E. B. TREAT will shortly issue (by subscrip tion) a new edition of Courtney's useful "Farmers' and Mechanics' Manual," as revised, and that enlarged by the best man for the purpose, Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr. T. WHITTAKER has in preparation an edition of the Book of Common Prayer, with marginal references by Rev. O. W. Landreth; a course of sermons for the church year, by Rev. Dr. John N. Norton, "Trumpet Blasts;" Bishop Huntington's course-the Bohlen lectures for 1878The Sufficiency of Christianity to Man;" Questions about Our Church" (the Episcopalian) answered by Rev. Geo. W. Shinn; a sketch of girl life, "Blessing and Blessed," by Mrs. G. S. Reamy; and another juvenile, Year at Briercliffe," by Hope Ledyard.. on 44 A W. J. WIDDLETON has just ready a new edition of Rev. Wm. R. Alger's "Critical History of the Doctrine of the Future Life," with Prof. Ezra Abbott's valuable bibliography of the subject, a reissue which is very timely in view of recent discussions. JOHN WILEY & SONS have a new edition of that very charming book of Ruskin's for the instruction of children, "The Ethics of the Dust," and a third bound part of his "Fors Clavigera" letters. WM. WOOD & Co. have in preparation "A Manual of the Diseases and Injuries of the Nervous System," by Dr. E. C. Seguin, one of the best authorities on this subject; a guide to "Domestic Hygiene," by Geo. Wilson, M.D., useful in all homes; a manual of "Diseases of Children," by Prof. Gerhardt; a translation of Gegenbauer's "Comparative Anatomy," and one of Binz on "The Elements of Therapeutics;" and the thirteenth volume of Ziemssen's great cyclopedia. WOOD & HOLBROOK promise a valuable book of physiological advice as to "What Our Girls Ought to Know," by Mary J. Studley. R. WORTHINGTON will soon issue new edi. tions under his imprint of several of the books purchased by him from the Lovell firms, including Ralston's "Russian Folk Tales,' Ready Money Mortiboy," "The Member for Paris,' "Famous Stories." etc.. etc. PARIS EXPOSITION. WE are glad to note the safe arrival of M. Terquem on the other side, announced in a cable dispatch from him. He will at once begin preparations in Paris for placing the collective publishing exhibit. THE catalogues of the American Collective Exhibit have just been received from the Riverside Press, and copies will be sent at once to all exhibitors. COMMISSIONER-GENERAL MCCORMICK and his staff sailed for Europe to attend the Paris Exposition, on the steamer France, Wednesday. The office in the Post-Office Building will remain open until April 1st. No more goods intended for the exposition, to be transported at the government expense, will be received at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the time for reception having closed Wednesday. Arrangements have been made with the French line to carry 500 tons on the steamship Canada, which will sail April 3. MR. SAYLER'S POSTAL BILL, ETC. A "NEW DEPARTURE has been taken in the much-agitated postal question by the introduction into the House, March 4th, by Mr. Sayler, of a new bill (H. R. 3628), which has been referred to the Post-Office Committee. This dispenses with the registration plan, bases the bulk rate on subscribership, and introduces other changes, some of which are in accordance with suggestions in the WEEKLY of January We give the variant sections below, with special points brought out in italics : 12th. SEC. 1. That mailable matter shall be divided into four classes: First, written matter; second, periodical matter; third, other printed matter; fourth, merchandise. SEC. 2. That mailable matter of the first class shall embrace letters, postal-cards, and all matter wholly or partly in writing, except as hereinafter provided. class shall consist of periodical publications, sent to regular subscribers by the publishers or lications is the same as in the last bill (WEEKLY, news-agents. [The definition of periodical pubMarch 2d), except that the date or consecutive numbering is not required.-ED.] SEC. 4. That mailable matter of the second SEC. 7. The term "subscriber," as used in the fourth and sixth sections, is defined to be a person who has actually paid, or undertaken to tion, or for whom such payment has been made, pay, a subscription-price for a regular publicaor undertaken to be made, by some other person not connected with such publication. The subscription necessary to constitute the person making it, or for whom it is made, a regular subscriber, must be for a period of time for which the publisher, according to his published terms, offers to supply his publication to subscribers by mail: Provided, however, Such time shall not be less than three months. SEC. 8. That free copies of such publications sent to exchanges, and complimentary copies to authors or contributors, if sent regularly as to subscribers, for not less than three months, shall be entitled to transmission through the mails as matter of the second class. SEC. II. That mailable matter of the third class shall consist of books, pamphlets, transient newspapers, and magazines; book and periodical manuscripts, proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets, and the manuscript copy accompanying the same; printed or lithographed maps, handbills, posters, prospectuses, cards, blanks, circulars, price-lists, trade-lists, catalogues, and sheet-music; and all regular publications designed primarily for advertising purposes or free circulation or for circulation at nominal rates: Provided, etc. [as before]. SEC. 13. That mailable matter of the third class shall contain no writing, print, mark, or sign therein or thereon in addition to the original print, except as herein provided, to wit: the sender may print or write his name, business, and address thereon, with the word "from" above or preceding the same, and may make by hand simple marks intended to designate a word or passage of the text to which it is desired to call attention; and there may be placed upon the cover or blank leaves of any book or printed matter of the third class a simple manuscript dedication that does not partake of the nature of a personal communication; and in printed price-lists the prices may be inserted in ink or pencil. SEC. 14. That mailable matter of the fourth class shall consist of engravings, prints, chromolithographs, photographs, and stereoscopic views; blank cards, paper of every kind, envelopes, postal envelopes and wrappers, cardboard, and other flexible materials; flexible patterns; samples of ores, metals, minerals, woods, and merchandise: Provided, etc. [as before]. SEC. 19. That the weight of packages of matter of the third and fourth classes shall not exceed five pounds for each package thereof, except for books and documents published or circulated by the Federal or State governments, or official matter emanating from any of the departments of the Federal or State governments. SEC. 24. That when a book-package, subject to customs duty, is received by mail from any foreign country, it shall be delivered to the collector of customs at the port of entry nearest to the post-office to which it is addressed; he shall notify the person to whom it is addressed the amount of customs duty due on the package; and, on the payment of said duty, the package shall be delivered to the postmaster, to be forwarded to the person addressed. If the duty is not paid within thirty days from the date of notification, the package shall be returned to the postmaster, who shall forward it to the dead-letter office. This bill of Mr. Sayler has not, however, been taken up in committee, which, it is understood, will make the bill last printed in the WEEKLY the basis of its discussion. The following provisions, prohibiting the transmission of matter of the first and second classes by private express, and providing for a return message postal-card, are proposed for insertion in Judge Bissell's bill: SECTION 24. That no person shall establish any private express for the conveyance of any article of first or second class mail matter, or in any manner cause or provide for the conveyance of the same by regular trips, or at stated periods, or transmit by private express, or deliver to any agent of such private express, or deposit, or cause to be deposited, at any appointed place, for the purpose of being transmitted, any article of first or second class mail matter over any post route which is or may be established by law, or from any city, town, or place between which the mail is regularly carried and every person offending against any provision of this section, or aiding or assisting therein, shall for each offence forfeit and pay a fine of $100. SEC. 25. That no stage-coach, railway car, steamboat, or other vehicle or vessel which regu larly performs trips at stated periods on any post-office route, or from one city, town, or place to any other city, town, or place, between which the mail is regularly carried, shall carry any person connected with or agent for any private express who shall have for the time being actually in his possession any article or articles of first or second class matter for the purpose of conveying any such article or articles contrary to the spirit, true intent, and meaning of this act, or shall carry otherwise than in the mail any article of first or second class mail matter; and for every such offence the owner of any such stage-coach, railway car, steamboat, or other vehicle or vessel, shall forfeit and pay $100, and the driver, conductor, master, or other person having charge thereof, and not at the time the owner of the whole or any part thereof, shall in like manner forfeit and pay for every such offence $50. SEC. 26. That nothing contained in the two foregoing sections shall be so construed as to prohibit the conveyance or transmission of the first and second class mail matter by private hands without compensation, or by special messenger employed for the particular occasion only, or in the case of mail matter of the first or second class any letter or written memorandum relating to some article carried at the same time by the same steamboat, railway car, stagecoach, or other vehicle, or of any article of secondclass matter by any private person or persons in any city or town where the system of free delivery is established, or where such second-class mail matter may be published. SEC. 27. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to take the necessary steps to introduce and furnish for public use a letter-sheet or envelope on which postage-stamps of the denominations now in use on ordinary envelopes shall be placed; and the Postmaster-General is authorized to introduce and furnish for public use a double postal-card on which shall be placed two one-cent stamps, and said card to be so arranged for the address that it may be forwarded and returned, said cards to be sold for two cents apiece; and also to introduce and furnish for public use a double letter envelope on which stamps of the denominations now in use may be placed, and with the arrangement for the address similar to the double postalcard; said letter-sheet and double postal-card and double envelope to be issued under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, provided that no expense shall be incurred by the government in introducing said letter-sheet, double envelope, and double postalcard. The House Postal Committee gave a hearing on Tuesday to representatives of Boston journals with reference to the pending bill, the argument being in opposition to the section of the bill proposing the payment of postage on all newspapers, except those delivered by local carriers. The committee is desirous of hearing the views of other persons on the subject, and for that purpose has designated Tuesday next. COMMUNICATION. THE COURTESY OF THE TRADE. NEW YORK, March 20, 1878. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: We think the general good demands some statement of the circumstances attending a violation of the courtesy of the trade which has led to the reduction in price of Hesba Stretton's story, "Through a Needle's Eye," announced on another page. For several years we have published the successive works of this writer from her advance copy, paying liberally for each. The usual arrangement was duly made for the present work, which was announced by us in the early autumn of last year and published in January, from very early sheets received from the author. In November we had noted an announcement by another publisher, and had immediately advised him of our arrangement and previous announcement, and had no reason to suppose that the author's rights would not be respected by him. A rival edition now appears, however, at a time when but little more than half of the story has been published in England, in serial form or otherwise, and when of necessity nearly half the chapters must have been reprinted bodily from our edition. Respectfully, DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. STATIONERY NOTES. THE accompanying cut illustrates the "Favorite" mucilage-stand manufactured by the Sponge Mucilage Co., 18 Vesey street, New York. The stand is of a convenient shape, and feeds the mucilage-which is of a good quality, prepared by an improved process, and is claimed to contain no acid or adul teration-through a sponge which is fitted into the neck of the bottle by means of a rubber flange; the sponge is covered by a metal cap which prevents it from becoming dry and hard. The stand is made in two sizes, and sells the smaller for $12 and $14 per gross, the larger for $16 and $18 a gross, with a special discount off in large quantities. THE "Infants," a small bevel-edged children's calling card, is Ph. Hake's latest novelty. C. S. ADAMS, with Willy Wallach, has gone on his regular trip South. CHAMBERLAIN, WHITMORE & Co. have just introduced a line of papeteries which they call the "Two Orphans," and several new designs in wedding stationery. F..W. DEVOE & Co. have now ready a revised edition of Thompson's Roman Alphabet, which has not only proved itself of value for business purposes, but also as a manual for schools and for amateurs. LEROY W. FAIRCHILD & Co. have made an important improvement in their machinery, which enables them to copy the action of any steel pen, with the additional advantages of greater elasticity, durability, and uniform writting, as well as being able to control the spring, loss of flexibility,-thus adapting the gold pens prevent unnecessary spread of the points, or a of their manufacture to the wants of all writers. of Managers of the Stationers' Board of Trade, AT the regular monthly meeting of the Board held on the 13th inst., the financial report showed the monetary affairs to be in a satisfactory condition. The committee appointed to secure new rooms reported favorably upon a suit of rooms in the Broadway Bank building, but allowed the time to elapse, and other parties closed with the owner, leaving the committee to look up other locations. AIKIN, LAMBERT & Co., 12 Maiden Lane, N. Y., have recently put on the market a pretty novelty in the shape of a Florida sea-bean charm pencil with a watch-key and compass attachment, and in initial monograms, emblems, etc. The beans are highly polished, and are in different shades of brown. These goods have become very popular, and have a ready sale. The celluloid egg-charm pencils are put up in a handsome nickel-plate pattern, besides an endless variety of colors. The same firm are now getting ready for the Paris exhibition a large and varied line of gold pens and pencils. 66 BOOK NOTICES. ON ACTORS AND THE ART OF ACTING, by George Henry Lewes. (Holt.) Just to mention the names of the fifteen papers comprised under the above title ought to be sufficient to arouse a most eager desire to read them. They are entitled "Edmund Kean," "Charles Kean," "Rachel," "Macready," "Farren,' "Charles Mathews," "Frédéric Lemaître," "The Two Keeleys," "Shakespeare as Actor and Critic," "On Natural Acting." "Foreign Actors on Our Stage," "The Drama in Paris, 1865," The Drama in Germany, 1867," "The Drama in Spain, 1867," "First Impressions of Salvini, 1875." They bring before us, with all the fidelity of a photograph, the leading characteristics and peculiarities of these world-renowned actors of whom they treat; they tell us of the glories of the stage of the past, and point to the dawn of a new era in lart, even in our day; they contain many valuable suggestions about acting of interest to both the critic and the actor; and to sum up, are most delightfully written, unbiassed and true, and full of the impress of Mr. Lewes' well-known intellectual vigor. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. PUTNAM'S LIBRARY COMPANION, VOL. I. 1877. (Putnam.) We have here, under one cover, the quarterly continuations of "The Best Reading," started by the Putnams last April. They are edited by Mr. F. B. Perkins, with the same care and discrimination evinced by him in "The Best Reading." The works are all classified under topics, and their literary merit indicated by letters. In fact, the same plan adopted in all the editions of the larger work will be found in this, the first year's supplement, even to characteristic or descriptive = remarks appended to many of the titles. No one should be without this little periodical, if they desire to keep up with current literature and know just what is doing in the publishing world. It can be subscribed for, in advance, at 50 cents per year, the subscriber receiving four numbers in the year; or it can be bought at the end of the year, complete in one volume, as this is issued, in flexible board covers, for 50 cents. and be delighted with the romance of the narrative. It is not only an account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas," but a love story of unusual freshness, and a picture of manly devotion and heroism quite out of the common range of fiction. It has its moral, too, which points at the too frequent practice of dishonest shipowners sending ships to sea with provisions utterly unfit to eat. So, paper, 30 cents. LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. A NOVEL, "Rutherford," by Mr. Edgar Fawcett, will shortly be commenced as a serial in The Library Table. WE understand that the recent consolidation of the two American Tract Societies will result in quite a reduction in the retail prices of the Boston society's books. DOSIA, from the French of Henry Greville, by Mary N. Sherwood. (Estes & Lauriat.) The beginning of Dosia's story is very ingeniously introduced. It is told by a young Russian officer at his birthday fête, and so excites the interest and imagination of a brother officer that, when he meets Dosia, he is prepared to fall in love with her at once. The story has but four important characters in it, Dosia, her cousin Pierre Monrief, Count Sourof, and his sister, the Princess Koutsky. Dosia is a bright and original characterization, but the Princess divides the interest with her very evenly. The events are few, such as are presented turning simply upon the love complications of the four people mentioned. The style is very pleasing and animated, the dialogue clever and vivacious, and the manner of presenting the charac- THE Committee of Ways and Means is enters exceedingly graphic. The story is thor-gaged on a second revision of the Wood tariff. oughly Russian in all particulars. It has been one of the great successes of the day in Paris. Cobweb Series of Choice Fiction." 12mo, cloth, $1.50. LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES, by the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar. (Dutton.) This reprints two of Mr. Farrar's oldest and best-known Works, "Chapters on Language" and Families of Speech." The first was written in defence of the theory of onomatopoeia, as the only discovered or discoverable basis of language; the second was composed of lectures delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in 1869. That they have been found of great use by the students of the science of language is proved by the numerous editions they have gone through and the continued demand for them. Philologists will be glad to see the two works, as now presented, in one volume, and to know that the author states, in so issuing them, he has not found it necessary to alter a single material fact, although the study of eleven years would have enabled him, if it were possible, to add largely to the subject. 12mo, cloth, $2.50. A HAND-BOOK OF VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS, by Edward Hart, S. B. (Wiley.) This volume is intended for a hand-book for the use of those who are much occupied with volumetric work. The methods described are most of them general, and have been carefully selected and brought up to date. It is believed that few valuable processes have been omitted. Part. I. contains directions for the selection of apparatus, correction of errors; preparation of solutions, etc. Part II. is devoted to the methods of estimating the elements, and their more important compounds. Part III. contains a few cases of the application of methods described in Part II. The book is handsomely printed in clear large type, and illustrated throughout. 12mo, cloth, $2.50. "ESTHETICS," by Eugene Veron, and " Philosophy," by Andre Levevre, the fourth and fifth volumes of the " Library of Contemporary Science," are now in press at Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s, and scheduled for early issue. The duty on printers' ink and ink powders is made 35 per cent ad valorem, and on playing cards costing over 25 cents per pack, 35 cents per pack. THE Consul-General of Brazil, 40 Broadway, has received a request from the Navy Minister, Rio Janeiro, to forward the catalogues of American publishers, in view of the proposed establishment of a naval library at Rio. Publishers will do well to send catalogues to the above address. R. WORTHINGTON has purchased all the remainders and stereotype plates of Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Co.; also, Warwick & Co.'s stereotype plates and the Lovell Printing and Publishing Co.'s stereotype plates, all of which will in future be published by Mr. Worthington, 750 Broadway, New York. MR. FLETCHER HARPER, at the suggestion of Atlanticville, N. J., which will be used hereafter his wife, has bought the Sea Shore Cottage at as a home for sick and infirm persons attached to the publishing house of Harper & Brothers. Mrs. Harper will have entire superintendence of the establishment. This is indeed "a good deed in a naughty world." IT is stated by the Publishers' Circular, London, that the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations has appointed a copyright committee, to endeavor to effect a settlement of the question of international copyright. GERMANY, according to the report of Hinrichs of Leipsic, published in 1877 13,925 books, against 13.356 recorded in 1876. The educational books still lead, with 1817 volumes; those on jurisprudence, politics, and statistics fall off from last year, but are still second with 1268; theology holds its third place, increasing to 1253; belles-lettres, including fiction, poetry, and drama, counts 1126. There are notable fallings off in the natural and mathe THE WRECK OF THE "GROSVENOR." (Harper.) Tales of the sea generally have only a special interest, but this is so graphically written that almost every one will feel the charm of the stylematical sciences. G.M. ELLIOTT, 48 CENTRAL ST., LOWELL, Mass. Vols. 1 and 2 Savage's Genealogical Dictionary. 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