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    3 i2 The Publishers' Circular March 15,1...

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    Boo& $ And I^Umou^ Of

    Considerable interest attaches to the publication of 'The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff . '

    Mr . Gladstone not long ago drew attention to the singular talent of this lady . Miss Mathilde Blind has translated the book , and

    • it will be issued through Messrs . Cassell . * * *

    In the midst of his vast labours and pressing X— * ~ engagements cj < zj ' , Mr . Gladstone has

    found time to look into some novels lately . He intimates that he has read with interest Mr . Hall Game ' s ' Bondman , ' He considers

    it a work of vigour , freshness , and high purpose . # # #

    * * From Cambridge we learn that the Council of the Senate have heard of a very valuable

    collection of manuscripts that is for sale , and have taken steps to effect a purchase . It is believed the contemplated venture refers to

    the famous collection of Sir Thomas Phillips at Cheltenham . # # #

    ** In the April number of Harper ' s Magazine Mr . Andrew Lang 1 r has a paper j . j _ on the ' Merchant

    of Venice / for which Mr . E . A . Abbey has furnished no less than ten illustrations . There is also an article on ' American Literary

    Comedians , ' but the greatest of them , Mark Twain , is , oddly enough , not included in the collection . *

    # ja . # jd . Mr . Henry M . Stanley ' s reception by the Corporation M . of London is expected M . to be an

    uncommonly striking spectacle . It is calculated that between two and three thousand persons will be present . After the

    presentation A of an address A to the famous traveller L , a reception will take place in the library . #

    * * Regret will be felt , both in Austria and Englandthat Count Andrassy has left no

    1 diary or , memoirs of any kind . His reminis-• cences of the Berlin Congress would have

    ; r proved Droved interesting interesting . . We We believe believe , , however however , , the the 1 late statesman left a collection of his speeches ready for publication .

    ¦ . . We are informed that Mr . Herbert Spencer

    is 13 preparing preparing a a new new edition edition or of his Ins essays essava ., including a revised form of one on the nebular hypothesis , which originally attracted much

    attention in the JVest mi tester Hecwiv ' . We are glad to learn that Mr . Spencer ' s health is much better than it was a few months ago .

    # ; Rumour has it that the Earl of Durham haw

    > j j the by no subj means ect of said the his Reform last word of the yet Turf in print . Lord on

    ' Durham is at present in Rome , but returns to London in the course of next month . If he writes a book on modern jockeys and their

    trainers , it will probably be racy in two senses of the term . » #

    • Mr . Edward Arnold has joined the ranks of the publishers , and has been obliged ,

    through pressure or work , to relinquish the

    editorship of Murray ' s Magazine . He has just been succeeded by Mr . W . P . Courtney , a

    younger V brother of the Right Hon . Leonard V t Courtney , M . P ., Chairman of Committees in

    the House of Commons . # # #

    Sir Henry Cunningham has completed a novel which Messrs . Macmillan will publish . A central feature of the work willwe believe

    be found in its descriptions of London , life , . The story is named 'The Heriots , ' and , remembering the interest attaching to a previous

    work from the same pen , we should think the book is likely to be an attractive one , #

    # * Messrs . W . B . Homer & Son add three new stories to their popular Penny Series this

    month . The titles are ' Under Algerian Skies / by Sydney Watson ; ' Ruby Silverton ' s Gold / by Fannie Eden ; ' The Cruise of the " Silver

    Spray , " ' by Sydney Watson . These form Nos . 51 , 52 , and 53 . The aggregate number issued of this series has now reached six and a half

    millions . # # # The multitude have responded eagerly to

    Messrs . Macmillan & Co . ' s praiseworthy attempt to supply them with standard fiction at a cheap rate . The sixpenny edition of

    Charles Kingsley J . ' s works is JL having t / a very wide sale . The latest issue is ' Two Years Ago , ' and we do not doubt that by means of

    it the vivacious * Tom Thurnall' will make troops of new friends . *

    # # AVe learn that an interesting addition will shortly be made to the literature of Methodism .

    The Rev . George Lester , who is amply equipped for his subject , is preparing a work on the Wesleys in Lincolnshire . Dr .

    Rigg , one of the greatest authorities in the Methodist Connexion , will furnish an introductionand this ought to add to the interest

    of the volume , . ? # *

    Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . are issuing an edition de luxe , limited to two hundred

    and tifty copies , of Mr . Edmonds' ' Poetry of the Anil -Jacobin / a book which we have reviewed in another column . The work will be

    printed on hand-made paper , crown quarto , and will be bound in cloth extra . It will contain a large additional plate by Gillrayand

    each copy ^— is to be numbered X . and signed . ,

    Mr . William O'Brien , M . P ., ha » been Home what too forcibly reminded of Carlyle ' s experience A , when writing i . J the * History ' */ of the

    French Revolution . ' The Irish member , it seems , either lost , or mislaid , several chapters of the novel which has been so much talked

    about . He is now actively engaged in repairing ¦ *» the disaster , and - it — is hoped j ^ the story will

    be ready for publication next month . #

    • • ** Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein So Co . will

    publish what promises to bo a very interesting

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/6/