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Paragraph History of the United States, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Present Time. With brief notes on Contemporaneous Events. By Rev. Edward Abbott. Sq. 18°. 50 c. (April 19.) SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO., New-York. Religion and Science in their Relations to Philosophy. A Paper suggested by Dr. Tyndall's Address at Belfast, and read before the Philosophical Society of Washington. By Prof. Charles W. Shields, D.D., of Princeton College. 8°. $1.' Rousselet's India of the Rajahs. The Service of Praise; or, Hymns and Tunes and Scripture Lessons. Arranged for Praise-Meetings and Public Worship. By Rev. W. T. Eustis, of Springfield, Mass. Sm. 4°. $1.50. E. STEIGER, New-York. Ahn's French Reader. First Part. With Notes and Vocabulary. By Dr. P. Henn. Das Fuenfte Buch für Schule und Haus. By Hermann Reffelt. R. WORTHINGTON & CO., New-York. Natural History of South and South-East Africa, with rough Notes on the Big Game. From the Journals of the Hon. W. H. Drummond. Illustr. Large 8°. $7.50. (April.) History of Palestine and the Holy Land. By John Tillotson, M.A., and a History of the Crusades. Illustr. with over 350 engr. and maps. Large 8°. $3. (April.) ALPHABETICAL REFERENCE LIST OF BOOKS RECORDED N MARCH. 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. Awdry, F. (166), Story of a Fellow-Soldier, $1.50. Coxe, A. C. (167), Covenant Prayers, $1.25 and $2. Covenant Prayers. See Coxe, A. C. Taylor. Macmillan. Banvard, J. (165), Private Life of a King, $2.50. Lit. & Art Pub. Co. Beach, A. E. (167), Science Record for 1875, $2.50)Munn. Beecher (164, 5, 6) Trial, Verbatim Rep., parts 4-6, ea., pap., 50 c.... ...McDivitt, C. & Co. -H. W. (166), Case of, Opening Address of B. F. Tracy, Smith Belcher, H. (165), Exercises in Latin Prose Composition, Macmillan. pap., 25 c.. 75 C.... Denham. Bibble (164) Memoirs, pap., 25 c.... Bicknell, A. J. See Wooden and Brick Buildings. Bremen (167) Lectures, new ed., $1.50.. Carter. ...Hoyt. ..Lothrop. Crawford, A. A. (167), A Few Thoughts for a Few Dairy Cow. See Sturtevant, E. L. and J. N. Davies, J. L. (166), Christian Calling, $1.75..Macmillan. Deharbe, J. (165), Catechism of the Catholic Religion, Dickson, A. (166), All about Jesus, $2. ..Lippincott. Carter. See Simons, E., A. L. O. (165), An Eden in England, $1.25...Carter. Huntington, P. and F. (164), Dr. Dean's Way, $1.50. Earth's Morning. See Bonar, H. Lothrop. Eden (An) in England. See E., A. L. O. Educational Cyclopædia. See American. In the Camargue. See Bowles, E. Infallibility of the Popes. See Fessler, J. Infidelity Dissected. See Pearson, T. Ellis, A. J. (165), Quantitative Pronunciation of Latin, Institutions, Early Hist. of. See Maine, H. S. $1.75.... Macmillan. England, Hist. of. See Ranke, L. von. Epochs (165) of Hist., ed. by E. E. Morris :-Morris's (W. O'C.) French Revolution and First Empire, $1. Scribner. Etenne, J. (165), Grand Constitutions, etc., of Freemasonry, $3... ..Masonic Pub. Co. Eudes, Father. See DeMontzey, M. Ch. Fair Puritan. See Herbert, H. W. Faithful (165) Son, $1.25.... Family (165) Records, blanks classified, $5. Hoyt. Holt. Fessler, J. (166), True and False Infallibility of the Popes, pap., 50 C .... Cath. Pub. Soc. Few Thoughts for a Few Friends. See Crawford, A. A. Fish, D. W. (165), Junior Class Arithmetic, 80 c... Ivison. Fleming, H. (165), Narrow-Gauge Railways in Am., pap., ......Van Nostrand. 50 C....... Forsyth, W. (167), Hist. of Lawyers, $3.50.... Cockcroft. Four Gospels in One. See Campbell, R. A. Free Trade. See Pilon, M. R. French Revolution and First Empire. See Epochs of Hist. Fulton, J. D. (165), Show your Colors, $1.... Ward. Gannett, W. C. (164), Memoir of Ezra Stiles Gannett, $3..... Roberts. Gardner, C. E. (165), Rich Medway's Two Lovers, $1.75. Carleton. Gardner, J. (166), Longevity, 3d ed., $1.50....... Gill. Gasparin, de (166), Near and Heavenly Horizons, new ed., $1.50... Carter. ..Dutton. Gate (165) of Paradise, pap., 20 c....... Greenleaf, S. (165), Testimony of Evangelists examined by Rules of Evidence, $5. ...Cockcroft. ..Macmillan. Herbert, H. W. (164), Fair Puritan, $1.50....Lippincott. Hermann und Dorothea. See Goethe. Hewitt, J. O. M. (167), “Our Bible," $1.25. Fansen, McC. & Co. Hill, A. F. (165), Secrets of the Sanctum, $1.50... Claxton. Hiller, F. (165), Mendelssohn, Recollections and Letters, $1.50... Church. Hoey, C. (165), Blossoming of an Aloe, pap., 50 c. Harper. Hoffmann, F. (166), Three Bank-Notes, 85 c. Luth. Bd. of Pub. Holloway, L. C. (165), In the House of the Presidents, $3.50.. U. S. Pub. Co. Hotze, C. L. (164), First Lessons in Physiology, $1. Central Pub. Co. Hours in a Library. See Stephen, L. Irving, W. (165), Life of Washington, new Mt. Vernon ed., 2 v., $7; hlf. calf, $11..... Jacob's Ladder. See Merrifield, J. Jacobi, A. See Seguin, E. C. Johnson, R. See Little Classics. Putnam. Kingston, W. H. G. (164), Ralph and Dick, $1.. Lothrop. Leguay (165), Mistress of Novices enlightened upon her Lennox, C. (165), Wayside Flower, $t.... Kelly, P. & Co. Lord Chancellors, etc., of Engl. See Campbell, Lord. McClellan, J. B. (166), New Transl. of New Test. (in 2 Maine, H. S. (165), Ancient Law, 3d Am. ed. ;-(165) Man, Natural Hist. of. See Quatrefages, A. de. Macmillan. Mason, M. (165), Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend [new ed.], $1.75... .......Hale. Massachusetts (165) Rep., v. 115 (Lathrop's), shp., $5.50. Mechanical Dict. See Knight, E. H. Merrifield, J. (166), Jacob's Ladder, $4......Townsend. — (166) Royal Road to Learning, new ed., $2.50. Townsend. Michelet, M. (165), Summary of Modern Hist., $1.75. Macmillan. Mill, J. S. (164), Inexpediency of an Irredeemable Paper Miller, J. D. (165), Treasury Pictures, v. 1, 60 c. Minnie Weston. See Smith, M. L. G. Moore and Jerdan. See Bric-a-Brac Series. W. B. Morris, E. E. See Epochs of Hist. Morris, R. (165), Engl. Grammar (Lit. Primers, ed. by J. R. Green), 40 c.; pap., 30 C... ......Macmillan. Morris, W. O'C. See Epochs of Hist. Mosaic Account of Creation. See Warring, C. B. Muller's (M.) (165) Catechisms:-No. 1, For Beginners, Narrow-Gauge Railways in Am. See Fleming, H. Newcomb, H. (164), Harvest and Reapers, new ed., $1. New Testament. See Bible. Our Bible. See Hewitt, J. O. M. Patmos. See Smith, T. A. Lothrop Pilon, M. R. (167), The Yanko-Sequor on Free Trade, etc. (in 2 books), Book 2, pap., $1.....Authors' Pub. Co. Prescott, A. B. (165), Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors, $1.50.. ...Van Nostrand. Prescott, W. H. (164), Reign of Charles the Fifth, by W. Private Life of a King. See Banvard, J. Protestant (165) Epis. Church, Rep. of First Congress, 1874, pap., 75 c..... Whittaker. Public (165) Health, Reports, etc., of Am. Public Health Assoc., 1873, $6.50..... Hurd. Q., C. T. See Manual of Family Devotion. Quatrefages, A. de (165), Natural Hist. of Man, $1. Rainbow (164) Creed, $1.50..... Appleton. Ralph and Dick. See Kingston, W. H. G. .Gill. Macmillan. Robinson's Math. Series. See Fish, D. W. Sheldon. Macmillan. Stanley, A. P. (166), Charles Kingsley, a Sermon, pap., 25 C..... Statesman's Year-Book. See Martin, F. Stein, Ernst. See Zickel, S. Stephen, L. (165), Hours in a Library, $1.75... Scribner. Story of a Fellow-Soldier. See Awdry, F. Sturtevant, E. L. and J. N. (167), The Dairy Cow, $2. Williams. Theodore (167) Gray's First Years out of School, by K. Three Bank-Notes. See Hoffmann, F. Types and Emblems. See Spurgeon, C. H. United States (165), Benedict's District Ct. Rep., Second Vaticanism. See Gladstone, W. E. O'Shea Wesley, J. (167), Reasons against Separation from the Rover, W. (165), Neptune Afloat, $1.50... No. 2, Selected Poems:-(165) Praed's Red Fisherman ;-(167) IN Germany the corresponding publication to Prof. Schem's "Statistics of the World" is considered a household and business necessity, and many thousands are annually sold. The third revised edition of Prof. Schem's work will be issued soon by Lee & Shepard, in the atlas form, at half a dollar. His tables include, with wonderful compactness, the area, form of Whittaker. Westcott, B. F. (166), Survey of Hist. of New Test. Canon, 4th ed., $3.50.. Macmillan. Wood, H. (167), Foggy Night at Offord [new ed.], pap., Zickel. government, population, army, navy, merchant marine, debt, currency, expenses, imports, exports, produce, coinage, measures, and names of cities of all countries. The principal creeds of the world are also shown-a new feature in the coming edition-with railroad, postal, and telegraphic statistics, the school statistics of fifty cities, and presidential election tables. One Way or the Other! wise, and that this exception should be limited to a specified amount at one time. It is for the THE growth of the reform movement since trade to decide whether $100 is the wisest limit. the convention at Put-in Bay has amazed those This discount to those who are wholesale, who were at that time most sanguine and who though not trade, buyers, is in one sense indewere almost laughed at for their faith. There fensible, but it is in accordance with a usual were few, among Eastern wholesalers, who did and natural law that it seems difficult to abronot wish that the aims of the reform might be gate. It may also be said that clergymen have accomplished, but there were many who had equal claims with teachers, who, and not schools, little hope of practical results, and whose con- are named in the letter, as in a measure cosequent indifference threw cold water on the workers with the bookseller. For ourselves, movement. The convention produced a re- we think that all professional classes ought to markable effect by the cordial and hopeful feel- be put on the same basis, that of retail prices, ing which the mere gathering called forth. At and that the regular discounts now made to first there seemed irreconcilable differences be- clergymen on books published solely for them, tween what the Western dealers thought should might, with profit to the trade, and with certain be done, and what the Eastern thought could be advantages to themselves, be compensated for done; but these were happily reconciled in the by a reduction in retail prices. Let the bookplatform prepared by the Committee of Thirty, seller, and all other tradesmen, join in giving and adopted by the convention. On that com- their clergyman a living salary, and then let him promise basis the wholesale trade expressed its ask no favors of any one. It is as cheap, and agreement, the leading house of Philadelphia much better in the end. excepted. During this year, the Eastern publishers, who were before skeptical, have become fully convinced of the wisdom, possibility, and necessity of the reform. They have seen that the old evils were leading rapidly to a system which would replace retail prices by a manufacturer's price, on which the retailer might ask what advance he could-a system which, under the peculiar conditions of the book business, would virtually do away with retail bookstores, and lose the publisher his distributing system. They have seen that the large bookstores, that would aim at "large sales and small profits" by breaking down retail prices, attracted no additional custom, because the small dealers were immediately forced to offer like or greater discounts. They have seen that the true safety is therefore in adhering to the retail prices, with only such exceptions as the weakness of the trade and its demoralization make temporarily necessary, and in diverting competition from cut-throat discounts to a legitimate rivalry in the intrinsic excel lence and cheapness of books. We are always willing to acknowledge, however, that the ultimate decision, especially of these practical matters, rests properly with the generality of the trade, acting honestly and broadly in the interests of all. And we trust to see any minority in the trade guiding itself in this same spirit. This principle has present application. If the body of the trade should think it impracticable to put the course which the Messrs. Lippincott propose, and which we strongly advocate, into immediate operation, it is certainly only fair that they should still be asked to go as far as the majority think possible, however further they may be willing to go. We believe that no mere trouble of obtaining signatures anew, which would of course have to be done, should stand in the way; and we think that if the Boston, New-York, and Philadelphia signatures were obtained, the West could be relied upon to act fairly without further signatures until the next convention. But if the great body of the trade believe that it is not yet sufficiently out of its demoralization to come up to this advanced course, it is certainly not askThe development of this true spirit has made ing any change of base in the Philadelphia possible now what was not possible then, and house, to expect them to give the reform in its for this reason we hope that the advanced present stage their concurrence, and then to course suggested in place of the original plat- come to the next convention and advocate an form of the convention by the Messrs. Lippin- advance which there would then be few to opcott, may have general support from the trade. pose. Otherwise their letter would have simply We believe that these suggestions map out the the effect of a diversion still in opposition to true and wise platform on which the trade should practical reform, and their course might be adstand. There are one or two points in which | mired rather for good general ship than for effeclogical amendment may be suggested. The tive sympathy with the trade. We trust no term 'large buyers" was perhaps purposely minority would have so little respect for the left vague by the convention because of the feel- | trade at large as to attempt to dictate or enforce ing that lines could not be safely drawn too ri-a policy which the great body of the trade could gidly; we believe that this vagueness is now not not see its way clear to adopt. The new position " of the Philadelphia house means every thing or nothing, as its future acts interpret its letter. If we read the Messrs. Lippincott's letter as they mean it to be read, the reform is, as we said last week, virtually accomplished. We trust the leaders in the Central Association will find it possible to induce the Eastern trade to advance to the true platform at once. If it be found that this is not possible, it is the Messrs. Lippincott's turn again. The greater includes the less. If, therefore, their suggestions can not be made practicable before the next convention, their expressions of co-operation call upon them to do what can be done. If schoolbooks can not be brought in just now, let us be content with miscellaneous books; or if this or that exception, or a certain vagueness, be still practically necessary, so long as objections are simply negative and not positive, let us all make the best of it now, and work for better in the future. In the hope that this is the spirit in which their latest letter pledges them to act, we renew our congratulations to the Messrs. Lippincott and to the trade on their accession to the reform. While to those who have been leaders from the first, the trade owes its hearty thanks: they will not soon be forgotten from its annals. THE subscription list to our "Monthly Book Circular" is steadily growing, but we hope to see every enterprising bookseller using this cheap and effective method of advertising his fresh stock. The name does not find favor, so that we propose to change it, probably to The, Literary News, but individual dealers may have such title with their imprint as they choose to direct. Nobody can afford to be without it, and we trust our manager of this department may hear from many of the buyers at the trade sale before they leave town. WE again call the attention of manufacturing or importing stationers to our standing request, that copies of all new catalogues and price-lists should be sent both to this office and to Mr. Albert G. Yohn, Indianapolis, who is editing for us the general price-list of the Stationers' Annual. As this enterprise is now to be pushed forward as rapidly as possible, it is important that Mr. Yohn should have any new material at once. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The interests of the trade can not be better served, than by a full discussion by its members of all questions which affect it. Our columns are always open to communications on any such subject, provided they be brief and suggestive, and we cordially invite the trade to express any suggestions or opinions of interest or value in "Letters to the Editor." The New Platform. PHILADELPHIA, March 29, 1875. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: DEAR SIR: We write in response to your request for expressions of opinion upon Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s last letter. We think that Messrs. Lippincott & Co., having so fully and satisfactorily abandoned their former positions, there is now nothing to prevent the reform's going into speedy operation, the modifications Messrs. Lippincott & Co. propose having our entire approval. reason We believe the sense of the trade at large to be that discounts to professional men should be abandoned, there being no more why we should sell them goods at a reduction, than that they should render us their services at a reduction; although the discount of twenty per cent to libraries and school-teachers is perhaps allowable. The minimum limit of $100, net, at one purchase, to constitute a "large buyer," is certainly reasonably small, and we think, on the whole, very judicious. It seems to us that the views of Messrs. Lippincott & Co., regarding school-books, are sound, and we presume there will be no difficulty in obtaining the assent of the schoolbook publishers, although we know so little of books of this class that there may perhaps be some reason why the existing rules on the subject should not be changed. If this should turn out to be the case, however, there does not appear to be any reason why the reform should not go into effect upon miscellaneous books. This matter certainly does not hinge upon the action of the school-book publishers, and even should they find it impracticable to accede to the proposed rule, we suppose Messrs. Lippincott & Co. will not force us all to go without bread, rather than start with half a loaf. However, we can not see any reason why the complete and most satisfactory reform that Messrs. Lippincott & Co. now make possible, should not be carried through to a successful consummation. It has our hearty support. Very truly, PORTER & COATES. Have Faith! TOLEDO, O., March 29, 1875. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly: DEAR SIR: "Shake" on the Lippincott platform, and, by all means, "shake" the present trade-sale system at the earliest possible day. How far this does seem from the little gathering at Cincinnati ! Your weekly visit was TIME to talk about the Centennial ! What is another good step forward, but will the relinever more welcome. The $100 minimum is the book trade going to do about it? Sugges-gious book publishers permit the clergymen to pay retail prices? If teachers are allowed the tions are in order. |