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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 31st December 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1694

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      Our Obituary For The Past Year Has Conta...

      Lippincott , Philadelphia publisher ; Mr . Sampson Low , publisher ; Mr . John Miles , publisher ; Leopold . von Ranke , the German historian ; Professor W . Schefer , of Berlin ; Herr von ScheifFel , German poet ; Professor Scherr , Swiss historian and critic ; Mr . R . B . Seeley , publisher ; Rev . C . Stanford , D . D ., Baptist minister ; Sir Henry Taylor , author of ' Philip van Artevelde '; Hon . Lionel Tennyson ; Dr . Thompson , Master of Trinity ( Cambridge ) ; Dr . Trench , late Archbishop of Diiblin ; Principal Tulloch , St . Andrews University ; George Waitz , German historian ; Sir G . U . Yule , Indian civil servant .

      Booksellers' Puovident Institurioy.— The...

      Booksellers' Puovident iNSTiTurioy . — The usual monthly meeting of this institution was held on Thursday , the 16 th inst ., at 56 Old Bailey , E . C ., wher * there were present thirteen directors , Charles James Longman , Esq ., in the chair . The sum of £ 130 . 8 s . 4 cL was granted in relief to seventy members and widows of members , and , in accordance with the usual custom at this season of the year , an additional grant was made to the temporary recipients , which was increased by further Christmas gifts generously given by Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . and John Van Voorst , Esq . International Shorthand Congress . — We have much pleasure in inserting the following communication : — 'The shorthand men , who have so much to do with other people's public gatherings , are about to hold a Congress of their own , and it promises to be a large and important one . Next year is to be their anmis mirabilis , commemorating as it will two interesting events in the history of their art , viz .: — the introduction of Mr . Pitman ' s popular and system the of p g honograp ination of hy modern just fifty shorthand years ago by , Dr . Timothy Bright three hundred years ago . This double celebration , Jubilee and Tercentenary , will call together large numbers of the shorthand fraternity throughout the world . There is to be a Congress in London lasting several days , when discussions will take place practical in reference app to lication the history of the , development art ; and there , and and will be other an obj exhibition ects of interest of books not , manuscri onlto p the ts , reporting craft but to a much wider circle y . A b fund e a cons is being idera collected ble one , to which meet , it the is hoped , will of the Congress , to promote , the interests expenses of shorthand generally , and to provido an enduring memorial inventor of of phonograp the services hy , of who Mr still . Pitman lives , , the green old age , to witness the success of his efforts in placing the stenographic art on a list scientific of which basis is . before The us Congress includes Committee not onlthe , a names of many of tho well , -known shorthan y d practitioners ( Mr . T . A . Reed being the chairin portant man science ) , but rdle , the literatu played names re by of , shorthan and men politics of g d r in ea . t the em The history inence

      imof civilised countries will give the Congress an interest beyond that usually attaching to a merely professional gathering . ' 1 The Publishers' Trade List Annual . '— - This American repository of titles , sizes , and prices is now in its fourteenth year , and certainl Publishers y ' the Weekl proprietor y ( New and York editor ) are of to The be congratulated on the substantial appearance of the record . The volume contains , in addition to the latest catalogues of publishers and manufacturers , The Publishers' Weekly , list of works issued from J uly 1885 to June 1886 . The cataloguing appears to have been done carefully , and , so far as our examination has gone i Dup , lex with Index accuracy , ' as before . Den , enhances ison's ingenious the value . of the book for easy reference . A Letter by Edgar A . Poe . — -The New-York Times lately printed the following hopeless letter from the pen of this illustrious but unfortunate poet .. , The letter is dated * Philadelphia , July 19 , 1838 , ' and was brought to light at Topsham , Me . It was found in a . collection of autographs contained in an old iron safe : ' Could I obtain the most unimportant clerkship in your gift—by land or sea . —to relieve me from the miserable life of literary drudgery to which I now , with a breaking heart , submit , and for -which neither my temper nor my abilities have fitted me , I would never again repine at any dispensation of God . I feel that I could then ( having something beyond mere literature as a profession ) quickly elevate myself to the station which is my due . It is neediess to say how fervent , how unbounded would be my gratitude to the one who would rescue me from ruin and put me in possession of happiness . I leave my fate in your hands . Most resp . and gratefully , Edgar A . Poe / Appleton's ' Cyclopaedia of American Biography . '—Following the enterprising example of Messrs . Smith , Elder & Co . in this country , Messrs . Appleton are about to produce a * Cyclopaedia of American Biography . ' The Critic says : * One of the important undertakings to which D . Applefcon & Co . have lent their name is a ' Cyclopaedia of American Biography , ' of which General James Grant Wilson and John Fiske are the editors . The first volume , A to C , will be issued early this month , and sold by subscription only . Other volumes will appear at intervals of six months ; possibly oftener . This cyclopaedia will include the names of above 15 , 000 native and adopted citizens ersons of since tho United the earliest States settlement , including of living the j p countr , also the names of several thousand ; eminen y t persons of Canada , Mexico , Brazil , ; Chili , Peru , and all the other countries of North and South America . The great aim has been to include all noteworthy persons of the New World , and to give biographies which shall embody with sufficient fulness the latest result of historical research . It will include biographies of all the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States , as well as the many candidates for those offices ; of © very

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1886, page 1694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121886/page/6/