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    Emile Zola ' s new novel called ' L'Argent / the publication of which commenced in the

    Paris paper Gil Bias , of Saturday the 29 th ult ., has for its text * Stock Exchange Speculations /

    and relates dramatically and vividly the crushing fall of a great financial establishment

    resulting in the ruin of several characters in , the story , some of whom are drawn . from

    wellknown frequenters of the Paris Bourse . c Works and Men / a posthumous work of

    J . Barbey d'Aurevilly , contains , amongst other critical appreciations — of English and

    11 o French writers , a very remarkable comparison between the King G 7 Lear of Shakespeare JUand

    the Pere Goriot of Balzac . Every one who has read these two masterp x ieces will recognise **

    -the justice of the comparison . It also includes other articles on Shakespeare , and on Swift ,

    Sterne , Macaulay , and Byron . MM . Firmin-Didot & Co . have published

    ' The Adventures of Sidi - Froussard / by Georges le Faure . This is a so-called patriotic

    novel , whose hero takes part in the French campaigns in Cochin-China .

    taining Alphonse the final Daudet adventures ' s ' Port and Tarascon death of / con the

    -, nevertheless in a , immortal tuous volume Tartarin ' chez of Tarascon Dentu ' appears sump ;

    but as the admirable English version by Mr . Henry «/ James can be obtained of Messrs .

    House Sampson there Low , is Marston no necessity & Co ., to at visit St . Dunstan Paris in ' s

    order to , obtain a copy for fireside reading this seasonable weather . '

    Librairie E . Dentu also publishes Torpedo Boat No . 29 / by de Pierre Mael ; ' Duchess

    Claude / by Ren ^ Pont-Jest ; ' Literary Quarrels / by Henri Becque ; 'Helen ' s

    Lovers / by H . Chrisafulli ; and 'The Little Empress / by Catulle Mendes .

    M . Calmann ^ Levy publishes i Madame de Warens and J . J . Rousseau / an historical and

    critical study , by Francois Mugnier , with a portrait of Mme . de Warens and other

    illustrations of an Actress ; ' Violette / b — y Ch ; or . , Joliet _ Poverty ; and and S La plendour

    Fiam'— , , -j - j M mina , Calmann / a comed Levy y in also four announces acts , by M . The Ucha En rd - .

    chanted Forest / a fairy tale , by Lucien Perey , with numerous vignettes and full-page

    illustrations . The first volume of the * Theatre Complet

    de Alexandre Dumas tils' has just been published Dame by aux M . Came L . 'lias Conquet / k Diane . It de contains L / and ' La ys mf

    4 Le Bijou de la Reine / . ' The volume is enriched by a portrait of the author , and five

    other illustrations drawn by Robandi and engraved by Abot . The succeeding five

    volumes to complete this edition will appear at quarterly intervals .

    Jules Verne ' s' Ce * sar Cascabel / which doubtless will be ( and deservedly ) as welcome to young

    and . old readers as any other of the long series of works which this talented author has written

    I for the youth of all countries and ages , has

    just been published by MM . J . Hetzel & Co ,, which firm also publishes ' The Magi ' Secret

    TT MlVil XltlU CM 0 VT pUI / XlOUVO AUC AKACWg * s KJ KfVWlWf . by Andre * Laurie ; * History of Two Babies , Kitty 4 / and BoJ / by 0 f J . Lennas ; and ' A School

    Girl of Sixteen / by E . Legouv ^ . M . Victor Havard publishes the third

    mann volume ; ' of ' Wh the y ' Love Memoirs - ? by of Rene - Baron ' Maizeroy Hauas 0 j - ; j

    and ' The Old Boy / by the same author , MMLeceneOudin & Cohave published

    ( in the . Nouvelle , Bibliothequ . e Litte ' raire ) the fifth series of Jules Lemaltre ' s ' Impressions

    de Theatre '; and * Bossuet / by G . Lanson , MM . E . PlonNourrit & Co . have

    published 6 An Illustrated , History of French ~ X ^ " Pilgrimages ^^^ K — - — ^^^_ ^ - ^ to " — the ' ^ Shrines - — ~ ~ ~— - ' ——¦ " of - ^ - the - ^ Blessed —^* m— ^^ - ^^ r *^^ ^^ F ^^ T ^ W

    Virg illustrated in . ' A b handsome y more volume than 450 of 1 , engravings 200 pages ,

    ( hitherto unpublished ) in the text , and containing C ? 20 coloured maps 1 . . They # also publish

    a volume , of permanent as well as current interest' Three Years among the Argentines /

    by Rom , ain d'Aurignac , illustrated o a with 100 drawings ^__ - b _ y . Rion - ; j and - ' Infant Pleasures _ __ __ __ __ . : m

    Spring , Summer , Autumn , and Winter / by Mars , richly illustrated in colours .

    MM . ArmandColin & Co . announce ' Scenes and Episodes of the History of the Nation /

    1 «/ w by Ch . Seignobos , with 60 full-page illustrations .

    Librairie Fischbacher has just issued ' History iof a Hundred Thousand Pianos and of a

    Concert Hall / by Oscar Comettant , with 4 portraits ; and ' Our Grandmother ' s Ditties '

    collected by Alfred Godet , with illustrations by Louie Allinger .

    Nos . 20 to 24 of Le , Semenr ] have reached us from Lausanne . Although published in

    admirable Switzerland famil , the y seat journal of administration is at Paris of this and

    among its contributors ^ ^ are some of , the foremost Parisian writers of the day . For

    contains example , No . t 24 b ( the Gabriel latest number Marcand to hand other ) , ^^^ a n aw ^ pv ^™ ^ v ^ r ^ mm *™™ ^^ w ^^ poe ^ r *^ ^^ r ^^^ ^^ ry m ^ w l y w ™ ^^ — — — ,

    GreVille known poets and ; ' Boileau La Mere / b Allard L . Claretie / by . Henry The ; y

    series editor , of M . critical Charles articles Fuster , supp on popular lies an excellent French

    authors , Erckmann-Chatrian , Alphonse Daudet , and Lamartine . There are also valuable articles

    wr on it Al ers p , honse by U Jean Karr A , JL . Victor X leton , Hugo Edouard , and Monod other ,

    and Blanche de Riviere . Centralblatt fur Bibliotltekswesenedited by

    Dr 1890 IKUO . O . No No Hartwi . XII Y 11 . g llflriftrnhftr D ( Lei ecember pzig : Otto contains ran ta Harrassowitz ins , aan n account account ) ,

    of the , life and , labours of , Johannes Gustav Gildemeister where he died , Professor in March of last Philosop . One hy of at Gilde Bonn - ,

    the fchft meister well well 's --known known works , histori historian written an . in Heinric Jaei conjunction nrich n von von oy Sybel with Dei «

    was TTnsewed Unsewed 'The Uoats Coats Holy Coat an an Historical JUiato at Treves , ^ icai and Inq inquiry uiry the , . Twenty ' Th xnis is ,

    was published , , ia 1845 , and led to some controversy i . Another ii ^^^^ ¦ interesting — - — — — — article is an

    attempt ture w a ^^ w ^^ of » worn ' ^ m Riddles m at a ' »» Bibliograp ^* ' , an -m ^ Account > hy of of German -m the Catadonian

    litera-MSS . in the Library at Tarragona { Spam ; . , " 1

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1890, page 1651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121890/page/9/