Prue's pocket-book, etc., see Hamilton, Kate W. Random arrows: poems, see Hempstead, Fay. Reason and infidelity, see McDermott, H. F. Reid, J. D. (361) The telegraph in America, 8°. $6. N. Y., Derby Bros. Reigart, J. F. (363) History of the first U. S. flag, 4°, pap., 50 c.... Harrisburg, Pa., Lane S. Hart. Reign of God, see Bacon, T. S. Repertorium (355) oratoris, sacri 4 v. 8°, $10.. Fr. Pustet. Rice, Harvey, (360) Select poems, 16°, $1.50.....Lee & S. 50 C.... Richardson, B. W. (362) Total abstinence, 16°, pap., Robin Hood's miracle, etc., see Butterworth, H. H. Rock of ages, see Toplady, A. M. Rocky Mountains, In the, see Kingston, W. H. G. Rotherham, J. B., see Bible, New Testament. Royal invitation, see Havergal, Frances R. Royal Lowrie, see Merriwether, Magnus. Ruskin, Bibliography of, see Shepherd, R. H. Ruskin, John, see Tuthill, Mrs. Louisa C. Ryder, Edward (361) The morning star; poem, 120, $1. N. Y., Putnam's Sons. Sand, George (360) Fanchon the cricket [new issue], 16°, $1; pap., 50 c.... Phil, Peterson. Sandeau, Jules (361) Madeleine: a story, from the French (Tales from foreign tongues), sq. 12°, $1.50. Chic., Jansen, McClurg & Co. - (362) Madeleine: a love story, sq. 16°, $1; pap.. 50 c. Phil., Peterson. Sanders, O. S. (357) Essay on menstruation and ovula- See also Bible, Commentary. Schedler, J. (356) Manual for the use of globes, il., 12°, 50 c. pap., 25 c... N. Y., E. Steiger Schiller, F. v. (362) Egmont's Leben u. Tod, etc., ed. with Eng. notes by C. A. Buchheim (German classics) (Clarenden press ser.), 16°, $1.-(357) Wilhelm Tell, tr. into Eng. verse by E. Massie, 16°, $2.. N. Y., Macmillan. Schueth, H., Leitfaden f. deutschen Sprachunterricht, Sewall, F. (361) Angelo, the circus boy, 12°, $1. Seymour and vicinity, see Sharpe, W. C. Sheldon, G. W. (358), American Painters, il., 4°, $7. Appleton. Shelley, P. B. (357) Minor poems, 160, $1.75; hf. cf., 83 ; tree cf., $5.. Bost., Little, Brown & Co. See also Symonds, J. A. Shelton, Kesiah (357) Our Pegotties (Satchel ser.), 16°. ...........N. Y., Authors' Pub. Co. Shepherd, R. H. (363) Bibliography of Ruskin, 80. 75 c. N. Y., Wiley & Sons. pap., 25 c Shepherd's manual, see Stewart, H. Skene, A. J. C. (357) Diseases of the bladder and urethra Sorrow (The) of a secret, see Hay, Mary C. Southern household companion, see Edgeworth, Mrs. Sportsman's gazetteer, see Hallock, C. ...... Steam engine, Relative proportions of, see Marks, W. D. from the hist. of Rome, see Beesly, Mrs. Story of a cat, see La Bedollièrre, Emile de. 1 (355) Story (361) of Cecil and his dog [new issue], il., 12°, $1.25. ...N. Y., Jas. Miller. Stowe, H. B. (361) Uncle Tom's cabin, new ed., il., 12°, $3.50.. ..Bost., Houghton, Osgood & Co. Studio arts (The), see Johnson, Elizabeth W. Stwin, Adam (362) Eyes right, il., sq. 8°, bds., $1.25. Bost., D. Lothrop & Co. Sunday-school lessons for young Israelites, see Lyons. Swedenborg and Channing, see Barrett, B. F. Sweetser, M. F. Artist biographies, ca. 24°, 50 c. A. M. W. Turner.-(360) Landseer-Leonardo da Vinci. (361) Washington Allston-Fra Angelico. Bost., Houghton, O. & Co. Swinton, W. (357) Condensed history of the U. S., rev. ed., 12°, t90 c... .................N. Y., Ivison, B., T. & Co. Switzerland, see Raden, W. Symonds, J. A. (360) Shelley (English men of letters, ed. by J. Morley), 12°, 75 c... ..N. Y., Harper. Tait, C. W. A. (357) Analysis of English hist.. based on Green's short hist., 16°, $1.25........N. Y., Macmillan. Tales from foreign tongues, see Sandeau, Jules. Talmage, T. DeWitt (362) Night sides of city life, 120, pap., 50 c...... ...Chic., J. Fairbanks & Co. Talmud, Sketch of, see Sepher-Yezirah. Taylor, Bayard (360) Prince Deukalion, sq. 8°, $3. Bost., Houghton, O. & Co. Telegraph (The) in America, see Reid, J. D. Electro-magnetic, see Loring, A. E. Telford, Mary J. and others (363) Mark at Lake Ranche, etc., il., 16°, 75 C.... Bost., D. Lothrop & Co. Temperaments (The), see Jacques, D. H. Terhune, Mrs. M. V., see Harland, Marion. That night at Lower bay, etc., see Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T. Balt., L. B. Thomas. by Schmolze [new N. Y., Jas. Miller Through Bible lands, see Schaff, P. Towle, G. M. (362) Pizarro: his adventures, etc. (Young folks' beroes of hist.), il., 16°, $1.........Bost., Lee & S. Trigonometry, Plane, Elements of, see Wheeler, N. H. Trotty's pocket (363), il., 16o, bds., 25 c... Bost., Lothrop. True, C. K. (357) Life and times of John Knox-Memoirs of John Howard, ea. 16°, $1.25. Cinc., Hitchcock & Walden; N. Y., Nelson & Phillips. True blue, see Bell, Mrs. Lucia C. True men as we need them, see O'Reilly, B. Tupper, M. F. (361) Proverbial philosophy, new ed., 16°, $1.. ...Phil., Lippincott. Turner, J. M. W. (Artist biogs.), see Sweetser, M. F. Turner's liber studiorum, see Rawlinson, W. G. Turkey, European, Races of, see Clark, E. L. Tuthill, Mrs. Louisa C. (ed.) Pearls for young ladies; from the later works of John Ruskin, $2....N. Y., Wiley. "Twas in Trafalgar's bay, see Besant, W. and Rice, J. Two friends (The), see Biart, Lucian. Two wide-awake dolls, etc., see Ledyard, Hope. Tyler, M. C. (361) History of Am. literature, 2 v. sq. 8°, $5... .......N. Y., Putnam's Sons. Tyrant Tom, etc., see Branch, Mary L. B. and others. Uncle Tom's cabin, see Stowe, H. B. United States army, Quartermaster's dept., see Hewitt, E. W. and Coleman, W. E. - flag, Hist. of the first, see Reigart, J. F. -history, A condensed, see Swinton, W. - law directory, see Martindale, J. B. Van Laun, H. (356) The French revolutionary epoch, 2 v. Vinci, Leonardo da, see Sweetser, M. F. Bost., S. W. Tilton & Co. Warner, Susan (361) The King's people, 5 v., il., 16°, $7. N. Y., R. Carter & Bros. Washburn, Ichabod, Autobiog. of, see Cheever, H. T. Water babies (The), see Kingsley, C. Water gipsies, see Meade, L. T. Weaving by hand and power, see Barlow, A. Webster, Augusta (362) A housewife's opinion, 12°, $2. N. Y., Macmillan. Wells, E. M. P., Memoir of, see Francis S. W. Wesley, C. (363) Jesus, lover of my soul, il., sq. 16°, $1. Bost., D. Lothrop & Co. Westcott, Blanche (362) Jean; or, clouds with a silver lining, 120, $1.25...... ..Phil., Lippincott. Westminster (361) question book, International ser. for 1879, 24°, bds., 5 c. Phil., Presb. Bd. Weston, G. M. (363) The silver question, sq. 8°. $1.25. N. Y., I. S. Homans. Wetherell, H. J. (357) The admiral's daughter: operetta, fol., bds., $2.50.. Cinc. and N. Y., J. Church & Co What Johnny found, see Burney, L. Wheeler, N. H. (357) Elements of plane trigonometry, [rev. ed.], 12° +75 c.... .....Bost., Ginn & Heath. White, G. C. (362) School ser. of industrial drawing, freehand, prep. by H. P. Smith, 6 nos., obl. 8°, pap., nos. 1-3, ea., 12 c.; nos. 4-6, ea., 15 c.N. Y., Ivison, B., T. & Co. White, Lucy C. [Mrs. John Lillie] (363) Story of Eng lish literature for young readers: Chaucer to Cowper, il. 12°, $1.25... Whitman, Sarah H. (360) Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T. cook-books, 16°, $t.. ..Bost., D. Lothrop & Co. Poems, 12°, $1.50. Bost., Houghton, O. & Co. (361) Just how; a key to the .Bost., Houghton, Ó. & Co. at Lower Bay, etc., il., 16o, Bost., D. Lothrop & Co. - and others (363) That night 75 C..... - see also Corbett, Mrs. E. T. Whipple, E. P. (356) Some recollections of Rufus Choate, 32°, pap., 15 c.. ..N. Y., Harper. Widow's trust (The), see Gale, Mrs. Martha T. Willing, Mrs. Chas. (361) Genevieve of Brabant: a legend in verse, il., sq. 8°, $2.50 ...... Phil., Lippincott. Wilson, J. V. (362) How to magnetize, rev. ed., 24°, pap., 25 C.... .....N. Y., S. R. Wells & Co. Winslow, Octavius (356) Help heavenward, new issue, 24°, 75 C... N. Y., R. Carter & Bros. With axe and rifle, see Kingston, W. H. G. Wolowski, L., see Roscher, W. Woman's thoughts (A) about men, see Brinkley, Mrs. Hugh. Woman's word (A), see Townsend, Virginia F. Wonnberger, C., Festgesänge auf Weihnachten, 2d ed., Wordsworth: a study, see Calvert, G. H. — (362) Same, 4o, pap., 1o c.... — (363) Young folks' hist. of England, il., 12°, $1.50. Young folk's heroes of hist.. see Towle, G. M. The Publishers' Weekly. F. LEYPOLDT, Bibliographical Editor. JANUARY 18, 1879. PUBLISHERS are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness in the final entry. The trade are invited to send "Communications" to the editor on any topic of interest to the trade, and as to which an interchange of opinion is desirable. Also, matter for "Notes and Queries." Notes from librarians will also be gratefully received. In case of business changes, notification or card should be immediately sent to this office for entry under "Business Notes." New catalogues issued will also be mentioned when forwarded. A WORD TO BOTH SIDES. We have received this year, perhaps in greater quantity than ever before-and that is saying a great deal numerous newspaper clippings and private letters showing the demoralization of the trade and the impossibility of making any sort of a living out of selling books, especially in view of the direct competition of publishers They are well founded, and if we do not print them, it is chiefly because we cannot give to them the space they demand, in view of the little effect their publication has in the quarters where an effect is desired. We are glad to have such letters, even if they are not printed, as valuable data for editorial discussions, at which we mean to keep pegging away goodnaturedly until things are bettered, or until the millennial wave sweeps away ourselves and our perplexities together. THIS issue includes the monthly lists for November and December, the two in one alphabet, forming a key to a large part of the books of the fall; the title page and index are mailed with it. A press of business has compelled the delay of these lists; hereafter we hope to give the monthly list always in the first issue of the month succeeding. Next week's number will be the Annual Summary Number, indexing all the books of 1878 advertised in the publishers' individual pages. This is one of the most important trade helps of the year; we hope that all publishers will be represented, and that their copy may be sent at once, to give time for the indexing. POSTAL MATTERS. THE order recently issued by the Post Office Department declaring that the products of the papyrographic, electric-pen, and type-writer processes must pay letter rates of postage under the law has been temporarily suspended so far as the papyrograph and electric pen processes are concerned, as per the following letter: WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15, 1879. Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: SIR There has been no decision made reversing the ruling obliging the processes mentioned in your communication to pay letter rates of postage. An order has been issued merely to suspend such rule until the 4th of March, unless Congress shall sooner act upon the pending Respectfully, Postal Bill. E. C. FOWLER, for First Assistant Postmaster-General. "THE CLIMAX OF A LIFE." WE publish, without charge, as an interesting reminiscence of the holidays, the following specimen of trade literature, which we clip from the advertising columns of an exchange. should be read in view of the fact that after previous announcements of this same sort a It few years ago, the dealer in question made a present to numerous creditors of-how many cents on the dollar was it? I, WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, where I have been established for more than twenty years, do hereby make known and declare that I now propose to make one more GRAND BOOK SALE on But we want just here to say a word in deprecation of too melancholy a view of the situation-a view which holds people back from bettering themselves. The retailer complains of the publisher for undercutting him, and he is right. On the other hand, the publisher complains that the retailer don't push his books as he should, and he also is right. Let us better matters on both sides, good sirs,-and let each side begin by bettering its own end. Times are never so bad but that they may be improved by hard work, by pluck and push, by careful thought and attention to making a store attractive and compelling customers to come again. Moreover, we hope all of us that we are getting past the down-hill years and coming to reason-binding, and then present a gift to every buyer, ably good times again, and with them will come, we venture to prophesy, not only improved business, but improved methods of business. We shall return to this view of the subject again. the equal of which has not yet been seen free of any charge whatever. The GRAND four-dollar books, comprising the choicest literature of the age, all for one dollar each; let the people take their choice, and then present a gift of value free with every book. I have some very elegant books that I will sell two for a dollar, and a free gift to the buyer. THE GRAND LIST OF PRESENTS which I have and shall select to give the people who patronize this sale are, in quantity and kind, equal to the magnitude of the sale, and are of the most elegant description. And let it be distinctly understood that in giving away these presents or gifts I shall always use my own discretion and judgment in regard to the article I shall give to each bookbuyer, giving some one thing, some another thing, as my own judgment dictates. There will be no chance, uncertainty, or waiting concerning them, but every present will be delivered immediately on the purchase of a book. Great preparations have been made for this my last grand sale. I have already paid the great jewellers, Palmer, Bachelder & Co., of Boston, over $15,000 in cash for gold and silver watches, and shall give away many Gold and Silver Watches each day of the sale, for I intend to make this sale the grand climax of my life. I have also purchased many diamond rings for this sale. Each ring is a Blazing, Sparkling Gem, set in Solid Gold. Now let all the people read and see that the choicest Books, by the best authors, are for sale at a price never before known under the sun, and a gift of value with every book. OBITUARY. MICHAEL J. KELLY. THE announcement of the death of Mr. Michael J. Kelly, of the firm of Kelly, Piet & Co., Baltimore, will be read with regret by his many friends in the trade. Mr. Kelly died on the morning of the 9th inst., the immediate cause being pneumonia, with which he was attacked on the last day of the old year. Mr. Kelly was born in County Galway, Ireland, in October, 1812, and seven years later came with his parents to this country, landing in British America. They made their home there for a brief period, and then came to Baltimore, where they permanently settled. Mr. Kelly in early life went into the dry-goods business with a Mr. Williams, the firm being Williams & Kelly. Their place of business was situated on Baltimore Street, near Liberty. On the 1st of February, 1849, he entered as a partner into the publishing house of Murphy & Co. After ten years' experience in the details of the book and stationery trade, he joined the firm of Hedian & Piet, continuing the business with John B. Piet after the death of Mr. Hedian. Mr. Kelly was always known as a consistent and practical business man, and his death will be a loss to the trade. U.D WARD. THIS well-known bookseller and publisher died on New Year's Day, at his residence in Roseville, near Newark, N. J. He was within a day of 61 years, having been born January 2d, 1818. He was a native of Bloomfield, N, J., and belonged to an old family that were among the first settlers in Essex Co. He had been more or less connected with the book trade for thirty years. He began the business as repositary of the American and Foreign Bible Society on Broome Street, New York. On the removal of the business of the Society to 115 Nassau Street, it took a larger and more miscellaneous shape. It was afterwards removed to No. 116 in the same street. In 1868 he became bookseller for the Baptist Publication Society, at 76 Ninth street. In 1872 he severed his connection with the Publication Society and returned to his favorite place of business, Nassau Street, and resumed his place as bookseller for the American and Foreign Bible Society, at 150 Nassau Street. Of late his business was chiefly in the Sunday-school and juvenile branches of the trade. He was also the publisher of some books mostly in the same line of business. He had established an excellent character for honesty, frankness, civility, and fair-dealing. He will be much missed by his business friends and acquaintances. The business will be continued by his son, Mr. Samuel H. D. Ward, and Mr. Jas. L. Drummond, who has been 16 years connected in trade with his lamented friend. PERSONAL MENTION. & Co., equally skilled as a literary and an art Mr. S. R. KOEHLER, formerly with L. Prang workman, is at present in New York, with several art-publication plans in prospect. MAJOR A. G. CONSTABLE, for many years connected with Messrs. Harper & Brothers, delivered a lecture before the American Geographical Society, on Tuesday evening, on "Afghanistan, the present seat of war, and the relations of that country to England and Russia," an excellent audience filling Chickering Hall. Major Constable is a son of Archibald Constable, Walter Scott's publisher and friend, and was formerly in the British army. LEON, IOWA.-Porter & Porter, booksellers, stationers, etc., were burnt out a few days ago. NEW YORK CITY.-The firm of Koch, Sons & Co. expired by its own limitation, December 31st, 1878. A new partnership was formed, January Ist, consisting of all the members of the old firm except Bernhard J. Beck, who retires from the business. It will be continued under the old firm-name by John C. Koch, John V. Koch, and William C. Horn. NORWICH, CONN.-M. Safford & Co.'s loss by the fire in their book and stationery store recently is said to be covered by the insur ance. TORONTO, CAN.-John Bain, of the firm of James Bain & Son, booksellers, died recently. PARKMAN'S "Jesuits in the New World" has recently been translated into German by Friedrich Kapp, who had previously translated his "Pioneers of France." "We are glad" says the Examiner," that a historian who is entitled to take rank with Prescott and Motley is winning that reputation abroad which he seems strangely to miss at home." IN a lecture recently delivered in London, Mr. Frederic Harrison estimated that in the choice of books for constant use the authors represented need not number more than one or two hundred in the four departments of poetry, history, science, and religion. The aim should be to gather into one collection "the greatest and best books in each department, and such only." He further said that as to which the best hundred or so books were, the world had long been pretty well agreed. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. A NEW novel by Miss Mulock, "Young Mrs. Jardine," begins in the February Harper's Mag zine. Mendelssohn's letters to Madame Moscheles, heretofore unpublished, are given in the same number. THE Circulation of 90,000 copies, attributed to St. Nicholas, is properly that of Scribner's Monthly, which, with the new year, prints that edition. That of St. Nicholas is not far behind, exceeding, we believe, 65,000. UNDER the title of "Hebraica," a monthly supplement to The Jewish Messenger has just been issued, which will be devoted to Hebrew literature and the science of the Bible. It is edited by Dr. A. S. Isaacs. Bancroft's Christmas Messenger is a handsome octavo of 34 pages with a pretty cover in three colors, drab, black, and white. Illustrated pages and reading matter devoted to current books and holiday gifts, seven pages of lists, and a number of publishers' advertisements fill out the body of this elegant catalogue. The publishers, Messrs. A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, have certainly shown a satisfactory enterprise in this tasteful production. THE Athenæum for December 28th presents its usual valuable series of articles on Continental Literature during 1878. Among them are Belgium, by MM. E. de Laveleye and P. Fredericq; Bohemia, by Prof. Durdik; Denmark, by M. V. Petersen; France, by M. G. Masson; Germany, by Hofrath Zimmermann; Holland, by E. van Campen; Hungary, by Prof. Vámbéry Italy, by Prof. de Gubernatis; Norway, by M. K. A. Winter-Hjelm; Portugal, by M. Ť. Braga; Russia, by Mr. E. Schuyler; Spain, by Señor Riano; and Sweden, by Dr. Meijer. THE Atlantic portrait of Lowell calls forth universal encomiums. Mr. George William Curtis says: "The expression is most characteristic, and those who have hitherto known the poetry and not the poet wi'l like the poetry | all the more now that they have seen the poet in so true a likeness." Mr. E. P. Whipple says: The face is full of expression. It seems to me his genius, will prize this portrait." Mr. Charles that every friend of Lowell, and every lover of Dudley Warner calls it "a noble portrait of our Minister to Spain, poet, satirist, essayist, scholar." Mr. Emerson says: "I hope he will not stay long abroad, but this excellent portrait will be a faithful remembrancer now and hereafter of his noontide person, and a treasure to his friends and countrymen.' THE first number is before us of The Catholic Presbyterian, to_be_published monthly in this country by A. D. F. Randolph & Co., in con nection with Jas. Nisbet & Co., London. It is in very neat style, an octavo of 80 pages, and the editorial strength of those associated in its conduct gives assurance that it will be both able and attractive. The American Advisory Committee includes Rev. William Adams, D.D LL.D., Rev. John Hall, D.D., and Rev. T. W Chambers, D.D., of New York City; Rev. A. A. Hodge, D.D., Princeton; Rev. F. L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., Chicago, and others from the West and South. A paper from the late David Livingstone, and others by the editor, Prof. W. G. Blaikie; by Dr. De Pressensé, by Dr. Schaff, and by Prof. E. D. Morris, help to make an excellent initial number. The price is $3 per year, and specimen copies can be had of the publishers. The new magazine repre sents a wide field and should meet with suc cess. " THE International Review, as well as the North American, will hereafter be issued as a monthly on a somewhat new plan, intended to make it foremost of its kind. With the March number the editorship will be assumed by Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., author of the "Life of Alexander Hamilton," "Famous Trials," etc., etc., and by Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, formerly editor of the North American Review, and author of the "Life of George Cabot." Mr. Henry B. Barnes, the present editor, will retain his connection with the Review more esMessrs. A. S. Barnes & Co. still remain the probusiness editor and manager. pecially as prietors, and the rumors of a sale are not true. A unique and attractive feature of the Review is the department of Contemporary Literature, hensive summary of the literary movement in which embraces a brief, impartial, and compreall the great countries of Christendom. The price remains at $5 per year, single numbers being now 50 cents. |