which practically allows less than two and a half months for the manufacture in New York, Boston, etc., and less than two months in some of the Western States, whence opposition to a treaty with that limit of time may come." HAMILTON FISH.

"IT seems to me that your proposal is an admirable one, and that, if carried out, it would settle the matter to the satisfaction and benefit of both parties." E. P. WHIPPLE.

"I TRUST that your proposal for a joint commission will be so supported and urged as to induce our own government and that of Great Britain to appoint such a commission to consider and report upon the subject, and to propose the terms of an international copyright treaty between the United States and Great Britain.

"The time seems especially favorable for this work. The difficulties are clearly understood, and the temper of publishers and authors on both sides of the Atlantic is now such that a succesful solution of them seems within reach. "It is in the interest of the people of both nations that a copyright treaty should be negotiated, and you will deserve their thanks for your powerful efforts to secure one."

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POST-OFFICE DECISIONS RELATING TO PUBLISHERS.

From Post-Office Gazette (May, 1878).

I. DEALERS in publications of the second class are entitled to return unsold copies at the pound rates, but must pay transient rates on all other

matter.

10. Sample copies of any legitimate publication of the second class are now entitled to pass in the mails at the pound rates. Several copies of different publications may be mailed in one wrapper to one address, but publishers should be careful that no third-class matter accompanies them, such as advertising-sheets, separate advertisements, handbills, etc., and that nothing is printed or written on the wrappers except as provided in sec. 22, act March 3, 1879.

11. Copies made by the "metalograph process" are clearly reproductions by means other than handwriting, and therefore, when not of the character of "actual and personal correspondence," such reproductions are entitled to pass as third-class matter.

25. No objection is perceived to publishers of genuine publications of the second class printing the word "from" as a prefix to the matter to be printed on wrappers under the provisions of sec. 22, act March 3, 1879.

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27. After May 1, 1879, all manuscript must pay letter postage, except it be accompanied by proof-sheets or corrected proof-sheets.

34. The rate of postage on a book-agent specimen copy, with the name of subscriber written thereon, is three cents for each halfounce or fraction thereof.

LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. THE third volume of J. R. Green's "History of the English People," library edition, is nearly ready at Harper & Brothers'.

THE publication of the "Life of Curtis" and "Great Speeches of Daniel Webster" is postponed by Little, Brown & Co. until next fall.

A. WILLIAMS & Co. pride themselves modestly and very justly on the handsome style in which they have brought out Rev. W. W. Newton's "Essays of To-Day."

WE were in error in stating that Messrs. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. proposed to supply the trade with the "canvass back" Vest Pocket books; these have been bound up for their retail trade.

R. H. CONWELL is writing, for Lee & Shepard to publish by and by, a "Life of Daniele Manin," the famous Venetian patriot, whose story

is one of the noblest and most instructive of modern times.

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J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. have issued in uniform style "Gil Blas" in three volumes, and Don Quixote" in four, at $1 per volume. Their four-volume edition of Byron has been reduced to $5.

LEE & SHEPARD have "on foot" a summer story, telling the adventures of a gentleman who, on a bet of $5000, walked in the guise of a professional tramp from New York to New Orleans in twenty-five days.

THE next volume in Mr. Towle's series, which now includes biographies of Vasco da lan. This is a series that can hardly fail to find Gama and Pizarro, will be devoted to Magela host of readers, unless boys have changed very much lately.

A CENTENARY edition of the poetical works of Thomas Moore will be edited with memoir and notes by Charles Kent, and published by Geo. Routledge & Sons. The works will be arranged chronologically, as in the similar editions of Lamb and Burns.

A VOLUME of "Recreations in Astronomy," with directions for practical and telescopic work, by Rev. H. W. Warren, D.D., in press by Harper & Brothers, promises to be of very great interest and value. There will be over eighty illustrations and star-maps.

UNDER the title of Afternoons with the

Poets: Sonnets," Mr. C. D. Deshler has prepared, for early issue by Harper & Brothers, a little volume which is at once a history of the sonnet, a treasury of the best English examples, and an interesting study in literature.

THE History and Traditions of Marblehead," by Samuel Roads, Jr., a native of that town, is announced as in press for the summer by Houghton, Osgood & Co. It will comprise about 500 octavo pages, and will cover the entire period of Marblehead's existence from 1629 to the present time.

It is stated that an eminent London publishing house have proposed to Messrs. Harper & Brothers an English reprint of their famous monthlies. The Examiner and Chronicle comments, with justice: "Admirable as English periodical literature is in certain directions, it has nothing that compares with our best illustrated monthlies; and that fact the English people are coming to understand."

MR. TALBOYS WHEELER has placed in the hands of Macmillan & Co. the History of India," on which he has long been engaged. Mr. Wheeler is generally acknowledged to be one of the first authorities on this subject, and the book, a single-volume octavo, will be of interest the world over.

MARTIN R. DENNIS & Co., of Newark, N.J., will publish shortly a "History of Medicine in New Jersey, with Sketches of the Lives of its Medical Men from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800," by Stephen Wickes, of Orange, N.J., who has bestowed the labor of several years to the writing of this work.

MME. HENRY GREVILLE has written a letter, which is printed in Mr. Geo. P. Lathrop's paper, the Boston Courier, in which she rises to explain as regards the translators of her books. Miss Helen Stanley is, she says, and must remain her only approved translator, and unless Miss Stanley should release her from the contract, she has no right to give any other person

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THE titles in George Eliot's new book of essays, "The Impressions of Theophrastus Such," to be issued by the Harpers, are "Looking Inward," " Looking Backward," How we Encourage Research," 'A Man Surprised at his Originality,' A Too Differential Man," Only Temper,"" A Political Molecule," " The Watch-dog of Knowledge," "A Half-breed,' "Debasing the Moral Currency," "The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb," "So Young,' "How we Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials and Believe in Them," ""The Too Ready Writer," "Diseases of Small Authorship," "Moral Swindlers," "Shadows of the Coming Race," and "The Modern Hop! Hop! Hop!" These certainly promise a characteristic book.

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