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    ¦ - Manchester , and Derry , and full-page sketches of St . Nicholas , Newcastle-on-Tyne , and the

    exterior and interior of Durham Cathedral . ( The latter is , however , scarcely ' up to date . ' ) The letterpress ^> *~ s »*¦ —• — — I comprises ¦» , in addition to more than

    a hundred brief biographies , a well-written description of Newcastle , Durham , and the surrounding country ^/ ^* »~ — / ; j a history ^ of the Church Congresses \ / of ^

    the last twenty years ; a guide to the Newcastle churches , framed on the model of Mr . Mackeson ' s ' Guide to the Churches of London ; ' and full

    details of the Congress meetings , special services , & c . The ' Handbook' is issued with the authority of the Congress Committee , and with the

    sanction of the Archbishop of York and Bishop of Durham , as patron and president of the gathering - ¦ which — has just taken place , and of which it will

    % j i . r form an acceptable memorial . From the same . — 'Pamela ' s Bequest , ' a story , by

    31 . E . Poole ( Mrs . Henry Sandford ) . A tale of village life in the West Country , well suited for a prize for elder girls in a Sunday-school or for a

    parish library . The tone of the book , it nay be added , is decidedly but not obtrusively , religious , and it appeals specially to readers who are

    mem-A J- A */ "hers of the Church of England . Prom The Tyne Publishing Co . — 'John Bright

    and the Peace Party . ' Mr . Apjohn ' s new book of ' Memorable Men of the 19 th Century' is complementary to the lives of Mr . Gladstone , Lord

    Beaconsfieid , and Mr . Cobden . Particular attention has been paid to the public speeches of Mr . Brig J ht' , of which many ¦ ¦ specimens JL are g *—tiven . The

    Tolumo is an interesting contribution to modern history . From Messrs . "WardLock , & Co . —Marryat ' s

    , ' Jacob . Faithful' and ' Japhet in Search of a Father / Two new volumes of Messrs . Ward and Lock ' s Standard Library , each complete , in a

    pictorial wrapper . These tales are especially happy examples of Marryat ' s versatile genius . Although in the ono the scene is laid in a barge

    on the Thames , the other is ii story of dry land , and it would be difficult , amid the crowd of books of amusement at the present day , to point to

    two containing more genuine fun than these . We Relieve that at one of his sorest moments of trial the great philosopher of Chelsea found comfort in

    these immortal works—wo say immortal , for wo do not suppose people will ever tire of them . Prom the samo . —Hdn ' s ' Dictionary of Dates . '

    ay an entirely now edition brought down to the autumn of 1881 ' . This valuable work , which is familiar to all studentshas been revised and

    enlarged , and is now being , 1 issued in shilling parts . The present is the seventeenth edition , a fact iving stronger testimony to its value than ¦

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    Hunter , & Co ., Edinburgh ) has an admirable and sermon fho a Lud on go * Caesar . t of attracti and God ve ' reli by g Pastor ious papers Ber . sior . — ,

    & Co aS . ) ^ . introduces James ' s Magazin us to Mr e . W ( Grattan . S . Gilbert , Marshall as tho subjoet of of MrArchor '

    one . W . s papers on sub * Ihe 1 Dramatists 110 ject of tho of chaptor the Day on ; ' ' Gentlemen and ' Tho Edi of tho tor ' Press is the . '

    the -. editor writer writer aa eltei effectivolv ho 'tivoly is " in and and flesh humorously humorousl and blood y contrasts contrasts with the strange conceptions formed of him by tho outside

    Ihe worm ought , and to gn bo -cs :- — the following definition of what

    meet A good with editor fifty brilliant is a most writers difficult to thing to find really . You capable can

    AXiVi editor »> U » T you * WU XJL would * -Vjr V M . come ± X M UUi U across VflltU . Mere U ^ -F C ever Y C writing * y one \/ L « 5 AUUliJ , or literary *^ a | . / C * k / AU ability be be able able does to to write write not make at at all all an and and editor be be the the —indeed best best , of of a editors editors man may . . Tact Tact not .

    judgment power of , saying a cool No head , punctuality , perception , promptitude of ability in , and others an , , always points - to alive look , always for in -awaie good editor sort of And quality when —these are prietor the

    finds 1 W 11 IUO a man \ J lUl / possessin a 1 UL 111 a * X g gUUU these CUlLVI qualifications . . AUU WUCU he a O will > pro pil / be J / XlC w ise to day stick of the to him week , for . such , a one is not to be picked up

    every-Among the typical editors to whom the writer introduces us are the following : — Aslovenl tuj dressed uicootu auauuui about / fortyfive i-i with limp linen

    and ja- . rji snuff ^ T -sprinkled . y - man ui shirt-front— x \ i a uj man - - » t , , that niuu might iiui ]^ ixiiun pass , j in broker a crowd ' s man as . a He small is thf greengroce editor of r a or London a superio daily r sort paper of with TlUli an C 4 11 immense AlJ ^ M . lJLX \ Z'll * Z \ 3 circulation V / liV » HitbUI ^ ll . And J ^ . 11 U yet ^ VU a third UlllXU , specimen O ^ VlUi VyU * .

    A most melancholy-looking man ( his friends call him Melancholy W ) , with a pale serious countenance that one would think betokened the carriage of the whole and affair 3 of the State his lllO

    shoulderswho l cares ~ a > JCO is seldom 114 U 4 J . UJXO known t / i l / IJC to KJ VCVVVs sinile upon U ^/\ 3 much less OUVUXU laugh ^ IO . a He man J-XJC is * U the editor of a comic paper . Science Gossip ( Bogue ) , in addition to its

    continuation of tile papers by Professor W . J . Sol las on ' The Structure and Life-History of a Sponge jj ^^ — ' and — other — — interesting — — (—j papers ^ A , has a

    graphic description of * The oldest volcano and most recent lava stream in Argyleshire . '—The Churchman ' s Shilling- Mayazine ( Houlston )

    commences some descriptive ' Sketches of Travel in Holland' by Mrs . i ' aber—a relative , we believe , of the poet-priost—aad has a capital essay on

    Davenport ' Light and Adams Shade , in the Recent author Foetry of the ' b Dic y M tionary r . W . of English Literature . J \ liss Ho wells graceful poetry gives variety to tho number . Household

    Words ( Dickens & Evans ) gives five complete stories , a section of a serial tale , and a variety of papers fitted for family reading , bicycling ,

    fashions , cookery , household gardening , booklending , with many kindred topics . In the paper on — ' book - — - — lending - q- ^ ' the writer very V justl % J y

    Vcontrasts the tendency to forget to return a borrowed volume , which characterises so many people among the upper classes , with the scrupulous honesty

    which is , as a rule , shoi , vn by a poor man , who seldom also forgets received to return Penny a l book } o $ t ( l Parker ent to ) him —The . We Fireside have

    ( Hand and Heart Office ) — Child ' s Companion ( E . T . S . )—Cottager * and Artisan ( K . T . S . )—Hand ami Heart—The Sunday School Magazine — The

    Milliner and Dressmaker—The British Trades Journal—The Printer ' s Register , & c . Skrials . — Messrs . Ca . ssoll have commenced

    what promises to be an important work , in their Illustrated Universal History , accompanied by an % % / m A \ engraving J * m ^^ m * % * 0 W m •**¦ P ^ ^ of nnr Ifc ^ Alma ^ ~^ ** » " ^ ^ "" w * Tadema —— - ^ " » ¦ ™ - — ' ^ ¦ ' s ~— * Audience -- - ^ _____ — . _ __ at

    Aprippa ' a ' as a ' presentation plate . ' Holy Thoughts on Holy Things , selected and arranged ¦¦ b — —y the i Itev . E . Davios 1 ) . D . ( WwrdLock , & Co . )

    _— _ ^^ ^— - - ^ m *—— —^ ~™— — — » — — ~ , * ^^_ , * AW Part 1 gives in alphabetical order of subjects extracts from a groat variety of authors on ¦ almost ^^ ^ . * —I *^_ ' ^* | I ¦ —^ " every ——^ —I * ^>^ ¦ subject — ™^ — ' ¦ ~^— ^ - ^ ^— —~ regarded ^ - ^ V from the relig M Jious

    standpoint . In Part 12 of Worthies of the World , biographies of Mr . Spurgeon , Victor Hugo , Homer , and Joha Briht aro stitched in tho same cover .

    Truly fortune g brings men strange bed-fellows . Tho same publishers' Thrift Booh \ a cyclopedia of cottage i ¦ management ——¦ h k i \ nd practical _— - economy for

    ~ ~ —^ —_» —_» | ^—^ —_~ ~ — ' ^ " ^ ^ — —* - ^ f ^^^^ — — — - — — -- - —— — — m tho peop ^^ le , ought in these days to find a ^ wide sale , and th «» ir serial roprint of Hallains Introduction to the Literature of Europe will bring

    that great work within the reach of many new renders . They also send us tho Home Book , part 1 * 2 , the Family Altarpart 6 , and tho Farm Book ,

    • * J ' , part 12 .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1881, page 887, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101881/page/15/