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    Books Received :— From ¦ Messrs Bbbbbflb...

    t .- day efficient ~^^ ^ —^ " ^^ ™ ^— school *^" ™ ^™~ workin » ™ ~^^ r ^^^ is ^^^^^™ v ^ ^ just ^ - —^ g f ^ V ^ h of ^^^ ^^^ as a ^^^^^ Sunday ^ necessary ^^^ ^^ " - ^^^^^^^— ^ - ^^^ *»^^ a / School » *^^ ^^ p to aa ^^™ ^^» ^^ the ^^^ , aj and aa ^* ^^^ f ^^ good ~^^^ af a its ^ ^ BP ^^^^ and ^ in ^ ^^ B ^ V -

    ( f" ' jtmior troduction classes is advocated , "but also in cot the onl senior y in the class infant and and on the platform where special services are held for

    the children JL . In order to overcome the difficulty which many teachers who have no talent for rising their pencils -will feel in making an effort

    to sketch with chalk upon the board , a series of elementary instructions in the art—for an art undoubtedl ai ai -a ^ ¦ - " ^ — —~ — — ' ^^ y ^ J it ^^ ^^ ¦¦ is—of ^^ ^^ black ^^ »< a" « a ^ ^^ m -board w ^ r ^ a- ^ -aai ^^ ^*^» drawing ^ aafc ^ ai a » ¦ » v am ^^^ a ^ k are « v ^^ ^ a ^

    given , and many of these , which ar 6 rather diagrams than . drawings , will be within the power of the h majority of ¦ teachers hi . Mr . Hayesif we

    remember —^ — - —— ^™— — ¦ ^ " - ari - ™ - — g g ht , ^^ publishes ^^ - ^ - -r — - ^— ^ v - ^~ - w ^ V ^ v a ^^^ ha ^^ aa series * ^^ B ^ ^* ^^^^¦ » ^ of ^ ff ^ V , VJ " ^ large ^^^ ¦ ^ ^^^ " ^ plates in black and white , drawn from the sketches of the Rev . D . Elsdale , made for actual

    Use when he was vicar of St . John ' s , Kennington , and the designs in the present volume are all helps in the same direction . The — p j lanat — any — ^ rate __

    has been carefullworked out and — , - e who , has a slight knowled y ge cf drawing , will anyon have little difficulty in acting upon the instructions given .

    From the same . —* Zoological Photographs / being short ¦ ™ ¦— j ^ — — and ¦ ¦— ¦ ™ interesting - ~~ - ^—— - — " ^^ —^ ^ a' —™ ^^ ~ ^ " ^ m ^^^ chapters ~^» ~^^™ ^™» a ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^* p v on ^ p » ^^ a ^ aaav Natural v " ^ tf ^ v ^ ~» "a > a ™ aa ^ aia ^™ History ^^ a » aia ^ a > hj ^ a ^ ^ k ^ ^^ » , aa

    by Joseph Hassell , A . K . C . The author puts his book before us as calculated to serve three pur-, poses ^ P * " ¦ ™ ^* - " ~ : ^ first ™ ~ ~ - » * , V as ^^»~ w T ^~ a " »^ a ^ prize B ^ ™ a ™ aBP ^ a ^ -book »^~™ ^ « a ° BB > BBBB for VBB ^ a ° ^ B Sunday BPBB ^ ^^^ S ^^ B > ^ V ^ B > ^^ V W ^ and ^ BV bVBJ ^ B ^ Bf day ^^ Bf V ^ V W

    school children ; second , as a book for home study , the parents reading it with the children ; and , third , as a readi —w ~ ¦ ng-book in the elementary or

    — — — ^ — ^— ^— ab . ^^^ ^^ " ^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ B ^ ^^^^^ ^ " ^ ^^ ™ ^ ^^^ —~ ^^^ ¦ ^ B' ^^^ a" ^ B ^ ^^ P' ^^ " ^^^ ^^^ ^ M i middle ak V ah ^ ai ¦ -class aak * school ^ m ^ ^^ . There ¦ is & not a suspicion — . _ *^ of 1 , of dryness ^ ¦~— - — sponges " — ^ a ^ ^^^ B" ^ ak about - " ™ , jelly a ~ " ~ ™ ]—» Mr m fi ¦— . . § " Hassell ^ " ^ hes " ^ ^^~ ¦ ™ , w coal ^ ^ ' s page , v ^ star ^^ Bar aj ^ BB s 'aaw , and fishes ^™*^ " ^ a * ^ a > v as *^* , he worms ¦ T ^^ a' tellso ^^ « B » ^ " ^~ " ^¦* " , J

    ( lobsters , spiders , flies , butterflies , silk-worms , bees , oysters , slugs , snails and the cuttlefish , his pleasant gossip will be relished by the young readers .

    The rf ^ l bcok Til abounds in good ilfustrations * 1111 * , and the . * remarks occasionall a *^ «^ ^** aa > k *** Bh A ^ ^ a « a ^ I mad V ^ r ^ L- ^ e ^ v _ by *> JVa - ^ r . ht ¦ m > the ^^ ai -, young % f the aL 1 « k . ^ ^ ^^ . ^ peop j , _ add ^ ! . le ^ J ^ , ^ sai much at who ^ -. « . A ^ ^ Lb ^ are to aaL ^ h | , ,

    y brougon scene , the liveliness and brightness of the narrative . From i Messrs . Marcus- "Ward ¦— »»¦ & Co . — ' Forget r Me

    — — - -- — — - — ~ - —— ' — — - — i ~ b ^» " ~^^~— ^ a » 'B' ^^ " ^ " ^^ a ^^ pat - ^ B ^^ - ^ aB * " ^^ Not , ' a new and prettily-got-np birthday-book . Every each day page has a is quotation framed from in forget the poets -me-nots . , and

    From and evening the same ^^^ j , a are — . — c two - Angel -. _^ tiny T . Whispers _ volumes w — , — v ¦— —¦ - — — / , ¦ " inclosed for ^— — —r — - ~^ r morning v ^ ap ^ ap' ' ^ ' ^ pf ^ in ^~ w— a ^^^^

    pretty little case . They are intended for the use of children , and are prefaced by simple explanations of the character and ministry of angels .

    . On each left-hand , page the figure of an angel stands , holding a scroll , on which is printed a text for the daywhilst on the opposite page is a — short ——

    ^ X A . X ** a and few practical lines of comment some simp on le the hymn verse bearing chosen - on , with the same * subject _ . Over —~ — each -w morning _ - — ~ —m , i r - — ^^_ - _ I V ^^ K text ^^ V ^^^^ ^^ ~ is ~ ~^^ written a * W B ^^ B ^ ^ T ¦ - ^^ m ^^*^^"

    the sentence , * And as he slept , behold , an Angel touched him , and said unto him '; and over the text ^ P' w-- —¦ ¦¦ - ^ - for — ^ ^^ - each - ^ ' — -BPF- p > ¦ evening ^ a- v - ^ ¦ P . a" ^ p » ajajBak , « 'There wbpp a > 4 "b ^^^ h i ^ stood p % ^ ^ ai war ^ - * vai by p ^ pr W me ^ aajapwi ^ a ^ this ^ a ^^» ** W ^ J

    \\ night the Angel of God , saying . ' Of daily textbooks for children , these are the prettiest we hare seen .

    Prom Messrs . "Ward , Lock , A Co . —' The Enquirer ' s Oracle ; or , What to do and how to do it . '

    A crown 8 vo . of 43 7 pages closely printed in double famil — — - m column matters — — ¦ - ^ ¦ , .- tliis »— health w - ^— ¦ is ; i 'read and y reference education ¦ i ¦ W ¦ ^ f 'Bp ^ ~^ Wm book ho PBi « B — |— me Bi on . B ahr ^^ y , v " ^ ^ ^^ ^^ - ~ - ^ ^ " ^ ™ ^ ' ^^ ' ^ ^^ a ^ ,

    management , home culture , ' &<\ The contents are thus divided : courtship and matrimony ; : 'cookery ¦¦ ; personal r disciline ppi during % f infancy ¦

    ' ¦ childhood ^^ ^^ ™ " ^ ' - — v , and p va * r ^ a' ^ a' ^ p ^ early * * r ^ aai a ^ a ^* life ¦« ^^ ai p a ^^ r , a including *^ ~ % ^ ^^ ^ f « a ^ B a > ^ a ^^ a eti qu a * PBI ^^ B ette ^« av ^ Bk ^^ V , ' home recreations involving mental exercise ; jfev ¦ ¦ - . ' ¦ ' - ¦ - ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ ' -

    . i —; ^ cards and conjuring ; pets for the diildrpn .

    wardrob ling ; accidents e and the and toilet diseases ; information ; landlord for tenaat travel ' trators V lodge * -a * a ^ 4 * y > 4 r , rates > apprenticeship aTfc «^^ , «« AW taxes * A * A i- , > BJ & 1 % c — . ; intestacy & Va > — A and ¦ ¦ , adminig .

    mass of ; information is , comprehended c , & e . The in whole 2 757 paragraphs , to which the reader is guided by a

    ' trative copious comous woodcuts index index , and and . . there thara One of are . ta the a good cwWT many -r ^ n . ,. .. hs illus iw is - dictionary of the language of flowers paragrap nother a

    a > at , a list shows afBi La . ^ k a « of ai 9 ^ poisons X us ^ a . ^ aj ' how a > V aHMM with to a ^ _^ read ^ p _ their ^ A ^ J books 1 _ remedies ¦ _ , * and ¦—¦ - »*• . another Thus aaV . 11 Ul 7 it J | j \ is eill HI a be that the Oracle ^

    far- seen reaching book * for Enquirer its size ' s . ' is a very From the of oi same . — ' stories Uncle Oldecthorpe ' s Legacy ; ' a

    numerous siory story seven seven illustrations scones , , by ay ( popular popular ' Beeton ' s authors authors Christmas , , with xvhh Annual Christmas ' ) . An story entertaining typeopening budget with of w— the a genuine suicide kj

    committed in the «/ days ms a . , when jbT such ^ 3 - crimes ^*> ** - were V-iV 4 t Dunished by that mode of interment , recently

    abolished abonsnea bv by Act Act of or P Parliament arliament , , to towhich whinh Hood TWl referred when he tells us of Ben Battle that They " With 1 Y J . "buried I „ stake A 1 hi __ m in in his T » four inside • cross - ! roads

    a . But while it opens with a tragedy there is a touch of comedy ia the next page , for -we find a young lady solemnly vowing that she will not

    marry her lover until he writes and finds a publisher for a story , and it is owing to his successive failures that he becomes the old _ _ _ _ _ i

    bachelor , Uncle Oldenthorpe , wliose 'legacy ' gives the title to the book . When he comes to make his will aVA the venerabl / fj > e gentleman mM mindful aV 41 VS

    » AA ^ Wa » V / * " - ' TV A * B-M « ai ^ a ' W VAA ^ A »_ Saa "« a ^ f *\ ^ *¦* ** - »¦ V « A « IW , « a , «« * a > of his own early history , after dividing the "bulk of his property in equal portions between his

    nep ¦ to n fiTvh that hews fiws one and and of nieces rrienes the number . , oners offers who the fcha will balance balance , within of of £ £ twelve 22 ., 000 000 ^ month " *^ a aja' ^^^~ a £ ^ aBaa > "s Ba ^ from aa »* aB Baav ^ ^ " ^ ar the B * a ^ aB * ^ r reading a ^ " ^ a- « ar ^* ai a ^ » BBt of ^ a * ^ a * bbpbbp his ^ . va' will ar F ^ " ' ^ , write - the

    best tale . The 3 VISS . sent in to his executors form , the ' stories' in this attractive Christmas annual .

    From Mecum Mwtt ' Mr m ' . . ' Effingli for fn-r Investors TnvA am «* -, nrs Wilson for for 1 1 . S — 8 85 . 5 ' Mathieson / compi com xh led led ' s from irom Fade

    official sources . The second issue , of this useful work of the has tabular several form important in which iavva additions i much of , and the , instead matter

    with was vjl WJtU L > . u at the LllC inuuiai first sidehcads 1 U g iven 41 C xvx < 1 ( , juj it . C , > 111 is in ill now w blac Uiai j- / printed - k A . m , xvuvo letter x \* . ^ x + * in — . ^ - * p an <» ^ aragrap * *• . ~ o the ~~ bvious hs |

    improvement first to the top , as of the the necessity page lv to for of the carrj hoadiDg the the ing of the e ) e

    information column Pnlmnn and an ^ then then is troublesome laterally latfiralto and grasp ffrasD is likel parucw particular y to lead * u . to tr » confusion rnnfnfli ^ Ti . The The book book supplies suddIics exnaubu exhaustive ^

    information as to the Government , State , ana municipal loans at home and abroad and ; foreign ioreiyu sets forth rail m -

    detail d way sto stoc etail ck k companies the the the the worki wor dates dates ki , ng no the when wnen - ol of capital the the the the Briti J 3 interest interest nti and sh sJi ana interest ia is paid p-i « of and their . » an - , thira V a

    other t , offers needful the particulars fullest record ; and of then all miscellaneous , in the

    companies par i , i , including banks i , canal an and d < oclc eleC

    comli pan ght es com , p nsur anies ance , mining comp companies anes , gas , and U-aiiiwoomnibus , and water companies .

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    Books Received :— From ¦ Messrs Bbbbbflb...

    Catalogues and Modern received Books : —Catalogue in all classes No . of , of jltera Ancjout '" '

    o Street Street ffered . b 31 Manchester y ancllester Messrs . . . H — — . lFro Sothcra ^ rom m the t ue n & warn »« Co ^^ * ., 4 X » " w - " ' the 4 V , ^

    li Li brary st of , cr Standard presentation and , Popular incJuding Works boohs , ^ ^ r « r ^ . ^

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1884, page 1454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121884/page/14/