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    o home f lessons reading . For the little teaching volume purposes could hardl and y for be

    excelled . From Mr . Jolm Hey wood . —A second edition

    B of ' h English ier Moxon Practical has been Banking issued / . by The Thomas manual deserves its success , if only on account of its

    sensible arrangement and clearness of expression . From the same . —We have received the following

    ne Gardiner w parts ' s of E xp the Useful atory » f class Geograp «— ' books hy •/' : known Part II as .

    for Standard III . ( new edition—Mundella Code ) ; Part IV . for Standard V . ( revised edition—Mundella Code ); and Part VI . for Standard VII .

    From the same . —The fourteenth edition of 3 VTr . Alfonzo Gardiner ' s science manual on ' Sound ,

    been Light publis and Heat hed . / ' Part I . —Elementary Stage , has

    From the same . —The Manchester Quarterly-is in its \ tyay unique . There is not another , town in

    Eng and land keep , we up such nture an exce say llent , that periodi could cal prod . But uce then Lancashire has fong been famous for its

    be In bod the y claimed of present literary as ( the A men pr head i , ) and numbe -quarters Manchester r of of the the may mag cli az fa que i irl ne y , .

    we note the absence of some of the older names , Waiig such h as , an George d others MUner wh , J . re H closel . Nodal y i , dent Ed i wi fied n

    with the Manchester , Literary Club , under whose auspices the periodical is published , but our regret is the less when we find such interesting

    papers ia their stead as ' Thomas Rowlandson the and Ale his Works Tasters / / by by H Thomas . Thornber Newbi ; * The gging Last ; and of

    national ' Women as Copyri Sonneteers ght' is / by C . itle E . T yrer a t . houg * Inter htful - paper by E . Bruce Hindle . The entire number

    is one of much interest . From the same . —Always up to date in educational

    g h ma ^ m u — ¦ larl tt ers y m , usefu — Mr — " — — ' ^ . Heywood ~— l s — eries — ' —» of has ' Combined ^ H ^ - »*~ just ^—~ w ^~ ~^ r ^ ^»^ publi ^ rr- ^*^ Writing 1 shed r ^* m 0 * mf ^ ^ 4 k a and sin ^_^> ^ d % T - ^_

    Rudimentary Copy Books / as suggested by Sir Henry tions of Boscoe the , R for carry l Commiss ing out ion the recommenda Technical - oya

    Instruction . The books are no dearer than orgoo dinary d quali copy ty . -books , and contain paper of very

    From The Messrs jubilee . Sampson H forth er Ma Low jesty , ' 3 MTars happy deal ton of r , & Co . — ill

    doubtless brin ^ a good special an literature appropriate . ' The book Royal . The Jubilees title exp of lains England its pur * is

    of pose the . Mosaic The subj and ect- Roman matter is Jubilees prefaced and by sketches a narrative of the reign of Egbertfirst , Kiof

    England . , ng From the same . —Secret societies have much to do

    wi three th -volumo the plot novel of ' Pomegranate bthe author Seed of / « The the Two new Miss Flemings / Naturall y — — ythereforethe story

    abounds in ~ J somewhat ^^ melodramatic , — — ^ — ^^ — ¦ ^^ ^^ , V ^^ ** rf ^ ^¦ h e ffe ^~ ^^ c ts d ^ » . Michael one Constantine Barrington JBlako , an Irishman , a fellow , has -countryman in his power .

    that This he he has has been accomp guilty lished of a by murder persuading which Con 5 n reality ^ m ho himsel » ¦— - f committed — — —w —r — - ¦ - * , s and ^ a ^^ m ^""^^ ^^^^ Con - ^^ ^ m * ^^^^ ^ flies m ^ m J * ^^^ " ^^ the ^ H tm 4 ^ ^ ^

    country . Afterwards Barrington marries the name Countess is varyi Helen ngl Staroska y spelt , throug or Starosk hout tho i—for narra tho

    tive—whom he meets abroad . She is a warm , rJfijrs .. « - ¦» ., - . .-- - - . - . — - -

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    the passionate oppressed -hearted ' and Pole an . , devoted active partici to ' the pant cause in of a

    secret society , for the regeneration of mankind . Her husband also , as a member of an Irish ffiliation of the is admitted

    asame society , to the ' . them body , . and His rewards treachery the bein agitators g discovered by betray by his

    w of ife th , they ir onl quarrel child , but a irl she of agrees whom , for she the is sake sionately fond y not , to separate g , from him , though pas- I

    % J , L ' —^ 3 ^^ t practical hey return ly the to y are Irelan to live d , w apart here . Barrington Subsequentl has y been left a small property . Here as a member

    forces of v the _ —_ Con _ secret — —mysteriousl - — soc _ _ iety _ — — — - he y known further as consp M . le ires Numero , and .

    his Quinze treasonable —by the power practices he . has His over idea him also , to a is id in to wreak vengeance on his wife by causing Con

    now a very desperate and dissipated character , to , marry Helen be the i daug conv hter enientl Desire called ' e . Thi aw s , the to C Paris ountess to ng y ay

    al to ist further Society the , is plan accord s of ing the ly all done -powerful , and Desiree Nation - dragged — — to - t- — he altar - — a most -unwilling sacrifice .

    But thoug Cj h married , to Con , her innate ^ j goodness in protects deed he her is from exceeding any l outrage y attached at his to her hands . Ulti , for

    ma B Con ar t el i is ngton y supposed the meets real to truth wi have th about just committed retribu tho murder ti comes on at which out the ,

    hands of an Italian avenger , and Con becomes a reforme affected d by charac the newl ter y acquire while d intelli Desiree gence , strong of the ly

    l injury ove with her fat her her husband worked and him , a l ct ends ually h falls in i The —_ ^ v best - - _ - - ™ - -- ¦ - ch r apters r _¦* — » - — of - ^ ' Pomegranate -t , - J , — Seed J / we app are y , I

    inclined subsidiary to p think lot , , giving are those an account which deal of Lesbia with a Blake , Con ' s sister , and her wooing by Phil

    Dampier . The story throughout , however , is u readable one . Prom Messrs . Macmillan & Co . —It is

    extraor with dinary an h i mmovable text books science mul such tiply as in ari connect thmetic ion . Many woris on figures have an assured

    popular interest ity ; but to teachers the C 7 invari nce ably of look forw class ard book w ith which p romises to appeara g o ive i— ts lessons — any in a more

    acqua simple inted and telling with . mode Althoug than h novel they were ty in formerl method y and arrangement is not claimed for the new

    work Lock , M * Arithmetic . A . the book for has School undoub s , ' by tedl the the Hev recom . J . B - . mendation , ___ , of _ simp — j £ licit _ y ^ of _ — cons __ — t -. ruction _ _ _ y — fwhich

    __ .. , generally means that confusing rules give place experience to an abundant - - as - assistant supp — — ly of - tutor examp and les . lecturer — Mr . Lock of ' s

    master Gonville , is and a good Caius guarantee College and for the as an practical Eton value of the book , which has been very carefully

    printed at the Cambridge University Press . From Messrs . J . & R . Maxwell . —*

    Under-Currents shilling , ' b form y Arthur now Goddard so popular , is amongst a story , readers in tho of fiction , of a fair heroine who , when a child ,

    was stolen from her father by the agency of a b revengefu y him , l and woman who who amongst fancied other herself attributes wronged

    victi practices m into the mesmeri art of clairvoyance c trances . , and Of course throws the her heroine falls in loveand llof course matters

    , equay having all come so ri me ght little with time the clos previousl ing chapter y been , wherei restored n , to her fatherthe heroine is f * ivon to the man of

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    3 86 The Publishers' Circular At > rii 16 , 1886

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 16, 1886, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16041886/page/12/