ON THE STYLE OF CHATTERBOX. PROSE AND POETRY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. HAPPY DAYS. With Contributions from such Capital Writers for the Young as LOUISA M. ALCOTT, MARY N. PRESCOTT, J. G. WOOD, C. A. STEPHENS, ALICE CARY, PHOEBE CARY, S. W. LANDER, WILLIAM M. THAYER, F. CHESEBORO. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. HAPPY DAYS. $1 75 Quarto, Cloth Back, Illuminated Side, with Picture in Bright Colors, $1 25 Quarto, Full Cloth, Black and Gold, Picture on Side, Advanced orders solicited. PORTER & COATES, Publishers, PHILADELPHIA. Trade Sale of Books, STATIONERY, AND STEREOTYPE PLATES, WILL COMMENCE ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19th, And continue daily in the order of the Catalogue until all is sold, COMMENCING EACH MORNING AT NINE O'CLOCK. PARTIES WISHING TO ATTEND THIS SALE CAN OBTAIN CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION TO THE AUCTIONEERS. This will be an attractive and important Sale, deserving the special attention of the Trade, comprising, as it does, the Publications of nearly all the MOST IMPORTANT PUBLISHING HOUSES IN THE COUNTRY, including their New Publications, etc., etc. Many of the Books in large quantities, all of which will be sold by auction to the highest bidder without any reservation. J. W. Bouton-Milner & Co., Halifax, England; Chatto & Windus-H. G. Bohn and W. R. & L. Collingridge (1500 Quarto Juveniles), and Bernard' Quaritch, London, England. STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, etc., from E. W. GILES, Pittsburgh; J. PURCELL, New York, etc. Semi-Annual Trade Sale, SEPTEMBER 19, 1877. GREAT inducements are offered to purchasers by this sale. In no other way can Booksellers procure stock (new and fresh direct from the Publishers) at such favorable rates or on as favorable terms. The Catalogue comprises the largest representation of Publishing Houses ever offered at a Trade Sale in this country. The first day's sale will be the consignment of Messrs. James R. Osgood & Co., comprising their entire list, embracing all their new publications, many lines of which are in large quantities, offering extraordinary inducements to buyers. Among them may be mentioned 500 Holmes' Poems, Household Edition; 250 "One Year Abroad," by author of "One Summer;" 4000 "Books About the War;" 500 Bret Harte; 250 each "Illustrated [Library Poets," 7 vols.; 100 each Dresden Gallery, etc.; 100 "Classic" Hawthorne, 23 vols. ; 500 each Household Poets, 6 vols., cloth; 60 do. fine binding; 1000 each Longfellow, Tennyson, Whittier and Lucile, Diamond Edition; 500 each others; 200 Red-Line Poets; 500 sets Vest-pocket Series, 100 vols., put up in 4 boxes, 25 each; 500 each Whittier and Longfellow, Fireside Edition, 8vo; 100 sets Hawthorne, Illustrated Library Edition; 100 sets Howell; 500 sets Little Classics, 16 vols.; FIVE THOUSAND COPIES TENNYSON'S POEMS, New and Beautiful Edition, black and gold, gilt edges, etc., etc. In the consignment of Messrs. Lee & Shepard will be found more than Six Thousand sets of their Popular Juveniles, in lots of 50 to 250 of each set; 200 sets of Dickens' Works, 15 vols., cloth, 25 do. half calf; 1000 Illustrated Boston Poets, 8vo, sheep and morocco; 500 Nearer, my God, to Thee;" 500 "Oh! Why Should the Spirit," etc.; 500 the new volume to match; 1000 Autograph Albums assorted; 500 Higginson's Young Folks' Books; 500 "That Husband of Mine;" 250 to 500 each of their New Books, etc., Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 2000 Webster's Dictionaries. etc. Porter & Coates, a full list of all their Publications. Among the items are 4000 of their Popular Twelvemos; 500 sets of "Libraries;" 250 Happy Days, etc., etc. Among other prominent items in the Catalogue are 1500 "Old Jonathan," an English Quarto Juvenile; 1000 Peep-Show, etc., etc. TERMS OF SALE. On all purchases from the whole Catalogue amounting to $1000 and upwards, four and six months' credit; on purchases from the whole Catalogue, less than $1000 and more than $300, four months' credit; and on all purchases less than $300, cash without discount. Approved endorsed notes, to be dated on the first day of the sale, payable to the order of the endorser, and in the City of New York, satisfactory to the seller, will be required. Bills must be settled before the delivery of the goods, and within fifteen days after the sale. All bills not settled within twenty days from the last day of the sale shall lose the credit to which the purchaser would be otherwise entitled, and such bills will be payable in cash without discount; this rule will be strictly enforced. All goods not settled for within thirty days, to be resold on account of the purchaser, if responsible, or returned to the contributor. Notes may be made payable at home banks by adding to face of notes one-quarter of one per cent, $2.50 per $1000, for interest, collection, and exchange. Hoping to have the pleasure of seeing you at this sale, We remain, very respectfully, GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO. *Parties who cannot attend this sale, can have their orders to purchase faithfully attended to by the Auctioneers. SPECIAL. Stereotype Plates, Remainders, and Catholic Books, on Tuesday, September 18th. Special Sale of Stereotype Plates, Remainders, and Catholic Books, comprising Stereotype Plates from the estate of the late W. B. Evans, Philadelphia, and from the estate of the late Wm. James Hamersley, Hartford. Steel Plates, octavo size, nearly 600, formerly published in Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia. Stereotype Plates, and Remainders of Editions of Books published by Messrs. J. B. Ford & Co., also from M. A. Walsh, Cincinnati, Catholic Publications (some 40 sets of plates). Catholic Publications from Messrs. Kelly, Piet & Co., Baltimore; J. A. McGee and P. O'Shea, New York; Eugene Cummiskey, Philadelphia. *** Special Catalogue will be issued of the above, and may be had on application to the Auctioneers. Short advertisements, per line. $20 00 12 00 7 00 4 00 2 50 25 Front, back, second and third pages, and pages facing editorial matter, $25. Applications for these pages should be made at least ten days before publication day. Special rates for twelve, six, and three months' contracts. Books Wanted, or for Exchange, or Rare and Secondhand Books for Sale, 10 cents per line. Situations Wanted, free insertion of five lines. Short advertisements must be paid in advance. Advertisements should reach the office not later than Wednesday morning, but are desired as much earlier as possible. One TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. year, postage prepaid... Three months, postage prepaid... Single copies, & cents; post-paid, 10 cents. ..$3 20 1.00 Remittances should be made by draft on New York, P.O. money order, or registered letter. We can not be responsible for loss. Address, P. O. Box 4295, N. Y. PUBLICATION Office, 37 PARK Row, N. Y. NOTES IN SEASON Look out for "My Mother-in-Law." in press and nearly ready at T. B. Peterson & Brothers'. WITHIN the three weeks since the publication of "That Husband of Mine," Lee & Shepard have printed the enormous number of one hundred thousand copies, distancing any of the anonymous books so far issued. In one day orders came for fourteen thousand copies. This extraordinary success is the result of a capital title still more capitally advertised. "That Wife of Mine," by the same author, is nearly ready, and an equal sale is expected for They All Do It," is the title of the Danbury News man's new book. it. ،، HURD & HOUGHTON have just ready the three volumes containing the works of Wordsworth, in their new edition of the British Poets-an enterprise which will be one of the leading features of the fall trade. The books have been remodelled into elegant and compact style, befitting the Riverside Press, and are sure to please. They have also ready the new popular edition of Bacon's Works, in two volumes of a thousand pages each, with complete index in each volume,-a much desired book. Mr. Scudder's new book for the children," The Bodleys Telling Stories," is a charming collection of sketches, stories and poetry, in the most novel and striking binding yet put upon a child's book. THE TRADE-LIST ANNUAL for 1877 is now in course of delivery, and if the opinion of a considerable proportion of the trade is to be taken, TRADE SALES, September 18th-27th. The the bookseller is not wise who tries to "get trade will make a note in season. It DR. HOLLAND'S story of "Nicholas Minturn" will be the first leading novel of the season. will start off with an edition of ten to fifteen thousand, and will not take long to pass into the twenties. Not only the popularity of its author, but the timeliness of its subject-pauperism and tramps-will give it an immense sale. THOSE who have been perplexed by "the tricks and the manners" of "That Husband of Mine"-and there are by this time several hundred thousand of them-may find the key to the difficulty in "How I Managed My Husband," advertised elsewhere by Robert Clarke & Co. "THEO," a love story, by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's," which has recently attracted so much attention, is very nearly ready by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. "Theo" will be issued both in cloth and paper, and the author's name may reasonably be expected to secure for it an extensive and rapid sale. D. APPLETON & Co. have just ready the first volume of their "Experimental Science Series," on "Light," suggesting experiments that any boy can make for a few cents; Prof. Huxley's American lectures on evolution; and "Physiological Esthetics," a discussion, after Darwin and Herbert Spencer, of the natural basis of taste, by Grant Allen. "THE QUEEN'S FAVORITE; or, The Price of a Crown," will make volume 7 of Peterson's "Dollar Series." It is an historical romance of the fifteenth century, a period full of thrilling adventure. September 5th is the time appointed for its appearance. A new edition of the "Prairie Flower," by Gustave Amiard, is also along well enough without it." Besides the lists of 160 houses, more than ever before, the volume contains the annual reference list for 1876-7, the new educational catalogue, and an extended sketch of the Harper brothers, with steel-plate portraits of the four. The schedule catalogue, with the exception of that of Messrs. of contributors lacks no large miscellaneous J. B. Lippincott & Co. To non-subscribers the price of the ANNUAL is $1.50. SCRIBNER, WELFORD & ARMSTRONG import, and Hurd & Houghton announce an immediate American edition of, Poetic Interpretation of Nature," by J. C. Shairp, LL.D., author of two books which, as republished by the latter, have been widely read in this country-"Culture and Religion," and "Studies in Poetry and Philosophy." Mr. Shairp has been principal at St. Andrew's, Scotland, but has lately been appointed to the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford, a post formerly filled by Matthew Arnold. In this volume he takes up the question of the relation which poetry holds to science as an interpreter of nature. HAPPY DAYS, so eagerly looked forward to by many, will soon be with us, but not perhaps in the way expected. The "Happy Days" bringing out, which will be profusely illustrated, we speak of is the juvenile Porter & Coates are and will be similar to the famous "Chatterbox" capital writers for the young as Miss Alcott, Mary N. Prescott, and Alice and Phoebe Cary, etc., it certainly will be " Happy Days" to the fortunate ones who may possess a copy. "Little Folks," from Cassell, Petter & Galpin ; "Chatterbox, Junior," from the World Publishing Company, and “ Lilliput Land," to be imported by Baker & Pratt, are other leading rivals in this line. and" Prattler." With contributions from such SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE EDUCATIONAL CATALOGUE. ERRORS AND OMISSIONS REPORTED TO THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY UP TO AUGUST 15, 1877. Abbreviations: ad. addition; cor. correction. GENERAL CORRECTION!-The school-books of Hurd & Houghton, including Crocker & Brewster and Albert Mason's publications, are marked erroneously with an asterisk (*); they should be marked with a dagger (†), indicating wholesale prices. The books of J. L. Shorey, on the other hand, are erroneously marked ; they should be marked *. guage, 40 c... Clark's First Lessons in Grammar, 30 c.-Practical Gram- Cole's Primary Writing Grammar, 25 c. 23 C..... Burnap & Wetmore's Athenæum, $1 and 75 C. ...ad. Gordon. Tillinghast's Normal Diadem, 75 c. ... ad. Hamm. - & Horton's Song Fountain, 40 c. and 30 c.ad. * Gordon. Wetmore's Oriental, $1.25 and 94 c........ad. * Gordon. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS. Johnston's Primary Nat. Philos., 56 c.........cor. + Des. PENMANSHIP. Beers' Copy-Books, 12 Nos., doz., $1.08.-Slated CopySlips, set, 35 C..... ..cor. Bar. Ellsworth's Reversible Writing Books, Nos., doz., net, $1.20...... ad. Am. News Co. POLITICAL ECONOMY, GOVERNMENT. Fuller's Political Class-Book of Penna., 30 c..ad. ↑ Fort. Smith's (E. P.) Political Economy, $1.25... ad. * Put. Thompson's Social Sci. and Nat'l Econ., $1.50. ad. Por. Wilson's Political Economy, $1.50..... .ad. Bai. READERS. .. |