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MESSRS. BROWER BROS., 293 and 295 Broadway, exhibited at the late Stationers' Fair a full line of their well-known Euroid Inkstand. These inkstands have been upon the market for some time, and have met with great success. Among its numerous advantages, it has a wide mouth, but as only a small surface of ink is exposed to the air, evaporation is checked. It is easily cleaned and filled. Several of the States have adopted the Euroid Inkstand for the use of their various departments. Messrs. Brower Bros. have also a full assortment of fancy glass and bronze inkstands, paper weights, cardholders, and calendars.

MR. ROBERT RUTTER, book-binder, Nos. 82 and 84 Beekman Street, New-York, has issued to his customers an elegant new business card. It is made of heavy card-board, covered with Turkey morocco, handsomely illuminated, and stamped in gilt.

The Ancient Canvasser.

A FRAGMENT.

From Patterson's "Book-Shelf."

It is an ancient canvasser-
And he stoppeth one of three;

By thy long red nose and unkempt hair,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

The court-room doors are opened wide,
My case the next one on;

The jury's packed, the judge is bribed,
Wilt hear the case be won?"

He button-holes him then and there,
"There is a book," quoth he;
"Avaunt! unhand me, red-nose loon !"
Eftsoon his hand dropt he.

He holds him with his glittering eye—
Th' attorney stood him still,
He listens like a lawyer's clerk,
The canvasser hath his will.

The lawyer leaned against a pump,
Conveniently near,

And thus spake on that canvasser-
He could not choose but hear:

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we have to wait for an extra number of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY to give the conclusion of his tale.-ED.]

Personal Mention.

WE regret to state that Mr. William D. Bancker, manager of the New-York News Co., has resigned that position. It is to the regret also of all connected with the News Company, and it is pleasant to know that Mr. Bancker will not leave the trade altogether.

MR. CHAS. W. RODGERS, recently head of the retail department of Lee & Shepard, and who has an enviable reputation in that field, has arranged a business connection with Messrs. Lockwood, Brooks & Company, 381 Washington and 10 Bromfield streets, Boston, where he will be pleased to see his friends and business acquaintances.

MR. THEO. L. DE VINNE is happily and truly complimented in the dedication of the Typographical Bibliography" to him, as one "who has made every printer a debtor to his erudition and practical knowledge of the art."

MR. JOHN BARTLETT, the accomplished literary partner in the firm of Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, has issued a new edition of his wellknown volume of "Familiar Quotations,"a book we have done him the honor of twice reprinting, once with his name, and on the other occasion depriving him of all share of responsibility by taking his name from the title-page. Had our cousins over the water done this we should have been very hard upon them, and called them pirates. Mr. Bartlett, no doubt, felt differently, and thought that an honor had been conferred upon him. This edition has been much enlarged, but is not perfect'; indeed, it never can be each successive edition must necessarily be more complete than its predecessor.-London Bookseller.

MR. W. F. GILL possesses the original MS. of Poe's poem of "The Bells." The handwriting is said to be very handsome and as clear as print.

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Library and Bibliographical Notes

BULLETIN No. 35 from the Boston Public Library contains an extra quantity of valuable bibliographical matter, including articles on 'Waterloo and the Campaign of 1815;" "Newspapers," a very valuable bibliography, including magazine articles on journalism; "John Wesley," and "Architecture." This number completes the second volume of the Bulletins, and a title-page and index to the bibliographical notes will be issued. The series of notes on Centennial reading will be continued for 1776 in the next Bulletin.

THE cataloguers of the Boston Public Library are now at work upon the Shakespearian portion of the Barton collection, and sugges tions are asked from Shakespearian scholars.

SENOR JUAN F. RINO has been made purchasing agent of the Boston Public Library at Madrid, and additions will be made to the Ticknor collection at the suggestion of Spanish scholars..

THE gelatine process of James R. Osgood & Co. is now used for preparing the public card

catalogue of the Boston Library, the entries thus appearing in fac-simile of the original entries of the library transcribers.

MR. A. M. LEDEBOER has lately published, in Dutch (Utrecht, J. L. Beyers, 4to), the first part of an alphabetical list of all the printers, booksellers, and publishers in Holland, from Coster to the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is a sequel to the book of the same author issued in 1873, 4to, under the title, Boekdrukkers, boekvercoopers en uitgevers in Noord-Nederland," in which the same persons are entered according to the places they

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THE "Catalogue of the Quincy (Mass.) Public Library" patterns closely after that of the Boston Library in style, method, and annotations, but in this latter particular it presents valuable new features. These are the definition of blind titles by an abbreviation, such as " Fict.," "Jur.,' etc., the explanation of obscure titles by parenthetical notes, and like practical guidings. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is understood to have had to do with its preparation. The librarian is Miss Mary J. Brooks, Quincy, Mass., and copies may be had of her at $1 in paper, or $1.35 in cloth, which is, we presume, cost price.

An Ambitious Author.

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THE American reprint of Mr. Ruskin's works. which is the only edition approaching completeness, numbers thirty volumes, into some of which several minor works have been gathered by twos and threes. There are five series of which he is publishing instalments. But his imagination so far outruns his possible power that even this is only half what he hoped to have achieved. The first number of his new serial," writes Mr. Welford to the Book-Buyer, "Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves and Life of Stones,' contains a most touching example of the vanity of human wishes and the fallacy of human hopes. It is a list given in sober earnest of the various designs projected as the complement of his lifework. And now, when the materials are all collected, and the ripened judgment is ready for application to them, at the age of fifty-six, he is warned by advancing years how utterly impossible it will be for him to carry out into execution his ideas, while the many-towered city he is not able to find fades into cloudland, and all he can do is to offer a few fragments of good marble' from the heap of loose stones collected for its foundations. The intended works were: A History of Fifteenth Century Florentine Art,' in six octavo volumes; An Analysis of the Attic Art of the Fifth Century B.C.,' in three volumes: An Exhaustive History of Northern Thirteenth Century Art,' in ten volumes; A Life of Turner, with Analysis of Modern Landscape Art,' in four volumes; A Life of Walter Scott, with Analysis of Modern Epic Art,' in seven volumes; A Life of Xenophon, with Analysis of the General Principles of Education,' in ten volumes; A Commentary on Hesiod, with Final Analysis of the Principles of Political Economy,' in nine volumes; and A General Description of the Geology and Botany of the Alps,' in twenty-four volumes." The list seems almost laughable, but is doubtless meant in sad earnest indeed.

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A Religious Publication Society.

IT is noteworthy how much is often done quietly by agencies of which the general trade know comparatively little. It was certainly a surprise to most to see the Methodist Book Concern represented at the last Fair by a display of books larger than that of any house except Harper & Brothers'. It exhibited there about 2500 samples, and there were besides two libraries of 500 little volumes each not exhibited, besides other minor books. Counting its tracts, etc., the catalogue of this concern is the largest in the country. About twenty million copies of periodicals a year are also circulated from the house in New-York. The Berean Leaf of Sunday-school lessons circulates 1,200,000 monthly (although part of this circulation has recently been transferred to the Western Book Concern); The Sunday-School Journal, 100,000; the Picture Lesson Paper, 75,000; The SundaySchool Advocate, semi-monthly, 200,000; The Christian Advocate, weekly, 50,000. This is a remarkable showing. It is worth noting that the colporteur system has been almost altogether abandoned by the Church. In the early days of American publishing experience, following Wesley's system, each minister was furnished with a stated number of each new publication of the Concern, charged to him as on sale, and colporteurs were also employed at the outposts. Of late years, partly doubtless because of the progress of differentiation in occupation and an increased culture of their ministers, and partly because with the growth of the Church putting books on sale thus vast capital, this would absorb and waste method has been quite given up, and the Concern now seeks to sell its publications largely through the regular book trade.

LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS.

Trade on Centennial Representation, published THE report of the Committee of the Book in this issue, reaches us too late for editorial comment. It is to be noted, however, that the extended to the 15th inst., and as but two of time for receiving applications has been now the more prominent houses, we understand, have neglected to so apply, it is to behoped they will take advantage of this further grace

THE" Magazine for the German Book Trade" (Leipzig) for February-March, 1875, devoted a considerable article to a comparison of the German and foreign Christmas catalogues. In speaking of the Christmas Supplement of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, it said: "In point of typographical taste as well as beauty and elegance of print and paper, the American catalogue is most brilliant. The Americans have lately given much attention to the art of bookmaking, and within the last two years they claim to have produced a number of printed works worthy to rank with the best French and English issues. And certainly some works have come under our notice which fully justify this claim. The present catalogue is another example of these efforts. The arrangement of the letterpress is perfect for the purpose of setting off the illustrations. Some of these are original designs of great merit. The editorial matter is likewise appropriate. Under the heading, 'What the Publishers have done

for the Holidays,' there is a review of holiday hooks, rather too appreciative, followed by the holiday catalogue, and then by the advertisements. The announcement of the book of the season, Longfellow's 'Hanging of the Crane,' opens the number." The Christmas issue for 1875 is now in preparation, as announced elsewhere, and we hope to make it equally honorable to the American trade.

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. will have several rich holiday books-an elegant volume of "Contemporary Art," in quarto, with thirty etchings and chromos of present paintings and descriptive text; also a cabinet edition of Irving's Sketch-Book, with the illustrations of the artist's edition, and the same in three parts-Rip Van Winkle, the Christmas stories, and the Sleepy Hollow stories.

To Mr. Henry T. Williams' admirable and tasteful book on Window Gardening," is now to be added a companion volume on "Household Elegancies," which treats practically of all sorts of household arts-transparencies preparing outline leaves, framing, spatter-work,

and such useful amusements, with abundance of charming illustrations that make one desire to try every thing first.

MR. WIDDLETON will publish his new "Memorial Edition" of Poe's poems, with Mr. Ingram's defence of Poe, as soon as he can put in shape the memorial proceedings at Baltimore, which will also be included.

THE Harpers will publish, with Carleton's "Farm Legends," the "Life of Dr. John Todd," which will be one of the most interesting and inspiring of biographies. The illustrations will give his portrait, views of his study, workshop, Adirondack camps, churches, parsonage, etc., etc. The new novels will be Miss Braddon's "Hostages to Fortune," and Katharine King's "Off the Roll."

LOCKWOOD, BROOKS & Co. have hit upon a new idea-a series of "Sermons on the International Sunday-school Lessons for 1876," by the "Monday Club" of ten eminent clergy

men.

MR. HOWARD CHALLEN, of Philadelphia, has on hand a Centennial enterprise from the busi ness point of view. This is a Philadelphia Trade Directory," for the Centennial year, designed to place every branch of business in this city, engaged in manufacturing books, stationery, and fancy goods, before the book and stationery trade of the United States. In the preliminary chapter he will present historical and biographical sketches, together with statistics and general information of interest to the trade generally. In the classified department every firm engaged, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture of books, stationery, or other articles sold by booksellers, stationers, and fancygoods dealers, will be alphabetically arranged and classified.

"A CHRISTMAS novel," by Miss Yonge, is promised by Macmillan & Co., under the title of "My Young Alcides."

LAST year, the rector of a London church invited six eminent Church of England scholars to deliver a course of lectures on what may be called the Church classics, and the result will shortly be published under the title of "Companions to the Devout Life." The lectures are: "On the Imitation of Christ," by the Rev.

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Dr. Farrar; "Pascal's Pensées," by Dean Church; "St. François de Sales," by Dean Goulbourn; "Baxter and the Saints' Rest," by Archbishop Trench; "St. Augustine's Confessions," by Bishop Alexander, and Jeremy Taylor's “Holy Living and Dying." by the Rev. Dr. Humphry.

MR. GEORGE SMITH'S new volume, whose title will be “Assyrian Inscriptions," treats of those describing the events of Genesis, including the Chaldaic accounts of the Creation, the Temptation and Fall, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Confusion of Tongues, Nimrod, etc. It will be published here by the Scribners under direct arrangements.

A NEW Volume from Mr. Frank Vincent, author of "The Land of the White Elephant," is in preparation at Harper & Bros., "Through and Through the Tropics."

BENZIGER BROS., of New-York and Cincinnati, are to open a branch establishment in St. North Fifth street. They propose to show a Louis, occupying the upper floors of No. 204 full variety of Catholic goods.

THE Tribune states that half the first volume of the Bryant History is already in type. Canvassers will be out within this month, and the first volume will be out early in 1876. About $20,000 have already been expended on the work, and it will call for $30,000 before the first volume is published. The complete work will comprise four octavo volumes, of more than 600 pages each, and will cost about dertakings in the history of the American book $100,000-so that it is one of the greatest un

trade.

The title-page bears the names of William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard Gay. When it was proposed to Mr. Bryant that he should undertake such a history, he declined to do so, unless the work should be entirely under his control, and he should name any other workers upon it. In pursuance of this arrangement, Mr. Bryant named Mr. Gay as his collaborator. The plan of the work was drawn by Mr. Bryant, and the details have been the result of mutual consultation, while Mr. Bryant, who himself wrote the introduction, revises every line written by his co-workers. This is certainly a remarkable enterprise for one at Mr. Bryant's age, and the work promises to be an extraordinary literary memorial of the Centennial.'

A CONSIDERABLE impetus is given to the circulation of Matthew Arnold's previous books by the announcement of his "God and the Bible." The English house of Macmillan & Co. announce a new edition of his "Essays on Criticism," to include a later paper "On a Persian Passion Play." The American branch of this house will issue, by arrangement with Smith, Elder & Co., the new book, "God and the Bible," and new editions for this market of Culture and Anarchy" and "St. Paul and Protestantism," which have not been reprinted here.

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WE have received from Mr. B. F. Stevens, of Trafalgar square, London, a neat little list of "English newspapers and magazines, with prices of publication and postage, and a table for remitting sterling in United States currency, with gold from par to 120." It is a handy little list, and we commend it to the trade as desirable for a reference list. Orders can frequently

be had for such publications, if a bookseller is well informed, and Mr. Stevens can be relied upon as a despatch agent.

SEVERAL new volumes of the Bayard series are in preparation.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS have in press "Spiritual

ism and other Allied Causes of Nervous Derangement in their Medical and Medico-Legal Relations," by Dr. William A. Hammond. Dr. Hammond has made a specialty of this subject,

and his book will be awaited with interest.

ENGLAND exported £646,443 worth of books the past nine months as against £627,951 of last year. This is at the rate of £862,000 the year.

MESSRS. CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN's establishment is growing into one of the largest publishing-printing establishments in Europe. The new building, which adjoins the old at "La-Belle-Sauvage Yard," fronting 232 ft. on Fleet lane, covers about 13,000 square feet. The basement is devoted to the thirty-six large presses. A new idea is introduced of running the shafting in trenches beneath the floor, which reduces vibration and is said to have other advantages. The composing-room is at the top, and accommodates two hundred men; the proofreaders have a nest of rooms in a well-lighted tower. Electrotyping is carried on in a side building, to prevent deleterious effects from the gases.

Over seven hundred and fifty people will be employed in the building; there is a kitchen, where food will be provided at the lowest rate, and there is a play-ground for the boys during the dinner hour. Exclusive of the production of an array of volumes in almost every department of English literature, the separate parts of the magazines and serials issued from this house each month considerably exceed half a million. The paper shavings trimmed off the edges of the serial publications amount to twenty-five tons a year, while the other waste, including paper accumulating from the strict rejection of all imperfect impressions, exceeds fifty tons.

TO LET.

DESK and pd other privileges. Call on or ad

ESK-ROOM and part of store occupied as a bookstore, dress, C. P. S., Booksellers' Row, 139 Eighth street (basement).

CATALOGUES WANTED.

H. M. CLAYTOn, Cartersville, Ga., Desires to inform dealers in Books, Stationery, Chromos, Toys, Engravings, Frames, Stereoscopes and Views, and also Photographs, that he wishes their latest Catalogues, Lists, and Terms to Dealers.

WILSON & MCDILL

Have opened a store at Monmouth, Ill., and request Catalogues from Booksellers, Stationers, and Dealers in Fancy Goods.

FOR SALE.

ON NE third or one half interest in a Bookstore, Printing Office, and Bindery in a border State. Doing a paying business. Reason for selling, a desire to enlarge the business. Address, E. F., care Publishers' Weekly.

OLD BOOKS.

H. CLARK, Peekskill, N. Y., buys, sells, and ex

A. changes new, Pecond-hand, and shelf-worn Schoolbooks. Correspondence, with lists of books wanted and for sale, solicited.

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A COOKING catechism is certainly a new idea. Little Lessons for Little Housekeepers," the primer of the Wilson Industrial School, issued by A. D. F. Randolph & Co., is a capital thing, and ought to sell by the five hundred million.

We understand that the first edition is of 150,000, more or less. It is richly illustrated with plates-dinner-plates.

WE must repeat our notice to correspondents always to send name with letters, as a guarantee of good faith. Another anonymous letter this week.

ROBERTS BROTHERS have in preparation Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life, Past and Present," with a new preface by the author, and full-page illustrations.

ROBERT CLARKE & Co. have in advanced

preparation a collected edition of the poems of Geo. D. Prentice, for which another poet, Mr. J. J. Piatt, has written a biographical introduction.

MR. WHITTAKER has just ready a useful little essay on Parochial Missions, reprinted from an article in the Church Review by Rev. H. L. Yewens, with an introduction by Rev. J. H. Ward, of Marblehead, the biographer of Percival, and now quite well known as a reviewer.

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S. W. GREEN,

[ANNOUNCEMENT.]

NEWSPAPER, BOOK, AND JOB Barnes' Centennial History.

PRINTER,

Electrotyper, Stereotyper, and Binder,

14, 16 & 18 JACOB ST.,

New-York.

Printer of PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS

OF

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.

1 vol., royal 8vo.

SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED AND SOLD AT A POPULAR PRICE.

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Will be issued on or before January 1, 1876. Tem

tory now being assigned to Agents.

A. S. BARNES & CO.,

II AND 113 WILLIAM STREET, NEW-YORK.

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H. B. HALL & SON,

Portrait, Historical, and Landscape

ENGRAVERS.

OFFICE, No. 62 FULTON STREET

NEW-YORK.

ENGRAVING PROMPTLY EXECUTED IN ANY

STYLE.

Special attention given to Engraving for Illustration.

BOOKSELLERS WANTED, AS AGENTS

For the Thistle Edition of the Waverley Novels, the only fully illustrated edition of American make ever offered to the public. Liberal inducements and exclusive territory are offered. There is no book, or series of books, now in market, offering such favorable prospects. The series is standard, and will sell for all time. The mechanical execution is the best. The price is the lowest. Wherever seen, the books will sell. They will be sold only to subscribers, and only by our regularly appointed agents. Price, in cloth, gilt extra, per volume, $1.50; half turkey morocco, gilt top, $2.25.

E. J. HALE & SON, Publishers.

Address, CHARLES K. DABNEY, General Agent, Care E. J. Hale & Son, 17 Murray Street, New-York.

A. J. HOLMAN & CO.'S NEW EDITIONS

FAMILY, PULPIT, AND REFERENCE BIBLES.

(Printed from Five New Sets Electrotype Plates).

PHOTOGRAPH

ALBUMS,

THE LARGEST AND MOST VARIED ASSORTMENT IN THE COUNTRY.

All orders for Fall and Holiday sales promptly filled.

A. J. HOLMAN & CO., American Bible Warehouse, 930 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

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