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    ^Otcit Am &Cto$.

    The second instalment of the € Greville Memoirs' has just been published by Messrs .

    Iiongman . Mr . Murray will publish soon ' The

    Hayward Correspondence : being a selection of Letters to and from the late Abraham

    Hayward , Q . C ., with a Memoir of his Life , ' by Henry E . Carlisle .

    * The Endowments and Establishment of the Church of England' by Rev . J . S . Brewer

    M . A ., revised and edited , by Lewis T . Dibdin , , M . A ., of Lincoln ' s Inn , Barrister-at-Law , is

    also in Mr . Murray ' s list of announcements . Princess Theresa of Bavaria is preparing a

    record of her recent _travels through Great Britain . The Princess ' s nom de plume—Th .

    von Bayer—will be the name printed on the title-page .

    Lovers of biography will doubtless look forward to the issue of the story of ' Mrs .

    Ewing ' s Life , ' on which Mrs . H . F . Gatty is engaged . The book promises to be of considerable interestand is to be issued at a

    popular price by , the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .

    A new brochure by the clever compilers of the ' Gladstone Almanac' is ready . It is * A Diary of the Gladstone Government

    1880-85 , ' having special reference to the approaching general election . The publishers are , as usual , Messrs . Blackwood & Sons .

    Amongst the important features promised in the new volume of the Quiver ( Cassell & Co . ) may be mentioned ' What shall we do in

    Heaven ? ' by the Rev . J . Hiles Hitchens , D . D . ; 'Famous Pictures , and the Lessons they ' Mistakes Teach about Us , ' by Prayer the Rev ' b y R the . Magjuire Rev . Georg , D . D . e ;

    , Everard , M . A . ; 'Great Results of Little Sins' by the Rev . A . Boyd CarpenterM . A . ;

    New , Serial Story , by Evelyn Everett , Green ; * Light in a Dark Land , ' by the Rev . W .

    Arthur , M . A ., _Wesleyan Missionary Society . The new volume which Messrs . Macmillan

    & Co . will publish for Lord Tennyson early in December will consist almost entirely of

    new poems , . several of them of considerable length . The most important are ' Tiresia . _"'

    with a dedicatory epistle to the late Mr , . Edward Fitzgerald ; 'The Ancient Mystic , '

    brogue 'The Wreck ; ' Th ' e ' To Sp Morrow inster ' s , ' Sweet a poem - 'Arts in ' Irish in

    , Lincolnshire dialect ; and ' Balin and Balan , ' a new ' Idyll of the King . '

    Mr . Bernard Quaritch lias nearly ready for subscribers a most carefully collected bibliographical work on early printed Roman missals .

    It has been brought together by Mr . James Weale . The chronicle will fill some 220

    pages , and will bear the title * Bibliographia Liturgica Missalia Ecclesiarum et Ordinum . '

    The November Harper ' s Magazine will have an article on the New York Stock Exchange

    in which the history of that important institu- , tion will be given , together with portraits of

    W . H . Vanderbiit , Russell Sage , Jay Gould , Cyrus W \ Field , and other famous member * .

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    The 'Defence same of number Our Seaports will contain , ' by H . P paper . Well s

    in which the author shows America ' s defence- , less position , and recommends the

    establishment of a gun factory on the gigantic scale of that will of Krupp be full , in described Germany in , a which future , number by the wayy

    of the , magazine . Mr . T . Fisher Unwin will publish next

    week a new two-volume novel by Miss Jane Spettigueauthoress of ' The Gregors : a

    , Cornish Story' & c . It is descriptive of both English and South African country life and

    scenery , the plot , however , being chiefly laid in England . The plot centres round a secret

    and imaginary crime . In connection with the lamented death of

    Lord Shaftesbury , we would remind our readers of the appreciative and full

    biographical notices which appeared in the Cottager i and Artisan for JanuaryFebruaryand

    October , 1885 . An excellent , portrait of , the deceased philanthropist is presented with the

    work . The Cottager and Artisan is published by the Religious Tract Society .

    Number 8 of the Reciter ' s Magazine ( a periodical devoted to the art of public speaking )

    has come to hand . It contains some appropriate papers upon elocution and the drama

    and is edited by Mr . Arthur W . Pearce , the , publishers being Messrs . Bevington & Co .

    The magazine is a useful little work , but some attention to accuracy of expression should be observed . Thusin suggesting that

    in the next edition of Messrs , . Ward , Lock , & Co . ' s ' British Orators' there should be a

    fuller account of Vicing orators , the name of Disraeli might not have been included .

    1 Sonnets A subscri of ption Three re- Centuries issue of Mr ' . is Hall announced Caine ' s

    by Mr . Elliot Stock . The same house will also publish ' The Handbook of Bible Difficulties ; orReasonable Solutions of Perplexing

    , Things in Scripture . ' A new edition of Mr . Clement Scott ' s

    ' Lays of a Londoner' is in the press , and will shortly be issued by Messrs . Carson

    & Comerford , of Clement ' s Inn Passage , LondonW . C . The book will contain several

    poems , suitable for recitation which have hitherto been unpublished .

    tisement An ingenious examp in this le of issue a one . - It inch refers adver to - appears

    the ' Stickphast Paste . ' The other day an artist who had some

    tint leisure engraving time advertised . One rep for ly asked a pupil for for terms mezzo for

    ' mezzo-tint engraving , and also in stipple , ' and if he thought he * could give satisfactory

    instructions by post' ! Mr . Unwin will publish a new book for

    of children 'On Tuscan by Madame Hills Linda ' 'Camilla Villari ' s , G authoress irlhood , '

    Left & c . Behind It is entitled / and forms ' when a quaint I was a bit Child of child ; or ,

    of autobiograp a little gjurl hy , detailing < left behind the troubles ' , in Eng land trials by

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1072, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/12/