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    of print , the authors of this quaint volume pages have confined their attention to the arrangement of a group of grap ¦ ¦ hic 1 ¦ literary ictures t fc of laces pr and

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    bitious celebrations book . issued in connection with the year ' s From ' Fun * Office , 153 Fleet Street . —In ' Jack of Hearts' Mr !¦¦ . H . T . Jofmso « has written an

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    journey across the prairie and over the Black Hills of Dakota . The wild life of the Far West I is happily being modified , but there nmst ever be PPPPPa * B PI P * ^ - ^ ^ m ^ ^> ^ ^ b

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    p leasure — ^— ^ p- ™^ ^^ b - ^^^ y ^™ all — ¦¦ r ^ ¦ , V who ^»^ ip > ^ p deli ^ ^^^ ^ p' i" ght ipi ppj ^ pps n * in 1 ^ p ^ accounts ^ p ^ PA . pp 1 ^^ p « w v ^^^ pippii of travels - ^ p * pp ¦ ' - ^^ p ^^ S ¦ and adventures , in which information of solid worth . is interspersed .

    From Mr . H . K . Lewis . — ' Illustrated Lectures on Ambulance Work , ' by R . Lawton Koberts , M . D .

    Second edition . We are glad to see that this li thoroug ttle volume hl ¦ ¦ y deserves has ( met . with The ' the Lectures success ' are that clearl it so y

    arranged written ^^ ~ ^*~ ^^^^^ P ^ PPt , . admi J ^ " ^ In ^^ ^^ rabl ^— ™ ~— the ^— - y ™ * - ^ m- practical ^ r present ¦ " ¦¦! ^^ - ^^^^ ^^^ , r ^^^^^^^ r- and edition ^^ r- ^^^ ^^ v ^ ^ p- ^^^ H ^^ r extremel ^^ P r ^^ F" much ^^^ f ^^^ V ^^ ¦ y fresh ^—^ w ^ — ell matter has been introduced , with the addition of

    several new diagrams . For the use of those desiring to study an interesting and most important -- _ branch .. _ of medical education ¦ ¦— we know

    ^ PJ no book — that ^ fr is more efficientl _ _ , m - w ~ y adapted - ™ - ~_~ , - - . — From Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . — 'The Hussian

    Di Church ssent , and and Russian Erratic Dissent Sects , , comprising ' by Albert Orthodoxy 3 ? . Heard , . * This is a scholarly work and a most interesting

    subject . No one can understand anything about Russian life without being able to estimate the influence--which is exercised on that life by the

    Church . The author here gives us a * consecutive account of the . Orthodox Church of Russia , commencing with its Origin a , nd hist ' oiry , then investiits conditiand that of its

    gating present on clergy , tracing the causes and consequences of the schism which arose in * the seventeenth centuryand still

    continues , and finally examining the innumerable , sects springing from the schismatic movement , or from vi the inherent 1 devotional character i - of the - M p . ^ pr . ^ ^ v ^ ip' P ^ ^ b ^ b ^ b »^ w ^^ - ^ mm - ^^ ^^^^ m ^» r ^^ m ^ i ^ w ^^ P" ^ r ^*» ^ ipr ^^^^ ¦* w ^^^ ^^"" ^^ - ^^ ^^ p ^^^ ¦ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^— " — ^^ — —

    peop work le . is ' the A speci eighth all , y which interesting discusses chapter the Clergy in the , Black and WhiteMonasticism and Monasteries

    Parish Priests . , The progress of scepticism , ( traced from the time of Peter the Great ) is also refe ^^^ ^^^ ^ pi ^ ^ pp * ^ rred w ^*^> ^ ppr ^^ r ^^ to ^^ v ^^ i ; ^ p but w ^^ r ^^^^ v ^ the ^^ r ^ " ^^^ ^^^ autho ^ m ^^ r ^ p * w ^^ v ^* w ^>^ ^ ppF ^ r vqv holds ^>^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ hv ^ t r ^ v , v and ^^^^ - ^ r ^^^ ^^^^ as ^ v ^^ v ^^ v it w— —^^ seems ~^ w ^^^ ™ i ¦ ~ ^^ r

    population to us rightl are y , that untouched as yet . the In great the preparation mass of the of his . v _~ work - .. _^ _ ~ - — the r , author - ~ ~ - — - — has consu - ™ - lted — English " ^ J ~ ,

    American , French and German , as well as Russian authorities . From the same . — ' Keraban the Inflexible' by Jules

    Verne . The imposing portly personage , whose name and distinguishing 'trait furnish a title for these two volumes certainly deserves his character .

    He is obstinacy itself . Because the authorities at Constantinople choose to" impose a tax of ten paras bb ( equal to about a halfpenny ) on everyone

    crossing pv —^^^ r ^^^ p »^» w ^^ pb ~ mr ~ ^ pj the ~~ ~— ™ ¦ ¦ ¦ Bosp — ^ - ^ ™ horus — — — — ~~ to Scutari pi — - ^ ^ m , or returning ~^ w — - ¦ - —~ - — from there to Constantinople , he determines to travel all the way round the Black Sea , rather

    dinner travel than pay s by the the this entire ini extremel quitous distance y $ ee circuitous . by So road he , goes for route he home , will and not for he

    take a steamer or sailing vessel from any of the numerous subject to sea ports -sickness i i on nr b w ^ -- the and —^ - Black for Sea all tt railway , because .- - - — -w s he -- — he p- — has h is i

    the f ^^ m " ^ r ¦ ^ M | r ^ most ^ p ^^ ^^^ ^ p' ^ p ^ ^^^ thorough " ^^ ^^^ * . ^^» * ^ " ™ ^^ — and ¦ y - ~¦ -r - ^ r , ^ p profound — — ¦ ¦* ^ — ¦ ' - * ^ detestation ^^ g v — . ! All - — - - ^ w ^^~ - > a the certain same time he is in compelled order that to he dothe distanc be e within t at may presen

    the marriage of his n , ephew with the beautiful

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 16, 1887, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16051887/page/17/