The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

LI rERATURE.

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Adam Bede. A New Edition. By George Eh°.

One vol., pp. 470. Win. Blackwood add Seas.
A Stereotyped Edition of " Adam &de," 1)634'
ttful in typography, as cheap in price, and as irra;
proachable in all the details of its general gettillo
up as this one—to say nothing at all about its Was'
trations, eight in number and full of freshness-cf
is tolerably certain, we presume, of having 3,
the crispness and clearness of the stereo
worn off as as quickly as the wear and teat
of the printing press can accomplish tb,,a,
very material evidence of an author's PO:
larity. A handier, welcomer edition of a 11;v
dern fiction, the excellence of which has already
ripened it into a national classic, the admirers ''.li
George Eliot could not reasonably wish for. ft spill
George
serve to spread the fame not only of George
but of the happiest of all George Eliot's most `!,
lightful creations—meaning that racy, wity';
thoroughly original personage Mrs. rePt..
And, together with the fame of. Mrs. Pi:ls'.
it will widen and diffuse the only lesser eels{
brities of Dinah, and Hetty, and Mrs. Bede---O
Seth, and Adam, and farmer Poyser, and Squiro
i
Donnythorne, and of all those other flesh and blood{
not mere paper and ink people, having endurll3at
names as well as local habitations in and abc°
the picturesque little village of Hayslops•
A. charming book, " Adam Bede" is, fr°ol o
the first of its writer's magical dips
ink, down to the very last—down to the emf
recording fair-haired Dinah's last cheery el
welcome—" Run, Lisbeth, run to meet aunt PoYS.-;
1
Come in, Adam, and rest ; it has been a hard "31
for thee !" And of all the editions there have Y'e,
been of this charming novel, the present is one,
and
io
yond any doubt of it, the cheapest, the best, au`'
every way the welcomest.

Dickens The Publishers' Circular says that Mr. Chtt,,,,(7
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August. The annual gathering oYnf7tbkolSoa
Ist of Au
their friends, at the Booksellers' Provident Retreat,
e.
Ebbots Langley, will take place on Saturday, 15th ,
THE SHEFFIELD TRADES' UNION CO3I)IISSI°gBSs of
The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into cfrfsdeo
commissioners
—Mr.
.11marl.1
intimidation,h outrage, and rattening in the Sheffielu
Barstow—took their seats at eleven o'clock. uktensrdelatiblearj:::;:j
is secre,tary.to the commissioners. Mr.CChYahemastenbecr3ledr:l;lll:nd'r::tieerei;
Fretson) attended on behalf of the masters' 000'3;e
r
formed after the Hereford-street affair, and Dlr. Sug.%lie
presented the trades unions' defence committee. to
1 manufacturers resent present were Messrs. R. Jackson C'tA, •e,
son, S. Butcher, A. Jackson, T. Gamble, W. K'
,P
fullyW.NVaterfall represented. (Kenyon The mayor,andCo.) The trades'
(i-otbo
were
ea-mayor, 'tog'
gentlemen were present during a portion a the 0-
Several witnesses were examined.
TRIAL BY JURY.—A meeting was held last °veil;
ing at the rooms of the Law Amendment Societildyel4
the Adelphi, for the purpose of distributing the Bart"'
awarded by the adjudicators—Sir Eardley Wilewt'forthl
Mr. Sergeant Pulling, and Mr. G. D. Hastings. As.
four best essays on the importance of the pieservatibe ) , gr.
amendment of trial by jury. The chair was take°
the cox'
Sergeant Pulling, who addressed the meeting and woad
didates at considerable length. The first prize 106 ti" .A.l
to Mr. G. Overend ; the second to Mr. H. Lockhart' `-tbd
Stowell fellow of University College, Oxford ; 11°0 as
a
by Mr. J. W. C. Washington, of Congleton, Ohesh,.,,ale•
the fourth by Mr. P. 0. Crump, of the Middle that tijo
The chairman, in announcing the awards, old
merit of almost all the essays was very high•„„
"
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DR. LIVINGSTO.NE,—A reference to vr• •a lot-
atone is contained in the following extract ores
idia
ter from the gunner of H.M.S. Lyra to his wife;
iter v"
at Howth, which is published in Saunders's News"{'6stoll°
" I think I told you in my last letter that Dr. Li.ves7
thisenn:tttrath
of .iloileits,
had been murdered in the interior by
have just received the news that there
adnodwnthtao see after his cattle that he
(Dr.
Ltvicnagtateenae)
nd hadotietsrenartt A"'
that it is true." The letter is dated Zanzibar,
1867. WoOtt°T
of the Brewery, St. Clement's, Oxford, has, we u_f o,o° '
MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—Tbe *late Ai.•
uderstoo,
0111
the interest of which is to be appropriated ford
sveL'atult
among other bequests, left the munificent sulDou 0,30vg
a certain number of poor persons at Oxford an
each
way a.
near 13icester, where he had resided, so that
eivo A EMU of Us, par week,