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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems. By T. Babington Macaulay. New and Revised Edition. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 358. 75 cts. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People. Part 19. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. paper, pp. 63. 15 cts. The Cottages of the Alps; or, Life and Manners in Switzerland. By the Author of "Peasant Life in Germany."
The "Universal Instructor" feature of the paper consisted of a page or two weekly of "Chambers's Encyclopedia". Franklin eliminated this feature and dropped the first part of the long name. "The Pennsylvania Gazette" in Franklin's hands soon became profitable. And it lives today in the fullness of abounding life, though under another name. "Founded A.D. 1728 by Benj.
Chambers's plan 'the Instrument, as it was then, and has ever since been called. Mr.
Another member read to the club an account of his journey to Lochnagar, which was afterward published in Chambers's Journal. He was celebrated for his descriptions of scenery, and was not the only member of the club whose essays got into print. More memorable perhaps was an itinerant match-seller known to Thrums and the surrounding towns as the literary spunk-seller.
But the most I've done yet is to get some verses printed in CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL. I looked at the inn standing golden in the sunset against the brown hills. 'I've knocked a bit about the world, and I wouldn't despise such a hermitage. D'you think that adventure is found only in the tropics or among gentry in red shirts? Maybe you're rubbing shoulders with it at this moment.
This was on the publication of "Lost Sir Massingberd, a Romance of Real Life." The story first appeared in "Chambers's Journal," and is marked by all his good qualities ingenious construction, dramatic situations, and a skilful arrangement of incidents. Altogether, Payn wrote about sixty volumes of novels and short stories. I. Neither Fearing God Nor Regarding Man
So he did write the story and, in 1893, published it under the title of "In the Quarter." The same year he published another book, "The King in Yellow," a grewsome tale, but remarkably successful. The easel was pushed aside; the painter had become writer. Writing of Mr. Chambers's novel of last fall
According to the last edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, the proportion of illegitimate births in Scotland to legitimate is nearly twice the proportion in England, and almost three times as great as that in Ireland. No doubt this, again, is due to the foul Saxon. It is wonderful that the Scots do not prevent us from coming into their virtuous country.
In the new edition of Chambers's Burns, William Wallace accepts Robert's statement as correct; yet we hardly think the poet would have spent a summer at school at a time when the family was under the heel of that merciless factor.
A turning over of the pages of a volume of Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, the third for preference, may be suggested as an admirable and a diverting exercise. You might mark the authors that flash an appeal to you. The large majority of our fellow-citizens care as much about literature as they care about aeroplanes or the programme of the Legislature.
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