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      edition being a plain but substantial one of five hund ¦ r ¦¦ ed copies . The author felt the

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      of the work were sold , . Soon y after a fire occurred in the ublishing r 4 AAkM house where the

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      , Hsatisfaction of saying that the entire edition was exhausted .

      Almost the whole of this month ' s issue of LippincotVs Magazine is occupi ed by an original and brilliant long story entitled Bfr ' Mammon /

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      ¦ ^ - * - ™ " •»¦ * - *»» pB *** B r Bk vjpr ^ p BK . « , »» ^ pm" * ^ Bpk V ery ^ T prfB * W B- ^ PBB **^ B ¦ , ^ BJ B ppK - ' ^ g iBBl ^ B > ^ Br ^ h ^ T ^^^ f B *> Fl f pba V Wh * * ^ i ppl ^ BW > j" . Bf B ^ Bk Pj Bl fAp « P » * ^ P ^ Bk - ^ B » V ^ V ^ k ^ , VI it will ^ be remembered , was a daughter of *^ Mrs . Julia Ward Howe .

      Messrs . Dodd , Mead & Co ., New York , announce for early publication * Mosby ' s War

      Reminiscences / by JohnS . Mosby , late Colonel C . S . A ., with ten double-page illustrations by

      W W . . C C . . JJackson ackson ; : ' ' Blue Blue J Jackets ackets of of 1776 1776 . / ' for for young people , by Willis J . Abbot , with full-¦ page ~^ VH ^ rh ^ B , ^ i i ^ illustra ^^ k . ^^ ^ iBb . r ^^ v ^ ^ m . ^ - ^ # tions vfr - ^^ ^ . ^ ^^^ r ^^ b r *^ r y w W v * . v C —i , ^ - . v Jackson ^^^ » ^/ 1 % ^ ~ ~ r _ r % « if ^ b » jb > ; « * A b ^ ^^ k * * Frozen ^ Bw ibb ^ a ^^ ^^^^ ^ ibt * b > av »

      Dragon , and other Tales / a story-book of natural history for boys and girls , by Ch as . F .

      Holder Holder , , author author or of ' The The Ivory Tvorv King Kinef- & & cc ..,. illustrated by J . C . and D . C . Beard and others and in fiction there will be ' A Gallant

      ^^ *^ ^ L ^ ^^ ^ B « ^^^ ; m ^^^^^ h ^ k X ^ Bj ^^ . ^ B , ^ r 1 ^ ^^ «^ ^ k , V «^ Jb ^ k «^^ k ^ B > ^^^ ^ B » ^^ V V ¦ ^ b ^ k ^ Bl P ^^ ^^ ¦ ^ , MH ^^^^^ ^_ ^^ M T "W ^ «^ Fight / by Marion Harland and * John Winter / b Viv Edward THrlwarrl Garrett Crarrd +. i ; .

      y ¦ ¦ P fci rof -d ^ ^^~ 4 k . m C ^ V W . A ^ ^^ . V Young BB ^^ ^* Bfc ^ k ^ tafc ^ has k ^ k V ^^ H-r ^^ prepared V ^* ^* " ^^ r ~^ ^ ^ ** - ^*^ ^^« b ^ a J iTT ^ Manual f ~ Wf *^ ^ irlBk «^ ^^^

      of Astronomy for the use of scientific schools and colleges , which Messrs . Ginn < fc Co ., Boston , are to publish this month . It will ive

      g special attention to physics—the ' new astronomy ' as it is called .

      The current number of the New York Booh Buyer contains a frontispiece portrait of

      - »— - ^ w y ^— ' - Str ¦•_ ' ¦ — . » »^ «_•«* ^ >^^ i Bi « «> k ^ ^ . bjk A _^ . ^ . av " ^ - W ' f -Jt ^*^ ^""^ ^"^ f ~^ ^""^ " *** " ^ " ^ *¦ ** * " * ' " ^ William Black , accompanying an article upon the popular novelist .

      An illustrated edition in quarto of Edward Everett Hale ' s The r Man Without a Countrythe

      w- ^^ V ^ r ^ b . ^ a ^ ^* ^^ a ^——»• ^ r' ^ r ^^ ^^ ^ % i ^ ¦ ^ v « r ^^¦ t ~ ww . v ^ w v * s \ , w V Vrf ^ \ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ * ^ ^^ \ * 9 ^^ V ^ * " F A , ^ b' <* ^ L ^^ . ^ illustrations by F . T . Merrill , will be issued * by Messrs Messrs . . Ko R . obftrta berts Brothers Brothers of of Boston Bnst . nn in in the t . hft

      autumn , when the same house , will also , have read hv Harvard «« Vea volume of sermons »

      and «^ ^^^ r ^ ta * m y short w ^^ fc , - ^ b . ^ i' «^ « lectures «^ ^^ v * . ^^ ^ v spers « to _^ r \ * x ^ ' V the \/ , a t b ^>«^ University v ^ . ^^ ^ k % ri ** h 'k Jft ^^ v ^ ^ Ba students r r ^^^ A * ^ M ^^ r ^ j ^ ff * t ^ by Drs . A . P . and F . G . Peabody , the Revs . Phillips Phillinst Brooks Brooks . E E . . E Fi . Hal T-Tn . lft e and n . nrl othpsr other divinp divines . R .

      , , Mr . E . C . Saunders recently paid a visit to the home of Maurice Thompson , in Crawfordsville , Indiana , and writes the following description of the Southern poet and novelist at

      ^^ ^ ^ m-r ** ^^ ^ - ^ " ^ ^ S ^ ^ ^^ r ^ h ^ X «^ « k ^ B ^ ^ J ^ ^^ J ^ J ^ ^ B ^ X _ A ^_^ *^ B | ^ JB . ^ ^ X ^ V « A Jft , V ' ^ V ^^^ rfk ^ k |^^ V L ^ V *^ home . It appears in the current number of Literature : — 'Mr , Thompson ' s home is a dark

      grey house of a dozen rooms , deep-set in a little grove of maples , and looking into a b broad ron . fl - beautiful Viftfi . iififnl street « frpipi +.. on on the +, Tipi other ot . liftr side Rirlft of of

      which , is a well-kept park , of five acresset in trees and carpeted with blue grass . This , park

      belongs to Mr . Thompson ' s estate , which is by no means small as compared with the poverty of most literary leThe genial author is

      % f peo XT p . Cj a great horse-fancier , and took me driving behind a beautiful brown mare , whose motion

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      was poetry itself . He and Gen . Lew Wallace , author of "Ben Hur / ' are warm personal

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      He is chief of the Department of Geology and Natural History of Indiana , and is directing the survey of the State . He is by no means

      a a voluble voluble talker talker , but but he h « is ia fvjrtrft extremel mfii y v intftrp interest , st - ing . The history of literature is at his tongue ' s end , and especially of early French poetry he spoke in a B ^ ip ^ J which Jk commanded BV ^ r ^ BV ^ fc

      attention x W *^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ B- «/ W ^ Bk ^ k ^^ and W *~ sr m *^ - ^^ m » ¦ impressed ^ | ^ ^ B . ^^ Bh way V W B ^ W % j me ^ Bp peculiarly ^ ^^ ^ B ^ ri ^ ^^^ ^* T ^^^^^ k ^ . ^ We ^^ B > ^^ ^ fB | »¦*¦* sat ' «¦ «^ ^ in Bh ^ Bt ^ B * ^ his K ^^^ Btr ^^ ^ little < B » «^ ^^ B ^ ^ i ^ ^ stud ^ «^ T ^^« h ^^^ y W , H with V B ^ k V ^ A ^ its k B ^ B ^ B stained ^^ B ^ B ^ ^^ ^ k > ^ k ^ k *^ ^ ^ g kjBt ^ la Bl mS * T s 9 ^ 0 W s ^*

      windows and book-lined walls , and talked i a V-V whole golden June afternoon . " Give

      away ^~~ W V r B >*^ r W ^¦ T ^^ W ^^ <^ ^^^ HBk ^ . ^ ^^ ^^^ ~*^ ^^^ b ^ N _ r ^!^ B >^ k ^ ^^ ^^ W ^ k . «^ ^^ ^ k ^ ^ B ¦ , - % . ^ ^ k ^ A * ^^ t ^ Bf W ^^ me Lowell ^ B ^ ¦ * ^ M and Emerson ^ lB ^ Bt and Hawthorn Bl' Bl . ^ e , of all all the the Araerican Americanss " he he said said . " but but the then n there there

      is Edward Everett , Hale ( for , moral force ) , and ¦ Henry James ( for stle ) and Howells ( for W

      humour ^^ - BB ^^ ^^^ ^^ ) , Bt f B and ^^ - ^ ^ ta * V % ^ C ^^ a ^^ ble ^ Bi B ^ . ^ ( «^ for y T ^ B . ^ li ^ « , H g B ^^ V ht ^ B >^ B > ^^ romance l ^ k ^^ ^ b ^ - T F ^^ ^ P ^ ) P' , and » <«^ . ^ ^ B > ^ Aldrich ^^ - ^ k . ^ B > VBi ^ B > ^ Bt ^^ ^ Bi ^ Bl ( « . ^ for B . V ^ B . surprise B ^ 'B . Bt ^ Bb W *** ^ B » _ m 1 r > ir ^^^ ) JT , K B and ^ BJT . ^ V 4 k ^ tf /« k Gilder ^^^ n J ^ A ^^ V * *^^^ ^^ ( « for ^ B > ^^^ fl ^ Bh fervid ^ B' ^ Bb ^ ^ Bp ^^^ Bfe

      feeling ) , they arll e agood , very good to read . ' Mr . Saunders r writes at some lengt bfc h on Mr ¦ .

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      to that of Thoreau or John Burroughs . A new novel from , the pen of Maurice Thompson , fvntitlfid ' A FortmVht . nf Follv ' ia annonnnftd ¦ v PPBt ¦¦ f PPk f pjp

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      John William Burgon . —A wider circle than u ^ Bi . ^ k ¦>¦ ^ Bto that ^ pr ^ B * pBh «^^ W « jpF of ^^^ ppBB > the ^ bP * « Bb 'Bj ^ p > p ^ clerical *«««* pBta ^ Bpp « ab pBfe ** app * ^^ Upk bod rn ^ *^^ ^ k ^ P « k y •/ has . Bh ^ Pk Pj I » J W ^^ ^ heard Bb pVp > ^ BV ^ pp ^ B ^ pB | ^ pp'W " V with T ^ Pk B ^ pP ^ p * ^ BB

      regret the news of the death of Dr . Burgon , Dean of Chichester , which occurred on the 4 th current , at tlie Deanery . Sunday , July

      22 22 , was was the fhft date r \ a . tpi of of his his last last appearance a . nnpa . ra . nnft at at the t ^ iei Cathedral , when he took affectionate leave of the choristers Bfc ing that in all BJ probability fc »* - ^

      B ^ rffc . ^ ^ p . pp » ^ k » --JB , ^^ ^ k ^ kB ^^ BjpT -B . pp ^ . *> - VV-pT , BM say r ^ PpT Vb'Vr W ^ k . » ^ ^ B . B ^ ^ ^ k « V « T ^ . ^ ^ h ^ * B > ¦ * . ^ rfBp _ ' «^ B . ~* PP *~ r ^ T " ^ B J * —t —P" ^ fc ¦ ^ # he would never see them again . The deceased scholar and divine was born about 1820 . His

      published works include ' Oxford Reformers ' ( » 1854 n ^_ S ^ m ^ . Bp ) I , m a « - * B ^ century " ^ . ^ - »^ ^ pBto «* PV V ^^ ^ k ¦ - of ^ -P B . verses B - ^^ «^ B ^^ - ^^ r ^^ ^ in k Bj ^ B > memory rfk 4 k — ^ pp ^ ^ ^ A . ^—^ - ^ W of ^^ " ^ ppp the ^ ppp > ^ - »*

      -Rev . Dr . Routh , the venerable President of Magdalen College ( 1855 ) ; ' A Plain Commentary on the Four Gospels Pk / 'Ninet VjP Short

      V ^ B ^^ B ^ Jp . W ^^^ i ^ k -Bb V « # ^ P » *) ^ pprf vpVk . ^ - ~ " PI Bi ^ P . ^ b ^ lP ^ l ^ ta ^ r ~ W ~ m ^ ^ PP ^ * r ^ . r B | pppB ^ V P * k pB ^ ^ k ^ t , ^ * y V F ^ P ^^ ^^ -B » ^ Np ^ ^ Bk ^^ Sermons i . for ¦ Famil v ^ pppb ^ ppp . _ ^ y Reading ^^ ppp- ^ i ^ ¦¦ . ^ , ' ' The pppi ^ ppBipp . ^ p . History ^ Papv ^^ B * ppi a of our Lord / with engravings ( 1855 ) ; ' His-- > ^ B . ^ PPPk ^ PPPP- A ^ m * ^^ , ¦ - _ . ^^ . 4 . Pk pB ^ B ^^ BT ^ B < B 1

      torical Notices of the Oxford ^ ^ Colleges / The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman , being a

      Memoir Memoir of of Mr Mr . . Patrick Patn ' p . k Fraser Fraaer T Tvtl ytler ftr ' ; : ' The The New Lectionary / ' The Athanasian Creed to be \ Retained WB in its bf b Integrit b krfKAW * / ' The rfk- pBt ¦¦¦

      Disestablishment ¦ W ^ ~^ . JK . »* ~ % ^ r al >« -4 ¦ ^ Jfc , > Jk ^^ of Reli ^ b , . at ^> ^ - g ^^ ion _^ ^ pk «_ at r ¦ ' , ^ ^_ Oxford . y W the . ~ m ^ Betrayal ¦ — . pB . r > . r ^^ " ^» - «^ ¦» -- »» of a National Trust Bh ' ' A Plea for the Stud

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      vision Revised ' ( being three articles repubpp lished * . Mm * -. J ^ Jl " k */ V- 'Vk ^ from L . Aj ^ - ^ p * V p & p ^ the VppT ^ M , Jmm , ^ m ^ Quarterl ^ M * ^ - " ' 1 / ff «/ ^^ pT \ S y \ -W lieview m V < > " 1 ^ V ^ % - ^ V ^ \~* M ) , m ' Nehemiah pk , ^ ^ b ^ 4 k « k ^ p ^ 4 Bj « ^ « k ^ V # ^ pBa , B |

      a Pattern for Church-builders' ; Prophecy , not Forecast WB / ' ' Manuscript B > Gospels PJ in h pppp > i ^ P > Forei «> PPPJIflRk

      ^ B ^ k ^^ B ^ ^ bMb ^^ rfpft . ^ b ^ ^ ppp ^ ^ W \ 9 V ^ ; WJ ppB ^ V ^^ k > m .- ^ pf Bt « flk B ^ VB ^ Bt ^ pT « ^^ Jk « ^ B , ^ B ^ » fc- ^ ^ . ^ . f ^^ m *^ * kpp * ^ r ^ pT « pppppp ** «¦ . ^ ppp gn ^ ppi ppppp > Libraries / ' The Prayer-Book a Devotional Manual Manual and and Guide Guide * ' ' The Tho fetmctur Structure e and and

      , Method of the Book of Common Prayer . ' There can be little Brf doubt that the incidents PM fe k ppP of

      Jk Jk dh ^ k ^ *^ ^ pp' ^ pp ^ B ^ / BV ^ k ^ k r ^ - ^ T «^ p ^ pBk ^ B ^ ( B ^ ^ aapr >_ , » ,. ^^ T «^ p « B ^ r ^ P * V « r BtpT «* Bt Bjpfkf BP « 1 pP IB . * p | j ^ vpT * PH ^ p < < p > p > V- ^ B ^ ^ VjpT pB *~^ ¦ ^ - ^ ^ pp > Dr . Burgon ' s life should be made the subject pf « , very useful biographical study .

      James Johonnot . —Mr . Johonnot , who was one of the most popular of American

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1888, page 911, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081888/page/9/