The Publishers Weekly Volume 46 (Paperback)

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. 1894 Excerpt: ...64 E. 12th Street, N. Y., have just ready the second authorized English edition of Franz Sales Meyer's useful and suggestive "Handbook of Ornament--a grammar of art, industrial, and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use." The volume contains nearly 3000 designs, and has already been adopted as a text-book in several ait and industrial colleges. Little, Brown & Co. have just ready a romance by Edward T. Bouve. entitled "Centuries Apart." This is anew story with a novel idea. It brings together the laws, manners, customs, and dress of England at the period of the reign of Henry vii., and of America during the Civil War. The scene of the romance is "South England," a hitherto unknown country in latitudes far south. The characters so strangely brought together are in almost everything "centuries Apart." The book contains full-page illustrations by W. St. John Harper. Macmillan & Co. will publish at once a new book by Sir John Lubbock, whose book on the "Pleasures of Life" obtained a few years ago such wide popularity. This time it is the " Use of Life "on which the author dwells; and while, like its predecessor, the little book puts forth no claim to a profound philosophy or science of life, it, too, is pervaded by the spirit of wholesomeness and cheerfulness and content that rendered "Pleasures of Life" a comfort and a help to thousands. It was just about a year ago that the Macmillans published William Winter's "Life and Ait of Edwin Booth," and this fall they have a similar treat in store for us in the " Life and Art of Joseph Jefferson." It Is doubtful whether any other actor has so won his way into the heart of t...