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PART III.: Author-and-Title Alphabet, R-Z; Government Publications: Agr. Dept.-Smithsonian Inst. The present issue of THE AMERICAN CATALOGUE covers the period July 1, 1890, to June 30, 1895. It will be in two divisions, of which the first contains the author-and-title alphabet, and the second the subject alphabet, lists of government and state publications, publications of societies, books in series, etc. It will be delivered, if desired, in parts as ready; such parts may be returned, when the work is completed, to be bound. Price, $12.50 in sheets; and $15.00 in balf morocco binding. ($ro.00 in sheets; $12.50 in half morocco, to subscribers paying in advance of publication.) The edition is 1250 copies only, and there will be no reissue. "Without question the most perfect trade bibliography with which we are acquainted."-London Bookseller. The Annual American Catalogue, 1895 THE ANNUAL AMERICAN CATALOGUE for 1895 contains: (1) Directory of American Publishers issuing books in 1895. (2) Full-title Record, with descriptive notes, in author alphabet, of all books recorded in THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, 1895. (3) Author-, title-, and subject-index to same, in one alphabet. (4) Publishers' annual lists for 1895. This volume forms the FIRST ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT to the American CatalLOGUE 1890-95, now issuing. The edition is printed from type and therefore is limited, and to secure copies orders should be sent at once. The price is $3.50 half leather, $3.00 in sheets. We also supply the English Catalogue for 1895. price $1.50, paper; the Annual American and English Catalogues, 1895, can be had in one volume, half leather, $5.00. The Annual Literary Index, 1895 Including Periodicals, American and English, Essays, Book-Chapters, etc., Special Bibliographies and Necrology of Authors. Edited by W. I. FLETCHER and R. R. BOWKER, with the co-operation of members of the American Library Association and of the Library Journal staff. THE ANNUAL LITERARY INDEX complements the "Annual American Catalogue" of books, published each year, by indexing (1) articles in periodicals published during the year of its issue: (2) essays and book-chapters in composite books; (3) authors of periodical articles and essays; (4) special bibliographies; (5) authors deceased. The new feature for the 1895 volume is an index to dates of the principal events of the year, which crowns the work as an indispensable reference handbook for the bookseller and librarian, as well as for the teacher, student, and general reader. The two volumes together make a complete record of the literary product of the year. "Of great value to all who would keep advised of the topics and writers in the periodical literature of the day." -Universalist Quarterly. "Good indexing could no further go."-The Nation. One vol., cloth, $3.50. Address the OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, P. O. Box 943. 59 Duane Street, New York. The above prices do not include insertions in the “Annual Summary Number," the "Summer Number," the "Educational Number," nor the "Christmas Bookshelf," for which higher rates are charged. Special positions $5 a page extra. Applications for special pages will be honored in the order of their receipt. Special rates for yearly or other contracts. All matter for our advertising pages should reach this office not later than Wednesday noon, to insure insertion in the same week's issue. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year, postage prepaid in the United States.... $3 00 Address P. O. Box 943, N. Y. 4 00 PAGE 818 812 813 807 817 812 814 812 G. W. DILLINGHAM announces for immediate publication Gold, Grace, and Glory," by W. H. Mize, and the following fifty-cent paperbound books: "The Silver Arrow," by Frank Lawrence; "The Peacemaker of Bourbon," by S. J. Bumstead; "Delpha, or, marriage as a failure and a success" Queens of the Stage," by Alan Dale; "O'er Rail and Crosstree," by Geo. L. Marshall; The Monk of Franguevaux," by Josephine Douglass. HENRY HOLT & Co. will shortly publish a translation of 'La Musique et les Musiciens" by Albert Lavignac. They also announce W. Fraser Rae's biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It is to be in two volumes and to include portraits and fac-simile autographs of Sheridan and his famous contemporaries. Interesting documents written by the Prince of Wales, Sheridan, the Duke of Wellington, and the Marquis of Wellesley will be made public for the first time. The introduction is by the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, who is a greatgrandson of Sheridan. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS have now ready the first of the four volumes of American Orations," edited with introductions and notes by the late Alexander Johnston, and re-edited with new material and notes by James A. Wood817 burn;" Economics," an account of the relations between private and public property, by Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale University; and "A 812 History of Modern Banks of Issue," by Charles A. Conant, embodying an account of the economic crises of the present century. Next week they will issue Mrs. Oliphant's "Jeanne d'Arc, her life and death," which will take its place in the ably edited series of The Heroes of the Nations. 812 816 816 816 818 ... 818 819 789 818 818 818 819 818 818 818 816 815 819 818 CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS announce a new 819 and highly promising series of books devoted to some of the prominent summer resorts of America. The volume on Bar Harbor will be written by Mr. Crawford and illustrated by Reinhart; Newport will be described by Mr. Brownell and illustrated by W. S. V. Allen; Lenox will be treated by Mr. George Hibbard in a volume illustrated by Mr. Allen, and the north shore of Massachusetts will be written up by Robert Grant, with Mr. Smedley as artist. Toward the end of this month the Scribners will publish an edition, fully protected 815 by copyright, of Swinburne's new poem, “The Tale of Balen," described in a former issue of the WEEKLY. 814 818 Putnam's (G. P.) Sons.... Salisbury (Jesse)... Special Notices......... Steiger (E.) & Co... Vail (J. H) & Co..... Williams (John H.) Co... NOTES IN SEASON. 817 818 812 818 818 DODD, MEAD & Co. are now ready to supply orders for Ian Maclaren's new book, "The Mind of the Master," for which advance orders have been so large as to detain its issue. MACMILLAN & Co. will shortly publish under the title of "Summer in Arcady," the story which James Lane Allen contributed to The Cosmopolitan under the name of "Butterflies: a tale of nature." About the 15th inst. they will publish a translation of Zola's new novel 46 Rome." STONE & KIMBALL, New York, will publish shortly "Wives in Exile," a society novel, by William Sharp; "The Island of Dr. Moreau," by H. G. Wells; "In a Dyke Shanty," by Maria Louise Pool: "An Adventure of the North," by Gilbert Parker, and "The Purple East," by William Watson. Puppet-Booth," twelve single-act plays by THE CENTURY Co. have just ready "The Henry B. Fuller, author of "The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani," etc.; "A Strange, Sad Comedy," an international romance, by Molly Elliot Seawell, "showing the conflict of ideals and prejudices inevitably to be observed when English people of the upper class are brought into contact with recently enriched New Yorkers and impoverished Southerners"; "Notes of the Night," a group of delightful essays and sketches of the various aspects of nature, by Charles C. Abbott; The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell"; and "The White Pine," a valuable contribution to the natural history of the most important lumbering tree in North America, by Gifford Pinchot and Henry S. Graves. |