Annamese Language (The) Books on Annamese Literature Printed in Cochin-China Arabic Books Printed at Constantinople, Bulaq, Cairo, and Mossoul Benfey Bibliography... Bibliotheca Indica.... European Literature.. ... 6, 39, 67, 95, 127, 163 132 Hindi Books Printed or Lithographed at Lucknow New Books and New Editions Published by Trübner & Co. ... 132 11, 60, 92, 156, 170 97 59 In Memoriam .... Light of Asia (The) Literary Intelligence Muller, Frederik (With Portrait)... I, 6, 38, 61, 67, 95, 126, 162 122 4, 35, 63, 94, 122, 158 Printing in Vienna, The Fourth Centenary of the Introduction of, AMERICAN, EUROPEAN, & ORIENTAL LITERARY RECORD A Register of the most Important Works Published in North and South America, With Occasional Notes on German, Butch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Messrs. TRÜBNER & Co., 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill, London, have imported, or can supply, all Works mentioned in this Literary Record. Intending purchasers having any difficulty in procuring them, should communicate direct with the Publishers of it. It would be imprudent to import many works in large quantities; but all specified can be supplied if a reasonable time be allowed, excepting those containing copyright matter, or in any way infringing British copyright law. Books can now be forwarded to any part of AMERICA, EUROPE, TURKEY IN ASIA, GIBRALTAR, MALTA, Cyprus, ALGERIA, TUNIS, EGYPT, MOROCCO, MADEIRA, AZORES, CANARY ISLANDS, HELIGOLAND, CANADA, and PERSIA, at the rate of one Halfpenny for every two ounces (4d. per lb.). To INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA and JAPAN, for 1d. per two ounces (ls. per lb.) And to AUSTRALIA, for ld. per oz. (1s. 4d. per lb.) FREDERIK MULLER. AFTER the establishment of the Republic of the United Netherlands at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and more especially after the declaration of its independence at the conclusion of the peace at Münster in 1648, the Netherlands arrived at the highest pinnacle of its greatness. The country became the seat and the asylum of religious and political liberty in Europe. The press was absolutely free, all religious opinions were tolerated, and civil liberty became the birthright of all denizens of the Republic. Its prosperity was unexampled, and the Arts and Sciences flourished to a remarkable degree. It was but natural that with such favouring conditions the Netherlands book-trade should have had a great chance, and its members during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were not slow in availing themselves of it. Who does not, in and out of the Netherlands, know the honoured names of the Plantins, the Elzevirs, the Blaeus, Wetsteins, Waesberghes, Luchtmans, Enschedes, and their confrères ? It was mainly owing to them that Holland's press became famous over the whole civilized world, and that Dutch paper and Dutch type became celebrated, and still command universal respect. The troubles which Holland had to go through during the last century, the rising naval power of England and France, the French Revolutionary wars, the annexation to France, and the consequent loss by Holland of some of her finest colonial possessions, unfortunately reduced "Indefessus Agendo." her power and influence greatly, and the Dutch book-trade lost simultaneously its preponderating European influence. But although more localized now, the standard of its members has not deteriorated, and it is not saying too much that they still occupy a foremost rank among their colleagues in Germany, France and England, for knowledge, culture, intelligence and activity. And Frederik Muller, who died on the 6th of January, and whose loss is deplored at home and abroad, was among them facile princeps. Frederik Muller was born at Amsterdam on the 22nd of July, 1817. He was the son of Samuel Muller, a Professor at the Mennonite Seminary, received a very careful training in his father's house, attended the Gymnasium at Amsterdam, and entered at an early age as an apprentice into the business of his uncle, Johannes Muller, one of the leading foreign booksellers, and also a publisher of important philological works, in the same city. Johannes Muller was a bookseller of the good old stamp; he had a high idea of the nobleness of his calling, and would have deemed it beneath his dignity to deal in any books not belonging to scientific and high-class literature. F. Muller, replete with classical lore, enjoyed, under his uncle's tuition, excellent opportunities of acquainting himself with the scientific literature of Germany, and the example of his worthy teacher no doubt gave to his mind the scholarly direction which he consistently followed out throughout his whole career. He had no easy time of it in his uncle's business, for the latter was a stern man, severe to himself, and severe in his demands on his subordinates. After having served his uncle for six years, he became a clerk, and afterwards a partner, of Jacobus Radink, at that time the leading antiquarian bookseller of Holland. Radink was rough and ready, a man of little education, and without a knowledge of the classical and hardly any of the modern languages, but long practice had made him familiar with the externals of old books, although of their contents he was rather ignorant. Whilst with him he had good opportunities of becoming acquainted with the great book treasures produced and accumulated for centuries in his native country, and which, stored up for some centuries, began at the time of Muller's embracing the profession of a bookseller to become dispersed. He also acquired, whilst in that position, great expertness in cataloguing, and in the management of book auctions. But no two men could have been more dissimilar than Radink and Muller, and it followed as a matter of course that they soon separated, and that Muller began business on his own account. This was in 1843, when Muller was at the age of 26: his first place of business being in a cellar or basement on the Rokin at Amsterdam. About the man and his business abode at that time we quote the words of his colleague and devoted friend, A. C. Kruseman, of Haarlem, himself an eminent member of the Dutch book trade." Who would have conjectured, whilst walking about thirty-five years ago along the Rokin at Amsterdam, and observing folios and quartos piled up for sale on the stone steps of a corner house, and so was tempted to descend into the damp basement, who, we ask, would have conjectured, that the unpretending, simple-looking young man, in charge of the half-dark musty place, would become the famous Frederik Muller, whose name is mentioned with so much respect at home as well as abroad? Truly, no man of his education could have begun business under more humble circumstances, and have carried on a business so little thought of as the second-hand book trade was at that time; a business with only insignificant capitals invested in it, a business, moreover, only carried on, on small stalls in the market-place at Amsterdam.' At that time Muller began practically to apply the results of his bibliographical studies to the collecting and cataloguing of books, pamphlets, prints, engravings, and manuscripts. We give in a footnote at the bottom of the next page a list of his catalogues and bibliographies, and wish to direct particular attention to the "Bibliographical and Historical Essay on the Dutch Books and Pamphlets relating to New Netherland," as opening an entirely new vista to the students of the history of the state of New York; nor is the essay on Batavo-Russian bibliography of less importance for the student of the history of Russia and Poland, as it gives information of books, maps, plates, etc., formerly quite unknown. It may be truly said that from 1841 to 1876, hardly |