OBITUARY NOTES. JOSEPH MACKEY, the founder of "Mackey's A B C Guide," died on the 4th inst., in Fordham, N. Y. He was born in New York City in 1829. When he was a young man he was employed on the New York Tribune as a reporter of the markets. He left newspaper work in 1850 to publish The United States Economist, a paper devoted to the dry-goods trade. He had control of the paper until he sold it about six years ago. His A B C Guide" was founded in 1862, and he managed it until four years ago, when he placed it in the control of a stock company and retired from business. CAPT. ANDREW M. IRVING, a well-known Canadian author, died in Toronto January 11. He was born in Hamilton, August 31, 1860. His father, A. S. Irving, is the general manager of the Toronto News Co., of which Capt. Irving was a director and the secretary. Under the pseudonym of "Maxwell Drew" he contributed to the press a number of articles, both in prose and verse, that gave evidence of more than ordinary literary ability. "The Sergeant's Story," a dialect narrative of the Northwest rebellion, attracted wide attention. His last literary work was a play that so commended itself to several stage managers that he received offers to produce it on the stage. LADY JANE FRANCESCA SPERANZA WILDE, mother of Oscar Wilde, died in London on the 5th inst. Lady Wilde, whose maiden name was Jane Francesca Speranza Elgee, was born in 1836, in County Wexford, Ireland. Toward the end of the 40's Miss Elgee contributed poetry to the Dublin Nation under the pseudonym of "John Fanshawe Ellis," which attracted considerable attention. Later she adopted the penname of "Speranza." In 1851 she married Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, an eminent oculist in Dublin, who was knighted in 1864 and died in 1876. Since then Lady Wilde has resided chiefly in London, where her salon was the rendezvous of artists and literary people until disgrace overtook the family. WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS, D.D., pastor emeritus of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, died in that city January 30. He was born in Boston, April 20, 1802. Dr. Furness was the author of a number of theological works, among which are: "Remarks on the Four Gospels,' 'The Story of the Resurrection Told Once More," etc., and also made many translations. Howard Horace Furness, one of the most famous of modern Shakespearian scholars, is his son, and Mrs. Annie Lee Wister, the well-known translator from the German, is his daughter. Another son, William H., has won distinction as a portrait painter, and his daughter, Helen Kate Howard, has also made studies in Shakespeare of value. HENRI VAN LAUN, a well-known author and translator from the French, died at his home in London, January 19, aged 76 years. He was a native of Holland and went to England about fifty years ago. He was successively French master at King William's College, Cheltenham College, and the Edinburgh Academy, and was continuously for the last twenty years Examiner in French for the Civil Service Commission and for the War Office. In 1869 he published, with English notes, a selection from H. A. Taine, whose friend he was, and two years of English Literature" of the same author, later produced a translation of the " History which has not since been displaced. "A History of French Literature," in three volumes, each covering a different period, from his own pen, followed in 1876-7, and was reprinted in 1883. In 1879 appeared, in two volumes, his "French Revolutionary Epoch, 1774-1870." His translation of the dramatic works of Mo lière was published by Paterson (Edinburgh, 1875-6) in six volumes, with illustrations by Lalauze. A translation of "Gil Blas" followed, in three volumes (Simpkin & Marshall, 1885-6). M. Van Laun was familiar with outof-the-way portions of English dramatic literature, and was in the habit of writing occasional theatrical notices. He was also confidential adviser to Mr. Nimmo, the publisher. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. The Bachelor of Arts offers a prize of $125 for the best short story written by an undergraduate subscriber. The particulars and terms of competition are explained in the February number of that clever magazine. McClure's Magazine have been gathering materiFOR upward of two years the publishers of al and pictnres for a new life of General Grant. They have been fortunate in securing the co-operation of Col. F. D. Grant, who has most of his father's papers. BEGINNING with the March issue the price of Chap-Book is to be raised from five to ten cents. The magazine is to keep the same form, but will contain more reading-matter and pictures, and will endeavor to give its subscribers better worth than before for their money. The Bookseller and Newsman is the new title of the journal hitherto published under the name of The American Newsman by John J. Daly. The size has also been reduced from folio to quarto. The journal was begun as The Newsman in Boston in 1884. In 1888 it was removed to New York and enlarged from a 16-page to a 40-page number. Mr. Daly has always been progressive and independent under whatever name he has sailed his craft, and will no doubt continue so. NOTES ON CATALOGUES. SVERIGES PERIODISKA LITTERATUR. Bibliografi, enligt Publicistklubbens uppdrag utarbetad of Bernhard Lundstedt. V. I. Stockholm, 1895. 1645-1812. 178 p. O. PERIODICAL literature presents to the bibliographer one of the most difficult and exasperating problems. It is little wonder, therefore, that the compilation of this seemingly modest bibliography has taken the spare hours of its author for ten years. The material presented in this volume is to be found among the treasures of the Royal Library at Stockholm, which, owing to the patronage it has enjoyed since 1661 and the diligence of the late chief librarian, G. E. Klemming, has as rich a collection of its national literature as any of the great national libraries of Europe. Its collection of Swedish periodicals is uncommonly complete. Dr. Lundstedt enumerates 425 different publications issued between the years men tioned in the title, besides four earlier, semiperiodical publications, which may be regarded as the forerunners of the periodical press proper. The information given of each publication is complete in every particular. Notes are given of the different editors and of the history of the publications, besides the usual bibliographical details. The scope and character of the more important journals are described, the notes in many cases furnishing interesting reading. As a whole, the book is a model of bibliographical precision, and forms an important contribution to the history of Swedish literature. Another bibliography of special interest for American librarians, by the same author, is his bibliography of the Swedish periodicals issued in this country, published in 1886. The number of the publications there treated is 174, and the treatment of the material is the same as in the work described above. 248 titles.) A. S. Clark, 174 Fulton St., N. Y., 3000 interesting items, comprising Americana, biography, genealogy, etc. (No. 41, 32 p. 12°; printed on better paper and in better style than formerly.) — Francis P. Harper. 17 East 16th St., N. Y., Interesting, standard, and out-ofprint books. (No. 70, 509 titles.)- John Hitchman, 51 Cherry St., Birmingham, Eng., Historical, topographical, and miscellaneous. (No. 257, 437 titles.)-Joseph McDonough, 53 State St., Albany, N. Y., Scarce Americana, fine editions of standard books, etc. (No. 108, 883 titles.) Herbert L. Mathews, 401-403 Temple Block,. Kansas City, Mo., Miscellaneous, new and old. (January, 1896, 513 titles.). Noah Farnham Morrison, 877 Broad St., Newark, N. J., Miscellaneous. (February, 639 titles.) Bernhard Richter, Leipzig, Theologiæ Novitates, biblioggraphy of evangelical theology and kindred matters. (January, 1896, No. 1, 224 titles.) — M. Spirgatis, 23 Marienstr., Leipzig, Sprache u literatur der romanischen völker. (No. 38, 1393 titles.) — Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 39 Great Russell St., London, Americana. (No. 53, 290 titles.) BUSINESS NOTES. BUFFALO, N. Y.-Thornton & Son, booksellers, have given a bill of sale for $700. CAMP POINT, ILL. John I. Stanton has opened a book and stationery store here. CHICAGO, ILL.-The C. M. Barnes Co. will remove on the 29th inst. to more desirable quarters at 106, 108, 110, and 112 Wabash Avenue, where they hope to be in much better shape to accommodate their growing business. AKSEL G. S. Josephson. "THE CATALOGUE of the AverY ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY," issued by the Columbia Library, ranks easily as the finest, typographically, ever published. The collection here catalogued forms the Avery Memorial in Columbia College, founded in 1890 by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Avery, of New York, as a memorial to their son, Henry Ogden Avery, who died April 30, 1890. There are about 13,000 volumes, the greater portion of which are large and costly works on every form of architecture and on those departments of archæology which deal with architecture, sculpture, and the other decorative arts. A serious defect of this volume is that as the arrangement is by author only, it is difficult for one who wishes to know what works the collection contains on a given subject to get the information except by searching through; the whole catalogue. The memorial has been amply endowed by the donors, so that additions can be made to the collection as may be found necessary. The printing of the catalogue by the De Vinne Press has occupied nearly two years, and has been done through the generosity of Mr. Avery. (17+logues at once. 1139 p. pl. 4°, hf. mor.) Mr. Barnes has made an admirable selection for his new location. There are 15,000 square feet of space, two entrances, two passenger and two freight elevators. DENVER, COL.-The Chain & Hardy Book, Stationery and Art Co. are moving to their new location, 717-719 Sixteenth Street. During the process they have lost some of their catalogues, and desire all publishers to forward them cata DONIPHAN, Mo.-J. A. Atkisson, bookseller, has made an assignment. FOSTORIA, O.-Daniel F. Bower, bookseller, has sold out. GRAND FORKS, NO. DAK.-Frank V. Kent, bookseller, has made an assignment. APPLETON P. C. GRIFFIN, care of the Boston Athenæum, will supply to subscribers a "Bibliography of the Historical Publications issued by the New England States" (including in the introduction a summary statement of the printed archives of other States), of which 250 GRAND LEDGe, Mich.-B. S. Pratt & Son, copies have been reprinted from "The Transac-booksellers, have given a chattel mortgage for tions of the Colonial Soc. of Mass." (48 p. 8°, pap., $1.) THE ROXBURGHE PRESS, 3 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, publish a "Bibliography of Guns and Shooting," by Wirt Gerrare. IOS. 6d. CATALOGUES OF NEW AND SECOND-HAND BOOKS.-William Evarts Benjamin, 10 W. 22d St., N. Y.,Fine, rare, and curious books. (No. 71, 32 p. sq. 8°.)- Wm. J. Campbell, 1009 Walnut St., Phila., Rare Americana, including Franklin imprints, and rare American school-books. A continuation of the excellent catalogue described in our issue for January 11. (No. 9, 173 titles.) — Chaucer's Head, 5 Temple Row, Birmingham, Eng., Books from the library of P. G. Hamerton, MSS. from the oriental and philological library of Hyde Clarke, etc. (No. 318, $2467. KIOWA, KAN.-Streeter & Streeter, booksellers, are selling out. LEWISTON, ME.-J. M. Fernald, bookseller, is reported to have failed. MACOMB, ILL.-E. H. Black, bookseller, made an assignment January 20. The liabilities are unknown; assets about $3000. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-W. G. Thompson, bookseller, has sold out. MISSOULA, MONT.-W. C. Allerton, bookseller, has made an assignment. MONROE CITY, Mo.-Frank Fuller has just purchased a large book and stationery store, and assumed charge on the 1st inst. NEW BERNE, N. C.-James D. Gaskins has bought out the book-store of Marvin Nash. NEW YORK CITY.-The firm of Bonnell, Silver & Co., who have just opened a book and stationery store at 22 W. 22d Street, is composed of Charles E. Bonnell, Elmer B. Silver, John Watt, and George C. Whitworth. NEW YORK CITY.-A change of ownership of the Fowler & Wells Company, the phrenologists and publishers, controlled by the Fowler family for sixty years, has just been announced. The controlling stock has been purchased by the editor of the Phrenological Journal, Dr. Edgar C. Beall, and Col. Ñ. W. Fitz Gerald, late of West Virginia. NEW YORK CITY.-The S. S. McClure Co. has been incorporated to deal in literary productions and publish books and serials; capital, $100,000, and directors, J. McClure, John Phillips, Albert Brody, Edwin C. Martin, and Robert McClure. NEW YORK CITY.-The entire plant of the Moss Engraving Co. was sold by the assignee on the 6th inst. NEW YORK CITY.-Munn & Co. have been incorporated to publish newspapers and other publications. Capital, $10,000, and directors, Orson D.Munn, Fred C. Beach, Jennie B. Beach, and Charles Allen Munn, of New York City. LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind., have just ready a new novel by Mrs. Harry S. New, entitled "A Woman Reigns." They have in preparation "Selections from Lucian," translated by Prof. Damarchus C. Brown, of Butler University. W. W. WATERS, of the Presbyterian BookStore, Pittsburg, Pa., will publish shortly addresses on the Second Coming of Christ, by Doctors Pearson, Erdman, Moorhead, Parsons, and others, delivered at The Prophetic Conference held in Allegheny, Pa., December, 1895. THE AMERICAN PURITY ALLIANCE, which has its headquarters in the United Charities Building, New York, has in preparation a volume of the papers and addresses read before the National Purity Congress. The volume will be a large octavo, illustrated with portraits of the leading members of the association. THE two concluding volumes of Mr. Aitken's edition of Defoe's "Romances and Narratives," published by Macmillan & Co., include the rare and valuable "Due Preparations for the Plague," and a number of pamphlets relating to Capt. Avery, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, and other pirates and robbers, now reprinted for the first time. NEW YORK CITY.-A. D. F. Randolph & Co. have decided not to take the offices at 149 Fifth Avenue, as announced last week, and have reCOPELAND & DAY, Boston, have in preparamoved their publishing business to 93 Fifth tion a new translation of "Aucassin and NicoAvenue, where they have for neighbors Long-lette"; William H. Rideing's clever story, mans, Green & Co. and Bangs & Co. NEW YORK CITY. - The Widmer - Stigler Music Publishing Co., of No. 131 West 42d Street, has applied to Judge Pryor for a voluntary dissolution of the company, and the order to show cause was set down for April 17. The liabilities are $3525; assets not stated, consisting of a lot of sheet music, plates and copyrights of various songs and instrumental pieces. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.-Edw. O. Babcock, bookseller, has had a judgment for $119 entered against him. "The Captured Cunarder"; "The Road to Castaly," poems by Alice Brown, author of Meadow Grass "; and a collection of poems by Madison Cawein, which will form a new volume in their Oaten Stops series. THOMAS WHITTAKER has just issued "Metanoia: an undeveloped chapter in the life and teaching of Christ," by the Rev. Treadwell Walden, D.D.; "Biblical Character Sketches," a series of sermons on the young men and women of the Bible, by Dean Farrar and other noted preachers; and "Curiosities of the Olden Times," by S. Baring-Gould, a favorite subject PHILADELPHIA, PA.-George Barrie has been with the author. succeeded by Barrie & Son. PHILADELPHIA.-A fire that broke out in the cellar of the Hazeltine Building, 1416 and 1418 Chestnut Street, on the morning of the 2d inst., destroyed the adjoining marble building (1420 and 1422) occupied by the American Baptist Publication Society. The most serious loss to the Publication Society is the destruction of the valuable library of the Baptist Historical Society and several hundred historical papers of the denomination that cannot be replaced. The library contained upward of 12,000 volumes, many of which can never be replaced. ST. JOHN, MICH.-A chattel mortgage for $1000, given by James E. Little, of F. E. Aldrich & Co., booksellers, has been discharged. SALEM, MASS.-W. Harvey Merrill, bookseller, has filed a petition in insolvency. SAN ANTONIO, TEX.-Bainbridge & Corner, booksellers, have been succeeded by William Corner. SIOUX FALLS, S. D.-W. T. Warwick, bookseller, has confessed judgments for $503, on which execution has been issued; he has also given a chattel mortgage for $2363 on stock and furniture. IN its twenty-first annual report the Hospital Book and Newspaper Society records that during the year ending Sept. 30, 1895, there were collected and distributed to patients in the hospitals 8299 books, 20,763 magazines, 50,369 weekly and illustrated papers, and 148,763 daily papers. The society's receptacles for books and papers may be found at railroad stations and ferry-houses in all parts of New York City Its office is in the United Charities Building. THE offer to sell the Hubert Howe Bancroft Library, of San Francisco, for $300,000, which was recently made by the owner to the trustees of the Consolidated Library of New York, has Committee. Mr. Bancroft values the collecbeen passed upon unfavorably by the Library tion, which contains 60,000 volumes, at $500,It is almost wholly historical, and was gathered by Mr. Bancroft in the course of forty years. The working library contains 15,300 000. volumes. WILLIAM TRYON HIGBEE, of Cleveland, O., has prepared a volume entitled "Some Posters." It contains a small collection of photographic reproductions of posters, mostly American, by American artists. Jules Cheret is credited as the originator of the idea. The volume also contains samples of work by Eugène Grasset and Aubrey Beardsley, both foreign artists, who have been promoters of the idea and have done posters for this country. The work of the followers of these-Louis J. Rhead, Will Bradley, and others-forms the bulk of the volume. The book is 8 x 10 inches in size and the photographs are mounted on Whatman hand-made paper. The edition is limited to 15 numbered copies, a few of which are for sale at $20, net, by The Burrows Brothers Co., of Cleveland. CHARLES H. LUGRIN, of Seattle, Wash., according to the Philadelphia Telegraph, "has in his possession the original manuscript of the report made to the British Government in 1781 by the Commission appointed to define the boundaries of Dutch Guiana. The report makes a book of nearly four hundred pages, and contains a description of every settlement and plantation in Dutch Guiana which is now claimed by the British, and the names of all the original grantees from the Dutch Government. It defines the boundaries of the territory claimed by the Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese at that time, in addition to a large amount of other extremely valuable information. At the request of Lord Salisbury, Mr. Lugrin is about to forward the book to the English Premier for inspection by the British Government. The report has been in his possession for some years, and as near as he is able to learn it was taken to Canada from New York by one of the United Empire Loyalists at the close of the Revolutionary War." LAMSON, WOLFFE & Co., Boston, have in press a selection of the poems of James Clarence Mangan, to which will be added a study of his work, etc., by Louise Imogen Guiney; also a volume of "Fairy-Tales," by Mabel Fuller Blodgett, with illustrations by Miss Ethel Reed. They will publish at once Prof. C. G. D. Roberts's "Earth's Enigmas," a series of interpretations of animal life; and a translation of Sónia Kovalevsky's novel of social and political life, "Vera Vorontzoff.” In the field of the drama they have in hand Miss Marguerite Merington's libretto of the comic opera which, with Mr. Arthur Bird's music, won the New York Conservatory prize. "Daphne, or, the pipes of Arcadia-three acts of sane nonsense," is its title. Miss Blanche McManus has prepared for their issue notes and original illustrations to accompany "The True Mother Goose," in which "the curious may read about the rhymes, and others the rhymes themselves." FOREIGN NOTES. AN International Exposition of almanacs and other typographical work, and also of bindings, will shortly be held at Amsterdam, Holland. THE Clarendon Press will publish "Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus," edited from a papyrus in the Bodleian, with a translation, commentary, and appendices by B. P. Grenfell, and an introduction by Prof. Mahaffy. The papyrus consists of two rolls, which were obtained by Prof. Flinders Petrie and Mr. Grenfell, respectively. It is said to be the largest Greek papyrus known; and as it is in several places dated "in the twenty-seventh year" of Philadelphus, it is also nearly the oldest. The text is accompanied by a portfolio containing thirteen fac-similes. Swedish literature by H. Schück and K. WarTHE first parts of an illustrated history of burg have recently appeared in Stockholm. Koenig's German and P. Hansen's Danish The general treatment is similar to that of labor between the two authors; Prof. Schück work. A special feature is the division of the contributed the article on early Swedish literature to Paul's "Grundriss," treating of the periods before 1718. Prof. Warburg, who is the author of an excellent short history of Swedish literature, besides a number of critical biographies, has charge of the periods since 1718. U. HOEPLI, Milan, on the occasion of the celebration of the foundation of his firm aquarter of a century ago, offered a prize to Italian artists for the best illustrations to Manzoni's classic "I Promessi Sposi." The members of the jury, drawn from several Italian art societies and including the professors of L'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, have unanimously accorded the first prize to the painter Gaetano Previati, who will receive the equivalent of $1500 for his work, embracing 200 designs. Two second prizes, one of the equivalent of $1000, have been awarded to the painter Chiostri, of Florence, and to the Venetian painter Paggioro. PICK-UPS. CHINESE COPYRIGHT.-"Concerning Chinese Copyright" is the title of an amusing little sketch in a recent issue of Black and White. It seems that an author and a critic were discussing the copyright question at an "At Home," where literary lions do congregate, and a Chinaman who was amongst the guests volunteered the statement that they had no copyright in his country. The following conversation resulted: "But you have books in China?" I suggested. "Who writes them?" "It is different with us," he answered. "We do not begin as young men by writing. No one writes a book until he has gained money in his government office or in his profession. Then, perhaps, when he is rich and has leisure but not till then-he thinks of an idea which he would like to communicate to his fellowcountrymen. So he writes a book and publishes it." "How many copies are printed?" asked the author. "Perhaps two thousand." "And suppose the idea catches on with the public?" "If the idea is a good one, and more people wish to learn it, some one will print the book again, and publish it in another part, and so on until it has gone through the whole country." "Without the leave of] the writer?" asked the author. "He has no more concern with it when it is published," replied the Chinaman. "He would not earn money in that way. He has communicated his idea, and that is his reward." The author faints at the idea and is carried off by his friends. Red light-quick curtain-slow music. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 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Eight words may be reckoned to the line. Wide Awake, Dec., 1892. St. Nicholas, v. 2; odd nos., 1891, '93, 94, 95. Brentano's, 31 Union Sq., N. Y. Dante's Purgatory and Paradise. Inferno. Paradise Lost. } Original 4° editions. Smith's André. W. L. Beekman, 55 E. 5th St., St. Paul, Minn. Morris's Light and Shadows of Masonry. Theory of Equation, any. Sutton's Colony of Mercy. Diary of Judge Samuel Sewall. Lady Montague's Letters. Benton's Thirty Years in Congress. N. Y. State Balloting Book, 1825. Burnand St. Huber, a novel. Young Man, April, 1891. Fortnightly Review, Dec., 1884. W. E. Benjamin, 10 W. 22d St., N. Y. Complete set Chaucer Society Publications. Last of the Mohicans, Townsend ed. Memoir of Thaddeus Kosciusko, by A. W. W. Evans. Pub. for the Cincinnati Society. Roman Traitor, by H. W. Herbert. 1846. Geo. 8. Bixby, 44 Irving Place, N. Y. Brooklyn Eagle, six months nos. about three years back. John Boland, 606 Washington Ave., 8t. Louis, Mo. Worsley's View of American Indians. Williams, Geo. W., Hist. of Negro Race in America. Patterson's Yachtman's Guide, last ed. Chips, v. 1 and 2. Ringwalt's Development of Transportation in U. S. Jarves's Hawaii; or, The Sandwich Islands. Ohio Geol. Survey, v. 5. Dean's Fishes, Living and Fossil. Proceedings American Carnation Soc. 1895. Letherby, On Food. Prescott's Examination of Alcoholic Liquors. Pratt, Food Adulteration. Smith's Thorndale. Music Love Poetry. Gilman's Prac. Hygiene of To-Day. Adams, Outlines of Lectures on Political Economy. Rip Raps; or, Drifts Though Wide Apart, Kerr. Beer's Odds and Ends. Dietz, The Triumph of Love. |