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    I ran i6f 1882 The Publishers' Circular ...

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    I Since our last publication the followi...

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    OBITUAEY.

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    _ In A Few Days Messrs _ . Longmans ^^*^...

    I y [ Tm Dorman B . Eaton ' s i Civil Service in Great Britain / with an introduction by Mr . ^ I the Georg Ifr ^ same qujv e Win series ^^™ . Curtis will , shortly has been be added added ' to The the Dickens Messrs — . Reader Harper — — ' ' s illustrated Franklin Square the — — selections — — Library having — . To

    I been - n made by ~~ ~ — Nathan Sheppard v . The same firm have begu ^ , j n ~^ the — publication — ™ ^^ — , of a Harper ' s I Young People Series / consisting of stories and other serials that have already appeared in their

    H In continuance , __ . _ of __ . £ their Xi _ _ new and uniform . •/•_ series of the ¦ ^ late 1 i Dr 1 * X . J 1- . G *~ 4 . Holland "VT 11 1 * ' s works _ __ 1 ^ „ , I Messrs . Charles tne lYxans Scribner ' s Sons ± , New York , uuest will issue utner at once , ' The Jones Family , ' ' The

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    I Ran I6f 1882 The Publishers' Circular ...

    I ran i 6 f 1882 The Publishers' Circular 7

    I Since Our Last Publication The Followi...

    I Since our last publication the following Publishers have issued books , full titles of which 1 will be found in the New Book List : — ^ u

    Messrs . Blackwood & l Sons . —Miss Cumming ' s At Home in Fiji , new edition . I Messrs . Cnatto & , Windu * . —Proctor ' s Familiar Science Studies .

    I Messrs . Field & Tuer . —Bartolozzi and his Works , by Andrew W . Tuer , 2 vols . I Messrs . Hurst & Slaclcett . —Lodge ' s Peerage for 1882 .

    I Messrs . Kongmans A . Co . —English Poetry and Prose , by , T . Arnold , J . G . Wood's U Strange Dwellings , popular edition .

    I Messrs . Sampson Low , Mars ton , Searle , & , Rivington . —Fen Skating , by N . and A . I Goodman . Whittier Birthday Book , arranged by Elizabeth Owen . The Year ' s Art and

    I Epitome for 1881 , by Huish . II Messrs . Macmillan A . Co . —Westcott's Revelation of the Hisen Lord . Physics of the 1 Earth's Crustby m O . - Fisher . The Poor Lawby T . W . Fowle . Huxley ' s Science and

    , Culture — , & c . Es , says ^ . — ^ — —~ — — — — - — , y -- — ^ m ~ — — — ^^ ¦

    Mr . John Murray . —Dean Stanley ' s Epistles to the Corinthians , new edition .

    Obituaey.

    OBITUAEY .

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    educated at the Free Grammar School in that city . In his sixteenth year he was articled , to liia Mr . term Kay , with an attorney MrJacob uivv of that Philli ^ city . of Losing the Inner his father Temple at nineteen His JJLXO first U 4 UV , he venture came V * . X to as London an author w ^ vaa to -w finish was

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    author « abandon uuum and aim tlie pvmiis vmbl stud isher y ner of . . the The Tlie law latter latter in . order vocation vocation to , devote , however howeve himself , rhe he ' to soon soon literature gav oave e up ud , , in . restricting restricti the joint . ng capacity himself mmseii to to of

    followe established what he d b thenceforward l his fame as regarded a writer as of his fiction profession , , and passed . , , Rookwood through / several which , editions appeared ; in this 1834 was ,

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    i duced appearance ^» on t ' lie of stage Mr always . . Ainsworth ' Guy been Fawkes extraordinaril ' s story , ' which in JJentley y appeared popular eig witli ht in different JJentley the multitude , dramatic and tho ; ' and versiou Tower soon - « of were London after pro the - / auued lmitorialiy 4 to tho writer ' s reputation . In 1841 ho published week by week , in the

    J T Jr ) u i Vi jT lle j ' established s > ° ld St . Paul the ' m s . agazine ' Having which at the bore close his of name 1841 and retire in d fro which m the appeared editorshi * p The of

    £ iwetB Daughter , ' 4 Windsor Castle' and 'St . James ' sor , the Court of Queen Anno ; ' the « iujrcontaining JJleJ 1 ril 3 tor a generous defence of , the character of Marlboroug , h . In 1845 Mr ho . Ainsworth

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    ann \ i \ * f f , ? y ; or c ) ln 1 > Iowed tIle 1865 Custom in collection 185 of Dumnow another of , his , ' -a < norel Ballads custom , The which Romantic owes , its Fantastical revival / ori , inall to , an Mr d . published Ainsworth Humorous in ' , s

    vim & ^ " mM *»¦ % ^« \ I V ' ' Miscellany JL ^ T . ^^ , which ^^ — ^^ — — G periodical A m ^ " ^ b ^^ y ^^ ^ " ^ ¦ ^ i ™ ^ had ^ »*^ ^^ become w ^ ^ " ^ ^^ ^^ ^ , ¦ * ^^ ^ Mr ^* - ^^ ^» . v S ^ Ainsworth ^ - ^ pendthrift * ^ — --- — - » - — - — ' s - — property « ^ - ^ i g ^ « y two ^ years ^ pre ^^ - U JUSlV , . l »» l i 857 QKrf he i . ^ ed and issued . -. in . monthl . 11 . i -m . m- Olithero r ^ ir ^ l i > ' _ semi «^^^ ; .

    autol ni ^ ca ' " ^ f i 1 CaI tale > the resum P ublic » tion oi which , in a serial y parts form , ' Mervyn had been accidentall ^ , y a inter- - tii fBreton * ' , Afte 5 another * Awmoi- interval interval , during auaing which wiucn he ne composed composea a a spirited spinteu poem puem on vu ** a famous x » iuw «

    IE iaterLr tunM *^ of tn « ® . ^ mmonwealth entitled * The , Combat called , * of Oving tho dean Thirty Grange / he / produce into several d in 1800 parts a romance of which of the are | L roven hus own personal exDerience as a resident in the South Down Country , Thia was

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 16, 1882, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16011882/page/7/