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    in 1817 , and yet he retained , until the beginning of the present year , his keen interest in the

    movements and aspirations of contemporary politics .

    Sir Edward Baines for many years took an honourable and prominent part in the debates

    in the House of Commons , and was especially active in ail questions which concerned

    Parliamentary Reform , Free Trade , Education , and Temperance . He was not merely one of the

    proprietors , but for several years the editor of the Leeds Mercury , a newspaper which has

    always occupied a foremost position in the country , and which , to the present hour ,

    worthily upholds the best traditions of English journalism . In Yorkshire Sir Edward Baines

    was universally beloved , and his death , even at so advanced an age , is a distinct and

    deeplyfelt loss to the entire community . Personally , he was a most estimable and kindly man , and

    he has left behind him the memory of a singularly earnest , useful , blameless , and

    altogether beneficent life . ¦

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    Booft ^ Archdeacon Farrar has a new devotional

    work in the press which Messrs . Isbister will publish in April . *

    4 i > # a * Dr . De Witt Talmage ' s new book , with which the printers are already busy , is to be

    called ' From Manger to Throne . ' * # ¦ M , # Mr

    biograp Mr . h Edmund y of his Gosse "father has Mr in . Phili preparation p Henry a

    Gosse 4 9 JL , F . R . S . the eminent , naturalist . V , , # # #

    Mr . William Archer has in preparation a biography of the famous actor Mac ready . Messrs . Kegan 1 / Paul , Triibnor & Co . will

    publish the book . Sir Samuel Baker ban completed an im

    Macmillan portant work . It , deals to be with published wild beasts A . by and Messrs their . ways in various parts of the globe .

    finished Professor his history Gardiner of 4 , Tlio we Great hear , Civil has nearl War . y '

    The work will close with the execution of Charles I .

    recen It tl is y Head reported Master that of Dr the . Abbott City of , who London was

    School Bible , whic is h engaged will be published on some in Htudics duo course of the . ,

    # # adapting It is said 4 Look that ing { Backward Mr . Edward y for Bellamy the stage . it

    Massachusetts He is living i . n a country home in Western

    * * liKei lik We to to hear create create that some papers on eschatology ,

    will throug ely y shortl h Mr y . appear James interest interest . Hogg They in in theological theolosrical will The be work published circles circles will .,

    contain a bibliography . , # # #

    Dr . Nansen ' s account of his travels in expected Greenland shortl and y . the Messrs Frozen , Longmans North may are be to

    fu publish llillustrated the book , and the narrative is to be y , # *

    bearing We hear on the that famil a mass y of of J important eremy Bentham MSS . , ,

    has The been collection acquire is d so by large the that British it extends Museum to . twenty-eight volumes .

    # # Mr . W . H . Dawson has , we are informed ,

    written a work entitled * Prince Bismarck and State Socialism , ' which will come through Messrs . Sonnenschein & Co . The volume

    will form one of the ' Social Science Series . ' # ? ? * *

    Ebers The , has popular , we un German derstand , writer written , Professor a novel

    founded on a Scripture subject likely to prove s trik to i be ng named from the i Joshua originalit . y of its scope . It

    # # # We learn that Mr . Barnum will shortly

    i col ssue lection , throug of his h Messrs anecdotes . Routled . It is not unlikel Sons , a that some racy stories of his recent experience y

    in London societ ft / y will appear in the volume JL . *

    We hear that Mr . John Morley is arranging a series of papers from the pen of the late Mr . J . Cotter Morison . Mr . Morison had a grace

    QJseveral ful style of and the a subjects sound embraced judgment , relate and , as to France , an interesting book may be expected .

    # # # A biograp *— ' JL hy % / that should prove JL speciall JL yV

    interesting to numerous readers will be ready soon . It is an account of the life of the Rev . J . G . Woodwhose works on a special subject

    enjoyed a . great , popularity . The book has been undertaken by the # Rev . Theodore Wood .

    • * Theolog It was ica reported l Etisuys that named the volume 4 Lux of Mundi Oxford /

    which has created some stir in certain quarters , was to be withdrawn from circulation . We are informed there is no foundation

    whatever for this statement . # # «

    Mr . Rider Haggard ' s new novel , which Messrs . Longmans will issue , is to be called

    ' Beatrice . ' There is a rumour afloat that an * Jess endeavour ' ia being wi adapted ll be made for the to stag secure e , and for that the

    play an excellent cast .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/5/