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General Ftrtor B of <&«*&!) An& Foreign %Ittt&Tuct iKo 1058 —VOL. XLIV. UtegUtered f *Tr^^ 9^m^:fm AND General ftrtor b of <&«*&!) an& foreign %ittt&tuct CONTAINING A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL NEW WOK KS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN ANT> EVER Y WORK OF INTEREST PUBLISHED ABROAD [Issued on the 1st and 15th of each Month] Ps*E 3d. October 15, 1881 %l\ HI po£ O OiTTIE 3STTS LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 874—887 ANNOUNCEMENTS OF BOOKS FOB COMI NG- SEASON 874—881 PUBLISHERS' NOTICES OP BOOKS JUST ISSUED 883, 8£4 OBITUARY 8€4 TRADE CHANGE 884 CORRESPONDENCEfYVD 'D T7C? TD/"kXTT" lt!Vr/~<'Ei 8<S5Q<3 « BOOKS RECEIVED 885—887 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BE TWE EN OCTOBER 1 AND 15 888 , 880 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GRE AT BRITAIN FROM OCTOBER 1 TO 15 880—895 AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 896—898 BOOKS IN THE PRESS 899—.901, 902 BOOKS NOW FIRST ADVERTISED AS PUBLISHED 902 - 905 CHRISTMAS CARDS »H BUSINESSES FOR SALE »14 MISCELLANEOUS 914—919 WANT SITUATIONS 914, 915 , ASSISTANTS WANTED 914, 915 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 915—919 " IHTDIEIX: TO -A-ZDVIE IR/riSE IR/S Baker (J.) & Son 913 Hodder & Stoughton 906, Newman (G.) 914 Bentley (R.) & Son 899 Holden (A.) 914 North American Review . 9116 Blackwood (J.) & Co 912 Longley (F. E.) 906 Olyett 914 Brehmer (A.) Sll Low (Sampson) & Co 900, 904, 907 Partridge (S. W.) & Co 911, 914 Cambridge University Press 905 Luka (W.) 911 Sim pkin, Marshall, & Co 911 Darton (T. Gates) & Co 912 Macmillan & Co 902 Smith (J. R.) 914 Decoration 908 ManselL (W. A.) & Co 913 Weatleys & Co 912 Diprose & Bateman 920 Murray (John ) 901 Whitaker (J.) 900 aarp ers Magazine 900, 909 Nelson & Sons 903 Worsfold at ii aywara »ii The Annual Illust rate d Number of ' The Publ ishers ' Circular. ' ' The PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR ' for December 1, 188 1, will display CHRISTMAS GIFT AND PRESENTATION BOOKS. It will, as usual, form a complete Summary of the PRESENTATION BOOKS of the YEAR, , and will be embellished with some of the choicest Illustrations. .. m*r mm rt^ ~r —- -- _.__.__. ..... _ The — W ^f w m «* »** m +r w • ^m ** m m *r m • w ^r m*^ m ^r *r w t m — - j—. — . — w# ^^ ^ 9 m^ *m ^ Fi fty, in I ^^ • ^* and 40s . for t^^ Cost to the Reta il Booksel le r for Copies will be 60s . per Hundred ,^ wnamenta J Wrapper , with Name and A ddre ss ; but these oannot be secure d unless ordere d at once. The Illustrated Adtbsrtisbmbnts must be sent to the Office by November 13, at the latest, I «jfc^- -^ J^ht Strbbt, London. ,^.'Z{ n ^jjj^s. II 7p ¦ i i iiTWW ' ' ' • j • 7 ' ^^fSl s74 The Publishers Circular Oct. 15, 185, 1 188 Fleet Street : October 15, 188 1. I npHE writer of the chatty articles on social questions which find a place on the front page of I JL our evening contemporary the Globe has been gibbeting a class of persons who certainly I serve to be held up to execration—the so-called readers who misuse the British Museum I Library and other public libraries , which they frequent, not for purposes of reference or study I but, as our French neighbours would say, to pass the time away. The essayist singles out I forlor mention several xypicaitypical membersinemioers ofoi thistnis troublesomexrouDiesome section orof tnethe punncpublic, andana describesdescrifcoa I with some vigour the reader who, ensconcing himself in a comfortable chair, proceeds to sleep I -_-- _.-. _.__.._ -_ __ ' ¦ -^— F^ -^ ~~ ~ ~— ~ —~ —' ~~ _ _ _ _ ^—^ "¦ - -^ _^__ _ ^ , ^^ . ^_*^ -v ^ p. »* p»^fc ¦ .f ¦ and perchance' to snore ; the reader who laughs aloud, to the inevitable distraction of the^^^ really^^ | | | ^J I^^^ H serious worker ; and, still worse, the readers who talk to themselves in an audible voice I or indulge in other nervous habits. Although the writer of the article may perhaps have I slightly overstated the case, there is a solid foundation for his criticism, and the evil has grown I ._ __ __ —_ ... _ . — _ — — . _ , .¦— -— ¦ r ¦ ¦ b -^p- pph —i p» ^^ w ^ pjl -^^ ^^ m -^— ^^^ ^^— ^ "~ -^ ¦ w ~™~ "~^^ ' ~~^ -™~ — ~-r — — ¦ — — — A ^ * h ^^m -m^ ^— ^^^b» ^kpp ^ar^raaar^a^^a^^afr k_^ pa « pj ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ m . p ^ ph so largely of late years that we quite agree^ with him as to the necessity for dealing with it. I The true remedy seems to lie in some mode of separation between the library which is to be I used by readers in the broadest sense of the term, and the library which is only to be used by I pt j- aaa^ ¦¦ pPappr p ^h^ P^ ^B^^fc ~ — aa^^ a^ ^ p^^ i^ ^ p ^ta*r ^ p^ *p^ *am ^^ a^ • Pj pp ^a*^a^ ^^ -**-a* -^ r ^F~1 ¦ - -~* ^ ^~— "~~ ¦ —~-"— — —~ —' ¦ ¦"" ^^^ r "—™ ^^ ^^~ "^^ ¦ -^— ^^ ¦ -^- ^^^^ m— m- ^aw 'pj *^^ ^^^^ Pv ^uar ^pj^ ^ip 1 ^^^ ai ^^~ ^a» ^aw ^a*mmaat *am ^atar ^aai^aatp^ aw ^ ^p# ^^ j ^^ P^ ¦ ¦ ¦ students^ ^* or^^^ literary* ^^^* w manipulatorsfl *"^ ^ ^ ^"^ " ;j and it would perhaps^ facilitate^^ ^ the"^ att^^^ ainment of^^ P' the^^^^ ^^p ^ desiredJ ^^^ B I - ^^^^^^ H • • I ¦!• • /» T t • 1 O 1 9 I 1 I .. *Tl 1 III•• . result if each applicant for a reader's ticket were required to give some clue to the object of I^ H his visit. To maintain such a library as that of the British Museum for the benefit of persons I who have no higher aim in life than to kill time, and who use the national collection simply to I save thetne paymentpavment ofor a subscriptionsuascription to Mudiemuaie or Smithomixn, is an obviousodvious waste oiof puoiicpublic moneymonev,. and I¦ it is therefore to be hoped that some stringent regulations will be adopted, in the interests of I «^PB w~—* ^ pp pjpv am am ^a^0 ^af ^a^mWam ^ k ^^^ aw w ^*ar ^am ^^ ar ^a*/ ^ar *-*^ r*^ ^»^ pp ^k^^ p ^a* aam ~^ ^*^ "^ ^^^^ ~^a^ ^^w ^v ^^ --^ w « ^—~ ^^ m — ^^ -^^ ^^ m pr ^^^^ m -*^ ¦ h *-^^ -^^^ .^p> ^aa ' ^rm ^atf ^pip* -^^ a^aa* ^aat w ^^^ ar ^aa^aw ^aa^ ^aaa, VP^p p^ ^a^ ^a± r T PJ the^^a taxpayersV^^ no less than~ * of the real' workers. To insist^^ ^^ ^^ on^^ the observance*~^^ ^a^^ p^ of^^^ strict* ^^ P^p silence^^ v^v ^^ b ^^^r ^L^^L^^^ ^^J is^^ I¦^ ¦^ ¦^ ¦^ ¦H again, nothing more than a just regulation, and as by the force of ordinary etiquette it is oh- I served in tne library at tne majority or cmos, it does not seem to be taking too nign a ground ¦ to ask for its adoption at a public institution. I ADDITIONAL ANNOTJlSrCEMElsrTS. I Messrs. W. H. Allen. I Diplomatic Study on the Crimean War, translated from the original, as published by the ¦ RussianRnssia.-n ForeignFnrfiicn OfficeOffinft., 2 vols. ¦ The Military History of the Madras Engineers and Pioneers, by Major H. M. Vihart, I ~ ~ V ¦¦ ' »^» v h p. v «P» ^ »^» ~ ~ ¦ ¦ Royal^ ¦J ^ ^V ^^T PJP^^ ^ (late% i M P. P. 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A * a A ^k ^^^^^h. - M^v^ _~ a. ^h ^a% ^^^^» _ ^ ^^^^^^^^1 Ashe" T*ycey the Superior Country, or the Great Attractions of Burma to British Enterprise I J P~ VAh/V ^h ^k ^h^^ I r^ ^^ hqi y* . b^i^ ~i ^^ ^P^ H |\^ ¦ ~^^ ^^ v^ ^dv P— ^^ ^qr 4^^ * - ^ »^ ^ iWhv v ^^b^p^ vv ** ^ ^^ ^^ ^P^ ^ Colonel W. F. B. Laurie. ^^^^^^^I H and Commerc¦ e by a , , „ ^_ ^k . .Mb > am am ataawm^ A ^B ^^ ^H ^M ^A ^^ A - ^B ^_ B^_^^k ^K^s^^^^a ~_^~ » ^ ^^ ^A _ PV ^^^^^^^^1 The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens, collected and edited by R. H. Shepherd, 2 vols. I Thirty-eight Years in India, from Jagnauth to the Himalaya Mountains, by "W. Tayler, I 2 vols., illustrated. H KJX \J \SX XI WJL JU' Vyj. <_i O W JL - KsBKs J. X ^J UAW11 UXXVs CKJIJL1C/ Ull. J-X.XXJ.KyX XKjCMJ . K/X O\SXXUUX. ^1V*TW« ¦ PrairieJ. X. CbXl. 1O andOllLKA. Forest, a<M Descri' ption of the Game of North America,y withVVXU-1I. Personal-1 Adven- ^ H tures in its Pursuit, by P. Gillmore (' Ubique '). 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