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    Frjm the same . —' Otho ; or , Clasped by a Pearl and a Topaz / by Mrs . Janetta Letitia Brown .

    ! that From should time to never time have the critic been comes written across , or rather books should never have been published . ' Otho ' is

    one of them . It has little merit of any sort , and ought not to have been imposed on a muchsuffering world . Mrs . Brown cannot even quote

    correctly . The verse at the head of chapter lviii . is noc by Mrs . Blackwood . From Messrs . Hodder & Stoughton . —' Pax

    tual Vobiscum longing : an in Address the world . ' « The , ' says amount the author of spiri of - this this address address . » in in the the hearts hearts of nf unnumbere unnumbered d

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    thoughtful , among the young and gay , who saldom this is one assuage of the , and most never wonderful betray their and touching

    thirst—. facts of life . ' The address is intended to direct and shows console a deep these and rare long p ing iety ones , but , and is exception not only

    too ally and well written ht to . win It the is favourable extremely practical attention , of , those oug who like to have the maximum of

    thought expressed in the minimum of words . From Practice the Hospital Office . —* The Theory and

    Percy G . of Lewis Nursing , M . D : a ., Text & c . -book The desi for Nurses gn of , this ' by book is to _ furn — ^ ish — - — a _ m text - — ^^ ^ ^ »* -book w % ^ ^ m ^ ^^ m ^ of ^^ «* the ^ r » A ^^ theory ^»* JB ^^ ^^ W ^ and W *^ * - /»

    practice is not intended of medical as and a substitute surgical nursing for practical . « It instruction in the wardsbut to bring clearl

    before nurses what the , different diseases are y ttne he cniet chief points points to t , o attend attend to to in in them them , the the pos nos-- ,

    the sible different complications —— — things <^ r ^ r in they ^^ them B are & , and called \ S * SVJL the reasons on , to V \/ do for

    it aims at enabling __«_ •—_ them v-v ^ J to «^ WV work ^ M V intelli ^ V . « . V ^ . gently % I X ^ ; , instead of by rule of thumb . ' Dr . Lewis goes

    or thoroughl be in useful hosp to y itals into nurses . details , whether , and engage his work d privatel ought to y

    From the Barker Messrs Pitman These . , Jarrold ¦— and other i & being Sons / Poems . — chve \ ' / ' Lisha b li y narra Henry Ridley tive J . ,

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    often profe extremel ssors y grap of hic elo . cut * 'Lisha , that Ridley they * ' and are * Farmer Gould ' s Story ' miht be safelrelied

    on to ' hold' any audience if g they were tolerably y well recited — " - . W i e v do ^ p » v n'JV o / t u t vi hink ^ miv the \ . A . A V > w » » or V * ld Jl ^ - * . w » T ill M . JL di . *

    tell scover a st a great in verse poet in whi Mr ch . is Barker but a , n oth t e r can of saying ory that he possesses , popular qualities .

    From the Leadenhall Press . —' Told after Supper , ' by Jerome K . Jerome . Mr . Jerome

    tate sets himself some of the th later painful American deliberation humourists to imivision vision and , so far as trick of speech and obliquity of ,

    cr He owd is no can can who t a born be be are imitated imitated humouris made , , humourists hhe t e , but is is fairl fairlv one y of after suc snn the c ^ essful birth . great ssfnl . .

    invaluable In comic writing gift , the , as infinite in everything capacity for els hidin e , that g one trouble is conscious , tells , and that in Mr trie . Jerome results ' s are productions obtained

    so by ul prodigious of humour — — ¦ ^ toil ^ T is . S *¦¦— pontaneity m ~* r n ^ icuous ¦« m ^ J ^ r ^ r b , which its n % tf absence P is ir j ^ i the . , '' " consp ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ y ^^ pw ^ V ^^ ^ _^ ^^ ^^ p

    manufacture Nevertheless , on those the Am who erican relish plan may painstaking possibly find entertainment in * Told after S . ' The i

    tinted illustrations are clever , but we do upper not like the paper . —«¦»¦ *

    From the same . — ' Geordie : the Adventures of a North Country Country Waif A North and Countrywoman Stray , ' by uuiau a North ui t

    KsVuuiLy woman wuiiltbli . . * % . xxvllu vuuiiuj wmus uau have had the beginning of * David Copperfteld in her mind when she wrote the opening chapter of A £ £ Geordie y "" t --. - ^ — J 1 ^ m . ' but I— .. ^ except ** — ¦* «¦« . a ^ . 4 * at «^ ^> the 4- U * -k start 4 ^ 4-d-k •>! there 4- 1 % ^ -VM . J'V is ^ r «

    no ' further resemblance , ' . between the two books . Little Geordie , owing to the misfortune of being

    born a boy , has his infant and childish days made miserable , so miserable indeed that at a very — — , earl ... _ . ___ _ y , age —^^ , he — _ runs — away — .- fro — — _ m — home . For

    a but wealth while at length his stockbroker strugg __ he becomes les and ^ Geordie privations page —^ to John are endowed terrible Hollis > *

    with a Northern y shrewdness . , speedily , being rises ; he $ becomes H VFH secretary and confidential clerkand ¦¦

    - — - - ^^^ - ^^ —^^^^^^^^ p ^^^ - ~^ " —^^ - ^^ ^^ B ^^ T ^^ ^^^^ ^^ W ¦ ~—~ ~^ ^¦ ^ ^ - ^ —* ™ ™ ——^^ ^ r _ - — ^^ - ^_ - - — — - ^^ - - , parts flnall < laughter 3 has , like . a strong The a true story pathetic Scot is , agreeab marries interest ly . his told It , master conveys and in ' s

    an excellent moral . From HI I Messrs H . LeceneOudin & Co . Paris . — —^ ^ B ^^^ P ^^ ^^ F ¦ ¦ — ^^ ^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^ P ^^ - ^^ - ^^ - - ^^ , V - ^^ - - ^^ - ^—^— — - — - — —— ^ , -m

    may ' Bossuet differ , ' par as to G . the Lanson part . which However Bossuet opinions took in the persecution of the author of * Tel 6-

    maque , ' for the support given by Archbishop Fenelon to Madame de la Mothe Guyon and the Quietists , there can be no question but that his was a master mind . Educated by an

    early uncle , taug a mag ht istrate to make , in the the fear Holy of Scri the ptures Lord , and his

    rule rule early of of age life life of . , Bossuet Bossuet eight years received received , was the the appointed tonsure tonsure at at to the tne a I - ? at Metz when he was thirteen and still r

    canonry Metz a pup , il and at th when < 5 Jesuits fifteen ' college years in old his entered native city the , \ , i « of rt- * . T" from /» whence 1 the ^ i fame P ____ of _/* i

    his college precocious Navarre talents , spread far and wide . He- \ \ excellent classical scholarandlying (

    was was an an excellent uiassiuai aunuiar , , u , juu , , app itppijiAi ^ 5 himself his doctor diligentl 's degree y to at theolog the Sorbonne ical stud in y , 1 652 ook . ; i

    Receiving priests' orders , he became Archdeacon 1 of Sarrebourg , and Dean of Metz . Taking up [

    his tiser abode for the there Roman , he became Church an in a active city prosel most of y- j \ whose inhabitants Protestants

    . were or Jews . \ Bossuet Although a controversialist lost his headand of the first la rank the , s

    greatest never tact in dealing with , his disp adversaries yed . j ! bring He was about always a read modus y , and tivendi indeed betwee anxious n , the to 1

    Romish T * t ^ ^^ tm d ^^ H IHI ^ k M . 1 f ^^ Church X ^ ^^ . m , V ^ rmr and W r ^* ^ " ^ ^ r ^ r V ^ its ^ Lf ^ s ¦ adversaries " ^ - m ^ - w w " ^ ^ — — — . Of - his « sermons and funeral orations too few have been handed down to usthe greater part being only

    known at the present , day by tradition , and by \ the rough outlines which he left in manuscript r - for he did not write out his sermons in full \

    a preachers nd then learn of our them day . by He rote did like but some sketch popular his- f \ sermon fk ^* ^^ m , r n ~ ^^ « J * before r ^^ % ^ j »* ^^ ¦ ^^ ^^^ delivery ^ - ' » ^^ ^^ fc ^^ *» , m and k . m ^ ^ ^ —¦ then ^^ ^¦¦^ ^^ ^» - ^ clothe - ^* . ^^ ^^ - — — — - - — the — , j

    A dry signed ppointed bones his with Bishop see beautiful two of years Condom language later in to in 1669 devote the pul he p bis re it - , j '

    whole time to the tuition of the Daup , hin r whose ; tutor he became from 1670 to 1679 . The account of this period , which is comprised in the

    unsatisfactory fourth terest for chapter all engaged pup of M ils . Lan could in son education at ' s any book time , . Few full be found of more in- \

    than the scion of royalty who was placed under ! the tutorship of Bossuet . The Dauphin was idle and obstinateHe took interest in 1 nothingj

    and AVAJLU CbUlt had not K / aUMlXOl the yj least . . UO desire UUVIVUAL to learn VUl' " . MVUM Ne ver * g - , , 1 theless , the conscientious and persevering efforts

    obstinacy of Bossuet and succeeded incapacity , in sp , ite in of making his pupil him 's thoroughly acquainted with the best Latin I

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1890, page 1658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121890/page/16/