them out. There are many of his friends who remember his first modest establishment, and in his removal, when his business had become somewhat large, to a place near Bleecker street. His next step was to open a literary and musical bureau at No. 708 Broadway, which has since been transferred to the present location, No. 39 Union Square. Mr. Brentano intends to spend the coming winter in the South, and hopes to visit Europe next summer. He will be at his old place whenever he is in the city.

MRS. DENNISON, the author of "That Husband of Mine," was for several years a resident of Oswego, New York. Her husband, the Rev. C. W. Dennison, was employed as Bethel chaplain, and labored amond the seamen. He is now chaplain at the Washington Navy Yard.

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 be inserted if furnished. Buyers ordering or making inquiry as to goods from the notices in our columns will confer a favor by mentioning the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY as the source of their information.

THE Acme Corkscrew is made of steel wire, with a rosewood handle, which, for durability and strength, is unequalled. It is made in tinned at $24, and in nickel at $36 per gross, subject to regular trade discount. R. G. Hutchinson, 44 Maiden Lane, N. Y., is the manu

E. E. BLISS, 133 William street, N. Y., has just issued an illustrated catalogue and pricelist of stationers' hardware, glass ink stands, and fancy goods of his own manufacture, which includes many novelties in those lines. It will be sent to the trade on application.

NICHOLAS MULLERS' SONS have lately sent out a new illustrated catalogue of their fine bronze (composition bronze, not iron) stationery ware. It is admirably gotten up, and contains many well-executed brought out during the spring and summer.

cuts of novelties

THE "Douglass" Reference File (patented) is a very neat article, and a decided improvement on the ordinary reference file. It is made of one piece of cloth, and, instead of having the top and bottom separated, as is generally the case in reference files, is connected so that a back is formed which will admit of an accumulation of letters to the thickness of 2 inches, and prevents their slipping out at the end when occasion may require that one or more be taken Instead of ordinary elastic bands, this file has a silk elastic cord attached to the bottom which, sliding through a ring in one end of the top, is drawn down to the other end and attached to a button, thus holding the letters between firmly.

out.

THE NEW WIRE SEWING.

THE accompanying cuts give views of a book sewed by wire, a recently patented method for which great simplicity and economy is claimed, and which, if it stands the test of time, will certainly mark a great advance in book-binding. The method consists of sewing each section with wire upon tape, which gives the book great flexibility and makes it very durable, because the wire used is impervious to rust and doubly as strong as thread. The machines which do the sewing are adapted to all kinds of work, from a 32m0 upwards, and all thicknesses

of paper, and can do work much more speedily and with less material than when done in the ordinary way. Altemus & Co., of Philadelphia, will manufacture to order or sup

facturer, and controls the articles, which have been greatly reduced, but are subject to the regular trade discount. This house has a fine new line of inkstands, mounted on marble and onyx bases in various shapes and styles, with bronze and nickel-plated trimmings. They will range in price from $13 to $63 each.

ply blank-books which have been sewed by this process. We understand that samples will be furnished to the trade of wire-bound books without charge.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PRESS.

THE question of selling to consumers at wholesale prices again comes up in a communication from a correspondent-this time in the school-book publishing trade. A leading school-book publisher assures us that the charge is unfounded, and that if the discounts are examined the teachers and scholars will find that they can buy equally as cheaply from the retailer. We think that this does not hold good, however, in all cases. It must be understood that the best part of the wholesale schoolbook trade is looked for with the consumer. The publisher referred to says that the retail book trade is of very little moment, and that it is no object to consult its interests. Whether this is the fault of the retail dealers or due to a system which has fastened upon the school book business we can hardly say. If the retail trade are driven completely out of the field, it may happen that the publishers will find out that an error has been committed. This has been an ever-recurring source of complaint, and must, we suppose, be endured, since it cannot be cured.-The American Stationer.

LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. ROBERTS BROTHERS have issued a new edition, in paper covers, of a favorite child's book, of last year, "Jolly Good Times; or, ChildLife on a Farm," by P. Thorne.

"OUT of the Depths, The Story of a Woman's Life," has been added to 'Peterson's Dollar Series of Good Novels," making the ninth volume. This series is published by T. B. Peterson & Bros.

WE are glad to note that the Tribune, through its London agent, Mr. Smalley, pays to Prof. Huxley a royalty of ten per cent. on sales of his American lectures in extra form.

THE NEW YORK PLATE PRINTING AND EN. GRAVING COMPANY, with which Mr. Walter Appleton is now connected, has just published a fine full-length portrait of President Hayes, so good and so cheap that it should sell by the hundred thousand. It is sold, neatly framed in ash, at but $1.50 per copy, or in larger passepartout frame at $3 per copy. The office of the company is at 120 Broadway (Room 9, 7th floor), with Messrs. Charles E. Pease and George A. Savory in charge of the subscription department. Agents are desired for the engraving.

WE second the assertion that "it is rare to find four works of such importance follow each other in such rapid succession" in one department as are announced in the Scribner fall list in Prof. Bowen's "Modern Philosophy," just ready, Rev. Dr. Henry B. Smith's "Faith and Philosophy," Rev. Prof. Fisher's Beginnings of Christianity," and Prof. Shields' "The Final Philosophy." It is curious that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are respectively represented

in this list.

MESSRS. LIPPINCOTT & Co. have faith in the proverb that It's an ill wind that blows no one any good." The recent strike, at least that which took place in the office of the New York Tribune, has not been disagreeable to them. As soon as it was over, the Tribune adopted Worcester's Dictionary" as its authority in spelling, to gratify most of the staff, which includes such gentlemen as Mr. Bayard Taylor, Mr. Geo. W. Smalley, and Mr. John R. G. Hassard.

WE are requested to note that, deposited in the Astor Library, may be found a "Catalogue of Works in Refutation of Methodism, from its origin in 1729 to the present time; of those by Methodist authors, on Lay Representation, Methodist Episcopacy, etc., etc., and of the political pamphlets relating to Wesley's 'Calm Address to our American Colonies.' Compiled by H. C. Decanver, 2d ed., 8vo, pp. 56, New York, 1868," in a copy expressly prepared or the Astor Library, largely expanded by manuscript additions, the whole number of titles being over seven hundred.

MACMILLAN & Co. have reduced their price on their beautiful 12mo editions of Tom Brown to $1 for the School-Days, and $1.50 for the Oxford volume, at which price they are exceptionally cheap.

SHELDON & Co. are soon to put in press a new edition of Muller's "Life of Trust," brought down five years later, including an account of his two years' work on the Continent, and his visit in America, prepared by Prof. E. P. Thwing, of Brooklyn. This book will be of especial interest at the present time, as Mr. Muller is to spend several months in this country travelling about and preaching.

THE collection of stories by Mrs. Fanny Hodgson Burnett, about to be published by Messrs. Porter & Coates, has undergone a change of name. Instead of being known as Dolly," the heroine will in the future bear the name of Dorothea." This is owing to the fact that some one else already possesses the other name.

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THE New York office of John Church & Co., located at 805 Broadway, now supplies to the trade the various editions of the Moody and Sankey book, viz., Gospel Hymns" Nos. I and 2. The trade may not be aware that the two books are bound together and sold at 60 cents per copy in boards, thus making an extra style for assorting quantities.

WARREN F. DRAPER will have ready early next month a translation from the German, by Albert H. Newman, of Dr. Immer's 'Hermeneutics of the New Testament."

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writers in the United States.

D. G. BRINTON will have ready in November a fifth edition of "Naphey's Therapeutics,"

handy books on the great artists, portraying their lives and times, the influences and circumstances which suggested or modified their artistic efforts, and the works they produced. The projected series will afford just the personal, historical, and art knowledge desired by

persons of general intelligence, and will be prepared by a gentleman every way competent, who has visited and studied the art-galleries of the Old World, and has the literary skill to make these little books clear and full of precisely the facts and suggestions the public desires.

EDWARD EGGLESTON's new novel, "Roxy," shortly to be begun in Scribner's, treats of higher social grades of Indiana life than his previous books. "It will be illustrated," says the Springfield Republican, "from drawings by Walter Shirlaw, one of the able young artists whom our national academy did not think worthy of election as an associate, notwithstanding that his 'Bavarian Sheep Shearing' was one of the notable works at the last exhibition."

AMONG the excellent features of Van Nostrand's little Monthly Record of Scientific Literature are its bibliographies of scientific specialties, of which that on "Explosives and Explosive Compounds" (magazine articles included), now current, has reached title number 338. A volume of the magazine essays on French poets and novelists, by Mr. Henry James, Jr., is forthcoming. !?

J. WILKINSON will have ready in a few days days a cheap paper edition, at 50 cents, of Hope's "Sorrento and Inlaid Work."

BENZIGER BROS. have in press "Sister Natalie Narischkin," by Madame Craven, the distinguished author of "A Sister's Story."

G. W. CARLETON announces another book by the author of "That Horrid Girl," entitled Margaret's Engagement."

In our notice last week of Maynard's

"Naturalist's Guide," we misquoted the price, which should be $2.

L. PRANG & Co.'s large chromo establish ment in Highland district, Boston, filled with valuable plates and chromos, burned down on the morning of the 27th inst. The stock of manufactured goods was very large and valuable. The loss on the building is $10,000; the total loss $100,000. The establishment was working on full time to meet large orders.

NEITHER Sweet Sixteen nor Grim Thirty-two can sing the old songs more than three months; each must sing on the next page; each must have new music. This elementary fact in woman's nature explains how it happens that the music-lists of Ditson & Co. have thousands and thousands of titles. Neither the young ladies who play the piano nor the old gentlemen who pay the music bills know that a single enterprising firm owns over two thirds of all the music-plates in America. As the largest music-publishing house in the world, its business has assumed such proportions that a five-story granite building has recently been erected in Boston for its use. The new pianofore and music warerooms were formally opened one day last week, concerts being given afternoon and evening.}

THE first volume of the new "New Testament Commentary," edited by the Bishop of Gloucester, is approaching publication by Cassell, Petter & Galpin. The first three gospels will be treated by the Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D.

M. OTTO LORENZ continues in Paris his publication of the "Catalogue Général de la Librairie Française depuis 1840." The last fascicule, just issued, comprehends the works published from 1866 to 1875, beginning with the letter" I " down to the syllable "NA." It contains no less than 320 pages gr. 8vo in double columns. Many of the pseudonyms not included in the "Supercheries Littéraires" of Quérard are there revealed.

M. ERNEST RENAN is preparing a translation of Ecclesiastes to appear next winter. The work will form a companion-volume to the author's translations of Job and the Song of Songs, and, like them, will probably be prefaced by an introductory essay.

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, London, announces a new work by Canon Rawlinson, on the "Origin of Nations," discussing the descent of mankind from the sons of Noah and the history of early civilization.

GRIFFITH & FARRAN, London, will publish two new contributions to college literature, in "Talent in Tatters; or, Some Vicissitudes in the Life of an English boy." by Hope Wraythe another contribution to Eton literature; and Wilton of Cuthbert's," a story of undergraduate life at Oxford a generation ago, by the Rev. H. C. Adams.

THE Custom reports show an exportation from France for the first six months of the past three years as follows: books in French, 1875, 7,896,168 francs; 1876, 6,582,550 francs; 1877. 7,916,456 francs; books in dead or foreign languages, 1875, 995,188 francs; 1876, 919,217 francs; 1877, 1,199,802 francs. The exports of paper, music, engravings, etc., have, on the con

trary, generally fallen off.

DR. GEORG EBERS, the well-known Egyptologist, who has drawn upon his old-world lore novel, is now at work on another story of the for the subject-matter of more than one good same kind. His last, "Uarda," is already approaching a fifth edition abroad.

SMITH, ELDER & Co., London, have in hand the first volume of an extensive "History of the Church of England, from the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction," by the Rev. Canon Dixon, of Carlisle.

VIRTUE & CO., London (Virtue & Yorston, New York), announce, among their new fine art publications for 1878, "The Works of J. M. W. Turner, R.A.," with a biographical sketch, etc., by James Dafforne; "Studies by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.," with a history of his art life, and a New Series of Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer," by W. Cosmo Monkhouse; "The Albert Memorial: its History and Description," by James Dafforne; "St. John and the Seven Churches," by the Rev. Robert Vaughan; and "The History of Ceramic Art in Great Britain, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day," by Llewellynn Jewitt, in two volumes, with nearly 2000 engravings.

DAWSON BROS., Montreal, have published a Short Sunday Service" for travelling parties, consisting of a simple devotional form of prayer and praise for the use of Christians who may be deprived of regular church services. The "Service" is catholic in its character, being compiled by Presbyterian, Roman, and Anglican clergymen.