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BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, ATTENTION !

STATIONERS' EXCHANGE,

694 BROADWAY, cor. of 4th STREET, NEW-YORK.

ANDREW GEYER, Manager.

FAIR FROM OCTOBER 21 TO 28, 1875.

The Stationers, Booksellers and Fancy Goods Dealers throughout the country are invited to make the Stationers' Exchange their head-quarters when in New-York. Every thing the Manager can do for the comfort and convenience of buyers visiting the city will be done.

Importers, Manufacturers and Fobbers will make terms direct. No Indorsed

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Ground Plan, showing location of Offices, to be had on application to

the Manager,

ANDREW GEYER,

Care American Stationer.

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discount rules and a nominal fee of $2, for the Association is an open one, in which no election is required.

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MR. F. B. PATTERSON, whose taste and ingenuity in binding and advertising display have made him familiarly known to the trade, issues Point-Lace and Diamonds" in a third and very tasteful style for a fall edition. The book has done excellently, and is still thoroughly a live book, and this new cheap edition, in square 16mo, with its dainty cloth, delicate stamp, and red edges, is likely to renew its popularity. The red-line edition will be one of the holiday books again.

A VERY beautiful new line of toy-books (Marcus Ward & Co.) is offered by Pott, Young & Co., the illustrations being illuminations in antique style, very rich in color, on a gold ground, and the binding having a new and very taking effect in inlaid work. These are "Puck and Blossom," "The House that Jack Built," etc.; they retail at $2 each.

A SECOND volume of "Our Poetical Favorites" will be issued immediately by Sheldon & Co. Professor Kendrick's first series has had a remarkably steady sale ever since its publication, and has been pronounced the best com

Subscriptions and Advertisements from England received by B. F. Stevens, 17 Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London. Subscriptions from the European Continent filled by E. Steiger, 22 and 24 Frankfort street, New-pilation of its size extant. The second series York, and all German booksellers.

NOTES IN SEASON.

"OLD PROBS" promises Fair weather next week.

THE adjourned meeting of the creditors of Lee & Shepard is called for Monday, the 18th, at II o'clock, at their store in Boston.

THE popularity of Rev. E. P. Roe's books is on the increase. The publishers have sold well into the ninth thousand of his new novel, "From Jest to Earnest," and the tenth, the last of the first edition, is going into the binder's hands. Though published at the same time in the year, the new book is as well along in sales now as its predecessors were the first of January. It will not be three years next December since the first of these novels, "Barriers Burned Away," was published, and counting the work on gardening, nearly sixty thousand of Mr. Roe's books have been sold. They have all been published in England, and " Opening a Chestnut-Burr" by two different houses. They have also been published in serial form in England.

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THE Harpers will issue next week Mr. Talmage's new volume of sermons, Everyday Religion," which are quite as incisive and characteristic as the preceding ones. Also, "The Catskill Fairies," by Miss Virginia Johnson, which is a volume of fresh fairy tales, that will be issued in fine style, with many illustrations, as a holiday book.

PROF. JEVONS's book was not quite in time for the Ohio election, but the question of finance will occupy the public mind for some time to come, nevertheless. His important work on "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange" will be issued next week by the Appletons, in the International Scientific Series, and is an admirably clear exposition of currency principles. With it comes an excellent little compendium of the weights, measures, and money of all nations, by Professor Clarke, of Michigan, the measures reduced to the metric as well as our system, and moneys to American, English, French, and German standards.

Publishers' Board of Trade.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
812 Broadway, New-York.

October 13, 1875.

ENGAGEMENTS.

A NUMBER of volumes, some of general interest, and others addressing themselves chiefly to special classes, are nearly ready at Mr. J. W. Bouton's. The most notable is John P. Lundy's great work, with 200 illustrations, on Monumental Christianity," a superb volume, of great interest to scholars and general readers, at $7.50. Examples of Modern Etching" will contain twenty fine etchings from the Portfolio, with notes from Hamerton. These will be published early in November. In addition to the American agency for the Portfolio, Mr. Bouton has taken that for the new French weekly, By D. APPLETON & Co.: A. S. Kissell, Chicago.

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L'Art, and proposes to furnish the three volumes per year, with three hundred etchings, at $36.

NOTICE should be taken that those only who are members of the A. B. T. A. are entitled to This participate in the benefits of its fair. simply necessitates, however, adherence to the

By BREWER & TILESTON: M. R. Chase, Boston, Mass.

By D. APPLETON & Co.: Scott H. Blewett, St.

Louis, Mo.

WITHDRAWALS.

CHANGES OF HEAD-QUARTERS.
By D. APPLETON & Co.: C. E. Lane, from St.
Louis to Chicago.

GEORGE R. LOCKWOOD,

Secretary.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS JUST PUBLISHED.

The Prices in this List are for cloth lettered, unless otherwise indicated. Imported books are marked with an asterisk: Authors' and Subscription Books, or Books published at net prices with two asterisks.

Abbott.-A Concordance to the Works of Alexander |
Pope. By Edwin Abbott. With an Introduction by Ed-
win A. Abbott, D.D. 8°. $4...
..Appleton.
Acting Drama (The).-No. 21, A Hasty Conclusion, a
Burletta;-22, Weak Points, a Comedy in two Acts, by
John Baldwin Buckstone;-23, Grace Darling; or, The
Wreck at Sea, a Drama, in two Acts, by Edward Stir-
ling;-24, A Gray Mare, a Comedietta, in one Act, by B.
Webster, Jr.;-25, The Middle Temple; or, Which is
my Son? a Farce, in one Act, by R. B. Peake ;-26, The
Original, an Interlude, in one Act, by J. M. Morton ;-
27, The Sentinel, a Burletta, in one Act, by John Maddi-
son Morton-28, The Tiger at Large; or, The Cad of
the "Buss," a Burlelta, in one Act, by George Blink ;-
27, Why did you Die? a Comedy, in one Act, by Charles
Mathews;-30, Sayings and Doings; or, The Rule of
Contrary, a Farce, in one Act, by J. M. Morton :-31,
The Twin Brothers, a Farce, in one Act, by R. B. Peake;
-32, Ask no Questions, a Burletta, in two Acts, by
Charles Selby-33, A Cure for Coquettes; or, Alma
Mater, a Comedy, in three Acts, by D. Boucicault ;-34,
The Cabin Boy, a Drama, in two Acts, by Edward Stir-
ling-35, Who Stole the Spoons? in one Act, by J. Stir-
ling Coyne ;-36, Mrs. Sarah Gamp's Tea and Turn-out,
in one Act, by B. Webster-37, The Village Doctor, a
Drama, in two Acts, by Benjamin Webster ;-38, Family
Pride, a Comedy, in five Acts, by R. Sullivan :-39,
Queen Mary, a Drama, in five Acts, by Alfred Tenny-
son; adapted by John H. Delafield. 16°. Ea., pap.,
15 C..
..Happy Hours Co.
Aldrich.-History of the United States Marine Corps.
By M. A. Aldrich. From official Reports and other
Documents. Compiled by Capt. Richard S. Collum. 8°.
$3.50..
Van Nostrand.
Alger.-Jack's Ward. By Horatio Alger, Jr. 16°. $1.50.
Loring.
Andre.. A Practical Treatise on Coal-Mining. By
George G. André, F.G. S. Part 7. Roy. 4°, pp. 16 and
12 plates. Pap.. $2;-Same. Vol. 1. Roy. 4°, pp. 280
and 36 plates. $14.
Spon.
Bigelow. Leading Cases on the Law of Torts. By Mel-
ville M. Bigelow. 8°. Shp., $6........Little, B. & Co.
Brentford Parsonage. By the Author of the "Win and
Wear Series." 16°, pp. 455. $1.25...
....Carter.
Charette. A Tale. 16°, pp. 327. $1.50.......Carleton.
Croll. Climate and Time in their Geological Relations.
A Theory of secular Changes of the Earth's Climate.
By James Croll. Illustr. 12°, pp. 577. $2.50. Appleton.
Davis.-Danger Signals. An Address on the Uses and
Abuses of Modern Spiritualism. By Mary F. Davis.
12. Pap., 15 C.....

...

..Davis.

*Deane.-Spon's Information for Colonial Engineers. Ed-
ited by J. T.Huist. No. 1.Ceylon. By Abraham Deane,
C.E. 8, pp. 44. Pap., $1...
..Spon.
Dickens. The Works of Charles Dickens. Illustr.
Gadshill ed. In 15 vols.
Vol. 4.
Barnaby Rudge;
Hard Times. Cr. 8°. $2.
.Osgood.
Fleming.-Norine's Revenge, and Sir Noel's Heir. By
May Agnes Fleming. 16°, pp. 402. $1.75.....Carleton.
Gilder.-The New Day. A Poem in Songs and Sonnets.
By Richard Watson Gilder. Sq. 12°, pp. 112. $1.50.
Scribner, A. & Co.
*Grant.-Experiments on the Strength of Cement, chiefly
in reference to the Portland Cement used in the Southern

Spon.

Main Drainage Works. By John Grant, M. Inst. C.E.
8°, pp. 172 and 8 plates. $4.25.....
Spon.
Halliday.-The Little Street-Sweeper; or, Life among
the Poor. By Rev. Samuel B. Halliday. 12°. $1.25.
Ford.
Holland.-Sevenoaks. A Story of To-Day. By J. G.
Holland, author of "Arthur Bonnicastle. With twelve-
illustr. by Sol Eytinge. 12°, pp. viii, 441. $1.75
Scribner, A & Co.
*Iron and Steel Institute, Journal of. No 1. 1875. 8°,
pp. 351 and 14 plates. Pap., $3.75....
Spon.
*Iveson's Horse-Power Diagram. Sm. folio. $4.25.
Lempriere's Classical Dictionary. Containing a full
Account of all the Proper Names mentioned in ancient
Authors, etc.; to which is prefixed a Chronological Table.
New ed. 32°, pp. xx, 739. $1.50 ..
Putnam.
**Long.-Illustrated History of Hymns and their Authors.
By Rev. Edwin M. Long. 8°, pp. 560. $3.50..Jaggars.
McCrary.-A Treatise on the American Law of Elections..
By George W. McCrary, of the Iowa Bar. 8°, pp. 500.
$5...
Myers.
Merivale.-A General History of Rome, from the Foun-
dation of the City to the Fall of Augustulus, B.C. 753-
A.D. 476. By Charles Merivale, D.D. With maps. 12°,
.Appleton.
PP. 742. $2.50.
New-York. Practice at Law, in Equity, and in special
Proceedings in all the Courts of Record in the State of
New-York, with appropriate Forms. By William Wait,
Counsellor-at-Law. Vol. 6. 8°. $7.50... Gould & Son,
Reade.-Charles Reade's Novels. Illustr. Library ed.
In 6 vols. Vol. 4. White Lies; Foul Play, 12°. $1.50.

Osgood.
*Sang.-Progressive Lessons in Applied Science. Part 1.
Geometry on Paper ;-Same. Part 2. Solidity, Weight,
and Pressure. By Edward Sang, F.R.S.E. Cr. 8°, pp.
.Spon.
129, 119. Ea., $1.25..
Scott.-The Waverley Novels. By Sir Walter Scott. Il-
lustr. Melrose ed. In 13 vols. Vol. 4. The Monastery;
The Abbot. Cr. 8°. $2....
Osgood.

*Sexton. - Pocket-Book for Boiler-Makers and Steam Users. Comprising a Variety of Useful Information for Employer and Workman, Government Inspectors, Board of Trade Surveyors, Engineers in charge of Works and Ships, Foremen of Manufactories, and the general Steamusing Public. By Maurice John Sexton. 32°, pp. 176. Roan, $2...

Spon.

Tuckerman and Frost.-A Catalogue of Plants growing without Cultivation within Thirty Miles of Amherst College. By Edward Tuckerman, M.A., and Charles C. Frost, M.A. 12°, pp. vi, 98. Pap., 50 c. (Corrected.)

E. Nelson.

United States.-Criminal Law Reports. Being Reports
of Cases determined in the Federal and State Courts of
the United States, and in the Courts of England, Ireland,
Canada, etc. With Notes by N. St. John Green. Vol.
2. 8°. Shp., $7.50...
Hurd & H.
Verne.-The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hat-
teras. Translated from the French of Jules Verne.
With two hundred and fifty illustrations by Riou. 12,
pp. xiv, 440. $3....
Osgood.

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Trade Organization.

AT this time, when the fall season is fairly opened, so that booksellers are keenly alive to their trade interests, and now that the reform is so generally in operation and with such promise of becoming thoroughly comprehensive, it is worth while to consider the present state of trade organization, what it has accomplished, what is its present usefulness, and where it needs to be further pushed.

Sexton, Pocket-Book for Boiler-Makers. 2.00
Williams, The Steamship..

D. VAN NOSTRAND, New-York.
Aldrich, Hist. of the United States Marine
Corps...

3.50

tailers and publishers was beginning to show itself, and there was no organization in general or locally (except among the educational publishers) to bring people together, and to discuss trade questions and develop trade interests. In short, business was on the wrong track, because the great body of the trade were virtually (counting expenses) selling below cost, and, as a consequence, every man's hand was against his neighbor. The facts are coming to light to prove this, and among the biggest of them are those brought out by the failure of Lee & Shepard.

It gives us pride in the trade, and makes us grateful for the service the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY has been enabled to do for it and in behalf of wise business methods in general, to contrast the present promise and hopeful feeling, even in these dull times, with the unorganized, demoralized, and unhopeful condition of the trade at the beginning of 1874-not two years ago. There are some few people who, seeing the dull times, and only the dullness, still fail to give the movement of these two years credit for having accomplished important results. They are not many, and they are rapidly becoming convinced by the logic of facts. It is now difficult to find, even among those who threw cold water of the chilliest sort on the reform in its early stages, who rather sneered at any talk of going to conventions, any who are not either pronounced reformers or reasonably appreciative of reform work. Two years ago, underselling was the rule, and there seemed no way out of it; the trade sales were actively helping it, and there was no authority to interfere; the best men throughout the distributing system of the trade were hopeless as to any living in the business, and were talking of going out of it, and the publishers were beginning to recognize that this was having its effects upon them; there was no trade feeling, and little acquaintanceship except directly between buyer and seller, who were indeed separated to a considerable extent by the trade sales; an actual feeling of enmity between re-likely to succeed.

At present we are in dull times, and the total sales of books can not be expected to be much larger than of late. But the local trades here and there are reporting a better state of business, and we have accomplished the chief thing in putting the trade on the right track for doing business safely as soon as general trade picks up again, as we believe it is soon destined to do. The trade are given an opportunity to earn profit enough to pay their bills, and this is the one thing needful to make trade safe. Whenever underselling is reported to the proper authorities, the matter is taken up at once, and in nine cases out of ten so far has been amicably settled; and we can now state that there is not a single leading house in the general trade that is not ready and anxious to protect its customers when facts are properly brought before it. Certainly this is not the way things were two years ago, and we claim that, in accomplishing this, the book trade has done no little to lead the general commercial community back to the only safe business principles, and has thus really and truly served the public good, much as undersellers, for their own private ends, raise the cry of an "odious combination." Steps are now being taken to cure the remaining evils where they are most rampant, and they are

We have so far record of three State organi

The general association, the A. B. T. A., has trade organizations to such a purpose. The accomplished its chief work in concentrating | line between jobbers and retailers is so indefigeneral discontent and transmuting it into cen- nitely drawn that they are too apt to take the tralized working power, in furnishing a leg- shape of close combinations, and we believe islative basis for the reform, in abolishing the jobbing interest will find sufficient margin the Trade Auction Sales, and introducing the for its profits, as this reform supports retail Book Fair system, and in promoting organiza- prices on the one hand, and on the other proves tion through the country. The Book Fair, it to wholesale dealers that competition can not must be remembered, is a meeting of the asso- safely be carried to the old extreme. ciation, and by resolution of the last convention, only members of the association are en-zations, the Booksellers' and Stationers' Assocititled to participate-a fact to which the attention of the managers has just been officially called. This, reflection will show, is but reasonble, since the association is open to all who are willing to do business in the right way, and it is desirable, as well to hold a check on undersellers as to encourage membership in the association. For such purposes as this, and to furnish a central parliament and authority—had it not been for its foresight, the book trade, for instance, would have been disgracefully unrepresented at the national Centennial-the A. B. T. A. has reason for continued and permanent existence, but the reform is progressing so well, is now so endorsed by heads of the trade, and things generally are so working themselves out, that there promises to be little call for further legislature, and the brunt of future work is upon the local organizations

We have recently been gathering the material for a survey of these bodies, and we take this opportunity to ask the secretary of each to send to this office duplicate copies of their constitutions, agreements, and other documents, for filing with the American Book Trade Association and the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY. Beside the American Book Trade Association, which is planned to include the entire trade and authors as well, there is of course the (schoolbook) Publishers' Board of Trade, and the reform has extended into a kindred trade, and the Stationers' Board of Trade, of central character, has been organized under promising circumstances. There come next the Central, Western, and New-England Booksellers' Associations, which cover all the great divisions of the country, except the South and the Pacific slope. These are co-ordinate, though with some variations: the Central performs the double function of an organization of the eastern publishers and jobbers in general, by virtue of which it is the executive arm of the American Book Trade Association, and in some wise of a local New-York organization. The Western is primarily a jobbers' association, and there is a tendency in these organizations to make their chief work the control of jobbing discounts. For part-and in this many leaders of the reform e-we do not believe in turning regular

ation of the State of New-York (confined, however, chiefly to the western part) and Michigan and Tennessee Booksellers' Associations. Of local associations proper, we have word from Providence, Baltimore, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Washington, Rochester (N. Y.), Buffalo, and New-Orleans. The Philadelphia trade have hit upon another type, which they think more prac│tically effective; they have no general officers or meetings, but appoint a standing Committee of Arbitration of three, which does the needed work without bother or waste of any body's time. The only organized body in Philadelphia is the old "Book Trade Association of the City of Philadelphia," which is not a feature of the trade organization proper; it includes papermakers, printers, etc., and occupies itself largely in the discussion of tariff questions. Besides these, the booksellers of Columbus, O., Lancaster, Pa., and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., have local agreements.

This system of organization is not altogether logical, but it serves practical purposes. There should certainly be a local organization in every place where there are any number of booksellers, and these should combine into State and general organizations-especially since future conventions are likely to take the shape of delegate bodies—and there is also present work to be done. A simple constitution only is required, nor do we believe in the NewOrleans method of refusing discounts to those who do not see fit to join. It is not wise for a business man to give facilities to men who he sees are transgressing true business principles and ruining his own as well as his neighbors' business. But the question of membership or non-membership should be kept out of these associations, as it has been out of the American Book Trade Association; the discrimination between safe and unsafe men is quite sufficient, and does away with any question of "rings" or obnoxious combinations. So long as men are willing to abide by the business principles set forth by the American Book Trade Association, let them choose their own way as to membership. We trust to see these local organizations established everywhere, and made so useful that every member of the trade will seek admis

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