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Io6o The Publishers 1 Circular Oct. 15,1...
io 6 o The Publishers Circular Oct . 15 , 188 4
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W . SWAN SOMENSCHEIN & CO . 'S NEW LIST . Of Mr . Charles Marvin ' s RECONNOITRING CENTRAL ASIA ( Pioneering Adventures in the Begion lying between Russia and India ) the Academy says : — 'The work of recent explorers , « Capt from . Vambery Burnaby ^ to ahd Lessar J- A . , Mac and Q including ahan , is resume such d other , and brilliant the distinctive names as features Cols . Macgregor of each carefully and Valentine discriminated Baker . ' , * T stories he Graphic in the says book : — — * In and these there pages are man there y good is adventure ones—is and that romance of how enoug Colonel h for Stewart twenty , disguised novels . as One an " of Ar the menian beat ' horse-dealermet O'Donovan and lived beside him three weeks ' , - Of Rev . James Hellock ' s HARD BATTLES FOR LIFE AND USEFUL-3 ST 3 S 8 S ( an Autobiographic Record , with an Introduction by Eev . Dr . Smith , Author of * Olrig Grange' ) the 'The Saturday practical Review suggestions say 3 it are is ' entitled the story to of careful a man cons who id lias eration fou - ght ' The his way Contemporai up in spite -y Review of innumerable says : — ' It is obstacles a story . ' of much interest , fruitful in solid and sometimes strange experience , and in helpful lessons of many sorts . ' The Freeman says : — ' The book will be an incentive to multitudes . * Of Dr . Wright ' s ADVENTURES IN SERVIA ( Experiences of a Medical Free 4 dnll -Lance or in a among very ill tlie humour Basni-Baz if he ouks does ) the not Pall get a Ma great ll says many : — 'Whoever very hearty takei laughs up Mr out . Bernard of it—and ' s b he oot must also be learn very * a nationalities good , deal by / the The way Christian about the World way says s of : — life ' The and book the is modes far better of thought worth reading of these than \ oung many and more vigorous pretentious eastcn ' volumes of travel A racy , "witty , and in every way entertaining book . ' Of Rev . Hilderic Friend ' s FLOWERS AND FLOWER-LORE ( of which a ' subject Second Edition His in two one attractive volume at volumes 10 s . ( id . is form now a ready perfect ) the treasur Times y speaks of curious as * and a full out study -of-the of -way a very flower fascinatin -learning g . ' " . We find also very copious critical and bibliographical notp « , with full indices . Altogether the work U an ' important and exhaustive one , and occupies a distinct place of its own . ' AMONG NEW NOVELS , Of Mr . Wm . Sime s THE RED ROUTE ( or , Saving a Nation , by the Author of ' Mr 'King . Sime Capital for the ' ) lmnoours the Spec tator Irish says patriotism : — * 4 t Toe and Red secret Boute societies " is not , for quite Father first-rate John attached but we to freely Ireland forgive , but | ' ' attached American still man more of notion to the , bofcfcle "General ; for " O ( rorton Gee , the . Above astute all Constitutional , Beatrice Lynch " orator , the and fascinating agitator , for widow the , Irisn and - Finn O'Brien , a sort of Barry Lyndon as yet unspotted by the worldare really valuable additions to the ' portrait gallery of Irish fiction . * , Of Miss Abdy-WilliamS S TWO IFS the Gh . be says : — < The story is certainly ' common one to be read . * It The Ih a wholesome JJ-tily Netcs story says : —' Novels interesting of so , much playful fresliness , and sweet , good , with feeling graceful , and descriptive quiet tnste scenes are law not ' in Devonshire . ' The Pall Mall says : — " The principal characters are all bright and unaffectedand thoroug hly ' nice , right-minded people into the bargain . ' , V Of Mr . TJlick J . Blirke ' s COULEUR DE ROSE the Court Journal says : — ' ' Every amusing line . " The of the Athenaeum two volumes eaj a : — ia * He worth has reading a lively and rollickiug He haq style alway , much s something good cense to and say knowledge that is fresh of and tlie * world , and a keen appreciation for sport and rural life . * Of Mrs . Churchill ' s FROM CONVENT TO ALTAR the Times says — * Mr 8 . Churchill exhibita much pathos and good taate in her naKvely-writton tale . Daisy , the heroine , 8 ur " 2 J * * " little Little ato Gum -rms - of Cystua yaeslon , " ia or a grief timid . ' , impulsive The Whitehall , unsophisticated R * vir . ic aa ^ s creature : —« It ia , who a clever thoroughly , fresh story wins , our with sympathy many touon » n » * of hnmour and glints and sparks of real wit . ' W . SWAN SONNEJSTSCHEIN & CO ., Paternoster Square . 1
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1884, page 1060, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101884/page/32/
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