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    Oct. 15,1885 The Publishers' Circular 10...

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    Number 1 of the _International Magazine ( The Mr . opening John Hey contributions wood ) has are been ' A Mississi published i .

    Incident , ' by Howard Carroll ; ' We all pp do ford fade , as B . D a . leaf ; ' Enterprises , ' being verses at Home by Canon and Abroad Beres , - '

    a series cerns of ' descri Our Ride ptions to of Gibraltar big man ' u a facturing n - able account ; of a ride from Malaga , to agree the

    Rock , by Mrs . Henry Lloyd ; 'A Season . the Ring Rev , ' verses . Wm ; . ' Aston Determinatives LL . D . : to Womanhood Faith , 'by

    I in the Iliadthe Od , and the Eneid' b ' the Rev . , J . Cowden yssey - , ColeB . _ A . ; , and y

    ' Workers in all Fields , ' a series , of biographical I sketches . The magazine is very well got up .

    i hav Messrs e in the . Phillipson an edition & Golder of the ( Chester Odes of ) , press

    ' Horace , rendered into English verse by Charles : William Duncandemy 8 vo . dedicated by

    permission to the , Duke of Westminster , , K . G . Mr . T . Fisher Unwin is about to publish a

    new edition of Mr . Mackenzie Bell ' s ' Monogra extracts ph on . Charles Also Whitehead new editions , ' with of illustrative the same

    author ' s ' Verses of Varied Life , ' and ' Old Year Leaves . '

    ' Slings and Arrows , ' Hugh Conway ' s posthumous work , issued by Mr . Arrowsmith , of

    gre Bristol at success , has . alread It is y , one and of deservedl the most y absorbing , been a stories that ever came from the talented

    author ' s pen . the ' Salaambo founder , of ' the the masterp naturalistic iece of school Flaubert of ,

    1 literature othershas , followed at length and been debased Englished by Zol b a and M .

    I French , Sheldon , and is now in the press y . This fascinating story of love and warrich in

    bari heroic c Carthag lendour inian surrounded lore , set in with glowing an , atmo bar-

    sphere sp of dreamy , tropical warmth _^ and local colourand with its weird serpent scene and

    mysterious , cults , has long been regarded as an untranslatable work . It is said that this

    delicate subtle manner task has as been to accomp e lished all the in vi such a

    natural realismand id preserv llic stle of the ori gour inal , . Flaubert ' s works , have y inspired y more ictures g

    in the French Salon during the past few p years than book except the BibleThe

    any . appear ance ward of to with ' _Salaambd great ' interest in Eng in lish the is literary looked and

    forart circles of the Continent . The introduction has been written by Edward King , the

    American poet , and the volume is dedicated to work Henry will M . be Stanley published , the famous bSaxon exp & lorer Co . Lon The

    don and New York . —Times y . ., The author of ' John lesant' is engaged

    Ing in upon the a new Puritan story , times the p . lot We of which will therefore be laid

    look of theological forward to speculation something and serious may if the , in colouring the way ,

    former of the sketch work is we as skilfull shall have , y managed to thank as in Mr the .

    tellectual Shorthouse seventeenth for , a comp -century leted Eng tableau land . of Mr in . -

    _^ T ouS > hton has done much to bring out the

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    and poetry the of the maj ' Praise estic -God fi Barebone of the 3 Eng ' type lish ,

    Revolution many will probably receive gures the adequate treatment for which they have waited so long ,

    from the delineator of * John _Inglesant . ' anecdotes An amusing is to addition the effect to our that stock Mr of Emerson literary

    . came one morning into the called room to for find his her daug father hter , in who a

    fe sad m l ale y perp . ' lexed Ellen attitude ' said he , confronted 'I wish by would a tall you

    attend to this lad , y ; she— , wants some of my the —of vagaries my clothes of the . ' lion Trained -hunting by _Experience female tribe to

    Miss Emerson was yet rather taken aback , ; but the visitor proceeded to explain that she

    off was clothing making . a ' Mr poets . Long ' rug fellow , ' made had of poets given ' cast her

    an of worn old shirt -out , pants and ' if she Mr would . Emerson be deli had ghted a ' pair I

    tions W e were hear made that for not securing long ago the some production

    preparaof a complete memoir of Lord Shaftesbury , It based was upon thoug ori ht g that inal the and work authentic would documents be under- .

    taken by an author who is well known as a successful writer of biography .

    As compared with the United States it must be admitted that the Dominion makes a

    poor show in the field of letters ; still there are symptoms of increased literary activity in

    Canada . And to a very large extent it is disp by layed terians la b son y . Scotsmen of The Seestu Rev , or . has Dr at . all Murray just events published , of by Mont Pres an - -

    able , work on psychology , , Principal Sir William Dawson a scientific sketch of Egypt and Syria

    , curious and Pastor book Chini with quy his remarkable autobiograp revelations hy , a very

    in it ; while Professor many Bryce , of Winnipeg , has on the anvila ' History of the

    Hih-, g of landers the Presb in Canada yterian , ' and Churc Dr h . in Gregg the ' Dominion s ' History , '

    is passing through the press . The Rev . Moses volume Harvey , of of his St . ' John History ' s , has of Newfoundland issued a second ;'

    and the Rev . Robert Campbell , of Montreal , is busily at work on a history of old St .

    Gabriel's Church in that city . _—J ¥ . B . Daily Mail .

    T _) ie Medical Chronicle ( Mr . J 6 hn Hey wood ) begins its third volume this month . The work

    profession should be , remarkabl as a regular y useful cosmopolitan to members record of the of the of the medical sciences . The

    Chronicle progress seems to be carefully edited . A work that is much wanted in a reliable

    form is now promised . Mr . Edward Stanford has Atlas in and the Handbook press a of ' Parliamentary England and Wales County /

    It will containing consist of lis eig t hty of - parishes nine maps petty , with sessional

    letterpress divisions and unions , population , tables , and other particulars relating to county statistics ,

    local ing constituencies with administration the ph , ysical together , and henomena the with new many parliamentary of the maps country

    dealand others bearing on p statistical subjects , ii ii _> i ' 'i _—¦—aw __ l .

    Oct. 15,1885 The Publishers' Circular 10...

    Oct . 15 , 1885 The Publishers' Circular 1073

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1073, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/13/