Tierische bewegung. Du Bois-Reymond, E. 55c.. Ginn Tommy Toddles. Lee, A. $1.25......................................... Harper Torrey, R. A. How to study the Bible with greatest profit. '96. (Mr7) 16°, 75c. Revell Torts, Il. cases. Paige, J. $6......T. & J. W. Johnson Town and country lib. See Burton; Gerard; Snaith. Toxic amblyopias. De Schweinitz, G: E. net, $4..Lea Train, Eliz. Phipps. Autobiography of a professional beauty. '96. c. il. (Mr14) S. (Lotos lib.) 75c.Lippincott Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry. Carleton, W: V. 1. $1.50....................... Macmillan Tucker, Emma. See Tucker, T. Tucker, Tina and Emma, (comps.) Search-lights for Tudor translations. See Plutarch. Balfour, A. E: Arnold circuit, Nov. Twice-told tales. See Hawthorne, N. Two hundred old-time songs. Ogilvie, F. B. 75C.; 25C. Ogilvie Tyler, Odette. Boss. '96. (Mr7) 12°, $1; ed. de luxe, $5. Transatlantic Tyndall lectures, 1894. See Abney. Ulrick the Ready. O'Grady, S. $1.25............ Dodd Under the greenwood tree: children's play, words, and music. 96. (Mr21) 16°, pap., 25c....... ......Werner United States. Circuit cts. of appeals. Reports. V. 16. '96. c. (Mr28) O. shp., $3.35... West Pub --Ct. of appeals. Reports, v. 23; fifth term, 1893, 94, by S: A. Blatchford, off. ed. '96. c. (Mr14) O. shp., $3.25.... Banks --Federal cases, Book 22. 96. c. (Mr28) O. (Nat. reporter system, U. S. ser.) shp., $10...... West Pub reporter, v. 70. Permanent ed. '95. c. (Mr21) (Nat. reporter system, U. S. ser.) shp., $5.... West Pub Narrative history of. Hunter, T: $1..... Am. Bk Urinary organs, Diseases of. See Morris, H: Vendanta Sûtras. See Müller, F: M. Verity, J: B. Electricity up-to-date for light, power, and traction. [New 5th ed. rev. and eni.] '96. il. (Mr7) D. $1... - Verses. See Plummer, M. W. Veterinarian's call-book. Bell, R. R. $1.25. Warne W: R. Jenkins Veterinary post-mortem examinations. Clement, A. -surgery, Operative. See Liautard; Moller. Vikings of to-day. Grenfell, W. T. $1.25....... Revell Vision, Color. See Abney, W: de W. C. - building and tone placing. Curtis, H. H. 75c. Macmillan $2. Appleton Vynne, Nora. Comedy of honor. '96. (Mr7) 16°, 75C. Ward, L. & B Wace, H: See Schaff, P. Wagner, Harr, (comp.) Patriotic quotations: for use in public schools; [also] Liberty's bell, by M. M. Wagner. [96.] (Mr14) sq. S. pap., 25c.; bds., 40C. Whitaker & R Walking with God. Randall, S: B. 6oc........Revell Walsh, H: Collins, [and others.] Last cruise of the "Miranda": a record of Arctic adventure. '96. il. (Mr7) 8°, $1.50.... ... Transatlantic Walsham, W. G., and Hughes, W: Kent. Deformities of the human foot, with their treatment. '96. il. (Mr14) 8°, $4.50.... Wood Walworth, Mrs. Jeanette Ritchie Hadermann. Where Kitty found her soul. '96. c. il. (Mr28) D. (Renaissance booklets.) leatherette, 30c..... ...Revell Wambaugh, Eug. Selection of cases on agency. [Pt. 3.] '96. c. (Mr14) O. $1.50....... Harvard Law Ward, Mrs. Herb. D. See Phelps, E. S. Ware, Mrs. S. E., (comp.) Mother Nature's festival. ['96.] c. (Mr28) D. (Practical teachers' lib., v. 1, no. 9.) pap., 15c....... ....Kellogg Warne's lib. of natural history. See Lydekker, R: Warren, F. M. History of the novel previous to the seventeenth century. 95. c. (Mr28) 12°, $1.75..Holt Watson, H. B. Marriott. Galloping Dick. '96. (Mrai) 16°, $1.25. .Stone & K Watson, W: Father of the forest, and other poems. '95. c. (Mr21) 12°, net, $1.25.............Stone & K Weeks, Stephen B. Southern Quakers and slavery. '96. c. (Mr21) O. (Johns Hopkins Univ. studies, extra v. 15.) $2.... .......Johns Hopkins Werner primer. Taylor, F. L. 30c........Werner Co Werner's readings and recitations, nos. 13, 14. '96. (Mr21) 16°, ea., 6oc.; pap.. 35c.............. West, A. S. See Pope, A. ... Werner Whittle, D. W. Gospel pictures and story sermons for children. 96. il. (Mr28) 12°, 50C..... Wilbor, W: C. Beauty for ashes. '96. leatherette, 35C..... Wilcox, Lute. Irrigation farming. '95. $2....... Revell c. (Mr28) D. Hunt & E il. (Mr7) 12°, .....Fudd record of the Williamson, Ja. J. Mosby's rangers: operations of the Forty-third Battalion, Va. Cavalry. '96. c. il. (Mr28) O. $3.50....... ......Kenyon Willoughby, Westel Woodbury. Examination of the nature of the state. '96. (Mr28) 8°, $3......Macmilian Wilson, Ja. Works of James Wilson, asso. justice of the sup. ct. of the U. S.; his public discourses upon jurisprudence and the political science, [etc.] ed. by Ja. De W. Andrews. '96. c. '95. 2 v. (Mr14) O. $7. Callaghan Wilson, W: R. A. Good-for-nuthin': the tale of a Christmas promise. '96. (Mг7) 12°, parch., 75c.. Paul Winthrop, W: Military law and precedents. 2d ed. rev. and enl. '96. c. 2 v. (Mr28) O. shp., $12. Little, B. & Co Wiseman, N: Fabiola: or, the church of the Catacombs. New cheap il. ed. '96. (Mr7) 12°, $1.25. Benziger Woman intervenes. Barr, R. $1.25........ ...... Stokes - under monasticism. Eckenstein, L. net, $4. — with good intentions. Merrilies, M. Macmillan G: W. Dillingham Woman's work in mission fields. See Pitman, Mrs. E. R. Women who laugh. Powell, E. M. 75c. Transatlantic ......... Transatlantic Wright, C: H. H. Primer of Roman Catholicism. '96. (Mr7) 18°, (Present-day primer ser.) net, 40c. Revell Wrong man. Gerard, D. $1; 50c................................Appleton Yonge, Eug. S. Aids to surgical anatomy. '96. (My14) 16°, $1. ..Wood Zahm, J. A. Evolution and dogma. '96. c. (Mr7) D. $2; hf. cf., $3... McBride Ziegler, Ernst. General pathology; tr. from the 8th rev. Ger. ed. by L. W. Bacon, and others; ed. by A. H. Buck. '96. il. (Mr14) 8°, $5.50; leath., $6.50...... Wood AUCTION SALES. [We shall be pleased to insert under this heading, without charge, advance notices of auction sales to be held anywhere in the United States. Word must reach us before Wednesday evening, to be in time for issue of same week.] APRIL 8, 3 P.M.-Collection of books on New York, Americana in general, periodicals, etc. (378 lots.) —Bangs. APRIL 11, 3:30 P.M.-Original manuscripts and autographs. (159 lots.)-Bangs. The catalogue is descriptive, neatly printed, and well worth preserving. APRIL 13 AND 14, 3 P.M.-The library of the late John J. Cronin, better known as the "Old Bookman." (608 lots.)-Bangs. Cronin was a curious character. Those who desire to know something of him will find a sketch of his life and of some of his treasures in THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, September 24, 1892, p. 375. Che Publishers' Weekly. FOUNDED BY F. LEYPOLDT. APRIL 4, 1896. The editor does not hold himself responsible for the views expressed in contributed articles or communications. All matter, whether for the reading-matter columns or advertising pages, should reach this office not later than Wednesday noon, to insure insertion in the same week's issue. Books for the "Weekly Record," as well as all information intended for that department, must reach this office by Tuesday morning of each week. "I hold every man 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 and an ornament thereunto."-LORD BACON. THE VALUE OF RARE BOOKS. THE collecting of books has become a profession in which those who would rank as experts must be content to work harder every year. In the closing days of the nineteenth century fortunes are made and lost so unaccountably, people wander about the world so unceasingly, that books pass from the possession of one book-collector into the keeping of another at almost every moment; and to keep clearly in mind just where the rare books are requires trained memory and a close study of booksellers' catalogues and auction-sales lists. Collectors are, as a rule, unbusiness-like, and generally leave their affairs in such a state that their relatives in too many cases are obliged to realize money on the only thing of value they possess. It is therefore of great importance that rival collectors should know each other's riches. No one has done more to facilitate the researches of collectors than M. Pierre Gustav Brunet, whose death we recorded in the issue of March 7. Almost his last work was an essay entitled "Du Prix des Livres Rares Vers la Fin du XIXe siècle," which he prepared in 1893 for the Actes de l'Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, which now is published in pamphlet form by Feret & Fils, Bordeaux. In this able and instructive treatise M. Brunet sketches the portrait of a bibliophile of the highest rank as follows: "He must be master of an independent fortune; he must be a celibate and master of all his passions but the dominating one; he must be armed with imperturbable coolness and with profound literary learning. The exterior of a book must appeal to him as much as the contents; he must recognize the peculiarities and specialties of the work of every celebrated binder, so that he may distinguish at a glance a binding of Derome from one of Derome le Jeune. A complete stranger to political life, he hardly notices the hero of the hour, and he treats with scornful indifference the hero of a change of ministry. Towards the close of his life he begins to concern himself in the fate of his beloved books, and in the reception which will be given to the catalogue in which will be registered all the riches which he has accumulated." M. Brunet claims that the value of rare books has increased enormously during the last century, and traces the reason to the fact that number of books of incontestible rarity is opulent amateurs have multiplied, and that the about the same as it was a century and a half ago, when De Bure, Jr., registered them in his "Bibliographie Instructive." They are all well known, and those which have not found inviolable shelter in public museums and libraries are coveted and fought for at every public sale. There is a fashion, too, in rare books as there is in women's clothes and in bric-a-brac. The taste of amateurs undergoes many transformations; sometimes it leads toward pilgrimages, toward the Holy Land, toward books printed in Germany or Switzerland, especially those containing the writings of Luther and Calvin, etc. More recently original editions of the French romanticists of 1830 have risen to very high values, a copy of Théophile Gautier's "Mademoiselle de Maupin" bringing 1600 francs. But these are individual fancies which are not lasting, and M. Brunet believes that true bibliographers will continue to search for volumes of which there are only a few copies in existence, as for instance of the first editions of the tales of the knights, of the best French poets of the sixteenth century, and first editions of the classics of the eighteenth century. Of all the French classics Molière seems to bring the highest prices in original editions. M. Brunet mentions many works in detail, giving the history of their wanderings from country to country, over sea and land, and specially dwells upon some of the treasures catalogued by Bernard Quaritch. North American collectors are said to be specially keen at hunting "big game" and often offer fabulous sums for what they have set their hearts upon. As binding by celebrities is a special feature of many rare books, M. Brunet also gives brief sketches of some of the binders. "Du Prix des Livres Rares" is full of information put with rare felicity of diction, which is not impaired by the little ripple of fun and good-natured satire which runs through many of M. Brunet's comments. HERBERT SPENCER'S WORK. It was reported recently that Herbert Spen cer had informed some of his friends that he had completed the last of the volumes of his system of synthetic philosophy. The New York Sun, however, learns from authoritative sources that "this was an error, and that Mr. Spencer has almost finished the last part of the last volume of his work, but has not concluded it. Great interest attaches to this labor of Mr. published by William Wood & Co., W. H. Heines of Street & Smith, David Adams, W. H. Adams, R. F. Fenno, S. Zickel, T. Alfred Vernon, and John Elderkin. The object of the meeting was explained by John Elderkin. Some time ago, Mr. Elderkin Postmaster-General, made a ruling by which said, Judge Thomas, the Second Assistant reprints of back numbers of periodicals were not to pass through the mails as second-class Mr. Elderkin's opinion, the broadest step ever matter, but must pay book rates. This was, in taken against newspapers and periodicals by executive authority. It allowed the Postmaster Spencer's, as it has been a grave question whether he would live to complete it. But he is to-day, at the age of 76, able to do, it is said, the same daily quota of work-three hours-General to throw out of mails any periodical that he established for himself when he was approaching middle life. He laid the plan of this system of philosophic works in 1860, and it was feared then that he would not live to child, and at the age of 35 had broken down from overwork. Ever since then he has suffered from insomnia, and it is said that he has probably not had a full night's sleep in forty fulfil it. He had been of delicate health as a years. "His plan of 1860 for formulating his philosophic system comprehended a work in five divisions, some of one volume and some of two: first principles, biology, psychology, sociology, and ethics. The undertaking seemed to be a stupendous one. The first volume of first principles, consisting entirely of abstractions, he published in 1860. That was followed by the volumes on biology and psychology, and then, not knowing how much further he would be able to carry the greater work, he published a pamphlet on the principles of sociology. Fearing, as he said, that life would not last for the completion of his labors, and desiring to have what he regarded as the most important part at least done, he published later a small work on the data of ethics. He went back to work on sociology again and left that to complete the ethics, which he finished, and turned once more to the sociological division which he is now bringing to its close with the part devoted to industrial institutions. America has a peculiar interest in the work, since it was the United States that taught England to appreciate Spencer, and it was very largely through the instrumentality of Americans-Prof. E. L. Youmans, Dr. McCosh, Henry Ward Beecher, John Fisk, and Henry Holt among them-that Spencer was enabled to undertake and to go on with the work he planned in 1860." PROTEST AGAINST POSTAL CHANGES. As noted in our last week's issue a meeting of publishers of periodical magazines and books, and of other persons interested in the preparation and distribution of these classes of publications, was held March 27 in the Hardware Club's rooms, in the Postal Telegraph Building, New York. Their object was to protest against the action of the postal authorities in curtailing the number and kind of publications which may be sent through the mails at second-class rates of one cent a pound. The chair was taken by Patrick Farrelly, of the American News Company, and Orville J. Victor, of Adams, Victor & Co., acted as secretary. Among those present were Robert E. Bonner, J. S. Ogilvie, George P. Rowell, P. F. Collier, George P. Castle of the Medical Record, which he might think had changed its form, or the time or periodicity of its issue.. could mail a copy of its issue of any particular No daily paper, Mr. Elderkin continued, date, if it was reprinted next day as a second edition, at second-class rates. Kerr Craig, Mr. Elderkin said, had said, in a speech in New York, that it was the intention of the postal authorities to make some concessions to newswhich Mr. Elderkin had had with Mr. Craig, In a conversation papers and magazines. the latter had said that it was to the periodicals which the postal authorities did not consider as properly coming within the terms of secondclass rates that the new rules were to be applied with rigor. Mr. Elderkin said that in his visit to Wash ington, some weeks ago, he had proved to Postcommittee of Congress which had drawn up the present law in 1879 had expressly made it ries, and had refused to accept an amendment cover periodical literature, such as the librawhich would bar these out. In consequence of these representations by Mr. Elderkin, the Postmaster-General had consented to a suspension of the new interpretation of the law for sixty days. master-General Wilson and to others that the In conclusion, Mr. Elderkin moved a resolution of protest against the exclusion from the second-class rate of all reprinted newspapers and periodicals. Mr. Farrelly, the chairman, suggested that a Washington lawyer should be employed to Present the case of the New York publishers to Judge Thomas. This was put in the form of a resolution and was carried. It was agreed that Orville J. Victor, T. Alfred Vernon, and John Elderkin should go to Washington and prepare the case of the New York publishers for submission through a lawyer to the postal authorities. NEWSPAPER STATISTICS. ACCORDING to the London Book and News Trade Gazette "a statistician has learned that the annual aggregate circulation of the papers of the world is calculated to be 12,000,000,000 copies. To grasp any idea of this magnitude, we may state that it would cover no fewer than 10,450 square miles of surface; that it is printed on 781,250 tons of paper; and, further, that if the number, 12,000,000,000, represented, instead of copies, seconds, it would take over 333 years for them to elapse. In lieu of this arrangement, we might press and pile them vertically upward to gradually reaching our highest mountains; topping all these and even the highest Alps, the pile would reach the magnificent altitude of 490, or, in round numbers, 500 miles. Calculating that the average man spends five minutes reading his paper in the day (this is a very low estimate), we find that the people of the world altogether annually Occupy time equivalent to 100,000 years reading the papers. COPYRIGHT MATTERS. INVESTIGATION OF THE COPYRIGHT BILLS. not a sufficiently large clerical force properly to handle this work. Mr. Spofford, the librarian of Congress, has been asked to report to the committee the amendments to the present law which he considers desirable, and when the committee has discussed his recommendations there will be drawn a substitute bill embodying such improvements as meet the approval of the members. After this has been done, Gen. Draper, of A DELEGATION of music publishers, including Massachusetts, the chairman of the committee, Hamilton S. Gordon, of New York, F. H. Gil- intends to submit the bill to all the copyright son, Walter M. Bacon, George W. Furniss, W. leagues and other organizations which have a B. Everett, Arthur G. Grinnell, and D. L. legitimate interest in the subject, and elicit White, all of Boston, also Charles B. Bayley, their opinions. More hearings before the comof Washington, had a hearing March 19 be- mittee may be made necessary, and the profore the House Committee on Patents appeal-gramme outlined will probably take most of ing for protection of their business by an exthe remainder of this session, so that there is tension of the copyright laws. little probability that any new law will be enacted before the next session. ON March 25 ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, of New York, representing_Bronson Howard, Sidney Rosenfeld, Hoyt, Daly, Frohman, and many other playwrights, appeared before the Senate Committee on Patents to advocate Senator Hill's bill to amend the copyright law so as to make the piracy of any dramatic or musical composition a misdemeanor, punishable, if the presentation is wilful and for profit, by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year. The pirate is also made liable to damages in a sum not less than $100 for the first and $50 for every subsequent offence. Another provision of the bill extends the jurisdiction of circuit courts as in the tariff law, so as to make the writs of one court operative in any other circuit. Only four members of the committee were present-Messrs. Platt, Clark, Wetmore, and Berry. From the outset it was apparent from the questions asked that Mr. Berry was opposed to the bill. Judge Dittenhoefer said that the playwrights had carefully considered this proposed measure and believed it was the only thing that would stop the piracy of successful plays, a species of intellectual brigandage which had been carried on in this country recently to an alarming extent. He cited instances to show the utter inability to secure convictions under the present law. Playwrights and managers had endeavored in vain to secure justice. They had been compelled to abandon their efforts for the reason that it was money uselessly expended. The present copyright law simply provides a money penalty, which has no terrors for those who are affected by this amendment. If there were a provision making the presentation of piratical plays a misdemeanor, punishable with imprisonment at the discretion of the court, Judge Dittenhoefer held that there would be no occasion to enforce it, for the reason that the fear of imprisonment would at once prevent the continuation of such performances. THE investigation of copyright laws which has been carried on for several weeks by the House Committee on Patents, according to an Associated Press despatch, will probably lead to a more or less comprehensive revision of the copyright system. One of the principal changes likely to result will be the establishment of a bureau of copyrights in connection with the Congressional Library, which now has charge of all the copyright business, but which has NORWAY TO JOin the berne CONVENTION. THE Norwegian Society of Authors has unanimously passed a resolution asking the Government to hasten the agreement with the Berne Convention without waiting for the assent of Denmark. This conclusion was urged with great force by Henrik Ibsen. COPYRIGHT entries foR 1895. OUR attention has been called to the fact that the statement alleged to have been made by Mr. Spofford to the Committee on Patents, March 18, that last year the number of copyright entries exceeded 763,000," is incorrect. The figures were evidently mixed up in the original despatch, as the number is upwards of 67,300, or, to be quite exact, 67,517. OBITUARY NOTES. EDWARD KING, the well-known war correspondent and author, died suddenly in Brooklyn, N. Y., on March 27. He was born in Middlefield, Mass., July 31, 1848. Before he was twenty he became city editor of The Springfield Republican. For many years he lived in Paris, and while there he made a specialty of the physical characteristics and present condition of the Southern States and French subjects. During the Franco-Prussian War he was the correspondent of the New York Evening Post, The Boston Journal, and The Springfield Republican. He was also in the Balkans with the Russians in the war against Turkey. Among his principal works are: "My Paris, or, French character sketches," Kentucky's Love," "The Great South," " Echoes from the Orient," "French Political Leaders," "The Gentle Savage," "Europe, in Storm and Calm," and "A Venetian Lover." Eight years ago Mr. King made his home in Brooklyn. MRS. ELIZABETH CHARLES, the author of the "Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family," etc., died in Hampstead, Eng., March 29. Mrs. Charles was born in Tavistock, Devonshire, either in 1826 or 1828-the exact date is in dispute. Her father, John Rundell, was a banker and a man of rare culture, and was for some years M. P. for Tavistock. Before her marriage in 1851 to Andrew Paton Charles (who died in 1868) Miss Rundell had acquired considerable reputation as a linguist, painter, musician, and poet. Though she wrote upwards of thirty books she is probably best known by her "Chronicles of the SchönbergCotta Family," which were published anonymously in London in 1864. Her books never bore her name, but were issued as "by the author of 'The Schönberg-Cotta Family.' AARON WISE, rabbi of the Temple Rudolph Sholom, of New York, died suddenly at his home, No. 119 East 65th Street. Dr. Wise was born in Hungary, May 2, 1845. He pursued his rabbinical studies at various seminaries, and studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. In 1873 he came to this country. He preached first in Brooklyn; then he was elected rabbi of the Clinton Street congregation of New York, which afterwards moved uptown. With Dr. Bernard Fisher, of Leipzig, he revised Buxtorf's "Lexicon Chaldaicum et Syriacum." He was the author of "Palm Leaves" and "Women in the Bible," and compiled a religious schoolbook, "Beth Ahron," and a set of three prayerbooks. He also edited The Jewish Herald and The Boston Observer. He was the sixth rabbi in his family, which has been represented in the ministry for over 200 years. WE should have noted before the death of S. R. Urbino, which took place in February at his home in Newton, Mass. Mr. Urbino thirty or forty years ago was a well-known publisher and bookseller in Boston. He started in business by the purchase of Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody's circulating library and book-store on West Street. He developed the library and also added German, French, and books in other foreign languages to his stock. He then removed to 140 Winter Street, where he began publishing the well-known series of Ahn's and Ollendorf's readers and grammars, and other text-books, which he sold to Henry Holt & Co. shortly before retiring from business in 1865. He sold his business to De Vries, Ibarra & Co., to whom he also transferred the services of Mr. Carl Schoenhof and Miss Fanny Moeller. After the death of De Vries in 1869, Mr. Schoenhof and Miss Moeller bought the business, and continued it under the firm-name of Schoenhof & Moeller. In 1878 the firm-name became Carl Schoenhof, who in 1893 sold out his interest to two of his employees, who continue the business under the firm-name of Castor & Co. W. H. DennetT, an old-time Boston publisher and bookseller, died in Beverly, Mass., March 24. He was born in 1820, and at an early age entered the employ of Hilliard Gray & Co., then booksellers of considerable importance. In the early fifties be became junior member of the firm of James Munroe & Co., who published some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's earlier essays and his " Representative Men." There seems to have been little demand for their publications, and after a short time the concern wound up its affairs. Mr. Dennett for a while published some of the old firm's books under his own name until the war broke out. He was among the first to enlist, and served throughout the war. On his return he was engaged for a time with Lee & Shepard. He retired from active business nearly twenty years ago, but never quite severed his connection with the book trade, of which he had an intimate knowledge. He was invariabiy called upon to officiate as secretary at meetings of the book trade. He leaves a widow and one son. We regret to note the death, on March 29, of Charles Lowe Damrell, senior member of the firm of Damrell, Upham & Co., of the "Old Corner Book-Store," Boston. Mr. Damrell was born in Portsmouth, N. H., November 16, 1826. At the death of his father in 1839 he started to work in a West India goods store in his native city. In 1849 he went to Boston, where he began work as a clerk for James Munroe & Co., booksellers and publishers, the junior member of which was W. H. Dennett, whose death is noted above. Mr. Damrell remained with Mr. Munroe, whose store was at that time almost opposite the "Old Corner," until his death, when he took a position with A. Williams, then at 100 Washington Street-the store of "round numbers," as it was known for many years. In 1869 A. Williams & Co. succeeded E. P. Dutton & Co. at the "Old Corner," and Mr. Damrell, with William Crosby, under the firm-name of Crosby & Damrell, remained at Mr. Williams's store carrying on a part of the old business. The new firm lasted about a year, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Damrell joined his old employer at the "Old Corner." When in 1883 Mr. Williams withdrew from the business, Mr. Damrell, with characteristic modesty, sank his individuality in the "Co." of Cupples, Upham & Co. He became to the firm what Mr. W. D. Ticknor had been to the firm of Ticknor & Fields. When Mr. Cupples retired in 1887, he became senior of the firm of Damrell & Upham, his associate being Henry M. Upham, who has been chiefly identified with the church-book business of the firm. Mr. Damrell was an exceedingly modest and retiring man, shunning publicity of every kind. He was never married. His funeral was from the Roxbury Unitarian Church. His remains were interred in the family burial-grounds in Portsmouth. THE April number of the American Historical Review, published by Macmillan & Co., is of peculiar interest, comprising, as it does, among its leading articles, "The Battle of Bunker Hill," by Charles Francis Adams; "The Bohun Wills," a group of wills illustrating the life of a great family of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, translated and annotated by Melville M. Bigelow; "Recent Memoirs of the French Directory," by Prof. H. Morse Stephens; "Virginia and the Quebec Bill," by Justin Winsor; The Case of Josiah Philips," by Prof. William P. Trent; Light on the Underground Railroad," by Prof. Wilbur H. Siebert, and "The First Six Weeks of McClellan's Peninsular Campaign," by James Ford Rhodes. |