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    two compact and artistic volumes , with succinct and admirable accounts of the lives of the distinguished painters above named . The

    volumes are not large , but they contain a great deal of condensed information , both in regard to the men themselves and in regard to their

    works . Mr . Mollett has ransacked the files of newspapers and magazines in which any notice of his subjects have appearedand has

    read all the separate volumes on them , ! so that these memoirs , brief as they are , contain all the essentials to complete biographies . There is

    a condensed bibliography added as an appendix , which amply testifies the pains Mr . Moliett has taken to secure fulness and accuracy . The

    illustrations , it should be added , are all that could be desired . From the same . — ' Jackson ' s New Code Copy

    Books , ' compiled and written by John Jackson , F . E . I . S ., M . C . P ., & c . A series of twenty-two books specially adapted for the seven standards

    in elementary schools . The object has been to provide a style of writing that shall be in the strictest harmony with scientific

    princidemands ples , physi . o That logical object requirements has , we , and think artis , been tic attained .

    From Messrs . Macmillan & Co . — Lord Clive , ' by Colonel Sir Charles Wilson (* English Men

    of Action ' Series ) . If , as Carlyle held , sympathy is the first essential in a critic and biograp Hk ^ h M iW »_ f her M J » ^^^ ^ , W ¦ " the ^ f ¦ ¦ J » ^^ n ™ ^ ^ is ^ M ^ Lo ^^—w " ^^ ^ rd ^ ^«*^* Clive ~^ r —— ' " — - * e ~^ x' — tremel — —r " —¦ — y m fortunat - — - - e ~~

    in having his life written by Sir Charles ¦ ¦ Wilson th «^ o - ^^ k ii ah . ^ ^ «* The b and m ^ ^^ ~ " biogr ^ writes w w - —> ^— ap — — -- her — with ^ - . ^ — kn o the ws __ insi his - — ht sub _ and ject «^ roug ^^^^ a y , g

    persp He leans icuity strong which ly s to ymp the side y alone of admiration can giv e * . Indeed , were we disposed to cavil , we might

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    in war , great in his exploits , which were ma , ny , are and m great ore disposed in his to faults acquies , which ce than were to fe dissent w , ' we .

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    he made y himself the peer of the world s most eminent soldiers and statesmen . That is likeher

    Wilson Wilson The wise exi the to to gencies conclusion crowd nrowd of into into space of a a his few few compe present Daeres l matter matter Sir biograp Charles mat that . pages

    to many mig degenerate ht chapters with advantag into , but obscurity nowhere e be is . expanded salien Sir brevity t t Charles allowed into and has as

    features seized fifiizfid admirably Rdmirablv in Clive ' s career upon nnon the tne and aauen character pomis points , and ana thq 1 ; „ ' Z = S M

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1890, page 871, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071890/page/19/