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IT is announced that the semi-annual (spring) trade sale of books, etc., will be commenced on Thursday morning, March 24th, and that invoices for catalogue should be in the hands of the auc tioneers on or before February 1st. Terms and regulations as usual.

A VOLUME of "Thoughts for Lent," by Bishop Oxenden, of Montreal, will be issued by Messrs. Randolph & Co. early in February. An American edition of Dean Alford's book on "The State of the Blessed Dead" is also about to be published by this house.

WARREN & WYMAN will publish early in February a devotional book by George Macdonald, "Cure for Thought-Taking"- -a choice little volume, bearing consolation and encouragement to those who are burdened with care.

THE Life of Mrs Barbauld, by Mrs. Ellis, a daughter of James L. Little, one of the merchant princes of Boston, will be published by Osgood & Co. in February. It is mainly based on Miss Aikin's biography, but contains some new matter.

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THE new volume soon to be added to their fine edition of Charles Sumner's writings by Lee & Shepard, will be called " Prophetic Voices concerning America.' Its basis is an article contributed by Mr. Sumner to the Atlantic Monthly, several years ago, and which he has expanded and enriched.

THE admirable "Advanced Science Series" of the Putnams will shortly be extended by three new volumes, "Animal Physiology," by Prof. Cleland; "Inorganic Chemistry," by Prof. Thorpe, and previous issues of these series have met with very Physical Geography," by Prof. Young. The high commendation for the r conciseness, clearness, and practical value.

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THAT clever novel of present life, "The Wetherel Affair," by Mr. De Forest, which readers of the Galaxy took much delight in last year, is the Sheldons' first publication of the year. Ex-Secretary Welles' book on "Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward" is finished in MS., and is now in the printers' hands. The Galaxy portion includes only one-quarter of the volume, and even that has been thoroughly revised. The book may be expected early in the spring.

THE Scribners will publish the first week in February an admirable little volume on "SelfCulture," by Prof. Blackie. This is a kind of book that is always sure of a wide circle of readers, and the new volume is one of the most practical and best of its kind. The new edition of Agassiz's Lectures on the Structure of Animal Life, an American reprint of Max Müller's recent remarkable lecture on "Missions," in a 75 c. volume, and the new volume in the popular "Library of Travel," "Central Asia," by Bayard Taylor, will appear at the same time.

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THE Appletons' list for immediate publication embraces Rich's "Dictionary of Antiquities,' which condenses a vast amount of classical information into convenient shape, and Prof. Cooke's contribution to the International Series, "The New Chemistry." This latter work is based on Agradro's law, that equal volumes of all substances, when in the state of gas and under like conditions, contain the same number of molecules, in which is found the unifying principle of chemical science. The following volumes are in an advanced stage: Balfour Stewart on the "Conservation of Energy," a work on "Animal Locomotion,' 99 and Dr. Maudsley's important volume on Responsibility in Mental Disease."

THE second and concluding volume of Dr. Moffatt's work on the "Comparative History of Religions' " is ready for publication at Dodd & Mead's. Its treatment of the subject is exceedingly interesting while highly philosophic, and it has already been adopted as a text-book at Princeton Seminary. A new book, said to be her best, by Edward Garrett, under the title of "Gold and Dross," and a new story by Hesba Stretton, 'Cassy," are also in hand.

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Two new volumes of the "Leisure Hour Series, Prospero," translated from the French of Victor Cherbuliez by Chas. Astor Bristed, and Mrs. Jenkins' "Jupiter's Daughters" are ready for publication at Henry Holt & Co.'s.

EVERY one who has mourned the mutilatior, alteration, and desecration of the old songs of praise in multitudinous new and revised editions, is interested in the fact that a volume of "Familiar Hymns in their Original Forms," by Rev. William L. Gage, is to be issued by A. S. Barnes & Co.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS JUST PUBLISHED.

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Alexander.-Which Shall it Be? By Mrs. Alexander.
author of the "Wooing O't." (Leisure Hour Series.)
16. $1.25. Cheaper ed. 16°. Pap. 25 c.......Holt.
Bonar.-The Christ of God. By Horatius Bonar, D.D.
16°, pp. 216. $1.25.....
........ Carter.

**Brewster. A new Philosophy of Matter, showing the
Identity of all the Imponderables, and the influence which
Electricity exerts over Matter in producing all Chemical
Changes, all Motion and Rest. By George Brewster.
New and revised ed., with important additions, corrections,
and an extensive Appendix upon Electricity as a Curative
Agent. By A. H. Stevens, M.D., E.D., of Philade pha.
12. $3.....
Claxton, R. & H.
Coulanges. The Ancient City. A Study on the Religion,
Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome. By Fustel de
Coulanges. Translated from the latest French ed. By
Willard Small. Cr. 8°, pp. 529. $2.50....... Lee & S.
De Coulanges. See Coulanges.

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De Forest.-The Wetherel Affair. A Novel. By J. W. De Forest, author of "Kate Beaumont," Overland," etc. 8. $1.75; pap. $1...... ....Sheldon. Dutcher.-The Old Home by the River. By Rev. J. C. Dutcher, author of "Lectures on the Prodigal Son." IIlustr. 16, pp. 230. $1.25... Tibbals. Dykes.-The Relations of the Kingdom to the World. By J. Oswald Dykes, D.D. $1.25....Carter. 16°, pp. 210. Encouragements to Faith. By J. W. K. 16°, pp. 207. $1..... Willard Tract Repos. Every Day's Need. A collection of well proven Receipts, furnished by the Ladies of the Business Women's Union, So Willoughby street, Brooklyn. Sq. 16°, pp. 99. Pap. 50 C.... ....Beecher. Fish.-Handbook of Revivals. By Henry C. Fish, D.D., author of Primitive Piety Revived," "Heaven in Song," etc. 12. $1.50.... ..Earle. **Glenwood.-The Fatal Secret. By Ida Glenwood, the Blind Bard of Michigan. With portr. on steel. 12, pp. 415. $3........ ..Potter. Griffith.-A Universal Formulary, containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering Officinal and other Medicines. The whole adapted to Physicians and Pharmaceutists. By Robert E. Griffitn, M.D., etc. Third ed., thoroughly revised, with numerous additions. By John M. Maisch, Prof. of Materia Medica in the Phila. Coll. of Pharmacy. 8. $4.50; leather $5.50..........

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Queen Krinaleen's Plagues; or, How a Simple People were Destroyed. A Discourse in the Twenty-second Century. By" Jonquil," author of " Was She Engaged?" 16, pp. 151. Pap. 50 c.... ...Lippincott. Shinn.-A Manual of Instruction on the Collects, Gospels, and Epistles for Sunday Schools. 12, pp. 145. Bds. 25 c. Whittaker. Smith. The Young Magdalen, and other Poems. By Francis S. Smith, of "The New York Weekly.”_ 8°, pp. 3co. 3; mor. $4. Smith.-A Dictionary of the Bible, etc. By Wm. Smith, LL.D. New S. S. ed. 8°, pp. 776. $3; shp. $3.50. Tibbals. Spencer.-Descriptive Sociology; or, Groups of Sociological Facts. Classified and arranged by Herbert Spencer. Compiled and abstracted by David Duncan, A.M., Prof. of Logic, etc., in the Presidency College, Madras: R chard Scheppig, Ph.D.; and James Collier. English, compiled and abstractedly James Collier. Folio. $5....Appleton. Thorpe.-Quantitative Chemical Analysis. By T. E. Thorpe. Prof. of Chemistry, Andersonian Institution, Glasgow. Illustr. with numerous wood engr. 18°. $1.75. Wiley. Vidocq.' See Memoirs.

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The Discrepancies of the Bible. By John W. Haley, A.M. With an introduction by Prof. Alvah Hovey, D.D. A Commentary on the Difficult Passages of Scripture. 8°, pp. 400. $2.50. (Feb.)

Memories of Westminster Hall. A Collection of interesting Incidents, Anecdotes, and Historic Sketches relating to Westminster Hall, its famous Judges and Lawyers, and its Great Trials. With an historical introduction by E ward Foss, F.R.S., author of "The Lives of the Judges of England," etc. Ilustr. 2 vols., 8°. $7. (Jan.)

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The New Don Quixote; or, The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon. From the French of Alphonse Daudet.

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Evangelical Alliance, 1873. Essays and Orations prepared for and delivered at the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, held in New York, October 2-12, 1873, with other Offici 1 Documents. Edited by the Rev. Philip Schaff, D.D., Prof. in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, and Honorary Secretary of the American Evangelical Alliance. Together with a History of the General Conference, by the Rev. S. Irenæus Prime, D.D., Honorary Secretary of the American Evangelical Alliance. 8°. Subscriptions, at $5 ea., received up to Feb. 15 A Princess of Thule. A Novel. By William Black, author of "Love or Marriage,' "Kilmeny," "The

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Publicans and Sinners; or, Lucius Davoren. A Novel. By Miss Braddon, author of "Strangers and Pilgrims,"

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Pet; or, Pastimes and Penalties. A Book for Children. By H. R. Haweis, author of Music and Morals. With 50 illustr. 12. Cloth. (Nearly ready.) Life and Death of John of Barneveld. Including the History of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years' War." By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., author of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic," History of the United Netherland," etc. 2 vols., 8°. (In press) J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Phila.

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The Portable Atlas of Modern Geography. 16 Maps. Imp. 8°. $1.

ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & CO.. New York. The Fourth Watch. By Anna Warner, author of "Melody of the Twenty-Third Psalm."

Songs of Praise: For Public and Social Worship. Edited by Drs. Roswell D. Hitchcock, Zachary Eddy, and Philip Schaff.

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Scribner, Armstrong & Co.:- New Japan. the Land of the Rising Sun; its annals during the past twenty years, recording the remarkable progress of the Japanese in Western civilization, by Samuel Mossman Austin, of" China," etc.-Shadows of a Sic Room.-The Moon, by James Nasmyth.-fosier's Lectures on the Geography of Greece. -Proverbs on Words of Human Wisdom, and a Preface by Canon Liddon.-A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities and Biography, edited by Dr. Wm. Smith.-A New Work on Political Economy, by Prof. Cairnes.-Les Applications de la Physique aux Sciences, à l'industrée et aux arts, transl. from the French of Guillemin.-Lettres à une inconnue, transl. from the French of Prosper Mérivirée. -Songs of Killarney.-For Beauty's Sake.-Longevity, by Dr. John

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Shepard & Gill:-The Chesterfield Letters for 1873, edited by J. M. Merrick.

Henry Holt & Co.:-Our Forefathers; a novel, by Gustav Freytag, part 2.-The Nest of the Wrens. Scribner, Armstrong & Co.:-Les Merveilles de la Mécanique, from the French of E. Colignon.-Les Merveilles de la Locomotion, from the French of De Narme.-L'Envers du Théâtre, from the French of Moynet.-La Photographie, from the French of Tissandier, (each with ilustrations by Binnafoux, Jahandier, Marie, and Bayard).Les Quatre piéces d'or, from the French of Mlle. Gouraud, with illustrations by Bayard.-The Antiquities of Israel, by Heinrich Ewald.-The Folk Lore of Rome. -All Round the World, Meeting the Sun.-A School History of Greece, By G. G. W. Cox.-Fowle's Greek Books.

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The Dealers' Dilemma.

Alabama, whose example we commend to the trade, a letter enclosing an order for school As the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY gives room to books, from a school in that State, which, however, any views honestly expressed, no matter how ex- parenthetically observes that unless discount is altreme, we print to-day the communications of two lowed the writer will be obliged to send to New bookbuyers who are certainly entitled to a voice York, where he can get from a prominent pubin the present bookselling difficulties. It is not | lishing and jobbing house 25 to a third off. Our our intention to defend or refute the points taken correspondent declined to furnish the books on by these correspondents, but we may say that those terms, citing the decision of the Booksellers' although stating a few truths, both are doing great | Union, that no person, except a dealer, is entitled injustice to publishers, as well as dealers, by their to a discount or wholesale price, and they rightsweeping assertions. In charging the trade with fully call upon the other members of the trade to making its own interest、 supreme in the contest support them in this wise policy. We are glad to they should not forget that they are doing precise- know that this question of underselling to schools ly the same from their stand-point. It cannot be is made a special question for the next meeting of the question of "fleecing the public" or of "dic- the Board of Trade, which will be held in New tating" to others "how to conduct their business," York February 13. Messrs. Curtis, of Barnes & when it is simply a question of preventing an honor- Co., Isaac Sheldon, and Holt, are a committee to able trade from going to rack and ruin. Never- report on the subject. We trust some effective theless, we are thankful for these frank effusions, remedy for present evils will be found, and we are for only an unlimited audi alteram partem will glad to learn that the booksellers of the South are make it possible to weigh off the conflicting rights becoming as alive to these topics as their brethren and wrongs, and to conciliate extremes by an at the West. equitable compromise.

We agree with Mr. Peabody that "the interest of the public is in the end the interest of the trade ”—of any trade; but beg to caution him, lest his statements may afford less "instruction" than "amusement" to the tried publisher, that when making his publishing and jobbing estimates he leave not out certain weighty factors that cannot invariably be put in figures.

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Both correspondents are hard on the retailer. But why would Mr. who prefers a fresh copy from the bookseller's shelf to a defaced one, not give his order to that bookseller who offered to take it; at the same time make known "the subjects which interest him," and become a steady customer whose interests are worth studying thus satisfying three parties-himself, bookseller, and publisher? In not doing so there is a loss, but where the gain to him? Yet he reasons: "You country booksellers cannot afford to keep books for sale ;""Competition has destroyed all profit;" ergo, though I know what I want, I won't order from you; I won't add to your profits, until "two-thirds of you go West and farm it." There is encouragement to lay in stock! Mr. Peabody, on the contrary, reasons: "You retailers are not, as you were formerly, forced to hold a large stock; people know better what they want, and order as they want; ergo, I won't pay the retail price fixed by the publisher; ergo, if you cannot discount, go to the wall."

It may be satisfactory to both parties to learn, that to judge from present indications, the coming convention in trying to devise remedies for the crying evils, will most likely meet them half way. Will they go the other?

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WE reprint in this number, as promised, the documents relating to the convention at Cincinnati next month, to supply the demand which had exhausted the supply of the number in which they were originally printed. In our next number we hope to print an editorial resumé and discussion of the evils of the trade which are likely to come before the Convention, and of the several remedies which have been suggested.

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Publishers and Dealers all Wrong.

AMHERST, Mass., Dec. 28, 1873. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly.

By mistake, doubtless, your journal has fallen into the hands of one not in "the trade." Constant and careful perusal thereof has afforded much instruction and some amusement. The latter comes in when reading the animated controversy between the wholesale and retail sellers of books. The public seems to be a party to this dispute whose interests are wholly ignored. Like the wheat between the upper and nether millstone, its business is to be ground.

The traditions and customs of the book trade,

although descended from a former generation, are not therefore to be revered. They have not kept pace with the times, and here lies the germ of the present difficulty. The art of stereotyping, withWe have received from a house at Tuskaloosa, out seriously enhancing the cost of publication,

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