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    published fc V £ rit 6 ! , such V 6 rite as ! ' > D' ( Heure 1863 ) ; en and Heure ' ' Pensees ( 1862 );

    diverses , impressions intimes , opinions et paradoxes de Cadet Bordiche' ( 1864 ) .

    Dr . Hermann ton Chaiosso . —The death on the 23 rd ult . afc Berlinof Dr . Hermann

    von Chamisso is announced , . He was the only — ^/ son of the poet JL Adalbert _ . _ von . Chamisso ,

    author of the well-known romance , ' Peter Schlemihl w - ^_ - - ^_ - __ - — - __ - - - m * , —— ' translated — __ — — _ - __ into — - —^~ - — — Eng — ' ^^^ B- ^ B lish — fifty f years g

    trated ago ° y by the George late Sir Cruikshank John Bowring , whose , and desi illus gns

    were greatly admired by the German author .

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    274 The Publishers' Circular March 15 , 1886

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    Parisian publisher , is to be made , a joint stock company with a capital of 2 , O 0 O , 0 O 0 f . The

    new designation will t > e ' Maison Quantin ; Compagnie Gene ' rale d'lmpression et

    d'Edition . ' The firm of Messrs . JansenMcClurg

    & Co ., Chicago , was dissolved on the , 1 st inst . , , Mr . E . L . Jansen retiring on account of

    illhealth . The remaining partners , Messrs . A . C . McClurg and F . B . Smithwill continue

    the business under the firm name , of A . 0 .

    McClurg & Co .

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    To the Editor of the Publishers' Circulab . MR . RUSKIN .

    Sir , —I have been reading the report of St . George ' s Guild , just issued by Mr . Jtuskin , and it is trulmost pathetic" Will HI permit 111 1 / JJiO to

    10 LiXUJ-y y UlKJQLi ^ 'aiUCl / lU . . you J'UU JpOX 1 me \ , KJ quote a sentence , which runs as follows ?—• And yet year after year passes , and not a single reader

    or friend has thought it the least incumbent on them to help me to do more ; and from the whole continent of America , which pirates all my book ? ,

    and disgraces me "b y base copies of the plates of them , I have never had a sixper . ee sent to help me in anything I wanted to do /

    Now , sir , leaving America to answer for itself , I would ask , does not the English bookseller owe sorne-I thing to Mr . Ruskin ? Ho has never wearied in

    teaching the English-speaking people the great "value of good books . He has argued that they should not grudge the cost of good booksand he has

    impressed upon the rich people that , as they do not grudge great prices for rare carriages or horses , they should not grudge great prices for rare books .

    This is a proof that he has rendered great services to the booksellers here , and that he has some claim upon their gratitude ; and could the expression of

    that gratitude take a more appropriate form tlian by their responding one and all to the call he now makes for a trifling contribution to the funds of

    St . George ' s Guild , which may be sent to the Staffordshire Joint Stock Banking Company , Birmingham ?

    We may not be able to agree with all Mr . Ruskin says , but that lie is rendering good

    eervices to his country goes without saying , in his making some of the desert parts of out land to blossom as the rose . His health has evidently warned liim lateW that lift munt work whilfi it . is i

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    9 called to-day , as the time may soon arrive when he will have ¦ - ¦— to lay aside his pen h and his yoice l be

    v v ^ ^^ ^— ^ w ^~ ^^ w ^* - - ^ " - ^— " - j ^ " — — ^^ , - — » ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ m w w -j hushed for ever . Yours faithfully ,

    3 Bull Street , W . P . BENNETT . Birmingham ,

    March 3 , 1886 . - I

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    From Messrs . Thomas Bos-worth . & Co . — ' Pater I Noster ; orBrief Meditations on the Loids I

    , Prayer , ' by C . X * . C , is a very thoughtful and I earnest little book , not particularly original , hut I

    containing many very expressive and pregnant I sentences . The title fully explains its purpose . I Prom Messrs . Dean <& Son . —To this firm ' s I

    * Deeds of Paring Library' a capital little work ! I has been' added , namely , ' Our Warrior Princes , ' I

    by Eoscoe Mongan , B . A ., which describes the I teats of the four Edwardsand the actions of I

    , the Wars of the Roses . The book is written I with spirit , and has seventeen full-page illus- I

    trations . I From Messrs . Field & Tuer . —Another curious I

    novelty has been issued by this active firm , I namely , 'Somebody ' s Story' in Hugh Conways I handwriting . The facsimile is interesting , and I

    the book should have a . large sale , not only for I the author ' s sake , but on behaLf of the charity I which the publication is intended to benefit—the I

    Chelsea Hospital for Women . I From the same . — ' Lost ! a Day , ' hj Fred . 0 . I Milfordis a clever little story written in a I

    , familiar but interesting style . I Fro \ m the same * —' How to Play mMm AtV the % Fiddle \ / bI

    • A . - * -S *»* V * - *^_/ _ »*_*( M . M--M . *\* T . % — n . ' * « V W >^ F JM ~ M . T * S ^ L . * . V »* V | - ^ y J ^ H Henry William Cresswell and George Cresswell , I is about the most sensible book of hints to \ I

    beginners on the violin that we have seen . I I From Mr . Henry G-askartli , Bradford . —' From I JEngland to Iceland , ' by George Charles Sims , is I

    a readable and unpretending account of a sum- I mer trip to the Arctic Circle . The book is m ¦ pleasantly written , but too much crowded with I

    extraneous Axtranfinns matter mattfti * ; in in fact -fu rtt , it it , pnntn contains . in « enough finoucll I to make three books of the same size . I ¦ From MrJolin ECeywood— ' Towards Demo-

    . . ¦ pareu Daren cracy tly tl ' is b bv y the a n . worshipper "wr title » rRliinr of a volume at n . t tlie tlift Walt Walt of poems . Whitman Whitman ap * I I

    ¦ now shrine issued , of which . Some a second of the and poems enlarged undoubtedly edition is m ¦ evince hi MM h poetic ability 1 and they shouldfrom

    V F - » ** V- ^^ .. g AT * SM ^ S «• VAJLL T , liUVL \ Ji-M . \ J J UX 1 U UAMJ , ~~ - " " ^ H ¦ the admirers American of the poet class , find of poetry much first acceptance instituted . An by I ¦ additional recommendation to the volume is the

    neat form in ¦ which it has been issued by the publishers , and in this respect it reflects much I

    credit on the Bidgefield press . I From the London Literary Society . —The plot of ' The Beautifu ¦ l Lady Chichester / a one volume I

    novel novel still the b bv y A A story . . M 1 VT ¦ . has Miinro Miinro many , is i « compiwIiMf somewhat good points -, old nld . , . but b » u Sir to to - I

    the Herbert Herbert hand hand remembrance , but but Chichester Chichester not not ¦ his his of . , who who heart hftart a dead is i . « to tc foolishl fonliRhlv % love the th « y , lovel Invftlv faithiul faithful offers JHi 3 liss hls ss I H I

    Craw , fordthe ¦ belle of a , London season y who , with not particularl , else y caring and urged for him to IAJ , the Lilt but ? match still in , l ** > lovo J ; l I 1

    worldl W 1 L . 11 no M y , 1 \ J prudent one KJUK ) O 1 BC , , mamma O . 11 U . UJL ^ , accepts him 111 O . L . ' - ** After y 1 marriage , however , she gradually becomefl very I much attaclied to her husband by reason of bis ® II

    I many good qualities , and it only needs Bova jm

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1886, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031886/page/12/