Toronto Firm's New Shop WILLIAM TYRRELL & Company have opened, with appropriate ceremonies, a fine new shop at 820 Yonge Street, Toronto. This store has had a famous place in Canadian bookselling, and the proprietor, William Tyrrell, is one of the leading figures in book distribution in the dominion. The store has had a flavor and personality which has now been successfully embodied in the new equipment.

The opening of the new shop was made the occasion for a staff dinner at Casa Loma, Toronto's new hotel. S. B. Watson of Thomas Nelson & Sons proposed a toast to Mr. Tyrrell, praising his ideas. of service, the individuality of his book stock and the scrupulous adherence to the high principles that have played so important a part in building up the business. Professor Gilbert Jackson of the University of Toronto proposed a toast to the booktrade testifying to the important educational function of the bookstore in every community. Other speakers were Thomas Allen, who presented a portrait of Mr. Tyrrell, and Hugh S. Eayrs.

Small, Maynard Bankruptcy Case THE

'HE trustee in the bankruptcy for NorIman White, head of Small, Maynard & Company and the Boston Book Binding Company, has reported to the referee that White spent ten days prior to the filing of the bankruptcy petition destroying records, checks and books, about 50% of the total files, so that it has been an impossibility for the trustees to determine how much money ought to be accounted for. White personally deposited in eleven banks since January 1st, 1924, about $6,000,00; of 3 banks there are no records. The report states that White received from the Boston Book Binding Company and Small, Maynard & Company by way of checks $200,000. This same amount was drawn from these companies in about that period from January 1st, 1924, and not deposited in any bank account of Norman White in such banks as he was known to have accounts in. The report says that the total that White received in addition to certain salaries which was charged from the books and not included in the figures given was about $6,500,000.

Lindbergh's Own Story To Be Published

COLONEL LINDBERGH'S "Own Story" is announced for immediate publication by Putnams. The book, which will be about 50,000 words in length, is in part the story which ran in the New York Times but has been expanded. The book, for example, tells the story of Lindbergh's early life which was not covered in the newspaper story.

A Prize for Librarians

NE hundred dollars is offered by The Macmillan Co. to the librarian who will suggest the best name for a series which is about to come out under the editorship of Dr. Charles A. Beard.

It is a series of scholarly yet readable books at a moderate price to provide both stimulus and information for the large and growing number of people who are interested in "reading-with-a-purpose."

The nucleus for the project has been the little series planned by the Workers' Education Bureau under the title "The Workers' Bookshelf" which, under Macmillan's imprint, becomes a larger and more general enterprise. It is the aim of the Bureau and of the publishers to include short volumes on the important aspects of American life and culture including economics, politics, natural science, etc. In style they will be addressed to the general reader, non-technical but mature in outlook.

Twenty books are announced, five for 1927, including "The Living Constitution," by Howard L. McBain; "Economic History of the United States," by Harold L. Faulkner; "Labor and the Law," by Roscoe Pound; "Wealth," by Irving Fisher; "American Government," by Chas. A. Beard; "European Governments," by Lindsay Rogers; "General Science," by Louise Brown, and "The Community," by E. C. Lindeman.

Obituary Notes

JEROME K. JEROME JEROME K. JEROME, noted British author and playwright, died at a hospital in Northampton, England, from cerebral hemorrhage on June 14th. He was stricken on June 1st while on a motor tour, but had been improving steadily and was expected to recover. He was born on May 2nd, 1859, in Walsall, England, and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. He was in turn clerk, schoolmaster, actor, secretary and journalist before he published a book and then added to his accomplishments as author the writing of plays and the editorship of two periodicals, The Idler and Today. He was probably best known as the author of "Three Men in a Boat" and "The Passing of the Third Floor Back," the latter a play that enjoyed great popularity during its run on the stage and that is now a favorite with amateur producing groups. Mr. Jerome was also very popular as a lecturer, to a great degree, no doubt, because of his great admiration for America and Ameri

can women.

His books, which numbered 36, include: "On the Stage and Off," 1888; "Thoughts of an Idle Fellow," 1889; "Three Men in a Boat," 1889; "Diary of a Pilgrimage," 1891; "Three Men on the Bummel, 1900; "Passing of the Third Floor Back," 1907; "The Angel and The Author," 1908; "All Roads Lead to Calvary," 1919; "Antony John," 1923; and "My Life and Times," his autobiography last year.

FRANCIS GRIERSON

FRANCIS GRIERSON, essayist, lecturer and pianist, died Tuesday, May 31st, at Los Angeles, Cal. Tho born in England. he was brought to this country before he was a year old, where his family settled in the Mississippi Valley. As a pianist he later became known thruout this country and Europe. The unique thing about his musical gift was not especially that he had never studied in Europe but that he could even read music. Auber, Wagner, Prudhomme, David, Saint-Etienne and Gastinel all heard and praised him, but his last years had been spent in complete poverty. The early life in Illinois he reproduced in his book, "The Valley of Shadows." Other books are "The Celtic Temperament and

Other Essays," "Humour of the Underman," "Invincible Alliance," "Modern Mysticism," "Parisian Portraits."

A Directory of Collectors "MAECENAS," a new directory of

collectors with hobbies of all kinds, edited and published by Dr. Joachim Stern of Berlin, covers the various countries of Europe as well as those on this side of the Atlantic. It is a handsome volume of nearly six hundred pages in triple column arrangement. It gives nearly 50,000 addresses of institutions and private individuals interested in a great variety of things such as Paintings, Ivories, Ceramics, Furniture, Sculpturing, Tapestries, Arms, Books and sixteen other topics.

These lists will be helpful to dealers in other lines, but as a directory of collectors of books in the United States and Canada it adds little to "Private Book Collectors" edited by John Holden, which appeared in 1925. In fact, his list has been copied almost verbatim with numerous typographical errors, including those that appeared in Holden's list.

While other names of collectors are given in addition to those copied from the American list, these are not classified in any manner. The letter "L" is given as the key for "Books" but it is not used with many of the names under the head of "Private Collectors." One can only guess whether they are interested in textiles, pewter, or any other of the many hobbies.

A vast amount of labor must have been given to its compilation, and it will undoubtedly be of some considerable service to many dealers in other lines. Its weakness is in its breadth. In endeavoring to be comprehensive it fails to be thoro and painstaking, particularly in the data representing the United States and Canada inso-far as book collectors are concerned.

Fraud Checks in New York Passed by W. C. Meiggs SEVERAL booksellers in New York

have been victimized by a man who presented with much plausible explanation checks on the American Exchange Irving Trust Company which proved entirely fraudulent. The checks were signed W. C. Meiggs.

Changes in Price

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY Harland. New Common Sense in the Household. (Regular Edition.) Reduced to $1.50. Harland. New Common Sense in the Household. (Kitchen Edition.) Reduced to $2.00.

PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF CHRISTIAN
EDUCATION

Historical Geography of Bible Lands, by John B.
Calkin has been increased from $1.25 to $1.75, net.
Bells of the Blue Pagoda, by Jean Carter Cochran,
reduced from $1.75 to $1.25, net.

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LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY
Effective June 15th

"A Dictionary of English Synonyms and Synony -
Parallel Expressions," by Richard Soule,
has been increased from $2.75 to $3.00.
"Stories from British History," by T. Bevan, has
been increased from 80 cents to go cents.
"Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, (Cloth) has
been increased from $4.50 to $5.00.
"Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, (Half
Leather), has been increased from $6.50 to $7.00.
"Mother West Wind Series" (8 volumes), by Thorn-
ton W. Burgess, have been increased from $1.00 to
$1.25 per volume.

"Wishing Stone Series" (3 volumes) by Thornton W. Burgess, have been increased from $1.00 to $1.25 per volume.

The following books by Jeffery Farnol have been increased from $2.00 to $2.50: "Sir John Dering"; "Our Admirable Betty"; "Black Bartlemy's Treasure"; "Martin Conisby's Vengeance"; "The Definite Object"; "The Loring Mystery"; "The High Adventure."

"Cooking for Two," by Janet McKenzie Hill, has been increased from $2.25 to $2.50.

"The Spirit of the Garden" (New Edition, ready September 24), by Martha Brookes Hutcheson, "An Atlantic Monthly Press Publication," has been decreased from $8.50 to $3.50.

"Little People Everywhere Series" (Trade Edition), by McDonald and Dalrymple, have been increased from $1.00 to $1.25.

"Little People Everywhere Series" (School Edition), by McDonald and Dalrymple, have been increased from 80 cents to 85 cents.

"Molière's Plays" (6 volumes), have been increased from $2.00 to $2.50 per volume.

"Henry Arthur Jones' Plays" (4 volumes), have been increased from $2.50 to $3.00 per volume.

Personal Notes

HERMANN ZADEK of the Rare Book Co., New York, is on a business trip to continental countries and will return in September.

ROBERT APPLETON has entered the publishing business of Frederick H. Hitchcock, publishers of special books, 105 West 40th St. Mr. Appleton spent some fifteen years with the Appleton firm, which was founded by his grandfather; then he became the publisher of "The Catholic Encyclopedia," and was afterward connected with similar publications. Mr. Hitchcock's own first experiences in the book publishing business were obtained during a tenyear period when he was in the manufacturing department of D. Appleton & Co.

JAMES KENDRICK NOBLE of the firm of Noble & Noble, publishers, New York, will be married on June 25th at Evansville, Wisconsin, to Orrel Tennant Baldwin, daughter of J. Burdette Baldwin, general manager of the Laurel Book Co. of Chicago. Mr. Noble is a graduate of Columbia and served as an aviator in the World War.

The firm of JOHN H. HOPKINS & SONS will act as sales representative of the Vanguard Press in all territory east of Kansas City, including the South.

EDWARD J. VASS, for many years well known to the trade and for the past twelve months eastern representative of the Dial Press, Inc., has been elected a director and assistant-treasurer of that company.

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Adams, Edward C. L.

Congaree sketches; introd. by Paul Green. 133p. O c. Chapel Hill, N. C., Univ. of N. C. Press buck. $2 Stories and sketches of negro life in the Congaree swamps of South Carolina, with tales by "Tad" and "Scip" of Heaven and Hell.

Adams, Harrison, pseud.

The pioneer boys of the Colorado, or, Braving the perils of the Grand Canyon country. 331p. il. D (Young pioneer ser.) [c. '26] Bost., L. C. Page

Akers, Lewis Robeson, D. D.

$1.65

$1.25

$2

"Modern discoveries in regard to the fundamental constitution of things."

etc.

American Library Ass'n

The chicken-wagon (Popular copyrights) [c. '25] N. Y., Grosset

Bernhard, William John

Taboo [by Cabell] in lino-cuts [lim. ed.] no. p. il. (col.) Q [c. '27] N. Y., Author, 171 Madison Ave. bds. $17.50

Brandenburg, Erich

From Bismarck to the World War; a history of German foreign policy, 1870-1914; tr. by Annie Elizabeth Adams. 556p. O '27 N. Y., Oxford Brewster, Mary

$7

Interrogation; a play of New England in four acts. 105p. D [c. '27] Bost., Badger $2 Briffault, Robert

The mothers; a study of the origins of settlements and institutions; 3 v. various p. (169p. bibl.) O c. N. Y., Macmillan $9 ea. Brown, Marion Francis

Sheafs for a sickle [verse]. 32p. D '26 Cedar Rapids, Ia., Torch Press pap. $1 Brunner, Edmund de Schweinitz

Village communities 244p. (bibls.) O (Inst. of social and religious research; Amer. village studies) [c. '27] N. Y., Doran $2.25

Eight case studies of individual agricultural villages, as well as a summary of village conditions in general are included.

N. Y., $2.50

The story of a boy who was born in a notorious house in Paris and was caught in a maelstrom of conflicting values when he discovered that there was another world differing radically from his.

Chancellor, Edwin Beresford

Life in regency and early Victorian times; an account of the days of Brummell and D'Orsay, 1800 to 1850. 139p. (bibl. footnotes) il. (col. front.) O ['27] N. Y., Scribner $7.50 Chisholm, Arthur Murray

Prospectin' fools. 320p. D [c. '27] N. Y., Chelsea House

$2

A story that follows two hard-boiled prospectors in their search for gold thru the Canadian wilderness, and then to Vancouver, where they go to spend their findings.

Christie, Mrs. Agatha Miller

The secret of Chimneys. 315p. D (Popular copyrights) [c. '25] N. Y., Grosset 75 C

Booth, Hilliard

Sally's ship comes in; a comedy in three acts. 75p diagr. D (French's internat'l copyrighted ed. no. 604) c. '27 N. Y., S. French pap. 30 c.

Campbell, Douglas

The law of stockholders; 3rd ed. 220p. O '27 N. Y., Baker, Voorhis & Co. buck. $4.50

Composition and food value of margarine, The. 22p. (bibl. footnotes) O (Bull. no. 10) '27 Wash., D. C., Inst. of Margarine Manufactures, 1049 Munsey Bldg. pap. apply

Copestake, Beatrice M. Goodall

The theory and practice of massage: 4th ed. 287p. il. O '27 N. Y., P. B. Hoeber $4.50