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    i8i8 The Publishers' Circular Dec. 16,18...

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    From M. Fe"Lix Alcan, Paris.—* L'Art Au ...

    render the work comprehensive , and to keep it in every sense of the term abreast of the times .

    From Mr . John Hey wood . — ' Sound , Light , and Heat' ( Part I ., Elementary Stage ) , by Alfonzo Gardiner 16 th editionrevised . The author

    , , moderately designates this little volume ' a note book , ' but he may rest assured that his work will prove of invaluable service to science

    students . The first edition appeared in 1871 ; and in the present edition all the questions set I by the Science and Art Department are

    ineluded , and more or less fully answered . 1 The object of the author is to substitute for * cramming ' a thorough elementary knowledge .

    From Mr . A . M . Holden , St . Andrews . — « The Spelling List . ' With an introduction by Professor MeiklejohnM . A . This remarkable List '

    contains all the , errors in spelling that have been made in examination papers of all kinds ^ for the last quarter of a century . According to

    Professor Meiklejohn , fifty-two per cent , of the candidates in the Civil Service examinations are rejected in the * preliminary' because of

    mistakes of this kind . Professor Skeat says that there is only one rule—a rule which is often - - carefull ~ y but f foolishl «»* concealed from

    — — — —— — ^ w »^ - — - — - ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^*¦ —*^ ^^ ^^ y w ^^ ^^^ ^^^ Th « - ^ w * ^ fe ^ *^ ^ p » ^ b ^^ ^ fc ^^ rf ^ learners—namely , to gp entirely by the look of a word , and to spell it as we have seen it spelt in books . ' This liftle book is an endeavour to

    train the eye , and by the use of different kinds of type to indicate what maybe termed the rocks ahead in the student ' s course .

    From Mr . M . L . Hutchinson , Melbourne . — < Fifty Years of Presbyterianism in Victoria : This a Jubilee is an Sketch excellent , ' by historical A . J . Camp account bell * of D . D a .

    most interesting and important chapter in colonial church history . It describes in detail the rise of Presbyterianism in New South

    Wales , the way in which the churches multiplied , the extension schemes , the negotiations for union of the churches , the growth of schools ,

    colleges , and all the kindred institutions identified with religious work . Chapters are also devoted and to church to financial buildings and evangelistic . The book schemes is illus- ,

    trated of this . subject Those will who find wish this to work gain very a knowled useful ge . From Messrs . Jarrold & Sons . —* The Illustrated

    This Guide useful to Cambridge little handbook and Nei contains ghbourhood a full . ' description of the townits colleges and other

    public buildings , a street , map , ground plan of museums , and much matter of interest to visitors .

    From Messrs . F . J " . Lambert & Co . —' The Forged Letters , ' by Philip May and Charles Lewins . A novel of a sensational character ,

    evidently suggested by some of the leading phases in the Parnell Commission . Certain ¦ political — ^ and ^ legal ^^ ^^ % ¦ ^ " ** celebrities ^*^ ^* r ^ mt ^ g ^ - i ^ t ^ ^ a « ^ b ^ h ^ m , ^^^^ i ^ r play T *^ *^ Tl ^ f W important rf » 1 m » fi ^ . , ^* ^ L » ^^ ^ ilf ^ L ^ B ^^

    parts in it , whilst murder , mystery , and lovemaking furnish the groundwork of the plot . From Impressions MM . H . de Lecene Th 6 & tre 8 c ' EC . Oudin Jules , Lemaitre Paris . — .

    Quatri ^ me Serie . Everybod , par y knows who was the first critic , and critics do not always , even in thetse latter days when it is the fashion to

    make things pleasant all round , designate a spade by some more elegant appellation . But if « ~ — ever — i there - — - »— —~ was - — - — a » charitabl ~^ r — ¦ w-t ~^ v ^ - ~ ~^ ^ »^^^ ^^ e ' ^^ criti ^^» ™» ^^ ^^ ^^ c ' ^^ , w certainl ^ fe ^ ^^^^ . » ^^ ^ a ^^ r ^^ ^ i ^^ .. ¦ ^ y

    the author of these theatrical impressions is such a -one , although he never forgets his avocation nor fails to call attention to defects , yet

    • ¦ ^ ¦ ^ ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ ^ • ^ ^ ¦ ^ ¦ ^ MaMBHHB ^ BaMa ^ BMaMMi ^ Ma ^ M ^ H ^^ Baai ^ i ^ aiMMiH ^^^^^^^^ always withput a desire to discover faults where they exist only in the too vivid

    imagination of the critic . He is , what he with justice r claims to be considered , sincere . This fourth series of the author ' s collected theatrical

    critiques contains eighteen articles . Although the ~ - easiest reading iniaginable , they display a vast range of study and observation skilfull

    made , use of in the discussion of the various y subjects dealt with by an acute and subtle intellect . The first article ' on the ' Orestes ' of

    JEschylus shows a remarkable acquaintance with ancient and modern theatrical literature . The comparisons drawn between some of the

    principal plays of uEschylus , Shakspeare , Bacine , Voltaire , Goethe , and more recent playwrights is of great interest . The article on Moliere

    throws quite a new light on the purpose of that powerful dramatist in writing Le Tartufe . ' M . Lemaitre proves that Moliere ' s object was

    not so much to expose and gibbet hypocrisy , but was rather a veiled attack on religion itself . Nothing can be fairer than the

    appreciation of the late Emile Augier ' s masterly play of ' Maltre Gu 6 rin , ' and the reasons given , for the diversity of opinion on the verisimilitude

    of dramatic conceptions of characters are very true and apposite . Not the least amusing paper is that on the Marionette Theatre .

    From M . Calmann LeVy , Paris . — ' Artistes Litteraires , ' par Maurice Spronck . This is a series

    of studies from the literary life of the nineteenth century . The examples which illustrate it B ^ V ^^^ ^ are ^^^^ ^^ b ^•^ r Theophile ^^ m ^& ^^ ' ^^•^ ^&^ r ^^^ r H ^ ^^ fr ^^ V ^^~ ^^^ ^^ Gautier ^^^ r ^ ^^^^^ ~^ m ^^ " ^ m" ^^ h ^^ r ^^ . * Baudelaire ^^^^^ ^ . ^^ V ^^ . ^^ ^^^ p ^^ ^^^ ^^~ ^~ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ¦ ^ , p ^ Edmond ^^^^^^¦ ^ ^^^¦ ^^ i ^ ^ - ^— — ^ - ^ —

    and Jules de Goncourt , Leconte de Lisle , Gustave Flaubert and Theodore de Banville . To these special papers are added an essay on

    ^^^ rr ^^^ ~*~ ^ ~^^ f ~ —^^ - ^^ ^ - ^^ ¦ m ^^ r ^^^ ^^^~^^^ r ^^^ v ^^ r ^^ ^^ w ^^ —^^ r ™^^ ^^^^ ^^ " ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ " ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ " ^^^ ^ m ^^— - ^^ ~^* - — ' ^^ ™ ~^ w — literary art in general , and another on various schools and ' personalities . ' An idea of the interest of the volume may be gathered from

    a few words which we translate : —• In both of them' ( Baudelaire and Gautier ) ' as in the other writers whom we consider in the course of this

    book , what strikes us at first" sight and continually reappears is their hatred and contempt of the world about themmanifesting itself in

    , different ways ^ by curious eccentricities ; a repulsion from which the brothers De Goncourt , despite their enthusiastic nature , were not

    exempt . ' In one of the essays the question is discussed , whether cultivation of style induces ideasor whether the possession of ideas

    endows , a writer with the language that befits them . In the case of the brothers De Goncourt it is found that the development of artistic

    sensibility caused a fatal loss of power . From —— — — ' ¦ --- Messrs ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ — ¦» - ¦ ^ — . ¦ Sampson ¦ -w « ^— jf * r s ^ v - *^ * t ~ m Low mmmm ^^ w w , m Marston « flMb ^ mr . ^ w < + m * ¦*¦*¦ am ^ t & ^>^«» Co - ^^^ ^^ m . —

    * English Idyls , ' by ; P . H . Emerson . These idyls , or * Little Pictures , " consist of brief sketches of humblo lifewritten with true artistic and

    poetic feeling , . The author blends a keen observation of nature with a clever delineation of the humorous - - ~~ i -r ~— ¦ ¦ and grotesque h phases in the lives ¦

    — ^ — — ^^ ^— — ^^ v ^^ * W ^ iP'M ^^ p ^^^ p ^ ^ v ^ v ^^ v ^^^ ~^^^ ^ * m ^ . m ^^^ r . ^ W . ^^ r ^^^^ . W ^^ P ^^^ P w ^ 9 ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ m ^ V . ^ . ^^^ ^^ . V V ^ f ^ V ^^ of simple peasantry and fisher folk . Cultivated readers will find the book a charming companion for quiet hours .

    From the- same . —* Bishop Fraser ' s Lancashire Life t , ' by ~ ^ John ^^ ^^ ~«— — ^ W - ¦ m . Di *^ - ate ggl Mk ** e ^"' V , M J *^»»*> . . 0 A * . J » . Admirable # U ! aV « - T ^ «¦ ^ «<^ f ^^ Jh ^^ » as ^ # ^^

    was Mr . , Hug those hes who ' brief knew memoir best the of Bishop character Fraser and modern scope of times the most felt most remarkable strongly episcopat that the e half of

    had not been told Concerning a prelate who won for himself a place in the hearfcs of both

    I8i8 The Publishers' Circular Dec. 16,18...

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 16, 1889, page 1818, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16121889/page/16/