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    ine'dits par le G 6 ne * ral Prince Schterbatowde 1 'Etat-Major Russetome premier' contain , -

    ing the period from , 1782 to 1826 , has , just been published by Franz Wagner in Leipzig .

    ! Pim rim We e en ntei te have l , , of or uporto Oporto received , , the tne from Messaaeiro messageiro J . J . de L Littemvio Mesquita itterario - .

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    contains articles on the Electric Light , on Hypnotism and Science , on Prophetic Almanacks , part of a translation of Ludovic Halevy ' s

    novel novel ' Le ± je fere Pere Uonstantm Constantin ' ' and and the t . h « Portu TVn-t-. n--guese and foreign bibliograp , hy of the month . The —— — Jun — - * - » - - e - ¦ v number — — « ¦ - " ¦¦ - - -M- - *~ r 4 . of ^_*> m . Centralblatt v _ - * - * w v \ s r \ sv \ S KS VVvl IS fur ¥ > % / / JBiblio 4 9 \ J \ J % J t /\~ r - ™~ teksw J

    hesen contains an exhaustive article on ; J Printing . H . H , essels not ' Mentz 'Haarlem , ' in , which the Bi rth . p Hessels lace of '

    tneory theory is is very very effectively enectively Handled handled bv by D Dr r . A A . Wyss . Herr A . Heger ' s account of the first , German will be read with much

    newspaper interest . The notes on libraries and miscellaneous notices are full of information .

    It was an original idea of Dr . Friedrich 1 LandmannEnglish " - Master »^» - « in the 1 /¦ xiV Leipzig

    • Commercial ~— - —— — — , j School —— y »^ ~ — , to — translate * ^ " - * . *•* w ^^ . ^ a whole number /^/ X inj * ^ - ^ J-Cj . of the Times ¦ n ^ - b ^ - ^ v as a textbook for

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    the advertisementswill fill , about 40 octavo pages and cost about , four shillings .

    edit e Memoires d by M . Kohn du Comte -Abrest de , have Beust j , uat 1809 appeared -1885 /

    in ill V 2 vols VOls . . ovo 8 VO . . , with With portrait nortra . it , and Jl . nfl autograp iaiit . r ^ rrT » a-rk h of r > f the deceased statesman who played so

    important ant a a part part in m tne the nistory hist or v of of ( Crfirma Jrermany . nv and » nrl of r » f Austria bv by JMLr IVIr . . from 1 L ^ . . Westh Westhau 1866 ailSSfir . sser This . , nf of work Paris "Pa-ri is a published who - « r"h / - » also oIqa

    , announces 1 l « 848 4 » -1888 -l » H «/ ' ' par Dar Frangois A A . de df » -Josep liertha T $ firtha h et in in commemora r » son nmmomr Regne » T «< j - ,

    tion of the fortieth anniversary , of the accession to the throne of the popular soverei ¦ gn of j Austria-Hungary % .

    \ l Melanges o— et Portraits' is the title of a collection of posthumous writings of the late

    M . Caro , of the French Academy , which have been published in two volumes by Messrs . Hachette & Co .

    whose It is memory stated that is the so late closel Marshal y and Le painfull Boeuf y , associated ¦*¦ with f the a . Franco Jt _ / -German of

    ~ — — — " - *— — « -- « - . » * v *» , «^ j > . v ^ A , S * V & A V ^ V V ** VA 1 AJ . UIIX war W CJLX . V-r J . his 1870 4 y ~ w ^_ life j-v -7 I— 1 -a in , was writing engaged a volume _ during of the recollections last year to of Which winch he he gave PaVfi the fchfi title tit . lft ' Histoire TTi « fcrnr £ » de rl « ma ma vie T 7 i < a

    I pour mes Petits-Enfants . ' ii A volume on horology has just been

    puband lished s / jed is in m entitled Paris J ^ ans . . l It It La is ia Mesure bv by M M . . Alfred Alfred du Temps Franklin Fr « nklin . ' It , describes the *^ various bVA i instruments used for

    ~ " ~ " *• ' — ^ - ^ -w *^ sm . i * s v JL- ^ r \** . KJ AJIAW UJL *^ 4 1 I 1 V 1 A % / KJ UOUvi X \ -J M . measuring time during the last seven centuries . The ihe history history of ot the the ancient ancient public nuhiir . clocks nlo ^ ks of of

    ^ aris is most interesting . We have received a prospectus of a new editionof the * Bihisch Woordenboek

    < ler Noord , en Zuidnederlandsche ograp Letterkunde door JGFrederics wvviA en FJosVan den ^

    — — v . -v- ^ . - * fc- A JkJiiyM ^/*« i J » - . « ^ # V ^ kJ . » l « AJL VtVAA Branden . This new edition , which has

    under-I J < one a thorough , revision , will be much more

    complete and in all respects an improvement on the first , and special attention has been

    paid to the great development of religious , especially Catholic , literature in recent years . The work will be published in about fifteen

    parts at two shillings , and will form four volumes royal « 7 8 vo . The publisher Jr is Herr

    L . J . Veen , of Amsterdam . Messrs . Hachette & Co . announce a

    translation , by M . Lucien Beau j en , of some of Miss Edgeworth ' s delightful juvenile tales .

    Librairie Charpentier has just published ' Journal de Stendhal , 1804 to 1814 . '

    M . Calmann Le ^ will publish shortly ' Promenades d ' un Homme de Lettres / par

    Charles Monselet . The author of ' Le Recit d ' une Soeur' has

    written ' Lady Georgiana Fullerton , sa Vie et ftf ses sfta ( CL Eiivrfts uvres . - "N No " o one nnft had ha . fl a a . better V > fit , t , f » r right ricrht

    to undertake this task than Mrs . Augustus Craven , whose masterpiece of religious

    biog crap ranh hv y had Tia . d such aunh a a remarkable remarkable success success both both here and on the Continent . The life of Lady Fullerton is graced bletters from Cardinal

    y Newman and ornamented with a fine portrait

    of Lady Fullerton .

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    Sir Francis Hastings Doyle . —We regret to ¦ announce the death d of \ Sir Francis Hastings

    ^^^ ^ * ^^^ V J ^ ^ b ^ W J ^ ^ ^ ^^^^ b ^ K ^^ b ^^^ ~ - — ^ k ^ ^ K ^^ ^^^ ^ h ^^ B " ^ B ^ m ^^ p VT « ^^ " ^^ ^ H . V ^^^ ^ B > ^^ B ^^^^ ^^ B ^^^ V ^ B ^ Bb ~| — ^^ . ^^ V ^^ 1 ^^^ . ^^ ^ k ^^ V r ^^^ «^ ^^ «^ ^^ HK ^^^ Doyle , which suddenly took place on June 8 . Francis Hastings Doyle was born at

    Nunapplefore ton fore , in in Yorkshire his liis 78 l 78 Mi th vftar in August . . He FFfi was was 1810 the tTi , ft and son son was of of the tli there p la late . tft

    year Major-General Sir Francis Hastings Doyle , and was educated at Eton and Christ Church

    Oxford , at both of which places he highly , distinguished 1 himself . He graduated with

    ^^^ h ^ k rn J k ^ k ^ k 'M «* *•** ^ ^* ^ fc ^^ ' * m ^ " ^» ^ ^» ^ " ^ " ¦« ' ^^ ^^ ^» ^ ¦ x ^^^^ kv ^ f MMiM ^^ ^^ - ' w ^^* - ^ ^ ' ^ w ™ ^ i ^ ^ . ^ ^ . w ^ " ^^ " ^ ^ . ^^ ^^^^^ honours in the Easter Term of 1832 , taking a First m _ ^ k ^ k 9 < iJ ^* Class ^ m ^ J ^ ^^ »^^ ^^ ^ in ^ ^ b Classics - ^^ ^^ » - ^^» r ^^ ^* <^ ^^ i ^*^ . v Contemporar ' ^ . ^ ^* - ^ - ^ * fc ^»* ^>^ ^ ^ * fc B ^^ ^ ih ^ " ^ * - ^ ^» 3 w r with t » ^» ^^ «» ^ m

    him at Oxford were William Ewart Gladstone , Henry and Edward Manning , Thomas Dyke

    Aclan 4 r ^ l an d , and JfcL Ea . . arl rl Uannmg Oanninor , . and and with with these these and other distinguished students Doyle was on term f s of close intimacy . Shortly after leaving 1

    ^ j ^^^ J ^ p ^ ^^^^ ^^ J ^^ m . W ^^ m ^^^ ^ b ^* m * ' t ^^^ ^^ ^ H ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ B ^^ ^^ ^ b ^ Vf ^ h ^^ W V ' ^^^ V ^^ ^^ ^—^ *^ b ¦ ^ 1 ^ ^^ ^ k ^^ i * ^^ ta ^^ ^ h ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ V ^ B ^ ^ . ^^ «^^ h Oxford Sir Francis Doyle was called to the ^ Bar ^^^ ^ r ^ J ^ P oV ^ . V ^ In 4 ^ ^ K ^^ ^ 1846 ^^^ ^ w *^ « V ^ ^ ta ^ ^ he K MP ^ 1 ^ was T T ^ B ^^ *^^ ¦ appointed ' ^ ' ^ r > M ' ^^^ ^^ ^ P ^ ^^ «^ | ~| ~ ^>^^^ ^ Receiver b ^^ ^ w ^ b ^ ¦ ^^^ ^^ V ~^^ ^^>

    -General of Customs ; and in 1870 a Commissioner of Customs . In 1867 he was elected

    to the Chair of Poetry in his old University for five years , and during part of this time he

    held hftlH a f fftl ellowship lnwfthin at a . t All All Souls Sonla' . He Hft had had alread alrfsadv y held a fellowship at the same College from 1836 to 1844 and onlresigned it on his

    marriage . At , the end of y his term of tenure he was y J » y ^^ J elected ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ b' ^^^ b 4 for ^ ^—r ^^ ^ a iTT ¦ r second ^ Nir ~^^ - ^^ ^ w ^ b ^^ ¦ period n ^ ^ ' ^ «^ ^^ ^^ ^ . ^^^ of ^ B ^ «^ ^ five ^ ^^ v ~^^ years v ^ r *¦ v . . ^ ¦ ¦ * , ¦«

    and when he finally resigned the professorship ¦ he received the honorary degree of D . C . L .

    ¦ M ^^^ J ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ Mk ^ ^^^ ^^^^« ^^ ^^ fl * ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^*^ ^ ** ^^*^ ^^ " ^ B ^^^^^ h ^^ 1 B ^^^^ V ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^*^^ ^^^^^^^ ^ from the University . At different periods of his life Sir Francis Doyle published ballads

    and other poetical pieces , some of which possess a high degree of merit . Among the

    Hp best »» f known Irnnwn of of his his pieces nienes are are the the spirited snirited ballad ballad called ' The Private of the Buffs' and the lines in which he celebrated the valour of the British

    troops who went down in the JBirkenhead . In

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1888, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061888/page/7/