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    March 15,1890 The Publishers' Circular 3...

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    Boo& $ And I^Umou^ Of

    work . It has the title * From Handel to HalleV the writer being Mr . Louis Engel , who has

    done some excellent work in a similar way before . The new book includes biographies of HandelBeethovenSullivanAlbaniPatti *

    and Halle , . Engravings , will add , to the , attractions of the work .

    ? ? # * Messrs . Methuen & Co . propose to publish in the autumn a series of biograp O Lhies of leaders

    of religious thought . Mr . R . H . Hutton , the accomplished editor of the Spectator , will have a congenial subject in * John Henry Newman '

    Canon Overton may be trusted to deal fairl , y with the character and work of 'John Weslev , ' and Mrs . Oliphant is certain to give us a

    fasci-X O nating study of the great Scotch preacher of a vanished generation , 'Thomas Chalmers . ' *

    # * The death of Professor Franz Delitzsch , of Leipzig University , removes a remarkable

    Biblical scholar . He had a profound acquaintance with the Hebrew language , his books on Genesis , Job , and Isaiah attracting

    much attention , both in Germany and England . During his later year 3 he was engaged in a Hebrew translation of the New Testament ,

    which critics regarded as a most superior work .

    * * We understand that the Hon . George N . Curzon , M . P ., who has just returned from

    the East , proposes to publish a book on his travels in the highways and byways of Persia . Mr . Curzon who was formerly 4 / private

    secretary to Lord , Salisbury , is one of . the cleverest of the younger men on the Tory benches of the House of Commons . He is a good

    speaker , and , as his recent letters from the East to the Times have shown , a vivacious writer and shrewd observer .

    - * Mrs . Alexander Ireland , of Manchester ,

    wife of Emerson ' s friend and biographer , has in preparation a volume on Mrs . Oarlyle . Mr . Ireland waswe believe , a frequent visitor at

    Carl 5 Great yle , Cheyne ' maker , of Kow books , Chelsea , called , when that Thomas "right

    old , strong , roomy brick house , ' hn home . It may sound rather ungallant to say so , but nevertheless we are of opinion that Mrs .

    Carlyle has already received quite as much attention as she deserves . M .

    The latu Dr . Lightfoot , according to a usually well informed Transatlantic journal

    recently placed in the hands of an American , scholar , the Rev . E . C . Richardson , librarian

    of Hartford Theological Seminary , some valuaable manuscripts on Patristic Theology for collation and publication A . . Mr . Richardson

    had been working on similar lines to the Bishop for several j'ears , and this fact Jed the latter to entrust him with tho papers in

    question , which will , in due course , be published . #

    A new edition of Whitman ' s * Imperial t

    Germany' contains an interesting letter from Count von Moltke , who says »/ that ' a

    Constitution which , in the secure situation of England , has slowly grown out of the character of the people cannot be transferred to the

    Continent . France has made various experiments , without arriving at finality , and Count von Moltke adds that German } 7 only just

    united into an Empire , is an intruder , into the family of European States . In the midst of mighty neighboursGermany needs a strong

    , monarchy . #

    Promotion by merit sums up the universal verdict on the elevation of Canon Westcott to

    the See of Durham in succession to his lifelong friend , Dr . Lightfoot . The Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge is a man of

    vast learning , fine catholicity of spirit , and conspicuous moral fervour . He has won in literature a distinguished placehardly

    inferior indeed to that of * his brillian X t predecessor , V . No one , therefore , can possibly cavil at such an appointmentthe onlmatter for regret WV is MKJ that 1 / 4 /

    r 1 ; y J ¦* . * - ' * . . * . * - /^ A . AALV a man of Dr . Westcott ' s rare power has had to wait until he is sixtyV -five for ep iscopal X pre

    JLferment . As it is , the new prelate will bring to the Episcopal Bencli—and it sorely needs it—intellectual strength > and moral

    courage . Time , however , has yet * to show whether Dr . Westcott will prove a great administrator . #

    ? An American newspaper has just been calling attention to the fact that the little

    town of K ^ J Kingston on Lake Ontario is the birthplace of two of the most distinguished exponents x of the doctrine of Evolution—Georg *—> e

    J . Romanes , F . R . S ., and Grant Allen , novelist and man of science . Mr . Romanes lias lately made a remarkable contribution to the

    development theory by the publication of his Origin of Human Faculty' ; Mr . Grant Allen , on the

    other hand , has just won fresh laurels by one of the most powerful novels which has appeared in recent years , ' The Bondman '—a strong and

    sustained piece of imaginative writing . Not only are Mr . Romanes and Mr . Allen both natives of KingstonOntariobut both of them

    were born in that , town in , the same year . Neither is yet forty-two , so that plenty of good woik may reasonably be expected

    from them . Mr . Maiaton returned from Cairo on

    Wednesday last , and brought with him a considerable portion of the manuscript of Mr . Stanley ' s forthcoming book . It is hoped that

    the work will le in the hands of the public before the end of May ; it will be in two volumesandf so far as can yet be estimated ,

    it w -- ill run , j to , a thousand pages ^ j . The book will contain three important new maps , showing the course pursued by the great traveller

    and his companions , and giving the results of their explorations in the heart of tho Dark

    Continent . There will be about one hundred and fifty illustrations , and those of the greatest

    interest have been entrusted to M . Riou , the well-known French artist , who is himself

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/7/