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    688 The Publishers' Circular August 15, ...

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    The Monthly Report of the Society for Pr...

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    former name mediocrity and do , at and the the vulgar names least , caricature reproduce of my characters . my That Eng and land of my denies work stag s e to ri carry ght to off novelists ; their own is take a paltry m my ore

    gross injustice than even the refusal of America to concede some form of international

    literary law .

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    The Monthly Report of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge states that the received publication for of the the advertisements Official Year-Booh and that of the the Church editor , was notwithstanding unpaidlittle that more . £ 370 than . lls covered . 6 c ? . was the

    actual outlay , and was insufficient , to pay its quota of the warehouse , and other establishment moreover expenses . repaid The Society to the ori has ginal therefo promoters re to bear of the this book latter ^ 81 charg paid e b ; y and them the for Committee preliminary have and ,

    incidental , expenses . , Two important competitions came off yesterday week at the Printers' Exhibition at the

    Agricultural Hall . These were in guillotine or paper-cutting machines and improved column galleys . In the first there were three entriesthe competitors being Mr . J . Salmonof I

    I Manchester , Messrs . Hampson , Bettridge , and Co , ., of Clothfair , London , and Messrs . Latham , I . Brothers ^— ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^* ™ v ^ . ^ v , V of - * m ^ ^^ Bolton k ^^^ -- ^^ - ^^ - ^ V ^^ . Hk ^ v . The ^ B ^ ^ K ^ ^ b ^ trials «^ ^^ ^ b ^* v ^ b p ^^ T of ^^^ «^ the ^ p ^^ ^ ^ p ^ ^ machines h ^^^ b ^ V ^^ ^^ ^ k ^^^ ^ . ^ V ^ AT V shown ^ ^* ^ ^^ ? * ^^ ^ b ^^^ y W these ^ r ^ ^* ^^ ' ^ r ^^ firms ^*^ * p «^ 4 . a . A > v ^ were V w ^ r ^ . v vr very V - ^> ^ w V interesting ^ ^ — - ^ ^ r ^ - ^ v ^ w- * ia , I ^ H

    and the judges experienced much dimculty in awarding the prize of 20 guineas . Ultimately I Mr Messrs . J . . Salmon J . Heywood was declared of Manchester to be the winner EMiller . In of the Peckham galley competition and E . de were Vere entries Saxby h of y I I

    Brighton . The prize , of five guineas , was . awarded , to Mr . Heywood , . The judges in , the I guillotine competition were Messrs . T . A . Middleton ( of T . Middleton & Co . ) , E . C . Jones I

    the ( of Bradbury galley competition , Agnew , & Messrs Co . ) , W C . J Sydenham Drummond ( of De H La FGoug Rue h & and Co . ) J , and Southward T . Matthews officiated . In . I I

    I Mr . Alfred Tennyson , ( Poet . . Laureate . ) had the , . honour . of , a privat . e interview with Her I J Majesty on Thursday . I

    I I Francis ' The George Fern World Heath ' and ' s numerous * The Fern country Paradise books , ' which , are are about perhaps to be the issued most popular in half- of crown Mr . I I 9 used

    I I sections separatel , y so , or divided , if desire that d , bound * each with section the others ( comprising to mak an e the important complete portion volumes ) . can Each be book m I each

    I I will with be a titl divided e page into . But four thoug monthl h the y sections sections , will bound be issued in stiff and paper sold covers monthl , y and , they provided will only be I I j supplied to those undertaking ( by the signature of subscri 3 ption forms ) to buy the whole . I

    j The tinue sal as e of before the bound and will volumes not be of interfered ' The Fern with Worl b d this and subscri ¦ 'The tion Fern issue Paradise which ' is will strictly con- I limited that have , so been that often , there expressed will be no . reprint , and which y is determined ¦ p upon to meet , requirement * I 01

    Eclogues Messrs Messrs of . Yirg SJpfiiftV Seeley il , ' < b fc y Co Do the . late announce a . n-nnmrt Samuel r * n the fli Palmer p earl c * mr y \ ir , publication rm with Vilma illustrations . fion of of ¦ an an b English "F y no the 1 i « li author version version . This of I work ^ m but was some the favourite of the illustrations occupation of thoug Mr . h Palmer begun 's in later the years same . year ¦ The ¦ MS were . was left comp unfinished leted in at 187 ; hw A I

    ten death number Jl ^ n . i- desi 1-. . gns An A _ Such ~ having etching „ J . _ T _ of ^__ the been was prepared to j have 1 _ , , accompanied ^ the __ illustrations ? _ _ i each l _ now one about of _ J ? ¦ the _ l 1 ¦ _ to , ten j be published Eclogues lii the ~ 1 ^ « . artist - « . «• , are but V ^« - « 4- fourteen more Tv » rkf * A hand than Tillol in ^ 1

    . designs as had not been placed on copper by ' s own , i vellum have The rial lnm work been with wri will fVi reproduced proofs -r be \** r \ issued r \ fa of « -vf the fl- in in » ^ rvi two facsimile lates n fnn forms of * - \ f under which -. ^ : 'U 1 -I . 'K A the A » large n direction hundred KiiT -paper >/ -1 i > n < ¦ l edition rtr of ¦ -vt-vi his ies ^ c * , will - son urill in , imperial be \\ g Mr > printed r » . rinffin A . 4 to H . tor for - bound P ¦ saie Sft a 1 *^ ° ^ 1 I

    England , , and a small number p for- , presentation one and for sale in cop ¦ America ; 2 . A smaller eaitio in columbier 8 vo ., bound in cloth , with lettered plates . mj 10 I Munich The anti Augsburg quary , Herr Allgemeine Karl Fr Zeitung . Mayer reports found an a few interesting daya ago manuscri in ¦ the library pt discovery of the . \ T j I I

    itself Carthusian . The monastery first and last at Buxheim leaves were , a p volume ieces , of which a parchment had evidentl MS . y which , been ¦ bound had no in connexion the nionas tion the contents showed that of the they volume contained , and had about unfortunatel four hundred y been lines cut of down an old to suit German ¦ its size t poem . ^ , / 6 ^ nig II I

    library ixotn Rother e . r . / ot of The which which Buxheim only onlv fragment ono on « other ofhfir , which MS Mft . copy o Herr . nnxr Mayer exists a-tirIm . , so fto believes fjLr far as as to is in belong known known to , at at the the ne close He xro **^« o ^ - , ^ ., m II I i 3 th century , varies considerably from the Heidelberg MS . ^~* J § k _

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1883, page 688, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081883/page/4/