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    S32 The Publishers' Circular juiy IS$ l8...

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    Books Received :— I I Trom Messrs. Blaok...

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    S32 The Publishers' Circular Juiy Is$ L8...

    S 32 The Publishers' Circular juiy IS $ l 88 o I I — y

    Books Received :— I I Trom Messrs. Blaok...

    Books Received : — I I Trom Messrs . Blaokie & Son . — ' London Past and

    I ] Present Sch ^_^^_ ools . . ' Although A Beading _ V ^ h V admirabl _ Book ^_ _ y fitted for __ for Elementary ^_ " ^_ _ the pur M - pose ¦ v ^^ ^ mW ^ w for ^» ~^ * m 9 " w which » ^ fes ^ ^^ F ^ fc ^ b ¦ it ah ^ f ¦ was * ^»^* ¦ main ^^ »< ™^ — ~— ly ^ w desi ^ r ^ ™ ^~ gned ^^ ^ — , as ^— one

    of the volumes of ' Blackie ' s Comprehensive School Series / it would be a mistake to imagine that this work is simplfitted for —* - school use — .-- for

    it ^ r *^ w presents vr w ^_^ ¦ ** w w in ^^^ fa A a _ compendious > 9 m * ^ m *« m ~^ m * y F — — - » w —— form — — — — a vast — — — mass — — - , of — facts the Vl metropolis aa 4 B as to the which history » ¦ ¦ will and have ____ present an condition interest ____ _ for of

    r v wmmr ¦ - - of the ^ ^ —^ the general metropolis ^ ^^ ^ reader ^ «*^ v ^ under * . ^^ After its — a separate topograp — sections hical sketch , as including the UliO suburba DUUUlLnt n portions jyvt uiviio of ui luiuuiuoi Middlesex

    JUi ; i UVJUl ^ u ' *) , the Surrey history , Kent of , ari London d Sussex , fro , m we the have Roman a resumS period of

    street down to nomenclature the present da the y , foll civic owe bodies d by chapte and r their s on customs , the principal , buildings and institutions

    of the metropolis , and its parks , bridges , and food markets and . water A cap supp ital l ac y of count the great also city given its lig

    ht-, ing , its railways , and its means of locomotion , and ^ F ^^^ B m rom ^ m * of — ^ ^» ^» ^_ the the ^» ^ m ^» *^— police * same ^^ ^ - ^ — — — - ^ mj . and —' Elementary V ^ h fire ^^^^^ h — * ^ " ^™ ^~ bri ^ " ^ ^^^^ ga ^^ ^ ™^ de T Geograp . - —~ ~™~ ^ mm ^ B ~ H hy ^ g , m ¦ Standard ~— ~~ — ~ - —

    II . ' ByW . G . Baker . A simple introduction . geography , each definition having an illustration , which will materially assist the young learner

    in mastering the elements of the science . , From the same . — ' Elementary Geography , Standard in .: England and Wales . ' By W . G . Baker . A

    brief and simply-written geography of England and Wales , with some capital maps . The descript % ion of the characteri junw stic fea vciui ture i s i of t tuv he var ? % i iv ous

    j § vru VX tuv viiciiiu ^ tl / i j _ ... LVsfc _ vj . jux _*^ count es and of their industries is admirably done . From the same . —' Fifth Header . ' A capital

    selection of readings , with illustrations , questions , and a glossary to each chapter giving the meaning and pronunciati ^ — — on of any ^ z difficult words , with a

    biograp tioned . hical At the note close on any of eminent the book persons is a table men of - derivations and a list of prefixes from the Latin

    and Greek . JL From Messrs . Cassell , Petter , Galpin & Co . —

    W . H . D . Adams' ' Dictionary of English Literature . ' New edition . Some books are for our amusement , some merely to look at , and some ,

    the rarer class , are for use , the daily tools of the l iterary ple or craftsman two of Mr and . Adams student ' most . We usefu will l comp give ila -

    tion , by way of showing what is meant by a ' dictionary of literature' :- — Mom Casa on W the i / appy death . of eleg infan iac poem i t , by David C Macbkth W

    was <""*» a , pet « u name uo ucaiu of the child Jin an . xjLjj .. l / sou duu . . . . . » . vaou asa »» appy nyyj True ; the child called himself so , and that is how it became a pet name . Here is a nameowned by

    eeveral contemporary writers , which must , have occasioned , and may yet cause , confusion—made clear : —

    J 3 d . ward . es , Annie , novelist . Edwards , Amelia Blandford , aovcii » t . Edwards , Edward , bibliographer .

    E Ed dw wards ards , , Matilda Henry Sutherland . Betham , author , author . . This , with a list of the respective authors' works ,

    disentangles the matter as much as it can be done—Jmitatio Man Ohritti proposes . , but God disposes , will be found in the I

    The origin of some famous lines is given as under : — stone Inn < fcc at . Henley , lines written at , by "William

    shen-, Whoe ' er has nis travelled life ' s dull round been ,

    wuere er stages may Dave ,

    May sigh to think he still has found " ¦ " fl His warmest welcome at an inn .

    We are tempted to give four lines which an irreverent p ^» ilgrim ^^^ J * added with a diamond on — - " the ^ f fLJL U window

    pane : — But if you find a smoky room ,

    And And very verv li littl ttle e in in the tho larder larder ., You And ' ve try only your got luck to call a little your farther groom . ,

    Mr . Adams deserves the thanks of all labourers in the field of literature for a compendium the value ft of which V will be appreciated V 4 fe when M M we sayV * B

    e that ntries . we . reckon it to contain . from 2 ^^ 5 , 000 *^ to 30 , 000 From Messrs . Griffith & Farran . — ' College Days

    graduate at Oxford life / b , y with H . 0 full . Adams -page . illustrations A tale of . under The - contents are : —A lark across country , the three

    Harchesters , Osborne , Wardleigh and Wilton , responsion Tutor ' s breakfast sAshburnham .. __ . _ . - party ______ , ' s debate wine _ . _ . _ . a . at strange _ the visitor Union ,

    the ^| steeplechase , , Barton ' s letter , , a row ^ . in —r - _ _ . ^ the —W ^ , . theatre , the seven-oared race , an afternoon of mishaps , Mr . Fowler in his parish , a sensational

    adventure , the end of the long , the supper-party , the money-lender , Endicot again , the final schools , Wilton ' s troubles , the cricket dinner

    euthanasia . , From Mr . John Heywood . —• Ashman ' s Spelling

    Prefixes Book , on , Suffixes a New , Plan Boots , , with & c . ' Comp New lete edition Lists . The of special feature of this little book is its plan of

    teaching JL concurrently the spelling of a word X and the meaning of the word . Thus the words to be 1 spelt are given in one column and the meanings in

    the next column . The idea , the author says , was adopted from an American work , but while he does not claim originality for the system , his

    look is , he says , entirely his own , and is not a reprint of the Transatlantic manual . From Mr . John Hodges . —' The Eucharistic

    Manuals of John and Charles Wesley . ' Eeprinted 1794 . fro Edited m the with orig an ina introduction l editions of b 1748 the , 1 Rev 757 , . , , y

    W . E . Dutton , Vicar of Menstone . Second edition . The religious position communities of the Wesleyan of the country body among is so im the

    portant that all evidence which tends to throw light upon the teaching of the founders of MethodiMn must have considerable interest fora

    fro ver m y large surprising circle of that readers reprints , and it of is the therefore works far of J — oh _ . n . and __ _ . __ Ch __ __ ar . „ l _ es , _ W _ . esle __ __ . _ . _^ y are _ , __ ^_ __ being —1 ^ " ** " ^ P «_ P H ^ k i « » ssued *^ ^** ^^ ^~ ~ in

    many quarters . la the present case the publication of the reprint of the Eucharistic Manuals of the two famous brothers ishowever not

    undertaken by Wesleyans , but b , y members , of the Church of England ; and the editor , in h is preface w— — — — - , « avowedl — — h — ~ ^— — — - - y m cl ~— ^ a ^^ rr' ims — ¦¦ *— *•— - * - t ^> " — h »™ e —^ work — w ~^^ r ^ ^ m-mim ^ as p ^ p r ^^ — a ¦ - ~ p roof

    that the teaching it contains is identical with that of the High Churchism of the present day . The work has a definite historical value as a

    proof of the teaching of the Wesleys on the great and i Dutton ^^""^ ™ ~ mr ~— cruc — m ^^ al *^ ial ^ so m * ^^ question suggests v ^ ^^^^ B ^ h ^ B ^ h ^^ ** v ™* w * tr of that V * ki ^^ the ^ m ^ v the ^ v ¦ w Eucharist ^ nm ^ mr mt Manual ^^^ vtmm ^ v" . 4 rf » ^ V . V , but may ^ ¥ M r .

    welcomed by many persons for practical and devotional use . tflM From ^ F ' — *—^^ m Messrs —mw ^ ' ^^ mm —v ¦ ¦ ¦ w ^ r . ^ Passmore tfmM rw ¦ ¦¦ ^ m ^^^ r ^ mt mW IHV m & P ^ Alabaster KjtmWmW ^^ lmW P 1 V ^ T ^~ r * r- 1 mT . —' The ^^ ^ *^ ^ *^^* ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^

    A Sea characteristic : a Sermon to address Seamen by . ' the By famous C . H . Spu preacher rgeon . it based / The on p the lain words speaki * The ng , strong sea is common His , and sense He found made , and powerful language of Mr . Spurgeon never

    a worthier subject than that which he here treat = = f

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1880, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071880/page/8/