Bankrupts :

Alker, Samuel, late Tib Street, Manchester, printer and stationer; solicitor, B. B. Cobbett, Manchester. Brooks, Joseph, Hunslet, Leeds, paper merchant, (since superseded).

Carrol, James, Liverpool, bookbinder; solicitors, Atkinson and Co., Liverpool.

Chapman, Thomas, Finsbury Market, secondhand travelling bookseller.

Crozier, Joseph Christopher, New Turnstile, bookseller'; solicitor, J. Edwards, Bush Lane.

Dane, John Spencer, Haverfordwest, music seller; solicitor, A. Henderson, Bristol.

Downer, John William Sarjant, Wandsworth Road, bookseller and stationer; solicitors, Lewis and Lewis, Ely Place.

Edge, F. Milne, Hanover Street, Sou h, author.

Fi ipowski, Herschell, Burton Crescent, author, publisher, and type founder; solicitor. W. E. Goatley, Bow Street. Gaskell, James Hesketh, Canton, Cardiff, stationer; solicitor, D. W. Davis, Cardiff.

Heydon, John William Maddock, Tavistock Street, Ply. mouth, trading as Heydon and Son, bookseller, printer, and stationer; solicitor, G. Gidley, Plymouth. Jerman, William, Lower Calthorpe Street, formerly of Goldsmith's Row, printer; solicitor, N. Capell, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Parker, Joseph Wright, Waltham Cross, stationer and toy dealer; solicitor, J. Edwards, Bush Lane.

Revell, William, Liverpool, printer, &c.; solicitor, J. P. Har is, Liverpool.

Rusher, Joseph, Cardiff, stationer, &c; solicitor, R. W. Griffith,

ardiff.

Skinner, John, Liverpool and Birkenhead, bookseller, printer, &c., solicitor, J. Gardner, Manchester. Thompson, Thomas, East Retford, news agent; solicitor G. Marshall, Jun., Retford.

Wheatley, Charles, Cambridge, bookseller and newspaper agent; solicitor, E. Wayınan, Cambridge.

Assignments, Compositions, Trust Deeds, &c. :

ryant, Benjamin, New Road, St. George's East, bookseller; comp. 3s., at 4, 8, and 12 montis. Burston, John and Kate Car tairs, Taunton, stationers, &c., payment in full by instalments of £5 108. per week; trustee, S. Tanner, wholesale stationer, Bristol. Field, Henry, Nottingham, bookbinder; trustee, R. G. Summers, Oxford Terrace, Camberwell. Heath, Robert, Southsea, stationer; trustee, Geo. Rice, victualler, Southsea.

TRADE AND LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr. Toovey, having retired from the firm of Rd. Herring and Co., 64, Watling-street, on account of ill health, Mr. William Wardley, many years with Messrs. T. J. and J. Smith, has succeeded him, and the firm will in future trade as Herring, Wardley, and Co.

Messrs. Knight and Co., Clerkenwell-close, have given up business, and disposed of their copyrights and stock. Mr. Edward Knight, who left the business about two years ago, has since that time confined his attention to printing alone, and from his new office in Bartholomew-close has issued some exceedingly good specimens of illustrated work.

A change of management is reported in one of the largest printing-offices in London, to which a considerable publishing business is also attached.

Mr. Herbert Ellerby has left Llandudno to commence a fresh business in Fleet-street, Torqay.

Jones, Jas. Charles, and Jas. Thomas Hill, Brighton, printers and stationers; trustee, A. T. Hawkins, accountant, Strand.

Ladell, William Hykes, and William Ibbotson, Wraysbury, paper manu acturers, comp. 7s. 6d, at 1, 8, and 12 months, secured.

Ruglen, James, Barnsley, printer, 5s. on 13th August.
Su art, John Leighton, Chichester Rents, printer; trustee,
H. W. Caslon, type founder, Chiswell Street.

Sulley, Joseph, Nottingham, bookseller and stationer; trustees, G. Simons, paper dealer, and Juo. Rainbow, grocer, Nottingham.

Sumersford, William, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, stationer. comp. 2s, on 1st October.

Todd, William Gray, Luton, stationer and printer; trustee, Stephen Pewtress, bookseller, London." Williams, William, Holywell, stationer and printer, comp. 5s. 1st August, and 2s. 6d. 1st November. Dividends:

Rees, David, stationer and grocer, first 2s. 10d, Acraman, Bristol.

Smyth and Craig, Liverpo 1; first of Ss., at Turner's
Liverpool.

Spencer, R. and R., Bridgwater Gardens; second of
1s. 2d. and 6. 8d. n new proo s, at Edwards'.
Sutton, W., Bartlett's Passage; first 1s. 3 d. at Edwards.
Young, W. H., Bishopsgate Street; first 7s. 5d., at
Parkyns.

Eankruptcies Annulled:

J. Brooks, paper merchant, Hunslet.

J. S. Cobb, printer, stationer, &c., Great Yarmouth.
Partnerships Dissolved :-

Bohn, Frederick, and Charles Hollier Loveday, Wine Office Court, wholesale booksellers, manufacturing -tationers, and leather goods manufacturers and factors. Day, William, Joseph Day, and John Bellenie Day, Gate Street, Lithographers; debts paid by William Day. Herring, Richard, and John Toovey. Watling Street, wholesale stationers.

Ibbotson, Thomas Hamer, and A. F. Langford, Manche-ter, wholesale stationers and paper dealers. Keating, Patrick, and Clement Bearson Clarke, Wa'er Lane, printers, &c.; debts paid by Keating. Murdock, Thos. Jun, and Thos. Melvin Greenock, litbographers and printers.

Wilks, Thomas, and William Dunbar, London House Yard, booksellers and publishers; debts paid by Dunbar.

Mr. Holmes informs us that he has recently disposed of Mr. Porter's business, 64, Edgwareroad (formerly Robson and Avery's) to Mr. Cook, late of Weston-super-Mare. Also, Mr. Blackburn's business, 11, Park-terrace, Regent's-park (in the same hands thirty years), to Mr. Willis, of Lower Mitcham. Also, Mr. Lubbock's business, 140, Southampton-row (formerly belonging to Messrs. J. F. Shaw and Co.), to Mr. Young, of Snaresbrook. Mr. Allen, of Kensington, has been introduced as a partner to Mr. Bamber, of Workington, Cumberland; and Mr. Rudge has joined Mr. Commerford, 95, Leadenhall-street, one of the oldest printing businesses in the city of London, known by the name of "Bateman's."

Mr. Page informs us that he has recently disposed of Mr. Harwood's Printing Business, of Garlick Hill, to Messrs. Digby and Co.; Mrs. Jackson's Bookbinding Business, of King Street, Boro', to Mr. Deacon; also has introduced, under the new Act, Mr. Davis with Mr. Sabine, cardmaker, of 3, Russell Court, Catherine Street.

Robert Burns has become a general favourite with both nations, his songs are universally sung, and his sayings are familiar words in every household. We know his life, his failings, and his greatness. His works are past all criticism; like Shakspeare's, we love them with all their faults, because they are his. Mr. Nimmo has therefore done well to issue an edition in which the editor has restored the text to the condition in which Burns left it-restored it to its impurity, as the Bowdlers would assert, but to its primitive purity as all lovers of Burns will say. It is very right and proper that there should be editions fit for boarding-school prizes, but we are delighted to have a genuine Burns, which may well rejoice in the name of the "Crown Edition." It is nicely printed on toned paper, and suitably illustrated. A portrait of the Author, and a well-written life are prefixed, a running glossary explains all the local words or allusions, notes elucidatory of the poems, and their birth and history, are appended, and a number of new facts connected with the poet's life are given. The publisher ought to get through his first twenty thousand copies before Christmas.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, WITH COLOURED PICTURES.-Judging from the style of children's picture books so long in vogue, it might be supposed that anything was good enough, provided the proper quantity of red, blue, and yellow paint was dabbed upon the pictures, which themselves were frequently drawn after the style which appears to have prevailed in China a thousand years R. C., and which has been most religiously perpetuated and handed down from generation to generation, on willow pattern dinner plates. Anything, it was said, would do; the dog in Mother Hubbard's affecting tale might be painted blue or yellow, and the old lady herself a most delicate pea green-it pleased the children quite as well as if Turner had been consulted. But here again some ugly doubts have arisen-first, Messrs. Nelson came into the field with some picture toy books, in which the figures were correctly drawn, and as carefully coloured, in an elegant and novel manner; they took the town by storm, and could not be produced sufficiently fast for the demand. Now Messrs. Warne have come forward in the same direction, and have produced a series of sixpenny and shilling toy books, with coloured plates, which will go far towards banishing the antiquated vulgarities that had too long kept possession of the market. Children must be early taught to love the beautiful; they must no longer be allowed to get their first impressions from tawdry, ill-shapen perversions; and their earliest powers of observation should be directed to models which neither offend correct taste nor are repulsive from any other

cause.

There is some good news for the boys; good boys of course. Mr. Tegg has just published a prime Boy's Holiday Book, full of fun, sports, games, amusements, and pictures. Cricket, Football, Hockey, Hare and Hounds, Quoits, Archery, the Playground, Hoops, Tops and Marbles, Gymnastics, Boating, Swimming, Angling, and Croquet; Rabbits, Dogs and Birds, Chemistry, Photography and the Microscope, Chess and Draughts, Arithmetical Pastimes, and Conjuring, with no end of ingenious Tricks and Riddles all being fully illustrated with capital woodcuts; and making up as good a Boy's Holiday Book as the most voracious schoolboy could wish or desire.

CHEAP ENG RAVINGS.-Books being found to bear so inadequate a profit, the trade are turning their attention to other branches of business which pay better, especially to Chromo-lithographs and Engravings, which, when sold in sheets, are subject to no vexatious discounts, and when framed and glazed are still more profitable. In order to meet the demand which has arisen, and which is steadily on the increase, Mr. Tegg has been turning his attention to the subject, and has recently added several pleasing specimens to his stock. Amongst others, we notice Rubens' Vesper Bell. A peasant boatman and his daughter are paddling their boat, containing an Italian monk, when, as they pass a monastery, they hear the sound of the bell, and instantly resign their paddles in order to unite, their prayers with the fleeting sound. Also, The Keeper Going Out, a large plate, engraved by Shury from a painting by Henry Barraud. In this the figure of the keeper is fully equal to anything Barraud has ever done, the only weakness being the foliage and some other minor points which are not on an equality with the horse and dogs; but taken as a whole, the picture is one that will not fail to please.

Since the formation of the joint-stock company of Moore, McQueen, and Co., that firm has announced a considerable number of plates, chromos, &c., and are now publishing a smagnificent work, "Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Holy Places," by Carl Werner, of which we purpose giving a description in our next.

Messrs. Blackie have added to their list of useful books of reference The Student's English Dictionary, a compact square volume of 826 pages, printed in three, columns. It is edited by Dr. Ogilvie, of Aberdeen, and is based upon the Imperial Lexicon and Comprehensive Dictionary; and contains a large number of small woodcuts of objects such as Zodiac, Zone, Hornbook, Flying-fish, and other things which there is much difficulty in describing in words. The pronunciations are revised by Mr. Cull, and the derivations of the words are given. From the glance we have been able to bestow, we are disposed to think very favourably of the work.

Mr. William Chambers has just issued a useful little volume of Historical Questions, with answers something like the old-fashioned volume of Miss Mangnall, only infinitely better, and brought down to the death of President Lincoln. A second volume of Miscellaneous Questions is to follow. As may readily be expected, the Historical Questions do full justice to the History of Scotland, which country, we are told, contained at the time of the Union only 1,000,000 people, of whom about 100,000 were either beggars or vagrants.

A Guide to the Sea-side has been published by Messrs. Cassell, containing short, well-written descriptions of Margate, Brighton, Scarborough, Hastings, and other fashionable watering-places, with the names of the chief hotels, distances from London, fares, and other matters of interest to persons who think of going out of town for a short time.

Mr. Hardwicke announces a seasonable work on the Diseases of Cattle, by Professor Gamgee, the very first living authority on the subject.

Mesers. Stevens and Haynes, who recently commenced business as law-booksellers and publishers, have issued a handy and apparently very complete catalogue of law books, with a classified index.

pretty stories, each with a coloured illustration by J. D. Watson: they are-Mr. Rutherford's Children; Where they Lived; What they Did, and How they Amused themselves-Carl Krinken, or the Christmas Stocking-and, Casper. The three stories are also printed separately, and form four one-shilling volumes. With these may be classed the Eighteenpenny Series, of which four volumes are ready-"Patient Henry,” a book for boys, by the Author of the " Little Drummer;" Truth and Falsehood, or the Adventures of a Prince," by the same Author; "Tales from Greenland,' by the Author of "Seven Little People and their Friends ;" and an elegant little volume of "Andersen's Tales for the Young."

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The Two Shilling Series consists of neatly printed editions of Sandford and Merton," Evenings at Home," and "Robinson Crusoe," all books of enduring popularity.

The

Warne's Companion Library will possibly, in due course, attain the same dimensions as the "Parlour Library," or even Routledge's famous "Railway Library" at present it contains but three volumes, all by an American Author, and which we are told have been immensely popular in the country of their birth-they are Sutherlands," "Rutledge," and "Christine"in these days of trashy novels of home growth it is quite a relief to get hold of a good American book. Lovers of American humour and bad spelling, will like Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia, a sort of Sam Slick and Artemus Ward rolled into one; in this there are some capital hits at President Lincoln, Mr. Chase. Mr. Seward, and other celebrities of the late war, with lots of ludicrous suggestions.

Having provided so well for the young, it is but just that something should be done for the old, and accordingly we have Bogatzky's Golden Treasury, printed in large type, but in a moderate sized volume, and also an edition in 32mo, for eyes not dimmed with years.

Common Sea Weeds, by Mrs. Lane Clarke, is the first of a series of semi-scientific books, in which science is popularized, and its pursuit rendered attractive-the descriptions of the various weeds are short, simple, and easily understood; the nomenclature is in English, with the Latin names added. It is a handy size, suitable for the pocket, and directions are given with respect to the preservation of weeds. must not omit to add that there are eight full pages of illustrations, printed in the natural colours.

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How we are Governed. By Mr. Albany Fonblanque, jun., and Mr. W. A. Holdsworth, is a new edition of a book formerly issued by Messrs. Routledge; it contains a most complete summary of political matters, with a good infusion of historical matter, and is a book we would like to see very generally studied by the rising generation.

Having gone through the list of Messrs. Warne's Novelties, our readers will agree with us in saying that no new house has ever be fore made a better start. The Trade Catalogue already extends to 48 pages.

Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin have long been famous as caterers for the million, and in this respect have run a most successful career. They have now fairly embarked in the more difficult project of supplying the upper ten thousand with first-class books. The first volume of the French Emperor's Casar was a capital commencement; and the Murrays and Long

mans must look to their laurels, or they may find themselves distanced in the race by their younger and more active competitors. Messrs. Cassell announce an edition of Dante in English, with the magnificent illustrations of Gustave Doré. They are already issuing an edition of Don Quixote, with illustrations by Doré; and have just published a guinea volume of travels of the most interesting description by Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle, of which some notice may be of interest to many of our readers. On the 19th of June, 1862, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle took ship at Liverpool for Quebec, which they reached on the 2nd of July. Thence they began their wonderful journey through the prairies and forests of the Far West, and across the Rocky Mountains to the gold fields of British Columbia and Vancouver's Island,- -a feat never before successfully accomplished, and which in many respects may be said to be the most important journey that has been made within the last half century. This course through the Hudson's Bay territory-now no longer valuable as a hunting-ground-across the continent, was undertaken by our adventurous travellers with the design of discovering the most direct way from Canada to the gold regions of Cariboo, and exploring the unknown country on the western flank of the Rocky Mountains, in the neighbourhood of the sources of the north branch of the Thompson River. But the chief object the travellers had in view was to draw attention to the vast importance of "establishing a highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the British possessions, not only as establishing a connection between the different English colonies in North America, but also as affording a means of more rapid and direct communication with China and Japan." They have established the fact of the practicability of the route; and if the Government wisely take advantage of the knowledge thus obtained, the magnificent country between the Red River and Saskatchewan, on the east of the Rocky Mountains-a region containing 65,000 square miles of country of unsurpassed fertility, abounding in mineral wealth"-will soon be opened out and colonized, and at no great distance of time form one of the most valuable possessions of the British Crown. In a little while the British farmer must supersede the fur-hunter, and the cattle of civilization must drive the wild buffalo from out of his ancient prairies. Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle describe their journey westward with graphic minuteness and pleasant light-heartedness. They soon get away from the busy haunts of civilized men, and enter upon the unknown and strange regions where the Indian and the wild creatures of the woods hold sole possession and exercise unchallenged sway. Hardly had they left the Red River settlements than their troubles began. They found themselves in a country inhabited by hostile tribes of Indians, and but barely escaped attack. With native guides, and good store of horses and provisions, they pushed on towards the prairie; which, and the modes of life pursued by the trappers, are graphically described. They make acquaintance with the wolves and other wild animals, and prepare to winter in the woods. Numerous are the incidents of adventurous life in these primeval regions, at one time losing themselves in the pathless forests; at another in danger from the visits of predatory Indians; and, again, being regularly frozen up, losing their horses, hunting for their food, and endeavouring, unsuccessfully, to outwit the wary wolverine, who follows in