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    i6^o The Pu blishers- Circular pec. 3118...

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    Horfcon nal article , and on a * deli Reading ghtful ' article by the , Rev Among . R . the F . Suminer Isles , ' by Shirley . '

    The prospectus of Scribner ' s Magazine for 1891 P contains ——— I I I i V—B- the —^ pr names V V IF of a number r of con-_| ¦

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    Bryce Stevenson , Sir . Edwin The -p ^^ readers h Arnold ¦ ¦ , of and the Robert i Railway Louis '

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    is promised . The issue for January contains a number of striking features—first among

    them Henry M . Stanley's article on the 'Pigmies' which is entirely distinct from his

    book , and , written since its publication expressl »_^ A ^ v ¥ >^ + * r ^ y w « for fc ^ - ^ * - the « f <_»^ « a ^ m n a ¦ agazine ^ J ^ h _ c f * - ^ " —_> .- » j > ^^ . Other > H > r «^^« h ^^ ^ ^ features ^ - ^ «^ v V *^» aih ^> r ^ - » are »^»___ . - ^

    Sir Edwin Arnold ' s second paper- on ' Japan , ' with Robert Blum ' s remarkable illustrations ;

    the first of a two-part story by Frank R . Stocktonin his most amusing manner ; one

    of a group , of illustrated papers on Australia ( marking the beginning of an Australian

    edition of the magazine ) ; and practical articles on modern fire apparatus , and the

    game of Court Tennis . Every reader of contemporary literature

    inows ' At the Sign of the Ship , ' which appears month by month in Longman ' s Magazine .

    Hitherto it has been devoted to short notes done in Mr . Lang ' s daintiest stylebut during

    next year Mr . Lang intends to publish , critical studies as well as notes . He makes a start in

    the January number , and it is superfluous to add what kind of start . Mr . Lang , like Mr .

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    critical study he introduces a poet who is little known . Most people would nnat ask , who is Mr .

    Kobert Robert JtSridges Bridges % f A A minor minor poet , , . one one ot of the the lifeless ones on whom Oliver Wendell Holmes is so severe in ' Over the Tea-C' ? Not so

    of but writing a poet with ' readable a real lyrical dramas gif . ups t , and Mr . capabl Lang e ,

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    Matthew Arnold in the same breath . It is readers enough who to . g are ive on Mr the . Bridges look out a for vogue new , stars and

    on the poetical horizon will be interested to know that a volume of Mr . Bridges' shorter

    poems has recently been issued by Messrs . Bell & Sons .

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    with a singular mixture of curiosity and alarm . Not the least element of the absorbing interest

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    truth , we think a good deal of the piquancy and flavour of Talleyrand ' s memoirs have

    evaporated in the fifty-two years since he died . If the present extracts are fair samples

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    much a no an who , fills important y places in public life can be over-estimated .

    Mr . Besant , anxious to make authors see how good a thing it is for brethren to dwell in

    unity , is trying to establish an authors' club , or authors' housewhichever would be

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    -' authors' house ' would be less stylish , but it would also — — be — less _ costl 7 which would be an

    advantage , at any rate y ^ , until the American Copyright Bill becomes law . Authors are

    invited to send suggestions , an invitation which authors will doubtless accept . The

    establishment of a house or club is to be considered * first as regards the general question—the best

    interests of letters ; next , from the private point of view , how it would benefit the

    individual . We cannot guess how it would benefit the individualbut of one thing we are

    BB Bl 4 M IK , Pb Bfc Bt B - V - lA sure , that it would | be delightful ^^ Bj to have some place where it would be possible to listen to

    those who have the gift of talk—that is , of conversation . Or is the art of conversation

    dead ? Is there none to sit in the chair of Johnson or BurkeCarlyle or Macaulay ?

    Perhaps not . Yet if , Lord Tennyson were to look in and give his opinions on current

    literary topics ( not in tjie style of * Locksley ¦ Hall " ¦ " ¦¦ Br » B— P ^ Bh Bk Sixty T Bfc ^ - BBBBBBB _¦> - ^^ B Years ^ P ^ ^ PP ^ WB— ¦ ¦¦ After BB «* BBBB ) BBB . BB -B ^ - ^ P ^ ' ) * f |^ how lp « ^ B > W interesting P"BB »^ ^ P » Bi BFB Bi I I I . "BP - ^» P ^ MpBB it —¦ - " ^ ^_ **^ . ^ BB , a ^ ta ^> ^ BBB A

    would be ! Or suppose Mr . Swinburne and Mr . Meredith engaged in an animated

    tite-d-tete tSte , . would would not not the the room room rail fall silent silent ? / The The idea idea of the authors' club is attractive , the only question that remains is whether it is

    practiqable .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1890, page 1650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121890/page/8/