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      »<Jh Ti^Ad^ G^^ Ange , Mr , . „ William ...

      turned The into firm of a limited Groombr liabilit idge & Sons is b eing th

      a capital of £ 50 , 000 . y company , W . Wilson Harris has sold his business at

      Brown College . H During ouse , North the ei Dulwich ght years , to Mr Mr . . Harris C . B .

      has had the business he has worked up a large and lucrative connection . Mr . G . Larner made the valuation . Mr . Harris ' s new address

      is Caithness Terrace , Upper Tooting , 'S . W . — — ff

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      I 352 The Publishers' Circular Oct . 15 , i 8 go

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      Alphonse Kaer . We regret to learn of the death of M .

      Alphonse Karr , the well-known author and journalist . About two weeks ago he went out during a storm and remained some time

      barec ? headed and in shirt sleeves in his garden . He then spent half an hour in a sailing boat , returned home soaked throughand refused a

      change of clothing . A couple of , days later inflammation of the lungs came on , to which he succumbed . M . Karrwho was of German

      oriinwas the son of , Heinrich Karra composer g , and pianist of some repute , and , , though

      born at Munich , he was educated in Paris . For a short time he held a professorship in the College Bourbonbut disliking the life he took

      , to journalism and authorship . He was an eccentric but brilliant writer . More than once his boldness led to highly dramatic situations .

      I f V Of late years , however , M . Karr has been living in retirement at Saint Raphael . His ' Journey Round My Garden' has enjoyed

      some popularity in England . Pbofessor Thorold Rogers .

      We greatly regret to record the death of Prof . Thorold Rogers , which took place on Monday «/ last , after a protracted JL and painful M . illness .

      James Edwin Thorold Rogers was born in 1823 and was educated at Southampton , at King ' s CollegeLondonand at Oxford . At Oxford

      he was , distinguished , as a classical scholar and for a time was classical examiner . He was originally educated for the Churchand was for a

      short time in orders ; but the bent , of his mind was towards politics , and he relinquished the Church . He was in Parliament from 1880 to

      1886 , but failed to make his mark . As a political economisthoweverhe held a high place

      , , , as his various writings , particularly his ' Six Centuries of Work and Wages' and his ' History

      of Agriculture and Prices in England / prove . Mr . Rogers held a professorship at Oxfordand

      _^ k \ \ \ mt mmt Jta , was well known in m political ^ mm m ^ circles as a vi gorous speaker and a man of vast knowledge on all

      economic questions .

      »Vt Authors And Publishers.

      » vt AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS .

      The following correspondence , which explains itself , has appeared in the columns of

      the Times during the past week : — SIR—It isimpossible to read in the Times of

      today the , wasted wealth of vituperative phrases with

      which Archdeacon Farrar described m the Church to , »

      »Vt Authors And Publishers.

      Congress the commercial morality of the country without being t ? tempted j - . to ask , in which depart . j - . — -

      ment of the college of Billingsgate did he take his life degree of the ? country The p — icture and the he drew country of the is nothing trading j

      if not trading—is so dense in its tones that he has left no room for a single ray of sunlight anywhere of almost every . He sing says le there articl i e 3 of * e commerce ndless adul 1 ; ' te ' nearl ration y

      m / O ' every 4 it was thin an g is age adul of te advertisement rated with somethin s , of egregious g else ;' , fraudsof monstrous 1 h assertions mmW mmmrmI and lamentable — , v ^^ r ^^^ ¦ —m- — - m— — —m- -m , m ^ ^_*^^ m *^^ ¦ m , . I —* - ^^^ m ^ Wmf ^* ^^ m mmw ^ r ^—^— ^ — ~^ ^~ * mm ^^^ r

      credu'ity . Hardly anything stood on its own merits , but had to be bolstered up by lying and boas — tful - — — - ¦ _ - _ representation mmmw ¦ -mmm- —— ~ mw * ~ mw * h mmmrmmmt -mmr ^^^ mmm m ^ f ^^ m ^^ r Mm ^ m ^ mi to ^^ » —| | ~ gain ^^^^ ^^ V mm * mmm ~ mmm the mmm- ^ s ^^ mmmW public H H —^ — ^ - ^ favour — ~~ — ~ ; J '

      ' rotten and dishonest trade , soul-poisoning , bodyde ^ troyin ^ f , world-demoralising trade , ' and a host of other epithets too lengthy to print anewi

      Is the descri ption true , or was the Archdeacon , suffering from dyspepsia at the time of the deliverance of his speech ? Does his own

      personal experience give him cause to justify his words ? For they are so sweeping in their condemnation that nothing but actual experience

      can justify his calumniation of the whole people in of this his land castigation —m— — — — —¦ — . ^^ ^ h — ~ m Happ — — ~^ v ^^^^ that mmr il mmm mmm y ^^^ V ^^ he can ^ m ^ mm has - ^ v — ^^ be * ~ mmr ~ made ^ mmr- put v ^^ ~ mr-mmi mr- one to the — reference proof m : — — .

      customs He said which he mi tainted ght expose the trade the of dishonourable the publisher , and ¦ sp ^^ e ^ mm * a ^ B * - ^ p k —m -mmm of ^ g ^ - mmmm swea m ^ m * V W * mm ** mmmf ^ mT t ™ mf ing ^ K ^^ mWK ^ p ^ k p W ~ ublishe ^^^ V ^^^^ ^^ ^ H F | f ^^^^^* ^^ mW rs ^^^ W ^^ , mm who mi m mwm-mmm -mmr , h without w m- mmm ~ r * ^—^— ^|^ - ^ — mmr a - ^— —*

      blush , would toss to the author perhaps a hundredth inequitable par they t of had wha obtained t , by bar . ' ga Of publishers grossly

      ¦ ™~ ~ " - ™ " ^™ ~»^ , V ~ - mmmm ~ ' ^¦^ / ^»^^ ^^^ ^ M *^ m ^ mT m- * mr *** ^ k ^ V m ^ ^ ^» ^^ ' ^ p . ^ ' ^ ¦ ' ^ W ^^ I mmmm-mmr ~ mm- pers he has ons in ad this a tolerabl age more y large than experience he—he has —few had dealings with a goodly number of them . The

      population of Great Britain exceeds 30 , 000 , 000 ; the less nu than m ber ^ ¦¦ ¦ " 10 ^^ 0 ^ of mT m and mrmm- « leadin ^ mmt - ^* i mt t m ^ f is rf ^ — g p V ublishe n mrmWk thi flhW s r s li is M m K mmtrm c it ed ^ m n Wm sid number era bl i ¦ h y , my m ^ m ^ upo ^^ ^^ ' ^* ^^^ ^ ^ ' * mmmm * ^^^ mm * ^^• " ^^ ' ^ ^^^ . ^^ ^^ ' ^^ ^^ ^^

      t he one atten br t anc ion o f the trade whole he has worl scornfull dand of y fo ece cussed ssit more espe *• cially upon XT the few , publishers r ^ with y

      supposed whom he that has had his libellous dealings , for terms it is spring not to fro be m hearsay only . Here surelhe mus \ t be

      speaking fro w ^ W m his - ^ W ~ ow n ^ mtm * pers mm - * m * f ~* m * o ^ - " » nal ** ^ m ^ ** y W ex *~ K Jmt p ^^^ T erien ^ . mmJ * ***** "S ^ c m * e , W ^ mT ^^ and fk * S W **^ ^^ no » - ^ tf ¦ * * t from his inner consciousness . What have his ¦ own publishers to say to the charge Wk ? And H if his

      charge " ¦ - in relation — ™ " ¦ " ~™ r to ™~^ them ^ m * —mr " " ¦^^^ falls " *^ ~ mm y ^] m ^ fllh to " ^^^ ft the BWk m ** m ^ ^ ground ~^ - ^ ^& ^^ ^ i ^ A % 9 * mT , th is e n th sh e picture a cyni he cal has libel presented upon his to the nation and a

      dishonour , to himself . , charged The r - \ - ~ - — — V with enerable exaggeration — — — J A & V ^ h rchdeacon - * m * ^— Vt'V ** r-m - * m- MAH , and «< VHjq ¦ ' s X ^« h speech is Am \ " » h f ' * so ^ - ^ 4 ^ is wholesale W ** so J » > J mm \ over X— ' ** mf » l ^ f Jlh ^ -

      of in t i ts c utterance ompass of is its lost ap . plication Englishmen , that the will object once more ~ receive — ' ^~ - - - — it — as - —¦ , m-mmr - additional wv » ^* h - ~* rm * * m , ~>~ m ** ^—T *¦ B ** «^^ «* eviden V ^* ^ / % \ ^ M * 4 J % c Ah * ' e ^^ A if A . | such h _/ * ^* X _ ¦ * ^ ^^ , ^

      evidence were necessary , of the inability of the clerical mind duly to gauge the facts of life , and ¦ to present them in tha krB t gar «»^^ b that miht be of

      real benefit to the public ^* ^ n ^ ' * mmm- weal _^ - ^^ . ~>^ V The JK ^ ^ i ~^ J m ^ sp ^^ mm—mm ^ t iri g Vl ^ k * ** t ^^ visible " f | | ^ ^^ ^>^ 1 ^ w th ords rough he o ^~ u t himself the ¦ spee ^ ~ quoted c ^" h ^ ^*^ proves ^^ , * The "^^ *~ S the service 9 ^ mW Vtff' Ml truth W A ^^ \ ^/ of ^ J of JLm God V *• the V ^ > V" *

      has become a thing of words and ceremonies . ' I have the honour to be , Bir , Yours obediently ,

      J . Russell Endkan . Canterbury , Oct . 4 . ¦ Sir , —Mr ' - » ' ' . — ¦ ' Endean —*** **^ » - * — - * - » ^ —* ' s W * mT ^ account Mf- ^ T ^ UmT ^** - * m ^ . ¦ ^^ Vh Jtk « # of \^/ Jft . my 0 m J * H W paper B *^ -m fV Wt ^ T ^ * i * " ** is ""* a ™

      been misrepresentation misled bhasty into reading which or he imperfect can only reports have . y showed whole He makes purpose that out its ; object his ( £ ) by case , was omitting ( entirel 1 ) by y sentences misstating different which from its

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1890, page 1352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101890/page/14/