions intensel that y fond Tennyson of the is poetry still remembered at his early home in Somersby for

    his passion for the sea , where many of his early poems One schoolfellow ~ are said to tells have of been his written running ^^ and bare- revised headed — " — —— .

    be all insp the ired way b from y the Bomersh ocean . y He to notes the sea how -shore closel , to y Lincolnshire is identified with the Laureate ' s

    history what a a Word . He ^^ w ^^^ s worth has ^ m done ^ A has for ^ h done that -a for section the Lakes of Eng _ . land __ His ^» early poems are full of reminiscences of its

    landscapes and wild flowers . Mr . Wace notes that he exquisite is so in intensel his accuracy y true , as that a word a painter -painter mi , ght so rely perfectly on his statement of facts . He also

    refers to the traces of the influence of Shelley upon 1828 . Tennyson It must in be ' admitted The Lover that ' s Tale Mr / . wri Wace tten has in

    done his work with a good deal of taste and care . is obscure He furnishes —— ^ passages JKUfMMLW some & VW in A *~ additional * tjie V ^ L W poems yj \ J \ JM . MJk exp . & , i ) CJKLXXjt and lanations , his All kV book UV / V of / XV

    siring made further particularl information y interesting on the to subject persons by the deaddition of a ui careful \ uiui bibliograp ii ± i \ tziui £ h \\ consisting

    ~ - *" -- > * - <» . un .. y-. kj . j .. j y y , f v / vuciouiug , ) secondl first , of y , of a a list list of of writings Tennyson refe ' s rring writings to him , and . ,

    From Physiology Messrs . of C . Muscles Kegan and Paul Nerves & Co / . — b ' General Dr . J . Rosenthal y

    . A new volume of the International Scientific attempt by Seri Pro es fessor , presenting Bosonthal the —th results e first of of its an

    ph ™& ysiologj d- —to give of the a connected muscles and account nerves of . The the general subject as here treated has been little dealt with that

    * * « r his nis author -v Work work n caucu is able but bnh XifclW to he hA claim UV recommends rponmmpnrl V 11 » so the U JULL meri 1 fl those fhn UOU t of « A lt ori who - wh ginality n wish wish LI 1 U . L

    l montary <> pursue j Ph ¦* - " the ysiology j , oiuiugy study ' and » to turn to lo a rt to larger lurgoi Huxley : work wum ' s of t » * Elo his me -

    own ^ wnapoint on ' Electricity , ' published Viewed by Hirschwald from a of Medical Berlin . Ane l Jus author book ' is sty well le is clear and the English version

    reductions ^ ill are ls wel illustra 1 « doru one te * d , . w whilo b hile y a large its its theories theories number and and of *<> U-executed diagrams .

    I rom TJ M > rner Th » / ReUgious a story wiviljf Ul of Tract 11 home UII 1 U Society l l ife ilt ? . . ' . Our — - fUJ ' Jenny Si tJIDl ster / Ol ' s

    I II « fo at ! 1168 - ' * . W lu Or ® U Nuntlber suited for Ono Sunday . ' Two School simply prizes -written or

    i « -- ^ ^_ J _ j' B uorary .

    Prom Mr . "Walter Smith ( late Mozley & Smith ) . —* Sewell oeweii Note-Book of an Elderly Lady / by Elizabeth

    more M m . . to do . . with Few Jbew the writers writers formation have have of , , we we female suppose snmxise character . , had had in a large cumber of the homes of our middle I

    and upper classes , as far as that character can be formed by reading , than the author of these papers . Originally published in the pages of the

    Monthly Monthly Packet Packet , , we we havo havo the the views views of of the tha writer -arritav and on a it va is riety no smal of subjects l proof , of social the soundness and educational of her ,

    theories to find that Miss Sewell , as an ' elderly the lady education , ' takes very training much the and same influence line in of regard women to

    which marked , all her , earlier writings . She speaks strong , in of language the enervating strong indeed effect , of but the not light too

    of literary too many food which a drawing forms -room the stap and le boudoir provision — novelslight biographyinnumerable

    magazinesand as , a result of this , she asserts that a large number of girls are so little accustomed to real study , and so totally unable to think , that they

    receive anything which is offered to them without giving themselves the trouble to criticise . Infidelity — g and - ¦ ¦ — — immorality — — — — — — ^— ^^ ¦ are ^ — - ^ ^^ in — the ^¦ ^ ^ ^^ ^ literature ^ w ^^ h ^^ ^^ r ^^» ^^ r ^ v ^^ ^ V ^ V ^^^ p ^ B ^ which W ^ ^^ ^^ " ^ ^^» ^^^ " ^^

    is their mental food—and they imbibe both unthat consciousl there y are . ' novels To this , and of course novels , it and may magazines be replied

    and magazines ; but as to the general , truth of the to indictment be said . there The is book , it is like to be all feared that Miss , very Sewell little

    writes , is eminently readabl , e , and the argumentative and conversational form in which it is cast add to its attractiveness .

    Prom Messrs . Triibner & Co . — ' Becords of the Heart , ' by Stella . This little work , which now

    appears in its second and revised English edition , is from the pen of the late gifted author of * Sappho : a Tragedy' a work which has already

    won such celebrity as , to have the honour of being translated by a Greek poet for the Hellenic stage . Mrs . Esteile Lewis ( Stella ) was a firm friend of

    poetry Edgar Allan is distinguished Poe , and like by that its tenderness fated poet and her passion . That she was a highly gifted woman

    such poems as ' The Forsaken , ' ' Melpomene , ' and They ' The . — »/ havo — Last — Days in them of Sappho many / of in the this qualities A volume — — attest which — .

    we prize in such compositions , and are sufficient sense proof . that Many their of author the was sonnets also a in poet this in the book truest are

    remarkable for beauty of thought and force of portrait expression of . the The author volume is from embellished a photograp with h a , steel and

    other engravings . From Messrs . 'Ward , Lock So Co . — ' Sylvia ' s Book

    Beauty of tho . ' Toi Tho let : aim a of Lad the y ' s wri G ter -uide of to this Dre work 3 S has and , we are told in the preface' been to steer clear

    , vanity of the two in the extremes possession —the of Scy good lla of looks encourag , and the ing Charybdis involved in the very untrue proverb

    Tho that authoress says ' Handsome having thus is that defined handsome the point does of . ' I eight from which sho approaches her subject ,

    and deals Hp » . 1 h instructs first firsf with with her the hhft readers face fnnfi . , and and as then then to the with -with beauties the the figure ficure of ., the ^/ a Jl V * hai * M ^ -m » Mt r , f t * SA he M V » features J"l ^^^ aw mj m ^ m ^ % ^_ m ^ , m and mr »» - *^^ the ™— »»^ ¦»» comp ¦ " —¦ " - ^ r ^ - j ^ - ^ lexi — ——— on - — , and — ifts

    which the best th means of making in the most one of of these any g - ticu ti nnlars lars . . ey The Tho may comp concmleteness possess leteness any 01 of the the book book is is par bo bo

    great of cc / u that rse- even ^ and corn the s sufferer are touched is p upon hilosophicall —gently y , J

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1881, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031881/page/11/