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    754 The Publishers' Circular June 16,189...

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    A HINT TO BYRON COLLECTORS. To the Edito...

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    Richmond Free Library.—The Free ¦ Librar...

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    entire diocese of London that the church should be left in its present state . Fiction for the People . —It must not be

    thought that it is either necessary or wise to * Write down' to the supposed level of the

    people who are the chief patrons of newspaper serial fictionor that even though battle

    murder , and sudden , death may be the staple , material used , and the villains , like Moses on

    Horeb , break all the commandments at once , vulgarity , either of sentiment or diction , is a necessary passport to sympathy and success .

    The masses are very much of the spirit indicated by Guinevere ' s wild words : ' We needs must love the hi —¦ ¦ g hb hest when we see it ; ' by

    — — _ - —— — ^^— ^^ - - — — — —— - - — - j m which I would imply , not that newspaper ^^ ¦ ¦ ficti ¦ " *^^ - *™ - **~ o ™ n —^*^^^ i i s th ^^ - m ^ ^^» e *^^ p- ^ hi ^ m ^^ —»¦ g m ^ j ^^ h ^ v ^^ m est ^ h ^ r ^ m ^ ^ f form s ^ ^^^ ^^ 0 ^» ^^ r- ^^ m of - ^^ r ^^» the ^^ ^^ ^^ - ^^ r romancer ^^ b ^^* ^ " ^^ ' ^^ ^^^ P ^^* ^^ v ^^ " ^ ^ t ^ ^^ " '^ s ~^^

    vul art , but that the of refined good work of the wholesome bad , oi and the

    of the the immoral dramatic , of t and he thoug the — , drivelling — htfu __ l and — , the the - — shallow peop j _ j-le ,

    may be trusted to recognise and reward the better kind . Good taste , like good manners ,

    comes from the heart , and , as the heart of the people is sound , so may their taste be relied upon not to lead them astray in their selection

    of sound and nourishing mental pabulum . And it is above all else the duty of a writer of popular fiction to do all that in him lies to

    f oster sweetness and develop and lig this ht' taste among , to the help masses to spread ; to paint the purity and beauty and strength of

    humanity , and not to gloat over its depravity and degradation ; to bring hope , and not

    despair , into the Iive 3 of his readers , the more so that their circumstances , in too many cases , compel them to seek these things

    outside their own experience . Hence the privilege and the responsibility of writing fiction for the peop M . m . le , and the more fully Jthe one is valued

    and the other recognised the greater will be a writer ' s popularity and success . — Arthur Gopdard in June number of LippincotV s

    Magazine . A New Copyright Bill . —The Critic is

    responsible for the statement that the following resolution is about to be introduced into the House of Representatives M : . .

    Whereas , it has been decided by the vote on the Copyright Bill that it is just , expedient , f and necessary that the peop ft . JL , le of the

    United States should have cheap foreign literature without regard to the alleged rights of the foreign or the American author ;

    and , Whereas , under the present system , foreign text-books may be acquired more

    cheaply than American ; therefore Resolved , that the House of Represen-I tatives hereby recommends to the

    Legislain tures lac the e of public t those | ie different schools bAmerican of State forei s gn the au t thors ext substitution -books to the in py ,

    a end just that disregard American for children property may in general early acquire , and a sturdy disrespect for American institutions .

    The New Review of Theology and Philosophy the theology . —All or who philosop have hy occasion of German to study

    fj mf J ,, JL •* ^^ yI , value Switzerlan of such d , France , as and Harnack Holland and , know Schiirer the ' organs s

    Theologische Literatur-Zeitung . Hitherto we in this country , have had nothing exactly cor- ,

    C responding lark , j of Edinburg to t ha * t journ h , now al , announce but Messrs KJ tha . T . t & they T . I

    have arranged to supply a want which has been commence long and widel the y publication felt . Next autumn of a Critical they Review hope to

    - ^ — - — - — i — ^^ — — ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ™ of Current Theological and Philosophical Lite- i rature , J and they fc J hav ~ e much p leasure ¦ in ^ intima ^ ¦¦ — ^ ^ W V - !

    ting that the magazine will be in the hands of an experienced editor , whose name will

    command confidence—the Rev . Professor S . D . F . Salmond , D . D . The new journal will appear quarterlyand will embrace not only

    theological literature , , but philosophical writings and others of more general interestso far as they

    are related to religious and , theological questions . It will give a chronicle of the

    publications which are issued in these departments from quarter to quarter . It will notice the more important articles which appear in ;

    other magazines and journals , both home and foreign . It will devote special attention to the furnishing of prompt and reliable reviews of

    the more notable books of the quarter . These will be signed reviews . They will be prep ared by •/ scholars ____ of __ recognised — _ ^^ - ability % j ,

    representing different lines of study and different branches of the Evangelical Church . No effort will be spared to make these reviews at

    once interesting , informing , and critical . It is believed that there is a place for a journal of this kind and the hope is cherished that it

    may readers be . found Further , helpful intimation x to a arge of ¦ ; circle editorial of arrangements , staff of contributors , and other

    matters will be made in due course . — » o ¦ -

    754 The Publishers' Circular June 16,189...

    754 The Publishers' Circular June 16 , 1890

    A Hint To Byron Collectors. To The Edito...

    A HINT TO BYRON COLLECTORS . To the Editor of the Publishers' Circular .

    Dear Sir , —I have read with much interest in the current issue of the Publishers ' Circular your article on the early editions of

    Byron ' s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers . After doing so I referred ( somewhat anxiously ,

    let it be confessed ) to my copy of the fourth edition to find if it had a good claim to be considered a genuine 'fourth . ' It is bound in grey

    boards , lettered on the back ' English Bards , 4 th Edition (>« . ' and is printed on very thick

    the watermark , , of which is J . Whatman paper 1805 / , As this differs — from _ any of the cop ^ ies , ^

    instanced by you , I have thought the information 4 might bo of interest as an additional

    Hint to Byron Collectors . ' Yours faithfully , Walter Jerrold . Tooting , S . W .

    June 0 , 1890 . Sir -Re ---ferring --- - ~ to the ' Hint to Byron

    , c ? " Collectors' in the last Publishers' Circular , , I find I have a copy of the third edition ,

    Cawthorn 1810 , in which the watermarks vary . natre On the 5 it fly ia le E af . & it P is .. 1809 1805 , : with across no Dacres name 17 ; -31 on mi

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 16, 1890, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16061890/page/16/