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PORTER & COATES, printed, and orders for them will be filled in the order of receipt. Publishers, Importers, and Booksellers, When these one hundred are sold, the number can be had only in complete volumes, so that libraries desiring duplicates for the catalogue rooms or personal use should order at once. Price 50c. Address MELVIL DEWEY, P. O. 260, BOSTON. 822 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Have just issued a Priced Catalogue of choice English and American Books, selected expressly for the requirements of first-class Public and Private Libraries. It will be sent to any address, post-paid, on application. Every Librarian Should have this. A HANDY BOOK ABOUT BOOKS WHICH RELATE TO BOOKS. A list of the most important works, descriptive of the literature of Great Britain and America, and more than a few relative to France and Germany. By JOSEPH SABIN. NEW YORK: J. SABIN & SONS, 84 NASSAU STREET. This book must interest librarians and book collectors. It is not a mere list, as it abounds in notes and observations regarding the character and value of books described. Just out. Price, $1.50. Our improved style combines the virtues of our former Patents with simplicity and durability. They give universal satisfaction for binding Music, Illustrated Papers, Letters, Invoices, Pamphlets, and all Papers of value. Also manufacturers of Spring-Back Covers, a device to securely hold loose sheets without piercing the same. PRICE FOR EITHER OF THE ABOVE STYLES. To ascertain the price, measure the length and breadth of your paper by inches, add them, and multiply by the prices described for the different qualities. Morocco cloth backs and corners, comb Full Morocco cloth, . Am. Russia backs and corners, marble, pp. sides, 6 7 8 " Lettering charged extra at ten cents per line. We also manufacture a superior quality of Pamphlet Cases in book shape, substantially made, with full gilt, cloth back, lettered "Miscellaneous Collections." Size, 6 x 9% in the clear, 44 65 cts. each. 90 Discount to Booksellers and Librarians. PATENT Adjustable Book Support. FOR THE TABLE OR BOOK-SHELF. shsaan a imental, simple in its construction, duratd e eiotheless space, subdivides and temporizes shelves, s,nItt-Izcany Rack n expensive than miow in se. bleo iLsmerited indorsement of some of the urst not brarians in the country, and is justly conceded fimeero a much felt want for both public and private use. ADVANTAGES.-I. It does its work more perfectly than any other. The long plate resting on the shelf under the books holds the support firmly in place by the weight of the books, and the shorter plate gives to the face which holds the books upright a spring entirely lacking in sheet-iron supports previously used. Thus the only objection to the otherwise perfect sheet-iron device is removed. 2. It is the simplest. There are no springs, screws, or joints. It is a simple piece of sheet-iron handsomely finished and ornamented. 3. It is the most ornamental. 4. It is the most durable. Being of iron and as simple as possible, a maximum of durability is secured. 5. It occupies the least space on the shelf or table. The thickness of the sheet-iron is less than that of the book cover; so it might be said to occupy no room at all, for a few steps from the shelf it would be impossible to see that any room was occupied. 6. It serves to make temporary shelves on window ledges, tables, floors-indeed, anywhere. As shown in the cut, two racks make a perfect shelf of any desired length; and thus is supplied a want often felt in the catalogue-room, the delivery desks, bindingrooms, etc., of every library, and in all parts of the building in libraries crowded for room. 7. It is manufactured in so large quantities that it can be sold for considerably less than other supports. The manufacturers have confidence that a trial of the Patent Support will certainly result in orders, and have therefore arranged that any regular subscriber to the LIBRARY JOURNAL may have a sample sent without charge, on application to the Boston office of the JOURNAL, 32 Hawley Street. Others desiring a sample pair will be supplied on receipt of 25 cents. Special terms will be given to libraries or to the trade, on application for outfits. FOR SALE BY CHILDS, FULLER & CO., 680 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, Manufacturers and Sole Agents for the United States and Canada, and for the sale of State rights. 150 STATE ST., CHICAGO. Messrs. JNO R. BARRETT & Co.: You have sent me a better Binder than I when the matter was decided. HOLDS papers IN A PERFECT VISE. From a practical Bookbinder to the Committee of the Association: regular manner, when bound in a Binder, the only other way to securely hold them is to put them in a vise. through sheets will not keep them long in place: they cut and tear out. In the Emerson Binder only can this perfect vise be "Your Committee have acted wisely in indorsing the Emerson Binder especially. Since papers cannot be sewed in the A cord passing ORDER BY THE NUMBER, OR GIVE LENGTH, WIDTH, AND THICKNESS OF YOUR PAPERS. made. Every mechanical mind sees this at once." THE Library BINDER adapted to Círculating Libraries. For Novels, Pamphlets, Magazines, etc., and especially DIRECTIONS.-Pierce the pamphlet with an awl, to cor- 8x13 Lakeside Library, Leslie's Magazine, THE THE over 150 Binders ordered at once. ers ordered at once (assorted sizes and styles if desired); 30 per cent on 50 to 100; 35 per cent on 100 to 150; 40 per cent on has arranged for the most liberal terms to libraries, viz.: On small orders, 20 per cent discount; 25 per cent on 10 to 15 BindThe Committee of the Supply Department A. L. A. having selected these Binders as the best, the Supply Department sizes. JNO. R. BARRETT & CO., Bookbinders and Sole Proprietors, Liberal Discount to the Trade. Either Binder made to order, in small lots, at 25 per cent advance over corresponding list SUPPLY DEP'T A. L. A., General Agents 32 HAWLEY ST., BOSTON. EMERSON BINDER," a File and permanent Binding for Music, Periodicals, SUPPLY DEPARTMENT AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Emerson and "The" Library Binders. The Committee's first strong recommendation of these as the best binder now offered (see v. I, p. 432) has been confirmed by further experience. Price-lists are given in another place, and libraries are supplied at threequarters price for single binders, with the most liberal discounts for quantities. Patent Book Support. Since the Massey book support was made and reported upon, this new candidate for favor has been submitted to the Committee. It certainly possesses some great merits not in the other, and it is a question whether it may not be preferred by those trying both. Special arrangements have been made with the makers and patentees, and the support will be furnished to libraries on the most liberal terms. Retail price, 25 cents each. To libraries, 10 for $1.50, 100 for $12.50, 1000 for $120. The offer (see another page for terms) to send a sample to subscribers to the JOURNAL free, shows the confidence in the merits of the device. It should certainly be tried on these terms. Paper Shears. The difficulty, sometimes expressed, of obtaining, except in a very few large cities, any regular paper-shears, has led us to put on the list two of the best patterns for this purpose. One, the Heinisch shears, are long, nickel-plated bankers' shears, very strong and perfect in action, and should be used for cutting heavy paper, book-covers, etc. These cost $1.50 each. The others are long, unplated, but a more slender pattern, and will be preferred by some for clipping from papers, etc., though those who have used both express a preference for the heavier style, even for the lightest work. The lighter pattern costs $1.75. Book Size Rule. A handy metric rule of box wood, giving, in parallel columns stamped in the wood, the proper designation of every book up to the folio in each of the three systems, actual height, size letter, or the old numerical symbol, 16m0, OFFICERS: 32 HAWLEY STREET, BOSTON. For repairing torn leaves and engravings, and like purposes, this is essential, being very strong, easily used, inexpensive, and transparent, so it does not deface. It is the best of the devices used by bankers in repairing torn bills. In large sheets, 50 x 75 cm., 30 cents each. Put up in bank packages (20 sheets, 9 x 18 cm.), 60 cents. This is the best made, and invaluable in every library, an expense of a single cent often saving a book or engraving; for a little tear neglected is sure to spoil the leaf after a few readings. Standard Straight Edges. When a note, occupying no more room than a slip, is made on commercial note, it is often desired afterwards to file it with P. O. cards. It may be folded, but a more compact way is provided in a tin straight edge or paper-cutter, just 7 by 12 cm. The large sheet can, instantly and accurately enough, be torn into the required dimensions. A similar straight-edge, 5 by 12, allows of tearing the standard size out of any paper desired, and the two are also made in one straight-edge 25 cm. long and 7 wide at one end, and 5 at the other. These are a great convenience about the desk of any one using the standard sizes. The small ones, heavy metal and japanned, cost 10 c. each; the larger ones double price. Standard Card Tray. A tray of heavy tin, japanned, is made for cataloguers' tables, and other places where a number of cards are to be kept, but where space for a case of drawers cannot be spared. It is 21 x 13 × 51⁄2 inside measure, and holds about 500 cards. The same tray holds the correspondence or large size catalogue card and postal cards, these larger sizes standing above the level of the sides. It is the cheapest and most convenient tray for P. O. card notices and the various blanks required in most libraries. With copper folding handle, 25c. With four permanent partitions dividing into five small trays, 35C. Address, SUPPLY DEP'T, A. L. A., P. O. Box 260, BOSTON. Boston Publications for May and June. AMERICAN FICTION. HIS INHERITANCE. By Miss ADELINE TRAFTON, author of "An American Girl Abroad," "Katherine Earle," etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. This story has already attracted marked attention, as a serial, in Scribner's Monthly," in which it has just been completed. Those familiar with "An American Girl Abroad" will gladly welcome another work from this gifted interpreter of character. Her facile pen is equally at home in the field of fiction and that of travel. The imaginary incidents and personages stand out with the same vivid distinctness, and are as real flesh and blood portraitures as are the pictures taken from scenes visited, and people actually met, in her trip abroad."-Christian Standard. ROTHMELL. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. The author of "That Husband of Mine," a book which last summer everybody read and re-read, in "Rothmell," has given her genius broader play, and constructed a story twice the length of the "Husband," but which contains the exquisite touches of pathos, the abounding humor, and the bewitching gracefulness in the same degree, and makes it one of the most interesting and thrilling stories. BLUFFTON By Rev. MINOT J. SAVAGE, Pastor of the Church of the Unity, Boston. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. Mr. Savage is not only a popular preacher. but one of the most thorough and outspoken thinkers of the day. His book has been styled, by a literary critic, "A Tale of Love and Radical Religion." It is an attractive story, with a deep A YEAR WORTH LIVING. By W. M. BAKER, author of The New Timothy," Carter Quarterman.' etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. "The pictures glow with tropical warmth, the descriptive power is vivid and graphic, and the prominent actors in the scenes have a marked individuality that impresses the reader's fancy with unusual distinctness."-Providence Journal. AN AMERICAN CONSUL ABROAD. By Prof. LUIGI MONTI. 16mo, cloth, $1.50. "He is a close observer of men and manners, with fine descriptive powers, combined with a happy faculty for anecdotes, which he narrates in such an amusing and entertaining way as to give a piquancy and flavor to his descriptions that cannot fail to delight his readers."-New York. Graphic. THE FALL OF DAMASCUS. BY CHARLES WELLS RUSSELL. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. "Mr. Russell writes with the information of a close student, and the fondness of a warm lover of Damascus, and he makes us feel in love with the old city. We salute in him a new prose poet."-Baltimore Bulletin. "In one thing all will agree that the book is most interesting, and that its style is charming. It is a novel of the old mysterious school, and yet, withal, is modern, at least in the manner of its telling. As we read it we recognize and feel the extravagance with which its descriptions abound, but still we are impelled forward by the charm of its style and the imaginativeness of the author, and thus we continue to read until we read the kiss me again' with which the novel virtually ends."-B. H. Times. STANDARD WORKS. THE INTERMEDIATE WORLD. By L. T. TownSEND, D.D. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. The agitation of the question of Eternal Punishment has caused an intense interest in the problem of Future Life, and the high position of Dr. Townsend of the Boston University, his fame as a theological scholar and as an eloquent and graphic writer, make certain that this volume will advance progressive views. PRIMER OF DESIGN. By CHARLES A. BARRY, Supervisor of Drawing, Public Schools, Boston. Nearly 100 illustrations. Price, 75 cents. Mr. Barry's best efforts have been put forth in the construction of this book, and his long experience as one of Prof. Walter Smith's chief assistants in preparing teachers to do the work in drawing required of them in Boston schools, makes it certain that his "Primer of Design" will be a manual of great value to art educators, as well as to the pupils themselves. YOUNG FOLKS' HEROES OF HISTORY. VOLUME I. VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF VASCO DA GAMA. By GEORGE M. Towle. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated. $1. The initial volume of this new series is recommended to the attention of teachers and guardians of youth, as a further step in the direction of combined instruction and entertainment so successfully inaugurated by the publication of HIGGINSON'S "Young Folks History of the United States," and "Young Folks' Book of American Explorers." To be followed by "PIZARRO AND HIS CONQUESTS." VOYAGE OF THE PAPER CANOE. A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the year 1874-75. By NATHANIEL H. BISHOP, author of "A Thousand Miles Walk Across South America." Embellished with spirited illustrations and ten maps of the route. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2.50. "The whole volume, though entertaining in the extreme, abounds with curious information, which raises it above the character of a mere work of amusement. Mr. Bishop is a natural and forcible writer."-New York Tribune. THE HISTORICAL STUDENT'S MANUAL. By ALFRED WAITES. Svo, cloth, 75 cents. MOTHER GOOSE MASQUERADES. THE LAWRENCE MOTHER GOOSE. Ey E. D. KENDALL. Containing full directions for getting up an "Evening of Nonsense.' Just the book for Exhibitions. Price 75 cents. THE READING CLUB, AND HANDY SPEAKER-No. 5. Edited by GEO. M. BAKER. Being selections in prose and poetry serious, humorous, pathetic, patriotic and dramatic. Fresh and attractive pieces for school speakers and reading exercises. 16mo, cloth, 50 cents; paper, 15 cents. Uniform with Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. IN PRESS. GEOMETRICAL DRAWING. By GEORGE L. VOse, author of "Manual for Railroad Engineers and Engineering Students.' DETERIORATION AND RACE EDUCATION. With Practical Application to the Condition of the People and Industry. By SAMUEL ROYCE. ENGLAND FROM A BACK WINDOW. WITH VIEWS OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. By J. M. BAILEY (The Danbury News Man). NOBODY'S HUSBAND. Will be the fifth number of OUR SPARKLING SERIES, and will be equally as popular as its predecessors. To be followed by PETER CREWITT. By the author of "That Husband of Mine.' Sold by all Booksellers and Newsdealers, and sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. Catalogues mailed free. LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, BoSTON. |