of tried popularity. Competition and risk combined will then soon begin to weed out these libraries, which will have their day, as the storypapers of a generation ago at the time of the start of the Harper Select Library were weeded out, according to the predictions of the Herald recorded in Hudson's "Journalism." But, in the second place, the value of advance sheets to regular publishers must necessarily be much reduced. The Harpers would scarcely be willing to pay another £1700 to Mrs. Lewes, as for "Daniel Deronda," if they knew their practically exclusive rights, "by courtesy of the trade," would not last more than forty-eight hours against the rivalry of publishers outside trade lines who do not recognize "trade courtesy." This very book, indeed, has not only sold its 60,000 copies in the Harper editions, outreaching "Middlemarch," but is still selling, although as many more have been sold in the Lakeside Library, and a second rival edition has just appeared in the Seaside-for it is a curious thing that the issue of novels in cheap shapes often has a wholesome influence on the sale of more costly editions, perhaps partly by the enterprise and comparative cheapening called forth by the competition. But when the approximate certainty of possession which an American publisher has had through the purchase of advance sheets is interfered with, he feels scarcely justified in paying what he has paid heretofore.

The final outcome of these enterprises is likely to be felt in one of two directions-either the hoisting of the "black flag" again or the nearer approach of international copyright. But this last greatly to be desired end cannot justly be reached except on some compromise which is not wholly satisfactory to any one side, so long as our tariff discriminates against American manufactures by its taxes on the raw materials of book-making. If this difficulty could be obviated, the present complication might have the result of inducing all leading publishers to join for international copyright as a measure of self-protection. The other alternative, if anything is to be done, is the ignoring of foreign rights by regular publishers and the issue of broadsheets by them. This is certainly not desirable, nor does it seem necessary, for the little harm these publications may temporarily be doing will be fully balanced in the long run, nor can the business thrive permanently in any such proportions as at present. Probably 2,500,000 broadsheets have already been sold, and the market must soon be pretty well supplied. We believe, in short, that this is a matter which can be left to take care of itself, and that no regular publisher need be alarmed on the subject.

THE government has hold of a difficult problem in this question of the importation of single copies of books through the mails, as to which the legal data are given elsewhere. While there is no desire to prohibit our citizens from the use of this convenience within reasonable lim-, its, it has grown into proportions which are not reasonable and which occasion serious injustice to importers and individual buyers who get their books in the usual way, duty paid. The case of the importation of Bagster's Bibles is a flagrant instance in point. The importers who paid two or three dollars a copy duty to the government found their sales decreasing in mysterious and disagreeable fashion, and it was some time before the real cause was discovered in the practice of clergymen and others of importing copy by copy, and supplying purchasers at a price much below that at which the goods could be furnished by honest importers. On the other hand, it would be a remedy almost worse than the disease to prohibit books being sent by mail, as it would not only interfere with legitimate private purchases but with the sending of samples. The present method--of charging duty on delivery at the post-office-fairly meets the case, provided it can be thoroughly carried out, and it is to be hoped that some way may be devised to obviate the difficulty involved in the Postal Union agreement.

A CORRESPONDENT from the South takes "the other side" in a vigorous, straightforward letter which has a good deal of solid sense in it. Every trade must indeed obey the laws of political economy, of supply and demand, and yet within these laws there is a considerable margin for both discretion and enterprise. And we are not ready to believe that the interests of the book trade or of the public, in the long run, will be promoted by abolishing the retail price on miscellaneous books. As to our correspondent's views on the revival of trade, we both protest and agree. There is good promise of increasing business, while he is right in arguing that over-sanguine hopes should not lead to results which all trades have too often lately had occasion to deplore.

MOSES WARREN, Chicago, has just ready a second edition of J. D. O'Connor's "History of Turkey," comprising the Geography, Chronology, and Statistics of the Empire; the Eththe Turks; the Genealogy of the Osmanli Dynology, Primitive Traditions and Sociology of nasty, and the Causes of the eleventh Russian War-1877. Three maps and a genealogical chart of the Osmanli accompany the work, which is issued in four editions, at prices rang ing from 25 cents to $1. The same publisher has also in preparation a History of Russia, uniform with this volume.

THE FALL TRADE SALE.-II.

By Tuesday the selling began to get behind the catalogue, too much having been crowded into the distribution for the later days. The difficulty got worse from day to day, so that it was not till after noon on Saturday that " Thursday" was finished up. We continue our divisions according to the catalogue.

SIXTH DAY'S CATALOGUE.

The Merriam invoice of Webster's Unabridged opened the sale Tuesday morning, and the goods sold of course close on regular rates, the $12 sheep bringing $8.50. The Ivison offering of the smaller Webster's came less close to usual discounts, reaching within twenty per cent, however, of wholesale rates. 1000 Primary (48 net) brought 40 cents; 500 Common School (72 net) 61 cents.

Porter & Coates' considerable invoice found purchasers without difficulty atto of the retail prices. The Household Waverley, 23 vols. ($1.50), was duplicated at 55 cents. The Author's Dickens ($1) went off quickly at 60 cents; Jane Austen's novels ($1.25) at 60 and 55 cents. "Don Quixote" and Lever's and Jane Porter's novels, Verne's stories, the Arabian Nights, Grimm's tales, etc., the Life of Crockett, Dickens' Child's History, D'Aubigne, Gibbon, Hume, Martineau's England, Macaulay, Langhorne's Plutarch, Hare's "Days near Rome," the Count of Paris' "Civil War in America," the "Bab Ballads," etc., brought to 40 off. The poets went lower. The Schwartz novels ($1) brought only 25 cents; the International novels ($1.25) went for 39 and 38 cents, and (extra gilt, $1.50) 41 and 38 cents. The popular 12mos sold somewhat better-55 to 52 cents for the dollar, and 55 and 50 for the dollar-and-a-quarter books. The books on the horse and sports and farming averaged about 40 per cent of the retail prices. The schoolbooks were readily bought at not far from 40 per cent discount: Blair's Rhetoric ($2.75), $1.55; Thompson's Social Science ($1.50), 70 cents; Sypher's Speakers (75 cents and $1.25), 40 and 55 cents. Coates' Speaker ($1.50) duplicated at 80 cents; Elderhorst's Blowpipe Analysis ($2.50), $1.42. 250 Happy Days" ($1.25) were all taken at 65 cents. Other juveniles and series sold at reasonable prices.

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Scribner, Welford & Armstrong's invoice of imported books averaged about one third of the retail prices of their catalogue. The more costly stock did not bring anything near the prices desired, but the solid books of all classes found a ready market at very fair rates. new "History of the Ceramic Art," by Jacquemart ($10.50), went for $6.621-$6.25, and Blanc's Art in Ornament and Dress" ($3.75) for $1. 20" Italy," fol. illus. ($35), went for $11.50 in the larger lots. Rousselet's "India," in French, and Davellier's "L'Espagne" ($35 each) sold at $13.50 and $10, the final bids; 10 of the latter work in English, bound in Persian morocco ($25), went for $7.75. Other illustrated books were: "Painters of the Georgian Era" and Memoir of David Cox," with photographic illustrations ($9 and $18), prices obtained $2.624 and $3; "The Bavarian Highlands" ($15.75), $3.25; "The Sermon on the Mount" and

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"Welsh Scenery," with chromos ($15 and $35), $5 and $6.75; "Yachting in the Arctic Seas," by Lamont ($6.75), $1.50; "The National Gal lery" ($16), $3. Rawlinson's "Five Great Monarchies" (3 vols., at $5) and the two supplementary volumes brought just 40 off. Ferguson's 'History of Architecture," 4 vols. ($13.25 each), brought $7.87, about 40 off. Cates' Diction ary of Biography ($8) brought almost 40 off, as also did Smiles"" Lives of the Engineers" ($2.50). Consul Jones' "Historical Sketches" ($3.75) could but just find purchasers at 75 cents, and Hepworth Dixon's "White Conquest," vols. ($4.50), at 40 and 30 cents. Guizot's History in French, 5 vols. 4to, illus. ($12 per vol.), was bought at $4. The Rump," 2 vols. ($4.50), went for 60 cents. Guillemin's "Heavens" ($4.50) fetched half price. Schliemann's "Troy" ($12.50, $8.34 net) went for $7.25-$6.75. Palgrave's History of the Anglo-Saxons" ($3) was taken at $1.30; Lewin's "St. Paul" (2 vols., at $9), $5.30-$5; Sharpe's "Egypt," 2 vols. ($4.50), $1.55; the Kensington Art and Science Handbooks, 12 vols. (average price $1.44), 50 cents; Reeves' "English Law," 2 vols. ($6), $3.50; Chandos Library, 4 new volumes ($1.75), 35 cents; Scott's works, Pocket edition, 40 vols. (75 cents), 32 cents; Wilkie Collins, Library edition, 14 vols. ($3), 62 cents; Morley's "Rousseau" and "Compromise" (average price $4.80 per vol.), 65 cents; Dyce's Shakespeare, 9 vols. ($3), $1.25. Newman's works averaged little over a third of their retail price. The Oxford translations of the Fathers ($3.50 per vol.) brought $1.25 to $1.50. Gervinus' Shakespeare's Commentaries ($5.25) brought overprice, $2.75.

Scribner, Armstrong & Co. had one of the cleanest invoices in the catalogue; nearly all the lines were of fresh and salable goods, and the prices therefore averaged better than in almost any other invoice. The lines were not large, and duplications were frequent, usually at the knock-down prices, which were uniformly not far below trade rates. 100 "That Lass o' Lowrie's" ($1.50) were taken at 874 cents; 50 Ch. Kingsley's Letters ($2.50), $1.50-$1.471; 25 Memoirs of Norman Macleod ($2.50) were duplicated at $1.45; Stanley's Life of Dr. Arnold ($2.50) was duplicated at $1.50; Macdonald's Life of St. John ($5) duplicated at $2.75; Field's "Around, the World"($2) ran at $1.17; Stanley's Sermons on the Jewish Church, 38 series ($4), ran at $2.40; Schuyler's "Turkistan," 2 vols. ($2 50), ran at $1.40; Froude's" Short Studies" ($2.50), at $1.35. The $3 Conybeare and Howson brought $1.80 $1.77, and 75 extra were taken in tens at $1.75. The 'Speaker's Commentary," 6 vols. ($5), went at $2.75. Lange sold at $2.90-$2.85-$2.80 (price $5 per vol.), and one duplicate lot of 100 was taken at $2.75. Ueberweg's History of Philosophy, vol. ii., and Oosterzee's Christian Dogmatics, 2 vols. ($3), went for $1.45, and the latter was duplicated at that price. Woolsey on International Law ($2.50) brought 40 off. Prof. Bowen's "American Political Economy" ($2.50) went for $1.40. Dr. Bushnell's Forgiveness and Law" and Tholuck's "Hours of Devotion" ($1.75 and $3), were sold for 60 cents and $1, about price, and 25 Dr. Tulloch's new "Doctrine of Sin," ($1.50) for 75 and 67 cents. Dawson's Federalist was duplicated at $1.25, price. Jowett's "Plato's Best Thoughts" ($2.50) was run at $1.05, and his Dialogues of Plato (4 vols., at

$2) brought $1.15-$1.10; Porter's "Human Intellect" ($5) at $2.95, and his "Intellectual Philosophy" ($3) at $1.75. Alexander's "Moral Science" ($1.50) fetched 77 cents. Dean Stanley's works ($2.50 per vol.) brought $1.42, and were run singly at $1.50. Smith's "Assyrian Explorations" and Chaldean Account of Genesis" ($4) went for $2.30-$2.20. Max Mueller's books brought something under 40 off, as did Dr. Fisher's "Origin of Christianity" and "Reformation" ($3 each). Hopkins' "Law of Love" and "Study of Man" ($1.75 each), brought 87 cents, duplicated in tens at 85 cents. Hodges Systematic Theology," 3 vols. ($4), brought $2.50-$2.45, and $2.42 for a duplicate 15. Wemyss Reid's Life of Charlotte Brontë ($1.50) brought 82 cents. Whitney's linguistic treatises ($2.50) went for $1.35. Christlieb's "Modern Doubt and Christian Belief" ($3) was duplicated at 40 per cent. President Porter's "Books and Reading" ($2) sold at 40 off. Froude's History sold at about off; Mommsen, 4 vols. ($2), was run at $1.17; Curtius, 5 vols. ($2.50), $1.40, duplicated at $1.50; Epochs of History, 60-55-50 cents for the Modern, and 50 and 45 cents for the Ancient series. "Library of Wonders," Ist series, 20 vols. ($1.25), were knocked down at 55 and 45 cents, and the 2d series ($150) brought 70 cents; the Sans Souci series, 3 vols., 100 sets, brought 521-45-421 cents. 25 De Quincey, 2 vols. ($2), went for $1.15-$1.124. Rousselet's India ($25) brought $13.75. Library of Favorite Song ($9) was duplicated at $5. 100 Bric-a-Brac series, 10 vols. ($1.50), ranged from 80 down to 43 cents. Dr. Holland's books were in great demand at 40 off or close upon it, and large duplicate lots were ordered of "Bittersweet," " 'Kathrina,' "Mistress of the Manse," and "Sevenoaks" his "Every-day Topics" ($1.75) was duplicated at 40 off; of "Nicholas Minturn" ($1.75), a line of 100 went for $1.05-$1.04-$1, and 750 volumes, in large lots, at $1. Ik Marvel's "Dream Life" and "Reveries" were in equal request at 40 off, large duplicate lots being taken at $1, 5 cents lower than the bid. Saxe Holm's stories ($1.50) brought 80 cents; "Philip Nolan's Friends" ($1.75), 95 cents; "Mistress of the Manse," illus. ($5), $2.90. Verne's stories, in lines of 50 ($3 each), went at about 60 off. Mrs. Dodge's juveniles brought near 40 off; Bayard Taylor's Library of Travel, over half price; and Stockton's "Tales Out of School" ($3.50) was duplicated at half price. The new child's picturebook "Baby Days" ($2), was one of the hits of the sale, the advertised 50 and 175 extra being taken at $1.17, 50 at $1.15, 200 at $1.10, and three 500's at $1. With Marion Harland's "Common Sense in the Household" ($1.75), knocked down at $1.05-$1.024, another mine was struck, about 1500 being taken, in lots of various sizes up to 250 at 95 cents. The schoolbooks. Guyot's Geographies, Felter's Arithmetics, Sheldon's Readers, etc., in lines of 25, were readily taken at fifteen to twenty per cent off "trade-list price."

SEVENTH DAY'S CATALOGUE.

The seventh day's invoices were reached later on Wednesday, Roberts Bros.' being the first of the larger ones. This house sent their publications in lines of 20 and more, and gave no duplicates. The best prices obtained were: Miss Alcott's stories ($1.50), 90 cents;

Aunt Jo's Scrapbag series, 3 vols. ($1), 621– 60-57; Hamerton's books, 7 vols. ($2), $1.20-$1.17; Hare's Records of a Quiet Life" ($2), $1.171-$1.10; 50 No-Name novels, 8 vols. ($1), 60 cents; Sarah Tyttler's books on painters and composers, 3 vols. ($1.50), 90 cents; 50 J. H. Ingraham's works, 3 vols. ($2), $1.15-$1.12. The illustrated books sold low. Jean Ingelow's works (except the Red-Line edition, $3.75, which brought $2.30), brought about half price, as did also Landor's works, "Ecce Homo" and "Ecce Deus," and Susan Coolidge's and Louise Chandler Moulton's juveniles.

E. B. Treat offered thirty sets of Moody's books, 3 vols. ($1.50), which were purchased at 85 and 75 cents, and as many more in duplicate lots were ordered.

Lockwood, Brooks & Co. sent their wellknown lines in lots averaging about 25. Burr's "Ecce Coelum" and other books averaged price. Merriam's " Living Faith" ($1.50) brought 82 cents. Nimport," Wayside series ($1.50), sold at half price. The "Monday Club" books ($1) brought 30-19, Mrs. Monroe's " Story of Our Country" ($1.50) 75724, Samuels' "Birds of New England" ($4) $2.30-$2.15, the Hudson Shakespeare ($1 per vol.) 60, and Cabinet edition ($2.25) $1.371; "Silhouettes and Songs" ($2) 75-62. 1000

My Mother-in-law," the rival of "That Husband of Mine," were all taken, with two or three hundred extra, at 224-21-19-174 cents for the paper (50 cents), and 40-36-33 cents for 200 in cloth ($1).

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In J. M. Stoddart & Co.'s invoice some of T. S. Arthur's stories were duplicated at about price. John E. Potter & Co.'s books on the horse, "Everybody's Lawyer," "Six Hundred Receipts," $1.75 books, went for about retail price; Belcher's Religious Denominations" ($5) was duplicated at $1.50. The illustrated and Catholic Bibles brought less than of catalogue prices.

Virtue & Yorston's expensive publications and importations were very dull, averaging only a quarter or so of marked prices. Hayden's "Index of Biography" ($7) sold for $1.75; Imperial Cyclopædia of Machinery ($50), $10; Imp. Dictionary of Biography 3 vols. ($20), $5.25; the Kingston and "Now or Never" juveniles ($1.40), 25 and 27 cents respectively; Tomlinson's Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, 3 vols., half rus. ($15), $4.

J. W. Bouton's invoice, chiefly of imported books, was well received and brought very good prices, considering the way in which English books are usually slaughtered. Wilson's Ornithology, 3 vols. ($6), brought $3.50-$3.25. The "Cyclopædia of Costume," an elegant book ($20), brought price, and in morocco binding, designed by Hammond of London ($37.50), $17. The Turner Gallery, India proofs, bound by Hammond ($75), was bid off at $35. Hamerton's "Principles of Modern Etching" ($12) brought $6.50, and another collection ($10) $4.75; "Etchings from the National Gallery" ($10), $3; Lacroix's "Middle Ages" in French ($15). $8.50-$7.75; Walford's 'County Families" ($9), $3.75-$3.50; Hart's "The Violin" ($4), $1.62; Wright's Boccaccio ($3.50), $1.75; Jones' 'Grammar of Ornament," smaller edition ($35), $18.50; the fac-simile of the 1623 Shakespeare ($3.75), $1.50; "The Rump," 3 vols. $1-$1.12;

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"The English Rogue," 4 vols. ($2.50), $1.25; Michel's Story of the Stick" ($1.50), 65 cents; Mackay's "Lost Beauties of the English Language" ($1.75), 35 cents; Mme. Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" (just published), 2 vols. ($3.25), brought 40 off, and Lundy's "Monumental Christianity" ($7.50) the same. Inman's "Ancient Faiths," 2 vols. ($10), $5; "Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism ($3), $1.50, and books of other authors on similar subjects somewhat less.

R. Worthington had an invoice of English books of a more popular character than those of Scribner and Bouton. The prices were about the same as in those invoices or lower. 25 Princess Salm-Salm's new book, "Ten Years of My Life" ($1.50), went for 37 cents; 25 Wright's Boccaccio ($3.50), $1.65-$1.35; 250 Tennyson, Laurel edition ($1.25), 321-30-291; 50 Trevelyan's Macaulay's Life and Letters" (2 vols., at $6.50), 65-55 cents; 25 Knox's Baksheesh" ($3.50), $1.30; Bourne's Handbook of the Steam Engine ($3), 85 cents; Muspratt's Chemistry (2 vols., at $13.50), $5; Warne's Popular Poets ($1.40 each), 60-55 cents; Chandos Library, 13 vols. ($1.75), 75-70 cents; 500 "Peepshow" [for 1876] ($1.50), 40-33 cents; the Handy Volume Shakespeare ($10.50 the set), $5, duplicated in red leather ($15.50) at $7.75; Handy Volume Waverley ($20 the set, $12 net), $10.50; Handy Volume Bible ($10), $4-$3.50; Taine's "English Literature,” 4 vols. ($2.50, $1.40 net), $1.25; Chambers' Cyclopædia, 10 vols., a line of 50 (£4 15s.), brought $1.75-$1.60 a volume, and was duplicated at $1.70.

Milner & Co., of England, sent an invoice of cheap popular books, in lines of 25 and 50. Their goods are new at trade sales, but they brought fair prices-32 cents for the 75 cent books, 42 and 40 cents for the $1.25 books; 27 to 20 cents for the 65 cent; 15 cents for the 50 cent ones.

Chatto & Windus sent over a full assortment of their publications in liberal lines. They suffered probably from the prices being quoted in British currency. Sampson's "History of Advertising" (7s. 6d.) brought 65 cents; Brand's Popular Antiquities" (7s. 6d.), $1.05$1.10; 25 Catlin's book on the Indians (2 vols., £3 35.), $4.75 a volume. 50 Dibdin's Bibliomania," new edition, published at a guinea, went to a single buyer at $3.12. Grosart's Early Poets, 4 vols. (6s.), brought 50 cents; Emanuel on Diamonds (6s.), 60 cents; Faraday's "History of a Candle" and "Forces of Nature" (4s. 6d.), 60 cents; 50 Gell and Gandy's Pompeiana," demy 8vo (18s.), $2.50-$1.65; Wright's Life of Gilray (31s. 6d.), $4.12-$3.60. 25 The Golden Library, 18 vols. sq. 16mo (2s.), brought 22-20-17 cents; 25 the Piccadilly novels (65.), 50-40-35 cents; 50 the Ouida novels (5s.), 30-40 cents; Wilkie Collins, 14 vols. (25.), 25-31 cents. The Old Dramatists, 8 vols. (6s.), brought 65 and 60 cents. "History of Signboards" and "Slang Dictionary" (7s. 6d. and 6s. 6d.) sold for 75 cents each. Strutt's Sports and Pastimes" (7s. 6d.) and other books of the same price and character brought 75 cents each, and Wright's two books on caricature, (7s. 6d.) 90 cents. Wild's Cathedrals (£4 4s.) brought $12.75 and $11.

Bernard Quaritch, of London, the famous antiquarian bookseller, contributed a consignment which included some of the most magnificent books published in England. It was one of

the most valuable single shipments of books ever sent to this country, and as such formed a novel feature in the trade sales. The books were altogether too costly to be handled in the miscellaneous book trade in this market; as a natural consequence their sale was a sacrifice. The prices obtained averaged little over a dollar to the pound sterling retail price. The purchasers seemed to regret the slaughter as much as anybody, and there seemed to be a disposi tion among them to offer as much as they could safely venture, and some of them made remarks to the effect that they did not wish to buy the books in cheap to make money out of them, and that it was a pity more marketable books had not been sent. The choicest book in the list, Kingsborough's great work on Mexico, in 9 vols., with colored plates, whose market value is over $900, and which has brought as much as that in a library sale in the same auction room, was not sold, no one being disposed to offer more than $20 a volume for it. Holbein's Portraits of the Court of Henry VIII. [17921800], proof engravings by Bartolozzi (English selling price £52 10s.), was bid in for $59. Hogarth's works, from the original plates recently retouched (£50), brought only $37.50. The Dresden Gallery [Dresden, 1780-1784], engravings by Canale, Kilian, Houbraken, and others (price £28, importing price $112 net), brought $79.50. Gilray, with text and the suppressed plates [1849], half bound in red morocco, in 2 vols. (£50), brought only $12 a volume. EIGHTH DAY'S CATALOGUE.

On Friday the catalogue of the eighth day. including Harper's invoice, was at last reached. Of the World Publishing Company's invoice, 'Chatterbox, Junior" ($1) was in demand at 45 cents. Buyers were eager to get at the Harper books, in which invoice, because of the stiff discounts usually held by this house, the sale had, in fact, little of the character of a trade sale about it. There was no holding back for bargains or bearing prices, but almost every line was taken, after a couple of bids for form's sake, within a few cents of the regular discount rates of the house. The standard and light literature most frequently went at 40 off. Among the books which sold at 40 off, or a few cents under, were their editions of Motley, Macaulay, Hallam, Mosheim, Grote, Carlyle, and other standard historians, well known for their inexpensiveness and the solidity of their manufacture; the collected novels of Dickens, George Eliot, Reade, Hughes, Thackeray, Collins, Miss Mulock, Kingsley, Curtis, Mrs. Sherwood; Addison and Burke (each 3 vols., at $2), Plutarch's Lives, etc. De Mille's novels, 5 vols. ($1.50), went at 67 cents; Charlotte Brontë's, 6 vols. ($1.50), 624-60 cents; W. Black's ($1.50), 85 cents; Livingstone's books of travel brought a trifle under 40 off; the cheap edition of the "Last Journals" ($2.50) just 40 off; Atkinson's " Amoor Regions" and "Siberia" ($3.50), $2.05; Speke's Africa" ($4), $2.25; Spry's Voyage of the Challenger" ($2), $1.10; Burnaby's Ride to Khiva ($2) and Bush's Siberian Journey ($3), just 40 off; Long's " Central Africa" ($2), $1.40; Du Chaillu's works, just 40 off; Thomson's "Land and the Book" ($2.50) duplicated at $1.50; "Life of a Scotch Naturalist" ($1.50) and Biart's “Adventures of a Young Naturalist" ($1.75), just 40 off; Jacob Abbott's juveniles and J. S. C. Ab