The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-01-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LAST YEARS BOOKS.  The Publishers' Cireulur gives its annual analyticai table of the book issues of the year 1884. It shows an increase of 228 an 1883, or king the new books and excluding the new edi tations, the increase is exactly 160. Of the total issues of now books theology stands at the head with 724 volumes, note than-one-sixth; juvenile werks and tales stand act, with 603, about one-eighth ; educational, classical, and I,hilologic.l books h 43, about one-ninth; history, &c., 490. more than one-tenth ; too -v on the site and sciences, and illustrated work.,, 4 2. one-eleventh; novels, tote-, and other fiction mere than one-eleventh ; year-hooks, and volumes of scrods, 323, one-fifteenth ; voyaces, travels, and gremeB- works, 230, one-twentieth; pamphlets, et rLIU., and mieceilaneou. wi alit, 20e,rmetwenty-tinid ; and tlmn uit li less than 20 s..;untes come poetry and the drama, 179; law. jorisi rudence, 183; medicine, surgery,&c., 106; and belles lettres, essays, &o, a:, 20'). C. inparing the new works of 1881 with those if 1"2 the gteateetincrea,e is in books ou the arts and scitcces—a rise of 78 ; next stands history and biography with a rise ot ; then come tinsels, tales. and other tction with WI increase of 119; 'awry and the drama with- A growth of 34; voyages and travels with a rise of 6. The increase, on the whole, is counterbalanct d by a falling off of 138 in the issues of j,venile rks and take, sod of 00 is belles lettres; the ooly other classes in which there is a reduction being the educational, classical, and philological works, which show a email reduction of 13, and the medical woi kw with a diminution of 3. In the new editions the issues of 18,4 show an increase of 128 on those of 188.3, including a rise if 60 in the novels, 32 in law and jurisprudence, 22 in arts and sciences, 35 in -poetry and the drama, and 31 in hello' lettres; but there was, reduction of 44 in juvenile works, and several other alight alterations.  The enthronement of Lord Phinket, late Bishop of Meath, as Archbishop of Dublie, took place on Thursday at Christ Church Cathedral, in presence of a very large gatheringof L:slieps, clergy, and laity. The Bishop of Limerick, its senior Diocesan of Southern Province, acted a. ie osecr.itinz prelate, and the service was full choral. Thy ceremony con menced After the special service ter New Yeats' Day, and lasted for about two hours.  (in Thursday Her Majesty's New Year's gifts were distributed in the Riding School, NVindsor Castle, to the poor of Windsor, Holy Trinity, and Clever, in the presence of the clergy and a party from Windsor. The gifts consisted of beef, coals, and blankets, amounting to the value of £.lOO. During the distribution the bells of St. John's Church rang merry peals.  Mr. T. C. Clarmont, of Sandhurst-, a gentleman about 30 years of age, who was staying at the White Hart Hotel, Windsor. commAted suicide on Thorliday. He had been staying at the hotel for some days, and on the proprietor asking him to settle his account, he referred him to his uncle, Major Clisrmont, who was written to, and visited the deceased on Wednesday night, remaining with him until 2 a.m. Mr. Clarmont afterwards went to the stable where his 1,41. e was, and was found lying thtre dead, with a bullet wound in his temole. • _ _  oeuei euuuu The Triumph was commissioned at Portsmouth on Thurvday by Captain 11. Hoffe with a complement of men. She will I. ave in about three weeks to relieve the Swifteure, flag-..hip of Admiral Baird on the Pacific station. So met.t 111 the scarcity or men in the Royal Navy at the prevent time that 100 veidnen had to be lent from the .11inotaur, which will not be leady fur sea for t.b. u ...ix weeks. A terrible crime iv reported from Bapernara, near mina. The pi lust .4 the parish and his brother Lave multreatecl and :rut r.mned their own sister, who when rh,govered wmo food .0 a state of abject misery, reduced to a skeleton, and almost without any covering or raiment. The snotive of the crime seems to have been the deslre of the two brothers to pmms. themselves of thou sister's Lttle fortune, by starving her to death.  A hallke, pau- 1, • 1: - I • MiTtTinti ,Wialsor drow.Li:l.4 L;;:IISlaa.