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Words, and How to Put Them Together. By Harlan H. Ballard. 18°.

Bonny Kate. A Novel. By Christian Reid. 8°. Studio, Field, and Gallery. A Manual of Painting for the Student, Amateur, and General Reader. 16°. JANSEN, MCCLURG & CO., Chicago.

How She came into Her Kingdom. A Romance. 12°, pp. 337. $1.50.

PORTER & COATES, Phila.

A System of Punctuation. By John G. R. McElroy, Professor of Rhetoric and the English Language in the University of Pennsylvania. 12°, pp. 36. Muslin.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York.

Stricture of the Male Urethra. By Fessenden N. Otis. Illus.

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Rossetti, W. M.-Lives of Famous Poets. Moxon..

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MESSRS. BARNES' NEW OFFICES. MESSRS, A. S. BARNES & Co., we are glad to note, do not propose to give way to the uptown epidemic, but will continue to give the few houses down-town the benefit of their good company. They have remodelled the arrange. ments of their building, corner of William and John streets, and have just finished the fitting and decorations of the second story, which has been cleared for the private offices, etc., of the house. The John Street side is occupied with individual offices for Messrs. A. S. Barnes, A. C. Barnes, Henry B. Barnes (International Review), and H. J. Curtiss, of the firm, and the William Street front by the book-keeping department, Mr. T. J. Donnelly and his associates. The central portion is railed off as a reception-room for teachers, where every facility will be given for the examination of books; along the northern wall are the cases for the display of the lines of publications, and the back part is occupied by the mailing-counter. The fittings are neat and tasteful, in ash, maple, and other light woods, the pillars are decorated in light green, reddish brown, and gold, the ceilings are panelled in Georgia pine, and the walls covered with a rich Morris paper in green and gold. The effect in general is very pleasing, and we are glad to note this improvement as another advance in making publishing offices somewhat reflective of the character of the trade.

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24S.

LA CAISSE GÉNÉRALE DES ASSURANCES, a French company whose office is in the Western Union Building, announces " that for the convenience and security of American exhibitors at the coming Paris Exposition, it will issue a policy against loss or damage by fire, on any property named, which policy will attach to and cover property from the moment the same is placed on board the steamer on this side, while on board, and in transit to the Exposition building, and while on exhibition therein until the close of same, and afterwards until its arrival back in this country." It would seem desirable that insurance policies for this purpose should be drawn to cover general loss or damage, as well as that by fire.

CATALOGUES RECEIVED. From A. J. Holman & Co.: Catalogue of Bibles and Photograph Albums. 8°, pp. 16.

From Jonathan S. Green, 179 William St., N. Y.: A Catalogue of Selected [old] Books. With interesting notes thereto. No. 4. 16°.

From Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston: A list of books published by Houghton, Osgood & Co., together with a list of the publications of Albert Mason, N. Y. March, 1878. 8°, pp. 40. This consolidated catalogue shows

one of the best lists in this country, the best indeed in respect to American poetry and belles-lettres, and rivalling any in its uniform editions of English standards. The catalogue is neatly printed, after the model of the old Hurd & Houghton catalogue; being classified, the lack of a general alphabetical index is, however, a serious blemish.

The Publishers' Weekly.

MARCH 30, 1878.

PUBLISHERS are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness in the final entry.

The trade are invited to send " Communications" to the editor on any topic of interest to the trade, and as to which an interchange of opinion is desirable. Also, matter for "Notes and Queries." Notes from librarians will also be gratefully received.

In case of business changes, notification or card should be immediately sent to this office for entry under "Business Notes." New catalogues issued will also be mentioned

when forwarded.

THE PARIS COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT.

It is an agreeable surprise that, despite the difficulties that presented themselves, so general and representative an exhibit of the American book trade has been got together for the World's Fair at Paris. There seemed little hope at first that any thing worth while might be accomplished, but after two or three of the leading houses had consented to take part, more from an appeal to patriotic interest than to business motives, others fell in one by one until few of the important firms are unrepresented. Had there been a more general willingness evident at the first, more space might have been secured, the exhibit made less crowded, and other improvements made on what has actually been done, but with this, under the circumstances, there is good reason to be satisfied, and the trade should be obliged to M. Terquem for his persistence in the enterprise.

A collection which includes, as does this, Webster's and Worcester's Dictionaries; the American Cyclopedia and its Annual, Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, Lippincott's Gazetteer and Biographical Dictionary; such translations as the splendid series from Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Goethe's master-works of the world, and the uniform edition of Taine; the Furness Shakespeare; "Picturesque America;" Bryant's History; the International Scientific Series, which is of American origin; the educational publications of Appleton, Harper, Ivison, Scribner, and other houses; such periodicals as the North American and International Reviews, the Harper periodicals, Scribner's Monthly and St. Nicholas, the Atlantic, and still others; and, for literature proper, the

works of Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Motley-such a collection is one of which any country may be proud, though it be much more than one hundred years old. An exhibit such as this may not return direct remuneration to those who take part, small as the cost has been to any one participant, but it is surely well in the long run that it should be made, and its indirect results will undoubtedly be beneficial in more ways than one.

The catalogue of this collective exhibit is just issued from the Riverside Press, and is a creditable specimen of typography, despite the difficulties involved in the varying plans and styles of the different lists. It is a neat octavo of ninety pages, prefaced by introductory articles, in both English and French, prepared at this office and translated by M. Terquem, giving the main facts as to the organization and production of the American book trade, a review of trade bibliograghy, and an outline sketch of the American library system. The trade may be interested in these prefaces, as embodying in compact shape information not otherwise easily accessible. The body of the pamphlet contains brief articles, several of much historical and statistical interest, on the houses exhibiting, as well as, facing these, a brief list of works exhibited. These features make the book to some extent a repository of trade history, which will be of permanent in

terest as a memento.

A certain proportion of space was allotted to each house exhibiting, with allowance of extra pages on payment of the extra cost. The houses occupying full sections come first: Appleton, Harper, Houghton-Osgood, Scribner, and Steiger, the latter occupying twelve pages, illustrated, with an account of his enterprising efforts in cataloguing, educational work, etc. Then follow, in the general order of the amount of space occupied, notices and lists from Ivison, Merriam, Lippincott,-who have a special exhibit, their application coming too late for allotment of space in the collection,-Gebbie & Barrie, Boericke & Tafel, Prang, Holt, University Publishing Co., Lothrop, Wiley, Claxton; Davis, Bardeen & Co.; the International Review, Sibole, the Iron Age and other publications of David Williams, and Sabin. The catalogue will be distributed at the Exhibition to a considerable extent, and will doubtless call attention to the status of our trade, Altogether, the collective exhibit promises to be a creditable success.

IN regard to the postal bill the House Committee closed the hearing on Tuesday, when arguments were made by Mr. Joseph Medill

of Chicago, and Mr. H. E. Simmons, of the American Tract Society, New York, and the bill as finally revised was to be reported to the House this week, with a request to have it made the special order for Thursday, April 11th. Mr. Simmons made a vigorous appeal for the three points of uniformity, and especially attacked the absurdity of local discrimination, which makes the rate several times more for the delivery of a New York magazine in New York, by carriers or in the boxes, than by carriers or in the boxes in Boston or San Francisco; and which permits a New York weekly newspaper weighing two ounces to be delivered in New York for a quarter of a cent, when a monthly paper weighing a fraction of an ounce costs a full cent per copy. Much to the surprise of representatives from New York, Postmaster James sent to the committee a strong protest against change from this system -which called forth some sharp criticism, in this relation, of an officer of whom New York is proud as the best postal administrator in the country, but whose recent decisions have been so much in opposition to the general rulings of the Department, as shown on appeal, as to the interests of publishers and public. The bill, as it goes to the House, provides a uniform bulk rate of two cents for registered periodicals (the striking out of a clause of Sec. 9 permitting such issues as the "Lakeside Library" to come within the definition), including sample copies sent by the publisher; but by Sec. 21, now modified to read "at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof," the objectionable local discrimination is not only retained, but extended to weeklies and dailies, which no previous draft has proposed. Sec. 13 opens a dangerous door to abuse by providing that "all books admitted to the mails for conveyance therein under the provisions of the Postal Union Treaty, may be delivered free from any customs duty:" and Sec. 22, by some carelessness in drafting it, permits the sending postmaster to hold letters insufficiently prepaid, when the sender is known, without requiring notification to the sender, while matter whose sender is unknown must be forwarded, which is putting the cart before the horse, and giving a wide possibility of annoyance. These points should be met and fought in the House. Two improvements are the permission to write a mem. of price in a book, and the new device of return postals and envelopes. Hearty acknowledgment should be made of the courtesy with which the Department, as represented by Judge Bissell, and the Congressional Committees have considered the views of the publishers.

THE SPRING OUTLOOK, II. WE add here some notices of coming spring books crowded over from or overlooked for our last issue:

THE AUTHORS' PUBLISHING CO. will issue shortly "The Buccaneers of 1690," by Randolph Jones, a sequel to the piratical novel of "The Buccaneers," published a few months since.

BAKER, VOORHIS & Co. will add to their fine list of law books new editions of Bump's "Notes of Constitutional Decisions" and of "Ultra Vires," and a revision to date of "Daniel on Negotiable Instruments."

P. F. COLLIER has nearly ready the promised book on "The Church and the Gentile World," an elaborate discussion of the extension of Christianity, by Father Thebaut, of the Jesuit order.

DERBY BROTHERS have in preparation a pleasant book for summer reading in "Random Casts; or, Odds and Ends, from an Angler's Note-book," by E. M. E.

E. J. GOODRICH, Oberlin, announces a volume on 'Theology," by the late President Finney, as edited by J. G. Fairchild, the book of a man who certainly believed in theology as well as in religion.

THE HAPPY HOURS PUBLISHING COMPANY add to their list two new temperance dramas, "The Whiskey Fiend" and "The Drunkard's Home."

THOS. KELLY promises a "Catechism of the of general interest to our Irish citizens. History of Ireland," by Father Brennan, a book

JOHN P. MORTON & Co., Louisville, will issue in May a hand-book for popular use of "The Ferns of Kentucky." prepared by John Williamson, who illustrates his book with etchings representing every species found in the State.

NORMAN L. MUNRO is issuing a new cheap edition of Shakespeare, in six twenty-five-cent parts, including a steel-plate and several woodcut illustrations with each part.

THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, besides the new tracts they are frequently issuing, have a new temperance story," The Image Unveiled," by Miss L. Bates.

COMMUNICATIONS. PACKING BOOKS FOR MAIL. OAKLAND, CAL., March 9, 1878. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: In times like the present, when even small things are worth noticing, our attention has been directed to the way in which books are sent by mail. Our geographical position compels us to receive many books by mail, and three thousand miles of rub and friction in a mail-bag will test the most carefully enclosed packages. A large portion of those received here are sadly demoralized, but those received from S. C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago, come in nice order. We would commend to publishers generally Messrs. Griggs' style of enclosure for books intended for the mails.

STRICKLAND & Co.

WORDS FOR "SUBSCRIBER."

BALTIMORE, March 19, 1878. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly:

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BOOK NOTICES.

THE INVENTION OF PRINTING, by Theo. L. De Vinne. (Francis Hart & Co.) The approval bestowed upon the first edition of Mr. De Vinne's very beautiful and valuable work by critical journals throughout the educated world shows the place it has already taken in literature, and proves the great need there was for just such a work. There is no doubt it 'fills a gap in the literature of bibliography;" for, although we have many histories of printing, in many languages, none of them were written as this was, with special reference to the mechanical features of early printing. Many of them, too, are full of statements that recent researches show to be incorrect and impossible. Mr. De Vinne modestly offers himself "only as the compiler of accredited facts." He says, further, "I have no original discoveries to announce, no speculative theories to uphold. Nor shall I invade the proper field of librarians and bibliographers. I propose to describe old types, prints, and books as they are seen by a printer, and with reference to the needs of printers and the general reader, avoiding, as far as I can, all controversies about matters which are of interest to book-collectors only. The historical part of the record will be devoted chiefly to the printed work of the first half of the fifteenth century. It will begin with descriptions of the earliest forms of print

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To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: The supercilious tone pervading the communication of your Baltimore Subscriber" (WEEKLY, March 16) is not calculated to cure thesupineness" be complains of in a "bookseller he wished to befriend," and I am not sur

prised that his "veteran retailer" told him it would be better, on the whole, for this haughty "Subscriber" to "get at the" publishers direct. I have no doubt the "suicidal retailer" tried to accommodate his lordly customer, though said retailer's "bread and butter" does not, I hope, absolutely depend on the patronagehateful word-of this "Subscriber." This autocrat "befriends" the retailer of whom he condescends to buy; he has no apprehension of a reciprocity of accommodation, of a mutual service rendered, of the fact that the laborer is worthy of his hire. Oh! no; he throws an alms to his vassal.

I attempt a reply to "Subscriber" simply to say that it is he who "has made a slight mistake," and who has, in his eagerness to get a thrust at the "middleman," totally misconstrued the complaint I made in a communication to you not intended for publication. My complaint was, and is, not that publishers "get at the public," but that they sell to the public at net prices. No retailer would-or would have reason to-complain of publishers getting at the public if they would only sell to said public at retail prices. It is the practice of selling to the public at the price they sell to the trade that retailers complain of and justly. VETERAN RETAILER.

and block-books; it will end with the establishment of typography in Germany." It will be found, however, that the material and moral aids which paved the way for the invention are not overlooked. The work is clearly and concisely written, and cannot fail to interest any one even slightly acquainted with the subject. The typographical beauty of the volume cannot be too highly commended. It is appropriately printed on old-style laid paper, in a fine imitation of old-style typography. It is illustrated which are photo-engraved fac-similes of early with 140 engravings, the larger portion of als, carefully selected from scarce books, or types, wood-cuts, statues, portraits, and medfrom originals.

FOOD FROM THE FAR WEST, by James Macdonald. (Nimmo, London and Edinburgh.) While this volume treats very largely of the agricultural interests of the United States, going into statistics relative to each State's producing capacities either in the way of grains or fruits, or the raising and feeding of cattle, it is chiefly an inquiry into the trade that has sprung up here since 1875, of carrying American beef to England. Mr. Macdonald was sent to the United States by the proprietors of the Scotsman, with a view of giving to British farmers, through its columns, some trustworthy information on a subject threatening seriously to affect their welfare. It is from the letters which he wrote to that journal that the present work is made up. It is very clearly and frankly written, and presents, as far as we have looked into the matter, an impartial account of all the various aspects of the present condition of the trade. He finds no serious grounds for alarm, as far as the British farmer is concerned. He rates the dead meat we export as only equal in quality to second or third class English beef, and prophesies it will fall lower, in the face of the many expenses and obstacles the exporter meets with. That there

will be always a rivalry henceforth he admits, but he incites the English farmers to raise only the very best of cattle-advice which, no doubt, the American will also take to heart,-with many other valuable suggestions on the subject that he offers. 12mo, cloth.

BAKER'S LABOR-SAVING SYSTEM OF AcCOUNTS, by W. C. M. Baker. (Baker, Columbus, Ohio.) This book supplies a necessity that has long existed, giving simple and laborsaving methods for keeping accounts, most of which have never been given in text-books. The methods are thoroughly tested, many of which save from one half to three fourths the labor heretofore required by other methods used for keeping the same accounts. The work is adapted to the needs of the student, the advanced accountant, and the teacher. It explains all the primary steps leading to the keeping of accounts, in an easy and pleasant way divested of all mystery; it gives actual accounts to examine and compare, and, for the benefit of the teacher, a system of analysis which remove all difficulties, leaving the student surprised that the science is so easily mastered. Numerous testimonials from leading business houses all over the country testify to the simplicity and labor-saving qualifications of the system. Mr. Baker is now ready to furnish the various blankbooks mentioned in this text-book as necessary for use in any one business or in all kinds of business. 8vo., cloth. $3.

MARGARET CHETWYND, by Susan Morley. (Lippincott.) "Thrastlethraite" and "Aileen Ferrers," by the same author, will be remembered as two charming domestic novels of the purely English type. "Margaret Chetwynd" may be placed in the same category. The heroine grows up in a lonely country home, with a maiden aunt (to whom attaches a romantic story) for protector and monitor, and her cousin Maurice, the rector of the place, as the sole male object upon which she can expend her wit and high spirits. Her aunt's death brings about changes and throws her into the gay world of fashion, where her real story begins. It is one of many changes, ending, however, very happily. The book is a voluminous one of over 450 pages, and can scarcely be described fairly in our limited space; we can only say it will be read thoroughly by any one who takes it up, and enjoyed exceedingly in a quiet, calm way. It has an excellent moral, its tendency being to elevate and instruct; but the moral is not so put forward as to lessen the interest in any way. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

BY CELIA'S ARBOR, by Walter Besant and James Rice. (Harper.) Although one misses here the rollicking fun which distinguished "The Golden Butterfly," the story is more real and more artistically constructed. It is by no means deficient, however, in humor, several of the characters being quite in Dickens' vein. It goes back to a period of more than twenty years ago, the city of Portsmouth, with its harbor and its ships of war, its sailors and soldiers, and its Polish barracks, affording ample material for a fresh, bright, breezy story. The old Portsmouth Downs, the scene of Celia's Arbor," also furnish a background for many romantic episodes and thrilling adventures. Polish history is strangely, though not unnaturally, mixed up in it, the Russian spy and

the conspiring Pole giving a new interest to its pages. The main incidents of the plot are connected with the love of Celia Tyrrell and Leonard Copleston, the latter a young Crimean hero, to whom the chief interest clings throughout. The story is related by one of the actors, a young Pole, Ladislas Pulaski. 8vo, paper, 50 cents.

INJURIES OF THE EYE AND THEIR MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT, by Ferdinand Von Arlt, M.D., translated by Chas. S. Turnbull, M.D. (Claxton, R. & H.) Dr. Turnbull translated this work with the permission of the author. It is intended for the profession, and is designed to fill the same gap in American medical literature which the original has so successfully filled in the German. It is divided into three parts, viz., "Injuries Produced by Sudden Compression or Concussion of the Eye,' Injuries Produced by the Entrance of a Foreign Body not acting Chemically," and "Scalds and Corrosions of the Eyeball." A thorough discussion of all the cases given in each group is entered into, followed by their diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics. Experts called to assist in accident cases where damages are claimed will find this book of wonderful assistance to them, as it covers all the various legal and medical aspects of such cases. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

THE BURIED TREASURE, by Harry Castlemon. (Porter & C.) The scene of this story is laid in one of the Southern States, not very far from the Mississippi River, after the close of the war. A family of ignorant white people named Evans, who have been reduced from comparative affluence to poverty, through the Emancipation Act, are the chief actors. The father of the family has heard a story that a rich neighbor of his, General Gordon, had during the war buried a barrel with money in it, amounting to eighty thousand dollars, in a potatoe-patch near his tumble-down cottage. He and a nephew of General Gordon enter into a compact to find the barrel and divide the plunder. The Evans boys and the Gordon boys play prominent parts in the story, the latter helping to upset the scheme for digging up the buried treasure, which turns out to be but a myth of old Evans' imagination. The boys will like the book, as it has plenty of talk and adventure in it. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

PUNCH BROTHERS, PUNCH! and other Sketches, by Mark Twain. (Slote, Woodman & Co.) Besides the well-known sketch which gives a title to this little volume, there are a number of other characteristic papers, full of Mark Twain's special humor, such as "An Encounter with an Interviewer," The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, etc.," "The Canvasser's Tale," "Map of Paris" (with map), "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion," etc., etc. search of a hearty laugh and an hour or two of amusement is advised to invest in this little book, which is issued both in paper and cloth, and contains also Mark Twain's ridiculous certificate relative to his scrap-books, of which it will be remembered Slote, Woodman & Co. are the publishers. 16mo, paper, 25 cents; cloth, 50 cents.

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