NEW YORK. DR. BARCLAY'S GREAT WORK ON JERUSALEM. STANFORD & DELISSER, 637 Broadway, N. Y., have just published, In One Vol. Royal 8vo. Muslin gilt, $3 50; half calf, $4 50; morocco extra, $5. THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING: By Or, JERUSALEM AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND AS IT IS TO BE. Dr. J. T. BARCLAY, Missionary to Jerusalem. With a Steel Portrait of the Author, by Sartain, and upwards of Seventy Engravings, executed in the finest style of art, from Photographs and Original Designs, Orders from the Trade supplied at the most liberal discount. This valuable and important work is the result of investigations made during three and a half years' residence in the Holy City, with facilities for prosecuting researches never heretofore enjoyed. It was for the express purpose of elucidating Holy Scripture, the Talmud, &c., that these examinations were made. To those who prefer fact to fiction, scrup. ulous truthfulness of representation to the speculative sketches of fancy, that so often libel the sacred localities, this work cannot but prove gratifying and instructive in the highest degree. Dr. B. has had opportunities for research where no living Christian witness has gone, or perhaps may expect to go, in the present generation; and therefore, as to what Jeru salem is, he is an invaluable teacher.-National Intelligencer. Here is a volume which, for completeness, for accuracy, for beauty, leaves all its predecessors in the shade. It deserves and must receive an immense circulation. The gentleman's library, the lady's boudoir, the family parlor, the study of the minister, the table of the theological student, the Bible Class, and the Sabbath School teacher, will be imperfectly furnished without it. Nay, the poorest Christian will submit to greater self-denial to possess a book so indispensable to the correct understanding of the Bible, and especially of the touching scenes of the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension of his Lord. No book heretofore written can be a substitute for this.-Baptist Family Magazine. As a whole, the volume is a most important addition to our stock of knowledge of Jerusalem; and the public owe a debt to the learned author which we hope he will find abundantly repaid.-Harpers' Weekly. Here is the whole secret revealed of the noiseless construction of the Temple of the "stones squared by the stone-squarers" before they were brought thither-and of the "great stones," "hewed stones," "costly stones," "glittering stones," which were used in the construction of the wonderful edifice. The whole investigation is startling in its character, and compensating in a high degree.-Protestant Churchman. It is no common book. Its intrinsic merits are of the highest order. Its theme is of absorbing interest, not only to Biblical scholars and travellers, but to all Christendom. It pours a concentrated light from the Past, the Present, and the Future, which has never been gathered around the subject, or condensed into one volume before. It will take first rank on this subject, and remain as the permanent authority in time to come. Its fidelity, accuracy, and thoroughness of research; its many new and rare discoveries; its completeness of information, and fulness of illustration; its beautiful engravings, plans, photographic views, and chromographic illuminations (some in ten rich colors), entitle it fully to the rank here assigned it. The immense mass of facts, historical and topographical, collected together in this noble volume, must make it a favorite with the public.-Christian Chronicle. Dr. Barclay is a ripe scholar, possessed of a genuine enthusiasm, and, what is more, the ability to communicate this enthusiasm to his readers. In regard to the sites of eminent places, Dr. Barclay's investigations are very minute and satisfactory. This is probably the most complete and thorough work on Jerusalem ever yet published.-American Baptist. It is, beyond dispute, a work of the highest merit. Nothing that could shed the faintest light upon the rare and priceless text has been omitted. It is equally exact and luminous. It is destined to produce a profound impression on the religious world.-Louisville Journal. The publishers have done ample justice to the work. The splendid chromographs (printed in ten rich colors), fine steel and wood engravings, diagrams, maps, and panoramic views, impart to it an interest and value which no other work on the subject can claim.-Philadelphia Ledger. This is a very valuable contribution to Biblical literature. As to the Topography of the Holy City it has no rival.-Presbyterian. It contains more curious, original, and startling matter than any book ever written on the Holy Land.-Banner of the Cross. Dr. Barclay is a man of erudition and great religious zeal. His advantages were greater than any writer who has attempted a description of that city and its environs.Christian Ambassador. Dr. Barclay differs on many important points from the conclusions which other writers have reached respecting some of the most interesting localities in and around Jerusalem. His conclusions, however, are not stated with the air of a controversialist, but with the spirit of a sincere searcher after the truth, and one anxious to throw all the light at his command upon the most interesting departments of study that can occupy the attention of the Christian mind. It cannot, therefore, fail to contain a vast amount of information, of which clergymen and other intelligent scholars will be glad to avail themselves.-New York Observer. It is incomparably the fullest and most reliable treatise on "Jerusalem" which has appeared in our language. Families, Sunday Schools, Parish Libraries, all will want it. The contents of this work are designed to elucidate the history of Jerusalem, the thea tre of the most stupendous events recorded in the annals of the world. What hallowed associations, what sacred reminiscences cluster around Jerusalem-"the joy of the whole earth!"-where the King of Peace and Righteousness held communion with Abraham, "the friend of God;" where the Royal Psalmist tuned his soul-stirring barp, and com posed his immortal songs; where Jesus Christ taught, suffered, died, and rose from the dead-whence He ascended to His throne in the heavens ;-a city repeatedly visited with desolating judgments, yet still remembered in mercy for the Father's sake.-Philadelphia Christian Observer. We commend this elegant volume to the notice of our readers, as a valuable work worth possessing.-True Union. A Selection of the choicest productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Forming two large imperial octavo volumes of 1400 pages, double column letter-press; with upwards of 300 elegant Illustrations. Edited by ROBERT CHAMBERS. Embossed cloth. $5. This work embraces about one thousand authors, chronologically arranged and classed as Poets, Historians, Dramatists, Philosophers, Metaphysicians, Divines, &c., with choice selections from their writings, connected by a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Narrative thus presenting a complete view of English Literature from the earliest to the present time. Let the reader open where he will, he cannot fail to find matter for profit and delight. The selections are gems-infinite riches in a little room; in the language o' another, "A WHOLE ENGLISH LIBRARY FUSED DOWN INTO ONE CHEAP BOOK.'f From W. H. PRESCOTT, Author of "Ferdinand and Isabella." The plan of the work is very judicious. It will put the reader in a proper point of view for survey. ing the whole ground over which he is travelling. Such readers cannot fail to profit largely by the labors of the critic who has the talent and taste to separate what is really beautiful and worthy of their study from what is superfluous. A popular work, indispensable to the library of a student of English literature.-DR. WAYLAND. It has been fitly described as "a whole English library fused down into one cheap book,' The Boston edition combines neatness with cheapness, engraved portraits being given, over and above the illustrations of the English copy.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The American edition of this valuable work is enriched by the addition of fine steel and mezzotint engravings of the heads of SHAKSPEARE, ADDISON, BYRON: a full-length portrait of DR. JOHNSON, and a beautiful scenic representation of OLIVER GOLDSMITH and DR. JOHNSON. These important and elegant additions, together with superior paper and binding, render the American far superior to the English edition. POPULAR CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. Condensed from the larger work. By the Author, JOHN KITTO, D. D., Author of "Pictorial Bible," " History of Palestine," "Scripture Daily Readings," &c. Assisted by JAMES TAYLOR, D. D.. of Glasgow. With over five hundred Illustrations. One volume. 8vo. 812 pp. Cloth. $3. The POPULAR BIBLICAL CYCLOPÆDIA OF LITERATURE is designed to furnish a DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in biblical literature, in which the scholars of Europe and America have been engaged. It is not only intended for ministers and theological students, but is also particularly adapted to parents, Sabbath school teachers, and the great body of the religious public. The illustrations, amounting to more than three hundred, are of the very highest order. A condensed view of the various branches of Biblical Science comprehended in the work, 1. BIBLICAL CRITICISM-Embracing the History of the Bible Languages; Canon of Scripture; Literary History and Peculiarities of the Sacred Books; Formation and History of Scripture Texts. 2. HISTORY.-Proper Names of Persons; Biographical Sketches of prominent Characters; Detailed Accounts of Important events recorded in Scripture; Chronology and Genealogy of Scripture. 3. GEOGRAPHY.-Names of Places; Description of Scenery; Boundaries and Mutual Relations of the Countries mentioned in Scripture, so far as necessary to illustrate the Sacred Text. 4. ARCHEOLOGY.-Manners and Customs of the Jews and other nations mentioned in Scripture; their Sacred Institutions, Military Affairs, Political Arrangements, Literary and Scientific pursuits. 5. PHYSICAL SCIENCE.-Scripture Cosmogony and Astronomy, Zoology, Mine. ralogy, Botany, Meteorology. In addition to numerous flattering notices and reviews, personal letters from more than fifty of the most distinguished Ministers and Laymen of different religious denominations in the country have been received, highly commending this work as admirably adapted to minis. ters, Sabbath school teachers, heads of families, and all Bible students. This is unquestionably the choicest collection of anecdotes ever published. It contains three thousand and forty Anecdotes, many of them articles of interest, containing read. ing matter equal to half a dozen pages of a common 12mo. volume; and such is the wonderful variety, that it will be found an almost inexhaustible fund of interest for every class of readers. The elaborate classification and indexes must commend it, especially to public speakers, to the various classes of literary and scientific men, to artists, mechanics, and others, as a DICTIONARY, for reference, in relation to facts on the numberless subjects and characters introduced. There are also more than one hundred and fifty fine illustrations. We know of no work which in the same space comprises so much valuable information in a form so entertaining, and so well adapted to make an indelible impression upon the mind. It must become a standard work, and be ranked among the few books which are indispensable to every complete library.-N. Y. Chronicle. Here is a perfect repository of the most choice and approved specimens of this species of information, selected with the greatest care from all sources, ancient and modern. The work is replete with such entertainment as is adapted to all grades of readers, the most or least intellectual.-Methodist Quarterly Magazine. One of the most complete things of the kind ever given to the public. There is scarcely a paragraph in the whole book which will not interest some one deeply; for, while men of letters, argument, and art cannot afford to do without its immense fund of sound maxims, pungent wit, apt illustrations, and brilliant examples, the merchant, mechanic, and laborer, will find it one of the choicest companions of the hours of relaxation. -Buffalo Com. Advertiser. TO BOOKSELLERS AND OTHERS. THE STEREOSCOPE. In addition to the many duties which the sun has faithfully and punctually performed for 6000 years or so, he has lately given attention to the fine arts. Since M. Daguerre, Prof. Draper, and others, have placed the painter's pencil in his hand, and employed him in taking "warranted likenesses, or the money returned," we have learned to look upon the centre of our solar system as something besides a mere warning apparatus for our lady mother the earth, and our respect is proportionably increased for the versatility of his talent, by discovering that he has extended his sphere in the domain of art, and wields the sculptor's chisel with a skill that may make Powers hang his head (and perhaps, his body) in very despair. Most people would like to see a correct representation of St. Peter's, the Cathedral of Strasbourg, Westminster Abbey, Mont Blanc, the Venus de Medici, Apollo Belvidere, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Queen Victoria, the Imperial Baby, and the Bunker Hill Monument; and though the Daguerreotype be not so high a manifestation of art as would meet the approval of Mr. Ruskin, not a few would prefer its minute exactness to any more poetical imagery. If this may be taken as popular sentiment, how much better pleased would the public eye be with not only a representation of such and such like objects as accurately as they can be conveyed upon a plane surface, but with a perfectly correct miniature MODEL, in which all the parts are reproduced in their exact proportions, preserving their proper relative distances, and bearing the same relation to the daguerreotype or photograph as the living group of the Siddons family would to Harlow's picture of "The Tryal of Queen Katherine." And yet by the perfected Stereoscope this most wonderful wonder is accomplished. It has not escaped pretty general observation that animated creation, for the most part, enjoys the possession of duplicate eyes; and it has been shrewdly suggested that the especial purpose of this provision is, that a sharp look out may be kept without dangerously twisting the neck. Without entering into any scientific investigation into the laws of optics, we may remark that each eye is capable of receiving and communicating impressions independently to the brain. If we look at a horse with the left eye alone, or with the right eye alone, or with both eyes together, he is still a horse. If we look at a daguerreotype in the same manner, it still remains a daguerreotype. We hope all our readers understand thoroughly the beautiful distinction between monocular and binocular views, more particularly as we don't. At any rate, it may be taken for granted that there is a difference, which is all-sufficient for present purposes. By the binocular or two-eyed view, a very singular and remarkable effect can be produced. If two exactly similar daguerreotypes of the same object be taken and looked at simultaneously, one by each eye, all idea or appearance of plane surface is dispelled, and instead of a picture we see a reduced copy of the thing itself, with its accessories, in all their relations as solid objects. Thus, in looking at daguerreotypes of St. Peter's in this manner, we would see a miniature of that edifice, not in relief, but a perfect and wonderful illusion of the church itself, within the dimensions of a walnut. By the same method we may see a carved statue, in little, of the Greek Slave, or a model of Mont Blanc, or of anything else. A group of persons is produced with all the fidelity of outline given by the daguerreotype, but without the slightest appearance of being a picture. A box, a tree, a road, does not convey the idea of shape or dimensions by means of the distribution of light and shade, foreshortening, adjustment of outline, or relations of size, but becomes a small box, a small tree, or a small road, not seeming to be a large box or tree diminished by distance, but a small box or tree, near by, to be touched and played with, and be broken like children's toys. This idea of solidity is the basis of the name given to the apparatus by means of which these effects are produced; and the Stereoscope invented by Prof. Wheatstone, and modified and perfected by Sir David Brewster, may be briefly described as a box to hold two pictures placed opposite two tubes containing refracting lenses to which the eyes are adjusted.-American Publishers' Circular, Sept. 13th, 1856. THE NEW YORK STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY. NO. 351 BROADWAY, Now offer to the Trade a very large assortment of the above described views, on glass and paper, with and without color. They vary in price from $150 to $25 per dozen, and embrace every imaginable variety of pictures. All the principal Cities and Monuments of the world,-Rome, Venice, Naples, Genoa, Paris, London, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Niagara Falls, Genesee Falls, White Mountains, The Alps, &c., &c., &c., together with a multitude of GROUPS made up of from two to twenty persons. These views not only have very great interest as curiosities, but also as representing exactly, in a manner of which the best picture can give no idea, scenes the grandest in nature, and works of art, the highest manifestations of human taste and skill. They have proved to be very saleable, yielding a handsome profit, occupying but little room, and peculiarly appropriate for sale in Bookstores. A small outlay will be sufficient to procure sufficient stock for experiment, as the cost of views and machinery varies greatly. Address the NEW YORK STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY, or Messrs. Wiley & Halsted, 351 Broadway, N. Y. 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The City of the Great King; OR, JERUSALEM AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND AS IT IS TO BE. By Dr. J. T. BARCLAY, Missionary to Jerusalem. With a Steel Portrait of the Author by Sartain, and upward of Seventy Engravings. Executed in the finest style of art, from Photographs and original designs, illustrating the various phases of the City,-Ancient, Mediæval, Modern, and Millennial,—also, Restoration of the Temple and City as invested by Titus, Notices of its Jewish, Christian, and Heathen Antiquities; Its Present Political and Moral Condition; Future Prospects, &c., &c., &c. This work is the result of investigation made during three and a half years' residence in the Holy City, with facilities for prosecuting researches never heretofore enjoyed. It was undertaken with special reference to the elucidation of the Holy Scriptures, the Talmud, the Works of Josephus, the Crusaders, and Pilgrim Chroniclers. The mysteries of the Mosque of Omar, the Tomb of David, the great Quarry Cavern beneath the hill Bezetha, the Subterranean Temple Lake (both discovered by the author.) and nether Jerusalem in general, hitherto but little known, together with other features of interest, are amply dis closed. The publishers do not hesitate in announcing this work as the most accurate, reliable, and interesting on Jerusalem, Ancient, Mediaval, and Modern, ever published in this or any other country. The splendid Chromographs (printed in ten rich colors.) fine Steel and Wood Engravings, Diagrams, Maps, and Panoramic Views, impart to it an interest and value which no other work on the subject can claim. To those who prefer fact to fiction, scrupulous truthfulness of representation to the speculative sketches of fancy, that so often libel the sacred localities, this work cannot but prove gratifying and instructive in the high est degree. It is printed on fine calendered paper, from new type, and handsomely bound in embossed cloth, with gilt emblematic back and sides. 620 large 8vo. pages. Half calf, $4 50. Morocco, full gilt, $5. Super Turkey or Antique Orders can now be supplied. Price, cloth, $350. $6. By mail, post-paid. One of the most elegant works ever issued from the American press, as regards the various points of mechanical axecution, is the "City of the Great King," which is noticed under the Editor's Table in this number. Though not specially intended for a holiday book, there are many Students of the Bible and of history who would greatly prize a copy on account of its subslantial worth, while the beauty of its typography and illustrations renders it a fair competitor for holiday favors.-New York Independent. In its getting up, the book is a credit to our city; in its information it is wonderfully condensed and full; and in even the plainest of its illustrations we have assurance of a perfect truthfulness, in the fact of their being from photographs taken on the spot. The chromographic illustrations of the Tomb of David, of the Temple and Mount Zion, and of the interior of the Mosque of Omar, are a novelty in such a work, and give it a great additional attraction.-Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia, It is, beyond dispute, a work of the highest merit. In addition to its vast and peculiar interest as an authentic record of the latest discoveries in Jerusalem-many of which have been made by the author himself, and are now for the first time presented to the Christian public-the volume is highly embellished with chromographic illuminations, steel engravings by the best artists, a periscopic panorama of the entire circuit of the city and environs, explanatory maps and diagrams, and the finest of wood engravings. Nothing that could shed the faintest light upon the rare and priceless text has beeen omitted. It is equally exact and luminous. It is destined to produce a profound impression on the religious world.-Louisville Journal. The publishers have done ample justice to the work. The splendid chromographs (printed in ten rich colors), fine steel and wood engravings, diagrams, maps, and panora mic views, impart to it an interest and value which no other work on the subject can claim.-Philadelphia Ledger. PORTER'S PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY. $1. IN PRESS. MAN UPON THE SEA: Or, a History of Maritime Adventure, Exploration, and Discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time. Comprising a detailed account of Remarkable Voyages, Ancient as well as Modern. 1 vol. 8vo. With numerous Engravings. By FRANK B. GOODRICH, Author of 66 The Court of Napoleon," &c., &c. NEW YORK. SPRING TRADE SALE, 1858. Trade Sale Rooms, 377 & 379 Broadway, New York. GEO. A. LEAVITT & Co., AUCTIONEERS. THE NEXT REGULAR N. Y. TRADE SALE, GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO., AUCTIONEERS, WILL COMMENCE ON THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1st, WITH THE INVOICES OF BOOKS. NEW YORK. MESSRS. RUDD & CARLETON-GENTLEMEN: Your ardor in the rivalry which exists between your edition of BEATRICE CENCI, and Mrs. WATTS SHERMAN'S translation of the same work published by us, has led you into some awkward indiscretions in your announcements. For instance: 1. You charge Mrs. Sherman's translation (this being the only other than that you publish) with being "incomplete, mutilated and imperfect," and claim that your edition is "the only complete, unabridged edition." Now, you well know that your translation omits, at least, one entire chapter, and large portions of other chapters: that, in fact, your edition contains hardly more than three quarters of Guerrazzi's original work. Mrs. Sherman's edition you have never seen, and therefore the charge against it is quite gratuitous on your part. The fact is, her translation is complete, containing the parts omitted in your edition, and requiring about 760 pages, whereas yours is contained in 562 similar pages. Perhaps you will resort to a feeble attempt to palliate your "mistakes" in these asser. tions by saying that all the parts of Mrs. Sherman's translation were not published at the time you wrote your advertisements. This would be a mere quibble, and a poor one at that. 2. You charge us with "notoriously violating trade etiquette" in publishing Mrs. Sherman's edition. The circumstances are these: Mrs. Sherman's translation was commenced in Rome three years since, and we have it from your own mouth that you knew at that time that it was in progress; yet it is but a few months since you first heard of the translation you are now publishing. If "etiquette" is violated, who then are its violators? Not we, certainly. 3. You announce your edition as published "with the sanction of Harvard University." Now, Harvard University is a very celebrated and time-honored college, and in a very different line of business from publishing or sanctioning novels. It is impossible that Harvard University ever sanctioned your edition of Beatrice Cenci; or any other, for that matter. These are sufficient for the present, and these we term "awkward indiscretions," for, do you not see that after detecting you in such curious "mistakes" in these matters of fact, as the public cannot help doing, they will very naturally infer that other of your assertions are also mistakes, as, for instance, that you have sold four editions in two weeks," that your edition has met with "unparalleled success;" that it is "the book of the age," &c., &c. "Honesty is the best policy." We admire your enterprise. But then, how much better it would be not to make such transparent "mistakes as these! Very truly yours, MASON BROTHERS. Mrs. WATTS, SHERMAN'S TRANSLATION OF BEATRICE CENCI. THE ONLY TRANSLATION OF THE ENTIRE WORK. Parts I. and II. now ready. Price, 38 cents each. Parts III, and IV. will be ready in a few days, completing the work, at which time it will be issued in two volumes, complete. Price, in paper covers, $1; cloth, $1 50; half call, $3, Mrs. Sherman kindly devotes the entire profits of this edition to the benefit of the author. Published by MASON BROTHERS, Nos. 108 & 110 Duane Street, New York. "IT HAS NOT A DULL PAGE IN IT.” Life and Times of Aaron Burr, LIEUT. COLONEL IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION, U. S. SENATOR, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC. By JAMES PARTON. 706 pp. Crown 8vo. With Portraits on Steel, and Wood-Cuts. Price, in cloth, $1 75; half calf, $2 75; full calf, $3 50. "The author, Mr. James Parton, is a scholar and a man of the highest attainments, and he has brought to his task all the requisite qualities--patience, toil, study, care, reflection, and research-so indispensable to an undertaking of so much delicacy and importance.”— Home Journal. "He has performed his task with the zeal of an antiquary and the taste of an artist, The irksome details of political life have been carefully sifted, and a certain fine, vitalizing genius has given animation and harmony to the mass. His honesty of purpose is no less conspicuous than his originality of expression and illustration. He certainly possesses a rare talent for biographical delineation."-New York Tribune. PARTON'S LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR may be obtained of Booksellers, or will be sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of the advertised price. THURSDAY MORNING with the Invoices of Books. The Stationery will be sold immediately after the Books. PUBLISHED BY MASON BROTHERS, 108 & 110 DUANE ST., NEW YORK, AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' ISSUED WEEKLY BY THE BOOK PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION. AND Literary Gazette. CIRCULAR Communications should be addressed to THE AMERICAN Publishers' CIRCULAR, No. 3 Appletons' Building, 348 Broadway. VOL. IV.-No. IX. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 27, 1858. TO BOOKSELLERS, BOOK-BUYERS, AND BOOK-READERS. Literary Intelligence. Temporary Committee. WILLIAM ORTON SMITH SHELDON. PRICE $2 A YEAR. From the London Athenæum. THE LITERARY FUND.-The public suggestion of a school for the orphan children of literary men, has incidentally called attention to the Institution THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR already existing, and established by the life-labors of a hard-working literary AND LITERARY GAZETTE, CONDUCTED BY CHARLES R. RODE, Under the Direction of the New York Book-Publishers' Association, Is published every week at $2 per annum, payable in advance; and for the following reasons claims the favorable consideration of all individuals, companies, and associations, who take an interest in the making, selling, buying, or reading of books. 1st. It is the only journal in the United States which keeps a full and correct record of CURRENT PUBLICATIONS. Every number contains the title of books issued during the week, with their SIZE, PRICE, NUMBER OF PAGES, and PUBLISHER, 2d. It contains regularly a list of the most important NEW BOOKS issued from the ENGLISH PRESS. 3d. It is the only journal which gives PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCE MENCA. 4th. Each number has a copious collection of current LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, Concerning Books and BOOK-MAKERS, compiled from the best and most authentic domestic, and foreign sources. 5th. The Circular, besides occasional EDITORIALS upon subjects of interest, has in nearly every number EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS, selected with especial regard to their general attractiveness. 6th. It also gives EXPOSITORY NOTICES of NEW PUBLICATIONS; intended, not as critical commentaries, but as guides to the buyer, explaining the purpose, and method of each book, without examining into its intrinsic merits. 7th. The American Publishers' Circular is the OFFICIAL MEDIUM Of ADVERTISING of the great body of American Publishers, and in that department alone possesses sufficient value to recommend it to the Trade and the Reading Public. Back numbers can be supplied. man, for the benefit of literary men. We may as well, therefore, though somewhat in advance of the General Meeting, publish our annual account of the benevolent doings of the Society, and of the cost of its benevolence. The accounts, at this season, may suggest a test of the shrewdness of the young people now home for the holidays. If every benevolent draft for the relief of a literary man costs something more than 127.; guess what would be the benevolent cost of feeding, clothing, housing, and educating the orphan child of a literary man? Nothing need be said in explanation of these accounts-they speak for themselves except, indeed, to repeat what has been so often explained, as to why the results are compared with the results of the benevolent proceedings of the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. Comparisons have been instituted with other Societies and published; but differences-of no significance, but puzzling to the uninformed-have been pointed out. In this instance, there is no difference. "The one Society is established for the relief of literary men; the other for the relief of artists The cost and labor of inquiry, if any, must be essentially the same, or less, perhaps, in the case of the Literary Fund,-for, by its charter, it was established for the relief only of men of learning and genius.' The Committee of the Literary Fund consists of nineteen gentlemen. It meets nine times in the year. It has, as assistants, three Treasurers, three Auditors, and three Registrars; and, under the old constitution, its Registrars undertook to 'read all minutes, orders, and entries of the preceding meeting, and all letters addressed to the Society, or its officers; to take minutes of the business transacted, and of the orders made at each meeting, and to superintend the correspondence of the Society.' To help these gentlemen to perform their not very onerous duties, duties which, for delicacy,' they ought not to delegate to any paid official-and What the annual amount for a room to meet in, all expenses are incurred. of these expenses is, has been shown, from time to time, for the last twelve years, and the summary positive and comparative, may be here reproduced": What could we add in the way of comment that would not weaken the effect of these simple figures? Lord Palmerston has granted a pension on the Literary Civil List of 100%. a year to the widow of Douglas Jerrold. We are happy to find that in this grant, and in the form of this grant, Lord Palmerston has departed from the pernicious Aberdeen plan of dispensing the fund for the express "relief of want." We trust he will henceforth adhere to the generous Peel maximnow made his own-of awarding the literary pensions as "rewards for literary service." M. Perrotin, of Paris, is going to print a new edition of Béranger's "Autobiography," which will be augmented by a considerable number of hitherto unprinted notes of the late poet to his chansons. For the possessors of the Ma Biographie" these notes will be published in a separate first edition of 66 form. M. Emile de Girardin is revising the various leaders written by him, from 1836 to 1856, for the Paris journals. They will be published under the title of "Les Questions de mon Temps," in ten volumes, and treat, in four sections, the philosophical, political, economical, and financial questions of the last twenty years. |