Phoenicia, see Thomson, W. M. Physicians' hand-book ser., see James, P. Physics, see Gage, A. P.

Plant record, see Underwood, L. M.

Poems of the household, see Sangster, Mrs. M. E. Poet and the children, see Lothrop, M. H.

Polar regions, see In the.

Posies for children, see Lowell, Mrs. A. C.

Potter, S. O. L. (565), Questions on human anatomy, il.
16°, $1.
Blakiston, Son & Co.
Prince of Wales' garden party, see Riddell, Mrs. J. H
Prize (564) for girls and boys, 1882, il. 8°, bds., 75 c.
Estes & L..

Promissory notes, see Edwards, I.
Puddings, Book of forty, see Brown, S. A.
Quiz-compends, see Potter, S. O. L.
Rachel's inheritance, see Veley, M.
Railroad cases, see Thompson, E.
Ralph's year in Russia, see Richardson, R.

Randolph, A. M. F. (564), Kansas Supreme Ct. repts.,
Kansas Pub. House.

v. 27, 8°. shp., $3.50...

Raphael Sanzio, see Minghetti, M.
Rebellion on the border, see Britton, W.
Rectum, see Allingham, W.

Red dragon, The, see Talmage. T. De W.
Redcliff, R. F. (564), Freckles, 12°, pap., 20 C.....
..Lovell.
Revere estate, The, see Chellis, M. D.
Rex, R. F. (565), Notaries' manual, 8°, shp., $2.50.

Gilbert Book Co.

Rice, J., see Besant, W.
Richardson, R. (564), Ralph's year in Russia, il. 16°,
$1.50...
.Nelson.

Riddell, Mrs. J. H.(565). The Prince of Wales' garden party, etc., 4o, pap., 10 c.. .Munro: N. Y. News Co. Ring out, wild bells, see Tennyson, A.

Robert Raikes lib., see Alexander, J. W.; Anna Ross; Chloe Lankton; Eddy, A. D.; Guernsey, L. E.; Hugh Fisher; Jamie; Life in earnest; Maria Cheeseman; Young clerk.

Roberts, D. L. (564), Practice of midwifery, il. 12°, pap., 75 C... Blakiston, Son & Co. Robinson, C. (565), History of High Ct. of Chancery, etc., v. 1, 8°, shp., net, $7.50.....Randolph & English. Rock of ages, see Toplady, A. M.

Rock-drills, see Drinker, H. S.

Rockwood, H. (565), Donald Dyke, the Yankee detective, 4°, pap., to c...... Ogilvie.

Romantic school, The, see Heine, H.

Rome, Legendary hist. of, see Livius Patavinus, T.
Rossetti, C. G. (564), Poetical works, Household ed.,
new ed., por. 12°, $2..
.......Roberts.
Rossetti, D. G. (564), Poetical works, Household ed.,
new ed., por. 12°, $2.
....Roberts.

Russian empire, see Geddie, J.
St. Nicholas (564), V. 9, pts. 1, 2, 2 v., sq. 8°, ca., $2.50.
Century Co.

St. Telemachus, Legend of, see Newton, W. W.
St. Teresa's, A thought of, see McMahon, Miss E.
Sangster, Mrs. M. E. (565), Miss Dewberry's scholars,
T. Whittaker.

il. 12°, $1.....
- (564), Poems of the household, 12°, $1.50........Osgood.
Saville, Mrs. W. A. (564), Social etiquette, 12o, 50 c.
Lovell.
Schelling's transcendental idealism, see Watson, J.
School bulletin publications, see Dickinson, J. W.; Miller,
W.; Straight, H. H.; Underwood, L. M.
Science manuals, see Christie, W. H.

Sea pictures, etc., see Macaulay, J.

Sears, E. H. (564), That glorious song of old, il. sq. 120, $1.50. .... Lee & S. Seaside library, see Du Boisgobey, F.; Edwards, M. B.; Gaskell, Mrs. E. C.; Jeaffreson, J. C. Lawrence, G.; Miss Hitchcock's wedding dress; Riddell, Mrs J. H. Seccombe, Lieut.-Col. (564), The good old story of Cinderella retold in rhyme, 'il. sq. 8°, $2.50.....Armstrong. Secrets of circus, etc., business, see Walston, E. C. Sheldon, G. W. (564), Story of the volunteer fire dept. of Harper.

N. Y., il. sq. 8°, $4.50.

.....

Six girls, see Irving, F. B.
Smith, H. (564), Practical lessons in gynecology, il. 12°,
pap., 75 c.
Blakiston, Son & Co.

............

Texas, Ct. of Appeals repts., see Jackson, A M.
That glorious song of old, see Sears, E. H.
Theatrical business, see Walston, E. C.
Therapeutics, see Farquharson, R.
They were married, see Besant, W.

Thompson, E. (564), American and English railroad cases, v. 7, pt. 1, 8°, pap., $1.50.. ......E. Thompson. Thomson, A. (564), In the Holy Land, il. 12°, $1.75.

Nelson. Thomson, W. M. (564), The land and the book, v. 2, Central Palestine and Phoenicia, il. and maps, sq. 8°. $6; shp., $7; hf. mor., $8.50..... Harper. Thorpe, R. H. (564), Curfew must not ring to-night, il. sq. 12°, $1.50 Lee & S.

The Publishers' Weekly.

JANUARY 6, 1883.

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PUBLISHERS are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry: the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness 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" gratefully received.

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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.

THE TARIFF COMMISSION AND THE DUTY ON BOOKS.

From the New York Evening Post, Dec. 27.

IN October last the Philadelphia Book Trade Association demanded before the Tariff Commission that the duty on 'all books, periodicals, pamphlets .. and all printed matter be fixed at 20 cents per pound." Inasmuch asnot to mention many cheaper publications--the European cost price of fine illustrated periodicals is only about 16 cents a pound (so that at present, at 25 per cent ad valorem, the duty thereon is only 4 cents) this demand meant an increase of at least 400 per cent over and above the present rate. That was too much even for the Tariff Commission, which, instead of an increase, has recommended a reduction of the duty on books and other printed matter. The Philadelphia publishers are, therefore, dissatisfied, and at their meeting, December 14, resolutions were adopted protesting against the enactment of the provision which proposes to reduce the duty on books from 25 to 15 per cent, and enable any one who is not a dealer to import books free of duty, and admits free of duty all books and periodicals over ten years old, as unjust and prejudicial to American industries. The resolutions also protest against the reduction of duties on printing papers from 20 to 15 per cent, against placing wood-pulp on the free list, and against the Tariff Bill recommended by the Commission as a whole. They are now working very hard against these recommendations of the Tariff Commission, while all those who want foreign books for use, etc., are likewise dissatisfied therewith, for the following reasons:

Other printed matter so im

usually so bound.
ported is free of duties."

It is difficult to understand why pamphlets at least, and such other printed matter as cannot be termed "books," are not put in the free list likewise. One of the defects of the Tariff Commission's work is that, inconsistently with this recommendation to place them on the "free list,' periodicals are at the same time to be taxed fifteen per centum.

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On page 69 of their report we read, under Schedule M-Books, Papers, etc. :

"Books, periodicals, pamphlets, bound or unbound, and all printed matter not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, engravings, bound or unbound, etchings, illustrated books, maps, and charts, fifteen per centum ad

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valorem.'

This reduction of 10 per cent (from 25 per cent as at present) in the duty to be assessed on the foreign purchase price amounts to hardly five cents saving on the dollar, and cannot make a perceptible difference in the selling price of such foreign books as are retailed at less than one dollar here.

A proposed change in the " Free List" is that "Books which shall have been printed and manufactured more than ten years at the date of importation are to be admitted free of duty. At present books must have attained the venerable age of twenty years to be permitted to enter free.

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It is needless to say that this concession would help scholars and professional men very little, for books ten or twenty years old are generally of little consequence and value to that class of individual bookbuyers. What they and nearly everybody want and ought to get, free of duty, is the latest books-the publications of the day. The truth of this is admitted by the Tariff Commission's recommendation that newspapers and periodicals are to come on the "Free List." Why, then, should not similar information, if printed not in a newspaper or periodical, but independently in a pamphlet or book, come in free of duty likewise?

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At present there is a difference of opinion as to what is a pamphlet (which is admitted free of duty when coming through the international mail) or a "book" (which is held to be dutiable) though small, in paper cover (in pamphlet form). Opinions differ likewise as to what is a periodical" (and as such exempt from duty), or a "number," part," or other portion of a (dutiable) "book."

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In addition to these, numberless other difficulties present themselves. The retention (unchanged) of the present provision books, maps, and charts specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States," practically excludes text-books for the use of classes of students and pupils; the Tariff Commission shows no sympathy for them. The oath which is to be produced on entering such free-of-duty books at the Custom-house declares that those books are "not for sale or distribution."

The Commission's main though unfortunate attempt to satisfy the public demand consists in the recommendation that "books by foreign au

A few weeks ago we issued a book by an American author, who desired to publish his book simultaneously in England. He made his arrangements with a London house for its publication there, for a duplicate set of stereotype plates, and by visiting Canada secured a copyright, that his English publishers might be protected from their brethren in trade, who are very much given to reprinting on each other. With our author's English transactions we had nothing whatever to do, beyond certain friendly offices. His dealings were direct with the publishers.

The transactions in both instances, were between author and publisher. We manufactured the English author's book here, in a style different from the English edition, to meet the demands of the market; our American author dealt directly with the English publisher, who printed and bound their edition in London, and in a style adapted to that market. In both instances the authors, in their arrangements, reserved the right to the foreign market. Under the present British law our American author is protected; while the only danger to the English author, in the absence of an international copyright law, is that some one may possibly reprint the book on us, which reprinting could not possibly affect the abstract rights of the English publisher, but would seriously interfere with those of the author. What we have done in these instances we believe the great body of American publishers stand ready to do; and when the foreign author shall consent to lend his aid and support to this simple plan, we shall soon have an international copyright law. A NEW YORK PUBLISHER.

NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 1882.

OBITUARY.

EDWARD J. HALE.

EDWARD J. HALE, the well-known senior of the house of E. J. Hale & Son, died on the evening of the 2d inst., at the advanced age of 80 years. Mr. Hale was born in Randolph County, N. C., Oct. 26, 1802. Over half a century ago, on Jan. 1, 1825, when only 23 years of age, he became the publisher of the Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer, which was, during the 40 years of his management as editor and publisher, one of the leading and most influential journals in the Southern States. In connection with this paper he engaged in the book publishing business, and for many years published the North Carolina Supreme Court reports. Most of the publications were of a local character and interest. His son was admitted to partnership in the business in July, 1850, and under their joint management the house became one of the largest publishing houses in the South. The close of the war left the house. in very straitened circumstances financially, and in March, 1865, the publication of the Observer was abandoned. In the following year Mr. Hale removed to this city, and in October, 1866, the publishing house of E. J. Hale & Son began business here, and has continued up to the present time. Among the more noted books Mr. Hale has published History of the United States," by the Hon. A. H. Stephens, ex-Vice-President of the ex-Confederate States; the Rev. Dr. R. L. Dabney's "Defence of Virginia and the South;" De Fontaine's Cyclopædia of the Best

were the "

Thoughts of Charles Dickens ;" and Prof. Shepherd's " History of the English Language."

CHARLES P. KRAUTH, D.D., LL.D.

DR. CHAS. P. KRAUTH, Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, died in Philadelphia at noon on the 2d inst., after an illness of about two weeks. Dr. Krauth was born at Martinsburg, Va., March 17, 1823. He was graduated from Pennsylvania College in 1839, was ordained in 1842, became pastor of a church in Baltimore, and subsequently held charges in Winchester, Va., and Pittsburg, Penn. In 1859 he was called to St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Philadelphia. In 1861 he became editor of the Lutheran and Missionary, issued in Philadelphia, and in 1864 Professor of Theology and Church History in the Lutheran Seminary. In 1868 he was elected to the Chair of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania. Among his publications are an edition of " Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy," to which he added a bibliographical and synthetical index, etc. (issued by Sheldon & Co.), and a translation of Tholuck's tary on St. John." He had in press at the time of his death "The Conservative Reformation and its Theology."

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RICHARD SWAINSON Fisher, M.D.

DR. RICHARD SWAINSON FISHER died in He was born Brooklyn, December 10, 1882. in Lancaster, England, in 1816, received a college education, and took his medical degree. About 1840 he came to the United States and entered the army as assistant surgeon for three years. After that he practised as a physician several years, but relinquished his profession for literary pursuits, devoting himself chiefly to geographical and statistical matters. He published Book of the World," 2 vols., 8vo,

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Gazetteer and Atlas," etc., etc. He also edited Dinsmore's Railroad Guide." The last years of his life were identified with "Poor's Railroad Manual." The deceased was a man of command

ing presence, his demeanor was one of modesty and reserve, and he was beloved by all who came within his personal circle of acquaintance.