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    Dec. 3 i, 1886 The Publishers' Circular ...

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    additions and corrections , from the Field , by-Alfred Border Police J . Bethell . , of the j Bechuanaland Ever since the success which attended the publication of Max O'Rell ' s opinions of ' John j Bull and His Island / the British public have , I in a measure , appreciated foreign views of English life . The latest idea is to publish a French artist ' s first impressions of England . Mons . Villars , the author of ' L'Angleterre Pittoresque , ' and Mons . Myrbach , the versatile illustrator of * Tartarin sur les Alpes / are journeying round the Kentish coast , in London , Chester , York , Liverpool , Oxford , Brighton , and Wales , and taking- notes by brush and pencil . The result of their impressions will form a leading feature in the Art Journal for the coining year . In several newspapers a paragraph has been published stating that * the librarianship of Edinburgh University has just been filled up by the election of Dr . Webster , editor of the Encyclopaedia BritawnicaJ This statement is inaccurate . The gentleman who has been appointed by the Senators of the University is Mr . Hugh A . Webster , one of the editorial staff of the Encyclopedia Britannica . Professor " Baynes is the senior editor . Mr . Webster has contributed , among other articles , those under the heads of 'Antiquities , ' 'Epigrams , ' ' Fortunatus / ' Hamlet / and 'Mermaids . ' The geological , natural history , botanical , ethnographical , and statistical sections of Europe , the Indian Archipelago , Italy , Java , Morocco , and the Sahara , & c , are also from his pen . Other likely candidates for the position now conferred upon Mr . Webster were Mr . Macalister Leeds , Mr . G . P . McNeill , Advocate , and Mr . George Stronach , M . A ., of the Advocates' Library . The salary attached to the appointment is £ 400 per annum . The fine series of Photo Helief Maps prepared by Mr . H . F . Brion and the Rev . Edmund McClure , and published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , \ now includes several countries and continents . Issued at a reasonable price these maps are among the best of educational appliances . LippincoW s Magazine for January shows several now features , and the English edition favour may be . expected A comp to lete have story an , increase i Sin tire / of is public supplied from the graphic pen of Mr . Julian Hawthorne . The granting of a complete novel every month is in future to form one of the attractions of the magazine . Be 3 ides this novel the January number includes contributions by Walt Whitman , Austin Dobson , Miss Cleveland , and others . A new and thoroughly revised edition of Dod ' s ' Peerage , 13 aronetago , and Knightage- ' will be published early in January by Messrs . Whittaker & Co . new story Richard , by the Cable author , the of Li g Mehalah htship Man , ' beg / ins a in the new part of Chambers ' s Journal . Cassell ' s * National Library now boasts of fifty-two volumes , the last published containing

    the seasonable ' Christmas Carol and * The Chimes' of Dickens . We question if a better or a more representative collection of literary treasures of different ajjes and schools of English intellect has ever been brought together . What the publishers have accomplished may be gathered from the fact that this interesting and valuable group of fiftytwo of the best of our books may be had for thirteen shillings . Messrs . Henry Stevens & Sons will publish early in January the fourth part of ' The English and Scottish Popular Ballads , ' edited by Prof . F . J . Child , of Harvard University . A new series of the Reliquary commences on January 1 . The only subjects of any archaeological interest that will be wholly Reg excluded isters' from and its Churchwardens pages are papers ' A on ccounts ' Parish ' ; also articles concerning the genealogy and heraldry of families of little account in history . The editor is the Hev . J . Charles Cox , LL . X > ., while the publishers are Messrs . J 3 emrose & Sons . It will be gratifying to see this firmlyestablished quarterly gain a new vigour in general estimation . The Century for January contains a brief biography of George Bancroft , the distinguished historian . The article is written by Professor Sloane , editor of the Princeton Review , and formerly the historian ' s private secretary . The ' City Diary' for 1887 is now ready , and can be purchased at all booksellers ' , or at the City Press offices , 148 and 140 Aldersgate Street . It contains , amongst other matters of special interest to residents in the City , lists of the members of the Corporation , Court of Lieutenancy , Metropolitan Board of Works , Court of Aldermen , & c . The British Quarterly Review having been discontinued , the Congregationalist has been enlarged and altered in character so that , as far as possible , it may take the place of the former . Henceforth it will appear as the Congregational Review ( T . Fisher Unwin ) , the aims of which will be to promote the interests of both sections . It is now a monthly publication under the editorship of the liev . J . Guinness Rogers , B . A . The contents of the first part , which is already published , appear to claim the strong support of the sects for whom the magazine is intended . The Daily News has published the following note from Mr . R . Lovett , of the Religious Tract Society : — The Religious Tract Society has for many years provided good arid cheap . literature for the people , and the Religious Tract Society ' s Library is simply a continuation of this work . Over thirty years ago the society published a library of general literature extending to over one hundred volumes , each containing 192 pages , imperial 32 mo ., and sold at sixpence per volume . Of these more than 2 , 000 , 000 copies were sold . The Religious Tract Society ' s Library differs from all other competing series in including valuable copyright works like the Marquis of Lome ' s " Canadian Life and Scenery , Demaus' "Life of Latimer , " .

    Dec. 3 I, 1886 The Publishers' Circular ...

    Dec . i , 1886 The Publishers' Circular l 697

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1886, page 1697, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121886/page/9/