ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS JUST PUBLISHED. The Prices in this List are for cloth lettered, unless otherwise indicated. Imported books are marked with an asterisk; Authors' and Subscription Books, or Books published at net prices, with two asterisks. Alex. See As It Should Be. As It Should Be. By "Alex," author of "As She Would Have It." 12, pp. 274. $1.. Lippincott. Babbitt.-The Health Guide. Aiming at a Higher Science of Life and the Life Forces, giving Nature's simple and beautiful Laws of Cure; the Science of Magnetic Manipulation, Bathing, Electricity, Food, Sleep, Exercise, Marriage, and the Treatment for 100 Diseases; thus constituting a Home Doctor far superior to Drugs. By E. D. Babbitt, D.M. 12, pp. 164. $1.... .Babbitt. Baird.-The Results of the Resumption of Specie Payment in England, 1819-1823. A Lesson and a Warning to, the People of the United States. By Henry Carey Baird. 8°, pp. 12. Pap..... .Baird. Benny; or, The Boy who was always Right: and Mother's Honest Little Boy. 18°, pp. 32. 20 C......Am. Tract Soc. Bible.-The Revelation of John. Expounded by John Peter Lange, D.D. Transl. from the German of Evelina Moore. Enlarged and edited by E. R. Craven, D.D. Together with a double Alphabetical Index to all the Ten Volumes of the New Testament, by John H. Woods, A.M. (Lange's Commentary, vol. X. of the New Test.) 8°, pp. 446. $5. Scribner. Blacklock.-City Sounds and Rural Echoes. By M. Strickland Blacklock. 12°, pp. 101. $1........Stevenson. Borys.-She Loved Him Madly; or, Le Beau Roland. By Goutran Borys. Transl. from the original French, by O. Vibeur. 12, pp. 428. $1.75..... Carleton. Bought with a Price. By A. L. O. E. 18°, pp. 32. 20 C. Am. Tract Soc. Buchanan.-Poetical and Prose Works, By Robert Buchanan. New ed., revised and rearranged by the author. (In 5 vols.) Vols. 1 and 2. 12. Per vol. $2.50... Osgood. Bulwer, E. L. See Lytton. Bushnell.-Forgiveness and Law, grounded in Principles Interpreted by Human Analogies. By Horace Bushnell. 12, pp. 256. $1.75...... ....Scribner. Cazenave and Feydeau.-Female Beauty; or, The Art of Human Decoration. By Dr. A. Cazenave. And the Art of Pleasing. By Ernest Feydeau. Transl. from the original French, by Miss M. T. Nash. 12°, pp. 215. $1.50. Carleton. Chaplin.-Life of Charles Sumner. By J. & J. D. Chaplin. With an Introduction by his friend, Hon. William Claflin, late Governor of Mass. With Fac-simile Letters, Heliotype Portraits, and other illustr. 12°. $1.50....Lothrop. Chorley-Recent Art and Society, as described in the Autobiography and Memoirs of Henry Fothergill Chorley. Compiled from the edition of Henry Hewlett, by C. H. Jones. 12, pp. 317. $2.. ..Holt. Coleridge.-Phantasmion. A Fairy Romance. By Sarah Coleridge. With an Introduction by Lord Coleridge. Cr. 8. $2.. ...Roberts. Cutler. The Name above every Name. By Samuel Cutler, D.D. Revised and enlarged." 12°. $1 and $1.50; Red Line ed., $2.. Lothrop. Day. A Lawyer Abroad: What to See and How to See. By Henry Day, of the Bar of New York. Illustr. 12, pp. 348. $2... Dickens.-Christmas Books. By Charles Dickens. With illustr. by John Leech and others. (Carleton's New Illustr. ed.) 12. $1.50.... .....Carleton. Carter. 16°. . Osgood. A E., A. L. O. See Bought with a Price. Eliot.-The Legend of Jubal, and other Poems. By George Eliot, author of "Adam Bede," Middlemarch," etc. $1.50... Ethel's Gift; and Nellie's Miracle. 18°, pp. 32. 20 C. Am. Tract Soc. Furness.-A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems. By Mrs. Horace Howard Furness. 8°, pp. 422. $4..Lippincott. Galbraith.-Bensalem: or, The New Economy. Dialogue for the Industrial Classes on the Financial Question. By Thomas Galbraith. 12°, pp. 70. Pap.. Galbraith. Henderson-Gardening for Profit. A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged ed. By Peter Henderson. Illustr. 12, pp. 276. $1.50... Judd. Hood.-The Villages of the Bible: Descriptive, Traditional, and Memorable. By Paxton Hood. 12, pp. 348. $1.75. Lippincott. Hudson.-Poems. By H. R. Hudson. 16. $1.50. Osgood. Hugo.-Les Miserables. A Novel. By Victor Hugo. (Transl. from the original French by Chas. E. Wilbour.) New ed., complete in one vol. 8. $2.50; pap. $2. Carleton. Huntington-Modern Prophets. Gives an Inside View of the great Temperance Movement of 1874. By Pansy and Faye Huntington. Illustr. 12°. $1.50.... ......Lothrop. Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship. Edited by Rowell D. Hitchcock, Zachary Eddy, and Philip Schaff. 8°, , PP. 597. $2.50...... ...Randolph. Joe Blake's Temptations, Frank's Victory, and Can You Say "Our Father?" r8°, pp. 46. 20 C........Am. Tract Soc. King-Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. By Clarence King. New and cheaper ed., revised and considerably enlarged, with two maps. 12°. $2.. Osgood. Kingston.-Peter, the Ship Boy. By W. H. G. Kingston. 16. $1... ....Lothrop. Carter Lange, J. P. See Bible. 75 c....Lothrop. Mallet, A. See Van Nostrand's Science Series. Maysie's Star; and What Ella Found To Do. 20 C.... etc. A 18°, pp. 45 ...Am. Tract So Morford's Short Trip Guide to Europe, 1874. Comprising Tours in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Ho land, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, With Hints for Russia, Sweden, and the East, etc. collection of Travellers' Phrases in French and German, and Skeleton Tours in America. By Henry Morford. 10. pp. 437. $2...... ..... Lee S. & D. Moulton.-Some Women's Hearts: Love Stories for Idie Hours. By Louise Chandler Moulton. 16°. $1.50..Roberts. Rachel's Lilies. 18°, pp. 32. 20 C........Am. Tract Soc. Reffelt.-Steiger's Arithmetical Series. By Hermann Resselt. The Second Book of Arithmetic, designed for Schools and Academies: The Four Fundamental Rules of Denominate Numbers and Fractions. 12, pp. 151. Bds. 50 c.-The Third Book of Arithmetic, designed for Schools and Academies: Proportions, Percentage, Average, and Alligation, and Mensuration. 12, pp. 189. Bds. 60 c.-The Same, Part First (or No. 7 of the Series). 12, pp. 46. Bds, 25 c. Same. Part Second (or No. 8 of the Series). 12°, pp. 74. Bds. 30 c.-Same, Part Third (or No. 9 of the Series). 12°, pp. 69. Bds. 30 c.-The Fourth Book of Arithmetic designed for Schools and Academies: Short Methods, Equations, Logarithms, and Progressions. 12, pp. 134. Bds. 75Key to Same. 12, pp. 150. Bds. 75 c.-The Fourth Book of Arithmetic, designed for Schools and Academies. Part Second (or No. 11 of the Series). 12°, pp. 40. Bds. 30 cKey to Same. 12, pp. 76. 35 c.-The Fourth Book of Arithmetic, designed for Schools and Academies. Part Third (or No. 12 of the Series). 12°, pp. 64. Bds. 35 C.Key to Same. 12, pp. 64. Bds. 35 c........ .Steiger. Rescued Lamb; or, "I'll Not Let You Go." 18°, pp. 30. 20 C.... .Am. Tract Soc. Schlegel.-The Second Classical German Reader. With Notes and Vocabulary. By Charles A. Schlegel. (Schlegel's Series of Classical German Readers.) 12°, pp. 252. Half roan $1.50... Steiger. **Scott.-The Antiquary. A Novel. By Sir Walter Scott. (Illustr. Fireside ed., vol. 3.) 12. $1.50....Porter & C Sea and Shore. A Poetical Selection for the Summer Idler. Sq. 18. $1.25... ....... Roberts. Shakespeare. See Furness. Shipton-The Promise and the Promiser.-Waiting Hours. By Anna Shipton. 16, pp. 204, 210. Ea. 85 c.; pap. 25 C. Warren & W Steiger.-The Periodical Literature of the United States of America. With Index and Appendices. By E. Steiger. 4, pp. 139. $4..... .Steiger. Turgenieff.-Ivan Turgenieff's Spring Floods. Transl. from the Russian by Mrs. Sophie Michell Butts.—A Lear of the Steppe. Transl. from the French by William Hand Browne. (Leisure Hour Series.) 16°, pp. 219. $1.25 .Hot. Van Nostrand Science Series:-No. 10, Compound Engines. Transl. from the French of A. Mallet.-No. 11, Theory of Arches. By Prof. W. Allan, formerly of Wash ington and Lee Univ., Lexington, Va. Illustr. 18. Bd. Ea. 50 c..... ...Van Nostrand Vance.-Lois Carrol; or, Her Two Selves. E. STEIGER, New York. 1.25 Bible, Revelations, Expounded by Lange.... 5.00 Bushnell, Forgiveness and Law... Reffelt, Steiger's Arithmetical Series:-Second Book of Arith., bds. 50 c.;-Third Book of Arith., bds. 60 c.;-Same, part 1, bds. 25 c.;-Same, part 2, bds. 30 c.;Same, part 3, bds. 30 c.;-Fourth Book of Arith., bds. 75 c.;-Key to same, bds. 75 c.; -Fourth Book of Arith., part 2, bds. 30 c.; -Key to same, bds. 35 c.;-Fourth Book of Arith., part 3, bds. 35 c.;-Key to same, bds. .35 Schlegel, Second Classical German Reader, hlf. roan 1.50 Steiger, Periodical Literature of U. S........ 4.00 As It Should Be.... Hood, Villages of the Bible.. 1.75 Furness, Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems. Lieber, Civil Liberty, new ed. 4.00 3.00 Lytton, Alice;-The Disowned (Lord Lytton ed.).... Ea. 1.50 Vance, Lois Carrol.. 1.75 .75 Warren, Three Judges, new ed.. 1.50 ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS. JAMES CAMPBELL, Boston. A Popular History of Anesthetics, their Discovery and Uses, including Nitrous Oxide, Ether, Chloroform, Amylene, etc. By James F. Babcock, Prof. of Chemistry in Mass. Coll. of Pharmacy, and Howard F. Damon, M.D., Fellow of the Mass. Med. Soc., etc. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Phila. The Mambi-Land; or, Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba. By James J. O'Kelly. 12o. JOEL MUNSELL, Albany. **Prospectus of a History of the Town of Queensbury, Warren Co., New York. By A. W. Holden, M.D. With portraits and plates. 8°, pp. 500. $5. **A History of the Town of Northfield, Mass., for 150 Years, with an Account of the prior Indian Occupation, and with Family Genealogies. By J. H. Temple and George Sheldon. 8°, pp. 500. $4.00. GEO. H. RICHMOND & CO., New Haven. The History of the International. Transl. from the French of Edmond Villetard, editor of "The Journal des Debats," by S. M. Day. With an Introduction by Prof. Henry N. Day. A. WILLIAMS & CO., Boston. Blake's Rudenger Atlas of the Osseous Anatomy of the Human Ear. By Clarence J. Blake, M.D. Illustr. by photo-plates. 4°. Publishers' First Announcements. From the New York Commercial Advertiser for two weeks ending May 11. APRIL 30. Harper & Bros.:-The Little Lame Prince and his Traveling Cloak, by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman; Some Principles of Political Economy newly Expounded, by Prof. Cairnes;-History of the Revolution of 1688, by D. Yonge-Physiology for Practical Use;-Supernatural Religion;-Paradoxes and Puzzles;-The Vicar's Governess;-Hurre de Fontenay. Scribner, Armstrong & Co.:-The Story of Valentine and his Brother, by Mrs. Oliphant. MAY I. Porter & Coates:-Taken at the Flood, by Miss Braddon; -Reginald Hetherege. 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Arranged by Henry Maylath. American Camille. Mazurka de Salon. Charles M. Morris..... Oft in the Stilly Night. J. R. Thomas. Quartette, The Wreck. J. Remington Fairlamb. Op. 62...... -75 .40 .50 I Love my Darling Lassie. Alfred H. Pease. C. .40 .75 Morning Service: Benedictus. Geo. F. Bristow.. .60 Sailing on the Lake. David Braham.............. He Kissed Her and She Kissed Him. H. P. Danks....... .50 .35 .40 .30 Present rate of Importation, 33 c., gold, per Franc. Barringer, G. A. Etude sur l'anglais parlé aux Etats-Unis (la langue américaine). In-8°, 16 p. Maisonneuve et Cie. Bentzon, Th. Une vie manquée. Gr. in-18. Lévy frères3 tr. 50 c. Bolley, P., et E. Kopp.-Traité des matières colorantes artificielles dérivées du goudron de houille. Traduit de l'allemand et augmenté par L. Gautier. In-8°, vii-444 pSavy. Dubrueil, A. Eléments de médecine opératoire. In-8°. Savy...... ......10 fr. Guide du libraire-bouquiniste, ou Liste et adresses de plus de 2,000 bibliophiles et amateurs français et étrangers. In-8*, 96 p. E. Rouveyre. Maistre, M. l'abbé. Les Hommes illustres de la primitive Eglise. T. 1. In-8°, 638 p. Palmé. Dumas, A., fils. Monsieur Alphonse, pièce en trois actes. In-8°. Lévy frères..... .........4 fr. Flaubert, G. La Tentation de saint Antoine. In-8°. Charpentier... .7 fr. so c WE are in receipt of letters and requests from several quarters, coinciding entirely with our own views on the subject, as to a needed improvement in the second issue of the "Uniform Trade List Annual." Wilson, Hinkle & Co. ask that we "make it strictly a price list of books, not a descriptive price list. We find on looking over the Annual that above 500 pages are taken up with descriptive lists, which should have been con. densed into one-fifth the space. Can you not remedy this in future?" BOOKS RECEIVED. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES, by Chorley, Planche, and Young. Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard has collected the very cream of the Stoddard. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) Mr. biographies of Chorley, Planche, and Young. Those who have not the time or inclination to wade through the many uninteresting details which go to make up the majority of personal This selection is admirable, presenting as it does narratives, will cordially appreciate his labors. the choicest anecdotes and reminiscences of the many literary and dramatic celebrities whose genius shed such lustre upon the beginning of this century. And Messrs. Collins & Bro., of this city, write Series," of which this is the initial volume, is a The plan of the "Bric-a-Brac that "The Trade List Annual' would be much most capital one, and deserves to make it popumore convenient if the publishers contributing lar. Each volume will be complete in itself, and its material will be culled from the biographies or would understand that trade lists and not cataautobiographies of two or three contemporaneous logues are wanted. The volume is made cumwriters. The dress of the series is a very attractbrous and unwieldy by the addition of a vast ive one. The style of binding is new and beauamount of superfluous matter-repetitions, illus-tiful; the paper fine; the type excellent, and the trations, press notices, etc.—that have no excuse for appearance in such a place. If the publishers would give such lists as Ivison's or Butler's in the Annual for 1873, the volume would be reduced to one-tenth its present size; should such extreme brevity be considered undesirable, Harper's list might be taken as a model; it is admirable for its arrangement and for its intelligent condensation of the requisite information." We furnish these examples to show that the trade recognizes the practical usefulness of having this bulky volume reduced to as compact shape as possible. We shall await the English trade list annual of Mr. Whittaker, which should be at hand within a few days now, before sending out our circular of details, to see if any further improvements that have not occurred to us have suggested themselves to him, desiring to render our own volume as nearly perfect as possible. But the improvement suggested is a very important one, and we trust will be taken up by publishers who are preparing new catalogues. Not only is it difficult to find the right page in a needlessly bulky volume of this sort, but it is desirable to have as many titles as possible to the page, so that the eye may quickly glance over a score of titles at once. We urge our contributors strongly to follow the Harper and Osgood models in the last annual for short title lists, or the Appleton and Lippincott for full title lists. The work will be much more complete this year than last, by the addition of the lists of many publishers who did not send, or sent too late, last year, besides of the annual list of publications, and it is in every way desirable that this should be heeded. page a square 12mo, one of the most agreeable sizes to read and handle. Price, $1.50. "GOOD LUCK!" from the German of Ernest It is not Werner; translated by Francis A. Shaw. (Jas. THE FISHER BOYS OF PLEASANT COVE, by MISS LESLIE'S NEW RECEIPTS FOR COOKING. (T. B. Peterson & Bro.) A new and revised edition of Miss Leslie's celebrated receipts for cooking, to which are added over a thousand new receipts, never before published in any of her other works. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. MIREIO, A Provincial Poem, by Frederic Mistral. Translated by Harriet W. Preston. (Roberts Bros.) "Mireio" is the pretty heroine of a charming pastoral in twelve cantos. The treatment of the poem is thoroughly unconventional, and yet it betrays a freshness and vigor which place it among the gems of poetical literature. Its young author at once obtained a high place among the writers of his day the grace, poesy, the intense love of nature his poem shows, the sunshiny Southern warmth which pervades it, giving it a place wholly its own in French poetry. Miss Preston has succeeded admirably in her task, giving a translation of the verses which retains all the grace of the original. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. SCRIBNER, WELFORD & ARMSTSONG were the importers of the MS. of Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend," which has been purchased by Mr. Geo. W. Childs for a very large sum. It is exceedingly interesting as a literary curiosity, and fills two large quarto volumes. MR. JAMES PARTON is understood to be collecting material for a history of caricature. MR. EUGENE SCHUYLER, it is said, will soon give up his positions as Consul at Riga and acting Secretary to the U. S. Legation at St. Petersburg, that he may write with greater freedom of the operations of the Russian troops. The Scribners will probably publish his book in the fall. ARIADNE FLORENTINA, by John Ruskin. (John The School Book Commission in PhilaWiley & Son.) The above title embraces three lectures on wood and metal engraving, delivered before the Oxford University, and individually named, "Definitions of the Art of Engraving," "The Relation to Other Arts," "The Technics of Wood Engraving." 12mo, cloth, $1.50. NIGHT AND MORNING; Ernest Maltravers; The last of the Barons; Lucretia; The Disowned; Alice; Harold; Pilgrims of the Rhine. (J. B Lippincott & Co.) The volumes of the "Lord' Lytton Edition" of Bulwer's novels follow each other in rapid succession. The above have been received within the week, and include all that have been lately published. The edition must prove a favorite one, it is so neatly and substantially gotten up. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. A VOLUME of English gypsy ballads, to be accompanied with metrical English translations, is in preparation by Charles Leland and Prof. E. H. Palmer, of Cambridge, and others. delphia. A MEETING of members of trades interested in the publication of school books was held at 617 Jayne St., Phila., to protest against the passage of the bill providing for a commission to select an authorized set of school books for the State. Mr. Mackellar acted as Chairman and Mr. A. G. Elliott as Secretary. After the reading of the bill a number of addresses were made. Mr. Moore, of the firm of Jessup & Moore, declared that it was a blow aimed at the industries in which they were all interested. The State, he said, had never profited by going into the manufacturing business, and it was certain not only not to profit by this contemplated action, but it would open the doors for the greatest amount of corruption. The salary given to each commissioner ($300) was, by itself, an in dication that the whole affair was a huge job, in which any amount of money might be made if the commissioners were not men of the most unim peachable integrity. They will have power to purchase copyrights. Here is a door for corruption. They can fix the price at which books may be sold. Here is another door for corruption. They can select text-books, and if they are in the slightest controlled by mercenary matters, this is a very THE second part of Mr. John Fraser's interest-private fortunes they could thus accumulate, and wide door open to corruption. In addition to the ing historical study of the "Humorous Scrap-in addition to the prostration of one of the most books of Scotland" is nearly ready at H. L. Hinton's. It is a valuable contribution in an inter- important book interests of this as well as other esting field of literary history. Mr. Fraser has cities, such a commission could not be expected just left for Europe, partly in search of further material for this work, but will return in June. THE life of the Lord Chief-Justice of England is to be the first of a seriesof reminiscences of London barristers Mr. Edwin James is said to be writing for publication in New York. A TRADE Complication has arisen in Chicago. As we have the facts, the volume of sermons, "Truths of To-day," by Prof. David Swing, were pushed out this spring by his publishers, Jansen, McClurg & Co., so as to appear at the time of his trial for heresy. In consequence of this hurry, several sermons which Prof. Swing did not wish to put in print without careful revision were omitted from the volume. Some of these had been printed in the Chicago Pulpit, of which Keen, Cooke & Co. bought the plates, and, adding to them certain sermons reported in the daily press and elsewhere, they issued a book under the title of "David Swing's Sermons." This was against the expressed wish of the author, who wrote a note to Keen, Cooke & Co., desiring them not to interfere with his own arrangements for publication, although they possessed the old plates in fee simple. The book has however been issued, of course against the protest of Jansen, McClurg & Co., and we understand, in spite of a proposition to leave the matter to arbitration. to secure as high a standard in the scientific value of the books as at present. The speaker presented this most important phase of the subject in a clear light, and said, if for no other reason this should be the death-blow to the bill now before the House. Messrs. Menamin, J. E. Potter, and A. G. Elliott were thereupon appointed a committee to present a protest personally to the members of the Legislature. A letter was read from Mr. Henry C. Baird, in which he said:-Although not interested in the publication of any school book or books, I feel that the proposed interference of the Legislature in the matter of the selection of these books is a great wrong, which cannot be too severely condemned or too strongly resisted; and I think that the whole trade should make common cause in such resistance. Let us stand together and fight each other's battles, and we shall in time find the advantages in it, by seeing a return of that harmony of action and that good feeling which once existed among us. All our interests are one, and that which injures even the smallest publisher or bookseller injures all. |