JOHN K. HALLOWELL, 139 Eighth street, N. Y., has a special edition of Mark Twain's scrapbook called the "H.'s" edition. They are indexed through, and cost but 25 cents extra. Mr. H. has met with great success with his edition of this scrap-book; it has been recognized as the most convenient edition for clergymen and editors who need an index, as all scraps can be quickly arranged under the different letters of the alphabet, and no paging is necessary. Any thing pasted in is thus indexed at once, and no further trouble is necessary. PORTER & BAINBRIDGE, 33 Beekman street, New York, are adding to their stock some very unique and new styles of their L'Elite cards and papers. They have also just out a gilt bevelled edge card in black, cardinal red, blue, and sealbrown; they have also a fine line of fancy figured enamel Bristol and Phantom Bristol which are very handsome and meet with great favor. BELCHER & HOUGHTON, 71 John street, New York, have just out a new cabinet containing two quires of extra fine paper in tints; they sell at $10 per dozen to the trade. S. A. TOWER & Co. have a new school-bag which is neat, cheap, and salable. They are made of a kind of grass linen, neatly stitched, and decorated with a fancy-colored picture. They come in three styles, which are sold to the trade at $2.50, $2.75, and $3 per dozen. R. E. BENNETT has just returned from a western trip, and has met with great success in sales and introductions of inks, mucilage, etc., of the H. C. Burnet Manufacturing Co., New ark, N. J. HENRY LEVY, of Henry Levy & Son, sailed for Europe last Saturday. He will be gone three or four months. MARK TWAIN'S patent scrap-book is meeting a long-felt want in the trade, and we are told the sales of this book are several thousand monthly, and still increasing. The trade are supplied by Slote, Woodman & Co., N. Y. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. THE American Newspaper Reporter, so enterprisingly conducted by Geo. P. Rowell & Co., has recently been purchased by R. H. C. Valentine & Co., who propose to make it pay on its merits as a journalists' and printers' newspaper, at $1.50 a year. It is certainly worth many times that to any one who wishes to keep posted. We are glad to learn from the publishers that the Magazine of American History has been so well received by the historical students of the country that its success is now beyond peradventure. The April number is just ready. The Nineteenth Century, the new monthly review edited by James Knowles, has taken the reading world of London by storm. Seven thousand copies of the first number were printed, and considering the price, two shillings and sixpence, and the very select audience to which it appealed, this was thought a large number. The edition was sold immediately, and successive reprints were called for, until twelve thousand copies had been disposed of within a week. The contributors to the num GLEANINGS FROM THE PRESS. RIVAL publishing houses, and a lively competition, are more likely to produce good textbooks for schools than job work at job prices. The text-books in American schools are among the best in the world, and are constantly im proving; and this grand result is the product of sharp, clear-headed appreciation of the wants of teachers and pupils. If Mr. Smith wants better text-books than the leading publishers of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Boston publish, he must take an early translation to find them. Another State uni plea is economy. Mr. Smith evidently wants the position of State printer. The extravagancy of such work is not only notorious in New York, but elsewhere.. formity is another argument, but this plan is clearly futile. In the diversity of text-books and authorship lies the great value of this free competition. A State system has been, is, and always must be, from the nature of the case, a failure, and a fraud. Gentlemen legislators, let well enough alone.-National Fournal of Education. THE Publishers' Board of Trade was started to reform abuses which were not only damaging to trade, but were really adverse to the educational interests of the country. A notion has prevailed in many quarters, unreasonably as we believe, that the Publishers' Board was a ring formed for the purpose of keeping up However this feelhigh prices for text-books. ing was started, it has been fostered by persons who have interests, at war with the publishers, to subserve. The system of even exchanges was broken up, regular discounts were fixed, and in fact more was done to protect the people, and especially the taxpayers, against the machinations of local rings and interested teachers than can be done under the free-andeasy system of competition. This will probably be found out in time, but not until some trouble and much annoyance has ensued. If the Publishers' Board could adopt a new code of laws and work upon the principles which govern that of the Stationers,' we have no doubt they would do themselves much good and benefit the community; but disorganization has stepped in, and it is hard to regain lost ground. Its members will find all they want in the Stationers' Association, which they can aid to extend its usefulness.-The American Stationer. A BOOKSELLER," writing to the Tribune, says of the disruption of the Board, "The Board of Trade has done a good work, and it is to be regretted that, owing to the growth of a mistaken public opinion that the organization is a monopoly, and that publishers, through it, are exacting enormous prices for books, it has been thought best by the houses named to retire. It may not be out of place to say here that the prices of school-books have been represented as being very high; this is a mistake. School-books, in general, are the cheapest books in the market. They are, as a rule, made of the best material, as to paper, printing, and binding; and where maps and illustrations are used, as is almost universal at present, they are far superior to the same kind of work in miscellaneous books. They are cheaper, too; the prices (I state it without fear of contradiction) are from 25 to 233 per cent lower than the best class of miscellaneous books that are constantly sold and bought without complaint. Another element in the cost of a good schoolbook is the authorship, an expensive item, for it requires rare scholarship, experience, and tact to produce a good school-book; and in this the laborer is surely worthy of his hire: he must be paid." terest. May it live long enough to forget its birthday. THE French book-trade organization has appointed a commission to consider plans for a rade building, to front on the boulevard St. Germain. At the annual meeting, February 23d, it was decided to organize a collective display at the Paris Exposition, which should, however, be confined to a representative specimen from teach publisher of his finest work. AN International Historical Exhibition is to be held at Amsterdam from June through Auited articles will display the graphic art in five gust of this year. One of the groups of exhibimportant divisions, namely: typography, lithography, photography, foundry, and wood enfor the typographical treasures of Holland, and graving. A special space has been set apart will contain some of the earliest specimens of the art in that country. TRÜBNER & Co. announce an 'English and Foreign Philosophical Library," for which the following works are in preparation: "The History of Materialism," from the German of Prof. F. A. Lange; "Natural Law: an Essay in Ethics," by Miss Edith Simcox; "Outlines of the History of Religion to the Supremacy of the Universal Religions," from the Dutch of Prof. C. P. Tiele; "What is the Ego?" by Dr. C. E. Appleton; "The History of Chinese Philosophy," by Dr. E. J. Eitel, Hong Kong. Jas. R. Osgood & Co. propose to publish it here. THE Librarians' Committee has reported through the Library Journal a plan for the reissue and completion to date of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, under a co-operative arrangement among the leading libraries. It is expected the work will be of the size of one volume of Allibone LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. WE call especial attention to the interesting announcements in our advertising pages of Messrs. Firmin-Didot & Co., of Paris. Their magnificent collection of the Greek classics, in double-column royal octavos, with Latin translations on the opposite page, is one of the most important enterprises ever undertaken, for no pains or expense has been spared to make them complete, scholarly, and accurate, and CATALOGUE RULES.-Fearing that his "Rules their liberal offer as to terms of payment make for a dictionary catalogue" enter too much into the acquisition of this collection possible to detail for beginners, Mr. C. A. Cutter is premany who might otherwise be unable to pro-paring some short rules for cataloguing which cure it. A considerable discount is neverthe-will be published in a future number of the LIBRARY JOURNAL. When less assured to the trade. The other work, on "Historical Costume," is one of the most sumptuous ever projected by this house. completed, it will cost (to non-subscribers) 300 francs ($60), and will include six volumes, one of text and five of plates and descriptive notices. There will be five hundred plates, three hundred in gold, silver, and colors, and two hundred in cameo tint, giving the principal types of dress and ornament, associated with the style of the interior of the dwelling, in all times and among all nations, with correct historical details as to furniture, arms, household objects, means of transportation, etc. M. A. Racinet, author of the important work on 'Polychrome Ornament," is the editor, and he will contribute a historical study of the whole subject, as well as the descriptive notices. The work will first be published in parts, at the low rate of 12 francs each to regular subscribers (9 francs net to the trade), and American booksellers will do well to secure subscriptions. A large-paper edition can also be had. 66 THE Paper Trade Journal and the American Stationer rise to explain that the origin of the Stationers' Board of Trade was in no wise connected with the Stationers' Exchange, as a recent article of ours implied. We gladly make the correction, since the good work of the Stationers' Board makes its history of some in BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY-The next issue of the Boston Public Library will be a ClassList of Fiction for the Lower Hall of the Central Library. The entries will have explanatory notes, and novels of historical bearing will be grouped under subject heads, and methods will be pointed out of pursuing parallel courses of reading in history, biography, etc., illustrative of the themes of the novels. The note on English history will be seven or eight pages long, and will be probably the longest of all. It will combine the "Catalogue notes on English history," already issued by the library, together with that section devoted to England in the library's Chronological index to historical fiction." That portion of the edition which is intended for use on the library-tables will be printed, as Mr. Poole recommends, on manilla paper. A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co. have taken the New York agency of Messrs. Jas. R. Osgood & Co.'s heliotypes, and are now displaying framed samples and the full series in portfolios in very attractive fashion. OF "The Jericho Road," now acknowledged by Mr. Habberton, 10,000 copies have been sold by Jansen, McClurg & Co., and a London edition is in progress. Geibel, already so well known as 'one of our sweetest and most sympathetic singers and composers of instrumental music. It is sung in G Major for mezzo soprano that is sure to find favor. The words are from Holland's lovely poem "The Mistress of the Manse," and Mr. Geibel has adapted them in his happiest vein. The other is Ralph Roland's song pleasing and popular song, sure to take with and chorus, "Are you Tired of me, Darling?" a all lovers of such music. BOOKS WANTED. I wish to testify to the value of your advertisement column "Books Wanted." We have had occasion to make use of it often during the past year, and I have been continually surprised at the large proportion of items we obtain out of the list called for, sometimes receiving as many as twenty offers for the same work. I would suggest that booksellers answering these advertisements should limit their prices to what is fair and moderate, and not imagine that because a book is advertised for one is ready to pay an exorbitant price for it. We are often able to use several copies of books offered at fair prices, when we would not take even one at the fancy figures some dealers are in the habit of quoting. IRVING PUTNÁM. We consider this the cheapest and quickest way of picking up old rare books; and in this connection let us say that, because we advertise for a book, parties answering our advertisements are mistaken in fixing an exorbitant price on their copies, as we have quotations on the same books from all over the country; yes, even from "old England." YOHN & PORTER, Indianapolis. I have just experienced the usefulness of advertising for "Books Wanted." Over a dozen replies came the first day, and the differences in prices alone made up cost of advertisement. JOHN H. THOMAS, Dayton, O. WM. BALLANTyne, WashingTON, D. C. 1 Barnard's Am. Journal of Education, Int. Series, vol. 1. 1 English Pedagogy, 1st series, by H. Barnard. 1 Science of Knowledge Theoretically and Practically Considered. Transl. from the German by Krueger. 1 Handbook of Physical Training, by J. C. Robinson. 1 Technical Education, by C. B. Stitson. 1 Tait's Philosophy of Education. ROBERT CLARKE & Co., CINCINNATI, O. 4 Verne's Abandoned, 1 vol., separate. S., A. & Co. 8 Capt. 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HENRY GURLEY, 312 Fourth Avenue, corner Twenty-third Street, New York. THE BLESSED HOPE: OR, The Glorious Coming of the Lord. By WILLIS LORD, D.D., Author of "Christian Theology for the People." 12mo, Cloth, $1.25. The Publisher respectfully calls the attention of the trade to the above work, from an author of acknowledged ability and experience, as being of much interest and value to the religious public at this time. It presents the Pre-Millennial view of the Second Advent in a concise, scriptural, and popular manner, avoiding all irrelevant and side issues. MOODY'S ANECDOTES. Edited by Rev. F. B. McCLURE. Paper, 50 cents; Cloth, $1. Third edition just issued. This very salable work is just the thing for preachers and teachers. FIFTY EVENINGS WITH MOODY. The best verbatim report yet issued of Moody's Sermons. One large 12mo vol., $1.50. Liberal Terms given. Your orders solicited. W. G. HOLMES, Publisher, No. 77 Madison Street, Chicago. |