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LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS.

N. TIBBALS & SONS have just issued a new edition of their " Theologian's Catalogue," with addenda to January, 1874. This work contains the titles and prices of more than 11,000 books, classified under proper headings, and is exceedingly valuable.

A WORK on "The English Drama," by Prof. A. W. Ward, treating particularly of the early development of histrionic art, is to be published by Macmillan & Co.

"THE New Don Quixote; or, The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon," from the French of Alphonse Daudet, will be one of the most amusing books of the year. It is a satire on the proneness of the southern French to exaggeration. The hero has acquired a commanding reputation as a huuter in his own village, though he has never passed its bounds; and the story tells how public sentiment forced him, much against his will, to make a lion-hunting expedition into Africa, and of the strange adventures that befell him there. H. B. Fuller, Boston, announced the book some months ago; but its publication has been delayed till the present time.

PROF. BURT G. WILDER, of Cornell University, the protege and friend of the late Prof. Agassiz, has written a book on a very delicate but important subject. It is "What Young People Should Know," and is an exposition of the anatomy, physiology, and hygiene of the sexual organs. Estes & Lauriat will publish it.

EDWARD FOSS, F.R. S., author of "The Lives of the Judges of England," has written "Memories of Westminster Hall." It is a collection of anecdotes, incidents, etc., relating to that famous temple of justice, and the distinguished men whose

names are associated with it. It will be issued in two handsome octavo volumes by Estes & Lauriat.

GEN. CUSTER is writing the last pages of his "Life on the Plains," which Sheldon & Co. will publish this spring. They have also a novel by Lillie Devereux Blake, which, under the title of "Lord and Master," deals with the vexed woman suffrage question, and are to print, also, another novel by Mrs. Annie Edwards, published in Eng. land as "Creeds," but which title, as somewhat misleading, she prefers to change to "Estelle." Mrs. Edwards herself considers this perhaps the best of her novels. The title of Mrs. Blake's novel, we may add, is too near "Her Lord and Master," by Mrs. Ross Church (Florence Maryatt), and should be changed.

THE Western News Co. is to publish "Poems by Clint Parkhurst, of Iowa," dedicated to the surviving private soldiers of the Seventeenth Army Corps "by one who shared their vicissitudes and glories."

J. SABIN & SONS have lately received a considerable invoice of elegant books, consigned from London by the resident partner there, in which are some bargains in fine books.

PROF. CAIRNES is writing a new work on Political Economy in the light of new developments, particularly of the labor and capital problem. An interesting feature will be an examination of the principles of international trade, and a criticism of some of the theories of American protectionists.

A NEW LIFE OF FRANKLIN.-A new and complete Life of Benjamin Franklin, by the Hon. John Bigelow, is now passing through the press of

J. B. Lippincott & Co., and will be published shortly. It is said to be constructed on an entirely novel plan, which is expected to lend new charms to the story of Franklin's wonderful

career.

THE AUTHORIZED LIFE OF EDWIN FORREST.J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, announce that by arrangement with the executors they have in course of preparation the life of this celebrated tragedian, by Rev. W. R. Alger, of Boston, from facts and material furnished by Mr. Forrest, before his death, to Mr. Alger, and other papers supplied by the executors. The volume will embrace about 5co octavo pages, and will be illustrated with at least ten fine engravings, representing Mr. Forrest in different characters, and two portraits of himself and one of his mother, all from steel plates. The volume is to be published in handsome style, and promises to be a very interesting and valuable

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itself to the fore.

THE London Publishers' Circular registered, during the past year, 3,463 new books and pamphlets, 1,286 more which appeared in new editions, and 242 American importations-which latter must represent but a small proportion of all, since the number of these is admitted to be in rapidly inOf the original publicacreasing ratio each year. tions, those in theology, as usual, take the lead, though, counting reprints, fiction has pressed There were 564 new volumes in theology, 507 in fiction, 402 in art, science, etc., 296 in education, classics, and philology, 288 in history and biography, 231 year-books and bound serials, 221 in poetry and drama, 219 in juvenile literature, 191 in travel, 121 in essays, belles-lettres etc., 104 each in medicine and economics, and 77 in law, besides 134 miscellaneous, including pamphlets, not sermons. Of these 3,463, therefore, only a few hundred are to be counted as pamphlets. The current of English publishing is shown by the same table to be not far different from our own, December being the maximum month, with 601 new books, and January the minimum, with 99. The production in Germany, 1873, is registered at Leipsic as 13,963 works; our own copyright office, it will be remembered, reported 3,147 bound volumes, and 2,543 pamphlets.

SIGNOR MINGHETTI, Prime Minister of Italy, and eminent in letters, is engaged on a work on Europe during the Reformation."

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REV. Dr. Isaac Handy, of Virginia, is to tell about his fifteen months' imprisonment at Fort Delaware, in a book with the punny title "United States Bonds."

"MOTHER GOOSE" has been done into Latin and will be published, under the title of " Nugæ Inutiles," by Shepard & Gill.

MR. Chas. H. Smythe, for many years with the house of John W. Pittock & Co., Pittsburgh, has lately connected himself with the old-established and well-known firm of J. R. Weldin & Co., booksellers and stationers, 101 Wood street. of the same city.

A WORK for every yachtman and yacht-builder is " Yachts and Yachting," by "Vanderdecken (Mr. Wm. Cooper). It is a clear, practical treatise on the building, sparring, canvassing, sailing, and general management of yachts. It is finely illustrated with many elaborate plates, and is well worth its price, $10.50.

A FIVE-VOLUME edition of Robert Buchanan's prose and poetical works is to be published shortly in London.

WE are glad to learn that the huge tables of "Descriptive Sociology," by Herbert Spencer, are having a considerable sale. They are dedicated

by that great scientist "To my American friends, in recognition of the encouragement I have received from their early-shown and long-continued interest in my works."

R. A. PROCTOR has written a book on "The Universe and the Coming Transits," in which he presents some new views as to the constitution of the heavens. It will be illustrated with 23 charts (4 colored), including two specimens from the author's chart of 324,000 stars.

BOOKS WANTED.

Any Volumes of Sheldon & Co.'s, or Hurd & Houghton's Household Edition of Dickens, uncut edges (vellum cloth preferred).-Address, stating price, condition, etc., PORTER & COATES, Philadelphia.

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

Short Whist. By Major A.-Address, "S. W. A.," office PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY.

A FRENCH political novel, entitled the "Social Geo. P. Rowell & Co.

and Natural History of a Family under the Second Empire." is being written by M. Emile Zola, a leader of the "realistic" school. The work is designed to do for the Cæsarian epoch what the "Comédie Humaine " did for the society of the Restoration.

THE well-known Major Constable, of Harper & Bros., is the son of Mr. Archibald Constable, the great Edinburgh publisher, the memorial of whom is accounted among the most interesting works ever published in England.

A MEMORIAL volume of a Scotch minister, Rev. Mr. McCheyne, was published in 1845, and, although almost unknown out of Scotland, has attained its 105th thousand, and still commands an average sale of 3,000 copies annually.

THAT superb work, "The Birds of North America," drawn and described by Dr. Theo. Jasper, and published by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, of which five parts are already out, will be completed in thirty-six monthly parts, royal quarto size, at one dollar each. Each part contains eight pages of letterpress and four colored plates.

THE advance orders for Miss Edwards's new novel, "In the Days of My Youth," were so extensive as to exhaust the whole of the first edition, consisting of 2,000 copies, the day after its publication. Porter & Coates have a second edition

conduct an Agency for the reception of advertisements for American NEWSPAFERS-the most complete establishment of the kind in the world. 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 best 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 Free 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),

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE FOR 1873-4. (Charles W. Sever.) Containing a list of schools which compose the University, Government of the University, Corporation and Overseers, Offices of Institution and Government, with a full account of the present working of the college and various schools connected, with course of instruction, prizes, requisites for admission, expenses, etc. The last examination papers for all the schools are also given in full. 12mo, paper, 50 cents.

QUESTIONS ON THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF GREECE, by J. F. Tufts. (Charles W. Sever.) Designed to facilitate the study of Grecian history, and adapted to students preparing for Harvard College. 16mo, paper.

SITUATIONS WANTED. WANTED-Employment in the book business by a

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HAVING withdrawn from the firm and house of Claxton,
Remsen & Haffelfinger, I desire to notify my friends
and the trade in general that I have connected myself with the
house of J. B. Lippincott & Co., whose vast manufacturing
facilities and unrivalled stock of books and stationery, foreign
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EDWIN E. ECKSTEIN.

Hand-Book of Revivals.

By REV. HENRY C. FISH, D.D.,
Author of "Primitive Piety Revived," "History of
Pulpit Eloquence," "Heaven in Song," etc.
One elegant 12mo, printed on laid paper, and bound
in black and gold, $1.50.

CONTENTS:

1. What is a Revival? 2. Historical View of Revivals. 3. What we owe to Revivals. 4. Divine Economy of Revivals. 5. Objections to Revivals. 6. Position of Evangelists. 7. Child-Piety and Profession. 8. Indications of a Revival. 9. Revivals Hindered and Arrested. 10. Revival Means and Methods. 11. Preaching and Revivals. 12. Prayer and Revivals. 13. Singing and Revivals. 14. Personal Effort and Revivals. 15. The Sunday School and Revivals. 16. Treatment of Inquirers. 17. Training the Converts. 18. Revivals the Hope of the World. 19. Are You Revived?

This work is written in Dr. Fish's most popu lar and telling style; and is now being widely advertised in every section of the country.

Early Orders from the Trade Solicited.

JAMES H. EARLE, Publisher,
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T. WHITTAKER'S

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ABOUT MEN AND THINGS; or, Papers from My Study-Table Drawer. By KEV. C. S. HENRY, D.D. 12mo, cloth extra, $1.50. It is so easy, so fluent, and so natural, that the reader could, without effort, imagine he was not perusing an attractive book, but listening to a brilliant conversationalist."-Church and State.

THEOLOGY AND MORALITY. Essays on Questions of Belief and Practice. By the Rev. J. LLEWELYN DAVIES, M.A. With an Introduction by the Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D. Large 12mo, cloth, $2.00.

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PICTURES FOR THE NURSERY. 48 leaves. Arranged like the Silent Comforter." With a handsome illustration on each leaf. $1. "We are pleased to see this one devoted to our young folks, a fitting supplement to the Texts and Hymns that have been published for older people.”—The Churchman. PRAYER AND PRECEPT. 31 pages. Containing a prayer with Texts for each day in the month. Made so as to hang on the wall, having but one page at a time exposed to view. 75 c.

Complete Catalogues sent on application.

2 BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK.

Just Published.

SCHEM'S

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WORLD.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"The semi-annual issue of The Statistics of the World,' by Professor Alexander Schem. (G. J. Moulton), sustains the favorable reputation of that useful work. The compiler has brought his own high personal authority to the preparation of the work, combined with an intelligent use of the most recent sources of information, forming a series of reports concerning the government population, and commerce of the different countries of the world, together with a variety of miscellaneous statistical facts, which can hardly be found elsewhere in so narrow a comass or with so little expense of time and money."-N. Y. Tribune.

"As a work of reference for writers, politicians, and others is most valuable."-N. Y. Evening Post.

"Altogether the compilation is exceedingly valuable, and the enterprise that has accomplished it cannot be too highly commended."-N. Y. Evening Mail.

"With great ingenuity Prof. Schem has so t bulated his materials as to enable him to display clearly and compactly statistical summaries on all subjects capable of numerical or nominal statement, an interesting to the merchant, the publicist, the professional man, and the citizen. It is a masterpiece of condensation and clearness, and deserves the most liberal support."-Christian Union, N. Y.

"The arrangement is unique, but convenient, and the tables have been bought down to the latest information."— Golden Age, N. Y.

"We know of nothing in the way of compact statistics quite so convenient as Schem's Statistics of the World,' a semiannual publication, at once very compact and very compre hensive."-Hearth and Home.

"In comprehensiveness and compactness the chart is a marvel."-Home Journal.

"The tables of statistics prepared by Professor A. J. Schem, and commonly known as Sch m's Tables,' or Schem's Charts,' have a well-established reputation for con venience, compactness, and comprehensiveness. There is no other publication so convenient and trustworthy for the general statistics of all countries."-Boston Advertiser.

"We know of no statistical table which includes so much Republican. in small space as Prof. Alexander J. Schem's.' -Springfield

In oblong book form, bound in neat boards, for handy reference. ..50 c. Price....

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LITTLE, BROWN & CO.,

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DICKENS'S WORKS. English edition, profusely illustrated and complete in 30 vols. Post Svo. Handsomely bound in crimson cloth, $60.00.

"This is the best edition of my works." CHARLES DICKENS.

Since the author's death, four volumes have been added, containing The Child's History of England, Uncommercial Traveller, Seven Poor Travellers, Holly Tree, Wreck of the Golden Mary, Perils of Certain English Prisoners, Going into Society, Haunted House, Message from the Sea, Tom Tiddler's Ground, Somebody's Luggage, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Dr. Marigold, Boy at Mugby, No Thorou hfare, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Master Humphrey's Clock, etc.

The edition is printed in large, clear type on superior wove paper, and contains nearly 600 illustrations.

Realy next month, Vols. I. and II. of the edition now in course of publication in London of

The Lives of the Ch ef Justices of EngLAND, from the Norman Conquest to the Death of Lord Tenterden. By JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, LL.D To be completed in 4 vols.,

crown 8vo. Uniform with tre Lives of the Lord Chancellors. $2.00 per vol.

Messrs. L. B. & Co. are the American publishers of the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. The NINTH EDITION, in twenty-one volumes. 4to, is in course of preparation. The new edition will be almost a reconstruction o: the whole work, and reset on an elegant new type, and illustrated freely through the text. Vol. I. is expected to be ready during the year 1874, and the issues will be co..tinued at the rate of about three volumes per annum.

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FAIR WOMEN, Book of, 40 plates. Fcap. 4to. Gilt.......
FITZGERALD, PERCY. Pictures of School Life
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GRANT, JAMES. British Battles by Sea and Land. Vol. I....

GREAT LESSONS ON LITTLE THINGS, Illustr. Fcap. 4to.
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