LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. ONE bookbinder alone in this city, notes the Tribune, has bound 40,000 copies of Tennyson's works since the beginning of last au

tumn.

CARTER, RICE & Co., Boston, have recently published three sizes of floral ball and calendar cards, in a variety of designs, at from $1.25 to $6 per 1000.

JOSEPH GILLOTT & SONS, owing to the official resumption of specie payment, have found it necessary to discard their gold price-list. Orders will be charged at the list rates and a liberal per centage deducted therefrom.

Claxton, RemSEN & HAFFELFINGER suggest to booksellers as they are going over their stock to keep in mind, in filling their Shakespeare shelf, that the Avon is one of the most desirable one-volume editions in the market.

THE new novel by Miss Braddon, "Vixen," nearly ready, will be her thirty-fourth work. The author states that her previous novel, "An Open Verdict," in cheap form, reached the extraordinary sale of 30,000 copies in three months.

"THE Life of Thiers," written for American readers by François Le Goff, and translated by Theodore Stanton, in press by G. P. Putnam's Sons, will contain a portrait on steel of Thiers, a view of his house, and a fac-simile of the last paragraph of his famous “political testament."

DESPISE not the day of small things," suggests the Examiner. "The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,' which has since attained to such magnificent proportions, was published in 1771 by a Scotch printer named William Smellie, in three moderate-sized volumes."

A. S. BARNES & Co. have in preparation the early numbers of the second volume of that remarkably successful book, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb's "History of the City of New York." This second volume is to cover the history of the city from the year 1774 to the present time.

THE AUTHORS' PUBLISHING Co. will issue

early this year a "Complete Scientific Grammar of the English Language," by W. Colegrove, President of West Virginia College. The work will comprise many new and important features, including a defence of phonetics.

LINDSAY & BLAKISTON have nearly ready "Diphtheria," by Dr. Morrell Mackenzie, who pays particular at ention to the nature, treatment, varieties, and local expressions of this disease. A third edition of "The Laryngoscope in Diseases of the Throat," by the same author, is in press.

WE call attention to the advertisement on another page of a well-known bookseller on the Pacific coast, who desires to retire on account of age, and wishes to transfer a business which he warrants safe, healthy, and steadily increasing. He will refer to several leading houses in this city.

"Berühmte Criminalfälle aus der höheren u. niederen Gesellschaft, auf Grund wahrer Thatclass of literature, prominent among whom are sachen dargestellt," by the veterans in this Temme, Rasch, and Loeffler. Thirteen parts, at fifteen cents each, complete the work.

THOMPSON'S "Prayer-Meeting and its Improvement," published by W. G. Holmes, Chicago, is stated to have been one of the most successful books of the past year. Although only published a little over six months ago, a fourth edition will shortly be issued. It has been very highly praised as of practical help.

"SIX Little Rebels" and 66 Johnny's Vacation," by Miss M. E. N. Hathaway, are two books that D. Lothrop & Co. hoped to publish in time for the holidays, but were obliged to postpone to begin the new year with. They belong to that large class of juvenile literature which may fitly be called The Lothrop, and which finds an army of readers.

CHAS. P. SOMERBY will have ready in a few weeks "Faith and Reason: heart, soul,and hand work," by Halsey R. Stevens. The book gives a concise account of the Christian religion from a radical point of view, and of all the prominent religions before and since Christianity. About the same time "The Reign of the Stoics," by an anonymous author, will be ready."

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS announce that the volume of Six Selections from Irving's SketchBook," edited for the use of schools by H. B. Sprague and M. E. Scates, lately published by Messrs. Ginn & Heath, under the authorization of Messrs. Putnam, will hereafter be issued over the joint imprint of the two firms, and orders from the trade or from schools will be filled by either house on the same terms.

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AN original novel of American life and character, published anonymously under the title As it may happen," is nearly ready from the press of Porter & Coates. The ms, or advance sheets have been read by several competent to judge, and all, as may be noted elsewhere, unite in prophesying for it a deserved success. It is said to combine much interest of plot with humor in delineation, and one prophet speaks of it as the American novel we have all of us been waiting for.

JOHN CHURCH & Co., Cincinnati and New York, have now in preparation (to be ready this month) Verdi's Requiem (composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni) for four solo voices and chorus. This is the only American edition of this great work, which the London Standard says may fairly be placed beside the masterpieces of Mozart and Rossini. They have also about ready "The New Choir and Congregation," by Dr. Geo. F. Root, revised and greatly enlarged.

A NEW Dictionary of English Dramatic Literature, as exhaustive as Mr. Collier's, but more critical, to be edited by Theodore Watts, is on the tapis in England. The great names are to be made the subjects of long and elaborate notices, but the work is to be so complete as to serve also as a book of reference. Several writers who have devoted themselves to English dramatic literature, including Mr. Swinburne, Mr. Gosse, Mr. J. Knight, Prof. J. Nichol, and others, are likely to contribute articles.

"THE Secret of Success; or, How to Get on in the World," with some remarks upon

true and false success, and the art of making the best of life, by Wm. Davenport Adams, author of "Memorable Battles," English Party Leaders," etc., is a book in press by G. P. Putnam's Sons, somewhat similar to, and expected to be as attractive as, Prof. Matthews' well-known books. A volume on

Ethics," by President John Bascom, of the University of Wisconsin, is in press by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in continuation of his wellknown series. "A Reading-Book of English Classics," edited for use in schools by the Rev. C. W. Leffingwell, D.D., Rector of St. Mary's School, Knoxville, Ill., and "Poesie für Haus und Schule," a collection of standard German use in poetry, selected and arranged for schools and in the home circle, by L. R. Klemm, are two other important educational announceThe latter forms a companion volume to Miss Brackett's popular collection of "Poetry for Home and School."

ments.

BESIDES Secretary Schurz's Boston address on The Currency of the Country," which is No. II in the series of Economic Monographs, G. P. Putnam's Sons have in preparation as No. 12, "National Banking," by M. L. Scudder, of Chicago, Chairman of the "Honest Money League;" and also a considerable volume, The Currency Question,' from a Southern point of view, by Robert W. Hughes, United States Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, being an argument against the inflationists and the supporters of State banks and local money, which it is hoped will be effective at the South.

POTT, YOUNG & Co. call attention elsewhere to the several valuable series now issuing by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London. The Home Library is planned to furnish good Sunday and general reading; The Fathers for English Readers presents the Apostolic and later apologists in the style of Ancient Classics for English Readers; The Conversion of the West is a religious Epochs of History series, arranged by nations; Non-Christian Religious Systems gives an admirable view of the ethnic religions; and Ancient History from the Monuments is one of the best of recent historical series, the latest volume being on

Sinai.'

S. E. CASSINO (Naturalists' Agency), Salem, Mass., has purchased of Houghton, Osgood & Co. the plates, stock, etc., of "Wild Flowers of America," by Goodale and Sprague. He will reprint the text of the two parts issued by the former publishers to correspond with Ferns of North America," and the price of the parts will be reduced from $5 to $1.50 per part of two plates and text. Subscribers who have the first two parts will be allowed to exchange them free for the corresponding parts with the new text. It is promised that the future plates will be even better than the first ones, and will be first-class water-color paintings.

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HENRY HOLT & Co. promise some pleasant reading for the new year in Frances Anne Kemble's "Records of a Girlhood," of which they will presently issue a handsome one-volume American edition, containing all the matter of the three English volumes, with a lovely portrait of Fanny Kemble as a girl, engraved here for their edition. Her reminiscences of those famous days of the English stage when she herself was a rising star, and of her acquaintance with the most famous people of that time, have already much delighted readers of the Atlantic Monthly, but these articles An index has form only a portion of the book. been prepared for this volume. Henry Holt & Co. also have nearly ready a book on monology and Devil-lore," by Moncure D. Conway, who claims on his title-page a double right to treat of the subject, as both a B.D. of Divinity College, Harvard University, and a member of the Anthropological Institute, London. The book will be one to take rank with E. B. Tylor's important and interesting works on primitive culture and folk-lore, and will make two large volumes, with a number of illustrations depicting various imaginings of His Satanic Majesty.

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A SUPPLEMENTARY chapter to the "Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance,' Music," by Paul Lacroix, is in press abroad.

THE delegates of the Clarendon Press have agreed to publish the English Etymological Dictionary composed by the Philological Society, under the direction of its President, Dr. Murray.

MR. FREDERICK LOCKER is compiling a new volume, to be called " Patchwork," which will be a most miscellaneous assortment of detached

pieces, originally brought together for the col

lector's own amusement.

THE English press is much interested in the announcement that Mr. E. M. Fox, of the New York Herald, is writing a history of the electric light, with special reference to the discoveries of Mr. Edison, who has supplied the requisite particulars and will supervise the entire work.

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'SHADOWS of the Coming Truth," a consideration of the broad aspects of religion, viewed in connection with the doctrines of development, is a new work which will be published immediately by Mr. Elliot Stock, London, and may be expected to attract some attention.

THE Beaconsfield cartoons "from the collection of Mr. Punch" have had a sale of nearly 100,000 copies, and somebody estimates the clear profit at between $15,000 and $20,000. Punch has now issued a similar collection relating to Gladstone and Bright, each volume containing forty cartoons.

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Texas; the Coming Empire. By MCDANIELD and TAYLOR. Narrative of a two thousand mile ride on Horseback through the Lone Star State, with lively descriptions of People, Scenery, and Resources. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

Nine Lectures on Preaching. By Rev. R. W. DALE of England. Delivered at Yale College, October, 1877. Contents: Perils of Young Preachers; The Intellect in relation to Preaching; Reading; Preparation of Sermons; Extemporaneous Preaching; Evangelistic Preaching; Pastoral Preaching; Conduct of Public Worship. 12mo, cloth, bevelled, $1.50.

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A Critical History of the American War. By ASA MAHAN, D.D. 461 pp., 8vo. $3.

Life of P. P. Bliss. By WHITTLE, MOODY and SANKEY. Price, $2.

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