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    July is, 1889 The Publishers * Circular ...

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    T Overs Of Books, And Indeed All English...

    the fact that the British Museum has just acquired a large number of rare early English

    works , some of which are unknown to bibliographers , is a matter of greater interest .

    Amongst them is John Bunyan ' s ' Book for Boys . and Girls , ' published in London in

    1686 , a volume which has until now been considered to be lost . In the department of

    Manuscripts , similar progress is reported . One of the most interesting acquisitions

    is a papyrus containing portions of Homer ' s Iliad , written in small uncial characters of the

    third or fourth century . On the back are portions of a Greek grammar ascribed to

    Tryphon , the Grammarian , and the oldest work o £ the kind which has so far been discovered .

    twelve Another books manuscri entitled pt , is * The a reli Crown gious of poem Thorns in ,,

    which is supposed by some to be the lost work with that title written by Sir John Beaumont .

    In the department of Prints and . Drawings and in that of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities

    some equally valuable additions have beeji made .

    We trust that the day is not far distant when a much more generous policy will be

    pursued by the nation in regard to pecuniary grants to the British . Museum . The money

    allowed—a ridiculously inadequate ' sum—is most carefully and wisely spent ; and whilst

    economy ought of course to be studied in the Estimates , we are convinced that the vast

    majority of the people would view with satisfaction the adoption of more enlightened action

    so far as the great and ever-growing national institution in Bloomsbury is concerned .

    Possibly when , a few more unearned pensions and idle sinecures have been abolished , something

    like justice may at length be done to the imperative claims on public support of the British

    Museum .

    July Is, 1889 The Publishers * Circular ...

    July is , 1889 The Publishers * Circular 823 I I

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    Messrs . Sampson LowMarston < fc Co .

    are making arrangements for , a series of short biographies of considerable political as well

    lish as literary with as importance little delay . as They possible intend a grou to pub p o - f

    half , -crown monographs on the Prime , Ministers of the Reign of Queen Victoria—Lord

    Melbourne Lord Derby , Sir , Robert Lord Aberd Peel e , en Lord , Lord John Palmerston Russell , ,

    Lord Beaconsfield , Mr . Gladstone , and Lord Salisbury * Queen's . Prime Amongst Ministers the Series contributors 9 are Mr . to J . the A .

    Froi Russell ude , , th and , e Marquis Dr . Henry of Lorne Dunckley , Mr . , G the . W well . E . -

    known * Verax' of * the Manchester Examiner . The editor of the series is Mr . Stuart J . Reid ,

    author of * Life and Times of Sydney Smith .

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    Bret Harte is by no means inclined to rest on his laurels . He has just written a short

    but of Dedlow powerful Marsh romance , ' a story , called descriptive * The Heritage of the

    strange and lonely career # of an old misantjirope .

    Miss Edna D . Cheney has written a biography of her lifelong i friend , Louisa M . Alcott .

    The authoress of Little Women' was much more than an exceptionally clever and

    successful a heroine writer , and of stories her life for was boys ful and l of g golden irls ; she deeds was

    of self-sacrifice . The book will contain two portraits , and Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston

    & Co . have arranged to publish it during the autumn . In England , especially among 3 girls ,

    Jjouisa Louisa JM M . . Alcott Alcott has haa ' ' troops troons or of rriends friends . and and the story of her home life at Concord , . and , the literary triumphs by which it was ultimately

    crowned , is certain to attract wide and instant attention .

    # # ! A Ameri merica Thirty ca or of thousand JProtessor Professor cop Hardy TTardv ies have 's s k k been Ti But nt , sold Ypi x et , in a

    Woman . ' The Nation of June 2 ? devotes , a column and a half to the same author ' s

    hissay - t orical % j- ing ^^ that romance , by grac t ~* * Passe e — of imag Rose ^^ ination / and - — _ , y ends sch — _ olar _ — b y -

    written shi p , and a ' rarel technical ___ y perfect — _ skill _ ' stor , ^ Mr rand . Hard one — — __ y which __ has .

    combines * VpV . the ppi 4 . ' und ^ J ying and inex * ^ , plicable J pM «^ charm p ^ _ of a fairy tale with the' definable merits of the

    best fiction that deals with actual life and human character . ' %

    * # * Charlotte Bronte's novel * Jane Eyre / has

    just been brought out in a , , sixpenny editi , on by Messrs . SmithElder & Co . and Messrs .

    Macmillan have also , published , a delightful pocket edition of the ' Poems of Charles

    pence Kingsley . , Both ' bound of these in blue valuable cloth copyri , at g ei hts ghteen will

    shortly expire , and we are glad that the proprietors of them have had the good sense to

    take the wind out of the sails of those who would otherwise have pounced down upon the

    books at the earliest possible moment . * # *

    One of the most important books of the approaching season will probably be the ' Life

    of Harriet Beecher Stowe , ' the authoress of that world-renowned boojk' Uncle Tom ' s

    Cabin , 'to name only one of a , series of brilliant stories from the same gifted pen * . Mrs . Stowe ' s

    life coming has been work an much eventful of the one narrative , and in is the told forth in

    her own words . The book contains numerous unpublished letters from Browning , Miss

    Mar-Charles tineau , Kingsley Lady B , yron John , Bri Archbishop ght , James Whatel Russell y ,

    b Lowell her , son and Mr John . Charles Ruskin . E . The Stowe volume and is it edited casts a y good deal , of fresh light on an , interesting

    The phase publishers of American are life Messrs , literature . Sampson , and society Low .

    Marston & Co . ,

    of Mr Emmanuel . E . D . Shnckburg College , Cambrid h , M . A ge ., , Librarian is about

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1889, page 823, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071889/page/5/