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    I classical scholarship . These correct and elegant I translations , issued tiy a local publisher , and

    I got tip in a very neat though plain form , show I th & fc she still deserves to retain tfckt reputation . I Of course , such publications may be grossly

    I abused , but then they may be wisely used by I what we hope will be the * better part' of those I who possess tliese volumes .

    I From Messrs . Smith , Elder , & Co . — ' The Early I I That Life this of Samuel will be Rogers an inte pk , ' resting by P . W volume . Clay den .

    I wi ^ — thout - — — — ^— say — » - ing ^—^^*^ . *^^ - It ^^ - v woul ^^ k ^ h ^ ^ v ^ d ^^ ^ - ^^ be ^^ ^^ ^^^ next v *^ K ^ b ^* V * m to ^^^ impossible ^ b ^""^ fc ^^^ fcA ^^ r goes ^^^ ^^ *— ' T * ir I for its any vasfc writer wealth to of treat lite of rary such surrounding a subject , with and

    social , political , and . literary celebrities , and not render his work readable and entertaining . But the present volume is something more

    than this . JMr . Clayden has brought to his task an amount of painstaking diligence

    and and . critical critical care care that that add add materially Tnn . t # vrin . llv to to thp the » intrinsic attraction of his work . One of the most , notable characters associated with

    the earjy life of Samuel Rogers was Charles . nected James with Fox ; . the Byron deceased - was poet more in intimately later days . con To

    Fox , therefore , we find frequent and interesting reference . 'In February , ' writes Rogers in his diary—this was the February of 1792—* passed

    ithe O'Brien eveni , the ng at Bishop Stone of ' s with Antrim Fox , Madame ,. Sheridan de , SilleryPamela—supposed to be her

    daughter—Adele , , Princess of Orleans , and Henriette , lier niece . Fox said , " All titles are equally

    ridiculous . I believe Hume wrote up the Stuarts from a spirit of opposition , because it was the fashion to write them down . " ... In

    and conversation his voice his assumes ( Fox ' s ) . countenance a leasant tone brig . htens Dr . , Priestley said afterwards p he was improved

    in manners since . he saw him at Shelburne Ho » se * t ^ n years ago , when he spat on the carpe man t of and great hurt neatness J ^ ord Shelburne ** Charles , who " is said a

    . , Shericbia , u have you read Parr ' s letter ? " * 'l rread ead it it last last week week . " ' said said Fox Fox . ' « ^•* Charles Charles '' saicl said r ,

    Sheridan , " received , a long letter from Parr , to dissuade him from moving for the repeal of

    the Test Act . But as he began with not requir-. ing go a him , step to answe further r it and , Charles not read thought it . " ' he lfcogers would '

    * Recollections' of Fox will , of course , be within the memory of all readers . Not only did the poet belong to the same school of politicsbut was

    throughout an enthusiastic admirer of that , eminent statesman . To mention all the celebrated men and women who figure in these absorbing

    pages would , of course ; be an impossibilit 3 . Lord Dr . Johnson Erskine i , Boswell Henry « b Mackenzie , Home Tooke Sheridan , Dr . P Miss ¦ arr <— ' ,

    Thrale w «^ ^^ ^¦ <*> i ^» - ^ v ^^ David pk _« . ^^ ^ . ^ a ^ a ^ r , v i ^^^ Ga vft — i- ^ rrick b «^ « . h v ^ v * n i ^ Tom f -i _ i— ^ v ^ ¦ ^ b ^ ^ k ^ a Paine »^ ^ ^ ii , v r ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ' ^ i and ^~ *^ ^ ^ ' . ^ w- Words ^ h . b , w _^ - ™ - "vworth , , to name at random , only a , few of the illustrious beings whose ings and doings are

    indirectly chronicled in say this book , pass under the reader ' s attention , ever and anon reappearing * in the narrative with most attractive effect .

    Strangely enough Rogers never met or even saw Dr . JotuisoiL The one was then at the bottom , the other at the top , of the ladder . ' William day

    in Maltby earl , y went youth to , call he and on Johnson his friend at , his house in Bolt Court . ' * I had hand on the knocker "

    said Rogers , in telling my the story , ** when our , courage failed us , and we retreated . "' The re ^

    maining fifty years of Rogers' life are to be treated of in a second volume , which , With our

    remembrance of trie keen pleasure derived from cocne a' perusal witih livel x > t the y anticipation / present work and , warm we shall interest wjel- .

    From Messrs . Swan . Sonnenschein & do . — ' Nadia ; or , Out of the Beaten Track , ' translated

    ffrf Langenau rom > Vri the the . Russian "R { s A . «! i 4 hi g oiR of hl y . commendable Orloffsk t > rlnfFfikv y by bv the th " e feature Baroness Baroness in this novel is that the interest gradually increases

    in intensity the further the story progresses , until with the last chapters a culminating point

    a is is have reached rP ! ftnhf n of L , and and smooth ihp t he waters read rpaflpi er and is is eventually ftvp contented . ntnallv left left relief in in . Like the majority of Russian novels the plot

    ties mainl , the y hinges question on of the landlord existence and of peasant secret socie , and - mysterious foes to the State . With such

    danch gerous ciated ance ^ intimates in than her from earl jN any i adia er actual years has , sympath been thoug closel h y more -with y asso the by

    agitators acr if . Rtnrs , " and and when tirhftTi , in in later later hie life , , she she would would gladl she finds y shake this off a * matter the shackles of no that slight fe difficulty tter her , , the

    even loive ^—if such worthless passion on part of her enemies can be dignified , by so pure a name—coming in to increase the difficulties of

    writing her position in the . Story There , and is some more good than , once vigorous the

    author rises to an almost thrilling intensity of dramatic action . The translation by the Baroness thoug Iliangenau sent - ¦ ¦ s h the here for meaning and the most there and part we sp v irit ery notice of faithfull the slight ori y gram repre ginal - - ,

    ^__ ' matical ^^ ^ «^^^ ^^ — errors ^^ ^— ^^ ^— . —^^— — — — ^ ^ ^^^^^ From the same—* Gilbert Freethorne ' s Heritage '

    by W . G Alvary . . This is a very simple story , , simplrelatedanid with little attempt afc

    artistic y arrangement , . " The hero labours under the i / ti \ ' stigma Wj V M C . * -M * ±% JV of 1 \^ M- unknown < - * K . A A . K J ^ X ^ h ^ VT . * - . parentage J ^*^ ' * ^ " * " * J ^ ^"^ , ™ for the good ^ J I

    he peop in reality has le reached who no have son his broug of twenty theirs ht him - , first but up year was confess , left that , as when he an is

    their infant infant- own , at ah thei thn child ir r . door door Daniel , , and and Freethorne reare Teared d by bv them them his s « as - , posed father hitherto K , is a blacksmith , and p a man of strong atheistic tendency ¦*^ ¦ » - » ¦^^»—¦ ¦¦ . Between ¦ - —•— -,

    occupy himself Gilbert JL JLA ^ Al ^ A . V ^ ing , who strong U *^ many A . ^^ is fa about ^ reli pages ^ g ious *^>* to ' V . enter * ^ arguments * - m These ' ^^ the , ministry — however » v take p , lace and — in- ,

    the teresting pages in of one a waj novel r , are . totally Throug out hout of there place in is a lenitud \ MM . MV 4 e of sensible heavy talkvaried by

    C discussions -V p K ^ TM . ^ § % J on ^ - ^ m . a % J- \ m variet * *¦**> - ' * . " - ^ ^ w y *» of ^ - ^ »^ useful 7 ^<»^ w»— topics , »™ - — — ' , ™^ — such — , ^ j as temperancedissentand such like .

    Eventuall is is rrlfiarpfl cleared y the mystery up nn , thi thiough ono surrounding ^ h , the the contession confession - Gilbert ' s or of birth one one

    and Giles monotonousl Leveme , and y the narrated story , havi throug ng hout been , soberl is just y as soberly and monotonously brought to a

    conclusion . From f JL \ J J . A . A Mr " ™ g | p . T A . Fisher ^ - A « # AAV < k TJnwin ^^ - * Jfc WW % ^ . — 'Ireland - • ^^ -m , ^» •* -fc- * , j 'b •* -- y j tbe »¦ — - ¦** -. . Hon — — --- — — . -

    There Emily is Lawless no more ( difficult ' Story of task the conceivable Nations' series than ) . to tell the past of Ireland ; the subject literally

    bristles bristl with es the with with sombre hard hard shadows pro nroblems blems . of , while while a heavy it it is is past so so loaded loaded , and so bowed down with the weight of a mighty and

    tragic in a tru no l other conflict wondrous country , arising hand in fro to the deal m wo causes rld with , that which its thrilling it needs exist

    y - story but hut , a o . native native It has could could often ever ever been grasp eraso said the the situations situations that no suf sur one - - II

    ftcien anything tly well like to accuracy > give the of $ vision tory of , thoug Ireland h many with I I

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    1 ^ - ' " ' ' ' ' ' - - ;— - - — ^ 3 a Dec . is , 1887 Tbe Pubifelte ^ s' Circular 1839

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1887, page 1809, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121887/page/15/