Taylor.-Songs on the Night. By Wm. M. Taylor, D.D. Pierce, B. & Co. True. The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh. By Chas. K. True. 16°, pp. 271. $1.25...Hitchcock & W. Unvernunft (Die) des Unglaubens und die Vernunft des Glaubens. 24°, pp. 32. Pap., 5 c....Am. Tract Soc. Vacation Stories for Boys. By Popular American Authors. Illustr. 16°. $1... Lothrop. Same, for Girls. By Popular American Authors. Illustr. 16. S... ...Lothrop. Vest-Pocket Series:-Favorite Poems. By Wm. Cowper. Illustr.-A Moosehead Journal. By Jas. Russell Lowell. Illustr.-L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and other Poems. By John Milton. Illust.-The Seasons. Sum son. mer. By Jas. Thomson. Illustr.-Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working People. By John Brown, M.D.Locksley Hall, and the Talking Oak. By Alfred TennyIllustr.-Favorite Poems. By Robert Burns. IlIllustr. lustr.-Favorite Poems. By Owen Meredith. 32°, pp. 96; 95; 96; 103; pp. 94; 88; 106; 112. Ea., 50 C.... ..Osgood. Wall.-Reminiscences of Worcester from the Earliest Period, Historical and Genealogical, with Notices of the Early Settlers and Prominent Citizens. By Caleb A. Wall. Map and ills. 8°, pp. 320. $3; pap., $2.50. Putnam & D. Wheildon.-Sentry, or Beacon Hill; The Beacon and the Monument of 1635 and 1790. By Wm. W. Wheildon. Ill. with Maps and Heliotype Plates. 8°, pp. 116. $1.50 pap., $1....... Lee & S. Winthrop.-Faith and Patience; or, The Harrington Girls. A Story. By Sophy Winthrop. [New issue.] 16°, pp. 191. Pap., 50 c.. Randolph. **Woolley. The Career of Jesus Christ. Being a Supplement to the Author's Science of the Bible. By Milton Woolley, M.D., Streator, Ill. 8°, pp. 53. Pap., 30 c. M. Woolley. Words for the New Church. Part 1. The Advent of the Lord. 8°, pp. 72. Pap., 50 C...... Lippincott. 1.50 D. LOTHROP & Co., Boston. Vacation Stories for Boys.. 1.50 Same, for Girls.... 1.50 .Bds., 60 - Half Hour Series:-Butt's Dieudonnée. -Butt's The Time of Roses.-Meredith's House on the Beach...Ea., рар., Oliphant, Mrs. Arthur.... . Pap., I.00 1.00 S. A. MILLER, 8 W. 3d St., Cincinnati. Miller, American Palæozoic Fossils...... 3.00 W. H. & O. H. MORRISON, Washington, D.C. Dist. of Col. Sup. Ct. Rep., McArthur's, ....Shp. 5.00 20 50 V. 2...... RESOLVED, That this Convention recognize the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY as the established organ of the entire trade, and recommend it to publishers as the medium through which they should make their "first announcement" of books they propose to publish, and the full title of all books immediately on publica tion.-AMERICAN BOOK-TRADE ASSOCIATION. D. APPLETON & CO., New York. Appletons' Readers. By Wm. T. Harris and A. J. Rickoff. Krusi's Industrial Courses in Drawing:-Machinery. By Prof. J. E. Sweet, Cornell Univ.-Civil Engineering. -Ceramic Art.-Interior Decorations. DAVIS, BARDEEN & CO., Syracuse, N. Y. The School Bulletin Year Book. An Educational Directory of the State of New York, giving the Location, Number of Pupils, Names of Principal and Trustees, and Population of the Place where Located, of the Colleges, Normal Schools, Academies, Union Schools, and larger District Schools of the State. Compiled by C. W. Bardeen, Editor of the School Bulletin. Vol. I., 1877. 16°. $1. (Sept. 1.) DERBY BROS., New York. Some Folks. By John Habberton. JANSEN, MCCLURG & CO., Chicago. The Convention and Choir. A Collection of Sacred and Secular Music, for Choirs, Conventions, Singing Schools, Musical Institutes, etc., consisting of a statement of the Principles of Music, Elementary Exercises, Glees, Quartets, Hymn Tunes, Chants, and Anthems. By S. W. Straub, Author of "Good Cheer," "Crown of Glory," etc. Pp. 320. $1. (At once.) Manna. A Manual of Worship, Consisting of brief Scripture Lessons and Prayers for Individual and Family Use for every Day in the Year. 12°. Mor. (At once.) THOS. KELLY, New York. The Life of Blessed Virgin, Mother of God. By Monsignore Gentilucci, Chamberlain of Honor to his Holiness of her Blessed Spouse St. Joseph and Holy Parents of St. Joachim and St. Anne. With over 175 ills. 8°, pp. 954. $3.50. HENRY C. LEA, Phila. Farquharson's Guide to Therapeutics, with additions, including the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. 12°. LEE & SHEPARD, Boston. Isles of the Sea. By Oliver Optic. Mr. Miggs in Danbury, and other Sketches. By J. M. Bailey. The New England Ministry Sixty Years Ago. The Memoir of John Woodbridge, D.D., his method of Work, his great success in powerful Revivals, his high Moral and Educational Influences, his Theological Views and the Theological Controversies of his Time, beginning with the "New Departure" of Stoddard. By Rev. Sereno D. Clark. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Philadelphia. Budget for Boys and Girls.-My Primer.-My Pet Book.-My Own Book. Ed. by Uncle Herbert. Elements of the Laws; or, Outlines of the System of Civil and Criminal Laws in Force in the United States and in the Several States of the Union. Designed for general use. By Thomas L. Smith, late Judge of the Sup. Ct., Ind. New ed., rev. 12°. D. LOTHROP & CO., Boston. Clara Maynard; or, True and False. JOEL MUNSELL, Albany. 1777. The Campaign of Lieut.-Gen. John Burgoyne, and the Expedition of Lieutenant-Colonel Barry St. Leger. By William L. Stone. With engs. 12°. $2.25. (Imme diately.) JAS. R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston. Asia Minor. By Sir Randall Roberts. 24°. Natural Law. An Essay in Ethics. By Edith Simcox. PORTER & COATES, Phila. Remarkable Events in the World's History. Ill. 12°, pp. 516. $1.25. (Aug.) Until the Day Break. (No. 20 International Series of Novels.) By Mrs. J. M. D. Bartlett (Birch Arnold). 12. $1.50; linen, $1.25; pap., 75 c. (Aug.) Happy Days. An Illustrated Juvenile. 136 ills. With Contributions from Louisa M. Alcott, Mary N. Prescott, J. G. Wood, C. A. Stephens, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, S. W. Lander, Wm. M. Thayer, Marg. Field, F. C. Cheseboro, and many others. 4, pp. 399. $1.75; bds., $1.25. (Aug.) The English Governess at the Siamese Court. By Mrs. Anna Harriette Leonowens. Illustr. 12°, pp. 321. $1.25. (Aug.) The Romance of the Harem. By Mrs. Anna H. Leon- DANIEL C. POTTER, 275 E. 7th st., New York. The Old Bible and the New Science. By J. B. Thomas, D.D. Sq. 12°, pp. 255. $1.50. (Sept. 1.) LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. W. W. HARDING will soon have ready a new line of albums, that promises to be one of the most attractive and salable features of the fall trade. The goods are now running through the press, and are in styles and patterns entirely new. There are two sizes, the quarto and folio, and two designs for card openings, the easel and rustic. The easel design is that of a frame -the sides of which are in imitation of walnut in gold-resting on an easel, and the other, that of a pretty rustic frame surrounding the picture. One style of the quarto is for cabinet pictures and will contain 50; the other will hold 104 cartes-de-visite and 24 cabinets, and the folio will contain the same number as the latter, thus making three styles in all. The card openings are made of the finest bristolboard of different tints, which have a charming effect. They are bound in Turkey morocco, Russia, seal-skin, and calf. A most important feature of these albums is the chain-back, of which Mr. Harding is the patentee. Mr. Harding is also preparing new lines of Bibles, as per his catalogue noticed elsewhere, and he claims that his new edition of Brown's Self-interpreting Bible is one such as has never before been handled by the trade. It contains 1600 pages, selling fully as cheap as any other Bible of like quality. D. LOTHROP & Co. have now ready "Belle Langley and Other Stories," the title story being by Edgar Fawcett; Miss Furman's "Good-forNothing Polly," which is warranted to entertain young folks; and "Nan the New-Fashioned Girl," by Mrs. S. C. Hallowell. This house has a bewildering list of books coming in September and October. JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co. have nearly ready a "Little Classic" edition of Harriet Martineau's work on "Household Education." It is one of the wisest books ever written on this subject, and one of the most important and permanently valuable of all Miss Martineau's works. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York. Wonder World. By Marie Pabke and Margery Deane (Mrs. M. J. Pitman). A. D. F. RANDOLPH & CO., New York. A Song and a Sigh. By Rose Porter. B. B. RUSSELL, Boston. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John. By Col. R. H. Conwell, author of the "History of the Great Fire in Boston," etc. Ill. with portrs., etc. 12°, pp. 300. $1.50. (Subscription.) WM. SYCKELMOORE, 1420 Chestnut Street, Phila. Life and Epistles of St. Paul. By Conybeare and Howson. New ed. 8°, pp. 800. Net, $1.20. (Sept. 1.) issued in an entirely novel style of board covers at a low price, and will be very attractive books other beautiful books for children for the coming holidays will be announced later. A NEW Contribution to the literature of the war is about ready at Macmillan & Co.'s, in the Hon. Dudley Campbell's volume of Travels in Turkey and Greece. This is the latest report of Turkish journeying previous to the war, and should prove interesting. PORTER & COATES will add immediately to their "International Series of Novels," forming volume twentieth, "Until the Day Break," by Mrs. J. M. D. Bartlett ("Birch Arnold"), a story of American society, said to be of varied and absorbing interest. They have also nearly ready a considerable list of new books and reissues, including a new series of arithmetics, by Albert N. Rauk, to be ready by August 1st, the " Complete Arithmetic," combining oral and written exercises, and the Elementary Arithmetic." T. S. Arthur has still another book on temperance, "Bar-rooms at Brantly." THE trade should note the line of British poets, comprising sixteen volumes of standards, averaging nearly 500 pages each, offered by Mr. Thomas Y. Crowell, at the very low price of $1 cloth, $1.25 gilt edges. The "dollar stores" themselves can scarcely get below these prices, even by the assistance of frequent com. promises. Mr. Crowell also offers an attractive line of illustrated juveniles for younger readers. 66 A. WILLIAMS & Co., Boston, have on sale the 'History of the City of Belfast, Maine," by Joseph Williamson. It covers nearly 1000 pages, and is said also to cover in an admirable manner the records of the city it commemorates. In addition to its narrative and descriptive excellences, it is furnished with maps, charts, facsimiles of adornments, portraits, and views of buildings. It costs $6, but to any one interested in Belfast is worth more than that. SINCE publication, January 2d, the sales of Bishop Gibbon's book, "The Faith of Our Fathers," have been nearly 18,000, an unprecedented sale, which is said to be the largest sale of any Catholic book ever issued in this country. NIMPORT seems to start off very much as if it belonged to the "No Name Series" de facto as well as de jure. Mr. Horace E. Scudder is positively said not to be the author; other 'certain guesses are now in order. " The Publishers' Weekly. JULY 28, 1877. 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 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." 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. THE BUSINESS BLOCKADE. THE strike of the railroad employés, which | has suspended transportation on the leading freight lines throughout the country, is having the most serious effects upon general business and in our own trade. The news companies and other jobbers have revoked or suspended a good part of their orders-the Western houses by telegraph; publishers having books ready have postponed their publication-day; the railroad book business, especially important at this very time, is altogether stopped; and wholesale houses cannot ship goods to fill pending orders. But this is not the most disastrous feature; for the general disorganization, whose expressions in violence or embargo are likely to be soon over, will produce a moral effect which will last into the fall and do much to prevent that revival of active trade for which every interest alike hoped. There is of course no present remedy; the evil is done, and consequences must follow causes. Nor do we propose to discuss the question, except to say that in this choking of the channels of commerce, the commercial houses must do their best to accommodate those temporarily embarrassed, especially in such matters as the payment of notes, by the failure of supplies. All are involved in a common difficulty, and the danger of failures must be averted as far as possible by such means, as a measure of self-protection. But there is one point which should be insisted on by all representatives of intelligent trades. A great danger has been opened before us, which can only be averted for the future by the more intelligent classes doing their best to show to the disaffected that such measures as they have recently resorted to remedy nothing and only aggravate the evils they are meant to cure. The present demoralization will react most seriously upon the working classes themselves, because the postponement of a renewal of commercial activity threatens increased poverty and misery the coming winter. It is the part of every business man to do his personal share in this enlightenment, and it should be some satisfaction to the book trade that, as professionally purveyors of intelligence, they may take a double part in this good and vitally necessary work. BOOK NOTICES. JACK, from the French of Alphonse Daudet, translated by Mary Neal Sherwood. (Estes & Lauriat.) "Jack" was no doubt written as "Sidonie" was, to point a moral, the characters being taken from one of the worst classes of Parisian life, while all their hideous ugliness and immorality are laid bare with an unfaltering pen. Poor little Jack, introduced to the reader at the tender age of seven, the child of a fashionable woman of the demi-monde, suffers both from the vicissitudes of his mother's life and story is painfully realistic, and is given to the reader with the wonderful power of description that Daudet has displayed in all his works. The character sketches are wonderful throughout, all the actors in the story taking actual form in the reader's mind. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. from her selfishness and heartlessness. His MRS. ARTHUR, A NOVEL, by Mrs. Oliphant. (Harper.) Tells how a young man, of high social position, while studying in a small English town, falls in love with a girl far his inferior both in position and personally, and how he marries her in spite of the remonstrances of friends and parents, and how her temper and vulgarity bring about a swift ending to his enchantment, "Mrs. Arthur," the and a life-long misery. wife, with her ill-bred sisters and vulgar, warm-hearted old mother, is excellently described. The husband's relations also fill out a great part of the story, his sister and his friend making up a very pretty love story. Written in the easy, flowing style natural to Mrs. Oliphant, with a keen appreciation of the weaknesses and failings of poor human nature. 8vo, paper, 50 cents. NO NAME SERIES: HETTY'S STRANGE HISTORY. (Roberts.) This story is by the author of "Mercy Philbrick's Choice," the work which introduced the "No Name Series" to the public. It even exceeds "Mercy Philbrick's Choice" in interest, while it is more healthy in tone and better constructed. The plot is very singular, and quite new in the way in which it is handled. "Hetty," the central figure, is a fine specimen of womankind, admirable even in her mistakes. It is a story of New England life, the scene shifting finally to a little French town in Canada. The hard, narrow, pitiless characters of the primitive New England village are equally well sketched with the warmhearted, demonstrative people, from the Catholic priest, "Father Antoine," down to the villagers of the little French settlement. Destined to be one of the most popular volumes of this. series. 16mo, cloth, $1. "Go to G. T. T.; OR, THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF A PULLMAN, by Edward E. Hale. (Roberts.) It is well to explain, as the author does in his preface, that these mysterious letters which do duty as a title, mean, when interpreted, Texas," a phrase in vogue so many years ago that the present generation has probably forgotten it. Two young ladies do go to Texas, as the book relates, journeying first in a Pullman car, and afterwards in a Mississippi steamboat, and so on till they arrive at San Antonio, where one designs opening a school. But they meet their fate by the way in the shape of two very good-looking young men, who turn up at all sorts of unexpected moments, and who finally persuade them to change their plans. The book is quite humorous and lively, and very good reading. "Town and Country Series.' 16mo, cloth, $1. A TREATISE ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PERFUMES, by John H. Snively. (C. W. STATIONERY NOTES. We shall be glad to receive, for gratuitous notice, samples or brief descriptions of all novelties of general trade interest, of which small cuts will ing inquiry as to goods from the notices in our be inserted if furnished. Buyers ordering or makPUBLISHERS' WEEKLY as the source of their incolumns will confer a favor by mentioning the formation. Co THE porcelain-covered line, in Baronial and two sizes of Alexandria, are neat and chaste, and will undoubtedly meet with great favor. They sell at 67 cents retail. The wicker-work, ornamented, comprising the "Minosa,' marque," and "Jasepora," are in Baronial and two sizes of Alexandria, and contain one quire and envelopes. They are neatly ornamented in imitation of embroidery and flowers, and are certainly very handsome; price, 60 cents. The Plain lavender box, in elongated sizes, is very showy, printed in silver with the same border; price, 50 cents. The Ridgewood is in Alexandria size, with inside of laps containing envelopes, which open out in addition to the cover; the covers are assorted chromos. The cheaper the paper is in delicate assorted tints, and on lines are the "St. Denis," Belle Hélène," radoone;" these contain fancy bordered tinted "Hampton," "Raymond,' Agincourt," "Loquadrille papers and envelopes, and sell from 20 to 30 cents retail. There is still a cheaper line which sells from 15 to 20 cents, in plain white and tinted and neat boxes. The entire line comprises one hundred and thirty-five attractive and desirable styles. They can be seen at 25 Murray street, New York, Geo. A. Illus-Olney, Agent, where sales are made at factory prices. THE POWERS PAPER CO., Springfield, Mass., have completed a new and handsome line of papeteries, which will compete favorably with those of any other manufacture. Among the A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES, by Mrs. Walton. (Carter.) Little Rosalie, the heroine of this pretty, simple tale, belonged to a travelling theatre, such as they have in England, and which frequent all the fairs and public gather-leading styles in wicker is the "work-basket," ings. Her life was spent in going from place to place in a caravan through the daytime, and acting at night. Her story is quite a pathetic one, as she possessed a very bad father and a sick mother. A great deal of religious teaching runs through the book, not, however, to interfere with the story, which is full of incident and very charmingly told. It may be ranked among the very best and most desirable juveniles. 16mo, cloth, $1.25. " 66 SATAN AS A MORAL PHILOSOPHER, with other essays and sketches, by C. S. Henry, D.D. (Whittaker.) This is a collection of essays and sketches, the first of which gives a title to the book. The others are named "An Idyl of the Vales and of the Court,' Judas, the Betrayer," Festus, a Type," Three Royal Birthdays," Jael and Sisera," "The Rechabites," "Mote-sceing, Sharp-sightedness, Hypocrisy," "On Good Manners," "On the Goodness of Good Amusements," "On the Love of Country," etc., etc. Dr. Henry writes with much pungent humor and elevation of thought. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. 44 satin-finish paper, two spools of fine sewingwhich contains one quire and envelopes of handle ivory paper-cutter, a penholder and silk, silver thimble, an inkstand, a rosewoodpencil; the whole affair is neat and attractive, and retails at $3.50. There are also thirteen styles of papeteries in wicker-work, ranging in price from 40 cents to $1.50 retail. THE "La Princesse" is a patent leatherette box of elongated shape, on the top of which is a picture of statuary, encased in glass; the box is intended to be used as a handkerchiefbox. The whole is tastefully ornamented, and retails for $1.50. The "La Comtesse" and "La Marquise" are similar boxes, containing Alexandria and Baronial sizes of paper and envelopes; they sell at $1.35. The Beethoven and Mendelssohn are made in fancy wood, leatherette and wicker, with removable tops containing photographs of statuettes, encased in glass, made to adorn the room; they sell at $1.35. MR. RICHARD ESTERBROOK, Jr., has returned from his summer vacation, which he has spent most pleasantly with his family. C. F. BRADLEY, of Cincinnati, and C. W. Ogden, of Ogden Bros., Knoxville, Tenn., are in town. BEAUTIFUL EDITH, THE CHILD-WOMAN. (Loring.) An English society novel, by an anonymous writer. Quite clever and readable, and full of stirring incidents and bright conversa-J. MCADAMS, Brooklyn, NY., has just pations, with several well-worked-out love epi- tented a rock-wheel shaft, which is said to be sodes. 16mo, paper, 50 cents. a valuable acquisition to a ruling machine. |