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    1 April 15, * 88o Tiie Publishers ^ Circ...

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    ¦ ¦ thrown out hw by in certain as it were p hysical . Thus ¦ -- ^ particulars the ¦ Alps ¦ ' which the i chain * are | ' j

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    II Bouth of France g Dome Puy , all are given in their relative situations as they be bobserver to the south of

    them might —if he seen could y see an them at all ; and tho very colour _ _^ — j ^ j fc »* fc of *^ ^^ distant ^ ^ ^ . ™ ™^ ^ hei — g ^^^ hts — — when " ™ ^^^ ™^ ~ ~ a meridional ~ " ~ — — ~ ~ ~— — — ~

    delineations atmosphere is how about Corsica them . sticks We see in also the , in middle these 1 of the Mediterranean , , & c . up

    From the same . — ' Illustrations of Bible Manners and Customs . ' These are six sheets , each about three feet by twocoloured , intended apparently

    , as wall pictures for a school . « Manners and Customs' sounds like a piece of tautology , but if we take ' customs' to mean ' costume' or dress

    , it points to one of the characteristics of the series , which is to show how the inhabitants of Palestine livedand what they looked like . The

    I » J »»» W ^ •— — , — -I — MU subjects . » chosen ^ for ^ k illustration K Mi ^ a . are—Going i ^ h ^ d n . to the * well , Female figures ; Vineyard and the vinii tage ^^ o ; Camels , the ships * of __ the desert ; the Scape

    +--goat in the wilderness ; Treading-out and threshing corn ; Hauling in fishermen ' s nets . From —the same . — 'Pupil Teachers' Geographical

    II - ~ X OX Year-Books . Fourth Year Book : Atlas and Geography of America and the Oceans . ' This work , like the earlier numbers of the series ,

    supplies a complete set of political maps , physical maps , and outline maps , of the Continent and its chief divisions ; and the letterpress ,

    both on the physical and political geography of the countries , is admirably arranged and brought down to date . Although published

    specially for pupil teachers , to whom the Year-Books will be invaluable in preparing for their examinations , they are just as well fitted for

    home use , and newspaper readers would also find them capital works for reference , the compression of the text and the handsize of the books

    forming no slight recommendation y . From Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston , & Co . —

    lor 'Studies . Ful in l of German interest Literature for the student , ' by Bayard and for Tay the - lover who value of German books \ literature Here V / is how ; as , Luth indeed UAJI er V / A speaks •<_/ , VLWMtM for all of

    > ^ . w « v * % S w ^ * r ^ JAl ± hJ . * . JLA V . L A * J JLX V ^ r IT AJ V * , L ^ V ^ a eighty his method years in before transl our ating authorised the Bible version into German : — , We .. should — must u « uOu not ll \ ju ask CM 3 IV the UUC letters 1 CUUCID in 111 the V ) X 1 \ 3 Latin JUUlllL language MUigungO how UUn

    the we mother speak in the German house , , as the the children asses do , in but the we lanes must , ask the mouths common how man they in speak the market and translate place , and rdin read thereto in their

    man then to they them understand . , for , they see we acco are speaking g Ger- : Lessing ' s 'Laokoon '

    atiU App lojrgotten ears to EngUsh have been book . negatively Spence , « inspired whose 'Anecdotes by a long- ' Which PWison survive he of took the , the published poetry ground and in that the 1747 they art illustrate of Polymetis the ancients each , ' a other com , in

    from pamphlet the same the . — ' Wealth political or aspect Weal , ' of a Free thoug trade htful .

    on a Old « nd w , , hnas the as Professor Professor Land question Ruskin Ruskin , which . John John , before Stuart Stuart it Mill Mill is a page and and ,

    Adam « wwo tle is is nicely likelv Smith to to under arrest ftrrest review attention attention , . .. The enigmatical ,

    From the same . —' Five Years in Minnesota , ' by JMAunce Farrar . —Contents and its Bad twin times :

    Out-J vn ^ rd the -bound prairie ; Minnesota ; In the timber ; Amon cap g ital the ; } £ "ppewas emigration ; Sport question ; Political . These and few social word life s ;

    JL i ^ inJ JJ gicatiiig ^ tllat the a kind wOrk of promised w 1 ^^ with land tlie to those object for of ^ i < '• . >• ¦' . ' . ¦* ¦ ' ; ¦ _ - ..

    '"' " whom this old country . has . " . become barren ,. But : 1 T it is also and inforininbook for

    a very agreeable g I ' the general reader who may be minded'to take J , inexpensive jaunt to the great Westeril Land

    au an AUOJV . pouDX . vo jxbuuu iaj iuo gLcau is OOUOAA & xnuu , , ' which may here be done under ' Mt . ' Farrar * s graphic guidance in an hour or two . A closely

    printed appendix of figures and facts as to western which carries farming the emblem is the & Aii envoi of ih fertility of a bri on g its ht book \ ;

    Tl U 1 VU v ^ f * AAVM «/« - * V VMVV «^« A « s * n W * aa « s J ** mm 4 * + r ** f green bAVVU From cover the . same . — ¦ ' American Art Review ' . , new ;

    number , has four large pictures ( one double ) royal 4 to . size , and eighteen engravings in the ; text , whicn in itself is a beautiful specimen of

    printing . One of the bits' is of the grand choir at Ettal . Ettal is a mere village of a few houseswhich astonishes those who journey from

    Mittenwald , to Oberammergau by a dome amid the hills . It is that of the church just referred to .

    From Messrs . C . Mitchell & Co . — 'Newspaper Press Directory for 1880 / This , the thirty-fifth year The contents of issue , are is an grouped k ¦ imperial under octavo London of 234 Eng pages lish

    ^^^ m w ^^ ^ a ^ ^ r - ^^ ^^^^ r - ^ m ^^^ m ^ v ^^ ~ m ^^^^ ~^ r- ^^^^^ ~ ' ^ r ^ ¦ pr ^^ ^^ ^ — — — — — — , ^^ ^ J , Welsh , Scotch and Irish papers ; papers of the British Isles , leading Continental papers , magazines , reviews , and periodicals , and , lastly ,

    advertisements or publishers' own account of the special features of their newspapers & c . A business p ^ f wnff ^» ^^ mm ^^ flv »^^ -like ^^* " ^^^^ ^^ . statement v ^» ^^^ ^^ ' ^^ ^»^^^™ ^^ ^^^^ ^» . of —— ' the — — distinguishing - — — — — -- m -j - — g —^

    qualities lan of the of mai each n bod publication of the work is also . The part country of the ¦ p newspapers occur ¦ in ¦ y alhabet according B to the

    towns ^ B ^ B ^^ V V W M ^ ^^ they B ^^ ^^ ^^ w ^^ are ^^ ^^ ^^ published ^ P ^^~ —^^^ ^ p H —^ in . — ^—^— ; From Messrse Boutledge &

    Sons—. Georg . * The Sunshine of Home ; or , Hearts and Homes / i by Joseph Hart . A special interest attaches to

    this little volume , from the fact that its author , who was for nineteen years principal of Tunbrid w % ^ ^ bb am ^ m ge ^ B ^ K ^* " Wells w v - ^^ ^^ ^^ ~^ m Colleg - ^ v - ^ ^^ - ^ - ^ 1 ^^ iate ^^^ ^^ ^^ School ^^ H * ^^ ^~ — , M has been — totally — — ^ M

    blind for several years , and has written these tales selves since he to lost many his readers sight . They and their will obvi commend ously them ' good

    intent' will fit them for , a wide circulation . From the Society for Promoting Christian

    Knowledge . — 'The Chemistry of Creation : being a Sketch of the Chief Chemical and Physical Phenomena of EarthAirand Ocean' by Robert

    EllisF . L . S . M . E . C . , S . & , c . The first , edition of this ^ p * AV 4 I « P ^^ usefu , vV *^ i ^ p * *¦» nil l bv work V V , ^^¦ 1 BB ^^ k dates w v ^ «^ ^« p 4 ^ , back p >^ ^<« v ^^^^ . ^ to ^ v « r 1850 a ^ ^ 'pr ^«^ ^ r , and * r ~— as _ .. ^_ , in ¦¦¦ •_ * « * i

    the thirty years which have since passed away , much additional information has been collected by experiment and experience on the subjects

    t to reated rewrite , Professor the book A : . a J . task Bernay which s has he undertake has accom n - recent plished discoveries without disturbi have been ng its utilised original by p the lan editor . All

    , and upon the the book conviction , it may De of said a Divine , is throug agent hout as based the source and author of all natural phenomena .

    ¦ ii « T ^^ ^ 4 ^ b « ^^ ^ p » ^« BF »•• ^^ " 1 ^ fcJ"F ^ PB * ^^¦ l * ^ ^ p * ^^ ^ " » ¦ it ^^ " ^ ' » ™ - ~ ^^ " ^ ^ After an interesting introductory chapter ^ on ' The Chemistry of Creation / the author deals

    euccessivel Riimlv y with with the f . h « earth flarfh . , the the air air . , and and the the ocean ocean , , dis dis--cussing the I / AA v chemistry ^ rf A * *•* *•* under J * •** *** k W the of ^ r *» first the vm- * t ** *** soi the ^< r ^ l , W chemistry and ^^ ^^ ^^ the chemistry of the ^^ land afof ,

    the interior ; under the second , the physical constitution of the air , its chemical constitution , its occasional ingredients , its waters , its movements ,

    and its relation to the animal and vegetable worlds ; and under the third , tho physical consti f of tution life of The the ocean book , its is movements written throug and h its out ' forms in a '

    . illustrations popular and and attractive diagrams sty . le , As and a there text-book are , many with

    a competent teacher , ' The Chemistry ot ureation ; ij •¦ ' ¦¦¦ ¦ i „ -3 M ,

    1 April 15, * 88o Tiie Publishers ^ Circ...

    1 April 15 , * Tiie Publishers ^ Circular ¦^ 1

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1880, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041880/page/7/