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    Henry Ward Be Ec Her.* |I

    I I lecti according on of Lord to the Randol Athenseum ph Church , will publish ill ' s speeches a

    col-I selected and edited "by Mr . Louis Jennings , , I M . F ., who will write an introductionbringing

    I out the chief facts in connection with , Lord Randolph's political careerand dealing with

    some of his public acts which , have hitherto I been much misrepresented and abused . With

    this Randol introduction ph's permission Mr . Jennings publish will some , "b y corre Lord

    -I spondence of considerable , ¦ JL > interest . To each ix speech . will be prefixed x a short note exp xv lanatory

    of the circumstances under which it was delivered . The text of the speeches will be

    will corrected it is b hoped y Lord afford -Randol the ph best . The and volume fairest

    mean , s of enabling , any one to form an impartial judgment concerning the true character of the

    orator ' s work in public life . Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously

    I I p the leased Work to th accep have t a copy to do of / ' b Our H . Nurses O'ETeill , and and ey y

    Edith Ward , Lock A . BaTnett & Co . , recently published by

    Mr . Loftie's new book ' Kensington : Picturesque and Historical' ( Leadenhall Press ) is

    according to the Athenaeumto have a novel , bindin — att . a g ^^ suggeste ^ ^^ J — bbH d by Mr . Tuer bbb , . Beyond K */ bM bBbI the _ K ^ ^

    covered title in board gold , s the are to round be devoid bevel- of edged ornament cloth- ,

    excep * roll' t in on gol the d , inner of the edge sam , which e character will have that a a

    I good binder puts on morocco and russia . Ib was stated the other evening ( says

    the City Press ) that duririg the last seven years Mr . Thomas Williams had given

    £ 800 to the Butchers' Charitable Institution . What an admirable example ! There are the

    Printers £ 5000 is ' Almshouses required for , for their instance comp . letion A sum of of

    which , nearly £ ' 1 , 500 is promised . Where , are the wealthy printers—the Thomas Willianises

    of the Caxton order—who will subscribe the rest 1 I have heard latel - y of printers x and pub

    Jtlishers dying worth half-a-miUion each . What enjoyment some of the enormously rich people

    wou w l d realise were they to dispose of a p ortion X of their riches while they are alive and able to

    Nothing see that it can is be app better lied in th the an best providing possible homes way .

    and in perpetui any wealth ty for y deca man yed so di m sposed embers of ig the ht craft have ,

    his building name m * at honourabl Wood t / Green T y . associated ~ . J , with <^ the

    new Mr vo . lume Clegg , of O Oldhana riginal , P h as m i n and the Songs press y y

    b It y will Mr . be Edwin as nearl Waug h , the ible Lancashire uniform poet with . y poss

    the previous series of ten volumes . It will con bA bI tIV ain an orig CJ bina am l sketch i _ by % J ^_ the laa te Randolp JLh " ^ " ^" — . . . ^

    Caldecott ^ , and ill ustrations by other ** artists ^ . Messrs . Reeves & Turner will bring out

    hortly after Christmas , a ' Life of James , ^ Thomson — ™ <—— - —r—¦ 7 ^^ «• . » ' ( m vw autho ¦ ^ i ^ ' »^ . »^^ _^ r a , of ¦ x ^ - ^ ' The ^ K . jk «¦! m . ^ City - * * s ^ ** W of ^ - ^^ Mm Dreadful » J » ' ^ - ^ ^^^^^ . ^ ¦¦» if c >«^

    Ni Salt g * ht , The & c book ) , in , w one hich vol is u part me , ly by biograp Mr . H hical , « -S . ,

    partly a study of Thomson ' s works , will include

    a good many letters , and one or two hitherto unpublished poems .

    We learn that the 14 th and concluding volume of ' The Encyclopaedic Dictionary , '

    will be published early next week by Messrs . Cassell & Company . This work , wtiich has been in preparation for nearly 17 yearswill

    contain about A . 50 , 000 more words •/ V than , any existing « . X-l » LI . Ug Dictionary ± Jl % JLUJM . LU , iy . . Whilst VV 1111 S 0 Webster *> t 5 U » bt 3 J . ' s »

    (' Unabridged Dictionary fills 1 , 538 pp . and * The Imperial' 2922 , The Encyclopaedic

    Dictionary' extends to no less than 5 , 629 pages . The January number of Macmillan ' s

    Magazin Smith e will on contain * Shakspeare an article ' s Relig b ion y Mr and . Politics Goldwin .

    There will also be a paper by Mr . Andrew Lang _ __ <^ 7 , bearing ~ ^ the somewhat remarkable title p

    of ' The Bloody Doctor . ' It is understood , howeverthat this has no connection with a , j

    recent medical controversy . Messrs . Macmillan & Co . will issue

    imentitled mediately * The a Land new book of Darkness by Mrs . along Oliphant with ,

    some Further Chapters in the Experiences , of the Little Pilgrim . '

    volume Among of — Little the _ , sp — Folks ecial . _ 9 features Magazine - of _ commencing - the _ _ new _

    with the January number ^ are : a new serial <> story by Mrs . Molesworth , entitled * Little y

    Mother Feather Bunch a tale ; of another the American serial called Frontier * Red b ; y

    describing Edward S . ' Child Ellisk Life ; a- at special the Courts series of of Europe papers

    with full illustrations of Royal children from X , authentic photographs ; legends and rhymes .

    on tel new hones volume b of Mr the . W c S . pecialists H . Preece ' Series and , ' epy

    Dr . Julius Maier , , will be published shortly by Messrs . Whittaker & Co .

    tannica The comp was letion celebra of ted the by * a Encyclopaedia banquet given Bri by

    t leading — he . —— editor contributors , Professor . Robertson The work Smith we , to must his

    admi lish _ -speaking — t , j is of na worl tiona d l is imp justl ortance y proud , and , of the it . Eng It

    human is — — , sa — _ ir ys kno the w <_ led > Observer ge ^~ j in , the a masterl nineteenth v m . y summar century y ^— of

    from time the the Eng ' Ency lish clopaedia point of ' is view more . At than the a mere same

    summar originality y . imparted Its articles to have them some by the tincture experts of

    who of the have hih est tt fame en th em e , and t d fore isdain ign ed t h o con lars - g

    tribute the case to its pages h a . colossa The l progress work is , of h issue owever in ,

    hand painful is ly s now low . so The quick pace that of long life , on ere the the ot last her

    volume , of the ' Encyclopaedia' is published the first one ia out of dato . As the work is

    and reall y a th librar is respec y in t miniature Chambers' it Encyclopaedia not portable , '

    latter has its is advantages that it is somewhat . The drawback heavy , and to that the

    of so condensa many sacrifice tion . s What have been the public made for reall the y want sake

    in these days is a work of the same character

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    I Dec . 15 , 1888 The Publishers' Circular 1 749

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1888, page 1749, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121888/page/7/