JANUARY 2. JANUARY 4. Scribner, Armstrong & Co.:-Autobiography of J. B. Buckstone, by Walter Thornbury.-Sorrow and Song, by Henry Curwen. -Biography of Michael Angelo, by Signor Catti, translated by Charles Heath.-Machiavelli, by Professor Villani.-Short History of the English People, by J. R. Green.-Shunkur.-A Romance of Acadia Two Centuries Ago. D. Appleton & Co.:-Enigmas of Life.-Martin's Life of the Prince Consort.-Bastian's Evolution and the Origin of Life.-Jon Duan.-Wit and Wisdom of the Earl of Chesterfield.-My Story, by Katherine V. Macquoid. Harper & Bros. :-The Story of Valentine and his Brother.--Shunker.-Warnton Kings. Cath. Pub. Soc. :-Rev. John Henry Newman's Reply to Mr. Gladstone's Late Pamphlet on Papal Infallibility. ALPHABETICAL REFERENCE LIST OF BOOKS RECORDED IN DECEMBER. The figures in () refer to the (whole) number of the "PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY" in which the full title has been recorded unter the word preceding the figure. The more prominent works appear in this list, both under author and title or subject, with reference from the latter to the former. A., L. L. See Ride on Horseback. Adams, W. T. (153), The Dorcas Club, $1.50.... Lee & S. Aileen Ferrers. See Morley, S. Aitken, C. K. (154), Legends, etc., of Scotland, $2. Williams. Alcofribas (154), Fantastic Hist. of the celebrated Pierrot, $3 .......Scribner, W. & A. Allen, F. B. (153), Leaves from a Summer Sketch-Book, $6. Estes & L. Allen, T. F. (155), Encyclopædia of pure Materia Medica, $6, $7, and $7.50... .Boericke & T. American Reports. See United States. Andre, G. G. (151), Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Annus Domini. See Rossetti, C. G. .Spon. Putnam. Armor, W. C. (152), Lives of the Governors of Pa., $3.50, Babbitt, E. D. (152), Vital Magnetism, bds., 25 c. Babbitt. Ballads of Beauty. See Baker, G. M. Lee & S. Cibber, Colley. See Rees, J. ..Harper. Computation of Railway Earthwork. A. M. Conflict between Religion and Science. See Draper, J.W. Bancroft, H. H. (153), Native Races of the Pacific Coast, Daily (152) Offerings of Prayer and Praise, 75 c..Randolph. Crosby, H. (151), Notes on Joshua, $r.... .......Carter. Dunning, A. K. (152), Ralph Waring's Money, $1.25. Echoes of the Foot-Hills. See Harte, B. Shepard. Eggleston, G. C. (153), A Rebel's Recollections, $1.50. Hurd & H. Eiloart, Mrs. (151), The Love that Lived, pap., 50 c. Evangel. See Coles, A. Exhibition Drama. See Baker, G. M. F. Grant & Co. See Chaney, G. L. Farjeon, B. L. (152), Jessie Trim, pap., 50 c... Harper. Macmillan. Fieber, F. (153), Treatment of Nervous Diseases with Electricity, $1.. ..Putnam. Osgood. .... Clarke. Field, K. (151), Ten Days in Spain, $1.50.. Forster, J. (154), Life of C. Dickens, 2 v., $4.. Osgood. From my Youth up. See Harland, M. General (154) Rules for Punctuation, pap., 25 c....Sever. Gibbon, C. (152), In Honor Bound, pap., 50 c....Harper. Gladstone, W. E. (151), Vatican Decrees, with Manning's and Acton's Replies, pap., 25 C... .Appleton. and P. Schaff (154), Vatican Decrees, with Hist. of Vatican Council and Syllabus, $1; pap., 60 c....Harper. Golden (154) Ear-Rings, 55 c........Am. Bapt. Pub. Soc. Golden (154) Fence. $1.. Lippincott. Good Selections, No. 2. See Frobisher, J. E. Governors of Penna., Lives of the. See Armor, W. C. Graham, F. T. (155), Reasonable Elocution, $1.25. Barnes. Green, J. R. (154), Short Hist. of the English People, $3. Macmillan. Greene, W. B. (152), Dr. Clarke's "Sex in Education," Lee & S. ...Ford. pap., 15 c... Greenwood, G. (152), Heads and Tails, $2.... H. H. See Story of a Boon. Hale, E. E. (154), Our New Crusade, $1.25...... Roberts. Hall, E. J. (154), Poems of the Farm and Fireside, $1.75 and $2.25... ..Jansen, McC. & Co. Hall, T. O. (155), His Mother's Fancy, $1.50....Shepard. Hamerton, E. (154), Mirror of Truth, $2.. Hamilton, G. (151), Nursery Noonings, $1.25....Harper. Hamilton, J. (154), Select Works, 4 v., $5.... .......Carter. Harland, M. (151), From my Youth up, $1.50.. Carleton. Harris, S. (154), Kingdom of Christ on Earth, $1.75. Draper. Roberts. Harsha, D.A. (151), Eminent Orators and Statesmen, $2.75. Porter &C. Harte, B. (151), Echoes of the Foot-Hills, $1.50...Osgood. Heads and Tails. See Greenwood, G. Holland House. See Liechtenstein, M. Osgood. Howe, J. W. (152), Winter Homes for Invalids, $1.50. Putnam. Howells, W. D. (151), A Foregone Conclusion, $2. Osgcot. Hoyle's (151) Games, new illustr. ed., $1.... Locke & B. Hundred (154) Ministers (A), $1.50...... Estes & L. Huntoon, B. B. (153), American Speaker, No. 1, 60 c. Morton. Hymns (155) for the Sanctuary, etc., with Tunes, $1.35. In Honor Bound. See Gibbon, C. 25 C...... Ward. Putnam. Locke & B. Ladies (151) and Gentlemen's Letter-Writer, 60 c. Lancaster and York, Houses of. See Gairdner, J. Latham, W. H. (151), First Lessons for Deaf-Mutes, bds., per doz., $2.60.... Wilson, H. & Co. Leaves from a Summer Sketch-book. See Allen, F. B. Le Fanu, J. S. (153), Checkmate, Author's Illustr. ed., рар., 75 с.... ....Estes & L. Lermontoff, M. (153), Circassian Boy, $1.50.....Osgood. Liechtenstein, M. (151), Holland House, 3d ed., in one vol., $7.50... ..Macmillan. Marsh, W. H. H. (154), The Modern S. S.. $1. Masson, D. (152), Chatterton, $1.75... Michael Angelo. See Black, C. C. Mirror of Truth. See Hamerton, E. Macmillan. Modern Sunday-School. See Marsh, W. H. H. Mishaps (155) of Mr. Ezekiel Pelter, $1.75........ Griggs. Native Races of the Pacific Coast. See Bancroft, H. H. New Testament, Analysis of. See Milligan, R. ...... O'Leary, J. (154), On Sixteen Names of Ireland, 60 c. Kenedy. One (154) Hundred Gems from the London Art Journal, $10..... ...Lee & S. One Woman's Two Lovers. See Townsend, V. F. Optic, Oliver. See Adams, W. T. Orators and Statesmen. See Harsha, D. A. Patricia Kemball. See Linton, E. L. Pond and Estes & L. Peckham, C. B. (154), The Root of the Matter, pap., 25 c. Colby & R. Picturesque Architecture of Switzerland. See Varin, A. & E. Pierrot, Fantastic History of. See Alcofribas. Pindar (153), Extant Odes of, transl., etc., by E Myers, $1.50.... ..Macmillan. See Buhler, J. See Hall, E. J. See Nordhoff, C. Plain Talks on Common Things. Hitchcock & W. Progressive Petticoats. See Roosevelt, R. B. Queen of the Kitchen. See Tyson, Miss. Quincy, J. (154), Speeches delivered in Quinton, M. A. (154), Nobleman of '89, Little, B. & Co. Congress by, $3. Little, B. & Co. $2 and $3. Kelly, P. & Co. Roscoe, H. (152), Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases, 7th Am. ed., $7.50.. Johnson. Rose (153) Elliott's Wish, 55 c....... ......Am. S. S. Un. Rossetti, C. G. (154), Annus Domini, $1.50 and $3.50. Roberts. .Kenedy. Nat. Temp. Soc. St. Patrick (154), Most Ancient Lives of, $1 Sanford, L. E. (154), Hist. of Two Lives, 50 c. Scenes in Europe See Post, L. J. Schaff, P. See Gladstone, W. E. -(151), Finances and Paper Money of the Revolutionary War, $1.25 Science in Story. See Foote, E. B. Sensibility, Science of. See Smith, J. N. .....Putnam. Tyler, J. B. (151) and W. M. Rice, Westminster Question Book, bds., 15 c.. Presb. Bd. Tyndall, J. (153) and W. S. Kent, Transmission of Sound, and Gigantic Cuttle-Fish, pap., 25 c...Estes & L. Tyson, J. (153), Practical Examination of Urine, $1.50. Lindsay &B. Tyson, Miss (153), Queen of the Kitchen, $1.75.. Peterson. United States (152), Blatchford's Circuit Ct. Rep., 2d -(154), Fisher's Rep. of Cases arising under Letters Pa- Osgood. What a Boy. See Willis, J. A. Wheildon, W. W. (152), Contributions to Thought, $1.50. (Concord.) Which is my Likeness? See Bell, C. D. White Hand (A). See Farman, E. Whymper, Mrs. W. J. (153), Beauty in Common Things, $5..... Pott, Y. & Co. Wild Animals. See Wolf, J. Willcox, W. H. (154), Question Book on the Intern. Bible William Henry Dramatized. See Chaney, Mrs. G. L. Lippincott. Winter Homes for Invalids. See Howe, J. W. Harper. Woodville, J. (154), Edith's Mistake, $1.25..Lippincott. Woolson, A. G. (153), Dress Reform, $1.50..... Roberts. Words (151) and Mind of Jesus, 75 c......... Estes & L. Worth (151) Reading:-Arbuthnot and Swift's Art of Political Lying-Lamb's Bachelor's Complaint of Behavior of Married People, ea., pap., 10 c.. Tompkins. Young Moose Hunters. See Stephens, C. A. "THE Hanging of the Crane," says the Boston Transcript, is probably the most popular holiday book yet produced in this country. The publishers were embarrassed by orders from all directions, which they could but partly fill. The largest jobbing-house in New-England on the day before Christmas bought up every copy it could lay hands on, paying the full retail price. A new edition will be prepared without delay. THE new story of French life, Out of the World," by Mary Healey (now Mme. Charles Bigot), the author of "A Summer's Romance," etc., to be published during the spring by Roberts Brothers, is said to be very charming. The heroine is the daughter of an American mother and a French father, is educated in this country, and taken to Paris at the age of twenty, where she becomes the subject of matrimonial negotiations in the French fashion. Mr. J. E. BABSON ("Tom Folio") is, we are sorry to learn from the Literary World, seriously ill at his home near Boston by reason of a recent severe hemorrhage. The publication of his collection of Steele's papers is delayed accordingly. THAT bright story of Washington life in the last volume of Old and New, Tom Haliburton's Quandary," proves to have been written by Miss Wise, of that city, and Mr. Severance, assistant librarian at the Capitol. A LITTLE fairy romance, called "Prince Perindo's Wish," just published in England, is from the pen of Mr. Thomas Constable, the printer, and the son of Sir Walter Scott's "Prince of Booksellers," and is illustrated by his son and partner, Mr. Archibald Constable. MR. W. B. WEEDEN, of Providence, has which Roberts Brothers will publish. written a book on prohibitory liquor laws, WE are glad to learn that Mr. William S. Robinson, the "Warrington" of the Springfield Republican, and thoroughly acquainted from his long experience as Clerk of the Massachusetts Senate with parliamentary matters, has written a little "Manual of Parliamentary Practice," etc., which Lee & Shepard will publish. "NATURE and Culture." a volume of essays written by Harvey Rice, of Cleveland, discussing education, woman's rights, etc., will be published by-and-by by Lee & Shepard. The New Year's Outlook. WITH 1875 opens, we believe, the brightest prospect that the American book trade has known for many years. We trust that those who, at the beginning of this year, so lacked faith as to the possibilities of reform, will not forget to provide themselves with faith for the future, by drawing the contrast between then and now. One year ago, the American book trade, in a business which is of almost the dignity of a profession, was, we may say, the most unorganized and demoralized in the country. A large proportion of its members believed that there was no hope of betterment in the future. Men had lost faith in their calling, and some of the best were being driven into other fields of work, because they could not earn really a living salary. The book trade had generally forsaken reasonable business principles, and were ener getically engaged in cutting each other's throats. The outlook, to judge by the past, was dark enough. There were those who believed that things would at last be righted, but for ourselves we must confess that, while we hoped, we feared that the reform, in whose ultimate success we thoroughly believed, was to be a matter of at least three years' hard work, simply because the trade was apathetic. Well, every thing is not settled yet, but we are so near to assured success that we ourselves confess agreeable surprise. Instead of being the worst, the book trade is already one of the best organized in the country. The Convention at Cincinnati in February, chiefly of the Western trade, under Mr. Aston's presidency, took the first actual step, and defined admirably the theoretical principles of the reform. It aroused enthusiasm, provoked discussion, and gave an impetus to the movement without which the Put-in-Bay affair could never have been held. Thence Mr. Aston came East, and his action laid the foundation of the great gathering in July. The Put-in Bay Convention, at which the American Book Trade Association was organized, made the reform sure. The trade there gathered took a new sense of the dignity of its mission; its members came together in earnest and finally enthusiastic discussion, got to know and like each other, and went home with a harmonized basis of action, right in principle and effective in practice, on which the trade at large could work out its own salvation. From that proceeded the Western and the Central Booksellers' Associations, and the many local auxiliary organizations that now occupy most of the trade cen tres. With the double motive of an enlightened self-interest and the interests of the public to back the movement, the trade is now well organized, and the reform very nearly assured. We have been at some pains to ascertain during the week, as far as could be learned from New-York experiences, what has been the result of the movement in the trade of 1874. Of last year's business in general we may say that it was much better than that of 1873, and perhaps better than for some years back. The book trade sympathized of course with the depression caused in successive falls by the Chicago fire, the Boston fire, and the panic, but in that of the present season it has shown most favorable comparative results. The number of books published in this country seems to have been less, publishers being more cautious in their enterprises as well as in their credits; but what we want is not more books, but more good books. Those of the past year which are fairly entitled to this rank have sold remarkably well, and in many cases which we could name have run far ahead of the most sanguine expectations. In other words, the American public is exercising a critical faculty which assists in "the survival of the fittest," and has little favor for poor books. We trust our publishers will not fail to take the hint of concentrating their attention and resources on really strong books, and de clining to publish what is dead stock" the moment it comes from the press. This tendency is, we think, the business feature of the year. There seems to have been also a growing disfavor for mere picture-books, which many experienced retailers state are difficult to move, standards being generally preferred for presents. In fact, most homes have room for only a limited number of table-books, and the country has already been pretty well stocked with these huge volumes which do not belong in the book-case. This is a thoroughly healthful feeling, we think. To return to financial matters, the New-York trade reports a Christmas business ranging from 10 to 25 per cent more in quantity than last year, with much better prices obtained, while the fall business adds up in almost the same proportion. The public seems to have caught the spirit of the reform movement, and there has been a marked diminution in the cry for discounts. There has been considerable misunderstanding, in various quarters, as to how far the twenty per cent rule and other reform principles were in operation at current dates, but notwithstanding isolated cases of this kind, there has been much adherence to the rule, and if a customer or two or a casual trade has been lost by any particular house for the time, these houses themselves are the first to acknowledge that their business has been so much better proportionately under the new auspices as to compensate many-fold for any such temporary losses-while there is but one opinion |