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    quent that the refe most rence , exacting and for a person certainty can ^ of fin to ding know all of the families whose fortunes and histories are

    national property , no book can excel Dwbrett . Among the by-ways into which the indefatigable editor now undertakes to conduct his readers is

    the issue of the females as well as of all collaterals of peers and baronets in the male line , while he also includes all the service distinctions of the

    titled folks , whether in the army , navy , or noncombatant branches of Her Majesty ' s service . The clubs to which the individuals belong , their

    foreign residences , the abodes of younger members of the families who have gone to seek their fortunes abroad , and other useful details seldom

    obtainable , are carefully recorded , and as an evidence of the thoroughness with which Dr . Alair has done Lis work , wo may note that he gives the

    new territorial designations of all the regiments to which officers belong . IJecent creations of new patents of nobility , including —p Lord Tennvson s

    j * i — — barony , are , it is needless to say . all dul y set forth , and corrections occurring while the sheets were in the press are also noted . The publishers

    are to be congratulated on the production of this goodly , good-looking , and useful tome . From the same . — 'Debrett ' s Illustrated House of

    Commons and the Judicial Bench / 1884 . Compiled and edited by Robert Henry Muir , LL . D . The speciality L . mf of this work , as our readers are

    doubtless nware , is that it is the only book of its class which furnishes the armorial bearings of members of parliament and judger ? and the arms

    of the parliamentary a . boroug hs . Apart , from , the illustrations , which are very neatly engraved , the letterpress deserves warm commendation . The

    biographical details of the members of Parliament , for the rnobt part personally revised « s to the facts and dates by those whom they concern , are

    full and complete , and in every case the antecedents of their political careers and their political opinions are duly noted . A 'Dictionary of

    Teennical Parliamentary Expressions / for which , the editor , Dr . JVIair , expresses his acknowledgments to Mr . Reginald Palgrave , Clerk Assistant to the

    House of Commons , forms a very useful addition to the volume , and will supply some much needed I information to newspaper readers , candidates for

    parliamentary honours , and all who are interested I in such occult matters as * Ways and Means / ' Orders of the Day , * the Previous Question /

    ' Commttrtls of IJille / and sundry other expressions , as well as in the titles of the various officers I of the House . Another useful table of the changes

    in the representation which have occurred since I j the of personal general changes election in in March the position 1880 , s and and a titles record of

    members are prefixed to the book . A concise Peerage follows the record of the Commons ' House , and then we have an exhaustive judicial

    directory , including not only the judges of all I ranks in this country , but the colonial judges . Debrett ' s * House of Commons ' is well worthy to

    rank with his ' Peerage ; ' we can gire it no higher pra-ise . Frum Messrs . Funk < fc WagnallsNew York . —

    1 Biblical Lights and Side Lights : , Ten Thousand Illustrations , with Thirty Thousand Cross Referencesconsisting of facts , incidents , and

    remark-, jiblo declarations ! taken from the Jiible / by Itev . Charles K . Little . A book which may justly lay claim to originality of design and completeness

    of execution I * , for % it shows ~ J under thousands A of heads the extraordinary fertility of tho sacred books in the illustration of every phase of human

    thought and action . Mr . Little points out that

    the illustrations which the Bible affords —^™^^^^^ those npp luiro lied ^ , pert ^ oi not aining onl iiiu y to w the science Dticuco truths , , puuosopny philo of sophy religion ai m b * ^ ?

    j politica ect for which l society the , a reader nd accord will ingl search y there in vain is no Th ' K we have illustrations of delay hospitality f

    favouritism , perversion of good , hunger lonT ' ' ne e * ch ss , case progress being , and printed count in less full other while topics as th rhe , 10 text oil ' '

    illustrations are numbered consecutively , , where e « sid » i . ^ . e u -li * g & hts i . » vi * ^ c an *** be ~~ thrown u . «> . v / > t U upon ± * y \ m . any auy head nesLu , cro ? Ji cross

    value onl references just of such to to the point a . book parallel cut as this passages that is it obvious gives o are - give , what and n it Th ' * "

    ordinary y j - concordance ^ supplies . A concordance . " , no no simply arranges in dictionary form the words actually contained in the Authorised Version of

    the ^ t l-fe ^^ ¦ Bible l ^ T « I * ^^ , but l—^ ^ 9 m thi ^ L £ *^ « s work mrmr ^ *^ w ^ l ^» i v s -4 ar ^ - ^ — ¦ r anged under ^ what which wnicn may be termed the not ' topical words , ' many of

    , , pernnps perhaps , , are are noc acruauy actually Jouud found iu in the tha texts that illustrate them . We are not aware whether any English t firm hns yet i undertaken

    + 1 r » — — ^ " - «^ - » i l » -ll All an agency for the sale of the book , but if it could be seen on this side the Atlantic its exceptional

    merits would at once win for it a ready welcome . From Messrs . Weils Gardner , Darton , & Co .-

    'The Outstretched Hands . ' Grood Friday Addresses by the Rev . Arthur Williamson , M . A ., Vicar of , St . James ' s , Norlands . A series of brief

    addresses given on Good Friday 1882 at the 'Service of the Three Hours' Devotion , ' which has of late years been so largely adopted in Anglican

    churches % ' . The outstretch v— ' ed ¥ bands Jk . of the crucfie'l Savicur are regarded under diiferent aspects : as outstretched to be nailed to the cross for

    sinners ; outstretched to pardon and "welcome the penitent ; outstretched to console and speak peace to the troubled soul ; outstretched to win the

    victory over Satan in the agony of spiritual death ; outstretched in the final bodily anguish ; outp stretched ^ g ^^ 4 ^ ^^ . »* ^*^ 4 * ^ - ^ V » to % * ^ t ^ r ™ finish w ^ * ^ rm ¦• * ^ aVb His ^ VBr ^ * % ^ work T w ^^ ^^ * m- ^ m ; J and w ¦ ^ ^** mt mi outstretched ^ m ^ — — ^ ** i ^~ m » ^* - ^ ^ r ^ - ^ — to — — -

    resign the spirit and to receive the Father ' s welcome home . It is a little book which will not only be valued by those who heard the addresses

    —they are printed from notes taken by a member of the congregation—but will also be suggestive to the clergy .

    From Messrs . Grant & Co . — 'How to Manage Schools : a Guide to School Board Managers and Managers of Voluntary Schools / by A . Major ,

    U . A ., B . Sc , Inspector of Board Schools , Leicester . A very useful little volume , giving a minute summary of the requirements of the duties of

    managers to which as affected manag er y s should Revised give Code attention ; of the on points visiting schools of xj » the best ws methods % -v » ** of ¦**»— securing —— tthe

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    panitary arrangements , th © , choice of the teaching staff " , and the like .

    Fro vi e publi Messrs que . en J . Ang Hetzel leterre et , ' Cie par ., Phili in Pari pp e s . Darj — * L l » - This rr > U :.. interesting ;«* . ^ w ^ .. *^ w . ^ - volume ^ r „! ., »^ . ^ deals J »« U / ( 1 ) with iwiitli our rkHT litera Ilt 6 r « - "

    Parliament ture , journalism and , drama tlie munici , poetry pal , science corporations , ; ( 2 ) wt ; ( j with wita the toe Throne iiironothe acd ftnd the —

    aaministration of justice , , me army army and the uuu preservation navy uu-vj , , «» " — of -- pu - lie iic oruer order . . Our uur metaou method of oi publishing puuiisuiug * novels ^* w— in ---

    contrastwith that of the Frenchthe ' special correspondence presentatives ' , of consp our icuous daily personages papers administration , and in its the chio oio JjO r .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1884, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031884/page/10/