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    . 1 1 . Mr . Edward Arnold _ ' s Publishing _ Announcement . ' f —¦———¦—— < — v . I I Mr . EDWARQ A . ARNOLD will remove , on January U 1890 , from 67 and 59 Ludgate Hill , to more convenient and extensive premises at 18 Warwick Square , Paternoster Row , London , S . C ., itohere he proposes to carry on business as a Publisher , and as an Importer of American and Foreign Books . The European Agency of Messrs . Ginn & CO ., the well-known Educational Publishers of Boston , U . S . A ., and New York , will also be transferred to the above address , and Mr . Aenold will continue to act as their English Representative , and keep their books in stock . All other American and Foreign Books will be promptly procured to order . , , 1 . , _ . _^____ . : -1 ii i . 1

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    N . Messrs . SAMPSON LOW , MAFSTON & CO . Will be happy to forward their latest ' GLOBE' CATALOGUE To anyone who . will apply for the- same . , St . Punstan ' s House , Fetter Lane , E . C .

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    • Post 8 vo . strongly bound , price 7 s . pABEY'S ' GltADUS ad PARNASSUM , ' VJ with the English Meanings . Recently Revised , Corrected , and Augmented by a Member of the University of Cambridge . London i Published ( by the Stationers' Company , Stationers' Hall , Ludgate Hill . : i '; i _ - ——

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    THE GIFT-BOOK OF THE SEASON ' FOR BOYS . THE CONQUEST OF THE MOOi B ^ ANDRE LAURIE . Full of Illustrations , crown & vo . cfothy gilt edges , Ys « 6 d « The SATURDAY REVIEW ^ Dec . 7 ) says of the book : — ' Emphatically a book of marvels and a marvellous book is ' The Conquest of the Moon , " by Andr 6 Laurie , a book sufficient in itselE to make memorabje the season , a " white book" for wonder-loving readers , a story that rivals the most ingenious conceptions of Edgar Poe and M . Jules Verne . Those writers are , indeed , suggested by the central idea of the romance , tiae exploitation of the moon by a young astronomer and his friends ; but the scheme and its execution are entirely novel , the author ' s audacity and inventive power no whit inferior , and the persuasive reaKsm with which he invests his narrative is decidedly superior . The author reverses the old process , . He brings the moon to earth , while in Poe ' s humorous tale and M . Jules Verne ' s exciting story the adventurer voyages to the moon . The delightful notion of drawing the moon to earth by magnetic attraction is worked out with exceeding cleverness . The climax , descriptive of the actual impact of the satellite on the peak of Tehbali , is a masterpiece of grandiose phantasy . The transformation of the Soudanese mountain into a vast natural magnet , insulated by a mass of glass manufactured by solar heat condensers and furnaces , is most ingeniously conceived . Indeed , nothing could be better imagined than the entire scheme by which the magnetised mountain is torn away from the earth with the astronomer and his party and annexed to the moon . This tremendous cataclysm occurs while the mountain and observatory are besieged by the Mahdi's forces , and the earth is full of portents like the air . But the admirable quality of the story ' is its speciousness . Amazing things are done in the moon , and the effect is always to persuade , to fascinate , and to delight , never most for a fear moment . to arouse incredulity > . or that fatal ^ spirit - of too-curious inquiry which romancers do ^ _> . London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTOlfr , BEARLE Sc RIYINGTON , Limited , J St . Duiastan ^ s House , Fetter , Xame ., Fl ^ t Street ^ E . C .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 16, 1889, page 1847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16121889/page/45/