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      Then, If The Publisher Does Not Pl Ay Th...

      . . T T bookseller , and his patrons and friends , the parson , the professor , the lawyer , the doctor ,

      broug tne the antiquary antia ht to uarv an - , and and end tne the if student student the * big , , winch which dealer will will in the be be large cities works his wicked will ! Think of the

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      to ruin , to swell the sordid gains of men without a tithe of _ his _ ability or industryand

      -- j — , _ without the slightest consideration ^ for their

      fellow men !

      August 15; 1889 The Publishers' Circular...

      August 15 ; 1889 The Publishers' Circular 947 - - - 1 .. . . - _________

      Of H Course Oliday , The Booksbiiuna 6 O...

      of H course oliday the BooKSBiiUNa 6 off' season . — for ^ The bookselling summer is ,

      and many , of the trade have a tradition that it , is not worth while attempting very much as

      the days get hotter and business shorter . But a great deal of the profit of the book trade as

      of other trades depends upon hard work in ' off * seasons to bring up the returns and

      profits of the year a little above its average , and in sumnler bookselling not a little is to be accomplished by suggesting to book buyers at

      the right time what they should take in the way of summer reading . Indeed / here is parL

      and of pn . . the ^ the difference ^ i - _ f % more between ~ M intelli gent dry ^ - sor goods .. ' t . bookselling The •* book p «^_>

      -dealer who can suggest to his patrons books which are at once fresh and — entertaining - - - oand

      the of real line literary of fiction value can , perhaps lish books not outside a little of accomp

      for _ both Bt a _ •¦ his Pafe bb patrons *¦ , and himself BPft b Bh . Bfc . It k ^^^ is b * - ' worth . ^ Pi while for booksellers to suggest to their

      cusfcoreading mers that which if they are buy reall a y few of book perma s n for ent country value

      they API have aPB added f ^ at 4 tVJ ^ B so much aW to the — b . 1 home PP . ! library aPi ak aah , for all time . It is in this way that good

      bookselling ought to tell , despite all the difficulties which it has undoubtedly to faceand we

      throw out this hint to our friends of , the retail trade that they may work it for as much as it

      is worth . —The New York Publishers Weekly .

      The Newspaper Society.—Mr. Edward Lawson...

      The Newspaper Society . —Mr . Edward Lawson presided ¦ L over a meeting < —» of newspaper A X

      proprietors on the 22 nd ult ., when the rules of a new organisation were considered and adopted / On the question of extending lAlC * the

      l ^ J \ A ^* -r ¦ . Wb /^ V » . ^«— ' - ** . V-tA ^ - ** ^ Jt V ^^_/ t < J wii X ^ * -fc ^>~ r JL ^_ # •¦(¦¦ , K # ^ 'AJL ^^ U VAA V ^ fo limits llowi of ng the reso Societ lution y t moved o London by Mr mem . J b . Lovell , the

      { Liverpool Mercury ) , and seconded by Mr . A ¦ " ^ B . B * a 1 ^* r"M 1 ^ Beckett BBi ^ B » " ^ ' ^¦ B' " ^ B" ^^ ^^ ^ BF- ' ^ ^ B" ( B B Punch ^^^ » ^ BP BF ' ^ B- B BB ) 1 B , BB was BP « ¦ b ^^ F' | B * carried - ^ BF ^ BF ^ ^ B ^ ^ BPBI B ^ B ' ^ ' ^ r' ^» " unani ^ B >^ . ^ BBP B «^ p . b . * B « -

      ing mous C 7 , l the y : — reorg ' That U anised , in the Provincial opinion of Newspaper this , meet J JL

      Society , in future to be called " The Newspaper Society , " meets the requirements of the resolution passed at the meeting of the London

      and provincial jl newspaper proprietors e » on January g VJ 22 , and hereby endorses ^ B _ . the bB rules of thatBBI p ^ . ^ ^

      Society , and resolves that the revision and extension of the rules of the Provincial Newspaper Society obviate the need of forming a

      new and separate organisation .

      The Book Trade Three Hundred Years Ago.—...

      The Book Trade Three Hundred Years Ago . —The business of a 1 publisher f hiBMB has its

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      compared with the perils that encircled the book trade three centuries ago ? By an edict

      Low dated Countries April 29 , 1550 the , penalty which app of lied death to was the

      decreed against , all who should print or transcribe — h - ^ m ^ p- ¦ ^ " ^ p » ¦ ™ ^ ppppr ¦ ¦ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ppp' , ^ p . sell » ^ ^^^ ^^^ ™ , ^» . buy ™ ^ ppppf ^^^ " ^ ppr ^ . , or ^^ p » ^^^^ distribute ^^ ^^^ pppp ~ w ^ pp » ^ p ^ ^^^ ^^^ p pb ^ pp ^^™ ^ ppv ^ pppp ~ any ^ ppp *^^ ^ b > b ^ pt g bjooks ^ t ^ ppp »» i ^ bp »^ ^ ¦ ¦ ™ ^ ppr

      of of the Geneva Reformers . The of Imperial Wittenberg permission , of Ziiricn was , or

      required before anyone could become Mm a printer , and this was by no means given as a matter of

      course , or without much oath-taking . Even then a copy of every new book had to be

      deposited with the censor of the press , and booksellers were not allowed so much as to

      open their parcels , save in the presence of this

      official . — Bookworm .

      "French Taste In English Books.— Transla...

      "French Taste in English Books . — English authors are known in France by

      translations translations , , and and as as neith neither er the the muse muse of of vers verse e nor the style of prose can be reproduced in a translationthe author is judged by a criterion

      outside his , literary workmanship . His reputation is constructed over againwithout

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      can is very never little know appreciated how superior , because he was the in Frenc style h

      Joshua to Dickens Reynolds . Of English is appreciated writers on in art France , Sir

      because ticularly Eng his doctrine lish , and . contained his style was nothing simple p and arclear * Huskin Tr % _ 1 * has 1 i *» -n t *•

      -his views ; on art are no ^ French English readers , and , his because style complex conrnlex- elaborate elaborateornate ornate . . The The name name of of

      Byron is , known to , , every educated Frenchman b bb that ¦¦ of * bp ^ Tennyson is known to students vrV b" > V . PPt

      of ^ * bpi pb » ^ pr ^ pr — Eng ¦ , ^ pr ^ B ¦ " lish ° "bp ^ bp" b— literature p » ^^^^ mm vbpt i > bb bb bbp bp » pr ¦ ¦ ^^^ ^^ w onl ^^^ pi ^ H r ^^ v y ^^^>^ . ^^ ^ PV BP ^ ^* bB" ¦) All T ¦¦¦» pPPV ^ PP ^ hB ^ the V ^ pP ^ pr ^ ppipp chief ^ p ^^ P ^ P ^ ^*^« F English and Scotch philosophers are familtar ~

      to fac ^*^^ ^ P ^ ^^ ^ B" t ^^ French , ^ PI accepted ^^ ^^ ^ B ^ ^ ^ p H ^^^ Bpp ^ BT students — " ^^ b V ^ B ^ y ^ V th ^ V B 4 v ^ BJ e ^ Bpp m ¦ ¦ ^ BBJ of B ^ as ^ B ^ ^ p V ^ Bp p ^^ p h h PBBP ^ B > i eir ^ Q l BBBI osop VBBB great Ba BP ^ k BPJV h y W , t « Bpr and eac B ^^ BferBp ¦ kr' h BBBP , ers ^^^ f in PPP * V ^^ bV

      the and French guides , public but they . Independentl are utterly un y o known f literary to

      merit , foreign literatures are sometimes called upon to supply an element of human interest

      that is wanting in the home productions . The French are aware that Russian novels are not so well constructed as their ownyet there is

      a poignancy , a profundity of foeling , , and a strength of primitive barbaric nature in the Russian novel that are wanting TT / AAACb in >& the French ¦

      Jk V IAMM *^ VA * « . * V V \/* VJp > J >>*_> V V M >* ^ pf MIAAI JLA > IJJLA ^ S ^ . .. VAAVAAl , and this has given the foreign ^ novelist a great successeven through translations-. The desire

      for more , nature always brings on a reaction against any conventionalismand the foreigner

      who brings more nature has his , assured success . A modern English conventionalism , quite

      unknown to our forefathers , forbids the complete portraiture of men and women in fiction . This has created a desire to see another side

      of life , and the French novelist supplies the want . The English want immoral — literature

      ^^ CJ , and buy French _ novels ; the French want moral literature , and buy mf Eng fZflish novels—in

      translations . It would be better , perhaps , to have for both countries a kind of fiction that alfiould be simpltruthfulrather irTJ VmbF 4 PK ¦¦> piPB than B « Pi # ¦>» VJPJf the bV

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1889, page 947, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081889/page/21/