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    BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM

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    Diaries And Almanacs.

    Manufactures we have ' Letts ' embracing ' s Time-Saving the * Holdfast Publication ' writing s and

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    excellentl « Letts * s Washing conceived Books and , ' hi and hl numerous useful articles other . y gy

    cations Lastly , the is so price graduated of this as familiar to plac series e them of within publithe reach of all , while those who wish to indulge

    in the more expensive and ornamental forms of diary have ample opportunity to gratify their taste .

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    saving seem to publications be well . adapted The books to their are very purpose cheap . , and Mr . Charles Letts , the compiler , has had large

    experi-| ence in preparing such works , and that he is awake to the necessities of the times is shown in the modernisation , so to speak , of the diaries for 1888 .

    Among these will be found books suitable for commercialmen , professional men , farmers , officials of public companies , & c . The Church

    publications of the firm include such useful works as registers isters of and seat church -holders ^ pew-rent books reg . isters The , banns clear reg , expenses

    printing of the information is a commendable feature in these books . Messrs . Francis Orr & Co . Glasgow . —This

    firm publishes two very unpretentious , 1 annuals , years which FFFP ¦ Fp FBm name FFF have l appeared W FH ' Orr FFf FFF . 1 ' s FFFf * regularly Scottish FfF Alm FflFFT for anac the past 'and fifty the FfFFFf

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    quote which fro may m interest the Belfast our business Almanac readers the following : — , ' Characteeistic IiETTER prom FlPto FkW a «| Highland # Ff t

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    & got I got from som you more throu fro your m others traveler throu Mr him . MacGregor . pud I say that I will pay you & them when I can I have

    saw offire that d pack matters the Good came to accross Mr . Macgreagor and I saw pleanly when I that I could not pay in time too which he refuse

    to dake path dake ai pack nce delivery your now till Goods and I can I therefore have get the money you most must for of them have or

    y me ed throu I cannot sickness do petter and the other world way has that cam I mu e against st get time for payment and if I get that I will pay Mr .

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    like skeen them pud th for ey all cannot that I dak like e peace off the if cat passible pud the pe done if not we must face the pattle some way pud

    time I am in telling the matter you pleanly & oblige that you trul you y . petter " ' dake ieligious Tract Societjt ^ r— The series of

    looked almanacs for and from pock this et Society -books will wnich not are be read annually y for some days . But the list has in no item been

    are diminished informed . , expect Old and as youn usual g the purchasers * R . T . S . may Pocket , we - ple Book ' s and Pocket Scripture -Bopk Calendar the ' Child / the 's * Toung Compan Peo ion

    -Almanac , ' the Peop , le's Almanac / & c . All these

    publications are very familiar to the public .

    Diaries And Almanacs.

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    very and contents neatness tastefull is such y of bound as workmanshi to , afford and the the p . arrangement greatest Their diaries amount of the are

    lation of writing of bulk space . Joh with n Walker the least ' s No possibly . 4 Diary accumu , bound - ^ in ¦ » ^ Russia ^» *" wr ¦¦ » t » ™ leather ^ m - ^ . r n op- p » ¦ ^ ^ w ^ , « with » f-b « tr a * pockets w - ^^ ^ B ^^^^ b- ^^ « , wr ¦ ^ for ita v ^ - ^ stamps - ^ 1 r r >^ p »> , VV visiting •»»— ' ^ »** ^» M >^

    book cards poses , may & could c , is also scarcel especiall be had y y be elegant without surpassed , and the . for pocket The gift s same pur and

    kind minus , bound the band in . French The No . morocco 3 Diary , is witji of smaller similar pockets to No . 4 . Like the foregoing , it should

    mainder prove hig of hly this acceptable firm ' s diaries as a are present of . smaller The and rescarcely so useful size . For memorandum

    purposes pocket , however they should , and prove to carry highly in suitable the waistcoat . The majority of these diarieswe may mentionare so

    constructed as to permit , of the writing portion , being easily renewed from year to year , and thus the extra of a \ case is avoided . Orif

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    a very useful stamp , card , and note pocket .

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    Oct . 15 , 1887 Tlie Pubfislfero * ( Dirculkt ^ 231

    British Museum Reading Room

    BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM

    SCENES . By a . Reader .

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    princi Library pal would were to certai be selected nly be , included the British as Museum one . It is , so to speak , the focus into which converge all

    permanentl the national litterateurs ity y in or the temporari , universe representing ly , who resident may nearl in chance the y mi every to ghty be

    cosmopolitan years with its since lofty Panizzi city dome of ' s London was capacious er . ecte It d circular is and now in thirty room " the ,

    intervening period , , the building , " has , been men frequented from the by all iant sorts s whose and conditions names are of househ literary old g

    words , and whose labours have enriched the Library , and English literature at the same time , to the humblest hacks who earn a precarious living

    by remuneration transcribin . g for In the publishers earlier at a meagre of the rate room of 's existence the genial William years Makepeace

    Thackeray catalogues in may his characteristic have been seen leisurely consulting fashion . Charles Dickens , active , alert , and business-like ,

    was a frequent visitor . The sombre form of also G-eorge the Eliot familiar was figure occasionall of ^ ther y sage to be of descried Chelsea . ,

    ¦¦¦ Robert LyttQn Reading * ¦ a / and Chambers Room " Macaulay ~« ar . Seventeen * might ¦ were have years ¦¦ - often '* .. »' been ago within , or observed V * more the « •¦ ,

    h labouring ealth , at daily his for ' Book month of after Days month / a , work in failing that

    unfortunately enhanced the hastened writer ' s his literary death . reputation , but Among less noted deceased authors may be

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1887, page 1231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101887/page/13/