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    ¦¦¦¦'-¦ ,-J „ " 1512 The Publishers * Ci...

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    Some Of Our Readers May Be Surprised To ...

    The Christmas number of the American Bookseller has reached us . It is a qjiarto of some 150 pages , which contain a large selection of beautiful pictures frcm leading Transatlantic The work is creditabltui turnedout ouituiab hat it it without wuuout

    publications puuucauons . . me worK is altogether aiLOger-ner so so creariaDjy y neu , , , may ma / j , exaggeration , be called a handsome table book , except that it is not bound . Mr . Charles Higham , 27 a Farringdon Street , has issued the prospectus of 'Bibliotheca

    Nova * Ecclesiae / or ' A Bibliography of the Literature of Emanuel Swedenborg and of the New Church , ' by the Hev . J . R . Boyle . It contemplates ' a description of every book - »* -w ta hletor tract k which ¦ has ¦ been published <& to the mrm present ) day - » in con - nection - - with

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    , , eleg comp ant iler l ' s manufac private t collection ured . , and will , it is estimated , embrace 6 , 000 titles . The book will be

    The y veteran pantomime writer and dramatic criticMr . E . lu . Blanchard , is about to issue in — — six ^^^ ^ numbers ™ ^~ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ " ^^ ' ^& s , ^ H price v ^ b ^ ^^^* ^>^ b ^ BV ^^^ p a ^^ ' ^^ -shilling F ^^ P B ^ t fl ^ B ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ h ^^^ ^^^ f ^^^ h each ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ' ^ ^^ , ^ | ^ a ^^^^^ collection ^^^ * ¦* ^^^ ^^ K 4 ^ ^^^ f ^ k ^ ^^^ ¦ i ^ n ^^^ of » ! J m ^ f ^ . his ^> ^^ h ^ , ^^ P ^^^ fragmentary mr ^ ^^ bb ^ b' ^^ ^ V ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ 1 ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ p ^^^^^ ^^ W writings ^ ^^^ ^^ m ^^ ^^ B ^^ h . The series is to ^^ ^^

    be called Flights of Fancy : a Medley of Quips and Cranks . A fresli collection of sonnets will be published immediately by Messrs . Macniven & Wallace , of EdinburghIt is to be called ' CSonnets bC . Authors' and vill contain representative

    specimens of . all the more prominent . English y sonnet-writers , from Wyatt to Rossetti . The editor is Henry J . Nicoll .

    nu num mber Mr ber . or of Dutton the the theatrical theatrical Cook is about rp reviews . viftwa to he h « publish has has contributed f * . r , » nt under . riVmt . P' the fl to to title the t . hn nrp of . sa ' m in Nig the t , hts he course course at the ot of Play the the last last / a ntteen fifteen select

    years . The reviews will range from the first appearance in press London of Mrs . Scott Siddons in 1867 to the production of MrGRSims' first melodrama 'The Lihts o' London / in 1881 .

    Mr . E . B . Nicholsonthe . librarian . . of the Bodleianis about to g publish at Oxford a series of fasciculientitled 'New , Homeric Researches' containing , his investigations on - ** - the metrical

    peculiarities - ^ —— A ] ^— ' — — — — - **^ w v , « of ^^ . ^^^ ^ the ^ ^ r 4 ^ ^^ ^ Homeric ^^ «^^ ^ ^^ V ? ^ i ^^ v ^ poems U *^~ ^^^ ^^ ^» ^» ^^ and ^ K . ^^ ^^ V the ^ ^^ ^^ V ^ k ^ li ^^ g ^^ ^^ ht ** - * , K they ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^¦ throw VW ^ fe ^ * * ¦! J * ^ upon ^^ ^^ . ^ ^^ Homeric W ^*^ »*^ " ^ ^^^""^ ** " ^ ^^ questions ^^ ^—^ -- ^ and — — u pon — ____ the earlier stages of the Greek language . The first of these , which is j ust ready , will be ' On

    Supposed Messrs 5 . Metrical Griffith Mimicry < fc Farran in the have Homeri almost c Poems ready . ' a translation of Henrik Ibsen s ' Doll ' s House , under the title of 'Nora : a Norwegian Drama of Social Life . ' Miss Francis Lord

    has of forming A made monthl the a y medium translation journal , of entitled communication , which the will United be prefaced between Clerks clerks b Journal y a skeicli and , has their of been the emp established life loyers and , works and for of of the affording Ibsen purpose .

    useful information to clerks of every description . geline Messrs : the . Cassell Place , the Petter Story , Gal and pin , the & Poem Co . have / b in President press , for Noah immediat Porter e in publication folio . The , ' edition

    Evanis to be limited to , five hundre , d copies , and each y is to be numbered mid si , gned by the author ; impressions and there are on to India be nineteen illustrations from the , ori drawn inal b blocks y Frank and Dicksee the - rest Four are of reproductions these are proof in

    photogravure , by Goupil paper , of , Paris . g , Dr . Smiles has in the press a biography of the veteran engineeT and inventor Mr . James

    Nasmyth . A new feature will appear in the Illustrated London News with the beginning of the coming year . The number for January 6 will contain the first instalment of a new novel , entitled

    ' Yolande lolande Mr . John . / ' bv by Adding Mr Mr . . Willi William ton Symonds ± Ftfanlr 31 ack , , whose to tn hp be > full fnllv ' Studies y illustrated illnsfra of . ffif the . Greek Poets' are well known , is now writing a book of ' Studies of the Elizabethan Dramatists . ' Miss Rose j Kingsley JbftLKf a dau i hter MM «/ W of the VJkA late Charles Kingsley JL will contribute several ¦»— art » -- »— icles

    » -- » — *— -v _ -. — - ^ w ~ r •* ** 'rAA .. JA J , 5 ^ " ^ * u ^ % jm * ^ . « g ^_ .. JL V ^ A . ^ mS AVJW V V ^^ ' AAAWJL AVKI _* . -Jk . * - ¦*¦ -M . ^*< J ^* s W ¦ a , tf * f ^/ v- ' J » . A i / A ^ - ^ - ^ * . » - » ^ - * - * ^^ » ^^ - * ¦ **» — — — — to at Eversley Wide Awake . ' Another during the is one coming on the year ' Washingtons . An especiall in y Eng interesting land / one is entitled * Our Dogs

    in the A new January serial % number ^ ¦ story of b ^ y the Mrs >^ b ^ n * Temple . L mi- ynn Bar Linton *^^ > Magazine , entitled . . « ' lone - ^» Stewart y ^ . - _ . , ' will A ^ . a'tt be commenced

    It is now announced that Mr . W . D . Howells' new story is to appear under the title of * A Woman's Reason / instead of 'A Sea Change *—the name first chosen for it by the author . The xue story fitorv win will be be pu published blished , in in The The Century Centum M Maaazina agazine . becinniii beginning f ? pro nrobablv bably in in the the February JjeDruary

    issue . The January number of this magazine will contain , an article on 1 he late Dean Stanley , by Professor W . H . Myers ; and * Who are the Creoles ? ' by George ~ W . Cable ,

    author autlior Mr . of ot Edmun 'The Xne d Uranohssnnes Grandissimes W . Gosse has / ' & & printed . c e ., .. illustrated illufl privatel trated .. y ten copies of a memoir of Thomas Lodge , the Elizabethan ¦*—— — — - ¦¦ — — — poet » - >¦ -v - " » - w and - » y ^*» * - ^ . ^ . ^ romance -v ^ AAAWAA ^ rf ^^ writer W » JL JL % S \* J JL . . It » .. \ J will V f A . & , 4 . be 9 ^ \^ remembered JL , \/ A A M . ^^ A JL A KJ ^^ JL ^^ V ^ that \ S » ^^ V ^ Mr t » . » - * . . G ^ . V ^ osse \_^ ^ . ^ »^* V ^ ^ is r ^ r editing ¦—«¦ - — - — — ^ j

    Lodge ' s works for the Hunterian Society . Mr . Justin McCarthy will begin in the January issue of Bdgravia a serial story entitled 'The Maid of Athens /

    There e to the ¦ are * worl few * d ^ her - » more v ^ three industrious -volume ' Literary writers l / UKVl than His LOtUl tory Mrs of . Oli the phant Nineteenth llUjUVVUlU . But a Century short time ' She ago has she

    gav O «—••»» . - ^» . » . i- vii ^ vu V V 1 UIJUV JUlV XlV ^ JL U 1 XVJ JL ^ V / VHUUI J ^ . r ^«»<^ now writing but a just book linished on Venice a life on of a ' Sheridan plan similar ' for to the that Eng lish of 4 The ( Men Makers of Letters of Florence ' series , . and ' Messrs is now .

    Mac M m r illan . C . will A . publis Fyffe , h Fellow the volume of University on Venice . College , Oxford , has- undertaken to prepare for

    Messrs messrs . . Macmillan JMLacmUlan dc & Uo Co . . a a school school historv history of of Orp Greece *> ™ . Mr . James Payn , the popular novelist , has assumed the editorship of the Comiliill Magazine .

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    ¦¦¦¦ ' - ¦ ,-J „ " 1512 The Publishers * Circular Dec . 18 , 1882

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 18, 1882, page 1512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_18121882/page/4/