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Feb. 15, 1888 The Publishers' Circular !...
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Ti^ad^ CC^ange^ Mr. Edward Fox, booksell...
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J . H . Walsh . —* Stonehenge , ' editor of the Fi Field ud"cuea died on on ounaay Sunday , , the tne 12 xsfftn th iinst nst . . A A . very verv
wide , circle , of friends and readers will niourn his loss . Mr . Walsh was born in 1810 and in
early life pursued the practice of medicine , . He TTa ultimately nltimatelv settled settled in in - Liondon London and arid devoted riavrvhari
himself to literature as a profession in 1855 , when he wrote some articles in BelVs Life on
the greyhound . These were published in the same year in book form , under the title of ' The Greyhound' and shortly afterwards the
, first edition of ' British Rural Sports' appeared . In 1856 he published the * Horse in the Stable
and the Field' and the ' Shot Gun v . Rifle . ' Mr . Walsh became editor of the Field in 1857 .
He subsequently published works on * Domestic Economy HkVJKJLlXflXiy ' and CL 1 ± \ JL 'Domestic i / UUlCOtlt- Medicine J . TJ . C 7 ULX ^/ XX . XC 7 ,, ' dyllU and . in JXJ .
1858 the Dog in Health and Disease . ' Some later he wrote the ' Dogs of the British
years Islands , ' which passed through several editions , and in 1882 he produced the first volume of
the ' Modern Sportsman ' s Gun and Rifle , ' the second iJCUUUU following IVUUnUlg in X 1 J . - 1884 1 . «_»«_» 1 . . He JLJ-C 7 was VV <* O best Lrc ^ Oli known UlIIU VY 11
as the author of ; * British Rural Sports , ' of which no fewer than fifteen editions have
been issued . Edward LiBAR . —Among the lihts which
the literary world has lost recentl g y is Mr . Edward Bk Lear A , the PB ^¦ B popular ^ P * B ¦ and K B humorous « ^ a ^^ *^^^ ^^ ^ ^
author and artist . Mr . Lear died at his ^ resi - dence , Villa Tennyson , San Remo . As long ago as 1831 he published his folio work
entitled Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidse , ' which contained 42 lithographic plates drawn drawn from from life lif « Ywr by the +, li « author author . I'his hia was "wna
succeeded in 1831 by ' Views in Rome and its Environs : drawn from Nature and on Stone /
and likewise issued in folio form . In 1846 Mr . Lear supplied the plates for Mr . J . E . Gray's ' Gleanings from the Menagerie at
his Knowsley l Illustrated Hall / Excursions and the same in Italy year . he In issued 1851
appeared deceased's * Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania , & c ., ' and in the following
year * Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern 4 Calabria , & c . ' In 1863 appeared
his his ' Vifiwa Views i in n the t . hfi Seven SfiVfm Ionian Tonian Islands Tslanda . , ' and anH during the same year was published the first , of ^ those * p * ^ ^ ^^ w * J ^ . ^ volumes v ^ bbp * pA v * & ^ ^ ^^ P >^ which v v pm ^ « v ^ -pp ^ ^ have p > k pJbW ^*^ b > v ^ b ^ made smi ^* -m * »* v ^ b »^ ^^ ¦ Mr >^> w v « bh ^ 4 « p . ^ Lear >^ - ^> v ^ m ^ ^ - ^ ^ bib ' s v > hBr
name a household word . It was called ' A Book of Nonsense / and it speedily ran through ten editions . In 1870 appeared the
' Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica , ' illustrated illustra . ffid . as as also also were -wftrft his hia previous nrfivioua works works of of
this character , ; and in 1871 his ' Nonsense Songs , Stories , Botany , and Alphabet . ' * More
Nonsense , Pictures , Rhymes , Botany , & c . succeeded with Mr . , J and . C in . Sowerb 1872 he y drew ( in , folio in conj size unction ) , the
I illustrations for Mr . Gray ' s work on ' Tortoises , Pi Terrapins , and Turtles . ' In 1877 Mr . Lear I published yet another volume V ^ A IA . LJLJL of quaint UUJllA
I I ' ^ - * " ^ A . AkJ JliV ^ Vt . V VU CWAAV ^ U 1 XVJL V \^ V ^ A . V « V I I literary > f * Laug and hable artistic Lyrics humour : a , fourth under the book title of
Nonsense , Poems , Songs , Botany , Music , < fec . ' Lady Marian Alford—This ladwho Jl
- •—* —J- * Jk-T JL JLVJL . riCJ . JLVJL AH U . JL . JUA V / JLVJL ^ . - * - «* AM •*• ^ W ^ - » y T , H JLV ^ was well known in various busy circles , died
lather I'ather suddenl siirlrlfinlv y on on the t ? he 8 8 th th inst inst . . at at Ashridge Ashridce , Berkhampstead . She was born in 1817 . Lady
- —— — Marian possessed a very high degree of artistic taste , and was an acknowledged authority on several ¦ ¦ art ¦• subj ^ wt ^ r ects v *^ . Her magnificent ¦ > . ¦_» ii i book ' k on
•—¦ " ~~~ m -w-mm — m , m ¦ ^ a ^^ < p » * ^^ ^^ , r ~ ^ a ^ A « ~ ~ ~ ' I H ^ T J a _ ^_* ~* M . V W ^^ Vp-V ^ ' ^ \^ A . A . * Art Needlework ' is likely to remain a standard authority on the subject .
Asa Gray . —The death of Dr . Asa Grayremoves one of the foremost botanists of the
day . He was born in the State of New York in 1810 . In Europe there have been many greater botanists than Dr . Asm Graybut none to
whom the continent of ! N " orth Am , erica is more indebted for the popularisation of botany .
His text-books—such as ' Elements of Botany * and * How Plants Grow '—are as popular in American AmfiriRan schools ar » hoola as aa any a , nv similar siinilfl . r scientific Hm « =-nfifir » works xtrr ^ Tlra .
Professor Gray did much to render a just tribute to some of his American fellow-workers
by writing an interesting and valuable series of biographical sketches , in which the lives and labours of Jacob
BigelowGEngel-, eorge mann , Joseph Henry , Thomas P . James , John A A . . L Lo owell well . William William B ± 5 . . feuilivant Sullivant . Jefferies . Tftffprioa
, , Wyman , and , most of all , Professor John Torreyof New York—his own master and
, instructor—have been admirably set forth . In 1861 -lkjxja- axe he gave gave to vkj the lixc scientific ouicxihul / worl wkjlxkx d an clli . elabo cJliliJiJ - -
rate work in which Darwin ' s Treatise on the Origin of Species' was fearlessly analysed .
For many years he was one of the editors of the American Journal of Science , and his ' Botanical Contributions ' have Bb long been B ^ BB
pub-PPPPPPPPPPP ^ ^ ^ PP * ^ PP' ^ BP ^ B * ^ PPP ^ PPP > ^ P ^ ^ P ^«^ ^ P ^ P ~ ^ P ^ BBBPP ^ BP BP ^^ B > BBBBB >~^ b . ' " ^ P ^ ^ ~^ P * ^ PP . ^ BP' ^ PV B ^ PVJB * «^ Pp ^ ^ PP ^ ^ ^ ^ PP * B ^ Ph " ^^ p- ^ b ^ ^ ah b ^ ^^ BBV ^^ p » T ^^ p _ ff ^^ ¦! . F ^ BPft f ^ , ^ lished in the ' Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences / It was under
the joint authorship and supervision of John Torrey and Asa Gray that the first part of the
' Flora of North America' appeared in 1838 . J . T . J . Boswell . —Dr . Boswell died at
Balmuto , Fifeshire , on January 31 . He was distinguished as a botanistand rewrote the
, largest work on botany in the English language ^ ' Sowerby ' s , ' consisting of twelve volumes .
Just as we are going to press we regret to hear of the death of Mr . Edwards , head of the
nrm firm ot of Messrs Messrs . . Triibner lrubner & & Co On .., which which occurred onnn-rrftd on the 14 th inst . A notice , of the deceased
gentleman will appear in our next . —^ & yv . —
Feb. 15, 1888 The Publishers' Circular !...
Feb . 15 , 1888 The Publishers' Circular ! 6 7 \
Ti^Ad^ Cc^Ange^ Mr. Edward Fox, Booksell...
Ti ^ ad ^ CC ^ ange ^ Mr . Edward Fox , bookseller , and proprietor of the wellknown depot for § hakspearean
IAJX 4 goods KJL U / 11 has O WCU removed - - JVllUWil from UOJJU No U . 29 1 KJUCUVJSptJctl to No . 1 Hi . tJ g illl h StreetStratford-upon-Avon . The premises to
which , Mr . Fox has removed are of some interest to Shakspeareans , inasmuch as they were
occupied for thirty-six years by Judith Shakspeare , the poet ' s younger daughter , who married Thomas Quincyvintnerin 1616 .
Some portions of the house , are exactl , y the same aamfi as aa in in the thft poet noftt / s s day dava s . and anrl show show some » nnin
interesting fourteenth-century , work , the house being 4 The Cage orig . inall ' A y stone an ancient tablet is prison about to known be fixed as
to the exterior setting forth these facts . - <¦ £ The offices of the Cov . rt and Society Review have been removed to 21 Piccadilly , W .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1888, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021888/page/13/
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