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It is notable because it is the first step actually made in the important direction of making the great Index continuous. The work of the quarterly Cooperative Index issued from this office is in its measure supplementary of the great Index, and the issues of the last year and of the current year already furnish a supplement to the present supplement. In this way the reading entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early public are now supplied, by consulting first the

OCTOBER 20, 1888.

Publishers are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for

copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness in the final entry.

great Index, then this new five-yearly supplement, and then the few alphabets covering from January, 1887, to date, with a key to periodical literature reading in English which is most com

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 mention-prehensive. The new volume is one which ought

ed 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.

“Every man is a debtor to his profession, from the which, as men do of course seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help thereunto."-LORD BACON.

to be in every library, and is necessarily a standard that should be on the shelves of all bookstores which number scholars among their clientèle. Booksellers, also, who deal at all in periodicals, or who take orders for back numbers of periodicals, will find it an important working tool to them. It will be but a poor return for the labors of the editors and of the publishers of this work if in its present shape it does not command very wide sale.

DUTY ON BOOKS IN FOREIGN LAN-
GUAGES.

WHATEVER may be said for duties that "protect" American manufactures, and of duties on luxuries, says the Examiner (New York), there is no defence possible of the tax on imported books printed in foreign languages, which it is

THE NEW POOLE'S INDEX. THE publication, on Saturday last, of the first supplementary volume of the "Index to Periodical Literature," of which Dr. Poole's name is the synonym and for which his associate, Mr. Fletch-likely will never be reprinted or translated in this er, is entitled to great credit as the managing country. Such a tariff is merely a tax on inteleditor, is for more than one reason a notable ligence, and, as it produces no revenue to speak of, there is no recompense for the annoyance it event in publishing. The work now known as causes. Mr. H. M. Stanley writes thus to the Poole's Index is, practically the second enlarge- Evening Post, in terms that all students and ment, that is, the third issue, of the Index pre-readers will heartily commend : pared originally by Mr. Poole while a student in Yale College, which has given him a name wherever English books or periodicals are known probably little expected in those student days when he began his modest work. So generally, in fact, is the book quoted by his name, that he may almost be said to have got into the dictionary, a form of immortality which comes to but few men. The honor is a deserved one, for in addition to the contributors who have written, and the editors who have got together the treasures of English periodical literature, the main usefulness of that great and increasing body of writing comes from the keys which Dr. Poole and his associate and their coöperators from the American Library Association have given us in this now colossal work. Old volumes which were before locked treasures are now open to us with a master-key which can be found in almost any of the great libraries of English books here or abroad.

The new volume is the first supplement to this great work, covering five years from 1882-1886

'If there is one duty in the present tariff more absurd and unjust than another it is the duty on books printed in foreign languages. Twentyfive per cent. is charged on all foreign books alike, whether they be in the English language, in German, French, Chinese, or Hottentot. From the point of view of protection this duty protects nothing and nobody. We cannot foster a French literature, for instance, in this country by any amount of protection. There are no publishers or writers to be protected by any this tax is an imposition on all advanced science and learning in this country. The specialist, who is but too often a teacher dependent on a meagre salary, must buy French and German books in order to maintain his standing and keep up with his specialty; and, in addition to the regular cost of importation, he is required to pay a tax which is often prohibitive. Further, this tax falls heavily upon the increasing class of cultured persons with short purses who take an interest in contemporary foreign literature. For a book whose list price in France is 311⁄2 francs (67 cents), one must pay a dealer in this country $1.25. If the book were free of duty, the dealer, who can buy it in France at 40 per cent. discount, should make a fair profit by charging the American buyer about the equiva

tariff of this kind. As a measure for revenue

lent of the foreign list price. It is certainly worth while for legislators who desire to favor science, learning, and general culture to see that, if the duty on all books be not remitted, at least the books printed in foreign languages be allowed to enter this country free of duty."

"The word 'Sleuth ' has a well-defined meaning, and is defined by Webster to mean 'the track of man or beast as followed by the scent.'

"It is used in connection with a hound to indicate a hound that follows the track of a human being or animal, and as applied to man would have the same meaning.

The adoption by the plaintiff of the name 'Old Sleuth' to designate the series of books published by him could hardly be said to give to the plaintiff the exclusive right to use the word

acter so that the rest of the world must invent a new word to express that meaning. That would be the logical effect of sustaining the position taken by the plaintiff in this case.

"THE SPICE OF LIFE" IN COURT. MITCHELL & MILLER, publishers of Life, and F. A. Stokes & Brother have issued a circular announcing that they have secured an injunctionSleuth' in all future publications of every charin the Supreme Court against White & Allen to restrain them from publishing the volume entitled "The Spice of Life." It is claimed that Mr. Frederick A. Stokes originated the idea of issuing an annual collection of the best things published in Life under the title of "The Good Things of Life," and that when he proposed the matter to Messrs. Mitchell & Miller, they suggested the title of "The Spice of Life." Mr. Stokes' title was adopted, Mr. Mitchell reserving the other for possible use in connection with other excerpts from Life.

The complaint is made that Messrs. White & Allen, who were formerly partners of Mr. Stokes, knowing these facts, have seen fit to issue a volume bearing Mr. Mitchell's title, "The Spice of Life," and made it in close imitation of "The Good Things of Life." The publishers of Life and Messrs. Stokes & Brother have on these representations obtained an injunction in the New York Supreme Court of which the following is an extract: " It is hereby ordered that the said defendants. Frank Allen and Joel P. White, and their agents, servants, employees, and representatives, be, and they each and every one of them are, hereby enjoined and restrained from publishing, selling uttering, or offering for sale or distribution or circulation the publication or book mentioned in the said complaint and affidavits and entitled or called The Spice of Life,' so long as the same shall contain or have upon its cover or title, or in any way displayed upon it or in it, the name of Life in such form as now displayed, or in any form calculated to create the belief or impression that the said publication is a continuation of the publication known as 'The Good Things of Life,' or that the same consists of reproductions from the weekly illustrated paper published by the plaintiffs, Mitchell & Miller, and known as and called Life, until further order of this Court.”

IMPORTANT RULING IN THE "OLD
SLEUTH" CASE.

JUDGE INGRAHAM, of the New York Supreme Court, has handed down an opinion in the suit of George Munro vs. Erastus F. Beadle and another, which if sustained will probably open other cases where injunctions were granted on the assumption that English dictionary words could be monopolized as titles or trade-marks. The following is the text in full :

"The only act of the defendants complained of by the plaintiff is the introduction of the word Sleuth in the title of certain stories published by the defendants.

"There was no attempt on the trial to show that the defendants had used any symbol or design invented by the plaintiff to designate his series, and unless the plaintiff can establish that he has in some way acquired the exclusive right to use the word 'Sleuth' in connection with stories of detectives, no right of the plaintiff has been infringed.

"The titles adopted by the defendants in the publication of their books would be perfectly intelligible to any one having no knowledge of the use to which the word had been applied by the plaintiff, and, assuming that the plaintiff had acquired a trade-mark in the words used by him to designate his publications, nothing proved in this case would show that the defendants have violated any right that he has acquired.

"The plaintiff has, therefore, failed to show any cause of action against the defendants, and the complaint must be dismissed with costs."

A MONUMENTAL WORK ON BUTTER-
FLIES.

SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER, of Cambridge, Mass., will shortly publish an extensive treatise on the " Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada," with special reference to New England. The preparation of this work was first announced by the author in 1869, in the American Naturalist and other journals of the day, and has thus been twenty years in progress, eight of which were given exclusively to its elaboration. The author at first intended to embrace in this work only the butterflies known to occur in New England or its immediate confines, but was finally induced to extend it so as to include in its descriptions and histories some account of all the butterflies of North America east of the Mississippi, excepting such as were found only in the unsettled parts of Canada, or south of Kentucky and Virginia. Not only every species, but also every genus, tribe, sub-family, and family, are described and discussed with a fulness never before attempted except in individual cases, including in each instance not merely the perfect form, but, when possible, the egg, the caterpillar at birth and in the succeeding stages, and the chrysalis, together with the distribution, life-history, habits, and environments of the insect, in which a great accumulation of facts and observations is embodied. Analytical tables, applicable to every stage, are used wherever possible. The author claims that no systematic work on butterflies has ever appeared in any language comparable with it in the complete elaboration of a single limited fauna, in attention to every stage of life, thorough and excellent illustration of every period of the butterfly's existence, and in careful detail of all structural features. It contains 17 plates of butterflies, 6 of eggs, II of caterpillars, 2 of the nests of caterpil lars, 3 of chrysalids, 2 of parasites, 33 of structural details in all stages of life, 19 maps and groups of maps to illustrate the geographical distribution of the butterflies, and 3 portraits of early naturalists of this country-in all about 2000 figures on 96 plates, of which 40 or more are col