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    June is, 1886 The Publishers' Circular 6...

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    From much the experience same.—Dr in . J...

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    June Is, 1886 The Publishers' Circular 6...

    June is , 1886 The Publishers' Circular 615

    From Much The Experience Same.—Dr In . J...

    From much the experience same . —Dr in . J . book E . Tay constructi lor does on not , for show in

    i * Our Austra Island lia ' Continent there is neither : a Natural a table ist of ' s contents Holiday nor an index . On perusing the volumehowever

    it will be found that the author gives , a very , comprehensive view of Australia and Australian lifeand that his descriptions do not lo > se effect

    by , their brevity . This is not slight praise . t hemse grants lves and of th travellers e volume . should certainly possess

    ¦ From b — y m t the h he ^^^^ same Society — —^ m- ^ a ^ r ^^^ r ^» . ~^ — «¦ m , ^ The m r s ~* r how — * -m ^^^ ' Photo a ^^^ r new i - ^— — Relief » and —¦ - ^ — — —^ — — ¦ deserving Map — —— — r - ^— - ^^ ^ r s , ' ^™ i ^^ ssue ^^ b ad - ^—^^ ^ ir ^ d -

    vance in the appliances for geographical teaching . These maps are by Mr . Henry F . Brion and the elevat Rev . Edmund ions and McClure other h , M ica . A l . features They indi of countri cate the es , pys

    better than any ordinary JT •/ maps we know of . From ¦¦ Messrs . Henry ¦ Stevens H ¦¦¦ w 1 & Bon . — '

    Recollec-Formation tions ~ " ~ HWMBa of ^^ r Wm * * Mr ^^ W * v ^^ . of ^ ^ James ^^ . ^ pp ^ his ^^ r ^ p . v . ^ r ^^ ^^^ Library Lenox ^^ ^ Hr ^ ^ ' ^^ , , ^^ of ' b ~^ New v ^ y ^^ V ^^ Henry ^^* ^^^ York "BV V , d ^^ b Stevens ^ and r ^ a ^ ^^^ ^^ r ^ k ^ the V ^^ ^^ F ,

    of of Vftrrn Vermont fmt . - The Thft moment momfint we Wfi took tonk up un t this his volume vnlnmA wri we were ting , an prepare d our d perusal for a has treat afforded in bibliographical us unalloyed

    ' sat Exp isfacti lanatory on . ' W have ithal something , the opening in them words that headed strike a sorrowful note . The author says : In the spring

    ot of 1883 18 fia . , while while the the Counci Oounftil l m in JLiondon London of of the t . hft Library Association of the United Kingdom were discussing their programme for the annual

    meeting at Liverpool , to be held in the fall , I , in

    From the same . —Few readers of ' The Basilisk / by Henry Pottinger Stephens and Warham St .

    Ledger , will fail to be struck by a family likeness to Called Back ' By the late Hugh Conway . Nor

    does this similarity wholly arise from the fact that a blind man , or one for a long period supposed to be blindis the leading character of the fiction

    and that , in this condition he is the means of un- , ravelling a grim mystery . There is a marked resemblance likewise in the style . The main fault

    of the story , however , is to be found in the latter half . For a certain distance it proceeds well enough , feeing dramatically conceived and forcibly

    told , but towards the close the writers abandon 11 themselves to sensation of the wildest order , out- II raging probability with an unsparing hand . For 11 all thisthe story is distinctly cleverand as a

    somewhat , feverish means of passing , away an evening , few novels that we have read could be better adapted .

    From Messrs . Triibner & Co . — ' India Revisited , ' by •/ Edwin Arnold , C . S . I ., author of ' The Lig ' ' ht ofI

    Asia / Mr . Arnold's many admiiers will be very g contr lad that ibutions he has to put the in D volume ailTele form these hand numerous that he grap

    ~ AB B y A 4 fc , dents pract has _ made ical of , his several to his travels . powerful additions ^^ certainl ^ n , arrative both ^ far ^ descri more of pt the ive ^ inci and hic - I , y grap ,

    p been ieturescue written , and concerning poetic t India han anyt for hi a good that many has years .

    From Messrs . John "Walker & Co . —For ex'quisite taste in the production of tiny gift-.

    From Much The Experience Same.—Dr In . J...

    From tempt the to same Keach hts . — for Them In ' Our , ' Emil Working y C . Orr Men , t i he : an author

    Atver of y ' Thoug thoughtful chapters Working ; to her Day readers s , ' gves . As some a study of a social prohlem of no ordinary

    importance the book is most acceptable . From the same . —Miss Alice Gardneraresident

    lectu 1 Synesius rer of Newnham f Cyrene College Philosop , Cambrid her and , ge , Bishop , writes /

    a volume of the series , entitled * The Fathers for English Readers / The information concerning

    clearness the subject and of precision the volume . is conveyed with From the same ¦ . ¦ —Two stories ¦ b ¦ ¦ y Mrs . Macqnoi ¦ d

    ^^^ ^^ are - ^^ ^»^ V ¦ ^ M very ^ ^^¦ ^^^» *^^ ^^ acceptable ^ ' « ^ » » ^^^^ w ™ " ^^^ in *^" r " ^ the ^» ^^^ ^^ — ™ form , ™ of a neat — little — — - *~ — , volume . They are ' A Strange Company' and

    selected ' The Lig as ht the on name the Seine of the , ' the book former . title being From the same . —Mr . Edward WalfordM . A . the

    and entertaining the editor writer of upon Walford archaeolog 9 Anti ical uar , ian subj , ects has q , issuedtinder the title The Pilgrim a . t Home '

    a volume , which , although small , is full of out-of , - various the-way hi information storic laces upon to which the associ he ¦ has ations made of p

    Weston p il fc ^^^ t ^ grimages » M " *^ ' ^^^^^ l ^ ^ BP ^ and ^^^ ^^ . " ^" r ' ^^ F' ^^ " ¦ Such ^ Cowper ^^^ H ^ T ^^ . ^ chapters ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ J ^^ ' Strawberry » ™ as - ^—^^^^ ^^ those ~ -- ^ on ^ Hill ' ^ . ' Olney - ^ - ^ and — ^^^ , " ^^

    -, ; John Horace Bunyan Walpole ; ' ' ; The ' * Hug Battl henden e Fields ; ' of * Elstow NVwbury and ;' 1

    St . Columba ' s Tomb at Iona ; ' and * AbbotsfordDryburghand Melrose' are of so graphic

    a nature , that , the intelligent , reader will be delighted by a perusal of their pages .

    From the same . —Mrs . Molesworth , in * A Charge Fulfilled / presents her readers with one of those

    so pretty talented stories a writer which . we 'A may Charge always - ^ Fulfilled expect ' from is a story of English domestic life very true to

    ! nature . 1 ¦

    an they unguarded might enter moment me for , a told paper " of the Recollections boys" Ifliat

    of Mr . . Tames Lenox or Sir Antonio PanizzL Our first draft nimble secretary . ' Here mad the e matter a note abruptl of it y in stops the

    and it has been the melancholy duty of Mr . , Henry U . Stevens to record that these woSfds , and

    the dedication of the book to Dr . George H . Moore , were the last lines his father wrote only I

    posthumous a day ot two wo before rk iiir his » lu ( 3 lamented es recollections decease . of His the famous founder of the Lenox Library of New

    during York , - extending which Mr . Stevens oTer a long was to period a great of extent years , identified Tjith the purchase of the rare books

    that "went to enrich the treasures of the New World . " Under these circumstances the ' Re-^ H ^ A A * ^ ^ k i ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ h ^ b ^ i ^ M ^ A

    collections' are full of powerful . interest to book lovers , and that attraction is intensified by the charming gossipy style of tha writing . The

    book abounds with anecdotes of the humours of the trade and the troubles of collectors , and we I affirm that no more delightful volume upon I

    public bibliograp f 5 or hical many top years ics . has Great been care g has iven evidentl to th y been bestowed upon the ' get-up ' of tha volume ,

    " whi hat ch externa is full lly y in and keep in ing the with printing the the contents book , so is exceptionally handsome .

    From Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Co . — ' The Otways' Child' by Hope Stanford . This

    story , though it savours , somewhat in title of an . Indian romance , is in reality the record of very m mm * « % , 4 . 4

    two homel pup * y ll experiences % Xohnston . and Mr ^ . Paget Rodn . ey The , a c latter urate , acci has - dentallfalls cliff and is killedbut it is

    supposed his death y . by This some over is , thetonost th a Joh exci nston ting was incident the , cause in the of

    narrative lot is ma , d and e to upon turn . it Th a considerable e storis a portion verinterest of the - I p y y

    ing one , and should attract many readers .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1886, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061886/page/21/