This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...novel, The Seats of the Mighty, in connection with Mr. lieerbohm Tree.--The printed and manuscript items added to the Bodleian Library at Oxford last year numbered 60,296, the largest total ever reached in a single year.--The first volume of Victor Hugo's hitherto unpublished correspondence is out, comprising letters ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...novel, The Seats of the Mighty, in connection with Mr. lieerbohm Tree.--The printed and manuscript items added to the Bodleian Library at Oxford last year numbered 60,296, the largest total ever reached in a single year.--The first volume of Victor Hugo's hitherto unpublished correspondence is out, comprising letters written by the poet to his father, his wife, Saiute-Beuve and others. The volume is said to have all the interest of a romance.--A new international review has just made its appearance in Paris, bearing the name of L'Auie. Its day of issue is the 15th of the month, and it proposes to publish "resurrections " of old literatures and to report all international literary and artistic movements.--George Eliot's Silas Marner can now be had in French.--The fifth volume of Traill's Social England is ready in London, and covers the period from the accession of George I to the Battle of Waterloo.--T. Fisher Unwin is about to publish a collection of Modern Political Orations, selected without respect of party or subject.--Archibald Constable & Co. have in press an English translation of the Diary kept by the Czar of Russia during his travels in the East a few years ago.--At a recent sale in London of the library of Mr. Alfred Crampton of Paris the following were some of the prices realized: a first edition of Browning's Pauline, 145; a copy of the excessively rare, privately printed edition of Byron's Poems on Various Occasions, 45; a first edition of Robinson Crusoe, 75; and a fine copy of the first edition of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 65. The first day's sale of 251 lots realized over, 1,000.--Mr. Claude Montefiore is preparing for publication a Bible for Home Reading, with comments and reflections for Jewish parents...
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Add this copy of The Literary World, Volume 27... to cart. $56.22, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
