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    ^Eviewf, &Q. From Mr. J. W. Arrowsmitli....

    From Messrs . Olipliant , Anderson & IPerrier . Two volumes in the Popular Shilling Series '

    have reached us : ' Rachel : a Heroine' and * Thomas Dryburgh ' s Dream , ' the one by Annie S . Swan , author of ' Aldersyde , ' the other

    by Edith C . Kenyon . Both are good stories , and will well repay perusal . From the same . —For many reasons detective

    stories will always command a wide amount of attention , and we ate therefore pleased to welcome * Clues ; or , Leaves from a Chief

    Constable ' s Note Book , ' by so well known and capable an authority as William Henderson , Chief Constable of Edinburgh . The

    experiences are exciting in character and very I well told , and they bear in themselves an appearance of truthwhich cannot be said of

    most stories of a simil , ar kind that have been written .

    From the same . — ' Adele ' s Love , ' by Maude M ^ Butler , is a simple story of a wholesome

    character , which is not without a certain charm of diction and considerable literary ability . For the lovers of quieter fiction it will prove a

    very agreeable companion . From the Religious Tract Society . —The ' Short

    Biographies for the People' form one of the most attractive publications of the Society , and the latest volume is devoted to the

    • Reformers . ' It contains admirable portraitures of Luther , Calvin , Huss , Wycliffe ,, Tyndale , and other less-known men who stood for faith and

    freedom in dark and troublous times . From the same . — The two new volumes of

    ' Present Day Tracts' deal respectively with * Christian Evidence , Doctrine , and Morals , ' and ¦ ' Man - ™ - — - in Relation - i h -- to ^^»« -m ^* the mm h Bible r b r ~ and vh Chris » - i ** ™ ^— — ^— ^—^^ ^^^ — ' —— ^ " ^ ^^ ^^ ^— ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ | — ^^^^ F ^^^^^^^ a t ^^^^ ^ b ^ K ^^ ,

    tianity . ' Amongst the contributors to the first occur such well-known names as those of the Revs- Eustace R . ConderD . D . John Stoughton

    , , , D . D ., and W . Gr . Blaikie , LL . D . Canon Rawlinson , Prebendary Row , and Sir Wm . Dawson , have enriched the second with thoughtful and

    able papers , written in a calm , dignified , but forcible manner . From Messrs . William Rider & Son . —A

    technical , but at the same time popular , treatise on * How to Select Wood-Working Machinery . ' by Mr . Stafford Ransome , forms the third volume

    of the ' Timber Trade Handbooks . ' Mr . Ransome is of opinion that wood-working machines are often ordered in a careless mannernot

    merely by private purchasers but by the trade , . The book is full of practical hints on circular sawsfret machines - - lathes -r- pulleys & - c ¦ and -m ~~ - - »

    gives , a clearly-written , account , + of / , — a — - , great — — — variety of machines now in use for the conversion of wood , and a summary of improvements

    ivhich have marked their construction in recent years . It also contains a number of useful woodcutsbut its value would have been

    en-, hanced if an index had been added . Mr . Stafford Ransome is of course an authority on the subject ^ , j and on aknost every — — — ^ j page j ^~ ^ y — there — — — is evi — - — -

    dence of his mastery of all that concerns woodworking tools . From Messrs . Saxon . & Co . — ' Herbert Severance :

    a Novel , ' by M . French-Sheldon . The course of this story is for a time rational , and to a certain extent interesting . We loam how Dick

    Drysdale , who inspires sympathy by his manly , honest disposition , has fallen in lovo with

    I Clarisse Corneille , daughter of his uncle ,

    Hert bert Severance , and-we hear through the mouth of the latteri how basely he was deceived in h

    er mother , Clarisse Ardt-lle ; .. the famous prima ! dorma , and are likewise told , of 'the treachery of

    - his plot friend , for want , Coun of a guiding la Rue . hand But after , declines this , , the the an situations cl when become at the melodram conclusion atic of and the far story -fetched , both ,

    , Herbert Severance and the perfidious Count come : we to art are untimely tly distre ending ssed , it . cannot Still Mrs be . said French that - j

    grea Sheldon ' s story is , after a fashion , effective , and no doubt , by the lovers of sensation , will be

    perused with more than ordinary attention . iFrom ^ rom Messrs Messrs . . Sneuey Shellev & « Co Co .. — —Se several veral jmew ^ iew fea

    tea--, tures have been introduced into Shelley ' s ' Press Directory for 1889 , ' perhaps the most important

    of whicfa is the Summary of Newspaper Law Cases . The law in regard to journalism is still , j ^ in m ^ b ^ b m «^^^>^ an ^ W " ¦ * y w ^ r m e ^^^ spects ^ mr n ^ ^^ * + r ^ tr ^* r , m ¦ bo w ^^ t ^^ h — vague » v f ^) ' ^ ^^ a ^^ nd ^^* — ^— perp J ^ ' - ^ —~ ^— lexi - ^ " ^ ngv -, *

    and therefore the decisions of the Courts are of value in establishing precedents for future action . This new edition ( the third ) gives a [

    f United a qll « and Kin im » p dom artial . m ^ and guide m ^ it . has . * the press add i tio / t the nal il \ g , advantage of being very clearly arranged . ,

    From Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Op . —The popularity achieved by Mr . Philips * biisk , if somewhat cynical , novel , ' Little Mrs . Murray , ' is attested by the ance of a stereotyped

    edition . Mrs . Murra appear y tells her own story , and it ^ b ^^ is < a «^^ im ^^ ^ k ^^ i ^ p r- — ossible ^^ ^^ ^ " ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ " no ^*^^ 1 ^* t ^» t ^ o - ^^ f ^^ e' ^^ el ^»^ ^» both » " ^ ^^ - ^^ ^^™ interested " » - — ^ ^^ - — - ^ —~ — — ~— - a ~ nd — — - ;

    amused by the frank confessions of the bright j young widow . There is both humour and keen observation in the book , and Mr . Philips may be ratulated on the skill with which he

    relate cong s the adventures of his vivacious heroine . From the same . —The Earl of Desart ' s sensational

    and rather creepy novel , ' Herne Lodge / has reached a one-volume edition . The strength of the book consists in the skilful manner in

    which the most unlikely incidents are blended with the fireside talk of modern Bociety . The plot is gruesome , and , in our judgment ,

    somewhat repellent ; but the interest of the story is undeniable , and Lord Desart knows how to which keep ^ his is signi own ficantly secret entitled for a thrilling ' The End chapter un- ,

    less ' But the lovers in the , book are , certainly not too handsomely treated , and when we have turned the last page we are left to get

    what satisfaction we can concerning them out of the heading we have just named . From Messrs . Spottiswoode & Co . —The Sermon

    which the Master of the Temple preached in the Temple Church , on Sunday morning , March 31 on the - _ occasion __ _ . __„_ of _ . the . _ — _ death _ of the Right

    — , — — __ — — — — — — ^^ j Hon . John Bright , M . P ., has just been published . Dr . Vaughan draws attention to the * simplicity and godly sincerity - ' of r- Mr . Bri - ght * s character , ,

    _ — _ ^ ^^ - — — — _ _ ^ — ^ f as well ^ as to his supreme ^ allegiance , in public as in private life * to the dictates of conscience . rdthe departed statesman another

    He regas as witness to the ' kind of thing that Engl and honours and that England will not let die /

    From the University Press , Cambridge . —The ( new volume of the Dean of Peterborough's , Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges is a

    scholarly introduction to the * Epistle to the . Philippians / with brief but luminous and suggestive notes by the Kev . Princi ¦ i i pal ¦ Moule ¦ ¦ I ¦ h M . A .

    | ^ The modest general ^^ j - title of ^ -- these ' — — - ^ - — ^ r ^— usefu m ~— ^^ m — ^— l manual ^ - ^^ r , ^ m - w - ^ - ^ s has possibly done them an injustice . They are written with great ability , and are most

    conveniently arranged . .

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    4 i 8 The . Publishers' Circular ( April ¦ ** ? s , ma ¦ i ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' - ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ I '" V ' " ' " ¦¦

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1889, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041889/page/16/