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Newspapers and periodicals cannot be forwarded from one post-office to another at the request of the party addressed without the prepayment of new postage, by stamps, at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction"Mary Anerly," from R. D. Blackmore. thereof. Harper's Magazine promises William Black's new story, "White Wings: a Yachting Romance," which will be illustrated, and another, St. Nicholas for July will present a short article on Oliver Goldsmith by Rossiter Johnson. Moncure D. Conway has written a little story and Prof. W. E. Griffis a story called "Blossomwith the scene laid in an English Cathedral, boy of Tokio," which will have thirty-seven illustrations drawn by native Japanese artists. There will be a number of Fourth of July features. WE are glad to note that the success of the Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, under the editorship of Mr. C. F. Wingate, has been so marked as to justify its fortnightly issue hereafter. This periodical, at first covering the usual field of a trade journal, has already grown so beyond this scope as to have become of general public importance. The second part of its title now best represents the journal, to whose origination the New York public owes the recent effective crusade for tenement-house reform. The history of this reform is an interesting illustration of what special journalism may accomplish. UNDERSELLING IN ENGLAND. THE Publishers' Circular (London) prints the following letter: "SIR: There is a great talk about booksellers combining to protect themselves, with special reference to underselling. But of what use is it for them to combine, as long as the publishers supply the 'stores'? And further, is it not much easier for the few hundred publish- | ers, who all live in one centre, to combine, than for the many thousands of booksellers scattered throughout the kingdom? The publishers alone can remedy the existing state of things, and there are two ways in which they can effect this. The first is, by doing away with published prices altogether, supplying the trade at the usual trade prices, and refusing to supply the general public on any terms whatever. What is the use of advertising a new book as price 6s.,' when every one knows that it can be bought for 4s. 6d. ? Let the publish- SOME fifty copies have recently been uners do away with this farce, and the retailers earthed (or ungarreted) of Esthetic Papers, a compete, as all other tradesmen do. The sec- magazine of which but one number ever apond way is for the publishers to reduce their peared, in 1849. It was edited by Miss Elizatrade allowance to, say, 15 or 10 per cent, and beth P. Peabody, and contained Hawthorne's thus prevent the possibility of underselling. charming essay on "Main Street," an essay on It would be much more satisfactory to book-"War" by Mr. Emerson, which has never been sellers, as they would get the same profits they reprinted, a lecture by Thoreau on "Resistance get now, and would not suffer from the incon- to Civil Government," and essays by Parke venience arising from the system of selling a Godwin, John S. Dwight, S. H. Perkins, and book at less than published price. One or others. It is a very interesting relic of a genother of these reformations must take place eration past, and is easily worth the dollar soon, or the retail bookseller become extinct. which A. Williams & Co., of Boston, ask for it. Why will not publishers act, and act at once?" THE Catholic Presbyterian, published in this country by A. D. F. Randolph & Co., has received the following endorsement from the General Assembly at Saratoga: " The Assembly look with approval upon the publication of the month GERMAN BOOK-PRODUCTION. "A MR. ALBERT LAST," notes the Nation, "has published a pamphlet on ‘Die Schäden inly journal known as The Catholic Presbyterian. der literarischen Production Deutschland's,' in which are to be found some interesting statistics of the German book trade. The alleged bad condition of the same he accounts for on the ground of over-production. At the beginning of the century there were in Germany (including German Austria) 250 bookshops; in 1820 there were 500; to-day there are 5200. In the year 1851 there were published 8000 volumes; 1870, 10,000; 1874, 12,070; 1876, 13,356; 1878, They regard it as an important contribution to the ends contemplated by the Presbyterian Alliance,' as a channel of communication between the different members of the great Presbyterian family; as a bond of union among those who hold the like precious faith,' and as a medium for the timely discussion of topics interesting to Presbyterians. They hope that it will have a wide circulation, and commend it accordingly to the support of the churches under their care." COPYRIGHT NOTES. It is now announced, in contradiction to previous statements, that the British Government will introduce at this session of Parliament a Copyright Bill, founded on the Report of the Royal Commission. Especially in view of the various recommendations of the Commissioners, the draft of the measure will be awaited with interest, not least its attitude on international copyright. It is reported that Mr. R. A. Macfie, formerly M.P. for Leith, is about to publish a work in two volumes on copyright and the law on patents for inventions, a subject he has long studied, and with which his name was prominently associated while he sat in the House of Commons. Mr. Macfie is stated to be "an uncompromising free trader, and in favor of the royalty system as the only satisfactory basis of an international copyright with America." THE London Times mildly observes that the international copyright question between this country and Great Britain has been for the last thirty years "the Schleswig-Holstein Question of literature. It has appeared equally insoluble and has been almost as tedious.' THE Academy, in a review of Mr. Putnam's pamphlet, recently said: "We may add that Mr. Putnam appears to have been advised that the principle determined by the House of Lords in the case of Routledge v. Low, by which a temporary sojourn in Canada was held to confer copyright in this country, has been since in some way nullified. This advice is erroneous. A Canada copyright is still valid." A SIMILAR case has come up in England to that of Harper's Monthly, when Mr. Raymond copied from an English periodical an uncredited article from Putnam's. Vice-Chancellor Bacon has granted an interim injunction to restrain the publication in a periodical called the Fireside Companion of a story taken from the Family Herald by an American publication, and reproduced in the London periodical. A PAMPHLET has appeared in England under the title of "Copyright, National and International, from the Point of View of One who has been a Publisher." (Stanford.) "The writer takes the part of the reading public, whom he supposes to be wronged by the practical monopoly of the great publishers. His most important point is the decay of private book-buyers, and the growth of circulating libraries." The remedy he suggests, says the Academy, is the royalty system of America. AT Guildhall, recently, Frederick Davis, of 1 Chapter-house Court, the publisher of the Penny Pulpit, was summoned before Sir Robert W. Carden by Mr. George Bullen, the keeper of the printed books in the library of the British Museum, for not sending a copy of a publication to the Museum, according to the copyright act. The defendant said that he had no answer to the summons, except that he had got the whole copy of the work complete, and was prepared to deliver it. Mr. Bullen said he would have been prepared to accept that offer, but the fact was that Mr. Davis appeared here three weeks ago on a similar summons, and was then fined 40s., which was to be remitted if he delivered the books in a fortnight. From that time to the present he had never delivered a single number of the work, and he must therefore ask for the full penalty to be inflicted. Mr. Davis said that when he made the promise he did not know there were so many numbers out of print as there were, and it had taken longer to reprint them than he expected. He was now prepared to deliver the whole complete. Sir Robert W. Carden said that he had not kept faith on the last occasion, and therefore his promise could not be accepted now. He fined him 40s. and costs. AUTHORS AT WORK. R. D. BLACKMORE, author of "Lorna Doone," will presently publish a short story entitled "Crocker's Hole." HENRY GREVILLE, the French authoress, is said to receive about $16,000 a year on her contracts with publishers in Paris. M. LEON SAY, the eminent French financier, is understood to be at work upon a detailed history of the magnificent feat by which the French people repaid their debt incurred through the Franco-Prussian war. MR. J. PAYNE COLLIER has recently been engaged on a new edition of his well-known nals of the Stage," which has been so long out History of English Dramatic Poetry and Anof print. It will be published very shortly by Messrs. Bell, London. LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. T. Y. CROWELL, it is stated, has sold 10,000 copies of his one-volume edition of Shakespeare within a year. 64 reached its eighth edition in the few weeks AIRY Fairy Lilian" (Lippincott) has since publication. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. expect to furnish the final volumes of the new edition of Thackeray (24 vols.) before Christmas. "Bi G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS will publish as No. 17 of their series of Economic Monographs, Metallism," by ex-Secretary McCulloch. MACMILLAN & Co. will shortly publish a volume on "French Parties," by the late Mr. James Macdonnell, the ms. of which was fortunately left by him in a complete state. A THIRD edition of Prof. Fawcett's book on Free Trade and Protection has been published by Messrs. Macmillan. The book has already been translated into German, and is being translated into Spanish. LEE & SHEPARD propose to publish a dramatization of Dickens' novel, "Our Mutual Friend," made by Mrs. Harriette R. Shattuck, daughter of the late W. S. Robinson (“Warrington"), of the Springfield Republican. 64 J. M. STODDART has just published Max Adeler's new book, Random Shots," which, like its predecessors, Elbow Room" and Out of the Hurly Burly," is brimful of fun. The illustrations by A. B. Frost are quite amusing, and make the book just the thing for summer reading. To meet the convenience of students and thus remove an objection in the minds of professors to the extended use of an admirable series of text-books, Macmillan & Co., the publishers of the well-known Clarendon Press Series of educational works, issued under the direc tion of the delegates of Oxford University, have in preparation a new net catalogue of those works as well as of their own educational works, which will be ready early in the fall. THE new work on which Canon Farrar has for some years past been engaged is ready for immediate publication. It will be entitled "The Life and Work of St. Paul." Two editions will be published by E. P. Dutton & Co., one in two volumes, uniform with the library edition of his "Life of Christ ;" the other a low-priced one-volume edition. JUDGE SHEA'S volume on "Alexander Hamilton," just ready at Houghton, Osgood & Co.'s, is an octavo of nearly 500 pages, and contains portraits of Hamilton, Mrs. Hamilton, Talleyrand, Aaron Burr, and Bishop Seabury. It has also a curious map of the United States, and a fac-simile of a letter from Hamilton to his son. LEE & SHEPARD's book on "Practical BoatSailing," by Douglas Frazar, is peculiarly a summer book L. & S. have nearly ready "A Tight Squeeze," describing a trip from New York to New Orleans, undertaken on a wager to make the trip in 24 days without spending a cent, giving his name, or calling on his friends for help. It mingles tramp lore and secrets with adventure and a love story. account of student life and amusements. The work was conceived as early as 1875 by different parties, who obtained the sanction of the faculty for the publication of such a work. After some delay, owing to financial depression, their labors have been completed under the editorship of Mr. Wm. L. Kingsley, and by a resolution of the committee having the work in hand Messrs. Holt were chosen as publishers. The book will be handsomely illustrated by wood-cuts and heliotypes, and printed in two large quarto volumes, on heavy paper. An index has been prepared, containing about four thousand names of Yale college work and play and in after-life. It is men who have distinguished themselves in sold by subscription. MACMILLAN & Co. have in preparation a work entitled "The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions," edited by Mr. T. H. Ward, Tutor and late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. The design, which is similar to that of Crépet's "Les Poëtes Français," is to provide a really representative selection from the English poets, other than the dramatists, from Chaucer to Landor and Clough. The different poets have been undertaken by different writers, who will be responsible for the selections, and will add short critical introductions. By a division of labor of this kind it is thought that it will be possible to produce a fuller and truer impression of the characteristics of English poetry than it would be in the power of any one critic to convey. The book will be in four volumes crown octavo, and it is hoped that the first two volumes will be ready before the end of the year. The general introduction will be written by Mr. Matthew Arnold, and the following writers, among others, have promised to take part in the work: The Dean of St. Paul's, the Dean of Westminster, Sir Henry J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. announce a new work, Taylor, the Rector of Lincoln, Mr. Stopford by S. Austin Allibone, entitled "Great Authors Brooke, Prof. Nichol, Prof. Skeat, Mr. Thomas of all Ages." It will make a volume of about Arnold, Mr. Pater, Mr. William Jack, Mr. the size of his Dictionary of Poetical Quota- | Andrew Lang, Mr. Saintsbury, Mr. Edmund tions," and will contain selections from the Gosse, and Mr. J. C. Collins. prose works of eminent writers, from the time of Pericles to the present time. This volume will enable the reader to know where the author was born, when he died, what he wrote, what the leading critics of the time thought of his works, and will contain selections from the choicest of his productions. JAMES KELLY, of 713 Broadway, who for the last two years has been successfully engaged in supplying the trade with rare and out-of-theway books, has now opened an agency at 20 Bond Street for the sale of the well-known publications of Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, of Philadelphia. He will keep here a full line of all their publications, and orders from the trade are solicited on liberal terms. The pickup business will still be attended to promptly, including foreign books. "THE American market for advance sheets of English works," notes the London Bookseller, "is in a depressed condition. When 'Lothair' was published in 1870, Messrs. 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