himself. The style in which the book is written is excessively charming; it is imbued with a keen, quiet humor that is felt more than seen, and has the color and dramatic fervency of expression the true outcome of an artistic nature. It will no doubt be pronounced the most finished and most powerful novel Miss Phelps has written. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. DOCTOR TOM, by Edward Payson. (Dresser McLellan & Co.) Very nearly four hundred pages are here devoted to describing what the author calls "little more, indeed, than an episode in one life." Doctor Tom is never off the stage, from the beginning to the end of the story. His appearance, his thoughts, his misfortunes, adventures, love-affairs etc., are related with a minuteness and fidelity that are truly wonderful. Slackwater, a New England village, is the scene which witnesses the entire unravelling of Doctor Tom's story. Slackwater people and Slackwater wisdom and wit furnish the accessories to plot and dialogue. "Doctor Tom" is a fictitious name adopted by the hero for reasons which he relates. The plot is so brief, and simple that we will not enter into further particulars as it would be taking the chief interest away from the book to tell the secret. The plot, too, is a minor consideration, as the story will be read by the majority for its style and evidence of thought and culture. The author is the son of one of New England's most eminent divines. 16mo, cloth, $1. JACK GRANGER'S COUSIN, by Julia A. Mathews. (Roberts.) Paul Stuyvesant, Jack Granger's cousin, has been brought up, to his thirteenth year, by two maiden aunts, who would never let him engage in any out-door sports or rough play, and so had succeeded in making a perfect "Miss Nancy" of him. When he comes to live at Granger's house, he is a dapper little chap, polite and refined, but a thorough prig in his talk and manners. He goes to school with Jack and is thrown, much to his disgust, into an entirely new element, the rough, hearty school-boys being strangers to his experience. Here his lack of moral and physical courage are strikingly brought out by numerous graphic incidents. The book winds up with a charming episode showing all the boys in their noblest guise, and reinstating Paul in the reader's respect. The book is one that both parents and children may derive instruction from. It is very ably written, and sets forth the very highest ideal for the young people's imitation. 16m0, cloth, $1. DIANA, by Susan Warner, author of "Wide, Wide World," co-author of "Wych Hazel." (Putnam.) " Diana" will take rank at once, among the admirers of the Warner sisters' books, as the strongest and most intense story we have yet had from their hands. The style of it need not be described, as it is very similar to that of previous works, but there is a breadth and depth about it, a maturity of thought, in fact, which appeals to a different and an older class of readers than that for which the "Wide, Wide World" was written. It is a New England love-story, with the baldest surroundings, but the writer succeeds in creating a most romantic atmosphere for her lovers. The characters are all real people, Diana being one of the loveliest and most noble of women. The interest in her story never flags for an instant, through her happiness or her misery; she is unlike any of these authors' previous, characters in the depth of her nature and her personality, and will no doubt be received as the most natural and attractive of any of their creations. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. PATSY, by Leora B. Robinson. (Putnam.) The author of "The House with Spectacles," a story that met with a large sale last year, has sent us a new volume for little girls, one that will be found even better than the former story, and one full of brisk conversation and the action and animation that is natural to healthy, real children. Patsy's story teaches some profitable lessons about carelessness and ill-temper, and may be placed in a little girls hands, certain of bestowing upon her both amusement and the means of improvement. 16mo, cloth, $1.25. BABY BALLADS. (Lee & S.) This is a lovely little book of rhymes for the babies, illustrated with the charming pictures of Oscar Plesch. The rhymes have a pretty jingle that the little ones will like, while the pictures, all subjects taken from the busy play-life of childhood, are just about perfect. The book has a very quaint and attractive binding, and will, no doubt, go into many baby-hands before holiday-times are 4to, cloth, $1. over. STATIONERY NOTES. THE German stationers are bringing out betrothal cards in mediæval Gothic style. THE Albion Paper Company have begun arrangements for building a new paper-mill near their present works at Holyoke. THE penholders manufactured by Mabie, Todd & Bard sell at $4.50 per dozen, not per gross as erroneously quoted in our issue of the 13th inst. THE Massachusetts stationery manufacturers just now are very busy in getting up holiday goods, many of them having so much on hand that they are recessitated to take orders conditionally. The feeling and trade in Boston are especially good. In New York, too, many factories are kept going both day and night. MR. CHARLES SNEIDER lately returned from a successful trip through the East, where he found ready sale for the fine lines of stationery which he exhibited. His latest in note-papers is the Marblette," in four tints imitating the different shades of Italian marble, and visitingcards and billets de correspondance made in the same style. The "Jardin de fleurs" is printed in four different designs on sixteen shades of paper, and is radiant with roses, pansies, humming-birds, and butterflies. A unique design represents the upper lefthand corner turned down and apparently fastened with pins, hairpins, hooks and eyes, padlocks, matches, etc. This is so cleverly done as to almost deceive the eye at first sight. In mourning papers the corner, with a black border, is simply turned down without any imitation of fastenings. Envelopes are made to match the different styles. "THE History of Ceramic Art in Great Britain, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day," by Llewellyn Jewett, in two volumes, with nearly 2000 illustrations, will shortly be published. E. B. PORTER, formerly of the firm of Yohn & Porter, has been made general agent and manager of a temperance work entitled "Fifteen Years in Hell," which will only be sold on subscription. LITTLE, BROWN & Co. issue this week a new impression of Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations," with a number of additions. It is beyond comparison the fullest and best work of its kind, and Mr. Bartlett spares no pains to make it perfect. D. LOTHROP & Co. will shortly publish a book of special interest to all who love the poetry of Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Bayard Taylor, Aldrich, Howells, Stedman, the Piatts, and other American poets, and who like to know something of the personal appearance, home surroundings, and literary habits of these famous authors. This is, of course, "Poets' Homes," with its portraits, and pictures of the inside and outside of the dwell G.P.PUTNAM'S SONS have in preparation "The Silver Country of the South-west," which will give the history, mining statistics and resources, and a general description of that por-ing-places of these charming singers. tion of territory formerly known as New Spain, and now Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah and Mexico. D. LOTHROP & Co. are preparing for the children some ravishing pictorial attractions which they call "Sugar Plums," selected by Miss Farman, editor of Wide Awake; also " Poems in Company with Children," by Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt, one of the tenderest and most poetical of American writers of verse. "THE Life of Rev. Dr. Edward Norris Kirk," by Rev. D. O. Mears, will be published shortly by Lockwood, Brooks & Co. In his denomination (Congregational) Dr. Kirk successful of preachers, and all who came in was widely recognized as one of the most contact with him were impressed with the beauMears has told the story of his life very fitly, ty and simple dignity of his character. and the handsome volume with the strikingly handsome portrait will be very acceptable to a large circle. Mr. REV. DR. CAMPBELL'S "Story of Creation," giving the results of scientific research in the domains of geology and astronomy, will be published soon by Lockwood, Brooks & Co. cational Catalogue, prepared by Mr. C. F. THE latest edition of Low's (English) EduIt will have 30 or 40 wood-cuts illustrating and Blackburn, has entries of nearly fifteen thousand emphasizing the Story" Dr. Campbell tells, text-books, which is about double the number and adding largely to the value and attractive-contained in the first edition. As heretofore, ness of the book. MESSRS. PORTER & COATES announce for next week T. S. Arthur's new book. The Bar Room of Brantly" also for speedy issue a new volume in the Art at Home Series," Music in the_House," by John Hullah. "Dolly," by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, is starting off well, and will soon have to pass through another edition. PROF. WILLIAM EVERETT, in preparing to write the life of his father, Edward Everett, asks for all letters to or from that personage, all autobiographic bits or other manuscripts that were his, and any personal reminiscences that may be afloat; pledging himself to copy what may be needed and return the originals. These may be sent to him at Holmes Place, Cambridge. LEE & SHEPARD, who have been so successful in publishing the "relationship" order of literature, have Another Man's Wife" and "Something Better" in hand. "That Wife of Mine" will come out next week 70,000 strong. The "Husband is about twice as numerous, but it is expected that they will be evenly matched before Christmas. And what a couple they are ! these are classified under the topics most suggestive to teachers or educationalists, so as to afford the least delay in finding any desired information, and the arrangement, on the whole, shows great discrimination, as well as much pains and labor. In discarding capitals (except for proper names and their derivative adjec tives), Mr. Blackburn has established a precedent which American bibliographers at least would doubtless like to see followed generally n trade cataloguing. J. R. OSGOOD & Co.'s list of new books for this week comprises Raphael," the second volume in Sweetser's excellent series of "Artist Biographies;" Alfiera," as the fourth vol. ume in Howells' rightly named Choice Autobiographies," with a prefatory essay by Mr. Howells; Dr. J. P. Thompson's "Lectures on the Centennial of American Independence," which won praise from German scholars, Italian statesmen, and English professors when delivered last year in Berlin, Dresden, Florence, Paris, and London; and Hawthorne's famous story "The Scarlet Letter," illustrated superbly and with rare intelligence and sympa BOOKS WANTED. S. E. CASSINO, NATURALISTS' AGENCY, SALEM, MASS. I Mining Industry and Atlas. Vol. III. King's Sur. 40th Parallel. 1 Horticulturist for 1867. Colored plates. 1 Colman's Rep. on Agriculture of Mass. 1 Holbrook's Ichthyology of N. C. Vol. VI., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. Squier & Davis, Ancient Monuments of Miss. Val. SITUATIONS WANTED. A YOUNG man, withew York City, desires a situation. YOUNG man, with ten years' experience in the retail Can make himself useful in any branch of the trade. Refers to his last employers. Address "CLERK," care Publishers' Weekly, 37 Park Row, New York City. AS traveller or salesman in the book and stationery trade. Have a knowledge of the business, experience, and references. At present engaged, and wish to change. Address ** M," care" Publishers' Weekly." a gentleman with twenty years' experience in the By to any position, at a moderate salary. No objection to go South or West. Address T. UNDERWOOD, office of "Publishers' Weekly. YOUNG MAN, with six years' experience as account A ant in a publishing house, acquainted with the rou tine of both the wholesale and retail book business, would like to find an opening in a large publishing house as accountant or general manager. Has many acquirements that would make him peculiarly desirable to a large concern, is not afraid of work, and can furnish the best references. Address" M. B. T.," Box 4295, N. Y. TO PUBLISHING HOUSES. A gentleman of educa with five years' experience as a book canvasser, wishes a situation. First-class references given if required. Address TRAVELLER, care Phillps & Crew, A anta, Ga. the ENGELMANN, of Leipzig, announces publication, during the coming year, of a volume upon the Life and Works of George Sand, from the pen of Leopold Katscher, the German translator of Taine and London journalist, who has already published several interesting papers on his heroine in prominent English and German periodicals. German, English, French, and Italian editions of his forthcoming book are promised. It is announced that Messrs. C. Kegan Paul & Co. have purchased the publishing business of the well-known London house of Messrs. Henry S. King & Co., of 65 Cornhill and I Paternoster Square. The new firm will carry on business at the latter address, Messrs. King's bank and Indian agency remaining in Cornhill. Mr. Paul is known to literature as the biographer of William Godwin; he has been connected with Messrs. King for some years. The new firm will issue, as their first book, one by Mr. Bonwick, the author of the " Last of the Tasmanians," called "Pyramid Facts and Fancies." A FOR SALE. GOOD paying book and stationery business at Mattoon, Coles Co., Ill. Stock about $5000, to be sold to a responsible party; part cash, balance on easy time. Address E. A. THIELENS, Mattoon, Ill. Refer to the Western News Company, Chicago. PARTNER WANTED. BEST CHANCE VET! On account of outside business I desire to sell whole or half interest in my Book and Stationery Store. Located in northern N. Y.; only bookstore within twenty miles. Trade good, and can be increased. An energetic young man, with $500 or $1,500, would secure a good chance. Best references required. Address at once "H. C. A.," care "Pub. Weekly." BOOKS FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. S. CLARK, 66 Nassau St., N. Y., dealer in secondback numbers leading magazines. A. hand school-books and of all the leading Magazines and Re views, and back numbers of some three thousand different periodicals, for sale, cheap, at the AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MAGAZINE DEPOT, 24 Dey Street, New York. PLATE PRINTING AND ENGRAVING. BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS A SPECIALTY. Send for estimate. All work guaranteed perfect. LOUIS DREKA, 1121 Chestnut St., Phila. Kindergarten Material lobes of all kinds German Books Globes Best Terms to the Trade. E. Steiger, 22 & 24 Frankfort St., New York. READY NOVEMBER SEVENTH. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner. Two vols., 8vo. Price, $6. NOTICE.—We have been obliged to postpone publication day of Mr. Pierce's "Life of Sumner" to November 7th. A second edition is now on the press. JUST READY. ? A NEW VOLUME IN THE "NO NAME SERIES." Will Denbigh, Nobleman. "The latest of the No Name Series is a simple, lovely Devonshire story, exquisitely told. The book is thoroughly sweet, sound, and hopeful in spirit; the style has the strength and simplicity of an accomplished writer."-Boston DAILY ADVERTISER. Uniform with "Mercy Philbrick's Choice," "Deirdre," "Is that all?" "Kismet," "The Great Match," "A Modern Mephistopheles," "Afterglow," "Hetty's Strange History." Price, $1. BY THE AUTHOR OF "QUIET HOURS." Sursum Corda. Hymns for the Sick and Suffering. 16mo, cloth. Price, $1.25. Or, in roan, red edges. Price, $1.50. A volume of selected hymns, intended for all who need comfort and strength, and especially for invalids. THE AMERICAN TAUCHNITZ. Messrs. ROBERTS BROTHERS are inaugurating a COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL NOVELS, which, in appearance, will be a fac-simile of the celebrated Leipzig editions of Baron Tauchnitz, and which will be sold at the moderate price of fifty cents each. The first issue (now ready) is Mercy Philbrick's Choice, A novel which has already become famous in the "No Name Series," and which has reached a circulation of 11,000. LATELY PUBLISHED. Last Series of Christian Aspects of Faith and Duty. Discourses by JOHN JAMES TAYLER. Square 12m0. Price, Selections from Epictetus. Wisdom Series. 18mo. Price,. The Biography of Alfred De Musset. From the French of PAUL DE MUSSET, by Harriet W. Preston. Square 12mo. Price, $2.00 50 2 00 ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers, Boston. WILLIAMS' HOUSEHOLD SERIES. New Books for Fall, 1877. BEAUTIFUL HOMES; or, HINTS IN HOUSE-FURNISHING. No. 4. Williams' Household Series. Ready November 15, 1877. This charming book is a companion volume to "Household Elegancies," "Ladies' Fancy Work and Window Gardening," and superior in many respects. The contents are so practical, relating specially to house-furnishing and furniture, and how to beautifully arrange all the rooms of the house, that no lady can well afford to be without it-and the author has made it the most complete of any book on this subject in America. The same style of elegant engravings which has characterized the previous books of this Household series, is continued in "Beautiful Homes," and with profuse sketches, it illustrates and describes the following topics: Carpets, Wash-Stands, Wall-Paper, The Living Room, The Parlor, Bed-Rooms, Halls, Umbrella Stands, Door Mottoes, Toilet and Dressing Tables, Curtains, Lambrequins, Screens, The Library, Cabinets, Etagères, The Dining-Room, Window Screens and Blinds, Mantels, Chairs, Rugs, Ottomans, Tables and Stands, Sofas, Lounges, Foot-Stools, Cushions, Afghans, Baskets, Racks, Tidies, Miscellaneous Conveniencies, etc., etc. Everything relating to the picturesque furnishing of bed-rooms, halls, parlors, and sitting-rooms, is given, that any lady may, with the little or much money at her command, make a winning and beautiful home. Three hundred pages. Price $1.50, (by mail, post-paid). Nearly 350 Engravings. Price $2, (holiday edition, full gilt).` EVENING AMUSEMENTS; or, Merry Hours for Merry People. No. 5. Williams' Household Series. Ready December 1. By S. ANNIE FROST, Assistant Editor "Godey's Lady's Book." This volume contains over 250 Games and Ways of Entertaining Company, and amusing YOUNG PEOPLE at SCHOOL, at PARTIES, in SUMMER SPORTS, PICNICS, for CHRISTMAS CHARADES, TABLEAUX, and all social occasions. Just the thing for Winter Evenings, Christmas Fun. Worthy a place in every Home. 300 pages. Price $1.50. Holiday edition, price $2, full gilt. THE LADIES' GUIDE to NEEDLE WORK, EMBROIDERY, KNITTING, CROCHET, etc. READY NOVEMBER 5. By]S. ANNIE FROST, Assistant Editor " Godey's Lady's Book." This is a charming little hand-book of all the various kinds of Needle Work, Embroidery, Crochet, Worsted Work. with their numerous stitches, and is invaluable to all who are fond of fancy work. Written by a lady who is familiar with fancy articles and needle works in this city, it will be found reliable, useful and indispensable. Its list of contents is of a wonderful variety of topics, and includes numerous patterns and designs. Every Lady will find it a Needful Companion for her Work Basket and Toilet Case. The following is a partial list of subjects to which the book is devoted. Each chapter is liberally and beautifully illustrated with designs to accompany all the directions and explanations. In some of the chapters, over twenty different stitches are described. CONTENTS. Embroidery, Braiding, Appliqué Work, Canvas Work, Bead Work, Lace Work, Tatting, Knitting, Crochet Work, Netting, Transferring, Perforated Card Work, Persian Rug Work, Patch Work, Tambour Work, Wire Work, Doll Dressing, with numerous designs also, for Scrap Baskets, Colored Rugs, Needle Cases, Shoe Bags, Work Baskets, Edgings, Handkerchief Borders, Point Lace Edges, Shopping Bags, Feather Embroidery, Zephyr Flowers, Picture Frames in Crochet, Tippets, Wall Pockets, Shawl Case, Net Embroidery, Cretonne Work, etc., etc. Eighteen Chapters. Nearly 100 Illustrations. 160 Pages. Price 50 cents, (Paper Covers, Richly Illuminated). Price $1,(Bound in Full Cloth). HOUSEHOLD HINTS AND RECIPES. Price 50 cents. By" DAISY EYEBRIGHT.” NOW READY. This is a charming little book, devoted to Housekeeping Topics, and full of useful items, hints, and directions about the house in all its departments, from the kitchen to the parlor, bed-room, and attic. It contains a wonderful amount of real good practical information about house-work, and there are recipes by the hundreds, so valuable, that no prudent housekeeper can afford to do without them." FRET SAWING FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. Williams' Hand-Book of Fret Work and Scroll Sawing. EVERY FRET SAWYER SHOULD HAVE IT. This new book is full of valuable information to all who are interested in Fret Saw Work, and contains a multitude of complete and practical directions how to become successful in the use of the Scroll Saw, large or small, and all the other accom. panying tools. It is, thus far, the best and most complete work on the subject, written or published in the worid. The following list of contents will give a fair idea of its character: Hints on Materials, Saws (hand and foot power), Saw Frames, Treadle Machinery, Tools and Implements, Glu, Polish, Sand Paper, Paste, Using Fret Saw Designs, Marquetry, Wood Carving, Overlaying, Cutting Out Work, Beveling Edges, Putting Work Together, Warping of Wood, Inlaid Work, The Pleasure and Profit of Fret Sawing, etc., etc. In addition there are given numerous illustrations and designs of fancy articles, and of all materials explained in the directions. In appearance, the book is exceedingly handsome, of unusually attractive decorations, and in price, it is the cheapest of all publications relating to the subject. Price 50 cents;Cloth,}$1.; NEW FRET SAW DESIGNS New Annuals for Fall and Winter, 1877 and 1878. FULL 10;F_{CHARMING DESIGNS. JUST PUBLISHED. Part VI. Price 30 cents. Part VII. Price 60 cents. These are the most artistic volumes of the series, containing very handsome choice designs for this season's use. Experienced Scroll Sawyers have aided us in providing what we esteem the finest collection of designs in the world. Just published, Octo ber 1st, 1877. Address HENRY T. WILLIAMS, Publisher, 46 Beekman St., New York. |