ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS. Publishers' First Announcements. From the New York Commercial Advertiser for Week ending February 16. FEB. 10. D. Appleton & Co.:-My Story, by the author of Patty;- Scribner, Armstrong & Co.:-Ewaldi, Antiquities of FEB. 11. Henry Holt & Co.:-Colonel Cheeney's Essay on Military Biography;-Conway's Sacred Anthology. FEB. 12. D. Appleton & Co.:-The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, United States Senator and Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States, by J. W. Schuckers, for many years Private Secretary to Mr. Chase. Hurd & Houghton..-The Letters of Lord Macaulay, uniform with our complete edition of his works. G. W. Carleton & Co.:-Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, from the French of Bélot;-The Pale Countess, from the German of Wachenhusen. FEB. 14. Scribner, Armstrong & Co-Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow, by Mrs. M. C. Despard;-Dr. Middleton's Daughter;--Charles and Mary Lamb, their Poems, Letters, and Remains, by W. Carew Hazlitt;-On Viol and Flute, by E. W. Cope;-The Story of an Ass and of Two Little Girls, translated from the French. Harper & Bros.:-Angus Fairbairn;-Mr. Shindy's Adventures in Search of Liberty;-Edith Dewar ;-Lady Liv ingston's Legacy;-Patricia Kemball ;-Philip Leigh ;Mrs. Greville, the Story of a Woman's Life:-Georgie Lisle Anti-Sillyas; or, The Modern Odyssey;-John Fenn's Wife. FEB. 16. Henry Holt & Co.:-The Comedy of To-Day (La Comédie de nos jours), by Bertall. James R. Osgood & Co.:-History of a Book ;-Golden Days;-The House of Raby;-Abel Drake's Wife: -Too Late-Margaret and Elizabeth, by Katherine Saunders:The Great World in France;-My Story, by Mrs. Macquoid;-Between Two Fires;-The Queen of the Regiment;-Annie's Story;-Tales from the Field;-Lottie Darling:-Nathaniel Vaughan. SUPPLEMENT TO THE EDUCATIONAL CATALOGUE FOR 1873. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 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The Reform Movement. ...28s. remedy suggested at both the East and the West, OUR readers will find in our reading columns a and by the publisher and bookseller, give us the report of the proceedings of the general Conven- highest hope that this year will mark the beginning tion, and in our advertising pages the official of a reform for which the trade has been crying out minutes of the meeting of the Publishers' Board for years. Both conventions were national in their of Trade, held simultaneously in Cincinnati and scope, but it so happens that one is made up enNew York. The essential unity of the feeling dis-tirely of publishers and chiefly of Easterners, and played in both these gatherings, the similarity of the other chiefly of booksellers and Westerners. That both of them felt in most part alike, both as to the needs and the methods of reform, shows that the trade has at last very nearly learned the needed lesson that it is a common guild, and not a mere congregation of opposing parties. Our space is so occupied this week with these reports and other special features that we are forced to postpone to another number the detailed discussion of the work of each, which we should otherwise enter upon. It must suffice now to say that we believe that the future of the book trade depends largely upon the adoption by the pub. lishers of the suggestions so wisely and temperate ly put forth at the West. To one or two points, such as the restrictions on "books by mail," the publishers will scarcely agree. On another, the desirability of abolishing the trade sales, they seem to agree almost unanimously. The main question, the utter abolition of underselling, and the reducing of discounts and prices to that end, is that on which all else depends, and will form the topic of discussion in the trade probably for months before a definite arrangement is agreed upon. For ourselves, we believe that the most stringent rules will be in this case the most wise, and we heartily support the Convention's utterance on these points. We suppose, however, that for the present allowances must be made; the millennium cannot, we fear, be reached at one jump. We believe that the publishers will find that they have as much reason to be grateful to the Convention at Cincinnati as the retailers, and we bespeak a hearty reception of its delegate by them when he comes East. We propose to enter upon a careful comparative discussion of the two meetings and their outcome in our next issue; meantime we heartily congratulate the trade on the good work of the meeting at Cincinnati, and the receptive attitude of that at New York. The Book Trade Convention. THE long-desired convention of the trade, at last called by the "Booksellers' Protective Union," met in Cincinnati, Thursday, February 12. The Executive Committee of the Union held a session at the Burnet House, which was the general headquarters, in the forenoon, and then adopted a series of resolutions, embodying the points likely to come up for discussion, to be laid before the convention as the basis of debate and action. These were put in type immediately, and every member of the convention was supplied with a printed copy immediately on its assembling. Having the main points thus in definite shape greatly expedited the whole business of the convention, and we may say that to this wise foresight of the committee was due much of the success of the general meeting. It is the common difficulty of most conventions that much time is wasted in or ganizing, in getting things in shape to be talked about, and in talking wide of the mark thereafter, This convention, thanks to the committee, committed no such blunders; its talk and its work were to the point, and exceedingly harmonious. The convention itself met in the Board of Trade Rooms, kindly proffered for the purpose, at 2 o'clock. The stranger could not but be impressed with the excellence of its materiel. We had feared that the demoralization of the trade had already driven out of the business, at the West, as elsewhere, its best and ablest men; but the representatives in this convention proved that there was yet good material left to work with. There were those present, however, who had very nearly deci ded to give up the book business as unprofitable, but who were looking to see what could be accom We cannot too strongly urge upon the trade at large-publishers, jobbers, and booksellers-that they forward the good work of reform by becoming members of the "American Book Trade Union." The forwarding of one dollar to Mr. J. W. Gunn, Springfield, Ohio, who is the corresponding secretary, with authority to him to sign the constitution for the remitter, is all that is necessary to membership, certificates of which will be returned by him. This act does not bind to any line of action, but helps to unite the trade in an associa-plished for reform before they took the step. For tion whose aim is to carry out generally desired reforms by the methods which shall seem most generally suitable. Let the work of the Convention in forming an association on so broad and liberal a basis, be heartily and promptly responded to by the trade. strength, ability, and earnestness in its members, the convention compared favorably with any gathering of its kind. The call invited all classes of the trade from all parts of the country; about fifty members were present, and the secretary reported about a hundred and fifty letters of endorsement and cards regretting inability to aid AT the late Convention, it was suggested that personally in the work of the convention, as resome method of exchange among booksellers,ceived by mail and by telegraph. These extended from Massachusetts to beyond the Mississippi, and from Alabama and Virginia to Michigan. As must be the case in conventions in this great country, except the Presidential nominating convention, the personnel was largely from neighboring States, and the majority were retailers. Mr. Setliff came from Nashville, Tenn., as the delegate of the local association there, his credentials signed by eleven houses of that city; the Cincinnati publishing and jobbing houses were represented and there were some from the East. We give as nearly complete a list of those present as we could obtain : J. S. Alspaugh, for J. S. Alspaugh & Sister, Wapakaneta, Ohio. Charles Anthony, Springfield, Ohio. Isaac C. Aston, of Randall & Aston, Columbus, Ohio. R. D. Barney, of Robert Clarke & Co., Cincin nati, Ohio. W. II. Thalheimer, of Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. John H. Thomas, of John H. Thomas & Co., Dayton, Ohio. J. C. Trader & Co., Xenia, Ohio. The gathering was fairly representative, and we were glad to see that its tone was so thoroughly in the right spirit. Its members seemed permeated by the feeling that there was but one interest in the trade, and that the publisher and bookseller were in unity, and not in opposition in all trade matters. FIRST SESSION. Mr. Abel Low, of Springfield, Ohio, President of the Booksellers' Union, called the convention to order, and introduced Mr. John H. Thomas, of Dayton, who, in behalf of the Executive Com R. R. Bowker, literary editor of the N. Y.mittee, read the following address: Evening Mail and associate editor of the PUBLISH ERS' WEEKLY, New York. It has devolved upon me by appointment of the Executive Committee to welcome you, fellow George B. Brown, of Brown & Faunce, Toledo, members of the book trade, to this our first organOhio. Thomas D. Hubbard, of Hubbard & Jones, Columbus, Ohio. Charles Humphrey, Adrian, Michigan. C. L. Kurtz, of Kurtz & Norris, Athens, Ohio. ized general meeting. The first suggestions towards such an organization came, I believe, from Mr. Leypoldt, the editor of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, to whom we all owe so much for his exertions for the promotion of the interests of the trade, but it is because it is a want that has been generally felt by the trade that there is such a gathering here to-day. Last fall there was a meeting of the booksellers in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, of which this is an adjourned meeting; but it is more than that. Such a general response was made to that call, such an appreciation of the need of such an organization was shown by booksellers all over the country, that we may justly take steps to form a union of the booksellers of the country. Our meeting to-day is an experiment, but to make it a success it is only necessary for us to act wisely, calmly, and not rashly. We are not here to make a corner in books, and to raise their price at the expense of the public, as has been suggested by a correspondent of the WEEKLY, nor even to keep up the extravagant prices that some of them have reached. The man who thinks a T. C. O'Kane, of T. C. O'Kane & Co., Dela-meeting of booksellers can fix the price of books ware, Ohio. Ohio. W. Olds, of L. N. Olds & Sons, Circleville, A. F. Payne, of Payne, Holden & Co., Dayton, Ohio. George Perkins, of Hiram Yeo & Co., Chillicotte, Ohio. Charles N. Pover, Superintendent Cincinnati News Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. C. E. Richards, of Thomas Nelson & Son, New York. all over the United States has had little experience in bookselling, and has less knowledge of political economy. Nor are we here as salesmen of the publishers to make useless complaints or unfounded statements to them, as one of them has smartly suggested in the WEEKLY. We are here to show the public and the publishers that we understand our business, and are awake to its faults and its needs, and to take such steps as will remove the one and satisfy the other. A union of booksellers may accomplish much Howard L. Ross, of Howard L. Ross & Co., for their common interest. What we need most Hamilton, Ohio. Newell Sanders, Bloomington, Indiana. A. Setliff, representing booksellers of Nashville, Tennessee. W. Sherrill, of Sherrill & Henshaw, Louisville, Kentucky. Rev. William Shuey, of the United Brethren Publishing House, Cincinnati, Ohio. W. H Stanage, of Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. George E. Stevens, of George E. Stevens & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. of all is an organization, with its proper officers and committees, through which we can act together and make our influence felt. If a bookseller has a complaint against a publisher, there should be a committee to ask for redress, and if it is known that unfair dealing on the part of a publisher toward one bookseller is made known to all and felt by all there will be far fewer occasions for complaint. There should be a committee to consider deliberately the difficult question of a remedy for underselling and for the irregularity of prices that now prevails, and whether the true remedy is |