CASPAR'S DIRECTORY. CASPAR'S DIRECTORY is at last ready. We fear that the trade has become weary of announcements of every kind concerning this work; yet at the risk even of becoming more tiresome we again take occasion to call their attention to this remarkable work. Certainly no other trade can boast of a more comprehensive directory than this. It has been objected that Mr. Caspar has attempted too much and has elaborated his subject beyond the proper limits of a trade directory. However plausible such an objection may seem at first sight, it remains a fact that the office of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY (no doubt our con taken. our own experience. Having referred to the book for about four months, we have as yet discovered only four serious errors, chiefly in the spelling of firm names. It is simply impossible to produce an absolutely correct work of this kind for the first time or after many times. Every firm represented in the book received at least one circular asking for particulars; many actually received three or four circulars at different intervals. Through carelessness or indifference many never answered. In those cases the most reliable information obtainable was used. As the material grew, revision upon revision was made up to the time of going to press, and yet, now that the work is done, errors will be found here and there of greater or less importance. Unfortunately a work of this kind is invariably judged by its minor defects. The general correctness and completeness is always lost sight of. It is for the latter, however, that we recommend the work, and for this we hope it will receive the support it so richly deserves. Whatever other directory one may now use this one should find a place with it because it supplements in many ways all its predecessors. The book and stationery trades have long been clamoring for a work of this kind; let them now support the enterprising endeavor that has been made to supply their want. Whatever blemishes it may have can easily be effaced by the coöperation of those who use it constantly. THE D. LOTHROP COMPANY'S BOOKS magazine. illustration there has been eminent achievement, and in both creative design and interpretative engraving and painting, the Old World looks expectantly to the New. The advance is even dignified by the name of the American School' of illustration and engraving. AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. CONCERNING D. Lothrop Company's books at the Paris Exhibition, a correspondent of the Journal of Useful Inventions writes: "While it is true that American painters find a warm recognifrères have the same experience) is besieged tion in European art circles, and an echoed appreciation at home, it is not in painting or sculpalmost daily for just such information as this ture that American art has had its most distinwork covers. As to the first part, the alpha-guished expression. In the one field of book and betical list of firms, there can be no question that it is the most comprehensive yet underThe same may be said of the fourth part, the geographical classification, though this might possibly have been made more useful had the publishers and the dealers been separated in the larger cities. Yet this is a matter that every one who uses the book may correct in a few hours by checking off one or the other branch. As for the fifth part in which the trade branches in the directory are arranged under the various departments, it is simply unique, and worth alone the price of the book to the manufacturer. Indeed, there are few pages in all the 1434 which make up this book that ought to be considered superfluous by any live man in any of the trades represented in the Directory. As to its completeness, then, there is little doubt. The question then arises as to its accuracy. Concerning that we can speak only from "The student and connoisseur of art progress will find in the D. Lothrop Company's exhibit interesting examples of this notable movement. In turning through the bound volumes of their famous magazine, Wide Awake, one is impressed with the broad range of methods employed to secure the most excellent results from thoroughly differing subjects. Foremost are the remarkable renderings by wood-engravings of monotone drawings in waterChase, Sandham, Church, Smedley, Garrett, and color and oil by leading illustrators and painters, others. Advantage is taken of the latest advances in athochromatic photography, and in half-tone engraving by the recently invented photo-etching processes of Ives and of Kurtz, in the enterprising reproductions of old miniatures and paintings by Stuart and others. Then, too, there are the exquisitely delicate etchings of line drawings by Garrett and other masters of graceful technique. Photogravure in the sensitive gelatine methods, and even artistic work by lithography is from time to time employed by this enterprising magazine. Ideal Poems' and Idyls and Pastorals' include a fine series of full-page wood-engravings of the designs of well-known men, Lungren, Hovenden, and others. Edmund Clarence Stedman's whole poem of the Star Bearer' is enriched with a fine engraving after Howard Pyle, printed by hand from the original wood on Japanese silk paper. The charming little volume about that unique artist, Warwick Brookes, has some twentyfive most tender and sympathetic half-tone photoetchings from pencil drawings. "Photogravure of a perfected gelatine type that almost rivals the famous Goupil process in fidelity and richness is employed with great distinctness in the édition de luxe folios of Ten nyson's Holy Grail' and in Idyls and Pastorals.' In Ballads About Authors' the various reproductive processes are judiciously employed with admirable results." THE BOOK TRADE IN THE "DIAMOND FIELD." ON the 13th inst., and at Chicago, was played one of the biggest games of baseball the book trade ever had the honor of being connected with. On the evening of the 11th Henry Kimball, H. Dover, Thos. R. Buchan, J. Parker White, Eugene Hardy, W. B. Walker. J. H. May, Chas. E. Brown. A. E. Turner, Wm. Jacchow, H. N. Reed, Edward C. Swayne, Jno. E. Potter, Jr., David Risley, Jr., T. B. McCauley, and A. K. Burke met at the Palmer House to discuss the subject, Mr. Reed acting as chairman. Mr. H. Kimball was called upon to name the club and chose the name D-Laids, which was unanimously adopted. Edward C. Swayne was elected manager, John B. May, captain, and F. H. Newcombe, official scorer. The club was to meet an impromptu Chicago club-Chicago Booklets-of which E. Lawson, of C. M. Barnes, was manager, and E. J. George, of S. A. Maxwell & Co., captain, at the Northwestern Ball Park. Game was called at 3:15 and the following nines set to work : OBITUARY. JOHN P. MORTON. RIPE in years, distinguished and beloved, and with all the honors which make life worth living, another prominent member of the book trade has passed away. Shortly after noon on the 19th inst., Mr. John P. Morton, head of the publishing house of John P. Morton & Co., of Louisville, Ky., died peacefully, surrounded by his immediate family and relatives. Mr. Morton's illness was a long one, and a complication of diseases was too much for the once strong and sturdy constitution, weakened by sickness and the eightytwo years of active and eventful life. Until a few years ago Mr. Morton was possessed of the best physical health and assumed an active part in the management of his immense business interests. For two or three years, however, his health has been gradually failing and the infirmities of old age have been creeping upon him. Mr. Morton was born in March, 1807, at Lexington, Ky., where his father was a prominent merchant. He was educated at Lancastrian school, at Lexington, and at the age of sixteen was pursuing his studies at Transylvania University. Then his father made a disastrous busiand thrown on his own resources. ness failure, and young Morton was called home The time spent at college had given him a taste for literary pursuits, and he decided to go into a bookstore, as the most suitable and congenial work, and secured a position as clerk in a Lexington establishment. There he applied himself to the business, and when Mr. W. W. Worsely started a bookstore in Louisville, young Morton was engaged, and he was given the active management of the entire concern. A few years later the firm commenced publishing books, and soon the business was carried on under the firm-name of Morton & Smith. The firm then published a daily newspaper called the Focus, which was merged with the Louisville Journal into the Focus-Journal and the wit and scholar George D. Prentice was the editor. This paper might be called the founder and parent of the present Louisville Courier-Journal. The firm of Morton & Smith went into the book publishing business on a very extensive scale and at once jumped into popularity and prominence, especially in the South. The firm was the rival of the great New York and Cincinnati publishers of that day and made a specialty of school-books. Works from the Morton & Smith presses were used extensively throughout the South fifty years ago. As the years passed the business grew and prospered, extensions were made, and the firm was known as one of the leading houses in the Union. Then Morton & Griswold succeeded Morton & Smith, and under that name the firm was known during the twenty years preceding 1858. From that time to the present the firm has been John P. Morton & Co., and up to the present the concern has been known as one of the leading and most progressive publishing houses in the country. Mr. Morton always had the active management of his business and directed all its details until within the past few years, when he gave way to his nephews and business partners, Messrs Alex. and Howard M. Griswold With his great aptitude for business in a business career of more than sixty years of unbroken prosperity, Mr. Morton amassed a large fortune. He was interested in railroad and other enterprises and possessed orange groves and town property in Florida, in the development and progress of which State he always took the keenest interest. Mr. Morton was of a very charitable disposition, and never was a deserving call made upon him in vain, and his gifts to churches, charity, and charitable institutions were many. He was a man of a most modest and retiring disposition, and did not like praise for his deeds of charity. A few years ago he cleared a large sum of money in Short Line bonds, and out of this investment he gave $100,000 for the founding of an Episcopal home for females and infirmary for the sick, and that immense structure now stands a perpetual monument to his memory on Morton Avenue in the eastern part of the city. The institution was, in honor of Mr. Morton, called the Morton Memorial Infirmary, but in accordance with his ideas and at his request the name was changed, and it is now simply the Church Home. All his life Mr. Morton has been a devout Episcopalian, and was one of the first and oldest members of Christ Church. Some years ago he was one of the vestrymen for that congregation, but lately he had taken no active part in the management of the church's affairs, although his friendship and interest remained unabated. trade, but when his time was up he was expected to know everything connected with the art-a very different experience from that of the modern printer's devil. In 1818, four years before Boston was old enough to rank among cities, Mr. Armstrong took his two young apprentices into partnership with him. A few years later Mr. Armstrong began to publish Scott's Family Bible" in six large octavo volumes, the largest work that had then been stereotyped in America. He made so great a success of his courageous undertaking that in 1825 he retired with what in those days represented a fortune, leaving his business to his young associates under the name of Crocker & Brewster, an imprint which was chiefly seen on educational and religious books. Mr. Crocker became the travelling member of the firm and directed the printing office, and Mr. Brewster attended chiefly to the bookselling business. Each in this division followed his special talent and inclination, and steady growth and prosperity were the results. Crocker & Brewster was probably the only bookselling or publishing firm in Boston that lived through the crises of 1837 and 1857. For forty years the sign of Crocker & Brewster hung over the same door which the members of the firm had entered as apprentices, and which had the historical interest of having served in earlier days as the entrance to Paul Revere's shop; then, being unable to make satisfactory arrangements with In spite of large donations to churches and the widow of Mr. Armstrong, they were obliged charities which would have seriously impaired to move to the next house. Here they continued almost any other man's means, Mr. Morton leaves until 1876, when they retired from active busan estate estimated at from $750,000 to $1,000,- iness, selling all their valuable plates and stock 000. His wife was Miss Harriet Griswold. His to H. O. Houghton & Co. A branch store, brother is Henry C. Morton, and his sister is Mrs. established for several years in New York, had M. M. Griswold. He was related to David Mor-long before been sold to Daniel A. Appleton, and ton, and was connected with the Nortons, Heises, from this little plant grew the great publishing and some of the most prominent and wealthy house of D. Appleton & Co. Both partners families in Kentucky. had learned in the old school of merchants that the only way in which money may be made in the ordinary book business is by hard work, careful publishing and buying, strict attention to business, close economy, and saving. In this way they survived panics, resisted temptations to sell at cost, and steered clear of many evils that have now crept not into the book trade alone, but into trade in general. The partners were lifelong friends as well as business associates. The fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversaries of their connection in business were appropriately celebrated in 1868 and 1886 in Mr. Crocker's home, and on both occasions the leading citizens of Boston tendered their cordial congratulations. In financial and mercantile developments Mr. Brewster was an active factor, and in his Legislative labors he was an earnest, upright advocate of proper municipal and commonwealth actions. His public life, though unassuming, was yet conspicuous by fidelity to every duty and by practical efforts in behalf of useful measures. In 1848, 1849, 1850, 1852, and 1856 he was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in 1848 and 1853 he was in the State Senate, and in the latter year he was also a member of the convention for revising the constitution of the commonwealth. In 1856, 1857, and 1858 Mr. Brewster was an efficient member of the Board of Aldermen, and he also served in the directorship of public institutions. In 1861 Mr. Brewster, Mr. Crocker, exMayor Lincoln, and others, all members of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, conceived the idea of establishing a savings bank. An act of incorporation was obtained under the The funeral services were held at Christ Church on Saturday, July 20, and were conducted by the rector, the Rev. Charles E. Craik. The interment was in Cave Hill Cemetery, and was private. The remains were borne to their last restingplace by eight of the deceased gentleman's nephews, and the honorary pall-bearers were Mr. Morton's most intimate friends and closest business associates. OSMYN BREWSTER. OSMYN BREWSTER, formerly of the widelyknown publishing firm of Crocker & Brewster, of Boston, died at his home in that city on Monday, July 15. On July 19, 1887, Uriel Crocker died at his summer residence in Cohasset, Mass. In our issue for July 23, 1887, we gave the history of the long and successful partnership of the two men. The old firm of Crocker & Brewster is hardly remembered by the active publishers and printers of to-day, but in their day they were among the richest and most respected houses in the then flourishing publishing and bookselling business. Mr. Brewster was born in 1797 at Worthington, Mass., and would therefore have been ninety-two years old had he lived until August 2. Mr. Crocker had also celebrated his ninetieth birthday before he died. Mr. Brewster went to Boston in his fifteenth year, and was apprenticed to Samuel T. Armstrong, of 50 Cornhill (now 173 and 175 Washington Street). Here he met Uriel Crocker, who had begun his apprenticeship only two months before. In those days a boy had to serve seven years to learn the printer's name of the Franklin Savings Bank of the City of Boston, and the bank opened its doors for business in July of that year. Meanwhile, Mr. Brewster had been elected its first President and continued in that capacity until 1887, when he declined a reëlection. The officers being unwilling that his connection with the institution should cease, chose him as its first Vice-President, which position he held at his decease. Appropriate resolutions were also adopted at the time expressive of high regard, and Mr. Brewster was requested to sit for an oil painting, which now adorns the banking-room on Boylston Street. For more than a quarter of a century he was Treasurer of the Massachusetts Charitable Association. In 1867 Dartmouth College conferred upon Mr. Brewster the degree of A.M. Mr. Brewster was also active in church work and was connected with the Old South Church. About three months ago Mr. Brewster fell and broke two ribs, and it was feared this would be his final illness. But he recovered in a marvellously short time and was able to attend a meeting of the directors of the National Revere Bank on the 2d of this month. Mr. Brewster was a kindly, genial man, who enjoyed life and liked to see others do so also. The funeral services were held at his residence at 32 Hancock Street, Boston, on Thursday, July 24. Mr. Brewster leaves seven children, twenty-two grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. JAMES RIKER, author of "Annals of Newtown, L. I.," and the "History of Harlem, N. Y.," died at his residence in Waverly, N. Y., July 3. He was born in New York City, May 11, 1822. He was Vice-Principal in a Harlem public school from 1849 to 1855, and after that became connected with the American Home Missionary Society. ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, Professor of Political Economy in Princeton College, died at his home at Princeton, N. J., on the 20th inst. He was born on April 29, 1849, and was graduated at Rutgers College in 1870. He was admitted to the bar at New Brunswick, N. J., 1876, and taught in the Rutgers College Grammar School until 1879, when he became the Principal of the Norwalk Latin School. He was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in Princeton College in 1883, and held that post at the time of his death. He was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and also published a "History of American Politics," The Genesis of a New England State," "Representative American Orations," a "History of the United States for Schools," and a "History of Connecticut." MR. FRANZ THIMM, of Brook Street, New Bond Street, London, died July 6. A Prussian by birth, Mr. Thimm served his apprenticeship with Ascher & Co., of Berlin, but went to London at the age of nineteen, and after a few years established himself as a foreign bookseller and publisher. He wrote a sketch of "The Literature of Germany from its Earliest Period to the Present Time," and a useful volume of "Shaksperiana from 1564 to 1871," an account of the Shakspearian literature of England, France, Germany, and other European countries during three centuries, with bibliographical introductions. Mr. Thimm was also an amateur painter, and had more than once contributed to the exhibition of the Royal Academy. Mr. Thimm retired from business last year, and was succeeded by one of his sons. COPYRIGHT MATTERS. PARIS LITERARY CONGRESS. 46 "THE principal business transacted at the Literary Congress at Paris, over which M. Jules Simon presided," says the London Athenæum of June 29, has been the passing of the following resolutions, which it is to be hoped may be imported into the Convention of Berne, to which nearly every civilized nation, the United States of America excepted, adhered, and has legislated accordingly: 1. As an author's title to his work includes the sole right to translate it, or to authorize its translation, the author, his successors, and assigns enjoy the right of translation during the term of copyright, even though they may not have the sole right to reproduce the work in its original form. 2. There is no reason for an author notifying in any way that he reserves the right of translation. 3. There is no ground for limiting the period during which the author of a book or his representatives may translate it." JOURNALISTIC NOTES. COLONEL DONN PIATT has retired from the editorship of Belford's Magazine. day number-will contain, besides the first chapTHE August Century-the midsummer holiters of Joel Chandler Harris' new serial, two short stories, "The Haunted House in Royal A Positive Street," by George W. Cable, and Romance," by Edward Bellamy, author of "Looking Backward." Scribner's Magazine will celebrate Tennyson's eightieth birthday by the publication in the August_number of an excellent portrait of the poet. Professor T. R. Lounsbury, of Yale, one of the most brilliant and learned of American scholars, has prepared for the same number a paper on Tennyson. THE August Atlantic will be specially notable for a five-page poem by Mr. Lowell. It is said to be not only the longest poem Mr. Lowell has written for years, but the strongest and most felicitous in thought and expression. Its title, 'How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes," suggests something of the nature and charm of the poem. 64 THE Treasure Trove magazine, published by E. L. Kellogg & Co., of New York, has secured a number of prize stories from its boy and girl subscribers, which are now being issued. Two hundred dollars and seventy dollars' worth of books were distributed as prizes. The prize-winstories, the publishers claim, are of very pleasing ners are from all parts of the country, and their variety; indicating a remarkable degree and versatility of talent. Waterman's Journal is the title of an original and refreshing journalistic enterprise started by A. A. Watermann & Co., 36 Bromfield Street, Boston. It discusses current events, social problems, and books, in a thoroughly philosophic and critical spirit, evincing an independence of thought and unconventionality of expression that promise a lively future for the journal. The paper is handsomely printed on excellent paper, and we are glad to see that it promises to be a weekly after Oct. 3, next. Santa Claus, the long-heralded weekly paper for young people, will make its first appearance in October in Philadelphia. A long list of eminent writers has already been secured, and the projectors will aim to make a high-class, original journal of a kind quite new in this country. Topics of the day will be discussed in a manner to interest the young; industrial pursuits will be made prominent, and there will be serials on travel and sports to instruct as well as to amuse the minds of the readers of the paper. THE English socialist magazine, To-Day, has changed its title with the July number, and will Some of de Morny's personal views of men and affairs will be given. MRS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, who has just arrived in London, has undertaken, on behalf of the Associated Literary Press, to edit a ultaneously in several of the larger newspapers "Youths' Department," which will appear simin England and America. Among the early contributors will be Mr. Bret Harte, Mr. Lang, Lord Wolseley, and Sir Robert Ball. A CORRESPONDENT writes to The Critic to say that Miss Winnifred Jennings, youngest daughter of Capt. G. S. Jennings, U. S. A., retired, is the George Truman Kercheval," whose book, henceforth be known as the International Review. It will be edited by Mr. H. M. Hyndman, and be issued at sixpence. The new number contains articles by Annie Besant, Dr. Paul Brousse, Adolphe Smith, and the editor. Amongst those who have promised to contribute to the Inter-"Lorin Mooruck, and other Indian stories," renational Review are Prince Krapotkine, Mr. Walter. Crane, the Rev. Stewart Headlam, Mr. H. S. Salt, and Mr. E. Belfort Bax. LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY, a famous oarswoman, writes on "Rowing" in the August Wide Awake, and the same number has another vacation article about making "Wild-Flower Books" for holiday gift-giving. Olive Risley Seward, in the same issue, tells a real fairy tale of how she and Secretary Seward in one short day saw sights and visited with Laboulaye, and were with Thiers in the first hours of his Presidency; and Andrew Lang relates his experience "Fishing in Tweed and Yarrow" humorously and practically. PERSONAL NOTES. CAPTAIN DANIEL APPLETON, the head of the business department of D. Appleton & Co., was elected on the 19th to succeed Emmons Clark as Colonel of the Seventh Regiment N. G. S. N. Y. Having such a captain what could the Seventh do but place him at its head? We salute the Colonel and felicitate him upon the promotion. AT the Decennial Reunion of the Yale Class of '79, at New Haven, the class song, which was sung to the air of "Amici," was written by Mr. Frederick A. Stokes, of the publishing firm of Frederick A. Stokes & Brother. Mr. Horace A. Stokes, of the same firm, was graduated in the Yale Class of '89, and will enter into active business next autumn, after a summer in Europe. NOTES ON AUTHORS. MR. T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE has finished another series of "Reminiscences," which he will publish in the autumn. ROBERT BROWNING is said to have a new volume of poems in his desk." The London Academy, which has made this discovery, hopes "that the collection may appear as the seventeenth of the new and complete edition of Browning's Poetical Works." ZOLA's newest novel, "La Bête Humaine," contains all the personal experience of life on the railway which the author was so busy in acquiring last winter when he rode on express engines, interviewed traffic managers, travelled with guards, and hobnobbed with porters and signal cently published by J. Stilman Smith, Boston, has been so warmly commended by Herbert Welsh, Edward Everett Hale, and Bishop H. B. Whipple. NOTES ON CATALOGUES. THE PROPOSED RUSKIN BIBLIOGRAPHY. The bibliography of Mr. Ruskin's works to which we referred in our last issue is to take the form of a handsome quarto volume, and will be published by subscription. The entire series of Mr. Ruskin's published writings will be systematically arranged and carefully collated, and it is also proposed to add a full list of Ruskiniana. The bibliography will be arranged in the following manner: Original editions; works edited or prefaced by Mr. Ruskin; his contributions to periodical literature, including poems, letters to the press, essays, etc.; and American reprints and pirated editions. Under the title of "Ruskiniana" a full list of volumes of biography and criticism, reviews, estimates, etc., and published portraits of Professor Ruskin will be added. The work ought to prove useful not only to the collector of rare editions, but also to the student of Ruskin's writings. Catalogues of New and Second-hand Books.David G. Francis, 17 Astor Place, N. Y., new and old books. (No. 92, 32 p., 8°.)-Damascène Morgand, Paris, No. 25 of his valuable catalogue of Antiquarian books. (112 p., 8°.)-Frederick Warne & Co., new catalogue for 1889-90. (32 p., 8°.) LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. T. B. PETERSON & BROS. will send on application to every bookseller and newsdealer in the United States a complete list of the books issued in their new twenty-five cent series with terms and net prices for the same. THE Aldine Club house, at 20 Lafayette Place, was opened informally on the 10th inst., on which day a luncheon was spread for the members and their guests. This club-house in a few years will no doubt rank as the finest in New York. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. will publish in the fall a novel by Jane G. Austin, entitled "Standish of Standish." It is historical in character, and will remind readers of "A Nameless Nobleman." Colonial New England furnishes the setting. P. F. VAN EVEREN'S address in his advertisement in our issue for July 13 was incorrectly given as 116 Nassau St. It ought to have been 60 Ann Street. Mr. Van Everen's name has been so long connected with Nassau Street that the mistake is readily accounted for. |