less often than once a week and, as often as four times a year, three cents per pound or fraction thereof.

SEC. 4. The certificate of registration, granted as in the preceding section, shall be revoked only by the Postmaster-General or by his order, and then only in case the publication to which it shall have been granted shall have so changed its character as to make it subject to the ordinary rate, or in case the publisher thereof shall be guilty of a palpable evasion of the postal laws relative to the classification of mail mat

ter.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall print upon any number of his publication or the wrapper thereof the words designated in section three (3), or other words of like import which may be prescribed by the Postmaster-General under the authority conferred in that section, to whom has not been granted a certificate of registration, or who shall submit false evidence to the department as to the character of his publication, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offence shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100. SEC. 6. The conditions upon which a publication shall be admitted to the privilege of registration are as follows:

First. It must be regularly issued.

Second. It must be issued from a known office of publication.

Third. It must be for a public purpose. Fourth. It must consist mainly of public

news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current topics or events, either general or special, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to permit books, either bound or unbound, or publications which, although issued in regular series or successive numbers, are but reprints of books, to be entitled to the benefits of the "privileged " rate.

SEC. 6. On all mail matter of the second

class not registered as provided in the preceding sections postage shall be paid at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fractional part thereof, which rate shall be called the ordinary

rate.

SEC. 7. The Postmaster-General shall prescribe such regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this act as shall be necessary to carry the same into effect.

JOURNALISTIC NOTES.

THE November number of The Literary World will be extended to twenty-four pages, and will contain, besides notices of all important new publications and the usual variety of news and gossip, counter articles upon Joseph Cook's Lectures on Biology, one by Rev. Minot J. Savage, of Boston, and the other by a scholar whose name will be at once recognized,the two eminently representing the opposing schools of thought upon that subject.

THE November Galaxy contains a paper on "The Federal Language," being a chapter on Americanisms, by Richard Grant White.

THE fourteenth of the "Poet's Home Series," in the November number of Wide Awake, will have for its subject E. C. Stedman, and for its author R. H. Stoddard. There will be a portrait of Mr. Stedman.

D. APPLETON & Co. are putting new energy into the pushing of their periodicals through the trade, and have issued circulars offering liberal rates on orders or subscriptions received through dealers, whether to be delivered to them or to subscribers direct. These include Appletons' Journal, with the fine steel plate of "Dickens in his Study;" the Popular Science Monthly and its capital Supplement; and the New York Medical Journal, which can be had in clubs, at trade discount, in any of the combinations. It is intended to offer to the trade so liberal a margin that it will be an inducement to them to take hold vigorously.

markable attractions for the new volume. THE publishers of the Atlantic promise reHenry James, Jr., will present the counterpart of 'The American," in a novel in four parts, "The Europeans," in which national contrasts of character are studied in America. Another serial, "Berthold: a Romance," to run through five numbers, is the first important work of a new writer, Wm. H. Bishop, and there is a promise of a considerable story from Mr. Howells himself. A new feature will be studies from French, German, and English books not usually accessible by leading writers. Atlantic portraits of Mr. Bryant and Mr. LongThere has just been added to the admirable fellow a third, of Mr. Whittier, also from the pencil of J. E. Baker, the artist of the previous portraits. The publication is peculiary fitting, in view of the approach of Mr. Whittier's seventieth birthday, and both as a portrait and a work of art the picture is extremely satisfac

tory.

THE Library Journal for October will be devoted chiefly to college libraries and their development. There will be leading articles on College Library Economy, by Frederick Vinton, of Princeton College, with views and plan of the Princeton Circular Library Building; on College Libraries as Semi-public Libraries, by Prof. Robinson, of Rochester University; on Learning to Read in College, by R. R. Bowker, and, it is hoped, one by Justin Winsor, President of the Library Association, and now of Harvard University, outlining his plans for bibliographical work in connection with college study. Some account will be given of what has been accomplished in Class-room Bibliography, by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, at Michigan University, and by others; the librarians of twenty leading colleges contribute Statistics of Student Reading and suggestions; and there will be other features of college interest. The Library Journal contains in every number many features of interest to the trade. The

yearly subscription is $5, less trade discount, and single copies will be sent through the trade with like allowance.

WE cannot help again commending the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, New York, as the best periodical of its kind in America, It is very ably conducted.-Boston Traveller.

BOOK NOTICES.

THE LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., by Walter Thornbury. (Holt.) The publication of a life of Turner is very welcome and seasonable. A new interest has sprung up regarding him and his works of late years, and the world is glad to receive other testimony than that of Mr. Ruskin relative to his claims as a great artist. Mr. Thornbury quotes largely from Ruskin, but also differs from him materially in

the estimate he places upon the majority of Turner's paintings, especially those sent out during the last years of his life. Mr. Thornbury does not spare Turner's character either, telling the whole truth about him as a man in his dealings with his engravers and others. He does not present a very heroic figure, although no doubt a truthful one. There are few periods of English art invested with the intense interest that clings to the age in which Turner painted. Born in 1775 and living till 1851, his lifetime included the rise and culmination, probably, of English landscape painting. As the greatest landscape painter of any time, an account of his methods, his merits, his faults, and his failings cannot but appeal to every one having any artistic tastes. This is a second edition of a work published over fifteen years ago. It is considerably enlarged by the addition of sixteen previously unpublished letters of Turner and numerous anecdotes respecting the great artist, furnished by his friends and fellow academicians; and the appendix has had added to it a record of fourteen years' sale of his pictures. The work is embellished by a number of illustrations, fac-similed in colors, from Turner's original drawings. The fourth volume of the "Amateur Series." 12mo, cloth, $2.75. SURLY TIM, AND OTHER STORIES, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. (Scribner A. & Co.) In a note appended to this little volume, Mrs. Burnett announces that this and "That Lass o'Lowrie's" are the only works issued under her name which have been prepared and corrected for publication in book form under her personal supervision. This volume comprises, besides Surly Tim," "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame," Smethurstses," 'One Day at Arle," ‘Esmeralda,”“ Mère Giraud's Little Daughter," 'Lodusky," all well known to readers of Scribner's, and Seth," published in Lippincott's. Two of them are in the Lancashire dialect the author loves so well to reproduce, while the others are equally well told in "North Callina" patois, London cockney, and French phraseology, showing her at home on any ground or in any scene she may choose to represent. The stories are all very dramatic, full of strong contrasts and vivid color and a strange tenderness that almost moves to tears. Surly Tim" is one of the most touching and powerful short stories we have ever read. 16mo, cloth, $1.25. THE BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED DE MUSSET, translated from the French of Paul de Musset by Harriet W. Preston. (Roberts.) The translator's words best describe this memoir of Alfred de Musset by his devoted brother Paul: "In many respects, a model of what a biogra. phy ought not to be. It is an ardent and tearful defence, a eulogy, a threnody, a picturesque and highly idealized sketch: it is anything, in short, but a sober and truthful piece of portraiture. But the eager plea of M. Paul de Musset deceives as little as eager pleas usually

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do. We divine all that he avoids saying, at

the same time that we like him the better for Alfred de Musset, in his dissipations and reckhis chivalrous care of his brother's reputation." poet Poe, who has often been compared to him. lessness, was not unlike our own wayward alike matters of history, his own pen having His brilliant genius and his wrecked life are laid bare his heart's weaknesses and follies. charming volume offers both entertainment

To those who can read between the lines this

and instruction. Miss Preston's reputation as a translator will be enhanced by the delicate manner in which she has rendered this simple and graphic narrative. 12mo, cloth, $2.

ELEMENTARY PERSPECTIVE, by M. J. Keller. (Clarke & Co.) This handbook is intended to fill a very important place, notwithstanding the many works on this subject already before the public-that is, the "middle ground" between those which are too voluminous and those which are not sufficiently explicit. It has been in use in the School of Design, Cincinnati University, for two or three seasons in manuscript form, during which time its usefulness has been fully tested, and it has received such changes and additions as the author found, from practical tests, to be of the greatest value. It is now offered to teachers and students, with the hope that it will prove a practical aid in the study of the art of drawing. It is condensed and very simple in style. 12mo, cloth, $1.

THE WINGS OF COURAGE, Stories for American Boys and Girls, adapted from the French by Marie E. Field. (Putnam.) "The Wings of Courage,' ""The Deserted Castle," and "Queen Coax are the stories contained in this little book. They can scarcely be called fairy tales, and yet are such a charming mixture of fact and fancy as to be quite out of the ordinary run of stories. "The Wings of Courage" is the story of a little French boy, Clopinet, who, being born with the idea of becoming a sailor, does not take kindly to the work his father sets him. His father, becoming impatient and thinking him utterly useless, sells him to a tailor, a horrible, ill-tempered old hunchback. The tailor carries him off on his back, but when night comes Clopinet eludes him and takes refuge amid the cliffs of Honfleur. There he finds a deserted hut, in which he lives. He makes acquaintance with the birds and follows them to the highest peaks, watching their habits and hunting for their nests. In this way he collects a number of beautiful heron's plumes, which he sells for a large sum of money, going back home with a fortune. This is not the end of the story, as he afterwards becomes a great naturalist and a famous and rich man. A pretty moral is evolved out of all the stories, which are adorned with the embroidery of a most delicate and poetical imagination. The style is exCeedingly simple and attractive. Illustrations by Lucy G. Morse. 16mo, cloth, $1.25.

SIX SINNERS, by Campbell Wheaton. (Putnam.) "Six Sinners" are six little girls, whose exploits at school in Bantam Valley form the chief part of the book. Dora Maynard, the

chiefest" of these sinners, is a wild, imaginative little girl who has been brought up in the country, under the care of her grandpapa and grandmamma and in the company of her cousin Jack. She is sent to boarding-school by her father, in the hope of taming her. Her troubles

and adventures here are very entertaining. The school-children and the teacher are very graphically described, while Dora is finally the heroine of a very dramatic episode which winds up her school-days. A lovely little book for girls. 16mo, cloth, $1.25.

ALL FOR HIM. (Carleton.) Like "All For Her," by the same author, this is a history of a crime, written with the minute fidelity and graphic realism of a newspaper report of an actual trial. It shows power of a no mean order, cultivation, and a keen knowledge of New York City life. The subject is by no means an elevating one, being the murder of a young girl by her lover, a fashionable society man. Her remains are dissected, placed in two trunks, and sent to different quarters of the State. The finding of these trunks is the opening scene of the story. From this to the dénoûment, the case is worked up with all the skill of a trained lawyer and the brilliancy of a veteran journalist.

12mo, paper, $1.50.

DERBY BROTHERS, of New York, have in press "How we raised Our Baby," with an introduction by John Habberton, who certainly knows all about the subject. The work, while indulging in ready humor, will give solid advice as to the problem of raising children.

JOHN R. ANDERSON, of Hartford, Ct., having purchased the plates of the admirable collection of juveniles entitled "Dickens' Little Folks," will publish them at short intervals in two editions, one in 6 and one in 12 volumes. We call attention to his offer to dealers in our advertising colums.

THE great book from Roberts Brothers this season, and one of the best of the many recent notable biographies, will be the "Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner," which is to be published early in November. It tells the story of his boyhood, school and student life, travel in Europe, work as a lawyer, large social acquaintance, and his first conspicuous public appearance as the Fourth-of-July orator in Boston for 1845. The story is told by Mr. Edward L. Pierce, one of Senator Sumner's literary executors, and is told with excellent judgment and taste. Many of Mr. Sumner's letters are included, and the allusions to more or less famous people are accompanied by footnotes that give just the concise and sufficient biographical or historical information readers desire. The two volumes contain two portraits, one an admirable engraving from a daguerreotype taken when Mr. Sumner was between 45 and 50, the other copied from a portrait taken when he was a young man. This last is in Mr. Longfellow's possession, and is greatly valued by him.

THE REV. JOSEPH COOK's Monday Lectures are published in London in serial parts, each containing several lectures. Five parts, with thirty-one addresses, are already out.

ROBERTS BROTHERS have in press for early publication "Tom: a Home Story," by Rev. George L. Chaney, whose "Fred Grant & Co." pleased and made more manly a host of boy readers.

REV. DR. F. H. HEDGE has in the press of Roberts Brothers a new book entitled "Ways of the Spirit, and other Essays.' This is emphatically good news, for Dr. Hedge never publishes any thing poor or commonplace or less than admirable in thought, learning, breadth of view, and noble charm of style.

LOCKWOOD, BROOKS & Co. are preparing for a Christmas feast Slices of Mother Goose," with fine literary dressing by Miss Alice Parkman, and artistic "fixins" by " Champ." Just what form they will be served in is not decided, but something taking.

ORDERS for "The Story of Avis" poured into Osgood's in advance of publication so fast as to indicate that it will have a very large sale.

IN the Putnams' forthcoming holiday book, Mr. Bryant's poem of "The Flood of Years," with designs by W. J. Linton, the trade may expect a volume of unique and very elegant style.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS will shortly publish, for the Society of Ethical Culture, a volume_of scholarly essays, on various topics, by Dr. Felix Adler. Creed and Deed is the title and gives a cue to the book.

MR. MCCOAN, author of the book on Egypt published by Henry Holt & Co., and recently the editor of the Levant Herald, was kindly relieved from journalistic duty by the Turkish Government, in the nick of time for the preparation of his book. His paper had something of a Western European character as well as circulation, and upon the breaking out of the present war a staff of correspondents was organized to give trustworthy reports of the conflict. In publishing such items it violated the rules of the Turkish War Department, which provided that only news issued through it shall be made public, and for this offence publication of the paper was prohibited for six months-Tribune.

THE "Home Cook Book" is evidently not for a day but for all time—and all kitchens. Mr. Waggoner reports it in its 22d thousand, in which edition have been added articles on the important subjects of "marketing" and "servants," swelling the book to 400 pages.

THE Cambridge (England) University Press will publish immediately the Gospel of St. Mark, with critical and explanatory notes, and an Introduction by Dr. Maclear, Head Master of King's College School, London. This is the first instalment of the Cambridge edition of the "Bible for Schools" to be brought out under the general editorship of Prof. Perowne, with the assistance of an able staff of editors.

HENRY A. YOUNG, of Boston, will publish some time this month The Wooden Spoon," by Park Ludlow, which will make the third volume of the " Red Shanty Series."

THE sale of Bishop Gibbon's (now Archbishop of Baltimore) work, "The Faith of Our Fathers," is upwards of 22,500 copies, the largest sale that any Catholic work has ever reached in this country, and the prospects are that it will in reasonable time reach 100,000.

FIVE hundred copies of Rev. Phillips Brooks' "Yale Lectures on Preaching" have been sold in Boston.

AMONG Macmillan & Co.'s interesting promises for this fall are "Lectures on Mediæval Church History," by Archbishop Trench; vol. iv. and v. of Prof. Masson's Life of Milton;" vol, iv. of the translation of Lanfrey's "History of Napoleon the First;" "Lectures by a Certain Professor;" a new volume of Sermons, by the Rev. Alexander Maclaren; "Sermons on some Aspects of the Christian Ideal," by Prof. Lewis Campbell; "A_Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians," by the Rev. Dr. Eadie; Emile de Laveleye's "Forms of Property," translated by G. R. Marriott ; Mr. Gladstone's "Primer of Homer," and a "Primer of Greek Literature," by Prof. Jebb, in the series of Literature Primers edited by Mr. Green; a Primer of Pianoforte Playing, by Franklin Taylor, edited by Mr. George Grove; "History of European Colonies," by E. J. Payne, in the Historical Course for Schools, edited by Mr. Freeman; and, for the children, "The Cuckoo Clock," by the author of "Car rots," illustrated by Walter Crane; and "The Magic Valley," by Miss E. Keary, with illus. trations by E. V. B.

THE volume of poems by Rev. John W. Chadwick, of Brooklyn, has passed through

five editions.

D. M. BENNETT, editor of The Truth Seeker, has published in book form, under the title "Christianity and Infidelity." the discussion carried on between him and the Rev. G. H. Humphrey, from April to September, in the columns of his paper, which at the time excited not a little interest among the constituents of the contestants.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS have just issued the twenty-first edition of "The World's Progress, A Dictionary of Dates," edited by George P. Putnam. This edition has been revised and

continued by F. B. Perkins, the synchronistic tables and the alphabetical arrangement of historical and statistical facts having been brought down to July, 1877, and the short chapter of Statistics from the United States Treasury Department" having been enlarged by the addition of similar statistics from authoritative

sources.

MISS E. M. COE, principal of the "American Kindergarten," in New York, has in preparation a number of little books illustrating her methods of teaching.

SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & Co. have just issued a new and revised edition, at reduced price and uniform with the author's other works, of Marsh's "The Earth as modified by Human Action," formerly widely known under the title of "Man and Nature." An appendix and a few other additions have been made.

D. LOTHROP & Co. have ready a new and enlarged edition of Mrs. Bates' delightful "Classics for Babyland;" "Little Truths for Little Folks," a series of Bible stories told by Laurie Loring, and illustrated; "My Beautiful Picture Book," a quarto, 13 x 15 inches, with stories told in prodigious type, and large pictures; Poems for our Darlings" from Mrs. Thaxter, Miss Phelps, Ella Farman and others, illustrated, of course; "Vacation Stories" for boys and another set for girls; and "The

Voyage of the Steadfast," a very readable story by W. H. Kingston, who has already made a name among boy-readers. About the 1st of November, Lothrop will bring out the promised new and attractive edition of the American Golden Treasury books: Sir Roundell Palmer's "Book of Praise," "A Book of Golden Deeds," "The Heir of Redgathered by the author of cliffe;" Coventry_Patmore's "A Garland from the Poets;" F. T. Palgrave's "Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyric Poems in the and English Language;" 'The Pilgrim's Progress." These excellent books will appear in 16mo volumes, at $1.25 each; also in a redline edition, with illustrations, at $3 each.

ROBERTS BROTHERS will soon issue a new edition of Susan Coolidge's "What Katy Did at School," with illustrations by Mary A. Hallock.

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., in addition to their long list of fall announcements already Gray Abbey," by given, add the following: the author of "One in a Canter," will be volume 4 of the "Star Series" of novels, which has had "In the Meshes," by Chrisquite a success. tian Mackenzie, will be volume 5. Early in November will appear "Six Hundred Robinson Crusoes," who will be on hand to delight the youth of both sexes; it will be a 12m0, with plenty of illustrations.

"Souci" is the title of

a new novel by Mrs. Twells, the author of "The Mill of the Gods." A timely work will be that of the Rev. Horatio Southgate, D.D.. “The Cross above the Crescent." As the author was many years a bishop at Constantinople, and has had real practical experience among the Turks, he will be able to throw a great deal of light upon their manners and customs, which at this time will be especially welcome. It will be in the form of a romance. "The Blue Banner" will be a companion volume, and will give the adventures of a Mussulman, a Christian, and a pagan in the time of the Crusades and Mongol Conquest. Léon Cahun is the author, and W. Colles Sanders translates it from the French. It will be illustrated with 76 wood-cuts by J.

Lix.

It will be ready, in crown 8vo, extra cloth, in a few weeks.

DR. SCHLIEMANN'S forthcoming book, to be published here by Scribner. Armstrong & Co., will have an introduction by Mr. Gladstone, who consented to become sponsor for the book only after careful examination of its contents and consultation with the authorities of the British Museum.

A BOOK of "Fairy Tales from Spenser," with wood-cuts and illustrations in colors, is in press by Chatto & Windus.

THE (London) Academy, in announcing Mr. Bayard Taylor's forthcoming work on German Literature, says: "We have no one in England at all comparable to Mr. Taylor in German, and especially Schiller and Goethe, literature."

A "LITERÄRT ALBUM," containing contributions in prose and verse by the best Swedish authors, with portraits of each author, is to be the Christmas enterprise of a Stockholm publisher.

THE Tauchnitz collection of English authors now comprises 1669 volumes. Of these, 1597 are by British writers and the remaining 70 are by American authors.

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.

F. J. SWAIN, late manager for Perry & Co., has just completed the manufacture and introduction of a novelty which promises to be a success. The cut herewith represents several

designs, and the goods are furnished stamped in colors or embossed, as may be desired. The embossed retail for 75 cents; those in colors sell for $1.25 per box. The demand for this line of goods thus far has been unprecedented.

KAUFMANN & Co, New York, have a new

and beautiful line of portfolios in linen, duck, and canvas, which are handsomely ornamented with over fifty different subjects, such as flowers, bouquets, birds, etc. They come in three different sizes, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, ranging in price from twelve to fifteen dollars per dozen. They seem to be just the thing for the fall and holiday trade. This house has one of the largest

styles of the goods, which consist of a line of stationery cases made of wood corresponding with the tin now in use, embracing bill-head, post-office, letter, note, and envelope cases, etc. These goods are much more attractive than those now in use, and can be sold at equally low prices. The trade will find it to their advantage to examine the samples, which can be seen at 131 William Street, where Mr. Swain is located.

C. S. PLUMMER, with May, Hard & Co., New York, has started East with a fine line of new papers, wedding goods, and holiday papeteries. Among the latest novelties is the "What Day" papeteries, containing one quire of satin-finished paper, octavo size, and envelopes to match; Billet de Correspondance," containing twenty-four cards and satin-finished envelopes to match. Each box has seven different

assortments of scrap-book pictures, box ornaments, and chromo cards in the market.

His

WM. D. BENNAGE, JR., 47 N. Ninth St., Philadelphia, has just published a new and complete school report, which is very useful to teachers and deserves careful reading. It sells at the moderate price of $1.25 per hundred. "Favorite" series of school government, comprising a number of merit cards, are very handy and convenient. Besides these, he manufactures the "Favorite" liquid slating for blackboards, which can be used on walls, boards, or paper, and makes a dead-black surface superior to slate. It is claimed that it will neither glaze, scale, nor rub off, and can be applied by the most inexperienced. It is put up in pints at $1.25, in quarts at $2.25, in half gallons at $4, and in gallons at $7.50. Catalogue will be sent on application.