practical, and devotional"-aim at less display of scholarship, are more profuse, and are written in a more popular manner. At this time of the year, when so many Sundy-Schools are taking up Exodus, either one or both of the works will be found of special benefit to teachers and scholars. Indeed, a proper understanding of this portion of the Scriptures cannot be arrived at without the aid of such commentaries. The latter work also contains a map and numerous illustrations.

THE PIBLE RULE OF LIFE. (American Unitarian Association.) A little compilation of Bible texts, arranged under the following divisions: Feeling, Thinking, Speaking, Believing, Doing, Helping, Giving, Praying, Praising. Arranged by Mrs. W. L. Bennett, the compiler of "Day unto Day." 18mo, cloth, gilt edges, 50 cents.

A VERY YOUNG COUPLE. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) The story of a young couple who married solely for love, by the author of "Mrs. Jerningham's Journal." Their experiments at housekeeping on a very limited incorne, and their various trials and disagreements, are very pleasantly and amusingly related. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

STODTMANN, Heine's biographer, is preparing a memoir of Buerger, the author of the classic German ballad of "Lenore."

GARIBALDI is said to be at work at an epic poem "The Thousand of Marsala.”

PROF. HENRY COPPEE purposes to expand his Penn Monthly papers (sixteen in number) on the Moorish conquest of Spain, into a thorough historical work upon the subject.

LONDON is to have an American comic paper, it is rumored.

Ir is stated that the life of Agassiz, written by his wife, will soon be ready for publication.

MARK TWAIN has written a second preface to "The Gilded Age," especially for the London edition, in fear lest the English people should think so ill of us as to take the book in dead earnest,

SAXE HOLM is the literary Sphinx of the day. The name is understood to hide a distinguished identity, but who that "identity" is, is as yet a profound secret.

THE article on "How a Cyclopædia is made," A BEAUTIFUL FIEND, by Mrs. E. D. E. N. furnished to the Chicago Tribune by a New York Southworth. (T. B. Peterson & Bro.) Written correspondent over the signature of "Kidder," in a somewhat milder style than the numerous has been reprinted by the Appletons in the Fourprevious novels of this prolific writer-not want-nal, and is also to be used as a circular for the reing, however, in the regulation number of wicked vised Cyclopædia which it describes. It gives a women, foolish men, mysterious murders, lost heirs, most full and interesting statement of the entire and unlooked-for catastrophes. To those who personnel and method of the work, and is from the find Mrs. Southworth pleasant reading-and we pen of Mr. A. K. Fiske, lately of the New York should judge their name is legion from the wonder- Mail, and one of the revisers on the Cyclopædia, ful list of her productions-we can only say that and now of the Boston Globe. she shines forth in "A Beautiful Fiend" with no diminution of her old powers. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. MY KALULU, Prince, King, and Slave, by Henry M. Stanley. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) A very captivating romance, founded on the experiences and adventures of Mr. Stanley in his journey in search of Dr. Livingstone. The descriptions of people and places in the story are strictly accurate, although somewhat idealized to meet the requirements of the romantic guise of the work. It is a book well suited to a boy fond of the marvellous-as it teems with adventures,

and strange and wonderful stories about parts of

Africa little known. $2.00.

Illustrated 12mo, cloth,

LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. MR. GEO. M. BAKER, the clever writer of dialogues and school plays, is trying a juvenile serial, Running to Waste; or, The Story of a Trueboy," which is now running in Oliver Optic's Magazine.

THE forthcoming co-operative English novel is to be a story of seven.

THE Literary World having let the news out, we also may state that "Robertson Gray," under which name the stirring California story, "Brave Hearts" was published, is a nom de plume of Prof. R. W. Raymond.

THE Audubon advertised by Estes & Lauriat at $170 was sold immediately.

MM. Erckmann-Chatrian are writing a new story, "The College Life of Maître Nablot," which will be based on the adventures of a young collegian during the Louis Phillippe era. It will be first published as a serial in Cassell's Magazine.

JOHN G. SAXE's thirty-ninth volume of poems the rounds-whose author must have been seeing is in press, according to an item which is going double at a most extraordinary rate.

the old Academy and takes its name, appears in London with the new year as a weekly of twenty pages, three-fourths of which will be devoted to literary matters.

THE new rival of the Athenæum, which absorbs

MRS. GEN. SHERMAN is understood to be at work upon a memoir of her father, the late Thos. Ewing. The book will have an admirable subject and an excellent writer

A NEW edition of Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma" is to contain a further preface, replying to criticisms.

THE LIBRARY CORNER.

UNDER this head we propose, at the suggestion of an active librarian, to gather together such matter as may be of interest to the managers of, THE lovers of literary history, says Mr. Wel- and those interested in, libraries, in the way of ford, in the Bookbuyer, have had no such treat practical suggestions, descriptions of new improveoffered them for a long time, as they will find in a ments in arrangement or methods of work, sumnew book just pu lished at Edinburgh, "Archi-maries of library reports, items as to the personnel bald Constable and his Literary Correspondence a Memorial by his Son, Sir Thomas Constable,' in 3 vols. The energy and enterprise displayed by Archibald Constable as a publisher, and the immense effect it had in stimulating the literary activity of Scotland, is acknowledged by all.

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of libraries, news as to legacies, benefactions generally, notes and queries regarding library economy, etc. The libraries of the country have at present no special organ of communication, and as they need the same information as the bookseller, in book lists and the like, and are to some

extent already subscribers to the WEEKLY, it seems eminently proper that their interests should be especially consulted in this publication. The frequency and extent of this department will depend upon the support we receive for it, both in the supply of matter for it, which we ask from all librarians who can give us anything of interest, and in the increase of subscriptions among libraries. Of course there will be found much matter of interest to the librarian in our regular literary and trade columns, and to the trade in this.

1st of January. The library is established for the convenience of all students in town or country who desire to carry on their studies at times and places chosen by themselves. Subscription, for one volume at a time, one guinea a year. A reading room will be opened for subscribers at one guinea a year, or 2s. a month extra. Prospectuses and other information are supplied by Librarian, care of Messrs. Harwar, Furnival's Inn, London, E.C.

THE MSS. left by Mendelssohn have been offered by the family to the Royal Library of Berlin, provided the German Government will found two scholarships, of 700 thalers each, for young musical students deemed worthy of the prizes.

THE Boston Public Library possesses, by the accession of the Barton Library, the richest Shakespearian collection in America, and one of the finest in the world. Every one will be glad to learn that Mr. Wm. A. Wheeler, the Assistant WITH the number for October last, the "BiblioSuperintendent, and one of our best bibliograph-phile Français: Gazette Illustre des Amateurs de ical scholars, is to utilize this material in a Shakespearian Encyclopædia, under the title," A Cyclopædia of Shakespearian Literature; designed to elucidate the Biography of the Poet, the Antiquities, Geography, Topography, Political and Natural History, and Bibliography of his Works, and the Lives and Writings of his Editors, Translators, Commentators, and Critics." will enlist Shakespearian scholars elsewhere in the work, which will be of utmost importance. We shall return to the subject again.

He

THE L'brary of Congress has again quite outgrown its present accommodations, notwithstanding the hundred supplementary cases of shelving introduced two years ago, and Mr. Spofford has to work with a small staff in hinderingly close quarters. Twenty-eight designs for a new build

Livres, d'Estampes, et de Haute Curiosite (Paris, Bachelin Deflorenne) " has ceased to appear. The complete set now forms seven volumes, illustrated with numerous portraits, woodcuts, and engravings of remarkable bindings printed in colors.

BOOKS WANTED.

WANTED to purchase, in complete order, Vols. 4. 10,

and 16 of Reed's Shakespeare-the first number published in 1805 by H. Maxwell and T. S. Manning, of Philadelphia; and the last three numbers in 1809 by A. & C. Conrad & Co., Philadelphia. Address Box No. 26, Baltimore Post Office.

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buyers and sellers of "Second-Hand School Books." Correspondence solicited by A. H Clark, Booksel Peekskill, N. Y.

ing were submitted by architects under the offer of Geo. P. Rowell & Co.

the late Congress, but we believe none were found satisfactory. A larger bonus is needed to tempt our best designers.

THE annual report of the librarian of Congress for the year ending December 1, 1873, shows that at that date the library contained 258,752 volumes (of which 31,190 were in the law department), an increase during the year of 12,407, and 48,000 pamphlets. Mr. Spofford estimates that in twenty years the library will outnumber half a million. Its collection of English county and local histories is approaching completeness, and is a feature of great interest.

MR. A. M. PALMER, the former librarian of the New York Mercantile Library, was trained by its lecture system, we suppose, for the managerial office, and has been winning goiden opinions and something more as manager of the Union Square Theatre.

MR. MELVILLE DEWEY, of the graduating class at Amherst College, has practical charge of

conduct an Agency for the reception of advertisements for American NEWSPAPERS-the most complete establishment of the kind in the word. Six thousand NEWSPAPERS are kept regularly on file open to inspection by customers. Every Advertisement is taken at the home price of the paper, without any additional charge or commission. An advertiser, in dealing with the Agency, is saved trouble and correspondence, making one contract instead of a dozen, a hundred, or a thousand. A Book of eighty pages, containing lists of bes political, daily and country papers, and all publications which papers, largest circulations, religious, agricultural, class, are specially valuable to advertise's, with some information about prices, is sent Fre to any address on application. Persons at a distance wishing to make contracts for advertising in any town, city, county, State or Territory of the United States, or any portion of the Dominion of Canada, may send a concise statement of what they want, together with a copy of the Advertisement they desire inserted, and will receive information by return mail which will enable them to decide whether to increase or reduce the order. For such information there is no charge. Orders are taken for a single paper as well as a list, for a single dollar as readily as for a larger sum. Offices (Times Building),

41 Park Row, N. Y.

its library, and promises to become a valuable ad- Bartholomew's Drawing Books.

dition to the ranks of librarians, since he intends pursuing that profession.

MR. ALEX. J. SHELDON, during the last four years Librarian of the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N. Y., has been compelled by ill-health to resign his office. He desires to obtain literary employment, either as editor of a weekly paper or as purchaser of books for libraries. Those who desire the services of an intelligent and experienced gentleman will do well to address him at Buffalo. -Literary World.

A STUDENT'S Library, for art students, divinity students, examination students, law students, medical students, professional students of all kinds, science students, and general students of every description, was opened in London on the

The Western News Company,

CHICAGO,

have on hand a small supply of the old (40 cent) edition of

Bartholomew's Drawing Books, which will be sold to the trade at ONE HALF OFF

RETAIL PRICE.

Orders from dealers in places where these books are in use are respectfully solicited.

The Editor of the "Publishers' Weekly" begs to call the attention of publishers to the advantage of having their advertisements, at the beginning of the new year, prepared in the form of Complete Lists of their Publications issued during the past year. The utility of such lists has already been recognized by the ieading houses, and the facilities they afford to the dealer in taking and renewing stock, make it desirable that this practice should become a custom.

It is an advantage both for publisher and dealer, that, in replacing stock and making out orders, the latter should be in the possession of the Special Lists of the publishers from whom he orders. It will save him time and trouble, and will generally induce him to send fuller orders, on detecting at a glance the deficiencics of his stock.

The want for such Lists will be more particularly felt this year, as no General Annual Catalogue will appear before August or September.

The Annual Reference List will hereafter be embodied in the Uniform Trade List Annual, which really is its proper place. It will, in the forthcoming volume, embrace the books recorded and advertised in the "Publishers' Weekly" from January 18, 1873, to July 1, 1874, supplementary to the preceding Annual Lists, and after that record the books from July to July.

The numbers of the "Publishers' Weekly" of January 17, 24 and 31, which will have an extra circulation, are specially recommended for the advertisements of Publishers' Annual Summaries.

The First American Story

OF

MR. WILKIE COLLINS

ENTITLED

The Dead Alive,

Will be published on Monday, January 5th.

The presence of the great English novelist in America at this time has, in connection with his public readings of his own works, and the recent

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In the study of the

INTERNATIONAL LESSONS of 1874.

Across the Desert.

A LIFE OF MOSES.

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terest in the writings of Mr. Collins. The author, now in the prime of his ripe powers, has, during his recent stay in New York city, completed an original American story, the scene of which is laid in the vicinity of New York. The story is concise, strong in characterization, and of absorbing interest.

By the Rev. JOHN M. LOWRIE, D.D.
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It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the improbable events' in the story are matters of fact taken from the printed narrative. Anything which looks like truth,' is, in nine cases out of ten, the invention of the author.'" W. C.

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