History (The) of A apple pie. N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons, [1889.] no paging, il. F. pap.,

40 c.

Colored pictures and letters.

Inventor's manual: how to work a patent to make it pay; by an experienced and successful inventor. N. Y., J. F. Davison & Co., Box 234, Equitable Building, 1889. c. 98 p. S. cl., $1.

The author, who withholds his name, in the fear that he would be overwhelmed with applications for more advice, says the object of the present work is "to give the inventor and patentee some hints on patents generally, together with information on ways of exhibiting inventions, bringing them to public notice, and effecting sales."

Kapp, Gisbert. Alternate-current machinery. N. Y., D. Van Nostrand Co., 1889. 3-199 p. T. (Van Nostrand sci. ser., no. 96.) bds., 50 c. Reprinted from the minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. The subject comprised under the title of this monograph naturally divides itself into the following sub-sections: 1, Alternators; 2, Transformers; 3, Motors; 4, Meters; 5, Mains; and 6, Accessory apparatus for use in central stations and on the premises of the persons supplied with current from such stations.

Lauridsen, P: Vitus Bering: the discoverer of Bering Strait; rev. by the author, and tr. from the Danish by Julius E. Olsen; with an introduction to the American ed. by F: Schwatka. Chic., S. C. Griggs & Co., 1889. c. 16+215 p. maps, D. cl., $1.25.

A record of the Russian explorations from 1725 to 1743 under Bering, who carried his expedition six thousand miles across a wilderness and launched it on the shores of an unknown sea. By the acquisition of Alaska the people of this country have now a special interest in the field of Bering's labor, and this work will be found a valuable addition to American historical geography.

Lindsay, Lady. About robins: songs, facts, and legends, collected and il. by Lady Lindsay. N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons, [1889.] 7-115 p. O. bds., $2.

Selected literature about robins; the first part is devoted to extracts describing their manners and_customs; the second to poems from Chaucer, Herrick, Cowper, Lowell, Whittier, and others; the third to nursery ditties and traditions. The illustrations are full-page pictures in colors.

Little wide-awake: an illustrated magazine for children; ed. by Mrs. Sale Barker; il. by Lucien Davis, M. Ellen Edwards, F. A. Fraser, Harrison Weir, and others. N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons, 1890 [1889.] 4+376 p. O. cl., $2; bds., $1.50.

Contains all of the stories of "Jerry," "Queerland and who lived there," and "Rose and thistle; " also many short stories and poems and pieces to amuse very young children. Many pictures; colored frontispiece. Lothrop's annual, by the best American authors

and the best American artists. Bost., D. Lothrop Co., [1889.] 251 p. il. Q. cl., $2; bds., $1.50.

II. with a number of beautifully printed full-page pictures in delicate colors; contains also many other fullpage and text pictures and excellent reading-matter. Lowell, A. Lawrence. Essays on government. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889. 2+229 p. D. cl., $1.25.

Contents: 1, Cabinet responsibility and the constitu

tion. 2, Democracy and the constitution. 3. The responsibility of American lawyers. 4, The theory of the ocial compact. 5. The limits of sovereignty. Index. Lyall, Edna, [pseud. for Ada Ellen Bayly.] A hardy Norseman. N. Y., J: W. Lovell Co., [1889.] 434 p. S. (Lovell's lib., no. 1440.) pap.,

20 C.

Metzerott, Shoemaker. N. Y., T: Y. Crowell & Co., [1889.] c. 3-373 p. D. cl., $1.50.

"It is a novel written with a high ethical purpose, and yet it never descends to the level of mere didacticisms.

The scene is placed among the German population of an American city, but into this focus are brought many of the principal forces that are now moulding our national life. Karl Metzerott, after whom the book is named, is a socialist, and he lives to see the tree of socialism bear both sweet and bitter fruit. Then there is Father McCloskey, the brilliant Romanist, given to sharp speeches and kind deeds; Ernest Clare, the sincere, frank, devoted, unselfish preacher: Henry Randolph, the proud, unscrupulous capitalist; Dr. Richards, the atheist who demonstrates the great truth that character is more than creed; Louis Metzerott, a martyr to his faith; and all the delightful company that gathered about the centre of coöperative experiment known as Prices -an experiment which might easily be put into practice on the lines laid down by the author, so definite is the plan and so careful the exposition of its workings."-Boston Bea

con.

*Mills, Wesley, M.D. A text-book of animal physiology; with introductory chapters on general biology and a full treatment of reproduction, for students of human and comparative medicine. N. Y., Appleton, 1889. il. O. cl.. $5; shp., $6.

*Montana Territory. Supreme court. Reports of cases at the July term, 1888, and the Jan. term, 1889; by Horace R. Buck, rep. V. 8. San Francisco, Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1889. c. 22+576 p. O. shp., $6.

Munson, Ja. E. The phrase book of practical phonography. N. Y., J. E. Munson, 1889. c. '79. 188 p. D. cl., $2.

Contents: A list of useful phrases, printed in phonographic outlines: a complete and thorough treatise on the art of phraseography: a table of the abbreviations of "Practical phonography," in outline; exercises for practice on the phrases, etc., etc. This volume has been for several years out of print; the present edition is printed from the original plates of the earlier editions, without alteration or change.

Nichols, W. F. Topics in geography.

Bost.,

D. C. Heath & Co., 1889. c. 2+174 p. D. cl., 50 c.

A handbook for pupils.

Nursery rhymes. N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons,
[1889.] no paging, il. Q. pap., 20 c.
Colored pictures.

Old Mother Goose's rhymes and tales; il. by
Constance Haslewood. N. Y., F: Warne &
Co., 1889. 48 p. O. bds., $1.
Colored pictures on every page.

Peale, Margaret. In the time of the cherry
viewing: an episode in Japan. N. Y., G: P.
Putnam's Sons, 1889. c. 127 p. S. pap., 25 c.
A young, rich, unmarried New England girl, suffering
from nervous prostration, joins her cousin and his wife in
a trip to Japan. On the steamer she meets a gentleman,
who she believes is the buyer of a Chicago bric-a-brac
house. He is clever and cynical, and possessed of a fund
of information regarding Japanese curio. The little epi-
sode that follows, when they go ashore for a few days at
Yokohama and witness the festival of "the cher y view-
ing" is described with a charming wit and humor.
*Pfeiffer, C: American mansions and cottages.
Bost., Ticknor & Co., 1889. 100 pl. in port-
folio, F. $10.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, [now Mrs. Herbert D. Ward.] The struggle for immortality. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889. c. 3+245 p. D. cl., $1.25.

A book of peculiar interest to thoughtful readers. The author treats in her own peculiar vein the following subjects: What is a fact? Is God good? What does revelation reveal? The struggle for immortality; The Christianity of Christ: The psychical opportunity: The psychical wave. Several of the essays are reprinted from the North American Review and The Forum.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, [now Mrs. Herbert D. Ward]. A lost winter; il. by Mary Cecilia Spaulding. Bost., D. Lothrop Co., [1889.] no paging, il. obl. Q. cl., $3; full mor., $8. Miss Phelps' poem celebrates the beauties of a southern winter spent in Florida-the "lost winter" being the northern one of ice and snow. It is illustrated by a num. ber of page pictures, printed in tints, of flowers, fruits, and landscapes. Bound in gold cloth.

*Philbrick, J. D. Life and services of John D. Philbrick papers by various writers. Chic., New England Pub. Co., 1889. 225 p. por, D.

cl., $1.

Admiral Porter has laid the scene of his romance in England. It tells of a most unhappy marriage, brought about by fraud and deceit. A young girl loves a man of her own age and station, but they are both poor, and are waiting hopefully for the time when they may prudently marry. Mr. Merton, a rich manufacturer, swears he will win this girl, and finally does so, after ruining her lover's good name, and driving him to Australia. Arthur Merton is the issue of this marriage. He in his turn is the victim of an enemy, and is thrown into prison for theft. At the end of the book the truth about all parties is brought out, after a good deal of skilful detective business.

Porter, Rose. Driftings from mid-ocean: character studies: a sequel to summer driftwood, and the winter fire. N. Y.. A. D. F. Randolph & Co., [1889.] 4+308 p. S. cl.. $1.25.

On a slight thread of a story, which includes the love affairs of several young people and a European journey, are introduced a number of religious discussions and studies of characters, showing the foundation needed to bear the disappointments and temptations of life. Pratt, Mara L., M.D. The new calisthenics: a manual of health and beauty; il. by Edith F. Foster. Bost., Educational Pub. Co., 1889. C. 2+110 p. il. O. bds.. $1.25.

Simple exercises with the dumb-bells and wands; also marches, motion songs, gestures, etc. Fully illustrated throughout.

Railroad alphabet (The). N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons, [1889.] no paging, il. Q. pap., 20 c. Colored pictures.

Redway, Jacques W. The teacher's manual of geography. Bost., D. C. Heath & Co., 1889. C. 174 p. D. cl., 50 c.

Divided into two parts. Pt. 1, Hints to teachers. 2, The traditions of geography, in the light of modern science.

Robbins, Mrs. S. S. Dave Philbrick, the boy with his foot in the stirrup. N. Y., Rob. Carter & Bros., [1889.] c. 183 p. 1 il. S. (Rock Cove ser., no. 4.) cl., 75 c.

Devoted to an account of a winter in Rock Cove and of Dave Philbrick's rescue of some people from a wrecked vessel. Gladys learns to skate, and for the first time has a Thanksgiving dinner.

Russell, W. Clark. Marooned: a novel. N. Y., Harper, 1889. 2-183 p. D. (Harper's Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 659.) pap., 25 c.

Appleton, 1889. 3+396 p. D. (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 40.) pap., 50 c. Contents: The romance of Jenny Harlowe Jeremy York; Jim's reformation; A hail from aloft; Old Jupiter; A strange bellman; Lamed on the Goodwins; Jem Burton's adventure; A smuggler's lair; Longshoremen ; Sailors' pleasures; Jack according to landsmen; Sailors' stories; The sailor's philosophy; Sailors' rights and wrongs; Sailors' perils: Sailors' food; Sailors' superstitions: Sailors' songs; Poetic aspects of sea life; The shipmaster's responsibilities; Vanished forms of the sea life; Memorable experiences.

Sanborn, Kate, comp. The rainbow calendar: a companion to "A year of sunshine." Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889. c. '88. 6+ 365 p. D. cl., $1.25.

The selections of this calendar, like those of the "Sunshine calendar," are full of cheerfulness and hope; they are both prose and poetical extracts, and from the best sources. The volume is bound in white cloth, with red, black, and gold stampings.

Scott, Rob. P. Cycling art, energy, and locomotion: a series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages. Phil., J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889. c. 4-305 p. il. D. cl., $2.

From the great interest that is manifested by the present generation in "cycling," this might well be termed, as the author states, the "living wheel age." The interdustry of vast importance, the product of which does seresting art of man-motor carriages has developed an invice to a great variety of individuals. Very little, however, has been published concerning the "cycling art," and the author now places before the public a work that furnishes information of a valuable as well as scientific nature. It is profusely illustrated with cuts especially prepared, and is undoubtedly the best book yet produced on this subject.

Seaside alphabet. N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons, [1889.] no paging, il. Q. pap., 20 c. Colored pictures of the seaside and letters. *Seiler, C., M.D. Handbook of the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the throat, nose,. and naso-pharynx. New ed., rev. and enl. Phil., Lea Bros. & Co., 1889. 12+13-373 p. il. and pl. O. cl., $2.25. Seneca, (pseud.) comp. Hints and points for sportsmen. N. Y., Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1889. c. 224 p. S. cl., $1.50.

Over 600 numbered paragraphs of information that all sportsmen need to know. Most of them have been taken from the Forest and Stream.

Taylor, J: Notes of lessons for young teachers; with models from actual examination papers. Bost., Boston School Supply Co., 1889. c. IOI p. D. (Boston school ser.) cl., net. 50 c.

The author explains the essential features of a lesson, sketches the plan of a lesson, discusses the subject-matter of a lesson, gives valuable hints on the manner of a teacher with a short chapter on tact, and another showing how to prepare and give a lesson. The concluding chapters consist of examples and answers to examination questions. *Texas. Supreme ct. Cases argued and decided during the latter part of the Galveston term, 1888, and at the early part of the Austin term, 1888; rep. by Alex. W. Terrill. V. 70. Austin, Hutchins Pr. House, 1888. C. 15+832 p. O. shp., $3. *Thackeray, W: M. Complete works. Illustrated lib. ed. In 22 v. V. 19-20. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889. ea. D. cl.. $1.50. Torrey, Bradford. A rambler's lease. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1889. c. 5+229 p. D. cl., $1.25.

land.

Russell, W. Clark. The romance of Jenny Harlowe, and sketches of maritime life. N. Y.,

The character of Bradford Torrey's book may be judged from the line from Wordsworth on the title-page Sunbeams, shadows, butterflies, and birds." He is an intense lover of nature, and discourses most delight

estate; A woodland intimate; An old road; Confessions of a bird's-nest hunter; A Green Mountain corn field; Behind the eye; A November chronicle; New England winter; A mountain-side ramble; A pitch-pine meditation;

Esoteric peripateticism; Butterfly psychology; Bashful drummers.

*Vermont. Supreme ct. Reports of cases, 2d ed. unabridged, with notes and references, (etc.) Book 7, cont. a verbatim reprint of v. 17-20 of the Vt. reports, Washburn's reports, v. 2-5. St. Paul, West Publishing Co., 1889. c. 6+253 +6+277+6+267+6+250 p. O. shp., 4 v. in 1,

$12.

*Ward, C. Osborne. A history of the ancient working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity, by Constantine. Wash., D. C., W. H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1889. 519 p. D. cl., $2.

to exercise their skill upon. The subjects are life-size being carrots, peas, onions, potatoes, cauliflower, etc. There is no text.

*Whitefield, Edwin. Homes of our forefathers in Boston, Old England, and Boston, New England; from original drawings by Edwin Whitefield. Bost., Damrell & Upham, 1889. 85 p. O. cl., $6.

*Wickes, C: Illustrations of spires and towers of the medieval churches of England; preceded by some observations on the architecture of the Middle Ages and its spire-growth. Bost., Ticknor & Co. F. 100 pl. with text, $15.

ing-book. N. Y., G: Routledge & Sons, [1889.]

no paging, il. O. pap., 50 c.

The facing pages throughout are the same subjects, one being colored, the other uncolored, for young people

omy; being a complete compend of anatomy, including the anatomy of the viscera and numerous tables. Phil., F. A. Davis, 1889. 9+3393 p. D. cl., $1.40.

BOSTON, MASS.-L. D. Brandeis, the assignee of the late firm of Cupples & Hurd, notifies the creditors of that concern that the assets been converted into money, the estate yields 75 per cent., and that he will wind up affairs as rapidly as possible.

COLUMBUS, O.-Mr Wells, of Delaware, O., has just bought the old book and wall-paper house established by Randall & Smythe in Columbus, and has also purchased the wall-paper store of J. E. Hite in the north side of the city. He will consolidate the stock and add much more, and open in an elegantly prepared room at 633 N. High St. He will still retain his Delaware, O.,

business.

DAYTON, O.-W. W. Kile, bookseller and stationer, has been succeeded by R. A. Cunningham. Requests catalogues and trade lists generally.

PARIS, TEX.-Marion E. Gooding, bookseller and stationer, has sold out.

JOURNALISTIC NOTES.

The Delineator, published by the Butterick Publishing Co., N. Y., for December will be circulated to the extent of 290,000 copies. The journal has been gaining at the rate of 1500 new subscribers each month since the beginning of 1889.

WITH the next issue, October 18, Le Chat Noir translates its name and becomes The Black Cat, changes its form from 8 to 16 pages, and offers some new attractions. Nym Crinkle will give a weekly contribution from his facile pen, and with other features added to Le Chat Noir's already well-known brilliancy, The Black Cat will become one of the brightest dramatic and musical papers in the country.

Sun and Shade opens its second volume with a copy of Cabanel's portrait of Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe; a portrait from life of Henry George; one of Lieut. Zalinski surrounded by vignettes of his dynamite gun; a beach scene, Cockle-Gathering;" a charming group of palmettos on the Gulf Coast; the portal of a wellknown Broadway office-building; "The Varnish

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Maker;" and an Italian fancy picture, "Gossip at the Well."

NOTES ON CATALOGUES. Catalogues of New and Second-hand Books.Henry Blackwell, Woodside, Long Island, N. Y., Books relating to the Celts, Druids, Ancient Britain, Wales and the Welsh. (No. 4, 12 p., 8°. -Geo. Harding, 6 Hyde St., London, W. C. Americana, Australasia, etc. (October, 1889 36 p., 8°.) David Nutt, 270 Strand, London, W. C., Greek and Latin Authors, etc. (No. xiii., 40 p., 8.)-W. B. Saunders, 913 Walnut St., Phila., Rare, Curious, Fine Art, and Miscellaneous Books. (No. 10, 58 p., 8°.)

AUCTION SALES.

[We shall be pleased to insert under this heading, without charge, advance notices of auction sales to be held anywhere in the United States. Word must reach us before Wednesday evening, to be in time for issue of same week. OCTOBER 28.-Parcel sale of new books, fancy holiday and menu books, gold pens, pencil-cases, diaries for 1890, etc.-Ezekiel & Bernheim, Cincinnati, O.

OCTOBER 28, 10 A. M.-Parcel sale of books and stationery - Bangs.

OCTOBER 28, 3 P.M.-Private library, comprising many of the best editions in fine bindings (274 lots).-M. Thomas & Sons, Phila.

OCTOBER 29-31, 10 A.M. AND 3 P.M.-Two valuable collections of fine, rare, and curious books (2110 lots).-C. F. Libbie & Co., Boston.

OCTOBER 30, 3 P.M.-Nuggets for collectors of Washington portraits and early imprints; also rare collection of early Philadelphia almanacs with imprints of Bradford, Franklin, etc.-Thos. Birch's Sons, Phila. OCTOBER 31-Nov. 2, 2:30 P.M.-Executo.'s sale of choice and elegant books (1083 lots) - Bangs. NOVEMBER 11 AND 12.-General literature and illustrated books, first editions, and hosts of other books that have not been sold in this country for many years. (Catalogue preparing).-M. Thomas & Sons, Phila. NOVEMBER 18.-Sale of miscellaneous books. (Catalogue preparing).-M. Thomas & Sons, Phila.

NOVEMBER 25.-Sale of the rare medical library of Dr. Addinel Hewson of Phila, consisting almost entirely of rare medical books.-M. Thomas & Sons, Phila. JANUARY 20, 1890, and following days.-S. L. Barlow collection of Rare Books sold by Am. Art Association, N. Y., under the management of J. O. Wright, of 860 Broadway, who is preparing the catalogue.

A CENSUS OF PUBLISHING. THERE has been so much said as to the decadence of publishing that it would be of real business value if there could be a means of comparing the actual product of the trade from one year to another, or from one decade to another. If,

for instance, there had been an adequate report of publishing as distinguished from printing in the census of 1880, which could be compared with a similar return for 1890, it would give not only much food for reflection, but be a practical business guide in every-day trade relations. If the trade had actually fallen off, or had fallen off in relation to the population, publishers would have reason to set themselves to asking why and to planning how their business could be bettered. We hope sincerely that such a return may form a feature of the plans for the census of 1890, and we understand that the matter is under discussion by the census authorities. It is indeed difficult to obtain from publishers actual returns which would give the original data for tabulation, partly because the individual publishers do not keep such figures in shape for their own purposes. But it would be worth not a little trouble on the part of each house to contribute its share to the general result. We trust, therefore, that the Census Bureau will be heartily supported by the leading publishers in case it should undertake such a work.

It is announced, apparently on the authority of Belford, Clarke & Co., that they have succeeded in effecting a compromise with 95 per cent. of their creditors on the basis, it is to be presumed, of 25 cents on the dollar, unsecured. These statements, in some instances, are not sustained by the facts; moreover, there seems to have been no creditors' meeting properly called at which all creditors were permitted opportunity to be pres

ent, and the whole affair is, to put it mildly, in very curious shape. We can only protest in the name of dealers who pay a hundred cents on the dollar both against the method in which the house of Belford, Clarke & Co. has met its difficulties and the bad policy on the part of creditors who accept such a compromise as this. The result is an inducement to other houses to imitate this course of inflating their business indefinitely and then permitting creditors to whistle for results. BELFORD, CLARKE & CO. TO RESUME.

THE statement has been given out that at a meeting of the creditors of the firm of Belford, Clarke & Co., held at Cleveland, it was decided to accept the proposition, viz.: to pay 25 cents on the dollar in three, six, nine, and twelve months. It is claimed that all the important creditors indorsed this measure, the amount represented by those who have not yet signed being estimated at below ten thousand dollars.

It was decided, as put forth in the communication printed in our last issue, to divide the business into two corporations, one in New York and the other in Chicago. The Eastern concern is to be called the Belford Company, to be in charge of R. J. Belford, who will also continue Belford's Magazine; the Western house is to be known as the Belford, Clarke Company and to be run by Messrs. Belford, Clarke, and some new men who intend to put in fresh capital. Belford, Clarke Company will settle with the Western creditors, and the Belford Company with the Eastern creditors, who are to have a voice in the management of the business until their twenty-five per cent. has been paid.

YOUNG MEN AS PUBLISHERS.

BOK's literary letter contains a good story of a sedate and elderly Boston gentleman whose business recently brought him to the Scribner publishing house in New York. His errand concerning itself with the advertising department, he asked to be introduced to the responsible head of that branch of the business. He was introduced to young Edward Bok, who is perhaps twenty-five. He looked the youth over, and concluding that he wanted to talk to an older head, asked to be taken to the manager of the educational department. Compliance with this request brought him to Mr. William D. Moffat, who is twenty-four. Again the sedate, elderly man found his yearnings for some one advanced in years unsatisfied, and asked for the business manager of the magazine, whereupon he was taken to Mr. Frank N. Doubleday, himself twenty-six. This wouldn't do, and as it chanced Mr. O. W. Brewey, the general traveller, or representative of the house, who is twenty seven, was passing, the Boston man was introduced to him. By this time the Eastern man of years grew desperate and asked to see Mr. Scribner. This disclosed to him Mr. Arthur H. Scribner, the junior partner, who owns to twenty-six summers, and was the final blow to the man seeking after age. Mustering courage to faintly ask for Mr. Charles Scribner himself, he finally brought up in that gentleman's office only to meet a man just turned thirty-five! Then was the Boston man perfectly aghast to find that a group of what were almost boys could conduct one of the largest and most profitable publishing houses in the country.

BC.