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    more refined phases of disposition that is worthy of all praise . In a minor degree , the

    embodiment of Pilkington , the editor of the Anglo-Saxon , is equally good ; and the chapter in which the foundation of that periodical is first noticed

    strikes us as being one of the best in the whole work , while the further progress of the magazine is _alfo described with much fidelity and

    humour . What we have said may seem somewhat exuberant praise to award a novelist ; we can only ask our readers to peruse the work for

    themselves , when we feel sure they will very readily endorse our verdict . From Messrs . Swan Sonnenschein & Co . —

    Mr . Gordon S . Forbes , who was for a good many years magistrate , collector , and agent in Canara and Ganjamhas written a volume

    detailing his experiences , and adventures in these regions , it is entitled ' Wild Life in Canara and G-anjam . ' The book does not pretend to

    much literary merit , yet , in spite of the lack of style in Mr . Forbes' writing , one cannot but help being interested in his work Some amusing

    incidents are chronicled , notably where we are told of a controversy arising between some thirty nativeswhom the author had armedas to the

    , , use of the bayonet ; * the prevailing opinion being eyp that . s of its the manifest enemy . intention The most was interesting to put out , and the

    indeed , best written parts of the book , are those which refer to Mr . Forbes' sporting adventures , which were many and various .

    From the same . —We receive rather a formidablelooking volume by Mr . F . A . Adams , entitled 'My Man and I ; orthe Modern Nehemiah '

    which , as the title-page , informs us , is a book for , Churchmen . It is that generally most dry of booksa novel written with an avowed object ;

    the particular , one in this case being to show and do honour— and by so doing stimulate others in the same path—to * several instances of a very

    remarkable attachment and fidelity to the Mother Church of England on the parts of individuals in very humble circumstances . ' Some of these

    _, we are told , have been soldiers . However , object or no object , the book is written pleasantly , and should be well received by those for whom it is

    intended . From Mr . T . Fisher TJnwin . —' The Lives of

    Robert and Mary Moffat , ' by their son , John S . ' Moffat . The life of a Christian crusader of so much renown as is justly due to Kobert Moffat

    would at any time prove interesting reading , even if it were not rendered of wider importance by the results of exploration and the triumphs of

    philanthropy . The book before us is replete with deep and stirring interest , and will likely take a permanent place in the liking of the English

    peop being le h . ard Moffat -working was peop of humble le at Ormiston origin , his in parents East Lothianwhere he was born in the year 1705

    His earlier , years passed uneventfully . It was . in 1817 that he landed at Cape Town to begin those marvellous and courageous works which

    made him revered alike at home and abroad . For upwards of fifty years he worked nobly among the wild tribes of Southern

    Africabringing them the blessings of Christianity and , the this material long comforts and earnest of civilisation career has . frequentl His life during y been

    fine the volum subject e of just literary publish treatment ed appea ; red but , , little until that the work was authenti will be c was known of th most We predict popular that of the the

    one e season _^

    From the same . ' —We were strongly of the impression as we _turned over the opening pages of

    ' How to be Happy though Married '—a handbook professedly to matrimony—that the author must masculine be a man . gender Surely could only one indite of the such horrid a dedication , cynical ,

    as ' To those brave men and women who have ventured which is , " or a intend blessing to to venture a few , a into curse that to state

    , many , and a great uncertainty to all , " this book is respectfully dedicated in admiration of their courage . ' But as we penetrated deeper into the

    volume we faltered in our judgment . There were passages which seemed to indicate the delicate hand of woman . And now we are totall

    at a loss as to who wrote the book . But whoever y this may be , whether man or woman , one fact remains clear , that it is undoubtedly very clever .

    she The ) , author desiring tells above us in all the things preface not that to appear he ( or advice he ( or - she _givnog ) should , is to seem be pardoned to fall into if occasionall anecdotage y .

    Accordingly the work fairly bristles * with anecand dote the ; on result almost of every this , and other the page numerou we find s quota one - , .

    tions which are intervroven , is a remarkably interesting and entertaining volume . From Messrs . J . S . Virtue & Co . ( Limited ) . —

    A handsome and a well-bound volume is the Prize Edition of Keightley ' s Shakspeare , which has just been issued by Messrs Virtue & Co .

    It is admirably printed on fine paper , each page having effective red marginal lines . The size is imperial octavo , and the volume , which

    includes the poems and sonnets as well as an ample glossary , consists of about 950 pages . The portrait , which is placed as a frontispiece to the

    work , is taken from Shakspeare ' s monument at Stratford-upon-Avon ; the other pictorial enrichments comprising about forty beautiful outline

    illustrations . This fine work is appropriately named the 'Prize ICdition . ' From Mr . _T . Vickers Wood . —If not a

    particularly profound observer of men and manners , Mr . F . W . Pose may yet claim in his ' Notes of a Tour in Spain ' to have written a book that is

    fairly agreeable without being in any place tedious or markedly uninteresting . Probably the most attractive portion to the majority of readersand

    in many respects the best written , will be , the account of a bull-fight which the author witnessed at Seville , in company with the ex-Queen Isabella

    II . The extreme cruelty of the sport is here well illustrated , and the agonies to which the poor blindfolded horses ridden by the picadors are subjected ,

    are in particular forcibly described . Of course it would be quite possible , in the majority of instances , for the picadors , by their skill and

    dexterity , to save their chargers from being gored , but ' if they did so frequently , ' as Mr . _Kose very cogently remarks' the populace would be

    dissatisfied ; they would , think the provider of horses was stingy ; and besides they would begin to imagine that the bull was not really so terrible an

    animal after all . ' Therefore they are brought to be gored , and gored they must be . Other features which seem to have struck our author during

    his tour are the cleanliness of the hotels compared with what he had been led to expect , tho of the cathedrals that he visited

    and appearance the number of courteous travellers , of ap- , parently every nation under the sun , that he met .

    jBut why the bad opinion of publishers ? ,

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1885, page 1081, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101885/page/21/