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    I n 36 The Publishers' Circular Nov# I5 ...

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    Books Beceived :— From Mir. Gh Allen, Or...

    severe eruption on the forehead and nearly lost an eye ml , rwhen his doctor discovered he was in the

    habit of wearing a hat witli a maroon lining in which a considerable quantity of arsenic was found . There is not the slightest doubt that the practice of using arsenic in lamp shades , wall

    papers of all colours , and in various highlycoloured articles of dress is responsible for much avoidable illness and inconvenience . They do

    these things better in Sweden , for there they heavily fine anyone selling- goods which contain things of a poisonous nature . Ca & seU ' s Family

    Nagaziiie would have had to fear as a dangerous rival the Saturday Journal if the latter paper Jbad not - - been - - published t by ijthe same firm and had been

    put forward and produced with the same spirit and * go . ' At one leap the new journal has got ahead of all the many * bits ' and ' things' and ' scraps '

    which are threatening to sweep the older periodical literature away , and already monopolise all the potters on the bookstalls . One

    lesson to be learned from this inroad of light literature is no new one , but one too often forgotten , viz ., that the public like to be amused .

    From Messrs . Field & Tixer . — ' Christmas Entertainments . ' This interesting and entertaining

    reprint—one of the printers' ' Vellum Parchment eeries of Miscellaneous Literature '—is a veritable cast from the antique , the original work having

    X ' C 3 - C 5 appeare-d in the year 174 rO . Its full title gives a complete description of its contents , and runs as follows : —* Christmas Entertainments : wherein is

    described abundance of Fiddle-Faddle Stuff , Eawhorri heads ble , Blood bodies y-Bones , Eating , Buggy , Drinking -Bows , , and Kissing such , and like

    other Pi versions , Witches , Wizards , Conjurers , and and their Apparitions merry pranks a Right , Fairies Merrie , S Tal pectres eThe , Ghosts Story ,

    of Jack Sprigg , ins and the Enchanted , Bean , curious memoirs of Old Father Christmas . Illustrated with many diverting cuts / It is — a quaint

    little book as regards its contents , and is a charming bit of typography . i

    I From Messrs . Isblater & Co . —* Good Words for 1683 , ' edited by Donald Macleod , D . D ., and

    illustrated by H . R . IL Princess Alice , Sir D . Knowles JMacnee , , W J " . . J Henderson . Leitcb , , H Giacomelli . Furniss , , JVlonthard Davidson

    Macnab , Bbcombe Gardner , and others . When i we say that this marvellously cheap annual contai 4 4 ns the complete text of Walter Besant ' s etory

    Betka All All in in m a a Edwa Garden Garden rds . Fair t witli air , ' twelve a and nd of of effective ' Pear Pearla la ., ill * b l ustra » y < v M M - .. tionswe have said , enough to show that better

    , money ' s worth' has never been offered to the reading public . The religious papers in the

    volume are of a high order , among the most noticeable being Canon Barry ' s papers on ' The Order ------ of Revelation -i w -- - -v- w- ' in w m ~ St . Paul ' s E H i V st « QV # les ' and |» m

    . — — ^ *^^ - ~^~ - v ~ V ^^^™ -V ^ B ^ - ^ PB ^» W *^ - ^^ p ^ - ^^ W ^ ^^ PS ^ ; ^ H W ^ f ^ B Cano ' Fragments n Kingsloy of . Teachi The ng biograp in Eversley hical papers Church include , ' by Principal Shairp ' s Sketch of Dr Pusey and the , _ _ ^

    Oxford Movement ; Canon Fremarjtle ' a tribute to Archbishop notice of Anthony Tait , Trollope Mrs ¦— . OJi h Professo phant ' s r appreciative Lindsay ta on

    Ma ~ " ~ rtin Luther — — , an ^ f d a ^^ set r w ~ w- of »™ - ^^ , three ^ m ^ ^^ -. » - ^^ b ^> b readable * " ^ ¦ i ^^ * m r ^^^^ B" MK ^ pf ^^^ articles . ^ ^» BF W ^^ F ^ ^ " » Science entitl — -- ed is _ - ' Foot represent - M — printe — ed — in in ^ Rome a variety ' ¦ ~ , ' ^» m by of ^*» ** Mr pleasant ^ t w * ^ . ^ ^ " ^ « Haweie *• W ^ " * ^^* w * and ^ 'b Bv ^ p h .

    ueeful eeeaye ; Travel and Adventure has JMfr . Social Richard and Jefferies Philanth as rop one ic of art its icles contri includ butors e graphic ; the

    | j d Par egeri is , ptioas and a of sympathetic the life of the paper poor b in y London MU > s Ell and ice

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    tben Hopkins we on have * Soldiers Dr . Richardson and Sailors on at Home « Tricycles ; ' and

    •' Mr . Henry Irving on ' Shakspeare on the State and — - — — in — and the — — Stud bud - — — y m ; j ' Mr of . other Jefferi —¦ - - ^ ^— ¦ — ^ mr es ' ^ leasant » on ^^ ^*^ * ' The ^^^ ^^_ F ^ J GT g ^ M ^ eeL W ^^ A MM

    prose Corn ; and ' verse a , the get writers of the p latter including pages of the ¦ - Marquis - of —— LomeMiss ¦¦ - — Doud ¦¦¦¦ nthe Bishon

    of — —— — Bedford — — ~— - — - ^ , the — — Dean , y of Cheste ^ —— " r , ey *» ^ the I , ** UV author f * I ffcl If of » r \ ' John Halifax , ' and others equallwell knoim

    This is enough to show what an y attractive and I well-filled volume the publishers have produced .

    From for 1883 the same . Edited . —* The by Sunday the Rev Magazine . Benjamin , ' Volume Waugh . The chief serial tale in this volume is ' How it

    all minor came pieces round of , ' fiction by L . being T . Meade Mr . Edward ; among Gar tke

    rett ' s ' Lord of Himself , ' and Julie Sutter ' s * When I papers the Sea on gives nature up its trave Dead l papers . ' Biograp and hical philanthro papeis - , I I

    pical and missionary , papers , with , a budget of I pretty poems , and the attractive * Sunday Evenings I with the Children' make up a varied and popular I

    volume . The contri , butors include Dr . Hugh I " Macmillan WoodMr _ - - . , Q ____ Dr . Holden . James ___ Pike Macgregor Agnes - _ . _ Gi , ¦ Mr berne . __ . J . Mrs G . . I I

    , _ , ^—^ _^ , Charles Garnett , the author of ' Episodes of an I Obscure Life , ' Mr . W . Procter , and many other I of the most noted contributors to our serial litera- I

    ture . The illustrations are for the most part of I a high order . I ¦ ¦ From Messrs / tm . "Lea iF & Shepar ¦ dBoston . — Fore I

    * m ^ ^ m ^^ r ^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ m ^^ ^^ w ^^ v ^ ^^ ^^ ' ^ a ^^ v r ^ w ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ™ ™ ^^^^ , j - ^^ - ^ *^ — ^^ ^— - v ^ — - — — ^ h and Aft : a story of actual sea life . ' Mr . Kobert I months B . Dixon h at , the sea ¦! auth first or of of all this ' before book , the was mast fourteen ' and I I

    during ^ bB ^ h ^^ ^ m * mm ^^^ . ^ IV the » ™ ^^ Vl latter ^ ^ » r ^ , a ^ ih ^ ^ v portion " *^ - ^» ^^ ^ ^^^ - ^» ^ v of ^* the ^^ ^ ^^» ^^ ^ time ^ " ^^ ^^^ - ^ as mate - — , ' or I ^^ officer small . octavo The volum book is e , a with particularl characteristic y well bindi printed ng . I I

    idea The n of arrative the hardshi is very ps interesti belong ng ing , and to gives sea a good life , I I advantageousl UVfc especiall W UUVUCkW y in t- * fcj small * . yJ , « JL fro ^ \ J vessels m UL- * A former V ^ A AAA ^ ; and . » accounts - *• VrVV it »¦* differs . - * "Jy , - in — , th — perhaps — % — writer — t ~ ' the I I

    language speaks of is the not hands too cra * nautical wling . toward ' Thus s the the ' centre I I of ordinary the yard reader , ' which than if is he more had said intelli the gible ' slings to the of I I

    the yard . ' In the course of the book some ex- I amples of sailors' songs , such as men use when musical musical at I

    work notation work about A . . l > cni We fc the tho do decks d not fto . ks remember , . are tire given ffiven to , have with with seen this I done before . I

    I From Luther JSffessra the . Reformer S . AV . . Partridge ' A biograp & \ t hical Co . — sketch 1 MartiD ot I 1

    Luther from T -.. < -l ~ A the _ , eac AnA B h ible chapter —1-. , - select ^ , 4 . „ _ of „ ed C which __ I as -. r ^ vl specially - > is in headed - nnrl r \ appropriate r 1 by riXT a tex LfiXL t I I I to the various isodes of the Reformer ' s Me- I

    To those this who little want ep volume a brief will be outline found avuiaxa ¦ of to Lwtber give all fi I I

    they tat career CDi . can L / XJ . iD desire AIMj \ jAKj , and 1 ULUD its TflJiJ numerous . KJ \ J illustrations ~ ~ C 3 . I will make it popular with children . I

    From The Messrs Pharaohs . Seeley and their , Jackson l , & S cenes HftUid of W n ^ I I

    Bgypt Egyptian has Li of fe late and History ied Peop larg / by : e a lace Berki in tne . / . I

    public regard 'in occup its connection so with p P D 1 troubles that there must be & numerous | puou ^

    yet for a scholarl work like y fashion this , winch with the deals pas in t of a ¦ V the h ° P hietonj ™ ^ rr i ^ , 1

    period nation . s and Mr . early Berkley records carries down iub to throug the time | roy ol 1 Persian

    Jaat independent dynasties and the w w quest , and in every chapter we ***• * *§

    coloured BKercnes oi tne ancient wumum « ^

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1883, page 1136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111883/page/8/