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Title: The Argonaut
Year: 1877 (1870s)
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Subjects: Journalism
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Argonaut Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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ow by theuse of the thin India paper, and is doneby the Macmillan Company in their pocketeditions of Dickens and Thackeray. Theseare issued with all the original illustrationsand facsimile title-pages. They are more thanpocket editions ; the name is unjust to them—they are well fitted for the shelf. Why judgeof the value of an edition by its size? Ac-ceptability is commensurate with convenience. Martin Chuzzlewit is prefaced with an in-teresting introduction—not usually printed insuch editions—written by Charles Dickens, theyounger. It contains, among other biograph-ical details, the account of how Dickens, inhis second visit to America, smoothed downthe outraged backs of our people in an after-dinner speech to the press, who entertainedhim at New York. There he bore witness to marvelous changes since his first visit, andto the national generosity and magna-nimity —in their treatment of bim after• Martin Chuzzlewit, doubtless, though weknow that some critics had rasped need-
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George Barr McCiitcheon, author of Nedra. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co. abled each volume to have been convenientlyless thick. To each of the biographies ofBurns and Scott, by Lockhart, are appendedbiographical notices of the biographer him-self, with various notes and corrections fromrecent and careful editing. To the biographyof Burns is added Carlyles essay on thispoet. Agnes Stricklands Queen Elizabeth isless carefully supplemented. This book, aclassic, admired by M. Guizot, has the femi-nine characteristic of being inconclusive,while it is the result of such hard study aswomen, when they pursue literature or science,will often submit to more readily than willmen. The Oliver Cromwell of Carlyle, like allhis work, is beyond annotation. This be-wildering, overwhelming historian must beI left, as the editor leaves him, to our awedand silent wonder. Published by A. C. McClurg & Co.; 60cents each. what Stevenson thought he which revealsowed her : Take thou the writing: thine it

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