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    3 io The Publishers' Circular April l6 >...

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    Books Received :— Trom The Bazaar Office...

    volume closes with a brief record of her short illness in Paris and her funeral at Brompton

    Cemetery . The littLe book is written with admirable taste and delicacy of feeling . From the Religious Tract Society . — ' Saving

    Faith : What is it ? A Scriptural Enquiry and Third Appeal Edition . ' By . the This Rev little . Joseph work , which Tanner seems , B . A to .

    have aaquired considerable popularity in the of reli ' gious The S worl criptura d , is l divided Meaning under of Believing the two in heads the

    Lord Jesus' and ' The Scriptural Meaning of ^ intricat bein L m- ^* % ^^ b m g ^^» ' » . i » ^ Born 4 e ^^ question ^~^ 1 ^^^ ^ " ^ ^ again ^ ^^ ^^ *^ f ^^ of / ^^ fc theology ^ r Although ¦¦ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ jhk , y t » ¦¦¦ h ¦ dealing e — b " ook — — " - — is ' with — clear ¦— — — an l — ' y w

    written , and puts the author ' s view thoroughly before the reader . From Mr . Walter Smith . —* A Guide to the

    Churches of London and its Suburbs for 1881 ' ( fifteenth year ) . By Charles Mackeson . The fifteenth edition of _ ' Mackeson _ 's _ Guide _ /

    published _ — _ under —^ — the sanction of the Archbishop J ^ of Canterbury and the Bishops of London , Winchester _ _ — _ R — ochesterSt . Albansand Bedford

    supplies , informatio , n as to 88 , 7 churches in , London and within a radius of twelve miles , and , as it is a work of which the best idea may 4 /

    be given by summarising its contents , we give the following statistics compiled from it : —There is a daily celebration of the Holy Communion in

    43 churches , or one in every twenty ; weekly celebrations in 454 , more than one-half ; early celebration in 533 two-fifths ; choral celebration

    in 128 , one-seventh , ; and evening celebration in 267 256 , c nearl hurches y one more -third than . There one-fourth is daily service service on in , ;

    Saints' days in 433 , nearly one-half ; but 131 churches , nearly one-sixth , have no service on week days . The service is full choral in 303

    churches , more than one-third—and partly choral in 283 , nearly one-third ; the choir is surpliced in 397 , more than two-fifths ; there is a paid

    choir in 211 , nearly one-fourth ; a voluntary choir in 3 76 , three-sev enths ; and the Gregorian Tones are used in 124 , Qne seventh . There is

    weekly offertory from , the whole congiegation in 440 churches , one-half ; the seats are free and open in 317 ? more than ono-third . The surplice

    is worn in the pulpit in 581 , two-thirds ; the eucharistic vestments are adopted in 35 , one church in every twenty-five ; incense is used in

    C 11 ommunion ; the altar in can 54 d one les -s ixteenth lighted the at the eastward Holy position ¦ is taken , ¦ y the celebran ; t in 234 more

    ^ than ™ ^ — one- fourt - - — h ; and there - ^ p * - ^» — ^^ r- * are r ^— m ^^^^ - candles ^ w ^^ ^*^ m ^^^ m - ^^ ^^ on , y ^^ ^ ^ m the ^^ ^^ - ^ r altar in 53 churches in addition to those where th ¦ ey T are — lig W—^\ hted" ^ . Floral ^™ ^ *^ ~~^ ^^ " ¦ ¦ ¦ ^^ m decorations - ^^ - ^ - ^^ -m ^ - ^^ ^^ ^ bVff ^^^^ ~^^ ^ ^ r *^ ^ ore k ^^ rflb ^^ the ^^ ^ k # | ^ | ~~ rul ^^ ^ a ^ iVh e ~ 11 ~

    Festival in 219 church is kept es , one at -fou 156 rth more ; and than the Dedication one-sixth . One hundred and eleven , churches are- opened for

    private ted prayer and ; at at 91 53 the the Sunday dails services ervices are are shortened separa , in accordance with the y Act of

    Uniformity Amendment Act . From Mr . E . Stanford . —* Geographical Readers

    for Klementary Schools . ' By Charlotte M . Mason . Book I . for Standard II . Elementary Geography . A book of simple reading lessons in »*

    convoving — — g—•* b — i the chief ^^ — facts — — — ^ of — — ^^ geograp ^^ ^^^^ ^^ % hy ^^^ , ^^^ ^^^^ with * ^^* " . »* " ^ , y illustrations , questions , and poems suited to children in elementary schools . The subject is

    homel treated y with things much are used clearness to bring and h simp ome lic the ity , and ts

    I to the children s minds .

    From contains the same historical . —' Loftie * s Guide through notices London '

    principal an objects of interest summary which , may be of seen tli hotels noteis in a few theatres days , and d gives railwa lists stations stations of the princi pal

    notes which , , meacres are , , lik ana an ely to railway be useful y to a . si , ghtseer heRiHao besides One - - of the - - ad vantages of Mr . Loftie ' s work \ is that

    tj " " j * . *» . ij 3 IJjQt eas a carefu ily he l seen selection " by a has tourist been in the made space of " of what a week may

    thereby saving much trouble . At the same time books directions in are of g t ^ J iven farther to the in formation names of "fuller ^ * " »** v ^ . ^ hand AJLCLI | II ¦ -

    A , and case lans are iven . being desired . map pg From Mr . Elliot Stock . —' The Communicant : A

    M Sea Edited anual . It by is W a . D 0 common evotion . Purton , practice for Hector Hol of y on Kingston Communion the part -by of . . '

    compi ler 1 s of /* books T of /^ devot i on for f % the * use of communicants to go to a variety of ancient fo tod meditations

    in sources sources this case r r prayers prayers the editor , , riymns hymns lias , , a aT wh m . < ile meditations drawin , , but but an equal — - _ _ — — ly _ w - id - ~ e field - - fo ___ r h _ , is . _ se ___ lection ___ — v — s ^ . , g secured w ^^ ^^ ^ upon ^^ ^^ ^^

    original contributions by living writers . The authors whose aid he has obtained include the most prominent of the Evangelical clergythe

    Bishops JL of Liverpool and Sodor C _ J and Man C 3 / 7 , , the *'" Prebendary Dean of Chester Cadman , Canon Dr B . ernar Havel d , Canon Cook Clay Canon ton ,

    ElliottCanon Pow , 11 JonesCanon , Scott-Moncre , iffand Archdeacon Whatel , . The work is divided , into five sections : an y introductory

    chapter on the Institution of the Lord ' s Supper ; a series of meditations and prayers preparatory to the act of communion ; the text of the

    postcommunion office from the Prayer Book with b accompan y a selection ying prayers of eucharistic and meditations Irymns by followed Wesley ,

    used lations Bonar after , E from . H communicating . Biekerstetli the German , an ; and d thanksg one notes or ivi on two ng sacrifice s trans to bo

    -It will thus be seen that the ; plan of the work is , very complete , and although it is another

    contrithat butio bution it n to ho a a field fifil lies rJ ori alrpfl alread i . rW nal y well wol mat l ter occupied nr . o . urned well , . the the -known fact fact writers supp will give it g at once a claim y to attentivo

    consideration . From JL . A Vl ^* Messrs ^ u-V tJUX k >» . WaT V V % Af & d V-4 . & \ JV Lock JJ VJr \^ J- ^ , . % — ' Penny - » - ^ - /> - » *¦* J marvellous B •" ooks for

    the People—" Biographical Series . ' A penny The numbers ' s-worth even which in have this age reached of cheap rd us literature Cliatnani Chat givo ham bio . -

    Lord grap Lord p Chaucer -rjvnhipH hic JJeaconsneld TW s , ^ oiiKfi Von of of Nelson Nolson eld HumboWt . an and , . d L Lu in in uther , ther each ench Mr . , . case case L L Gladstone ^^ rd a a portrait portrait , and uof ,,

    of the t subject he work of is the goo , d sketch , and . it The will literary doubtless standard have ,

    as it deserves , a very wide sale . Ca Kohler talogue atur ( tend K received . F . S ) prachen Lei fro pzi m Messrs ( Slavonic Slavica . , AUK languages U . Liler ami

    literature ) . We YY W have UciV ( 3 also tll » L > l received eCUIVt'U . . : — tJUUf Journal tClU' < of - 'J " Banking — ¦ ' ¦

    ( ( Philadel Rhodes & phia Co ., New April York 1 . — )— Sword American and Special l n > vci ^ > and AlabasterPrinters Iicgisto ,

    ( Passmoro ) — April 6— Ch Cap rchman e Monthl ^ y Shilling Magazine Magazine ( Juta , ( lloui tap - -

    & Town Monthly ton ) ) — St . Packet Ja u mes ' s ( Magazin Walter 's e Smith ( Qrattan )— Paper & Co and . | lucrj

    Prin * Litera Public ting ry School News Trades Library Leypolcl Journal t Bulletin , New ( Tield York ' ( and St . ) Louis April - -

    Fraser's Magazine ( Longmans 6 c Oo v *_____ ^ - — jS

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 16, 1881, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16041881/page/10/