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    Correspondence.

    that he bad neglected to lock his cupboard for the past twelve months . As to a similar robbery ; ve hous hear of it in your columns for the first time- and we have since ascertained that it occurred at another

    e . held We responsi endeavour ble when , as collectors far as possible do not , to themselve protect the s use interests all necessary of our precaution customers . ; , but we can hardly le

    We are , dear Sir , yours obediently ,

    SIMPKIN , MARSHALL , & CO .

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    Books Keceived :— From Messrs. David Bry...

    Books Keceived : — From Messrs . David Bryce & SonG-lasgow . —

    , ' Behind the Scenes in Norway , ' by a Special Correspondent . The name of the author , though not given on the title-pagestands out in the

    signature to the preface , wiiere , Mr . W . L . McFarlan tells us that the chapters her © gathered tog-ether were originally contributed as ' letters '

    to The Glasgow Herald , The author writes pleasantly and observantly of alL he sees , and his commission to visit Norway and ' note its social

    and political rather than its physical aspects , and its capital as the centre of it » national life , ' gave him scriptive ample touches scope * . of * Ming the led people with as p they lenty are of , ' our

    deauthor gives us a large amount of useful information as to the government and tha political condition of the kingdom . The social and religious habits and customsand many other points of the

    national life are set , forthand we are in fact on speaking terms with Norway , and the Norwegians I when we lay the book down . Four

    well-executed illustrations adorn its pages . From Mr . "Henry IProwde . — 'French Spare Moments

    Princi in Junior pal and of the Senior London Classes School , ' by J . oi F . Commerce P . Masse . , A collection of three hundred short extracts for

    unseen translation from French into English drawn from the authors of the seventeenth , eighteenthand nineteenth centurieswhose names

    and epochs , are given in a preliminary , list of authors , which is in itself of much value . I The 'budget of paragraphs arranged in three

    divisions of easy , moderate , and difficult—but even the easiest , it may be said , making considerable demands upon the pupil—is followed by a

    table of 1 , 000 idiomatic expressions with the key-I word occurs in in the the first second column and , the the idiom equivalent in which ( in it

    French . ) in the third . , The idea of the editor is that failure in examinations is often due to the candidate ' s want of practice in translating

    paspages which he has never seen before , and that if a few spare moments are devoted every day to the translation of unseen French and the study

    of the idiomatic expressions with which it abounds , it will give the student much confidence . M . Masse agrees with the author of a book

    recently noticed in our pages , that the best way to written learn French tn French is to and learn this it he by means is his o > f reason books , , says ,

    for patting in French and not in English the explanations of the idioms . From Mr . L . XJpoott Gill . — « Greenhouse

    Management for Amateurs / by W . J . May . Second edition , revised and enlarged . The title of this useful and exhaustive volume scarcely does

    justice to tts contents , for while its first sixty fact pages that are it fairl ives y descri in addition bed on to the its titl cti e-page cal hints , the g , pra

    and cultural directions , a complete Dictionary of Plants , filling nearly 300 pages with a wellexecuted woodcut of nearly every plant / does not

    appear on the face of the volume ij - tf . a A more ' --- useful ----present for the amateur horticulturist could

    | scarcely be desired , and it ought to have a

    place on the shelves of all who can boast of a glass-house—no matter how small it may be .

    From the same . — ' Practical Taxidermy : a Manual of — Instruction — to — the — Amateur — in Collecting _ _ _ — __ _—^_ , P p ^> re mm ^^ -

    serving , and Setting up Natural History Specimens of Town all kinds Museum , ' by Montagu . Leicester Brown . Second e , F . Z . edition S , Curator . , , A

    volume fully charged with practisal and technical directions engravings and of the well ' obj illustrated ects / The with chapter plates on and the pictorial arrangements of museums will be

    invaluable x . to those w * who , whether as amateurs or ^ professionally , have to arrange collections , large or small , for public inspection . Mr . Browne is

    evidently a specialist in this very practical branch of science , and he displays much literary ability in the _ _ clear - - and intelligible way in which -

    ^ ^^ j ^ . he conveys his meaning to the reader . From Messrs . Griffith . & Farran . — 'A Key to

    the " Waverley Novels " in Chronological Sequence / by Henry Grey . If Mr . Grey is not ' eyes to the blind / he at any rate enables those

    whose vision is not very clear to see and appreciate the works which he describes , and this little book—already in its sixth thousand—is one of

    the most useful worts he has produced . Taking periods the famous to which tales in they the refer chronolog , be g ical ives order first of a list the

    then of the sketches principal the characters plot and in the play wo -bill rking style out , and of the novel . Those who have read the Waverleys

    from first to last will welcome this little handacquaintance book , and to "— those and who we fear have there not yet are mad maDy e their such I

    nowadays—it will be of infinite value as a guide to awar their # "that contents they . FeV over peop such le , a % probabl wide v « period y , are

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    over which the great Sir Walter travelled . An index to the of novels the princi in pal which characters they are , with to a be referepce found , [ 1

    book forms . a useful feature in a very admirable little jj

    From Reader Mr . ' . A Joh series n Heywood of illustrated .- ' readings Fifth Paragon adapted to tU Standard OttlUUrtlU V V . . The JLlkO illustrations UlU . tSHitl > lUlXO are O 1 O narratives % effective ju .+ *~ y ;•

    the readings include prose and verse , , and section chapters is to headed on histo b ik / ry list and of \ geography the more *^ ; an difficult — < j s f vj

    word Duumuu s and uvnuou their meanings y v a a ijdv , and ja . v ** is followed »« v- ~ by » series of explanatory notes , and in some cases

    questions . From Guides Mr / . F . B marvellousl . Longley . — cheap Long series ley ' s of Hojiday l » tl ^

    penny pcuuy guide , , books wiLii with A , each p pitJULHUL lentifu numbering l maps mapa y sixteen » and uu . describes p ^ iictures ~ pages »«—» , for an tne ,

    admirabl railway route y printed with . the Each objects guide of interest »&

    from of the the special line , and district then . gives In a Eng detailed land we ^^ nav h the unWT

    land guides Coaut to the ; South four port Channel aud Blackpool ports ; ; the C r » District ; and the Forest of Dean . In ScOt" ^ I

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1884, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071884/page/8/