tive, and all other materials and apparatus for cause of this dissatisfaction being that they "Offers of contributions of all sorts of educational apparatus and appliances are solicited from educational authorities, the managers and proprietors of institutions, inventors, manufacturers, and dealers. TEXT-BOOKS AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE. "There will necessarily be considerable duplication in this division. In the first place, it is desirable to have several complete sets of text-books actually prescribed and used in the unclassified country school and the different grades of classified public schools, from different foreign nations and from different parts of our own country, as well as in representative institutions for secondary, collegiate, professional, and special schools, in their ordinary binding; then from publishers, collective sets of their text-book publications, of whatever description or grade; and, finally, sets from authors of their respective productions; samples of the most complete sets of books of reference provided for elementary schools and in actual use; also the same in respect to secondary schools, and accompanying statements of the prices of text-books; catalogues of books of reference in higher and professional schools. With collections of books, cases should be sent of suitable size, and shelving to contain them. The cases should be neat, but without orna. ment, with glazed doors; they should be of uniform height for convenience and comeliness of installation, the requisite diversity of capacity being secured by varying the width according to the bulk of the books to be contained, or by multiplying the number of cases. The cases should be exactly four feet high or exactly two feet high, with no bottom or top ornament except simple mouldings, and these must not extend beyond the above designated dimensions. The depth of the cases may conform to the sizes of the books to be contained. They should be of dark-colored wood, or stained to resemble such." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The interests of the trade can not be better served, than by a full discussion by its members of all questions which affect it. Our columns are always open to communications on any such subject, provided they be brief and suggestive, and we cordially invite the trade to express any suggestions or opinions of interest or value in "Letters to the Editor." The Book-Fair Question. CINCINNATI, August 3, 1875. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: It is known that the late Book Fair did not meet the entire approval of but few of those who either publish or deal in books, the real The rules of the fair were burdensome to many, being unjust to both dealer and publisher, and few, as a matter of business policy, The exchange, to be a success, must be equally beneficial to both publisher and dealer. The publisher, being the more benefited, should stand the entire expense of the fair; but it is not just to ask the publisher who pays the large commission of two per cent on school, and five per cent on miscellaneous books, in addition to also offer more liberal terms to the trade than usual, and it is folly to suppose that he will. In fact, the dealers will receive just the commissions less than the publisher's best rates, and the dealers left to pay the expense of the fair. The fair should be open to all-both publisher and dealer-and let each publisher make such special terms in regard to time, discount, etc., as he may think proper. If any publisher wishes to demand indorsed notes, or any other special terms, so be it. Let each conduct his sales in his own way. Let each be allowed to sell at his lowest rates, without any commission to any one. The clerk of the Executive Committee, with the advice of the Committee of the Book Fair, could make such arrangements as may be necessary, and let every publisher contributing pay his just share of the expense. Let it be known that at the meeting of the Book Fair publishers would offer extra special terms, and it would not be a problem whether the fair would be a success. A PUBLISHER. [Referring to our editorial in last issue, we again solicit, from publishers as well as retailers, further discussion of this important subject.-ED.] BOOKS RECEIVED. ANCIENT HISTORY FROM THE MONUMENTS:ASSYRIA, by George Smith.. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) This series is particularly designed for the general reader; its object being to present in a compact and popular form the results of recent archæological investigations. The volumes announced are severally, Egypt, Assyria, and Persia; each one has been prepared by a specialist, and contains in a con densed form the most important information to be had on the subject. The present volume gives a history of the results obtained from the translations of the cuneiform inscriptions, which contain the record of the Assyrian empire. These inscriptions, brought to light by recent explorations, throw considerable light upon earvaluable aid to the student of ancient history. lier portions of the Bible, and offer a new and Small 12mo, cloth, $1. BUTLER'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by John A. Stewart. (J. H. Butler & Co.) The very marked change that has taken place of late years in the get-up of school-books can not be better illustrated than in the volume before us. Few books of a miscellaneous character issued show so great perfection in the merely mechanical work as this; the paper is the very finest, the page clean and clear, the binding the most substantial. The letterpress is fully illustrated with pictures of the various heroes of American history, and the numerous scenes of conflict. If these pictures are not quite works of art, they are sufficiently good to please the young student and impress the fact illustrated more firmly upon his mind. The history is brought down to the present year. It is pleasantly written, the language being clear and concise, and easy of comprehension to the youngest students. An appendix contains the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Chronological, Historical, and Statistical Tables, etc., etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. FIRST LESSONS IN PHYSICS, by C. L. Hotze. (Central Publishing Co.) As this work is intended for very young pupils, only the most familiar facts in physics are used in illustrating it, and only the most elementary knowledge offered. It is divided into thirty-nine lessons, so that the whole volume may be embraced in a year's study, at the rate of a lesson a week. Each lesson opens with a familiar fact or easy little experiment, which serves as the basis for the development of a natural law. After this law comes the application man makes of it, such as the barometer, thermometer, pump, etc. At the end of each lesson, articles in books and magazines are pointed out, where the pupil may find interesting reading matter. Printed in large, clear type, and richly illustrated. 12mo, cloth, 90 cents. AMERICAN STATE UNIVERSITIES, by Andrew Ten Brook. (Robert Clarke & Co.) The original plan of this work only embraced a history of the University of Michigan, but through the solicitation of educators throughout the country the author was induced to undertake a more extended and complete history. Considering the transition state in which the educational system is at present, the work must fill a void long felt with educators. It begins by sketching in somewhat distinct outline the progress of higher education in the Atlantic States, from their first settlement to a period just after the close of the Revolution. Then the state of culture in the West is sketched, in order to show what kind of field this section furnished for founding and developing this class of institutions. Then follows a particular account of the starting and completion of the present University of Michigan, with some most valuable suggestions on culture and education, and a very successful attempt to mark out the future of the American system of higher education. The work covers a field that has never hitherto been occupied, and will be found of equal interest to the whole country. 8vo, cloth, $3.50. THE PRIMER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, by A. B. Mason and J. J. Lalor. (Jansen, McClurg & Co.) The fundamental principles forming the basis of all the larger treatises on economic science are presented in this little work in the concise yet easily intelligible shape so long needed for grammar-school scholars. The book is, what its title reads, simply a primer of the science prepared to give lower-grade students an outline idea of the laws regulating the use of wealth, so necessary to the scheme of education in a country where all share in the government. The subject is presented in the form of definitions and propositions supplemented with brief explanations and with suf ficient condensation to be readily mastered, even in the short period usually allotted to such studies in the schools. 16mo, 75 cents, 66 WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW, by Burt G. Wilder. (Estes & Lauriat.) The subtitle of this work, The Reproductive Functions in Man and the Lower Animals," more clearly defines its meaning and its place in bibliography than the title under which it is sent into the world-a not very "happy thought," by the way-for if we mistake not, the sort of information it contains is just the kind many parents and guardians consider that young people should not know until a certain age. If this discretion is displayed in placing the work, nothing but praise can be meted out to it, for it is certainly well written, and as it is intended for unprofessional readers, is particularly clear and concise. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50. NOTES IN SEASON. MESSRS. E. P. DUTTON & Co. have prepared a companion volume to their "Pussy Tiptoe," which may be remembered as one of the beautiful juvenile gift-books of last year. The new book is entitled "Frisk and his Flock," and, like its predecessor, is very handsomely bound and illustrated. MESSRS. WM. F. GILL & Co. have just added to their series of select novels a tale of "The Marriage of Moira Fergus," by Wm. Black. The scene is the same as in his "Princess of Thule" and "The Maid of Killeena," and many of the same characters figure in the three stories. FILE NO. 113" is the next novel on the Os goods' list, and will be published almost immediately. It is by Emile Gaboriau, and of course contains nothing worse than a bank robbery. is criminal in plot, though it is said this time it THE first volume of Prof. Lowell's new edition of the English dramatists can be looked for very shortly at Little, Brown & Co.'s. The entire work will comprise some ten or twelve volumes, to be entitled " Old Plays," and will be chiefly concerned with the period beginning with Marlowe and ending with Dryden. Prof. Lowell will furnish introductions and notes. BLANFORD'S "Geology and Zoology of Abys sinia," giving an account of the author's observations when with the British army in Abyssinia, will speedily appear at Macmillan's, probably by the end of the month. With it are promised Burgoyne's collection of "Political and Military Episodes in the First of the Reign of George III.," interesting to anecdotal lovers; Killen's " Ecclesiastical History of Ireland," from the earliest time to the present; a history of the arts and politics of Greece from the Persian to the Peloponnesian war, entitled "The Age of Pericles," by W. W. Lloyd; an account of " Angola and the River Congo," by Joachim Monteiro; and "A History of Lloyd's and Marine Insurance," by Frederick Martin and B. C. Stephenson. DURING this next week the Appletons expect to have ready Bastian's work on the "Paralysis of the Brain," discovered in its common forms, as also an "Illustrated School History of the World," by John D. Quackenbos, intended for library reference as well as school-room. Darwin's Insectivorous Plants," a collection of clinical lectures by Paget, an eminent Eng lish physician, and Croll's "Climate and the published in neat typographical dress, and with Time," will appear at the same time. LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. A WORK which, if it can be successfully carried out, will be a most interesting feature of the Educational Bureau at the Centennial, is an historical representation of text-books, of which Dr. L. P. Brockett, of New-York, has undertaken the preparation. MR. FAWCETT will have in the August Fortnightly a memorial article on the late Professor Cairnes, whose recent death English-speaking people on both sides the Atlantic have so much reason to regret. THE Athenæum announces a work which will be looked for with equal interest both in England and in this country. It is a series of sketches of President Lincoln, General Grant, and Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War during the Southern Rebellion, by Major Evan R. Jones, U. S. Consul at Newcastle-on-Tyne. MESSRS. HALE & SON promise two new books for early fall. The first is a third novel from the pen of the author of "The Odd Trump" and "Harwood," which are too good for the author to remain longer anonymous. It is to be called "The Lacy Diamonds," and is already in the hands of the printer. The other book will be a collection of stories of life among the Hoosiers, by Maurice Thompson (who has a volume of poems in press at the Osgoods'), and will take its title from the initial story, "Was She a Boy?" MESSRS. HARPER & BROS. have in press "The American Revolution, as seen by Horace Wal pole." It is edited by Mrs. C. H. Mohun, of Washington. Early next week they will issue two new novels, "Jean," by Mrs. Newman, and "St. Simon's Niece," by Frank Lee Benedict. EASTMAN'S" White Mountain Guide" is too well known to need more than a passing notice of the new edition issued for the season of 1875. This is very complete in the accounts of interesting places to visit, modes of interesting enough reading matter to guarantee future issues a kind reception. PROF. DU BOIS, of the Sheffield Scientific School, has prepared a work on "The Elements of Graphical Statics," which Messrs. Wiley & Son will have ready the first of October. This is said to be the first complete presentation of the subject in English, and the formula presented are simple, and of general and ready application. The same publishers have also in preparation a "Handbook for Bridge Engineers," by Clemens Herschell of Boston, to be published in three volumes; a work on "Dyeing and Calico Printing," "The Handbook for Charcoal Burners," and " Problems on Stereotomy or Stone-Cutting." WE quote the following from the London Spectator, in commendation of Mr. Conant's version of Lermontoff's “Circassian Boy": "The translation into English seems to us to be admirably done; there is nothing forced about it, and it gives us a simple story, full of tenderness and pathos, with wild, strange, underlying fancy. The German version from which this translation is made is by Bodenstadt, and is acknowledged to be perfectly faithful to the tone and spirit of the original. Mr. Conant's has evidently been a labor of love; it is difficult to believe that these clear thoughts, fair images of the beauty of the earth and sky, tender musings and clinging regrets of the dying boy-as he relates the rapturous dreams which came to him in the brief interval of his freedom from the prison shelter of the cloister, where he had been tured father-come to us through the veil of a saved from the fate of his routed tribe and capdouble interpretation, the sieve of two languages." UNDER title of "Rome and the Newest Fashions in Religion," Mr. Gladstone will publish in one volume his three essays on 66 The Vatican Decrees," " Vaticanism," and "The Pope's Speeches," to which he has added a preface. traveling, etc., and is valuably supplemented Publishers' Board of Trade. with maps, always useful in mountain traveling. The price has been reduced to $1. MR. D. M. DEWEY, of Rochester, N. Y., has issued a second edition of his "Handbook of Church Terms," a little pocket-book useful to all Episcopalians interested in the meaning and symbolism of their church phraseology and decorations. Pap., 15 c.; cloth, 40 c. PRINTERS' literature is growing. In addition to the many good works already published on the subject, some four new ones are announced as in preparation. T. L. De Vinne, favorably known from his " Printer's Price-List," has taken for his subject "The Invention of Printing"; O. H. Harpel will supplement his "Typograph" with a work on “The Poetry of Printing," which later on he will follow with "Inside Glimpses of Printerdom," and with "Remarkable Errors of the Press"-the two latter giving curious anecdotes, sketches, and typographical mistakes of the press known to be authentic. A NEW paper, representing the interests of the printing fraternity in its various branches, has been established in Chicago, and will put in an appearance monthly under title of The Printing Press. One number has already been OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 812 Broadway, New-York. August 11, 1875. ENGAGEMENTS. By SOWER, POTTS & Co.: George F. Phelan, By ROBERT S. DAVIS & Co.: D. H. Sprague, By A. S. BARNES & Co.: J. E. Dow, Des Moines, Iowa. WITHDRAWALS. By A. S. BARNES & Co.: Charles Robinson, Marshalltown, Iowa; D. Spier, Philadelphia; M. F. Swain; H. M. Tallman, St. Louis; John Cole, Royalton, Ohio. GEORGE R. LOCKWOOD, Secretary. the very finest, the page clean and clear, the binding the most substantial. The letterpress is fully illustrated with pictures of the various heroes of American history, and the numerous scenes of conflict. If these pictures are not quite works of art, they are sufficiently good to please the young student and impress the fact illustrated more firmly upon his mind. The history is brought down to the present year. It is pleasantly written, the language being clear and concise, and easy of comprehension to the youngest students. An appendix contains the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Chronological, Historical, and Statistical Tables, etc., etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. FIRST LESSONS IN PHYSICS, by C. L. Hotze. (Central Publishing Co.) As this work is intended for very young pupils, only the most familiar facts in physics are used in illustrating it, and only the most elementary knowledge offered. It is divided into thirty-nine lessons, so that the whole volume may be embraced in a year's study, at the rate of a lesson a week. Each lesson opens with a familiar fact or easy little experiment, which serves as the basis for the development of a natural law. After this law comes the application man makes of it, such as the barometer, thermometer, pump, etc. At the end of each lesson, articles in books and magazines are pointed out, where the pupil may find interesting reading matter. Printed in large, clear type, and richly illustrated. 12mo, cloth, 90 cents. AMERICAN STATE UNIVERSITIES, by Andrew Ten Brook. (Robert Clarke & Co.) The original plan of this work only embraced a history of the University of Michigan, but through the solicitation of educators throughout the country the author was induced to undertake a more extended and complete history. Considering the transition state in which the educational system is at present, the work must fill a void long felt with educators. It begins by sketching in somewhat distinct outline the progress of higher education in the Atlantic States, from their first settlement to a period just after the close of the Revolution. Then the state of culture in the West is sketched, in order to show what kind of field this section furnished for founding and developing this class of institutions. Then follows a particular account of the starting and completion of the present University of Michigan, with some most valuable suggestions on culture and education, and a very successful attempt to mark out the future of the American system of higher education. The work covers a field that has never hitherto been occupied, and will be found of equal interest to the whole country. 8vo, cloth, $3.50. THE PRIMER OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, by A. B. Mason and J. J. Lalor. (Jansen, McClurg & Co.) The fundamental principles forming the basis of all the larger treatises on economic science are presented in this little work in the concise yet easily intelligible shape so long needed for grammar-school scholars. The book is, what its title reads, simply a primer of the science prepared to give lower-grade students an outline idea of the laws regulating the use of wealth, so necessary to the scheme of education in a country where all share in the government. The subject is presented in the form of definitions and propositions supplemented with brief explanations and with suf ficient condensation to be readily mastered, even in the short period usually allotted to such studies in the schools. 16m0, 75 cents, WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW, by Burt G. Wilder. (Estes & Lauriat.) The subtitle of this work, The Reproductive Functions in Man and the Lower Animals," more clearly defines its meaning and its place in bibliography than the title under which it is sent into the world-a not very "happy thought," by the way-for if we mistake not, the sort of information it contains is just the kind many parents and guardians consider that young people should not know until a certain age. If this discretion is displayed in placing the work, nothing but praise can be meted out to it, for it is certainly well written, and as it is intended for unprofessional readers, is particularly clear and concise. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50. NOTES IN SEASON. MESSRS. E. P. DUTTON & Co. have prepared a companion volume to their "Pussy Tiptoe," which may be remembered as one of the beautiful juvenile gift-books of last year. The new book is entitled "Frisk and his Flock," and, like its predecessor, is very handsomely bound and illustrated. MESSRS. WM. F. GILL & Co. have just added to their series of select novels a tale of "The Marriage of Moira Fergus," by Wm. Black. The scene is the same as in his "Princess of Thule" and "The Maid of Killeena," and many of the same characters figure in the three stories. goods' list, and will be published almost imme"FILE NO. 113" is the next novel on the Osdiately. It is by Emile Gaboriau, and of course is criminal in plot, though it is said this time it contains nothing worse than a bank robbery. THE first volume of Prof. Lowell's new edi tion of the English dramatists can be looked for very shortly at Little, Brown & Co.'s. The entire work will comprise some ten or twelve volumes, to be entitled "Old Plays," and will be chiefly concerned with the period beginning with Marlowe and ending with Dryden. Prof. Lowell will furnish introductions and notes. BLANFORD'S "Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia," giving an account of the author's observations when with the British army in Abyssinia, will speedily appear at Macmillan's, probably by the end of the month. With it are promised Burgoyne's collection of "Political and Military Episodes in the First of the Reign of George III.," interesting to anecdotal lovers; Killen's "Ecclesiastical History of Ireland," from the earliest time to the present; a history of the arts and politics of Greece from the Persian to the Peloponnesian war, entitled "The Age of Pericles," by W. W. Lloyd; an account of " Angola and the River Congo," by Joachim Monteiro; and "A History of Lloyd's and Marine Insurance," by Frederick Martin and B. C. Stephenson. DURING this next week the Appletons expect to have ready Bastian's work on the "Paralysis of the Brain," discovered in its common forms, as also an "Illustrated School History of the World," by John D. Quackenbos, intended for library reference as well as school-room. Darwin's "Insectivorous Plants," a collection of clinical lectures by Paget, an eminent Eng lish physician, and Croll's Time," will appear at the same time: Climate and the published in neat typographical dress, and with interesting enough reading matter to guarantee future issues a kind reception. LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. A WORK which, if it can be successfully carried out, will be a most interesting feature of the Educational Bureau at the Centennial, is an historical representation of text-books, of which Dr. L. P. Brockett, of New-York, has undertaken the preparation. PROF. Du Bois, of the Sheffield Scientific School, has prepared a work on "The Elements of Graphical Statics," which Messrs. Wiley & Son will have ready the first of October. This is said to be the first complete presentation of the subject in English, and the formula presented are simple, and of general and ready application. The same publishers have also in preparation a "Handbook for Bridge Engineers," by Clemens Herschell of Boston, to be published in three volumes; a work on MR. FAWCETT will have in the August Fortnightly a memorial article on the late Professor Cairnes, whose recent death English-speaking people on both sides the Atlantic have so much" Dyeing and Calico Printing," "The Handreason to regret. THE Athenæum announces a work which will be looked for with equal interest both in England and in this country. It is a series of sketches of President Lincoln, General Grant, and Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War during the Southern Rebellion, by Major Evan R. Jones, U. S. Consul at Newcastle-on-Tyne. MESSRS. HALE & SON promise two new books for early fall. The first is a third novel from the pen of the author of "The Odd Trump" and Harwood," which are too good for the author to remain longer anonymous. It is to be called "The Lacy Diamonds," and is already in the hands of the printer. The other book will be a collection of stories of life among the Hoosiers, by Maurice Thompson (who has a volume of poems in press at the Osgoods'), and will take its title from the initial story, "Was She a Boy?" 44 MESSRS. HARPER & BROS. have in press "The American Revolution, as seen by Horace Walpole." It is edited by Mrs. C. H. Mohun, of Washington. Early next week they will issue two new novels, "Jean," by Mrs. Newman, and "St. Simon's Niece," by Frank Lee Benedict. EASTMAN'S "White Mountain Guide" is too well known to need more than a passing notice of the new edition issued for the season of 1875. This is very complete in the accounts of interesting places to visit, modes of book for Charcoal Burners," and " Problems on Stereotomy or Stone-Cutting." WE quote the following from the London Spectator, in commendation of Mr. Conant's version of Lermontoff's "Circassian Boy": "The translation into English seems to us to be admirably done; there is nothing forced about it, and it gives us a simple story, full of tenderness and pathos, with wild, strange, underlying fancy. The German version from which this transla tion is made is by Bodenstadt, and is acknowledged to be perfectly faithful to the tone and spirit of the original. Mr. Conant's has evidently been a labor of love; it is difficult to believe that these clear thoughts, fair images of the beauty of the earth and sky, tender musings and clinging regrets of the dying boy-as he relates the rapturous dreams which came to him in the brief interval of his freedom from the prison shelter of the cloister, where he had been saved from the fate of his routed tribe and captured father-come to us through the veil of a double interpretation, the sieve of two languages." UNDER title of "Rome and the Newest Fashions in Religion," Mr. Gladstone will publish in one volume his three essays on "The Vatican Decrees," Vaticanism," and "The Pope's Speeches," to which he has added a preface. traveling, etc., and is valuably supplemented Publishers' Board of Trade. with maps, always useful in mountain traveling. The price has been reduced to $1. MR. D. M. DEWEY, of Rochester, N. Y., has issued a second edition of his "Handbook of Church Terms," a little pocket-book useful to all Episcopalians interested in the meaning and symbolism of their church phraseology and decorations. Pap., 15 c.; cloth, 40 c. PRINTERS' literature is growing. In addition to the many good works already published on the subject, some four new ones are announced as in preparation. T. L. De Vinne, favorably known from his "Printer's Price-List," has taken for his subject The Invention of Printing"; O. H. Harpel will supplement his "Typograph" with a work on "The Poetry of Printing," which later on he will follow with " Inside Glimpses of Printerdom," and with "Remarkable Errors of the Press"-the two latter giving curious anecdotes, sketches, and typographical mistakes of the press known to be authentic. A NEW paper, representing the interests of the printing fraternity in its various branches, has been established in Chicago, and will put in an appearance monthly under title of The Printing Press. One number has already been OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 812 Broadway, New-York. August 11, 1875. ENGAGEMENTS. By SOWER, POTTS & Co.: George F. Phelan, John H. Holtzinger, Philadelphia, Pa. By BREWER & TILESTON: G. S. Robertson, Searsport, Me. By ROBERT S. DAVIS & Co.: D. H. Sprague, Boston. By A. S. BARNES & Co.: J. E. Dow, Des Moines, Iowa. WITHDRAWALS. By A. S. BARNES & Co.: Charles Robinson, Marshalltown, Iowa; D. Spier, Philadelphia; M. F. Swain; H. M. Tallman, St. Louis; John Cole, Royalton, Ohio. GEORGE R. LOCKWOOD, Secretary. |