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    A new volume of Randolph Caldecott ' s Sketches—especially when it is published in a cheap as well as handsome form—is sure of a welcome from all who .

    care for genuine humour in art . Sir Frederick Leighton once declared that the ' sweet and dainty grace' of . Caldecott ' s pictures had never been surpassedand

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    sketches by Hesketh of West J . Bell Indian . This negro is life a volume and charac of - * * 9 HlPPnP jx ** ^ 1 * ^

    ter . It is exceedingly readable and interesting . From Mr . Bell ' s account it would seem that Christianity and contact

    with the whites are of little avail to eject the superstitious fears which the negroes have with respect to Obeah or witchcraft charms . The character sketches and incidents of negro life as here recorded are often amusingand always interesting . This little volume is full _ of infor- v

    mation , and — - oug — — ht to m- be — — read by ^^^^ all , — ~^ r- ^ w those ~^~—^— ^^^^^^^« v » who ^^ r ^ r v W ^^ ^^» desire ^^^^^» ^^ T ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ to ^ ^^^^^ m ^^ ^^ know p ^ M — something - of the ~ — — inhabitants — ™ ——— — ' ^^— , ^^ the -m ^ ^^ m climate , the state , and the beautiful h acenp f . rv of our colonies in the - — West Indies —¦ .

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    ^ H | ' V ^ if ano M ther . Laurie book write disfcin- ^ ^ -- ' ^ 1 ^^ JP ^ ^ . -,

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    must be something radically wrong with the boy - who TV ^ . m .- * does - ** sm ,- ^ ^ r - ^* w * r not tm ^ - ^^ « r sit w ~ - ~ v up ^ . ^ ¦_* - half ji ¦^^¦ . ^ fc the «^ 41 Jb ^^ night AJULCL AJi V — B if IL he _ M , H \^ gets CL V VW the »/« ^"

    chance—spellbound by this weird and fascinating tale . - The book is full of pictures , and quality as well as quantity

    has been studied in regard to them .

    another OWie Ri fine vals -art , b gift y Richard -book of Brinsley a most attractive Sheridan . kind Illustrated . Mr . Gregory by Frank has H . caught Gregory with . Th great is is

    cleverness trations in the the sp volume irit of — Sheridan five 4 amiarelles ' s inimitable / and comed the rest y . There in black are and fort white y-three . The full-page finish illus and - of brilliancy of the coloured aquarelles is quite noteworthy , and show what rapid strides the art

    natural photogravure and yet dramatic has made fashion within , and the last in some year instances or two . Mr the . realism Gregory is groups almost his comp figures lete . in He a 1 j ,

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    I - - -,,, - r 1580 The Publishers' Circular bee . 6 , 1889

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/46/