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    m , , -.-J 7 68 The Publishers' Circular...

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    M , , -.-J 7 68 The Publishers' Circular...

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    The introductory volume of Messrs . Macmillan & Co . ' s long-expected * Geographical

    Series' will be published immediately . The series is prepared under the superintendence

    of Dr . Archibald Geikie , the Director of the Geological Survey . Dr . Geikie himself writes

    the initial volume of the series . Another work bthe author of ' Six

    Months in Meccah' will y be published shortly by W ^^^ / W Messrs ^^^ . * W ^^ B * ^ . ^ F W ^^^ W ^^^ ^^^ *^^^ . ^ r Ward " " ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ 4 ^^^ . & ^^^^^^^ F Downey ^^^^^^^^ ^^ r w * ^ ¦ *^* ^^ ^^^ «/ ^ . F This author ¦ ' ,

    Mr . J . F . Keane , has just completed a volume of sketches , which will appear under

    the quaint For some title time , 'Mere past Shakings ' says the . ' St . James ' s

    , at Gazette work , * on Mr . a James life of Russell Nathaniel v v Lowell -- - Hawth has - orne been ^ h ^^ F ^^ V V ^^^^ ^^^ B ^^^ N ^ I ^ V ^^^^ ^^> ^^^ ^ V ^^ P ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ M ^ r ^^^^ ^ B ^^ ^^ i ^^ B ^ ^^^^ P * ^ v 1 ^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^— — — — — — ; j

    but the task involves so much work that it is not nearly completed . It is complained that

    Salem and its worthies have not hitherto received ^^ m ^ . V - ^ V " ^» ^^ W ' ^^ F' ' ^ B' ^ V proper H ^* - ^^ B - *^ ' m *¦ ^ ' ^ PF' ^^ B attention ^ ^ . » ^^ - ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ B ^ - ^ - »~ ^^ ^^ ^ from ^^ ' " ^* - ^^ ^^ ^^ the ' ^ ^ chroniclers — - .

    The township is in a state of expectancy over the ^¦^ ^^ B ^^ pi ^¦^ pr coming ^^ r ~ ~ ^^^ ^>^ ^* m «^^ ^^» ^ B ^ ^^ p ^ h monograp ^^ ^^ ^*^ I I ^^ Bi ^ B ^ I I ^^^^^ ^¦ ^ V ^ i ^^ pr ^^ ^ h ^ B . BPt . ^ p ^ It ^^^ i * ^^ appears ^^^ ^^ H ^^ ' ^ B ^ k ^ ^^—^ ^ v ^ ' ^^ that ^ - ^ ^—~ ' ~^ ^ there —

    was at least one bright day in Hawthorne ' s life ; the turning k -point h i of fc his life ¦ unnoticed t

    b ^^^ ~^ m y ^^^ ~^^ r previous ^ m ^^ ^^^ ^^ " ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ " ^ ^ biograp ^ ^^ " ^^^ ^^^ ^^ " ^^^^^^ ^^ hers ^^"" ^^™ ^^» ^^^ ^ , ^ " ^^ was ^^™ ^^ " ^^ " »~^^ when ^ ~ ' — , j the — — — handsome bashful youth was enticed into the

    parlour of Dr . Peabody . Three young women were therenow known as Mrs . Hawthorne

    They Mrs . Horace were , types •/ Mann AT of , and many Elizab other eth Salem Peabod g CJirls y . ,

    all at the that time is best , whose in American influence life is felt . This to-day book in

    will be published here by Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . Messrs . Pickering & Chatto have in

    preparation ' Voiage and a reprint Travay of le Sir 7 which John is Maundeville to be edited ' s

    CJ % J , by Mr . John Ashton , author of ' Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century and other works .

    The new edition of this curious book will contain facsimiles of the orig inal quaint

    Aillustrations , and will form a demy octavo volume ; but one hundred copies will be printed on larger paper and numbered . It is expected to

    be ready in September . —Athenaeum . A paragraph in the St . James's Gazette of

    July 14 will puzzle some readers on this side of the border . The paragraph says : — ' The

    " Etymology of Breadalbane , " to be printed for private circulation in the first instance , will

    now soon be out . It is unique of its kind , and is mainly the joint work \ 3 gjf Mr . McLean , minister of Grantullyand Dr . Laingof

    New-, , burgh , author of " Lmdores and Its Abbey . " The preface is by Dr . Laingand will prove a

    valuable addition to the archaeology , of the — Hig h hlands . _ . — _^ . _ The , ^ . ^^ * ' ^ Et ^^^^ , ^_ ymology ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ m ^ ^^ ^ ^ h ^ w " ^ is ^™ * ^ desi ~^^ m ^^ I B ^^ gned BkHPh ^^ ^^ ^ B ^ " ^^ BB to ^^ P' ~ ~

    Anglicise the Gaelic terminology of the Breadalbane ~ — — titles — — " , ~ m and — will » » ^^ ^^^ w ¦¦ not ^^ ^^ -H ^ - ^^ improbabl ^ PBfe ^^ BB » Vv ^ r ^^ B ~ — ¦ Bj I B- B ~ - *^ ^^ m y w set r ^^ ^ m ^ ^ 1 ^ the ^^ MB > ^^ fe > ^*^

    example for an engaging kind of literature , hitherto all but untouched hi . ' This ' kind of

    — _ . _ — _ ,- _ — _ . ^^ ^^ __ ^^ « ^^ r ^^ r- ^^ r ^ . ^^^ M ^ B V ^ H ^ Bi . P W ^ H V ^^ P ^ 1 ^ ^^ " ^^ . *^ *^^ P ^ ^^^ ^^* ^*^ P BIB ^^ Bh ^^ F ^ M ^^^ V ^ BBH literature ' may be ' engaging , ' but we would like to see it before venturing an opinion .

    * Whitmania ' seems to be Mr . Swinburne ' s latest eccentricity - ~ — — _____ — . __ Some _ ____ _ , _ __ , ___ ___ ___ , of ___ ___ our —^^ ____^ pq ^ greater ^**** A ^^» —_^ —_^^» — - » ~ ¦ ^ r —^^ poets _ ir - _*^ ~ M _ P ^^^ p ^^^

    seem to delight in writing oddities on others instead of fascinating the world with their own

    compositions ¦ * A . Mr V ^_ h _¦_« . Swinburne h . _ _ i __ i , in _> a promised _ .

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    article in the Fortnightly , is to make a strong and we presume an alliterative attack on the

    misguided _ t __ __ b _¦¦ admirers _¦_ __ of Wal —¦—¦^¦^^^¦ p ^_ t t Whitman ^^_^^^_^^^_ i A A — . Messrs . BradburyAgnew & Co . write to

    the Athenaeum regarding , the . preface accompany ^^ ^^ " ^ T ing m ^^ the new edition of - * bRead' y-Money _»— __ _¦> _» _¦ . ' ____> __¦¦> ¦¦¦¦¦ ^ b- ^___ *

    Mortiboy ^ / written by Mr . Walter ' ^* ^ Besant ^ : __ He has made _ i ___ __ , unintentionall _ __ _ y we _ B venture - __ . to ^^__

    hope , a slight but important mistake ^ . In his preface Mr . Besant speaks as if Once a Week belonged to and was edited by his late friend

    and collaborateur , Mr . James Rice , in 1868 ; he also writes that an article of his ( Mr . Besant ) appeared '' full of the most

    exasperating mistakes "— * ' not a single name , for instance V ri _» htly printed" & c b . —the true facts bt i i

    being __^—* *^> — ^^ v ^_ — —^ *^_> ^__ p —^ v that —_^ , ^ . ___» g ^^^^ V at ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ a that ^_ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ date ^^^ ~^^ p , ~¦ , ^^^^^^^^ and ^_ " ~ ^* for ^^ ei ghteen ^ ^^ " ^ ^ p months afterthis firm ( who originated the

    , periodical ) were the sole proprietors , publishersand printers of Once a Weekand

    during , our proprietorship no such letter , as Mr . Besant describes ever reached us , and , if

    it were sent , was certainly not replied to by Mr . James Rice . We sold air our rights and

    interest ( from date ) in the copyright of that i periodical in 1869 to Messrs . Cooper & Co ., and we believe in or about 1871 it passed into

    Mr . Rice ' s hands ; but it left us without any " matter ¦ ¦ b in «^ b type vi and passed ¦—¦_¦_¦ for press i " or any

    MSS ^——» ^—» ^——^ — . —^ —_— belong ^^ p » ^___^_> ^__* ^_~ ing w , ^ —^^ —» to —^ ——¦ ——— —_—^_ r outs w ^_ v —_ p ^^ »^_ r i de ———» ^_ r ^ authors —^ — — ¦ ^——¦ — - ^ ^—^~ ——~ — . , - ^ m In — — the matter of " When the Ship comes Home " and

    "Foul Play , " no accusation of plagiarism was ever made __ - ^^ bMr . Charles V ~ Readewe believe ¦ ¦— ¦

    —— ' ~^* ^^ ^^ _ — —_»^ —__ r *—*_ r y v ^_—¦ — —^™^^ ^ ° ^__ - ^™ ^ p > ^ p ^__ ^__ ~__» ^_ P * ^^—v - ^ r — |~ ^ t ^^ r - ** ^ ~— " , " ^ ™ ~^^ - - ~— , although the similarity of the '' leading incident " must have 5 struck him just oas much as

    it did ourselves . Longman's Magazine begins a new story in

    August . It is from the pens of Mr . Christie Murray i i and r another i writerthe title being

    __ ^_ ~ ^—— One ^ ——• ^——¦ ^—— ' _— Traveller ^ j ^^ - ^^ ^_ ^^ h —^^_ p —^—_» ___ ^ Returns __—_ - —_^ ^— ^—_ —^^ r —^ h . ^ y . ^^ ' ^ ^^_ ~_ " ~__ Britain P ___ i , ^ B ^^ ^—— ^^^ ^^^^ in ^^ ^^^ ^^ ¦ ¦ the ^^ r ^ ™ first — ^— m century % i forms the scene and time of the

    story . The August number of Murray's JMagaztne

    will contain a short story , complete , entitled ' The Silver Casket , ' by Maxwell Gray .

    Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of ' The Queen ' s Pictures , '

    which forms the jubilee number of the Magazine of Art . ' Leaflets from my Life' bMary —^ Kirby

    ( Gregg ) , is the title of ^ a w , ^ ork y ^ which ^ Messrs ^ . John and Thomas Spencerof Leicesterhave

    in the press . The writer JL is , the widow of , the Rev . H . Gregg , Rector of Brooksley .

    We learn that Professor Ayrton ' s ' Practical Electricity ' is now being translated into

    the German and Spanish languages . The book of the season in Scotland will be

    a magnificent folio , which will . be of no little —~» interest — ' — — - ^ — — to — --- yachtsmen m ^~ ^ ^^ ^^ " ^» ™ ^— m ~~~ - ^ v ^ v ^ h ^ all i ^^ " ^^ over ^ m ^ w ^ tr ^^ the ^^ ¦ 4 % ^ k ^^^ world ™ ^^ r ^^ ^^ ^ rf ^ ta . m " Its

    title is 'Famous Clyde Yachts , 1880-1887 , ' and the work will contain upwards of thirty

    large coloured portraits of famous yachtsincluding Galatea h and the other Thistle ¦¦ ¦ cracks , — Vanduara and numerous , Genesta small , ¦

    sketches — , — of — — - — Cl — — y ~— —— de ^— regatta ~^ - ~ * — - ^^^» - ^^ - ^^^^ »^^ incidents ^ i ^^ r ^^« v ^ tr ^ K ^ p * *^ ^^^ ^* ^ " ^ . ^ " ^ ^^^ ^""^ ^ The ^^ ^^ ' ^ ^ " ^ " ^^ ^^ text ^^ — will be by a young Largs journalist and

    yachtsare man supp , Mr lied . James by Mr Meikle . Henry , and Shields the , illustrations of Glasgow .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1887, page 768, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071887/page/10/