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    points the Custom to the House best remed . Waterside y for tliis officials evil by can suggesting hardly be that expected publishers to know should intimatel register what their vorks public ? ^ I I right and what otWe inclinedto think that books find their y into

    j through the Pos are t Office n . ; and are it majr furnish , useful and profitabl many e employment to , way the flagging ^ private enenH h ^ " I I ; * The TK * Authors A nfh / trs' ' Associati A ju / wMAtion on to tn look lnnlr into intA these hhftsft matters mattftrs . and nnrl to Yn bring Trvnn t * some anvnn , nMoanm to « -A bear l __ 5 & of ^

    : Office authorities to induce them to keep an eye on susp , icions-looking book pressure packets emanating oa frf th v ° ! I I , me Continent ntion as or a the carious United coincidence States . Official that we inspection have tried seems in vai at n least to import to be but books fitful —as and samp uncertain les—of and Am ^ 11 I I editions of our own publications by post , and we know that these books have been postedbut in ^^ 1

    stance have they reached us ; ornr supposition being that they have been impounded en route . , On the n oth I . importing band , a well certain -known American English reprints publisher of , Eng li who sh copy recentl right y books crossed with the easy Atlantic success , tried . The the books experiment *™ * * f I I v

    o concealed did ffice r , passed extend , but them op beyond enly as shown that non-copyrig list to . — the Ei ht Cus > . . -P The toms . C ] books officer ¦ apparentl , who , after y were examination not on his and reg reference istered list to , ' and his sut his ^ dntv v I H

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    1 Books Received : — From Mr J * W . Aixo-wsxnrth . of Bristol . — ' Dark

    . , Days—Arrowsmith ' s Christmas Annual , 1884 . ' by Hugh Oonway , author of ' Called Back' ( F .

    J . Fargus ) . The story which the most successful fiction writer of recent days here gives us is , as its name suggests CTG » , cast on tragOic lines . Its

    hero loves , and loves hopelessly , a woman whom lie describes in glowing words , and who has already married a husband under a false name .

    . Discovering the hopelessness of his suit he at once despairs : Iiife was no longer worth living . The spur of ambition

    -- I was nms had Unntnl blunted hitherto : ; the the felt desire desire in for for fame fame fession gone crone ; : the the vanished interest interest ail which which the spring sp months ring , , the utx and c elasticity viAswviAbjr months , ecuunt seemed did my pro taken wfrcu work in uuv out & of my ixijr being ucuig ; . rvi For

    - . ner . It gave me no I satisfaction my that perfunctory my practice man grew - larger merge * .. . Success ounst . » ^ sa gave gave ¦ me ixic no ixv » pleasure yuca « . .. -oxMxa . unwelcome . An au -to increase uivicaoo ¦ to to isu the wuc ^«

    number what long WUBk as wu did . I of made i it u my uwgici matter patients money ? « Of wi -was enough what h positively uauuse ubd to was snpply woo wealth ntoiuu my daily to uvuic me me needs ? i . So iu It the for which cravedOf what

    could use was not life buy ? No one wonder thing that such friends I as . I had once posses of ui sed the all sweetest but forsooi I me wanted , My mood friends iiicuiu at that I time alone was i /«?

    none in uuuc the world vuc Dwvcuca ; I should u . J . always w «* u ji be no uu alone . . . was nno cm . u This picture , it wiU be admitted , justifies the title

    bestowed on the l > ook . In the same chapter which thus introduces us to oar hero he is thinking — ^ -p of _ - better — _____ thin _ gs ^_ , and an approaching _ ^ _^ . _ _ - _ - _ visit from

    his mother nerves him to » take a stronger view of life and its responsibilities , when on going to the window he sees Philippa —emphatically the

    ** heroine of the tale—learns from I . her lips that */ the baronet whom she believed herself to have -wedded has cast her off at the very moment when his

    child was born , and in his unsigned letter bidding her farewell confesses that when he went through the form of marriage with her he already had a

    wife . The next chapter shows us our hero Fen deep -and _¦¦!! in his revengeful villainy thoug and his ht letter over . Sir He Mervyn 1 leaves —~ ¦ —>~

    ———— the fled , —— ,- . house — follows — , y - - to seek her ^^ — Phi overtakes ^ , lippa — — , finds . hei — \ th when at she in has — a frenzy , she cries , The of sin

    , ' wages : on , on till you see the wages of sin—the wages of sin / and then she rushes madly b , _ y ^_ . Retracing hit

    steps — — , lie —— finds - __ the baronet __ ^ lying dead __ in ^^ the „ _ _ road has fired , and the assumes fatal € , natural shot which iruivu ly enoug jLl has h stretched , that Phili him ppa

    UIM 7 uiovt _ u _> « . _»»»» «^»» "i / f » t-r uuvi-i , iil / U juaju on the ground . Returning- home , he finds Philippa there , ill and clelirioticu After long

    . ' nursing he resolves to take her abroad with his motherwho tutsin the meantime - reached - j — — _ . _ , ^ . _^ , .. _ . . _ ^ . ,

    v England , While in town he reads of the dia-. coverj of Sir Mervyn ' e body , in the snow , and : then veceires a letter tellihim . that the

    . ng I : . . tfyo bajronet n « r a ri ' first ag « wi wife th Phili died ppa three who bocomes months before Lady

    j I Forrand * Reaching Spain , where , before the

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    ¦ to days be safe of her extradition , he This is happy roposal treaties , and then she , he at he holds first proposesi Philippa tofl 1

    and marry then , . on his p mother pleading his reiecta cause . I assents , and the marriage takes place . A ran tofl land is followed breturn to

    Eng one day some fellow-travellers y a talk S of pain lerrandsfl , where fl ¦ deathand

    aeaun the crime , , ana , brine Dnng whic : h back oacK , after to to JPhili her ^ niuppa serious pm tJi the e illnes memory memorv s , had of n ? fl H iaded faded trom from her her memory memorv . . Illness Illness once onr » ft more mow p ensnes » nam * . ^

    she begs our hero to leave her ; he refuses ; ^ fl M and notice then appears they . watch Suddenl the y papers they li ht see if anj at , ^ fl

    announcement that a poor man is to g be tried upon forfl ^ | the murder . They rush to England , and thta fl the account of the trialtold with all the

    comes graphic touches which Mr . Fargus , so well koovi h ^ M how how to to use use . and and toe thft confession confession of of the t-. hfi man m ^ n thal tki ^ H

    he was guilty , of the deed ! A written statement ^ ^ H M obtained later on completes the proof of tiie ^ H and hence shows that Phili '

    man ' s guilt , ppa s ^ B murdered fevered imag man ination had , made acted her on convict by the si hersel ght ot f of tie ^ ^ H » H

    crime of which , she was innocent . For the ^ % and for the powerful word-painting which raaii ^ ^ H H np nn the tha book book . we w ^ p . must must refe rf-. fer r our our readers readers to to tbe the ^ H

    little shilling ^ volume , of which Messrs . Griffithi ^ ^ M M Farroin are the London purveyors . ^ M

    From Mr . A . S . Barnes ( New York ) . — ' Watson ' s H ¦ this Grap book hic S is peller to teach , Oral spelling and Written not . onl ' The orally plan bat of

    b work y writing . The , and vary b ing y the sounds use of of , blackboard the vowels y and in word slate « M ^ ^ H M that bspelj

    ing are classified a number with of words much in success which , the so sound y is ^^ - ^ H H lar lar . the the ear ear becomes becomes accustomed accustomed to to it it before beioreua it U ^^™ H

    led , on to another set of words in which the votel ^ H is diversely used . ^ M

    « fl Fro Joel m l Dorman Uorman same . — ateele Steele 'A . Descri Ph Fh .. V D pti . . ve A A Astronomy muy fully i illustrat " ^ ™ H *™ ^^^^^

    popular only in black manual and on white astronomy , , but in with colour diagrams it it is is , int /^ , fjfl i ^^ B

    to planations nlanationu beueedwith aTe aw the admirabJy a < linirn black , b ] board v clear « lear on . , and a which na tlie i" papij " « n " ' - H ^ ™ m not not the me teacher teacner— —is is to to draw araw the toe , nyuio figures ^ g &* iven w . ; - ^ * ^ m

    ¦ ¦ or book apparatus . A hint can in the equal preface the undertake , real that ity ' no in the d to escnpt teU bv » 'O . * ™

    story worthy worth y of ot of the note note stars by bv , for all all such who who teachi unu > ng rwe is fc ^ * too rai » H H ' amongst us . H

    From Moaflra . William Blackwood A flo !? C 'fl lete History of land for Junior ^ ^ £ »

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1884, page 1198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111884/page/10/