The Publishers' Weekly. FOUNDED BY F. LEYPOLDT. SEPTEMBER 8, 1888. Publishers are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness in the final entry. The editor does not hold himself responsible for the views expressed in contributed articles or communications. In case of business changes, notification or card should be immediately sent to this office for entry under " Business Notes." New catalogues issued will also be mentioned when forwarded. All matter, whether for the reading matter columns or our advertising pages, should reach this office not later than Wednesday noon, to insure insertion in the same week's issue. It is a usual complaint that a Presidential year is bad for business, and particularly for the book business. There seems to be less occasion to fear a derangement of business this year than in any previous election for many years past; the transfer of power from one party to another has at least done away with the fear that the country would go to pieces when any such reversal of power took place. We say this not as a matter of politics which has no place in this journal but as a matter of congratulation to the business community. The book-trade, it would seem, is not likely to be hurt by the Presidential campaign of this year, except so far as it absorbs time which would otherwise be devoted to the reading of books. It is probable, however, that campaign reading takes time from ordinary newspaper reading rather than book reading, or perhaps takes hours which are not usually devoted to reading at all. Happily the Presidential election is over well before the Christmas season and the long evenings of winter, so that after the excitement has cooled down the people are as ready as ever to buy and to read books. Whatever be the truth in this respect it is evident that the present is to be a reading campaign. A great issue has come before the people, which has a literature already considerable and rapidly increasing, and the campaign is sure to be one calling for careful thinking and the necessary reading. We are glad to congratulate the trade that an enterprising house, the Brentanos, has recognized this and has already made ar rangements to turn it to account in its own interest, and that of the retail trade. Elsewhere will be found an announcement of an arrangement with both the Republican and Democratic National Committees for the sale through the trade of the Campaign Text-books which are the cyclopædias for the time being of the issues of the day. The Republican and Democratic Campaign Books of this year are announced to be of a much more important sort than usual. It is quite a mistake to suppose that they are mere political compilations of no value outside the temporary demands of the politicians. This has been in a measure true of the publications of previous years, but it is to the credit of the National Committees of the present campaign that they have endeavored to present Text-books of real and permanent value. These works contain a great variety of facts and statistics which will make them of permanent value in political economy, and from the representative writings and speeches of the ablest men and best thinkers that each party can produce, presented in them, the public will get in concise and practical form a comprehensive statement of questions that agitate the country to-day, and are of permanent importance in other countries as well as in our own. If the enterprise of the Brentanos results in inducing citizens to "read the other side" as well as their own, they will have done a service to the country as well as to the trade. In these books each party has stated its points, cited its references, and summed up its case for the verdict of November 7. There is no place in this big country where there are not people who are interested in the subjects here treated. The opportunity thus given the trade has never been offered before and credit is due the Brentanos for their enterprise in the matter. In addition to these campaign books other publishers and organizations are offering literature bearing on the questions of the campaign, which should also be handled by the trade. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons announce a trade edition of the "Economic Fact Book," a statistical publication on the side of tariff reduction. There are several editions of the President's Message competing for favor in the trade. Messrs. Belford, Clarke & Co. and other houses have issued compilations of speeches and papers on the tariff question, and the topic is throughout a live one, of which the trade should take advantage. Besides this, several political organizations, such as the American Protective League, of this city, the American Industrial League, of Philadelphia, the Reform Club, of this city, and the New York Free Trade Club, are issuing publications, on which most of them would be willing to make sufficiently advantageous terms to the trade to enable a fair profit to be made on a sale of a por tion of the supply. A capital list of books and articles on protection and free trade will be found in No. 3 of The Bibliographer, which every book seller should have for counter use. We speak of this, of course, as a matter of profit and not of politics; a wise bookseller will scarcely make the mistake of offering the public only the campaign literature on the side of his personal opinion. Booksellers who undertake this field should be very careful to have both sides represented on their counter. We have often suggested that retailers overlook the advantages to be derived from outside solicitations of trade on the plan carried on by the subscription-book houses. It is true that to a great extent the regular bookseller is dependent on the customer who comes to him; he must do all in his power to offer him inducements to come; but he has too often been blind to the fact that there are times when or books as to which it would pay the local bookseller to turn subscription agent as far as personal or outside solicitation is concerned. The National Campaign Text-books can probably be handled successfully in this very way, and we suggest at any rate that the retail bookseller make the experiment, keep both books on the counter, let a clerk take a run through the place with them at business offices, at committee headquarters, and wherever voters are to be found, and in this way get good out of what is otherwise apt to be a dull season of the trade. GERMANY'S NEW INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW. THE following is a verbatim translation from the Deutschen Reichsanzeiger of August 6, 1888, of the ordinance issued July 11 of this year, concerning the fulfilment of the agreement concluded at Bern, September 9, 1886, regarding the formation of an international union for the protection of literature and works of art: 'We, Wilhelm, by the grace of God, German Emperor, King of Prussia, etc., do decree in the name of the empire, and based upon the law of April 4, 1888, concerning the execution of an agreement concluded at Bern, September 9, 1886, regarding the formation of an international union for the protection of literature and works of art, after having been approved by the Bundesrath, as follows: "SI. The following limitations have been placed upon those works published in any of the other provinces of the confederation which have not yet become public property at the time of the enforcement of this ordinance. "(1) The printing of copies, which were in course of preparation when this ordinance came into force, may be completed; these copies as well as those which were complete at the time indicated may be distributed and sold. It is also decreed that up to the time indicated all existing material, such as stereotype plates, wood-cuts, and steel plates of any kind, as well as lithographic stones, may be used until December 31, 1891. § 2. This ordinance will be enforced at the day of its promulgation. It will also hold good for the time passed since the enforcement of the agreement. After the promulgation of this decree (according to § 1, No. 1) the permission of distribution and the sale of copies is conditioned upon the affixing of a designated stamp. The stamping must be done November 1, 1888 at the latest. The specified decrees relating to the stamping as well as to the inventory of the stamped copies will be promulgated by the Chancellor of the Empire. "3. In case of the accession of other countries to this agreement, on the basis of article 18, the decrees of § 1 and S2 are also to be applied. As to the time of the enforcement of this agreement: the time of accession to it is the time accorded. Calculated from this time the application of the decrees in § 1, No. 1, is granted for 4 years, and the stamping has to be accomplished within 3 months. "Done under our own signature and imperial seal. "In Marble-Palace, July 11, 1888, WILHELM, "VON BISMARK." "AUTHORS' BOOK-HAWKING UNION." THE London correspondent of the Book Buyer says that the latest notion in the way of bookselling is an Authors' Book-Hawking Union,' to consist of a number of respectable and trustworthy boys, who shall perambulate the streets with baskets of books and sell them direct from the author. I do not see exactly how this will answer, though possibly it may be useful in working off unsalable back-stock at a reduced price. Undoubtedly these book-hawkers might be useful in the neighborhood of railway stations, for the following reason: At most of our book-shops there is a strong feeling in favor of the nimble ninepence'-that is to say, for cash, you universally get a discount of threepence on the shilling, but at the railway book-stalls they still persist in charging the published price. Thus, if you leave the buying of your book to the time of your departure by train, you usually have to pay five-andtwenty per cent. more than if you purchased it at an ordinary shop. In this case the book-hawkers would prove themselves to be of the highest service. It is a wonder why the railway companies do not themselves retain the lucrative and easy business of bookselling and journal-vending attached to all their stations. I have heard it rumored that steps will shortly be taken in this direction. If all the book stalls were in the hands of the railway companies, and they adopted the discount system, they would doubtless secure a large profit for the shareholders." BOOK-STEALING IN PARIS. From the Pall Mall Gazette. BOOK STEALING seems to have been elevated into a regular trade in Paris, for, according to a return drawn up by the Prefecture of Police, the number of persons prosecuted for this offence | within the last two years has been 145, of whom only five have been acquitted, while 90 others have been sentenced to fine or imprisonment, and the remaining 50 are still awaiting their trial. The amount of bail lodged and of fees paid for hearing has exceeded £3000, these sums being exclusive of counsels' fees and other legal expenses. The report goes on to say that several publishers have received anonymously sums varying from £20 to £700 from persons who had stolen books from them, but who were impelled by either remorse or fear to make restitution. The publishers of illustrated works, encyclopædias, and dictionaries are the greatest sufferers. Upwards of ten thousand volumes have been seized, and are now collected at the Palais de Justice for distribution among their rightful owners. THE "LONGFELLOW" OF THE BOOK TRADE. ABOUT twenty years ago there was launched into the world of books, from the press of Charles Scribner, a modest little volume of verses bearing the unassuming title of " Hopefully Waiting, and other verses." Unheralded the sombre-clad volume quite diffidently found its way to the bookshelf and slowly into the hands of the bookbuyer. Realizing as little as was expected in the way of pecuniary reward, its author nevertheless had the satisfaction of knowing that his words were received with gladness in many hearts, and that many downcast and hopeless souls were encouraged by its words and stimulated to new endeavor. Here and there the press, that mighty expression of the public feeling, was moved to hail the newcomer in that department of literature which, it seems to us, has always been the spectre of the book reviewer, and to give its hearty approval. The Evangelical Quarterly, among others, expressed the opinion that the author is a man of taste and genius and some of the pieces will bear comparison with the poetry of Longfellow." As the years went by the volume slowly went out of print. Hesitating long, the author was finally induced to reissue his book. Some poems which had been written since the first volume was published were added; and, again bearing the imprint of his late friend's firm, the volume, entitled this time simply "Verses," made its appearance. Though the author has a large circle of friends among his brethren in the book-trade we doubt whether any but those immediately associated with him were aware of the fact that such a book had been published. When we say that the author has a large circle of friends among his brethren in the book-trade, we think we fall short of the mark, and perhaps it would be more correct to say that every member of the trade is a friend of Mr. Anson D. F. Randolph, as truly as that he is the friend of every man who takes up the profession of a bookseller. There has never been a call made on that man in vain, whether for advice (which his rare experience so well enables him to confer), for assistance, or for consolation. Warmhearted, honest in his convictions, impatient of wrong, ever ready to lend a hand in the uplifting of the standard of the profession of which he is so proud, a Christian gentleman in the truest acceptation of that much-abused name, Mr. Randolph, modest and retiring as he is, has gained for himself a reputation in the estimation of his fellow-men that will endure when monuments of brass and marble shall have fallen into the dust. Though this may be apropos of nothing that immediately concerns the trade in a narrower sense, we think that we are not imposing too much upon the time of our readers, or encroaching too much on the space in our columns (which, even the most rigorous must admit, do not contain too much poetry), by making room for the following touching stanzas recently contributed by Mr. Randolph to the Sailor's Magazine: MY SHIPS. I. Ah, years ago, no matter where, I dreamed of days, perhaps remate, And all the costly freights they bore Enrich me both in mind and store. What dreams they were of argosies, So stoutly built, so bravely manned, And then, while men in wonder stood, My treasures vast they should behold, What honors would be paid! And though the years might come and go, I could but wiser, richer grow. II. In later years, no matter where, I saw the dreams of days remote While ships of which I never thought And brought their freights to me; No wondering crowd, with envious eye, OBITUARY NOTES. HARVEY BRADBURN LANE died August 28, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., aged 75 years. His early life was spent in teaching. This he abandoned in 1860 to take a position as assistant editor of The American Agriculturist, which he filled for several years. For the last twenty years, however, he was engaged in selecting rare and valuable books for public and private libraries, in which work he became an authority with the book collectors of the United States. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. IN the October issue of The American Magazine there will be published a finely-illustrated article by Lieutenant Walter S. Wilson on the Seventh Regiment of New York," which will be the first of a series entitled "America's Crack Regiments." John R. Chapin will furnish a charming paper (freely illustrated), describing a summer drive through the valley of the Connecticut; Helen S. Thompson will present in an illustrated paper the "Sacred Quarries in the Great Red Pipestone Country." IN the September Wide Awake, Rev. H. O. Ladd, President of the University of New Mexico, describes the new Ramona Industrial School at Santa Fé, and the Ramona Memorial Hall, a beautiful school for Indian girls which is being built as a monument to "H. H." The Wide Awake children are invited to build the refectory in the school, giving two cents a week for a year. This dining-hall is to cost a thousand dollars, and is to be known as the " Wide Awake Refectory." The names of the "Refectory Thousand "-the givers are to be hung in the hall, and are also to be printed in Wide Awake. WILLIAM H. HILLS has bought the half interest of Robert Luce in The Writer, the bright Boston magazine for literary workers, and is now the sole owner of the magazine. Mr. Luce, who has been the business manager of The Writer, retires because other interests demand his attention. Mr. Hills has had almost the whole charge of the editorial conduct of the magazine for the last year, and the change in ownership will not affect its character in any way. The Writer, which, we understand, has been a success from the start, is likely either to be enlarged or to be made a semi-monthly at the beginning of its next volume in January. LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. TICKNOR & Co. have just ready "The Pagans," by Arlo Bates, in their paper series of original copyright novels. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS will publish at once a new collection of Frank R. Stockton's stories entitled " Amos Kilbright: his adscititious experiences." THOMAS WHITTAKER has just ready his edition of Cheyne's new commentary on the Psalms. He also announces "Studies in the Acts of the Apostles." by Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, which will no doubt be illustrated by the Bishop's great learning and practical judgment. GEN. LEW WALLACE denies that there has been trouble between the authors of the Lives of Harrison and Morton," published by Hubbard & Bros. Gen. Wallace is at work on a romance of the East of the fourteenth century— one of the heroic periods-which he thinks will be quite as long as Ben-Hur." THE BOSTON SCHOOL SUPPLY Co. have just ready"Gill's Charming Songs for Little Warblers," a collection of seventy-eight songs culled from the children's music of every land, and arranged for the pianoforte, which is intended to supply a selection of simple and attractive melodies for ordinary occasions; also the fifth and sixth of Wood's "Natural History Readers," by Rev. J. G. Wood, completing the series. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Under the heading "Books Wanted," subscribers only are entitled to a free insertion of five lines for books out of print, exclusive of address, in each issue. Bids for current books and such as may be easily had from the publishers, and repeated matter, as well as all advertisements from non-subscribers, must be paid for at the rate of 10 cents per line. Under the heading "Books for Sale," the charge to subscribers and non-subscribers is 10 cents per line for each insertion. No deduction for repeated matter. Under the heading "Situations Wanted," subscribers are entitled to one free insertion of five lines. For repeated matter and advertisements of non-subscribers the charge is to cents per line. All other small advertisements will be charged at the uniform rate of 10 cents per line. Eight words may be reckoned to the line. The Great Kentucky Tragedy. The Beauchamp Trial. Application of Watergiass, F. Kuhlman. THE BURROWS BROS. CO., CLEVELAND, O. Phopolocera Malayana, Description of the Butterflies of Malay Peninsula, pub. by W. L. Vistant, London. Butterflies of India, Maj. Marshall and Lionelle Niceville, pub. by Quaritch, London. CHAPIN'S, 75 State St., Chicago, ILL. Puck, nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 30, 73, 79, 293Leslie's Popular Monthly, Title and Index for v. 1, 1876. V. 3, 1877. 60 V. 41877. V. 5, 1879. v. 6, 1878. BOOKS WANTED.—Continued. LEONARD CLARK, 540 PACIFIC ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, suitable condition to bind, with supplements, when published with same: July 4 and Oct. 31, 1868, also nos. 717, 733, 744, 755, 757, 764, 768, 775, 776, 783, 790, 793, 799, 823, 830, 846, 878, 883, 901, 905, 909, 918, 924, 928, 944, 968, 969, 970, 972, 993, 994, 1019, 1035, 1040, 1043, 1047, 1049, 1063, 1074, 1101. ROBERT CLARKE & Co., CINCINNATI, O. Michaud's Crusades, cl., v. 1, tr. by Robson. Evans, Tales of Olden Time. Sadlier, Red Hand of Ulster. Wood's Out of the Deep. Morgan, Ned Nevins the Newsboy. Jones, Explorations in Africa. Cummings, Wild Men and Wild Beasts. Gilmore, Encounters with Wild Beasts. Gilmore, Gun, Rod, and Saddle. No. 3 and 5 of 1888 Railroad Gazette. W. B. CLARKE & Co., BOSTON, MASS. H. R. COLEMAN, 10 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Political Parties in the United States, by Martin Van Buren, edited by his sons. Hurd & Houghton, cl. Bullen's Lyrics of the Elizabethan Age, 1st v. E. DARROW & Co., ROCHESTER, N. Y. The City of God, by Rev. A. M. Fairburn, D.D. Story of Robin Hood, without ballads and poems. Original ed. Mary Jemison, the White Woman, by James History of Presbyterian Church of Western N. Y., by Hotchkin. DE WOLFE, FISKE & Co., 361 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, A Story of To-Day. Life in the Iron Mills. MASS. Pickett's History of Alabama. Clark's Alabama Form Book. Any vol. Alabama Supreme Court Reports. G. W. HUMPHREY, CARE ROBERTS BROS., BOSTON, MASS. JOHN LINAHAN, ST. LOUIS, Mo. Mo. Agricultural Reports, 1869 to '77 inclusive, 75 c. each. LITTLE, BROWN & Co., 254 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. Living Age, v. 140-153 inclusive, either bound v. or nos. EDWARD MEEKS, PHILA., PA. to Riddell's The New Elements of Hand-Railing, zd revised ed. State condition and price. Dresser, Japan. Perry. Expedition to Japan. Knox, Camp fire and Cotton-field. Library Journal, complete set. National Academy Notes, 1881, 82, 83, 84, Woman's Handiwork. Scribners. Field, Evolution of Mrs. Thomas. Douglas, Lucia, 2 copies. Harris, Marguerite's Journal. Stewart, Evenings in a Library, Bodfish, Through Spain on Donkey-Back. Ary, Story of German History. 185. Allston, Lectures on Art and Poems. N. Y., 1851. EDW. MILLS, 309 N. 9TH ST., ST. LOUIS, MO. Bancroft's U. S., v. 9 and 10. F. M. MORRIS, 75 Madison ST., CHICAGO, IL... Aubrey's Letters, 3 v. Phillipson's German and Hebrew Bible. Von Holst's Constitutional History. E. W. NASH, 80 NASSAU ST., N. Y. Miriam Coffin, by J. C. Hart. 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Harvard College List of Learned Periodicals in a Bulletin of Harvard College. M. O. WAGGONER, TOLEDO, O. Paine's Crisis, original pamphlets. History of the Flags of U. S. and other Countries, in good condition and complete, colored plates, 4°. JOHN WANAMAKER, PHILA., PA. Miss C. M. Hewin's Catalogue of Books for the Young. Our Deportment, by John H. Young, A.M. H. WILLIAMS, 39 MACDOUGAL ST., N. Y. St. Nicholas, January, 1877. JOHN D. WILLIAMS, 50 W. 14TH ST., N. Y. Iron Thorpe, by Rev. J. T. Trowbridge, either Sheldon's or Tibbals' ed. CHARLES L. WOODWARD, 78 NASSAU ST., N. Y. History of the Indian Wars. Montpelier, Vt., 1812. YOHN BROS.. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. E. & J. B. YOUNG & Co., N. Y. |