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Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology, by Gustav SAGE, J., 4 Newman's Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

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11 BOUVERIE STREET: May 1859.

NEW WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED PERIODICAL.

ONCE

A WEEK!

A Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, and Popular Information, to be illustrated by LEECH, TENNIEL, MILLAIS, HABLOT K. BROWNE, C. KEENE, WOLF, &c., &c., will be published

every Saturday, price Threepence, by BRADBURY & EVANS. The First Number will appear on the 2d July, 1859.

THE forthcoming Miscellany will include several new features, and will, to some extent, have the pretensions of a novel experiment on the growing demand for cheap periodical Literature. It must shortly be tested by the capacities and opportunities of its Projectors to sustain their conception of its distinctive character. But, in the meantime, a summary statement may indicate, generally, its plan and objects.

In Literature, it will contain the usual chief elements which attract the majority of readers, viz: a considerable proportion of Fiction, including serial tales by Novelists of celebrity, discussions of Social characteristics, History, Biography, Incidents of Travel, and Papers on contemporary or past transactions, in which a wide interest is taken, or which afford lively illustrations of character and manners. Occasional notices of Art, some varieties of verse, selections from English and Foreign Literature, investigations of Natural History, and descriptions of na tural phenomena will be also admissible. But information on the popular aspects of Science and of new Inventions will be especially sought for, and it is confidently hoped, contributed by our most eminent discoverers and scientific authorities.

It is not easy to enumerate all the possible contents on account of their diversity; but stress may be laid generally on obvious resources in the modern department of Pictorial Illustration. These are, to some extent, indicated by the names of the Artists already mentioned, and for the co-operation of whom Mr. JOHN LEECH undertakes all practical arrangements.

In Literature as in Art the best attainable productions are aimed at, subject to the condition that they must interest or amuse a wide public. It is believed that the names of the writers, who will have the option of signing their contributions, will be primâ facie proof that this

object has been attained. The Projectors have received assurances of such valuable aid in this respect, that they might confidently rely on ascertained resources. At the same time they bear in mind the great diversity of capacities available for a publication so comprehensive in its scope; and therefore invite contributions from writers with whom they are unacquainted, and to whom they promise an open field and a liberal recompense for successful efforts. It should be observed that their Miscellany is neither a Newspaper nor a Review, and that they have therefore no obligation to support the views of any party disabilities of clique, and are ready and even solicitous to or school; as a new combination they are free from the enlist aspiring talents. On their part their arrangements are conveniently flexible. They require only that statethese and other materials should be set forth effectively ments of facts should be thoroughly reliable, and that and in good taste. To be scrupulously accurate without being tedious, to be popular without vulgarity, and pointed them, and they will accept the co-operation of any writer without affectation, is the standard they steadily set before who can contribute to its attainment.

It is superfluous to add that there appears to be ample scope for this project without trespassing on the province of any existing periodical. The Projectors seek only to sustain their own conception of the requisite standard of Popular Literature, under the impression that it has yet to be realised by themselves or others; and they expect popular support only in proportion to their success.

All Literary arrangements will be made by the Editor, who is to be addressed, for the present, through the Publishers, Messrs. BRADBURY and EVANS, at their Offices, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street. The Publishers will also receive Orders for the Miscellany itself; and a limited number of Advertisements for insertion in the Wrapper to be issued with it regularly "ONCE A WEEK.”

MR. CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS LATE PUBLISHERS. MESSRS. BRADBURY and EVANS are permitted to avail themselves of the present opportunity to explain the cessation of their connection with Household Words," by which they are at liberty to take part in the establishment of "ONCE A WEEK." Their explanation only concerns themselves, and that only in reference to the close of their relations with Mr. Charles Dickens, as Editor or Conductor of the former work. Although the circumstances have been freely canvassed in various publications, Bradbury and Evans have themselves hitherto made no public statement on the subject; but they now feel that the time has come to break the silence they have maintained, and thus to protect themselves from further misconstruction.

Their connection with "Household Words" ceased against their will, under circumstances of which the following are material:

So far back as 1836, Bradbury and Evans had business relations with Mr. Dickens, and in 1844, an agreement was entered into by which they acquired an interest in all the works he might write, or in any periodical he might originate, during a term of seven years. Under this agreement Bradbury and Evans became possessed of a joint, though unequal, interest with Mr. Dickens in "Household Words," commenced in 1850. Friendly relations had simultaneously sprung up between them, and they were on terms of close intimacy in 1858, when circumstances led to Mr. Dickens's publication of a statement, on the subject of his conjugal differences, in various newspapers, including "Household Words" of June the 12th.

The public disclosure of these differences took most persons by surprise, and was notoriously the subject of comments, by no means complimentary to Mr. Dickens himself, as regarded the taste of this proceeding. On the 17th June, however, Bradbury and Evans learnt from a common friend, that Mr. Dickens had resolved to break off his connection with them, because this statement was not printed in the number of "Punch" published the day preceding in other words, because it did not occur to Bradbury and Evans to exceed their legitimate functions as Proprietors and Publishers, and to require the insertion of statements on a domestic and painful subject in the inappropriate columus of a comic miscellany. No previous request for the insertion of this statement had been made either to Bradbury and Evans, or to the Editor of "Punch," and the grievance of Mr. Dickens substantially amounted to this, that Bradbury and Evans did not take upon themselves, unsolicited, to gratify an eccentric wish by a preposterous action.

Mr. Dickens, with ample time for reflection, persisted in the attitude he had taken up, and in the following November, sum

moned a meeting of the Proprietors of " Household Words." He did not himself attend this meeting; but a literary friend of Mr. Dickens came to it as his representative, and announced there, officially, that Mr: Dickens, in consequence of the nonappearance in Punch" of his statement, considered that Bradbury and Evans had shown such disrespect and want of good faith towards him, as to determine him, in so far as he had the power, to disconnect himself from them in business transac◄ tions; and the friend above mentioned, on the part of Mr. Dickens, accordingly moved a resolution dissolving the partnership, and discontinuing the work on May 28. Bradbury and Evans replied that they did not, and could not believe that this was the sole cause of Mr. Dickens's altered feeling towards them; but they were assured that it was the sole cause, and that Mr. Dickens desired to bear testimony to their integrity and zeal as his publishers, but that his resolution was formed, and nothing would alter it. Bradbury and Evans repeatedly pressed Mr. Dickens's friend upon this point, but with no other result.

Thus, on this ground alone, Mr. Dickens put an end to personal and business relations of long standing; and by an unauthorised and premature public announcement of the cessation of" House hold Words," he forced Bradbury and Evans to an unwilling recourse to the Court of Chancery to restrain him from such proceedings, thereby injuring a valuable property, in which others besides himself were interested. In fact, by his mode of proceeding, he inflicted as much injury as his opportunities permitted. Not having succeeded in purchasing the share of his partners at his own price, he depreciated the value of this share by all the agencies at his cominand. By publicly announcing (s0 far as the Court of Chancery permitted) his intention to discontinue the publication of "Household Words;" by advertising a second work of a similar class under his management, by producing it, and by making it as close an imitation as was legally safe of "Household Words," while that publication was actually still issuing, and still conducted by him; he took a course calculated to reduce the circulation and impair the prospects of a common property; and if he inflicted this injury on his partners, it is no compensation to them that he simultaneously sacrificed his own interests in the publication he is about to suppress.

"Household Words" having been sold on the 16th inst, under a decree in Chancery, Bradbury and Evans have no further interest in its continuance, and are now free to make this personal statement, and to associate themselves in the establishment of" ONCE A WEEK.'

May, 1859.

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General Record of British and Foreign Literature

CONTAINING A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF

ALL NEW WORKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN

← NOTICE.-The Number of the Publishers' Circular for July 15th will be devoted to

EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE,

and will contain Lists of Books and other articles suited for School and College use,
from all the principal Publishers.

Advertisers will find this a good opportunity for bringing their Books and other
Educational articles under the notice of those engaged in tuition, as a copy of the
Circular will be sent to every College and School throughout the Country.

Advertisers of a page and upwards may be supplied with a few extra copies gratuitously; and any Bookseller wishing copies for distribution, can be supplied with them, in Wrappers, with their Names and Addresses printed thereon, if ordered two days before the date of publication, on the following terms:

100 copies........

..16s.

50 copies........

.10s.

47 LUDGATE HILL: June 15, 1859.

HE issue of new books in all departments of Literature, during the last fortnight, evinces

I how little, after recovering from the first slight alarm, the war affects us, and how greatly

we all rely upon our rulers, whoever they may be, maintaining our neutrality.

There is an unusual good supply of new books and new editions. Looking over our list of titles, the following appear amongst the most noteworthy :

In Literature, Art, and Science.-Recollections, by Samuel Rogers, in 1 vol. fcp. 8vo. ; Masson's British Novelists and their Styles, 1 vol. post 8vo.; the First Volume of Whiston's Edition of Demosthenes, in the Bibliotheca Classica; Dr. Bucknill's Psychology of Shakspere; Dyce's Strictures on Mr. Collier's 1858 edition of Shakspere, in small. 8vo.; the Shakspere Sonnets, with Introduction and Notes; Blaikie's Old Faces in New Masks, illustrated by Cruikshank; Rambles amongst Words, their Poetry, History, and Wisdom, by William Swinton, fep. 8vo.; Madame Schimmelpenninck's Beauty in Nature and Art, post 8vo.; the Sixth Part of Mr. Dickes's beautifully coloured Studies from the Great Artists (a series deserving very general support); the Rev. Baden Powell's The Order of Nature considered, 8go Dresser's Unity in Variety in the Vegetable Kingdom, 8vo.; Telescope Teaching, by Ward, illustrated imp. 16mo.; and the First and Second Parts of a new scientific work, of great promised value in its department, Coal, Coke, and Coal Fields (comprising the winning and working of

NEW

varieties of coal, mine-surveying, and government inspection), and Iron, its Ores and Processes of Manufacture throughout Great Britain, France, Belgium, &c., by W. Fordyce.

In History and Biography.-The Second Volume of Chalmers's Historical Account of Dunfermline; History of Progress in Great Britain, by Philp; The Italian Campaigns of the first Napoleon, 1796-1800, edited by Hooper; The Leaders of the Reformation, by Tulloch; The Life of the Rev. W. H. Stowell, in 1 vol. cr. 8vo.; and Woman, Past and Present, by Wade, in 1 vol. In Travel and Research.— First Impressions of the New World, by Two Travellers from the Old, in 1 vol. post 8vo.; Rambles at the Antipodes, 12mo.; The Religious Condition of the Chinese, by Edkin, 12mo.; A Journal kept in Turkey and Greece, in 1857-58, by Mr. Nassau W Senior, post 8vo.; and Things New and Old, or Life in California and India, post 8vo.

In Theology.-The First Part of the Fourth Volume of Dean Alford's Greek Testament; Sermons by F. D. Maurice, entitled What is Revelation? post 8vo.; Dr. M'Causland's Latter Days of Jerusalem and Rome, 1 vol. 8vo.; Beginnings of the Divine Life, by Reynolds; The Acts of the Apostles, translated by Dr. Giles; Sermons by Glover, in 2 vols.; Twelve Sermon: by Segneri, translated by Ford, 2d series; Sermons at the Special Services at St. Paul's, 12mo.; Quaker Difficulties, a Friendly Dialogue, crown 8vo.; Bible Lessons, or Type and Antitype, by Thorn; Notes on the Apocalypse, as explained by Scripture; and Fletcher's Devotional Exercises, small 4to.

Parliamentary and Political.-Dod's and Hardwicke's Guides to the New House of Commons; Kennedy on the Defences of Great Britain and Ireland; Our Naval Position and Policy, by a Nav Peer, in 8vo.; and Lavallée's Military Topography of Continental Europe, edited, with notes, ty Col. J. E. Jackson, in fep. 8vo.

In Poetry.-Ballantine's 100th Birthday of Burns, imp. 8vo.; Lays of Judah, by Frame: Halse's Pastoral and other Poems; Pitman's Hymns and Canticles; Langford's Poems of the Fields and the Town; Poems by Eldred; Leoline, and Lyrics of Life, by Bradbury; Lyrics of Life, by Farrar; Herrick's Poetical Works, with Memoir by Walford; Poems, by G. F. Preston; and Celebs the Younger in Search of a Wife, or the Drawing-room Troubles of Moody Robinson, Esq., illustrated by C. A. Doyle.

In Fiction.-Through the Shadows, in 3 vols., by the Author of Sydney Grey; Ebb and Flow. in 3 vols.; Chances and Changes, in 1 vol.; Confessions of a Too-Generous Young Lady; Mother's Trial, by the Author of Discipline of Life; Some Years After, a Tale; and Who is to have it? each in 1 vol.

Translations from the French, M. About's Roman Question; De Boismont's Hallucina tions translated by Hulme.

The New Editions comprise amongst others, Johnston's Gazetteer and Dictionary of Ger graphy, in 1 vol.; Sydney Smith's Works, People's Edition, complete in 2 vols. crown 8ve.; Eliza Cook's Poems, illustrated; Rita, an Autobiography; Mrs. Jameson's Sisters of Charity: Life of Mrs. Winslow. 2d editions of Arnold's First Verse Book; of Adams's Guide to the Channel Islands; of Evans's Biography of the Early Church, in 2 vols. ; of Hawker's Edition of the Book of Psalms, with Headings and Notes; of Maddyn's Chiefs of Parties, in 2 vols.; of Our Farm of Four Acres, and What we made by it; of the Life of Edward Barnes, by his Son; and of Maguire's Rome, its Ruler and its Institutions. A 3d of Mylore's Ecclesiastes, 18m. of Mrs. Gaskell's North and South, in crown 8vo. A 4th of Adam Bede, in 2 vols.: Henrietta's Wish, or Domineering; of Pollock's Practice of the County Courts. A 5th of Contin seau's Prosateurs et Poètes Français; and of Dr. Hook's Holy Thoughts and Prayers. A 6th of Winslow's Personal Declension and Revival of Religion; of Archbold's Justice of Peace and Parish Officer, Vols. 1 and 2. A 7th of Andrews's Latin Lexicon, 8vo.

Messrs. Longman and Co. continue their list of announcements with the following:-Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of all Nations, from Jacob Cats and Rober Farley, the Illustrations freely rendered from designs found in their Works, by John Leight and engraved under his superintendence; Biographical Sketches of Twenty-three great Empers, Kings, and Conquerors, condensed from European and Asiatic History, for Juvenile Readers by F. A. Utterton; Ancient History of Egypt, Assyria, and Persia, by the Author of Amy Her bert, for the use of Young Persons; A Manual of Operative Surgery on the Dead Boy, with Illustrations by Thomas Smith, Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital; Shakspeares Medical Knowledge, by J. C. Bucknill, M.D., Author of The Psychology of Shakspeare.

A new serial Work, entitled Plain or Ringlets? by the Author of Sponge's Tour, As Mamma, &c., to be completed in thirteen monthly numbers, uniform with Sponge's Tour, was coloured Illustrations and Woodcuts by John Leech, is announced by Messrs. Bradbury Evans.

Mr. Bentley announces, Tales from Bentley, following of course the idea that would naturally suggest itself upon Messrs. Blackwood's publication; for few serials, especially during the firs few volumes, are richer in papers for Railway volumes than the Miscellany-Ingolds Legends, to-wit, amongst others. We hear that the cheap reissue of the latter favourites, in t volume, has attained a sale of 21,000 within twelve months.

The Rev. Charles Kingsley has fulfilled the intention he expressed in his Two Years Age, editing a new and revised edition of that "very noble romance," The Fool of Quality, which #25 so popular "sixty years since." It will be published in a few days, by Messrs. Smith, Elder, an Co., in two volumes, with a biographical preface by Mr. Kingsley, and a portrait of the author. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A., embracing a summary of the Enlis