..... 12S. Beal, S.-Romantic Legend of Sakya Buddha. Transl. ..6s. 2s. 6d. Friend, "The Younger Lady of Thwaite Coniston" by John Ruskin. Also, Mornings in Florence, being simple Studies of Christian Art for English Travelers, by John Ruskin. 12°. $1. A New Edition of the Critical Greek and English Testament, Pocket Size, containing the Greek Text of Scholz, with the Readings, both Textual and Marginal, of Griesbach, and the Variations of the Editions of Stephens, 1550, Beza, 1598, and the Elzevir, 1663. With the authorized English version and its marginal renderings, bound with Green's Greek-English Lexicon. 18°. Hlf. mor., $4; full mor., $6. Green's Pocket Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament Scriptures. Edited by Rev. T. S. Green. M.A., Ashby de la Zouch. In this Lexicon, the meanings are carefully deduced from the primary signification in the order of their natural sequence. The quantity of the vowel is marked, the words are distinguished as belonging to the later Greek period, or the New Testament only, or to the New Testament, LXX, and Apocrypha. 18°, hlf. mor., $1.50. WILSTACH, BALDWIN & CO., Cincinnati. Spalding's Treatise. The Practice and Forms at Large in Justices' Courts for the State of Ohio, and an Analysis of the Law and Practice concerning Personal Property, for Attorneys at Law, Justices of the Peace, Ministerial Officers, Law Students, Bankers, Brokers, and Business Men. Containing over thirty-three thousand citations. By Hugh M. Spalding. (Nearly ready.) PUBLICATIONS. ....38. ..5s. Martin, J.-Horizontal Currents in the Ocean and Atmosphere. 12°. Stanford.. Meredyth, F.-Arca: A Repertory of Original Poems. Post 8°. Trübner... Meteyard, E.-The Wedgwood Handbook. 12°. Bell & Sons.. ros. 6d. Murchison, Sir R. I., Life of. Illustr. 2 vols. 8°. Murray.. £1 105. Noble, J.-National Finance. 8°. Longmans....7s. 6d. Pattison, S. R.-History of Evangelical Christianity. 8°. Hodder & Stough.. ...8s. 6d. Philosophy of Modern Humbug. 8°. Longmans.7s. 6d. Poushkin, A. S.-Russian Romance. Transl. Post 8°. Henry S. King.. ...7s. 6d. Rae, E.-The Land of the North Wind. Post 8°. Murray. ..Ios. 6d. Smee, A.-The Mind of Man. Illustr. 8°. Bell & Sons. Ios. 6d. Strange, T. L.-Sources and Development of Christianity. 8°. Trübner.. 5. Todd, H.-Arvan; or, The Story of the Sword: A Poem. B. Bucknall. 8°. Low. ..15s. .16s. Warburton, Col. P. E.-Journey Across Western Inte- ..35. Wright, T.-History of Caricature and the Grotesque. Illustr. Post 8°. Chatto & Windus.. 7s. 6d. Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1874. Post 8°. Ward & Lock ..bds., 2s.; 3s. 6d. have to thank the publishers, John H. Bentley & Co., 37 and 39 S. Third street, Philadelphia. We trust it may do good service in the bibliographical field. CHIEF-JUSTICE SIR EDWARD CREASY, of England, has in press a new book, entitled, “First Platform of International Law." The Book Fair and its Arrangements. THE Committee on Assemblies has already received a considerable number of assurances from members of the trade in all parts of the country, that they will be present at the Convention, and nearly half of those so far commumunicating were not present at Put-in Bay. The great proportion of these, we believe, will come to New-York to the Book Fair, for the success of the arrangements thus far gives promise of an offering of books which must attract all enterprising dealers. Many of the leading houses which showed their sense of the demoralizations from the auction system, by refusing to contribute to the old trade sales, have already made arrangements with Mr. Leavitt for representation at the exchange. We may already state that the lists of D. Appleton & Co. -we give the names in order of entry-Sheldon & Co., Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., A. S. Barnes & Co., Harper & Brothers, John Wiley & Son, Hurd & Houghton, Macmillan & Co., Henry Holt & Co., Thomas Nelson & Sons, W. J. Widdleton, George Routledge & Sons, G. W. Carleton & Co., G. P. Putnam's Sons, will be offered at the special terms; and since we received this list, we learn Mr. Leavitt has been negotiating with the houses of other cities. We may safely say that no such opportunity of buying goods on special terms, in a sensible and safe way, has ever been offered to the trade. The arrangements for the accommodation of sellers and buyers promise the fullest conveniences. Mr. Leavitt has the offer of the use of the reading-room opposite his regular salesroom, which gives the entire second floor of the Clinton Hall building, and proposes also to use the third story above his salesroom, cutting a special stairway for direct communication. Ample provision will be made for desk room and sample shelving, and the trade is sure to be well accommodated. information as to the exchange, and the contributions thereto, and give publishers opportunity to advertise their lists of new books issued since the Annual, or any special lines to which they desire to call attention. This will be sent to all subscribers to the ANNUAL and WEEKLY, and to any others on the Messrs. Leavitt's trade sale catalogue lists, and be freely distributed at the Convention, so that the trade shall be fully informed as to the fair. We should be glad to see in this a list of those intending to come as buyers, provided they will send in their names. The Book Exchange promises to secure all the advantages of the trade sales and manifold more, and to avoid the demoralization they helped to bring upon the trade. Every one in the trade is therefore interested in making them an assured success. We have a letter from a leading school-book house, urging us to publish the Trade List Annual, while a prominent miscellaneous house counsels that it be delayed till fall, so as to get in all the next season's books. These conflicting opinions illustrate our frequent difficulties in reconciling opposing interests. It is our endeavor to do the best for all concerned, and, as above stated, it will probably be found wisest hereafter to issue the Annual just before the Book Fair. That for 1875 will be issued about September. EVERY one who thinks of coming to Niagara should notify the Committee at once, by letter. If they can't come when the time arrives, it is not proposed to subpoena them on the strength of their promises; so no one need fear to send in his name, even if he may be prevented from coming. Send in the names. SOME English publishers, at the inspiration of an ingenious librarian, have struck a new idea in advertising. They propose to call public attention to their new books by giving them away to the public libraries. The next thing is for the butchers to supply restaurants with their mutton-chops free of charge. We suggest that the libraries may as well charge the publishers for shelf-room! The present sale is of course an experiment, and can scarcely be expected, following a large spring trade sale, to equal the results of the new system once it gets fairly into operation, and experience shows when is the best time to hold it. Nevertheless we anticipate a great success even this year. Next year, provided the sale be held about this time, we propose to issue the Uniform Trade List Annual, if publishers will make it possible by printing their WE present herewith a copy of the admirable lists in time, just previous to the fair. This portrait of the late John Harper, engraved on year we propose as an expedient, to supple- steel by Halpin, which is at once an excellent ment the uniform Trade List Annual of 1874, likeness and one of the finest examples of which, at the suggestion of the Committee, steel-plate engraving yet produced in this counwill be used as a basis of orders, with a try. We had intended publishing this in conspecial number of the WEEKLY, to contain full | nection with the obituary notice of the honored veteran (in No. 172), but the necessary delay in the preparation of the plate has compelled us to defer it to this number. Mr. Halpin engraved similar likenesses of all the four brothers, and those of James and Wesley Harper are to be found in the American Catalogue for 1871. A WESTERN librarian sends us the following, which we heartily commend to publishers who need the suggestion. We know from personal experience of some instances, that it needs to be heeded: "Amongst the many useful reforms that the Publishers' Weekly is so ably advocating, can't it say a word regarding the binding of books? The new books that we put into the library frequently come to pieces by the time they have been out of the library three or four times. The sewing is poorly done, sections are often barely caught by the thread, consequently they drop out in reading the book through once or twice, and the thread is often poor, breaking very easily. We have to keep a binder at work all the time rebinding our books. We have books in our library that were bound fifty and even one hundred years ago, that are more substantially done than any books we get these days. How is it? Are we going backward in the art of stitching and sewing books? Perhaps the publishers think the consumption will be greater if they only wear out fast. But such a view of the subject would hardly be creditable to our enterprising publishers." Of course no publisher proceeds on the theory spoken of, but there should be more care in requiring from the binder permanence as well as beauty. Poor binding is one of those faults in a book which hurt the sale of the same publisher's following issues among private buyers, without his hearing any thing of the reasons for the decreased sale. It does not appear until the book has left the bookseller, and the grumblings do not therefore reach headquarters. sadly in need of some reform in the book busi ness, especially in this part of the country, in order to sustain an honorable calling that is now so rapidly going to decay. I suppose that it is almost useless to speak about the abuses of the trade, and the great difficulties that a retail bookseller has to labor under at this day, in trying to keep a bookstore-that is, as a bookstore should be kept. After a laborious experience of fifteen years in the so-called book business in this city, I see it growing beautifully less each year. My oldest and best patrons and friends will now call and get the publishers' retail prices of books, and then ask me to make a reduction (or they will not purchase) of from 20 to 30 per cent discount, saying that they can buy, which is true, from the publishers at that rate. Consequently I often have to tell them to go or send to the publishers, sooner than that I should "work for nothing and board myself." Were it not that the regular, or what used to be called the regular book trade, is now so mixed up with periodicals, music, fancy goods, toys and notions, etc., a bookseller proper could not make even a living outside of a few great centres of trade. As matters are now in the book trade, there is no encouragement for a bookseller to pay much attention to the regular book business. Yours truly, H. C. CLARKE. Humors of the Trade. Sears, whom many of your readers perhaps IN the delightful city of Binghamton, Mr. will know, has a very neat and pretty bookstore, on one side of which he has arranged a place for keeping customers' papers and magazines, being pigeon-holed off alphabetically for subscribers' names. A few days since a lady came into the store, and accosting the clerk who stepped forward to wait on her (a clerk who, by the way, was more noted for his alacrity in attending to the wants of patrons than for any very extensive knowledge of the book business), she inquired, "Have you Mrs. Jerningham's Journal?" "If you will wait a moment I will see, madam," he replied; and stepping to the pigeon-holes, he looked carefully through for a few minutes; then returning, said: "I can't find it among either the J's or the G's; are you a regular subscriber, ma'am, or only transient ?" BOOKS RECEIVED. ART LIFE AND THEORIES OF RICHARD WAG NER, selected from his writings and translated by Edward L. Burlingame. (Henry Holt & Co.) All lovers of music will be grateful to these selections from Wagner's writings. WagMr. Burlingame for placing within their reach ner is so utterly unknown here as a writer that these sketches come to us as revelations of a nature so long misunderstood, and a genius only fully recognized of late years. His theories of art are explained most clearly and explicitly in a paper he entitles "The Music of the Future," while in "The Purposes of the Opera" he defines the undeveloped possibilities of the operatic stage. His brief autobiography is rich in interest, as is also his "account of the production of Tannhäuser' in Paris." Two sketches which are given, "An End in Paris" and "A Pilgrimage to Beethoven," were written by Wagner in early life and while in great need in Paris. They present him in a most favorable light as a writer of prose fiction, a character altogether new to us in this country. An account of the inception and progress of the opera-house at Bayreuth, with a catalogue of Wagner's published works, conclude the volume. Mr. Burlingame found Wagner's word-painting as abstruse in many cases as his music; but his easy, flowing translation proves his difficulties were not unconquerable. 12mo, cloth, $2. BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON, AND TEA, by Marion Harland. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) A new book from Marion Harland, with new receipts for the getting up of delicate and delicious breakfasts, luncheons, and teas, needs only to be made known to find purchasers by the thousand. None of the receipts in it have been given in any previous volume of Marion Harland's, and they are not only new, but tried and proved. The book is full of suggestions for the housekeeper, and sound, practical, common-sense advice. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR: A WINTER IN MEXICO, by Gilbert Haven. (Harper & Brothers.) A handsomely gotten-up, and a very interesting and absorbing volume of travel. The author made good use of his winter, seeing all that was to be seen throughout Mexico. His descriptions are unusually graphic, and give one a most excellent idea of places, and of the general condition of the country. The great need of missionary labor is made evident from Mr. Haven's last chapter, in which he sums up the experiences and advancement made in Mexico by the Christian Church. The volume is richly adorned with illustrations. 8vo, cloth, $3.50. MAN AND BEAST HERE AND HEREAFTER, by the Rev. J. G. Wood. (Harper & Brothers.) The Rev. J. G. Wood, the author of the popular work, Homes without Hands," offers a very ingenious plea for the immortality of the lower animals. He has collected a vast amount lume was prepared to meet a general call in the churches of Christ, for a fuller and freer participation in public worship by the congregation. It contains fifty-six arrangements of special services on as many themes relating to Christian life and experience. Accompanying each, on the opposite page, is appropriate music. The whole service is arranged in this way for choir or congregational singing. 8vo, cloth, $1.50. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WRECK OF THE VILLE-DU-HAVRE AND THE LOCH EARN, by N. Weiss. (A. D. F. Randolph & Co.) A sad memento, by one of the saved, of the fatal night which witnessed the loss of the Ville-du-Havre, with most all of her passengers. 12m0, cloth, $1.25. THE WORK OF GOD IN GREAT BRITAIN, UNDER MESSRS. MOODY & SANKEY, by Rufus W. Clark, D.D. (Harper & Brothers.) Contains biographical sketches of Messrs. Moody & Sankey, with an account of the work they have accomplished in England, Ireland, and Scotland during the years 1873, 1874, and 1875. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Kilbourne Tompkins.) | This edition of Coleridge's poem is most elegantly gotten up and illustrated. The illustrations, twenty in number, are from the pencil of F. Noel Paton, R.S.A., and are quite remarkable. The work, coming from a young firm, is quite noticeable for its typographical excellence, and the enterprise in issuing it. It would make a most acceptable Christmas gift-book, as it will hold its own against the gift-books in the market, both on account of its merits and cheapness. Cloth, $2.50. THE YOUNG DOCTOR, and LUDOVIC AND GER TRUDE, by Hendrik Conscience. (John Murphy & Co.) Two of Conscience's simple, interesting stories. They are so pure in sentiment, and so devoid of all religious controversy, as to be particularly adapted for the perusal of the young. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1. AMERICAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS: Adventures of the Chevalier de la Salle and his companions, by John S. C. Abbott. (Dodd & Mead.) The wild and romantic adventures of La Salle and his companions can be recommended to the boys as both instructive and amusing reading. This volume will rank as one of the best of this series. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. of anecdotes about all kinds of birds, animals, and fishes, to illustrate and prove that they possess with man the attributes of reason, language, memory, a sense of moral responsibility, unselfishness, and love, all of which we admit belong to the immortal spirit; hence he argues these qualities are as imperishable in the animal as in man, and that he will share MABEL WALTON'S EXPERIMENT, by Joanna H. our immortality hereafter as he does our mor- Mathews. (Robert Carter & Brothers.) Another of "Miss Ashton's Girls," full of life and tality at present. If his arguments do not prove conclusive, the variety of interesting frolic and ideas. Her story will charm young anecdotes he presents will afford most delight-readers, as have all the other works of this ful reading to grown folks and young folks both. 8vo, cloth, $1.50. THE ADIRONDACK; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS by J. T. Headley. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) A new edition, with a great deal of additional matter, of a work a long time in the market. It includes a map of the Adirondack region, the first complete one ever published also a table of the elevations of the mountains and lakes, never before so full or accurate. The steel plates which illustrate it are very fine. 12mo, cloth, $2. THE SERVICE OF PRAISE, by Rev. William T. Eustis. (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) This vo talented authoress. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. THE KEY OF THE CREEDS. (G. P. Putnam's thor tells us, has nothing to do with the “ Sons.) The God of the Naturalist," this au"God former as belonging to the worst side of our of the Theologian ;" and as he repudiates the natures, and-" the devil "-it may be seen into account in his work. He merely seeks to that the progress of the scientists is not taken trace out the sources of the various superstitions which form the basis of creeds, and finds them, in the crude state, far back in the days of paganism and ignorance, shrouded in darkness, but satisfying man's needs for an ideal. As man's condition changed, we have the same theories idealized by education and intelligence, differently interpreted by different natures, eventually giving the world what we call Christianity. Though he does not deny God, nor revelation, nor immortality, he endeavors to show that Christianity was an outcome of the time and of man's mind as much as a revelation from above. The work is given in the form of letters, and is written in a familiar and very pleasing style. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. ADDRESSES AND LECTURES OF D. L. MOODY. (A. D. F. Randolph & Co.) This pamphlet supplements the one issued by this firm some time ago, recounting the success of the Messrs. Moody and Sankey in their missionary labors in Scotland, Ireland, and England. The narrative of their efforts in Liverpool and London is continued in this work, and the addresses of Mr. Moody given. 8vo, paper, 50 cents. We have received from W. W. Whitney, Toledo, "The Beautiful By-and-By," by S. H. Blakeslee, 35 c.; and from M. Gray, San Francisco, "Tantum Ergo," by Rev. Fr. Di Marzo ; "Stars of the Summer Night," by Oscar Weil, 40 c.; "When, my Saviour!" by Oscar Weil, and "Little Sunshine," by David Nesfield, 30 c. LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. MESSRS. WILLIAM WOOD & Co. have quietly in hand an enterprise of scarcely less magnitude than Appleton's Cyclopedia. They secured the exclusive right of translating into English the great Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine," edited by Prof. Dr. von Ziemssen, of Erlangen, and to which the ablest clinical instructors of Germany contribute the special treatises, and now have sixty or seventy scholars, in various parts of the world, at work upon the translation. Several volumes have been issued, and it is to make in all fifteen huge octavos, of 500 to 700 pages each. Notwithstanding the narrow limits of its circulation, the work is put at $5 per volume. typography is very clear, the type having been ordered expressly for this work, and the Cyclopedia will do us credit in the English market, which William Wood & Co. are also supplying -tit for tat!-through Messrs. Low. The B. WESTERMANN & Co., 524 Broadway are, the American agents for the new English per-i odical, Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, to be issued shortly in Stuttgart by the publishers of the popular illustrated German weekly, Ueber Land und Meer. It will be edited by the poet Freiligrath, and will appear every three weeks CIRCULAR NO. 2, of the Bureau of Education, just received, presents an excellent summary of Education in Japan, with which Americans have so much to do. This work is interesting to the trade, for it has already created a considerable market for American books. THE Boston bookstores miss the familiar and never-mistaken figure of "Tom Folio," Mr. Joseph E. Babson, who died last month, after a long illness. He was as singular a man as one meets in these times, shy and modest, but a man to know. With a certain class of literature, especially the estrays of standard writers, he had more acquaintance probably than any scholar in England or America, and to him the public owes the "Early and Late Papers" of Thackeray; The Wishing-Cap Papers" of Leigh Hunt, and much similar reclaimings of waifs by Hawthorne, Lamb, Steele, and others. He never made himself prominent, and yet he leaves a place that there is no one to fill. MESSRS. ST. JOHN & KING, 104 William st., have issued a new style of fancy note-paper, called the "Royal Duchess." There are four tints. MESSRS. PORTER & BAINBRIDGE announce a is sold either by the ream or the box, and may new paper, called the "University Plaid." It be had of various sizes. THE attention which is paid to children nowadays is one of the most notable facts of bookmaking The new Outline History of the United States," by Benson J. Lossing, which Sheldon & Co. are putting out for the fall campaign, has several hundred illustrations in its four hundred twelvemo pages, of the most interesting character. There are one hundred and twenty-five portraits of great men, twentysix full or half-page illustrations, sixty and more maps and plans, several of them colored, and others giving with remarkable clearness the military plans of the rebellion battle-fields, and a great many other cuts. The text is full of good features: its typography is very distinct, and its questions, reviews, and appendices admirably calculated to fix the facts in the pupil's mind. THE Systematic Beneficence Society, of Birmingham, Ct., offers, through its secretary, Mr. George W. Shelton, a prize of one hundred dollars for the best tract ("that shall be judged satisfactory") on giving a percentage of one's annual income for charity. The essays must reach the Secretary by July 1st. A NEW catalogue, No. 44, has just been issued by J. W. Bouton. THE National Temperance Society, 84 Reade street, offer large prizes for "A Standard Temperance Prize Essay.' It is to be in three parts, and prizes are now about to be awarded to competitors for the first, namely: "The Scientific; embracing the Chemical, Physiological, and Medical Aspects." The other two parts are "The Historical, Statistical, Economical, and Political," and "The Social, Educational, and Religious." For the best essay under each of these two heads $500 will be paid, and $300 for the second best. The offer remains open till July 1, 1876. PRESIDENT R. MILLIGAN, of Bible College, in Kentucky University, died March 20th, leaving his second volume of "Analysis of the New Testament" unfinished. It is doubtful about its being published. MR. WILLIAM H. YOUNG, of Troy, has sailed for Europe. J. SABIN & SONS have published a very clever etching, after George Cruikshank, of "The Last Man on the Beecher-Tilton Jury," with an A.D. 1925. The survivor is an old gray-beard, extract from the New-York Morning Journal of trumpet to ear, who sits solitary in the jurybox, surrounded by piles of verbatim reports marked "1875,"" 1895," "1920," etc. There is capital humor in it. THE remarkable book entitled "The Unseen Universe; or, Physical Speculations on a Future State," just published by Macmillan & Co., of New-York, turns out to be the joint |