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    934 The Publishers * Circular August 15,...

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    has written an Australian tale called ' Frank Layton ; ' and Miss Lockhart 5 Gordon one

    entitled 'A Bunch of Roses . The average salaries of assistant teachers

    in the Board Schools of England is said to be £ 98 . 6 s . Id . In Irelandthe chief male

    teachers in elementary schools , receive on an average more than £ 15 a year less than

    assistants in England . The Catholic Educator—one of the best

    papers of its kind in the market—has just begun to make its appearance as a penny weekly journal . Although the - price has been

    reduced m / 0 , no change has been CD made x in the size and appearance of the paper , whilst the

    contents ever . are As this as bri is g the ht , onl varied , and practical in Great as y newspaper

    Britain i and ' Ireland devoted (/ to the ¦* - interests ^^ — of Catholic teachers , professors , tutors ,

    goverand nesses success , colleg an es , important and schools * place , it fills in journalism with credit .

    There are in Great Britain and Ireland fully thirty thousand persons directly engaged

    colleges —as professors and schools , teache - ^ rs t , and work manag of Ca e th rs ol of ic

    education . Messrs . Houlston & Sonswe are glad to

    find , have brought out a cheap , edition of ' Grammar-Land ; or , Grammar in bv Fun for

    Nesbitt the the Uhildren Children . This in in is the ochoolro Schoolroomshire fourth omshire edition , ' of by a JxL TVT reall . . JL L-. clever and entertaining bookand not only y

    i all little children who think , grammar hard and dry , ' but many nursery governesses and

    t find each the ers book of the a decided unger classes boon . in The sch personifi ools , will

    cation of the Parts of Speech was a happy thought , and Judge Grammar and his subjects

    prove lively companions in the schoolroom . Messrs . George Philip & Sons have just

    added to their school >—» series JL a useful little book O on Elementary Mensuration , ' by Mr . Pedley ,

    a well-known schoolmaster at Tamworth . The claims of mensuration as a subject of class instruction have been widely recognised of

    in recen this t years text-book , and illustrate the origina the l examp chief les rinci giv les en pp

    of the science . The Socie ' te * Botanique de France has

    arranged held in Paris for an from Interna 20 th t ional to 25 th Congress August , . to The be

    chiefl programme y the i ques ncludes tion a of varie est t ablishing y of subjec be t tw s , but een

    the different botanical societies a general agreement for the execution of maps showing the

    distribution of species and genera of plants on

    the globe . ¦

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    make Messrs the interesting . Henry Holt announcement & Co ., New that -- York - the - ,

    lef late t in Prof their . Alexander hands Johnston readfor , of the Princeton a , , y 7 press ,

    second History oi tne United states , written rGt \

    on a plan somewhat similar to his already wellknown text-bookbut suited to a shorter course

    and perhaps to less , mature minds . Messrs irfh . Harpers fe will issue soon the fiftieth ppvftw » p ^ p » ¦ ¦¦

    mm * w ^^ ^^ ^^ oBpP v «^^*^^ v ^ m ^ ^ m ^ ** * v v w «* pWpV ^» v «^ w ^^ p » ^ r v ^ ^* r ^ r ^^ b ^^ v ^ v - ^^ ^ r * mw ' ^ v * A volume of W . J . Rolfe ' s English classics , the same being ' Select Poems of Wordsworth '

    It ^^^^ p > will ^^ " ^ p * . ^ ^ ph ^ pb be ^ h illustrated ^_ A ^ . ^ ppt " from , ^ p > drawings ^ pb ^ a- of the — ^ m , sceneryof the Lake Districtand contain

    nearly a , hundred pages of notes . , In connecti +, on inn with -wri-Hi this -hhia IVTp Messrs . ssra . T D . ( J _ . Heath TTft 5 i .+. Ti & Sr . Co fin . . of nf

    , , Boston tions from , also announce Wordsworth for ' earl edited y issue b , * A Selec . J . - y

    George , A . M ., the editor , of ' Wordsworth's Prelude . ' The selections are arranged in

    growth chronolog of ical the order poet ' s with mind a . view They to showing embrace the all

    so of Wordsworth as to give ' the s best best works representation , and are extended of his

    entire work . 'Flori «^» da Days tmm / b rmr y Margaret k ¦ ; Delan £

    author ^* mm ^ m ^ ^ of ^ mm ^^^^^ w 'John ^ mm ^^ ^^ mr w * w Ward » ^—^ Preacher - ^^^ ¦ w ^^ v ^* » ^^ *^^ ' ^ ' will — " ~ - — be . ^ - ^ y , published soon by Messrs , . Little , Brown &

    Co . of Boston . Mr . Paul B . Watson , who published , in 1884 a work on Marcus Aurelius ,

    Revolution Antoninus , has under written Gustavus a book Vasa on ' The , ' which Swedish the

    same firm will bring out in the autumn . Messrs . Ginn & Co . are about to publish

    'Fractions : a Teacher ' s Manual of Objective and Oral Work , ' by H . F . Page , of the Connecticut Normal School

    . It is announced that Colonel Piatt has

    retired from the editorship of Belfordh Magazine " .

    publication — Mrs . Jan a — e new G . novel Austin of has New comp Eng leted land life for

    — j ' Standish early day of s Standish in the old ' and Colony Mr . — ^ -j Richard entitled ;

    Malcolm Langston / Johnston & cis engaged , author ( - } upon of a * novel Old Mark with

    the and rural purpose ^ — j life — ^ of in , illustrating Georg ^ j ia sixt phases y years of ago village .

    the Miss position Frances of linguist Graham and French translator , who in holds the

    * is American ¦* i mm engaged ~^ r ^ ^ ^^ . K ^^^ F ^ M ^^ Bureau — in ^^^— the ^— ' ^^ ^— work of Education of classif ^ ¦ — at ying Washing » m and cata — ton - ,

    l twen ogui t y different the 30 , 000 languages tj forei tj gn which books are , in included about

    ¦ ¦ ^ i in ^ m s v ¦ the an b ^^ ^ j library accomp - —¦ — -i— - ^— —— ^^ ¦— ' — ¦¦ h - of — ¦ lished »— that ¦ - — — instit linguist — ^—^ , ution - - , j . speaking Miss — — — French ' ^ m —« and

    with writing fluency French , and , German having , Italian a fair , knowled and Spanish ge of

    the ian Scandinavian DutchPor tongues tuese , as Russian well as Latin of Hun and - gar O , , ug ' , , ,

    even some of the Eastern dialects . Messrs pjp > w pjp <« . Lee ppp" ^ ppppp" & Shep ¦ ¦ p »^ p— herd announce »¦ ¦ ¦ —~ ~ - ¦ ¦ - ' ~ Pens

    and teachers p ^ T ^ ^ p ^ pp ypes p ^ p ^ pr ^ p ^ , pr b p ^ , y ' Mr ^^ p ^ ^ bo p ^ P * . o Benj ' ^ p ^^ k ^ p ^ p ^ for amin ^^^ a ^^^ ¦ ut ¦ ™ ~ ^ hors Drew ^ - ^ ^— ^ p ^ ^ , . prin — ^ ^ ters —— , and

    lished Messrs — * Day _ . D s — . out — A pp of - le Doors ton - & ~ 7 ' Co by . Mr have . Charles just pub C - .

    % a ___ , ^^ Abbott , author of * A Naturalist ' s Rambles about Home . '

    -- An entirely new series of school wall maps has just been issued by Messrs . Rand , McNally ,

    & Co . The set comprises the United States ,

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1889, page 934, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081889/page/8/