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    " ¦" - " - - ; - ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ -: ¦ ¦ : " k ' ~ : ' - - ¦ - - - ¦ *> W . v m 1026 The Publishers' Circular Nov . i 5 t [ ^

    Books Received :—

    Books Received : —

    From Messrs . A . S . Barnes & Co ., New York . — Peck ' s * Ganot , ' revised . This is the colloquial title ^^^ B «^ ^ M ¦ ^^^ of —1 _^ ^^ a ^ ^ book w ^^ " ^^ ^ " ^^ which " ' —~ ^ - ™ is ^^™ " ^ more - ™ formal —~ — — — — ~— ° ~ ly m named — an

    ' Introductory Course of ^ Natural Philosophy for hi Popular g h school Ph s sics and by academics TV . G-. , edited — Peck ; from repised Ganot V ' y s

    Levi * v — ¦ — - - S . Burbank - y ~ j — — ~ , — and f James T . Hanson / — . The ^ work is a compact , strongly bound , well printed crown octavo of more than 530 pages . It abounds

    in less diagratn than four s and of engravings themwhile , one few page are having without no . At the end is a collection , of problems and an ,

    0 W . ' ' VUV V t * V «* AU ^ jm ^*^ S ± - » - ** * r ^** 4 *\** m -. ~* m * *¦ W * V »/* V *** N » -w * - » -w » *_ w ——index to the whole . Messrs . Barnes & Co ' s . new class "book , it is right to add , does not pretend to

    be a close translation . At the same time , the deviations are only such as were required to adapt the work to the requirements of education in

    : with the United M . Ganot States , the . publishers By a special have been arrangement enabled to lay befoTe students and teachers facsimiles of

    all the engravings of the French original . From Messrs . Cliatto & "Windu . s . h f — Words ^^^^ ^ B . ^^^ ^ fc ^^^^^ ^^ m ^^^^^ m ^^ r ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ k ^ ^ " ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ * " —^^^^^^^^ - ^ v ^— — — - * ^ - — — — — — ,

    • Facts book is , and indeed Phrases , as the , ' by author Eliezer describes Edwards it , a This dictionarjr of curiousquaintand out-of-the-way

    matters original . meanings Among , them of fami are liar , , for -words examp which le , now the represent to us something different . As :

    ¦ with Hand the some meaning . This beautiful word had or . originally good-looking nothing . It meant to do wards simply it tha was t which applied is to ready one to the who h was and handy , handy or . dexter After - -

    turn cu »( so his , th hand at a to handsome anything any man . was one who was ready to We lement * Jfc ¦ ¦ this b rn ^ w ing »¦» thatnow

    * * ^* may - / supp ^ " ^ ^^ ~^ ' f *^*^ ^^ « w ^ - * a * m * dt « k " ^ •** y W say j ^ ^^ v ^«« w , 7 ^ " ^ ^^ 7 , on board of a vessel , ' handsomely * means * slowly / The word ' park' has its various

    meaning discussed , and its form in various countries . " The gist of the article is that : to The the ornamental modern meaning grounds of the surrounding word in English a mansion is narrowed ;

    —^ efccept that military men use park as an expression for ranging ( say ) waggons alongside one > another . The French say entasser et parquer ' . "We may

    conclude with the ori g in of a very familiar word : Boss . This American word is the modern form of the Butch of Good Baas Hope , of the the word same is m used eaning in it 3 native A . t form the Cape to

    Bignify the head of a house . , From Messrs . Griffith & ITarran . — ' Ludgate

    -Hill : Past aad Present . ' A narrative concerning the . people , places , legends , and changes of the great London highway . It is a thoroughly welcome

    little book . Of the thousands , nay millions , who pass up and down the fraction of one of the great metropolitan artories which is the theme of the

    Work before us , it is probable that the greater part know little of the history of Ludgate Hill . The * illustrations go "back through mediaeval

    to Roman times , and represent objects of an interest that will be surprising to many a passenger . The preface informs us that * Ludgate Hill' is

    ; one the work of the of associations a gentleman of whose the locality name . has become From Mr . John Heywood . — ' The Local

    Exatnination » Hi story , from before the Bo man Invasion to the Present Time . ' By Bobert Stenson Pringle , LL . D . Third edition . The special aim of this

    work , as its title implies , is to give etndente who are preparing for the local examinations in connection with the Universities of Oxford and

    I Cambri manual d sui ge ted and to the their College , special of requircmente Preeeptord . , It a I supplies in a compact and clear form & record of

    the chief events of the history of England tabu

    - lated under each reign ; a "brief sketch of the literature of each period ; and a few lines as to the most eminent in the various

    ments down down to to of the date datel national tor for persons it it chronicles chronicles life . It is the the literall event events y brought s depar of rvf the + u t- .

    present year , including , the death of Lord Beaeonsfield and the passing of the Irish Land Aet

    Here TT . _ . is _ . Dr T-v . _ . Pring T- « > J le I 9 ' s summary ... _ ... _ of » jf the character t - istics of English literature from 1800 to 1882 :

    entire This n is ation a period . The of writers grea tmental of merit activi are ty so throughout numerous that the to make a selection is a work of difficulty . TSrery

    depart-« and gi ment nr and --WA »< >* i > m » + ph the w . of f to \ -fc f ilosophy i ^ literature lit journalism spread V ^ & ra r « . VMM +. nfA ; of V and « is ia education V * represented i . There ^ by « - rvi «^ - ' ' ttaoTi - "' the VV * ^ lias ^* r abolition . vast <» F MIWV been rl — __ poetry r \ develop V no » W + i « of revival Tr * V , LfiUVll fiction Hn the ment 4-i * paper \ n of , has 1 | 1 history Ui JC — d been 1 . - uty . ^* Tl *

    as ren shown in the lyrics . of Wordsworth , a the narrative Pcetry r " of conceptions Scott , the of passionate Tennyson . lines To Fiction of Byron an , and extraordinary the poems lofty

    impetus by the grand was given creations by the of Ly Waverley tton and Novels homely , follo writing wed s out of II Dickens JDicKens . . History Jiistory has nas its its represen representatives tatives in in Hallam Hallam [• I

    Macaulay and Bain ; , while and Carlyle Journalism ; Philosophy has been in elevated John Stuart by such Mill as , } Lord ord Willi wimam Bussell itussewortl

    George j ^ Jeffrey Jeffrey Augustas , , Dr Dr . . Sala . am u , , nepwortJi HepDixotn Dixotn ,. and and ± From irom the tne same same .. — — ' School » 5 cnooi Manaffement management and ana Method Method .

    in Theory and Practice . ' By John J . Prince . , Second Edition . The object of this volume is to

    supply candidates for Government certificates or for scholarship examinations with a sufficient knowledge of the practical work of teaching and

    of school management . It includes in the first part the arrangementtand care of a schoolroom , the keeping of registersthe organisation of an

    elementary school , and , school discipline j and under the head of * method' it gives a chapter to the best means of teaching each of the principal

    subjects in the curriculum of the primary schools of the country . The third part of the work deals with questions of social economy , such as

    investment best means of savings of interesti , building children societies , in & c them , and and the ¦ with V ^^ h ^^^ ^^ b ^^^ * matters ^ B 4 ^^ . ^^ ^^^^ f V ^^ F ^^^ ^^ ta ^ B ^ f of ^^ F W 9 U sanitary H ^ F ^ W ¦ ^ V *^^ V ^^ ^•¦^ ^ b ^^ V ng ^^ ^ science ^^^ ^^^ ^^ k ^ t ^ r ^^ V ^^ V ^^^ F ^^^ . ^ The ^ H ^ B ^^^^** ^^^ ^ fourth ^ ^^ , —

    so part subjects that supp the deal lies student t with examination , using and g the ives work questions answers may to be on them able the ,

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    rupeds Natural and History Biids Reader . An for illustrated Standard reading II . ' - Quad book - adapted to meet the requirements of the Bevised

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    From at the Jffessrs English . Longman Lakes / B s y , Hardwicke Green & Co D . . — Rawnsley YlOVd ' Sonnets , .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1881, page 1026, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111881/page/10/