D. APPLETON & CO., New York.

Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat.

BICKNELL & COMSTOCK, N. Y.

Common sense in church building.

DICK & FITZGERALD, N. Y.

Biblical things not generally known, 377 P., 12°, cl., $1.50. The debater, chairman's assistant and rules of order, 124 p., 16°, bds., 50 c.; pap., 30 c.

Six hundred ways to make money, by Edward S. Draiper, 144 P., 16°, pap., 30 c.

HENRY C. LEA, Phila.

Gutmann's physical diagnosis, translated by Alex. Napier, I vol., 8°.

LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Phila.

The mouth and the teeth, by J. W. White, v. 7 (American
Health Primers), 150 p., 16°, 50 c.

How to work with the microscope, by Lionel S. Beale,
M.D., 4th ed., 400 illustrations, 8°, cl., $7.50.
Manual of dissections of the human body, by Luther Hol-
den, M.D., 5th ed., 8°, cl., $5.50.

Hand-book of physical diagnosis, by Dr. Guttman, 8°.
The throat and the voice, by J. Solis Cohen, M.D., v. 6
(American Health Primers), 159 p., 16°, cl., 50 c.

A. D. F. RANDOLPH & CO., N. Y.

New stereotype editions of Miss Havergal's books.
Morning stars.

Kept for the Master's use.

The royal invitation.

Loyal responses.

Royal commandments.

Royal bounty.

Red-letter days.

Later and hitherto unpublished poems.

BUSINESS NOTES.

CHICAGO, ILL.-A. H. Andrews & Co., dealers in school materials, etc., having found it necessary to seek larger quarters, have removed to 195 and 197 Wabash Avenue, corner of Adams.

LEAVENWORTH, KAN.-Crew & Brother, booksellers, have admitted into their firm Mr. James T. Dudley, formerly of the firm of Preswick & Dudley, Elmira, New York, and later engaged in trade in Minnesota. Mr. D. brings with him not only a thorough knowledge of the details of the business, but as well a cultivated literary taste and an intimate acquaintance with books and authors.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Charles De Silver & Sons, the well-known publishers, have removed to 1701 Chestnut Street.

REES, WELSH & Co., general booksellers, finding their present stores too small, will remove their miscellaneous book department, on December 1st, to a more commodious building, 23 S. 9th Street (opposite new post-office), where, with increased facilities, they will be prepared to buy and sell school, medical, scientific and miscellaneous books generally, in larger quantities than before. They will still occupy their present stores with law-books exclusively.

SIDNEY 8. RIDER, Providence, R. I.

Concise account of colonial currency of the Colony of Rhode Island, from the Indian wampum of the earliest settlers to the celebrated issue of paper money, in 1786, by Elisha R. Potter (Rhode Island hist. tracts, no. 8).

F. H. THOMAS & CO., St. Louis, Mo.

Legal and political hermeneutics, or principles of interpretation and construction in law and politics; with remarks on precedents and authorities, by Francis Lieber, LL.D., new and enl. ed., with notes by Prof. W. G. Hammond.

The law of negligence, illustrated by leading cases and notes, together with a concordance of the decisions, by Seymour D. Thompson, 2 v., 8°.

T. WHITTAKER, N. Y.

Book of private prayer, prepared by a Committee of the Lower House, Province of Canterbury.

Thoughts on great mysteries, sel. from the works of F. W. Faber, D.D., by J. S. Purdy, D.D.

W. J. WIDDLETON, N. Y.

Napoleon in exile; or, a voice from St. Helena: opinions and reflections of Napoleon on the most important events in his life and government, in his own words, by Barry E. O'Meara, his late surgeon, new ed., 2 v., 12°, cl., $3. Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, by the Count de Las Cases, 4 v., new ed., 12°, cl., $6.

R. WORTHINGTON, 750 Broadway, N. Y. Rough ways made smooth, by Richard A. Proctor, 12°. (Nov. 10th.)

Letters of Junius, ed. by Woodfall, new ed., 12°, cl., $1.25. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, new ed., with steel por., 12°, cl., $1.

AUTHORS AT WORK.

"MOTHS" is the title of Ouida's forthcoming story.

GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, it is said, will soon issue a new volume of poems.

MR. LEAVITT HUNT, a brother of William H. Hunt, is, it is said, to write the life of that distinguished artist.

A NEW book, entitled "The Manliness of Christ," by Thomas Hughes, Q.C. ("Tom Brown"), will presently appear.

JOURNALISTIC NOTES.

THE Russian Journal Officiel (Pravitelistvenni Viestnik) gives now every week the official list of books published in Russia.

THE serial story in Lippincott's Magazine for 1880 will be "Adam and Eve," by the author of "Dorothy Fox," and "Hero Carthew."

THE new American Art Review, published by Estes & Lauriat, and edited by the capable hand of Mr. S. R. Koehler, starts off with a most attractive number and with excellent prospects of success. Dealers who have art-loving customers should not overlook this new and strong candidate for their favor.

The Publishers' Weekly.

F. LEYPOLDT, Bibliographical Editor. R. R. BOWKER, General Editor.

NOVEMBER 15, 1879.

PUBLISHERS are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correct ness in the final entry.

The trade are invited to send "Communications" to the

editor on any topic of interest to the trade, and as to which

an interchange of opinion is desirable. Also, matter for "Notes and Queries." Notes from librarians will also be gratefully received.

In case of business changes, notification or card should be immediately sent to this office for entry under "Business Notes." New catalogues issued will also be mentioned when forwarded.

"Every man is a debtor to his profession, from the which, as men do of course seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help thereunto."-LORD BACON.

"THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS." IT is a little difficult to "take Time by the forelock" to the extent of beginning Christmas work nearly two months before Christmas; but this is just what the bookseller has to do. We have had a realizing sense of the incongruity, as for the past week and more we have been preparing the Christmas matter for our holiday number, much of which work is already accomplished. The publishers were at work half a year ago. It is one of the curious necessities of business, and a suggestive instance of how largely the book business must be one of speculative enterprise.

We take this opportunity, the last before the issue of our Christmas number, again to urge booksellers to stock well up for the coming holiday trade. Such information as they have not had already as to holiday books, they will have in complete and organized shape in that issue, and the bookseller's first business after receiving that number should be to check off from it the stock already ordered, and see that he has a sufficient supply of all the books, holiday and standard, likely to be in demand among his customers. Then he can best send out his own (imprint edition) CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE and be ready to supply the buyers whom he has invited to the feast. The Christmas number is especially valuable in enabling the dealer to survey the whole ground and order

proportinately in view of the entire market. And dealers who put off their orders till the day before Christmas, by buying short now, and then waste their profits in telegraphing, are apt to lose half their late sales. At Christmas time, buyers will not wait for the dealer to "order it at once from the publishers."

We beg to add that our Christmas number is already partly printed, the greater part of the editorial work done, and everything unusually ahead. We, also, cannot promise to fill late orders, although we feel justified in printing ahead of the present demand—already much larger than last year's at this writing. As it may not be practicable, in the rush of late work, to get the earlier forms again on the press, those who are intending to order imprint editions, or to increase their orders, will oblige us very much by informing us AT ONCE.

THE Post-Office Department reports that "the aggregate number of letters, postal-cards and newspapers handled by the 2359 carriers in the eighty-eight free delivery cities, during the fiscal year, was about 810,000,000, being an average of over 339,000 pieces for each carrier, and an increase in the total number of pieces of nearly 100,000,000 as compared with the previous

year.

The total cost of the service, including the pay of special agents and the back pay of carriers, was $1,947,706, an increase of about 6 per cent, and the amount of postage on local matter deposited at the free delivery offices was $2,812,523, being an increase of nearly 15 per

cent.

The excess of postage on local matter over the total cost of the service was $864,771. Since the close of the last fiscal year the free delivery system has been extended to eleven additional cities, making their total number at the present date ninety-nine."-A splendid showing, which marks, we may add, a good time to abolish that veteran absurdity, old section 99, still retained as section 240 of the new

Regulations. This is the section which makes it more expensive for the publisher of a New York monthly to deliver his paper at a house in New York than at a house in San Francisco, and the only reason for keeping it was the fear expressed that it would cause local business to be done at a loss. The Department itself now furnishes sufficient answer to that plea

ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT REFORM. THE following circular has been issued by Missouri book dealers:

FULTON, MISSOURI, October 20 1879

If the booksellers and newsdealers of Missouri will unite in a move, looking toward reform in certain matters of their business, some

thing can be accomplished, I feel sure. I have long waited for some one else, as doubtless you have done, to move in the matter, but in vain. I, therefore, assume the responsibility myself, trusting to arouse others more competent to assume the lead, after the ball is put in motion.

FIRST-We want better protection and in creased discounts for handling books at introductory rates, the coming five years.

SECOND-We want better protection and more liberal treatment from publishers of papers and periodicals.

If we never demand it, we will never receive it, as the past has proved.

I suggest that we meet in convention, at some point to be determined hereafter, and let every town be represented in some way, either by delegate or letter, giving their views, to be embodied in a polite memorial to the publishers.

Will you be kind enough to address me a letter or card at once, giving your views and making any suggestions that you think would assist in the organization or advancement of the project?

I have the assurance of several publishing houses in New York that they will assist us. So let us be up and doing at once. Very truly,

POSTAL MATTERS.
PROPOSED UNIFORM TWO CENT RATE.

THE Post-Office Gazette proposes a universal two cent rate (the Rowland Hill penny) for everything, thus:

Letters per half ounce-2 cents; this to include the now wrongly-favored commercial papers, insurance policies, bills of lading, invoices, transient bills, statements, in short everything the rich man handles most.

Newspapers-2 cents a pound; this to include all delivered to the mailing post-office, from publishers or news agents, whether for home delivery or outside delivery. The farce of having to pay one cent for a newspaper delivered by

carrier at home, when the same paper can go 2500 miles and be delivered by carrier at two cents a pound, should be ended.

Transient newspapers and other printed matter -2 cents for four ounces, or anything under that weight, whether it be composed of one paper or a dozen, books, printed cards, etc.

Samples-2 cents for each two ounces or fraction thereof in one parcel, wrapped so as to ad

mit of examination.

RECENT POst-office DECISIONS AFFECTING

PUBLISHERS.

From Post-Office Gazette (November, 1879).

3. A completed legal paper partly printed and partly written, not having the expression of a monetary value is entitled to pass in the mails in an unsealed envelope as third-class

matter.

5. "Book manuscript" is a term no longer used in the postal law. Manuscript accompanied by proof-sheets and corrected proofsheets relating to it may pass in the mails as third-class matter in unsealed packages.

6. One notification to a publisher that his publication is not taken out of a post-office is all that the postal regulations require a postmaster to send, but there is nothing to prohibit the sending of a second one in the event of the first being disregarded. Postmasters are frequently complained of to the Post-Office Department as not having sent the requisite notice, therefore they should make some record of the fact when they notify a publisher.

7. Section 371, relative to forwarding mailmatter without additional charge for postage, intends that letters having one full rate prepaid thereon may be forwarded; second class matter being presumably fully prepaid, may be forwarded; also any third or fourth-class matter which shows by the stamps affixed that it has been fully prepaid. This regulation is not intended to provide for the return of any matter to the senders, except as provided in section 465, P. L. & R., as amended by Order No. 15 in this issue of the Gazette.

9. The authority to print on wrappers of second-class mail-matter the "name and address of the publisher or sender of the same" is not held as permitting the printing of the name of one publisher or sender on a portion of one issue, and another name of publisher or sender on another portion of same issue. If this is done it excludes such publication from the pound rates.

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10. The P. L. & R. contains no specific mention of "manuscript maps," but in the thirteenth "Special Instruction to Postmasters." page 27, mention is made of "drawings," plans, designs," etc., in which category manuscript maps may be held as being included, and, as stated in said instruction, may pass in the mails in packages admitting of ready examination, as fourth-class matter.

II. Ink is unmailable. Packages known to contain ink should not be received into a postoffice to be sent in the mails.

13. A signed promissory note, though partly printed and partly written, is first-class matter, it being the expression of a monetary value.

16. There is no limit of weight to single volumes of books; other third-class matter is limited to four pounds.

mail his publication on the day or date of issue 24. It is not necessary that a publisher should in order to obtain pound rates.

32. A new publication can only be entered upon presentation of a specimen copy, which shall bear evidence that it is intended to be of the second-class of mail matter, as defined in section 185, P. L. & R.

35. Postmasters must not give credit for postage; if they do so it must be at their own risk. The regulations do not contemplate the keeping of running accounts with publishers; each consignment going in one mail should be paid for by itself.

36. The words please remit," "this account is overdue,' we are in need of money." etc., if written on commercial papers partly printed and partly written, subjects them to first-class rates. Such words may be printed thereon without changing their character as third-class matter.

38. Any person who may be required by the copyright law to deposit a copy of any publication with a postmaster to be sent to the Librarian of Congress, is entitled to have such publication covered by a penalty envelope, and forwarded without charge for postage.

40. When postmasters are furnished with a list of names of persons constituting a "club" of subscribers to any newspaper, magazine, or periodical coming in the mails, it is their duty to deliver the same in accordance therewith, and, when necessary, to write the names on the papers.

41. Any publication which fills the conditions of section 185 may change from a monthly to a weekly, or from a weekly to a daily, or vice versa, without impairing its rights in the mails as second-class mail-matter.

44. A letter exceeds the half ounce in weight when it causes the end of the balance or scale upon which it is placed to fall below a balance or equilibrium, or to rest upon the pedestal; the weight of the postage stamp or stamps must be included.

46. When publishers enclose their sample copies in the same package with copies intended for regular subscribers, the package should be returned to them for compliance with section 205. The attention of publishers should also be called to the provisions of section 242.

"OLD BOOKS FOR NEW." THE following correspondeace appears in the N. Y. Herald of Nov. 10th:

"BOOKSELLERS' TRICKS."

To the Editor of the Herald:

I trust your courtesy will allow me place for a few remarks concerning an article under the above title which appeared in your issue of October 1st. So widely known as I am throughout America it is my duty to answer a false charge of dishonesty which that article contains, and which may be traceable to the malice of an individual smarting under a well-merited punishment. I am accused of having sent to be sold at the New York trade auction books chargeable with duty, but for which I have dishonestly procured exemption by the subterfuge of a false date on the title, and an instance in point is given by quoting an imprint (I know not whence) which runs thus: "London, Bernard Quaritch, No. 15 Piccadilly, 1852." Most of my American as well as English friends know that I had no address in Piccadilly till 1860, and consequently the cunning maligner seems to have made a grave charge. But the reply is simple. I possess a great many remainders" of old editions of books, and it is, and has been for over three hundred years, a frequent custom among remainder-holders, who were also publishers, to reprint titles, substituting the new name for the old one. In the transfer of remainders from one hand to another this may be done several times, and involves no intention whatever to deceive, the history of each remainder" being carefully followed by all the members of the trade. Such a reim pression of the title of a book does not alter the fact that the book itself was actually produced at the date specified, and in artistic works, the

whole value of which consists in their engravings, a reprint of even the entire text does not constitute a new book. While the stock of engravings remains unexhausted, the work may be issued over and over again with its original date, although, in order to pass it through the binder's hands, there may be a necessity to reprint the title, or a leaf, or a sheet, or even the whole text. These facts are well known to every one in the English, American, French, and German book trade, and to every sensible man among the public. But I suspect that the article in the Herald is the venomous offspring of a soi-disant "honorable" dealer, against whose tricks of book-getting I have had recourse to American law. The "obscure locality" in which I am spitefully declared to have exercised my craft more than twenty years ago was familiar to book-lovers on the other side of the Atlantic as well as in England. Many rare volumes and tracts passed into and out of my hands then at far lower prices than such things have risen to nowadays, and among those who took the benefit of such advantages my American customers were the first. It is also said of me that I ordered my books to be bought in at the trade sale "unless they brought a price far beyond their real value." The stupid folly of such a statement destroys its malevolence. Any dealer in any kind of merchandise who pursued such a course of action would soon be a bankrupt, as is evidenced by the present condition of the inspirer of the article previously printed by you. With thanks for your courteous insertion of this remonstrance, I am, sir, your obedient servant,

October 13, 1879.

BERNARD QUARITCH,
No. 15 Piccadilly, London.

To the Editor of the Herald:

As a supplement to Mr. Quaritch's letter, printed above, I wish to say that the laws of the United States provide for the importation, free of duty, of "books which shall have been printed and manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation." Under date of March 5, 1872, the Secretary of the Treasury decided that "books which have been actually printed and published more than twenty years are exempt from duty under the provision therefor in the twenty-second section of the Act of July 14, 1870, notwithstanding the fact that they have been rebound and repaired within that period." There is a difference of opinion in the Custom House here upon the question whether a new title-page upon a book more than twenty years old would render the whole book dutiable, and I cannot find that this question has been finally determined. The better opinion is, I think, that such a book would not be dutiable. Any one at all "bookish" knows that the views stated by Mr. Quaritch as to what constitutes a "new" book are universally accepted. Whether or not a rigid construction of the customs law would bring about a different result from that arrived at by Mr. Quaritch, this would hardly justify the charge of fraud contained in your previous article-a charge, however, which could have no effect except upon those who have no acquaintance with one of the leading London booksellers of the present day. Yours, etc., HAMILTON COLE, Counsel for B. Quaritch. New York, October 29, 1879.