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    Obituary,

    I I 1866 director , Mr . of Jones the entire was appointed institution by the under Queen the to Board the office of Trustees of Princi * pal The Librarian Times , who : — is ' The virtually * I I sion of the great manuscript catalogue , of printed books was mainly performed says by Mr . Jones rev . II

    It was thus that he doubtless acquired that great love of it which obscured its many faults now I consp bibliograp icuous hy enoug in existence h that printing , and m is an resorted y lives have to . But been there spent is , in notwithstanding its compilation , . no Mr such . Winter grand , II I recommended bPanizzi for the of PrinciLibrarianthe

    that Jones all was rules and regulations y Mr and . executive arrangements post then pal in force , would on be assumption faithfully I I adhered toand Mr . Jones did credit to the recommendation . He varied nothingbut carried I

    student Bouucxi out the policy was w «* , courteously uuux inaugurated ttsuusiy jreceiveu received by Mr . by uy Panizzi him nun at a . for u the wie the jMuseum . management vxuseum and ana assisted assist of the Bri in in tif his h Museum labours laDOurs , , . and and Every thp the I I

    establishment of assistants and keepers is indebted to him for extracting from the Lords of I I volumes the Treasury of a somewhat and travels improved for scale of salaries Societ . Mr . Jones edited and translated three I

    cal dictionaries voyages and the Quarterly the and Hakluyt other reviews y . , and His contributed last effort notices , recentl to y biographi privately - I I printedwas a sketch of the Assyrian and Bablonian excavations undertaken for the British I

    , y Museum ago . The , which results formed of Mr . the Rassam substance ' s latest of a researches lecture delivered were so attractive by him at to Penzance him that a they few months became I I

    the subject of a lively conversation which he led on the eve of his death . It should be added 1 i

    f the tnat author lvir . w of inter c Good Jones y Twoshoes pridea nimseli . ' among Ins literary iriends on being the descendant of I

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    734 The Publishers' Circular Se Pt i 5 , ^ 1

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    t . * Books Keceited : — Prom Messrs . A . S . Barnes & Co . of New York .

    , by —' John Points Lord of , History Ph . D . for The School old-fashioned s and Colleges method , ' . ^ fc * ^ ft ^ ^ w ^ ^ ^ m

    - the of work question use , which * of both and the answer teachers author is tells adopted and us is throug ils desi as a hout gned this for lepupsupp

    ment plant to any ordinary in use ; school and it histories will be , found and not special to sup ly - valuaMe in reviews of a series of lessons or in

    and examinations answers , arranged . "We have und in er some different 2 , 000 countries questions , a ; reference tc almost everevent in the history of the

    { -world , and brought down y to the close of the war : between Russia and Turkey , and the death of Pio : Nono . Mr . Lord ' s sanguine spirit is shown in

    his answer to the last question : * What does his-;¦ over tory -ruled teach and us to that hope there ? That is a all stead evils y tendency will be

    among all , nations to free institutions and eman' cipation from all slaveries , through the benign influence of the Christian

    \ ; devoted to American history reli is gion an / important The section feature in the work in a day when the ties between

    ; the mother-country and the United States seem to be drawing closer . ¦ ¦ From ¦ ¦ — ¦ Messrs ¦ . Bemrose & Sons . — A Continenta \ JV l

    - " " " - ^ " ^ ~ - ~ *^ ^^ *~ ^ ^^^^ - ^ m * ^ H ^^^^ v ^ ^ h ^ nr ^^ ^^ V ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ f ^^ W ^^ W ^* ^»— ^^^ ^^ r ~ ^^ J * * ^ ^^/ ^ k ^ «/ Jfe Scamper 'Reminiscences . ' By ' Periscope of a rush / The throug little h book Holland gives , Rhenish PrussiaBavariaand Switzerland . ' It

    is the pleasant account , of , what was accomplished in who the broug course ht of a a cultivated fortnight by mind a young to bear gentleman upon

    what which he names saw , which as is are shown stumbling by the -block accuracy s to many with a travellerare given bthe writer of the volume

    before us . , Switzerland y appears to have been this pretty case well that exp the lored traveller ; the peculiarity managed to being includ , e in a

    visit to the , Passion Play . From the Cambridge Warehouse . — ' Ecclesiastes ;

    or , the Preacher , with notes and introduction by JE . H . Plumptro , D . B ., Professor of New Testa-J ment ExegesisKing ' s CollegeLondon & c . ' A

    , , , new volume of the ' Cambridge Bible for Schools , ' one dealing of the with books what mos may t difficult perhaps to understand be regarded in the fas

    , whole canon of Scripture ; in fact , Dr . Plumptre , in his preface , not only characterises it as *

    preeminently enigmatic , but says ., with justice , that

    ' it comes before us as the sphinx of Hebrew I

    life literature — . ' To , annotate with its unsolved a work in riddles regard - — ^ j - ' — of to — history - ^ which « * ^ b ^ v ^ ^^^ k ^^ and ' it A V l ^ I I ^^

    preter has become thinks almost that all a previou proverb s that interpreters every inter have - I I been wrong' is no light taskbut it seems to have II

    been a thoroughly congenial , one ¦ to the Professor , careful who here examination gives us the of result the , works not merel of y earlier of a I I

    students , but the fruits of his own personal study . I He believes that the reading of Ecclesiastes in the I ¦ light - » which — he — is able — to — throw - ^_ - - _ - — - upon — — _^^ - ^^_ - ¦ ^— it — — will r — — — ^^ show - — — - - III - _^^^^^_ '

    vidential that it meets ly desi , gned and we to meet may , believe the special has tendencies been pro- III [ II of modern philosophical | | thought , and that the

    problems of life which it discusses are those with III which contact our / He own | further daily experience holds that brings it shows us that into I

    * the questions of our own time are those which I vexed the minds of seekers and debaters in an age I not unlike our | own in its forms of culture / It

    presents , the Professor admits , a more marked I ment contrast to the than teachings any other of the book gospels in the or Old istles Testa of - I I

    the New , but still ho considers that ep it is not I lafcio lafcion without n . and and a p maj mav lace in become hecnma the . Divine to tn those f . hnsfi economy who who of rend reaa reve it ii - II m II

    aright , , ' a schoolmaster leading , them to Christ . ' ll From — ' the City from of London Australian Publishing ' " Comp bAustral any . . I I

    feeling A volume Lays and marked if its an standard by much of pure poetic Lyre , and meri y graceful t is not II I

    many Ili the 11 J hig , to KKJ hest whom YV UUUJl , it will the LiJUt 5 , writer WX doubtless . 1 LCJL is IS personall pOAOUlldAij , be welcomed y ' known * .. »• - the ¦ by , I

    and by others to whom , as fellow-colonists , subjects of his will be familiarTher are

    verses . also the the volume volume several closes closes little with with prose a a poem - sketch nnem descriptive descriptive es and tales of or , and the u'c

    voyage 1881 . of The the deep Orient religiousness from Sydney of tone to London per character vading in

    the the book book forms forms one one of of its its p r > lea leasantest santest cnarucu ™ - istics . From MessrsGriffith & F ¦ — ' Hurricane I

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    date CtttUC writer 1873 of 'J ^ books O , , tells VVXia for us lt boys » that l-H . VLl The the l , UC 7 preface IUUW material 1 | K , which on w | " journa _ wlncn bears

    put the narrative into the author is based ' s hands is || taken nearly fro twenty m a y *«** I ago , by a well-known naval oflScer , pow hunsej * III to ttUllB

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1881, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091881/page/6/