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    ___-*o*.~ THE BOOKSELLERS' TRADE DINNER....

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    Tlole$ And Tlevo$

    reading matter of a humorous and satirical character , together with a weekly supplement

    of In a politics portrait Puck in colours will be , on independent specially . fine No paper aug . - mentation will be made in the price J . , which

    remains at one penny . Puck ' s new offices will be at 168 Fleet Street . * La Derniere Bataille / by M . E . Drumont

    if it is not so exciting as some previous works , from the same pen , will yet occasion a good deal of talk in Paris circles . A correspondent

    tells us the book will go far to make the writer the acknowledged successor of Louis Veuillot . The descriptions of Parisand of

    the varied aspects of life in the cap , ital , are masterly and fascinating . Indeed , the work

    is a wonderful record of French Society . The current number of The Farmers' *

    Magazine ( Walter Darkin , 145 Queen Victoria Street ) contains portraits of the Austrian Minister of AgricultureCount Julius

    Falkenheyn , and also of Mr . , S . P . Foster , a wellknown member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural CP Society --- , / - . Among £ 3 the - - papers j _ Ais

    one by Dr . Gustave Schack-Sommers , in which experiments are reported which show the possibilities of growing our sugar at home .

    Sir Percy Florence Shelley ' s will has been sworn to at £ 48 , 195 . He leaves £ 500 each to

    Shelley Leopold Scarlett and Percy G . Scarlett , and the income of all his residuary estate to Lady Shelley . He provided thatif Lady

    Shelley should not survive him , the , portraits of William Godwin , by Northcote , of Mary Wollstonecraftby Opieof his father , the

    . poet should , by be Miss offered , Curran to , the , and trustees of his mother of the , National Gallery , and , if refused , to the

    trustees of the National Portrait Gallery . Mr . T . Fisher Unwin has been appointed

    the London agent for the Revue B lcue . M . and the Revue Scientijique . The latter tells of

    new inventions , sittings of the Paris Acad ^ mie manufacture des Sciences , and and deals even with with paleontology biblih . , / ograpy

    The Revue , Bleue has an interesting « —r A pro . m * - gramme musical . and Among theatrical the contents criticism are romance lomatic , , p

    por reviews traits of , a the literary newest productions chronicle , in essays literature , and . Both publications have the merit of being

    printed in legible type . •—' We hear that a splendid l > cqueat has been

    Ta made r ta , to of Streatham the National , who Gallery has long b y been Mr . k Henry nown

    to as a the generous trustees patron a number of art . of Mr paintings . Tate offers , the value of which amounts to nearly £ 90000 .

    They embrace works by the most renowned ' , amongst modern masters , Millais , Hook , Alma

    and Tadema Graham , Orc . har Amongst dson , Gow the , Davis pictures , JBoug are ' t The on , North - West Passage Mare and Foal /

    ' Home with the Tide , / and ' Saved . ' It cannot certainly bo said that a languid interest

    is taken in English art . An International Exhibition is to be held

    illustrative this ' , summer of housing at Leeds of . th ^ A pqor special , wiJJ section include , WL Bjl Vm ffii i 1 ¦¦; 't —¦¦¦¦ ' "~ " ~ T ""' '" ' ' ' ' I . , : 1 ¦ ''' ' .... , . . . . _ . _ ....... . ..... , ,

    11 ' ¦ ¦ — 1 models miniature of for apartments onetwo , both and full more -size tenan and ts in

    sanitary models of and , dwellings other , suitable fittings , for , furniture tenants , under and ,

    the ing , Guinness electrical gift and . chemical Besides eng sections ineering another , minwill be devoted ¦ , to hieneincluding 4 h , sanitary

    and appliances ventilation , - li g hting —— v water -w . »• other yg w « h _ m . - ^ supp mr *« . than ^^ , a a l electric « . and «•» ^^ A * A b gymnasia > , ULVU heating A «/«^ W ^ J .

    Other sections relate , to clothing y , , domestic and labour-saving aDDliances . food , manufactures .

    and raw material , education , and the fine arts .

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    March 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular 3 IS

    ___-*O*.~ The Booksellers' Trade Dinner....

    ___ - * o * . ~ THE BOOKSELLERS' TRADE DINNER . Publishersbooksellersand authors have

    dined together , under the , auspices of the Booksellers' Provident Institution , and , to

    quo of it te . ' p That ress op the inion promoters , * no harm of the has dinner yet come in question had any misgivings on that score is

    a lieve matter that of even doubt they , but antici we can pated scarcel such y be an

    unqualified success as that which attended their efforts in bring —o ing o together o -7 , in social

    intercours of those three e , such classes a representative of men to whom gathering literature is a means of livelihood . This social

    gathering , which was announced by us in a previous issue , was held in the Venetian Hall

    the of the 8 th Hoi instant born when Restaurant about __ . __ , _ 250 last gentlemen = Saturday ) ,

    , cup were 4 . ied present the chair . Mr , . Mr ___ Charles - _ . C __ . Awdry J . Longman «/\ ( Messrs oc . -

    W lan . H of . Smith tables & on Son ) the 319 vice w -chair ill furnish , and the a list p of the names of page those present ; suffice it

    to say it will be found to include those of M . T . P . Du ChailluMr . H . Rider Haggard

    , , John Dr . John Murray Evans , jun , Mr ., . Mr W . . F L . . Macmillan Courtenay , , Mr Mr . .

    T . N . Longman , Mr . J . C . Francis , Mr . G . Longman , Mr . F . H . Rivington , Mr . J . W . ButterworthMr . Quaritch , Mr . W . C . K .

    Clowes ^ SJ V , Mr - - . , G . Lock , Mr _ ¦ . H . P ^^ b- *~ . Okeden —»¦» ^ ^ m , Mr # ^ H a ^ T * . T . G . Bain , Mr . E . Bumpus X . ' , Rev . R . Lovett

    ( Religious Tract Society ) , Mr . J . Marriott , Mr . R . B . MarstonMr . A . B . RailtonMr .

    , , F . Warne , Colonel Routledge , Mr . J . W . Darton , Mr . Dean , Mr . J . V . Whitaker , Mr .

    Hod F . Miles son , Mr Mr . . S . H Blackett . Sotheran and , Mr other . H . well H . - g , - -1 ,

    known names too numerous to mention here . After the toast of ' The Queen / given by § the chairman ¦— ¦ Mr . C . Awdry ( Messrs .

    W . H . Smith — ~ — & ~ ~ - — Son , ) proposed ' Literature ^ J ^ / and said he had no knowledge of the subject wiuen received received

    whatever w much hatever cum , , a a sstatement tatement salix . which What was was he would like vvery ery to know most grano of all washow to make the British

    tar public far as an his hia buy observations observations , read , and , be went went interested , the tne public public in books at at . me the So

    present time by no means , bought the best books ; still there ¦^ V MV A were many b d exceptions A A to the ^* * ^

    genera ise any l special rule . Without department ^ desiring , because to particular he knew - there was such a thing as jealousy , he gave

    ' Literature / which aimed at making their Jives better in in this each worl generation d a little — bri ihat ghter b , which wiser , they and

    all Jived •"( applau ¦ se )/ ¦ y ' ' ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦¦ ' , i i ¦ .. i . ; .: — -r— A 1 ' 11 . m ....... —r ^ : — _ . , . ... . _ . . . ™ " ™~~~™ Trit ^^ V

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/9/