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    quite accurate . But he is entertaining . There is not a dull page in the book , nor one which a

    ] reader out . Contrary reading for to amusement what might would be expected wish left , there is not a great deal about the

    ex-Chancellor ' s early days . The biographer , or more properly the compiler , has taken him in the midst of his great work and in contact

    with the great characters of recent European history , and the result is a personality altogether uni ^ rw ^^^^— que ^ m ww ^^ in ^^ ™ the ^^^ m ^ ^^ ^ later m ^ t ^ te ^ r ^^ ^ m poli b ^ ^^^ m ^ tics ^^ ^^ r *^ of ^^ ^ v the ^ m ^^ world - - — - — — - .

    Bismarck , as everybody knows , was all his life fond of playing jokes , but he did not always get the best of it . During the war of 1870 it was

    his business to decorate a soldier for an act of bravery , and Bismarck , being in one of his frolicsome moodsaddressed the soldier thus :

    , My friend , I have been commissioned to hand you the Iron Cross of the First Class ; but if it should prove JL that you t / are of a poor X family , I

    am authorised to offer you a hundred thalers instead of the Cross . You are at liberty , thereforeto choose between the two . ' The soldier

    deliberated , and asked ------ how much the Cross was worth . On being told that it was worth three thalers , he said , * Very well then , Highness ,

    I'll take the Cross and ninety-seven thalers . ' Bismarck being so cleverly checkmated had no : alternative but to — present j - — — r — the — — Cross ™^ — — and — pay ^> — mf

    the money out of his own pocket . The volume is intended to be popular , and popular it is . From the same . — ' Canary Birds : How to Breed

    for Profit or Pleasure , ' by Dr . Karl Buss . A handy illustrated volume which bird fanciers will find useful .

    From Messrs . Field & Tiler ( The Leadenhall Press ) . — * The Handsome Examiner : His

    Adventures in Learning and Love , ' by Kobert St . John Corbet . The author is good enough to inform usin a prefacethat he neither

    wishes to be , waded through , as if he were a ! ford His — - object , nor ^ j — skimmed in - " - writing " ~~ ^ after ^^ m ¦ is ^ to — - ^ the be - — — ' read —¦ manner -m ^ — ^ - ^ v v . We r v of —¦— hardly 1 - milk ™ ¦ r ™ r™— .

    know whether he is singular in having such an object , but we have gratified his wish and have read him . Mr . St . John Corbet is not skimmed

    milk by any means ; the fault lies rather the other way . We have found him rather tiresomely clever . He is for ever coruscatingfor ever

    trying to dazzle . It is always high , noon with him , bo to speak , and the blaze of his brilliancy is blinding . There is a young lady in the book

    who is exceedingly witty and not a little vulgar , ; though she captivates the handsome examiner . The — story - ^ g - is — decidedly - - — - — — - - — — — - ~ W clever ^^ ^^ ^^ , w but ^^ Mr m ^ v ^* ., ^ . p Corbet ^^ ^^ r 4 fe r ^^ ^^ * #

    would produce a better book if he did not so strenuously strive to shine . From Mr . Henry Frowde . ^ - * The Sancta

    Res-¦¦ j , ¦ publica m ¦ ¦ Romana h : a Handbook I . _ _ _ to the ¦_ History ^^ _ | of Rome and Italy , ' by Richard Heber Wrightson - — — — , v- M . » A . w Studen - —r - ... _ _ —~* ts m — ¦ and - ¦ - ii ^ ¦ - ^ - ^ those - ~ m— - —* ^^ i ~ ^^ who ^ v " ^ " ^^ ^ h *^ frequen m ^*^ ^^ ^*^ ^ i ^ w * ^ to ^*^^ tly w ^ *& m

    want a ready reference will thank Mr . Wrightson for this book . It is a guide book to Roman historyfrom the division of the Roman world

    , a to . d . the 395 breaking - ^ 888 . The up of book Charlemagne is well and ' s Emp clearly ire , writtenand as we saidwill prove invaluable

    to students , whose time is , limited . ^ B ^^™* * rom ~ ^^ .... . the — same . . _ . , . _ — ' The ^ , ^^ , _ . . __ , ¦ Church ih ^ - ^^ h' — ^ ¦ i i ¦ - ^^^ —^ - — ^ Lessons v ^^ b ^ h ~ F TtF r 0 Bible Um tT rf ^ p ^^ . H ' ^^*^ *^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^

    Mr . Frpwde sends us two editions of the Bible in which the lessons are marked oh the system 1 « - lntrod Thorns < ttted ;] BiVK jsiome < 5 tt . vPhe * years plan ago i » Very by simple the Rev and .

    ¦ effective for the . Daily Distinct Lessons and separate and the signs are used

    denting The Dail into y Lessons the text are the marked occasions Proper by boldl Lessons which y in- .

    the they Proper are to be Lessons read , and by b letters y dating indented the on pages into the text to notes at the

    referring foot of the and page bound . richly ; One the bound other edition . is Both printed is small editions on , and India contain cheaply paper the

    Calendar and the Apocryphal Lessons . xuui William iiiiaziL Heinemann

    From x-Mr xu . r . . "wnememann . . — «• in In God Gods's Way , ' a novel , by Bjornstjerne Bjornson . Not long % ^> ago \ ^ j of an American i critic — — -- brought " - — - ~ «^ te- ^ A w a % m terrific VV / 1 XXIX ^

    charge against the insularity British , peop gnorance le . Either , and prej he spoke udice hastilv nastily , , or or his his remarks remarks have have stirred stirred us ns nr > to +. n a o

    sense of our woeful benightedness , for it up cannot the to-day literatures be said that of our we neighbours are indifferent Series regarding after

    . they series * must of forei / I be gn read books , for is » the presented cry is __ * to still us , they and come . ' We have a * ForeiClassics' series

    V to I i *¦¦ m gn mm , others a ' Masterp , and ieces here of comes Foreign Mr Authors . . . Heinemann ' series , with and his * International Library' serieswhich also Ih

    aims at telling us mr what *~^ — ¦ " ^ ^^ goes » ^^ ^ m on w *^ ^^ ^» in ^^ ^^ p ^^ the , v » J ^^ intellec b ^ k ^^ A >* ^ wji ^ - ^^ tual , workshops of the Continent . Mr . Edmund Gosse , who in the capacity of editor furnishes

    an admirable introduction and an editorial note , informs us that ' the present series is intended to be a guide to the inner geography

    of Europe . ... It will endeavour to keep pace with every truly characteristic and vigorous expression of the novelist's art in each of the

    European countries . . . . That will be selected which gives with most freshness and variety the different aspects of continental feeling , the

    only limits of selection being that a book shall be on the one hand amusing , and > on the other , wholesome . ' The object is beyond caviland

    this first volume is a good earnest of coming , accomplishment . In God ' s Way' is not , indeed , an amusing —¦ ^^ book " *^ ^^ ^^ ^^ , m and mi m ¦ * ^ i "H" ^ there ^^ A ^ ^ A ^^ may - - r ^ ^ F be r **^ ^^ ^ fastidious LVVM ** J * ^ h *^*» ^^ — " - - —

    people who will gravely question its wholesomeness . But the tendency is more and more towards on realistic Catholicity linesthere V & , and is , thoug really h the nothing book in ¦ runs it

    that — — need - — ~ — — shock -v ~~ . *^ m . ^ r »^ any r , m but ^^ ^ r * a « prudish . ~ V ^ % > VA A T * - * V ^ taste k ^ A .. *^ A > A . » It »•— is a distinct departure from Bjornson ' s early style and methods h and ¦ f tit ti shows plain b traces v ^^ L ! fc , v ^* of the

    mi —— ghty impress —— ^^ ^^™ rm ^ , ^ M ^^ m . ^ of r . m Tolstoi ^«^ » v h ^ i ^ f j ^^^ j ^ ^ and . ^ the ^ d ^ i ^ # ^ - ^ ^^ other — Russian realists . The sweet imaginative charm of * Arne' is wantingbut then there is a

    strength and also a keen , determination to probe the realities and explain the mysteries of

    contem tenaDorarv porary life life which whinh w ware ere not nnt visible vi "« ih ] ft in in the the earlier book . There is a good deal of gloomy theology—indeed , the basis of the story is

    theological—and this of course foredooms the book to sombreness . There are likewise several harrowing death-bed scenes in which the author

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    drenching style of the author of ' David simpl VAAM Copperfield MAVf e , being WAAJIHL . ' The the % 'M . AKJ story history UJlklUVJL in J itself from JLJlKJXMJL is childhood exceeding AViJUV V v > to ly

    manhood of a dogmatic clergyman and a proud , bro freethinking -- — — v t — h . % ers ^ " ^ -in i ^^ ^ -law ^" , v if — * a w altruistic circumstance ^^ n ¦ rtt ^^ in BiTi . r ^ doctor fi . ^ nftyxr * . which * mtrn They ^^ ^^ " - ¦¦ only ~ are

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1890, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071890/page/18/