From art to jurisprudence is a long stride in ethics, but not in bookselling, where Tom Paine may fraternally rub shoulders with Paley without mutual inconvenience. Kay & Bros. have an extensive flock of sheep-bound volumes in preparation, of which the first to appear will be a second edition of "A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States, with an Appendix of Leading Cases," by Francis Wharton, LL.D. Their other announcements include " A Treatise on the Law of Negligence, embracing English and American Authorities," by Francis Wharton; "The Proceedings in an Action at Law in Pennsylvania," by Hon. George Sharswood, edited by George Sharswood, Jr.; Elements of the Law of Contracts," by S. M. Leake, with American notes by Francis Rawle, Esq., and Henry Reed, Esq.; A Treatise on the Law of Notice as applied in Equity, in controlling the Acquisition and Enjoyment of Titles, iucluding the Doctrine of Purchase for Value, and of Equitable Assignments," by George Tucker Bispham, Esq.; "The Pennsylvania Act of 1853 for the Sale of Real Estate," by Eli K. Price, Esq.; " A Treatise on the Legal and Equitable Rights of Married Women," by William H. Cord, Esq., second edition; and "A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators," by Edward Vaughan Williams, Judge, sixth edition, with notes and references by J. C. Perkins, LL.D., 2 vols. Henry Flanders' "Treatise on the Law of Fire Insurance" has enjoyed the unusual good fortune for a law book, of reaching a second edition within eighteen months of its first appearance. The new edition has been thoroughly revised, and the latest cases embodied. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger will publish it shortly. By the time this is in print, Porter & Coates will have published Madame Schwartz' new novel, "Gerda, or the Children of Work." Their advance orders for the book have been very large. "The Sportsman's Club Afloat," the new volume of the Harry Castlemon books, has also appeared. The gold medal awarded T. Ellwood Zell for his Encyclopædia, at the Vienna Exposition, has arrived in Philadelphia. It is a substantial nugget, weighing four ounces, but is not remarkable for its artistic execution. T. B. Peterson & Bros.' announcements for May are as follows: "The Planter's Daughter," by Mrs. Eliza A. Dupuy; "Love and Liberty," a tale of 92 and '93, by Alexander Dumas; " Margaret Hamilton," by Mrs. C. J. Newby; and "The Conscript," by Alexander Dumas. These will be followed by "The Autobiography of Edward Wortley Montague," with a preface by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie; and "The Tower of London," by William Harrison Ainsworth, with illustrations. J. V. W. BOOKS RECEIVED. first volume of the above work has only been issued as yet. It will, completed, form the third work of the new edition, now publishing with the author's latest corrections. It is a pleasure to merely handle the volumes of this edition, the entire get-up evinces such exquisite taste. 12mo, cloth, $2.25. DEVEREUX, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) The last issue of the "Lord Lytton Edition." 12mo, cloth, $1.50. FROM Carter & Bros. we have received three other Parables," by Edward Henry Bickersteth, new books for the young folks-" The Reef, and cloth, $1.25; author of "Yesterday, To-day, and Forever," 16mo, "Mabel Hazard's Thoroughfare," by the author of the "Win and Wear" series, 16mo, cloth, $1.25; "The Gospel and its Fruits," by J. H. Wilson, M. A., 16mo, cloth, $1.25. SIMPLIFIED INTEREST TABLES, by Henry W. Law. (A. J. Kendall.) A most admirable and practicable method of computing interest. One of the fullest books of the kind in the market, and one of the cheapest. For all the particulars in reference to it we refer to the advertisement in this number. Folio, cloth, $3. THE MAID OF ORLEANS, by George H. Calvert. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) An historical tragedy in five acts, having for its central figure the unfortunate Joan of Arc. The little book is exquisitely gotten up, bound in white and gold and printed on creamy, satin-like paper. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. HANDBOOK OF STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, compiled by M. C. Spaulding. (G. P. information concerning our finances, under each Putnam's Sons.) Full of interesting and valuable administration, with a record of the various events of each Presidential term, with the statistics of every branch or department of government. In Handy Book the neat brown covers of the " Series." 12mo, cloth, $1.00. TRUTHS FOR TO-DAY, by David Swing (Jansen, McClurg & Co.) A number of very able sermons by a most eloquent and brilliant divine, delivered Chicago, during the past winter. The typographifrom the pulpit of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, The fine clear type in which it is presented makes cal excellence of the book must also be praised, it one of the most attractive publications out. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. ENGLAND POLITICAL AND SOCIAL, by Auguste Laugel. Translated by Prof. James Morgan Hart. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) M. Laugel tary to the Duc d'Aumale, and in this way became was for many years in England, as private secreperfectly familiar with the language, literature, society and institutions of that country. His essays are not alone remarkable, however, for their candor and justness-the style in which they are written is something quite beyond the average esit, retaining in his translation all the originality of sayist. Prof. Hart has done thorough justice to GUY MANNERING, by Sir Walter Scott. (E. J. Hale & Son.) A new and very beautiful edition of the Waverly Novels, known as the "Thistle Edi-expression and epigrammatic terseness which distinguishes the French. 12mo. cloth, $1.50. tion," is publishing by the Hales. "Guy Mannering," in two volumes, makes the third and fourth volumes of the series. It will contain most of the illustrations of the Abbotsford edition, and is handsomely printed on tinted paper. The binding is also quite pretty, being in green cloth, having a medallion of Scott, surmounted by a thistle, stamped on the front cover, in black and gold. 16mo, cloth, $1.50 CONQUEST OF PERU, by W. H. Prescott, edited by J. Foster Kirk. (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) The LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. MR. ALBERT MASON, of the well-known firm of Mason, Baker & Pratt, is again at his post, with restored health. His many friends will be glad to know his trip abroad has benefited him. MR. HENRY M. WYNKOOP, formerly with Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, is now the agent of Henry L. Hinton & Co., having severed all business connections with the first named firm. THE story that has been circulating through the papers that" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, on account of ill-health, will not give to the public anything from her pen for several years to come is authoritatively denied, as Mrs. Stowe is in excellent health, and will soon commence in the Christian Union "We and our Neighbors," a story in part illustrating the temperance agitation, on which she has been working the past year. 66 THE lectures of Prof. Peabody, of Harvard College, on "Christianity and Science," lately delivered in Dr. Adams' Church, New York, on the Ely Foundation of the Union Theological Seminary, are to be published in the early Autumn by Robert Carter Brothers, uniform with Dr. McCosh's Christianity and Positivism" of the same series. These lectures, setting forth the evidences of Christianity with great originality, clearness, and force, were listened to during their delivery with unflagging interest by clergymen of various denominations, judges, lawyers, medical and unprofessional men, and ladies also. To these, and to the large outside public who were not privileged to hear them, the volume will be cordially welcome. A VERY handsome compliment is paid to American Scholarship in a circular of many wellknown Birmingham men, commending Mr. Furness' Shakespeare: "So elaborate and costly a publication can, under no circumstances, repay its editor for his labor of love and his untiring industry; and it is, therefore, thought desirable, in the interests of international literature, that an edition of Shakespeare edited and printed in America, so well worthy of support, should be more widely with quite a number of American librarians and find a strong feeling in favor of an early publica| tion. Mr. Poole, I understand, has the work in an advanced stage, and could probably be induced to publish. I propose a subscription list in the "Corner" after the plan of the Finding List subscription. Prof. Montague, Librarian of Amherst College, says he wants six copies and will start the list with $100, rather than not have them. Let us hear from our large libraries which have incomes of dollars where Amherst has dimes, and the Index will be forthcoming. Who will follow the lead of Amherst ? M. B. AMHERST, Mass., has a new free library, whose history, in summary, may help some other town desirous of a like institution. In January, 1873, a few persons feeling the need, organized a Book Club of 24 members, paying each $5 into the book fund and agreeing to give their books to a free library when it should be established. In the summer the book club held a three days' fair, furnishing dinner and supper each day beside. This cleared, above expenses, $700, and was in itself so thoroughly enjoyable to all concerned that it paid for itself again. Then a Library Association" was formed, all becoming members who gave above $5 toward the prospective library. During the summer and fall the old book club had held, every week or two, public library meetings, both in the centre of the town and in the school-houses of adjoining parts, they calling attention to the need of a library, so that when the subscription paper was passed around, $700 more was raised and the library really started. Many books were at once presented and continue to come in, as is always the case in every free library, and $1,000 expended on books secured about 1,000 volumes at the liberal discount of 1-3 and 5 per cent. for cash. Two very pleasant rooms were rented for $75; $200 more fitted them with cases, tables, newspaper files, carpet, stove, lamps, &c.; about $100 more supplied a selection of 28 pages cost $28; book plates, rules, &c., cost of the best periodicals; 300 copies of the catalogue $12 more. Miss Beaman gives her service as liBy a misunderstanding we printed Oliver's "Am-brarian for $50 a year, and a young man of public erican Precedents" in our list of books published; spirit opens the reading-room each evening withthe publishers, Dresser, McLellan & Co., Port-out any compensation. The rooms are very pleasland, now inform us that it will not be ready until ant, and crowds visit the library. Amherst is June 15th. largely indebted for the excellent arrangements of its library to Dr. Cate, who visited in its interest several of the best-managed free libraries, getting methods and suggestions which he has with economy and good judgment applied to the library at Amherst. known." RANDOLPH has become the publisher of "The Lectures to Educated Hindus," delivered by Prof. Julius H. Seelye during his late visit to India. A NEW and revised English edition of Stanley's "How I found Livingstone," to contain a long introductory chapter on the death of Dr. Livingstone, and a memoir and extracts from Dr. Livingstone's last correspondence with Mr. Stanley, will soon appear. LIBRARY CORNER. "The Library Corner" seems the place to agitate the subject of a new edition of "Poole's Index to Periodical Literature." Librarians on all sides express a great desire for such an index, brought up to date. Quite a large number are making MSS. supplements, expensive and troublesome in making, and cumbrous and unsatisfactory in use. Now, in an age of cheap printing, it seems economy to have this work done, and it may be done if those who feel the need will respond with subscriptions enough to justify publication. One who has really used Poole's will hardly go without something of the kind, and could afford a liberal subscription rather than make MSS. supplements. The American and English libraries need and ought to have at once an index list down to date, supplemented each year hereafter, and as often as each ten years condensed into one alphabet. We might very properly look to the Congressional Library to produce the work, but just now things are not well situated at Washington for much extra labor in the library. I have talked BUSINESS CHANGES. NEW YORK CITY.-Waldron & Payne have removed their printing business from 37 Park Row to No. 4 St. Mark's Place (American Church Press Co.), where they are prepared to do book and job printing in all its branches. NEW YORK CITY.-Mr. Henry S. Allen, formerly a member of the firm of Leavitt & Allen Bros., whose partnership expired by limitation February last, has established himself at No. 136 Eighth street, very near Broadway, with a view to publishing subscription books. He has in preparation, as his first venture, a History of America, from its ear liest discovery to the present time, by eminent and popular authors, containing upward of 1000 pages, 4to., fully illustrated with photo-engravings from steel plates by our best artists. Stationery Department. MAY 2, 1874. Published in the first number of each month. Stationery and Fancy Goods. THE trade in Stationery and Fancy Goods during the past month has been very dull, and both dealers and importers complain that unless there is a great revival of trade, many will be placed in a very tight position. circumstances. It was anticipated that the Spring would bring about a revival of business, but in this there has been a general dissappointment owing to many It was thought that the currency question then pending would have been settled in time to have allowed the trade to recuperate and bring about the ordinary Spring demand. But Congressional action came too late and unless the matter was finally decided by the presidential veto, the time was passed, and all hope of Spring trade gone with it. This is probably the chief cause of the present dullness, but there may be added another, that is the final effect of the late panic. This monetary convulsion struck so deep and disturbed the finances of the country to such an extent that recovery cannot be so quick as many thought it would be. Money and credit have not yet returned to their customary channels, and until this comes about business must suffer. The situation, however, is mending every day, and the system of strict credits have been so universally adopted, will undoubtedly hasten the desired end. It would be well if the trade generally refused to return to the former system of long credits, as it is not a safe business principle, and certainly not to be depended upon at any time when an extra pressure is brought to bear upon the market. But now thirty days' cash, or credit not exceeding ninety days is the plan almost universally adopted, but the latter time only give in the most approved cases. If this rule is adhered to it will do much toward removing the present depression. In stationery there is nothing new upon the prevailing styles, but we are told that they are very handsome, and that skins and leather will predominate for Winter goods. Bags,valises, umbrellas, flasks, and the ordinary run of travelers' goods which should now meet with a ready sale share the general stagnation, and only such goods are sold as meet the immediate wants of the retailer. The importers are waiting patiently until the Fall and are satisfied to keep their new goods quiet until that time. They then expect a good trade which will more than compen sate them for the present. We desire to call attention to the removal of Mr. Willy Wallach, for many years established at No. 41 John Street. Mr. Wallach has secured the extensive establishment known as No. 36 Park Row, No. 143 Nassau Street and No. 4 Beekman Street. Here Mr. Wallach will engage in a general wholesale jobbing and retail trade and endeavor to sustain that reputation for fine goods which he has always enjoyed. MCLOUGHLIN BROS. present to the trade a number of new games, of "Nations," "Old Maid," "The Spider and the Fly," and "Authors, improved," $3.00 per doz., the first of which is arranged in suits like the ordinary playing cards, and can be used as a substitute. The well-known popularity of their issues will make these goods sought after by the trade. The house has also some new series of linen books, four kinds in 12m0. at 25 c., twelve kinds in 12mo. at 35 c., twelve kinds in 8vo. at 50 c., and four kinds in 4to. at 60 c., besides binding up Aunt Louisa's favorite stories in one volume, cloth, $2, and issuing a new "Mother Goose set to Music" at $1. English Novelties. From Perry's Monthly Price Current. PERRY & Co.'s VITROGRAPH PENCIL.-This is a pencil constructed upon an entirely new principle, which enables the user to write with a blue or yellow mark upon shop windows, porcelain, metal, or other vitrous surface, such as paper, wood, &c. It resembles an eraser in appearance -can be sharpened with a knife like other penmarket, and as we have said no trade doing, excils, and as a marker on woven textures it will cept in standard articles. The season has been rank amongst the very foremost novelties of the wonderfully unproductive of novelties from the fact that manufacturers have been unwilling to in- day. It cannot fail to commend itself to the trade and to shippers, as it retails at 3d. each. Vest their capital in enterprises that seemed doubtful. Many of the large wholesale houses sent out their travelers over a month ago to endeavor to drum up trade in the smaller towns and the rural districts, but the results were so meagre that most of them have been recalled. They report that the country trade is as dull as in the cities, and that those who have stock left from last season prefer to sell it off even at a loss in preference to purchasing new goods. Spring trade in fact is looked upon as lost, and such being the case nothing is expected until the Fall trade begins, unless it be small orders through the Summer, from those who need the goods to satisfy immediate demands. The fancy goods trade is circumstanced about the same as the stationery trade. Dealers complain of a lack of business, and aver that they have never experienced so dull a season. Some few cases of samples have arrived from Paris, London, and Vienna, but owing to the prevailing stagnation the samples have not been exposed. We are, therefore, unable to give any idea of the PARLOR ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-We have received from Moon & Co. this amusing and instructive apparatus, which enables any one, young or old, to understand the electric principle of the telegraph, and how it is worked. It comprises a single-needle instrument, with alphabet on dial, mahogany stand, galvanic battery, connecting wires, and full instructions complete in a small box, not bigger than a snuff-box. Undoubtedly this is a marvellously entertaining, instructive, and scientific toy, designed to call out and cultivate the reflective and reasoning power of children. When we mention that it can be retailed at Is. 6d., we should think it would find a welcome as a companion for the family and the fireside in many a home, and even in schools. The same firm are bringing out two others of the same kind, one to retail at 5s., the other, a perfect model of the post-office instrument, and in the general estimation not a whit behind it, as far as merit and completeness is concerned. This retails at one guinea. Sold by Perry & Co. STATIONERY PRICE-CURRENT. The following List, including only the most prominent articles, will be gradually completed according to the encouragement our endeavors to represent the Stationery and accessory trades, as well as the Booktrade-may receive from the Manufacturers, Importers, and Wholesale Dealers in these particular branches. Suggestions are solicited from the Retail trade as well as from Wholesale Dealers. The Price-Current will, until further notice, appear monthly, in the Stationery Number of the Publishers' Weekly (the first number of each month). Stephen's Fluid and Copying. Blue-Black Writing Fluid, quarts..... 44 66 pints... Per doz. Demy, 14x18-2 sheet.. " 1.10 ........................................... 1.75 ............. 2.25 -2 sheet............................ 1.50 66 -3 -4 66 -3 ............. 66 Medium, 16x20 -2 sheet... .......... 3.25 half pints............. 1.75 Copying Fluid, quarts...................10.00 pints....... ............. 5.50 Royal, 18x221⁄2half pints... 3.25 Veuve Adrien Maurin et G. Toiray, Inks. La Syrienne Violet Black Copying, quarts.......... .$9.00 pints........... 6.00 La Persane Jet Black Writing Fluid, quarts......... 9.00 pints.......... 6.00 |