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NOTES ON CATALOGUES.

THE Associazione Tipografico-libraria Ita25 liane, of Milan, has just issued the "Catalogo annuale della libreria italiana per l'anno 1895." In the new issue of the "Catalogo," which 1.50 has hitherto been modelled on the plan of the "Bibliographie Française" and the " English Catalogue," giving in two divisions an abridged author and title entry in the one and the same matter arranged by subjects in the other division, the matter is now divided into four sections: (1) an alphabetical list of new books giving full title, size, price and name and address of publisher; (2) an alphabetical list of new periodical publications; (3) a subject index; and (4) a list of belles-lettres, and the drama, arranged not under the name of the author but under title and name of play.

Che Publishers' Weekly.

FOUNDED BY F. LEYPOLDT.

JANUARY 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.

Publishers are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, as it is of the utmost importance that the entries of books be made as promptly and as perfectly as possible. In many cases booksellers depend on the WEEKLY solely for

their information. The Record of New Publications of THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY is the material of "The American Catalogue" and so forms the basis of all trade bibliography in the United States.

“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.

"A HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

message, a sharp but brief panic, and then the close of the year. The future is not without its difficulties.

The publishing of the year, though too many books have been published, has been in many respects conservative. There have been almost none of the "gew-gaw" presentation or "holiday" books, and more re-issues of standard authors, which need not be marked down as dead stock as the buying season of the holidays passes. This is wholesome. The retail trade is not overstocked. It has been pretty good in many of the centres, though it has been concentrated more than usual into the few days before Christmas, and though it suffered a set-back at the beginning of the Christmas week. The public libraries, favorite channels of the giving of public-spirited citizens, are becoming so many that in themselves they furnish a fair clientèle for really valuable publications, and Probably stimulate reading to the profit of the trade, being certainly not so detrimental to it as the deluge of Sunday "newspapers." These are not wholesome in their influence on reading habits nor on bookbuying. A pleasant event of the year was the mission of Mr. Hall Caine, and his probably successful effort to put Canadian copyright on a more satisfactory basis.

What the new year will bring to us is a mat

THE year 1895 has been one of mingled business conditions, neither of marked prosperity nor adversity. There was evident, in the early part of the year, a general belief that the tide had turned and that a steady flow of prosperity had set in. It was not so directly noticeable in the book trade as in the foundation trades-ter of more than usual doubt. The situation particularly in such as that in iron, which is often called the thermometer of business. This was owing partly to promise of large crops, which has been fulfilled, and partly to the belief that our financial troubles were past for some years to come. The money coming from the great harvests, from mining enterprises, from building operations, if kept actively productive by general confidence in financial conditions, should afford a margin for such purchases as books, and the book trade had therefore a fair outlook. Publishers accordingly planned, especially for fall issue, on rather more liberal a scale than for some years back.

The results have been fairly good, despite the serious set-backs toward the end of the year. 1895 has not been a bad year, though it has not proved so good a year as was hoped. Travellers in the early fall brought back encouraging orders, and where the buying was conservative, there have been second orders. Importations were large, and the promise of export good. A financial cloud, indeed, arose, but the danger was arrested by prompt and decisive action. The elections passed without disquieting effect, and though financial difficulties again threatened, there was hope that the meeting of Congress would relieve the situation. Then came the thunderclap of the war

calls for a wise conservatism at this beginning of 1896. Any one who is in touch with large enterprises knows that the effect of the war message, industrially and financially, does not pass with the passing of "the war scare." There is a growing feeling of assurance that the two great English-speaking peoples will never permit their rulers to betray them into active hostilities, and that actual war is wellnigh unthinkable; also that the superficial view which sees in war a commercial "boom" and boon, and ignores consequences, is promptly dispelled in the review of "sober second thought." But the harm is done in the unsettlement of values and the discouragement of enterprise. Men who plan for the building of railroads, and the extension of enterprises, have called a halt, and millions which might have been spent will not be spent in 1896. Each $1,000,000 well used in legitimate work of productive value gives employment to a full regiment of men in the army of industry, and besides increasing the permanent earning capacity of the country, directly helps to keep all the wheels of trade in profitable operation. At the close of the year will come the distractions of the Presidential election. It is a year in which to "go slow." But we hope it will be, nevertheless, a happy new year!

BROOKLYN NEWSDEALERS' BENEVO-
LENT PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.

Travellers, from Brother Jonas Langfield, President, 1895." On receiving this testimonial all present arose and tendered an ovation to the generous giver. Mr. A. L. Ashman, the genial boniface of the Sinclair House of New York,

furnished, with his compliments, the contents of

the flasks.

Instead of the customary "talks" the manager of the club, Mr. C. H. Ginslinger, provided a vaudeville in which singers, a ventriloquist, a whistler, and. several ballerina took part. Upon the conclusion of this show Mr. James Clarence Harvey, a favorite of the B. C. T., gave an address full of fun and happy allusions, ing of "Vive la compagnie," and the exerafter which Brother W. J. Kelly led in the singcises came to an end.

Ar a recent meeting of the Brooklyn Newsdealers' Benevolent Protective Association, P. J. McGrath presiding, business of general interest to the newsdealer was transacted, after which the meeting was declared open for the election of officers for the ensuing term. P. J. Barry, one of the pioneer members, was nominated for presiding officer; Mr. H. L. York, vice-president; George H. Cowell, secretary; T. Lunt, financial secretary; D. Sheen, treasurer; T. Skelly was renominated as trustee for a term of three years, and A. Stenhouse was again run as sergeant-at-arms. This ticket was elected without a dissenting vote. After the officers were installed in their respective The Brotherhood reports favorable progress, chairs, a few well-chosen remarks from the reand having weathered its most critical period tiring president, P. J. McGrath, in which he reviewed the work of the association for the past charitable work, though done so modestly that is bound to grow in strength and influence. Its year, and warmly thanked the officers and outsiders are hardly aware of it, is consideramembers for their assistance and faithful help ble. As a factor in building up the esprit de accorded to him during his term of office, Mr. McGrath compared the finances of the associa- corps among its members, its work is not to be tion with other organizations, and the compari-fort to its members at the end of each year, why, slightly regarded. And as a real, solid comson was very favorable to the union. The it is regarded as a tremendous success by all membership has greatly increased, everything who meet with it on the occasion of its annual is in a flourishing condition, and the association is on a smooth road to prosperity. At the close banquet. The incoming officers are: dent, H. S. Ridings; Vice-President, C. W. of the meeting a very sociable session was enCook; Secretary, A. D. Macmullen; Treasurer, joyed. J. F. Hitchcock; Trustees, W. B. Walker and W. J. Kelly.

BROTHERHOOD OF COMMERCIAL
TRAVELLERS.

ELEVENTH ANNUAL BANQUET.
THE Brotherhood of Commercial Travellers
celebrated their annual reunion at the New
Manhattan Athletic Club, Forty-fifth Street
and Madison Avenue, New York, on Friday
evening, December 27, 1895. The Committee
of Arrangements, A. D. Macmullen, D. Fitz-
gerald, Charles Walton, J. L. Peebles, H. M.
Caldwell, Dwight Terry, W. M. Stitt, Jr., T.
T. Brown, and John Hovendon, and the Re-
ception Committee, James Clark, J. T. Wat-
kins, M. Aucker, J. W. Corrigan, and C. A.
Caldwell, had left nothing undone to provide
for the members and their guests an enjoyable
evening. At 9:15 the company numbering
fifty-eight proceeded to the magnificent ban-
quet-hall of the club, which is considered
to be one of the handsomest in the country.
At each plate stood a small bottle of "The
'400' old celebrated rye whiskey," the gift of
a friend of the Brotherhood. The menu was
slipped into a wallet of russia leather that had
been furnished with the compliments of Lang-
field Bros. & Co. Colored lamps and festoons
of greens and flowers tastefully decorated the
tables and the room.

When the cloth was removed Col. Ammon, on behalf of the Souvenir Committee-George Sully, Homer Metcalf, and F. T. J. Nunanpresented to the outgoing president, Jonas Langfield, the emblem of the B. C. T., an ivory gavel suspended on this occasion from a blue and drab silk band. The presentation speech and the response also were brief and cordial. A telegram of regret was read from the expresident, J. H. Black,and was heartily cheered. A feature of the evening was the presentation to each one present of a handsome leathercovered pocket flask on the cup of which was inscribed "To the Brotherhood of Commercial

Presi

THE NEW POET LAUREATE. ALFRED AUSTIN, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has been appointed poet laureate by the Queen, an office which has been vacant since the death of Tennyson, October 6, 1892.' Alfred Austin was born in Headlingley, near Leeds, May 30, 1835.

His father was a merchant and magistrate of the borough of Leeds, and his mother was the sister of Joseph Locke, the eminent civil engineer and M.P. for the borough of Honiton, of which he was lord of the manor. Both his parents being Roman Catholics, he was sent to Stonyhurst College, and afterward to St. Mary's College, Oscott. From Oscott he took his degree at the University of London in 1853, and in 1857 he was called to the bar of the Inner Temple.

The publication, although anonymously, of a poem entitled " Randolph," when he was eighteen, showed the bent of his disposition, and it may be said, on the authority of Mr. Austin himself, that he ostensibly embraced the study of law only in deference to the wishes of his parents, and from his earliest years was imbued with the desire and determination to devote his life mainly to literature.

On the death of his father, in 1861, he quitted the Northern Circuit and went to Italy. His first acknowledged volume of verse, The Season: a satire," appeared in 1861. A third and revised edition of "The Season" appeared in 1869.

His other poetical productions are: “The Human Tragedy" (1862), republished in an amended form in 1876, and again finally revised in 1889; "The Golden Age: a satire," 1871; "Interludes," 1872; "Rome or Death," 1873: "Madonna's Child," 1873; "The Tower of Babel," a drama, 1874; "Leszko, the Bas

tard: a tale of Polish grief," 1877; "Savon- ITALY'S BOOK PRODUCTION IN 1894. arola," a tragedy, 1881; "Soliloquies in Song,' "At the Gate of the Convent," "Love's Widowhood, and other poems," "Prince Lucifer," and "English Lyrics," all published between 1881 and 1890. He has published three novels -"Five Years of It," 1858; "An Artist's Proof," 1864; and " Won by a Head," 1866; also The Poetry of the Period," reprinted from Temple Bar, 1870, and A Vindication of Lord Byron," 1869, occasioned by Mrs. Stowe's article, "The Story of Lord Byron's

Life."

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He has written much for The Standard and for The Quarterly Review.

His political writings include "Russia Before Europe," 1876; "Tory Horrors," 1876, a reply to Mr. Gladstone's "Bulgarian Hor rors, and " England's Policy and Peril," a letter to the Earl of Beaconsfield, 1877. In 1883, in conjunction with W. J. Courthope, he founded The National Review, and continued to edit that periodical till the summer of 1893. In 1892 Macmillan & Co. issued a collected edition of his poems in six volumes, since which time they have published "Fortunatus, the Pessimist," and " England's Darling, and other poems," and a prose work entitled "The Garden That I Love.'

AUTHORS AND CLAIMANTS.

THE number of books printed in Italy during 1894 was 9416 works, of which 7606 were handled by the book trade. This total shows a falling off of 73 works compared with the output of 1893, and a falling off of 721 works compared with the total issued in 1891, in which year 10,311 works were printed, of which 8327 were handled by the trade. The decrease in 1894 was in history and geography 68 works, fiction 46 works, and in popular literature 32 in philology and literary history 47 works, in works. An increase was shown in the department of medicine 74 works, drama 67 works, political economy 43 works, education 30 works, and military and naval science 29 works. literary activity the province of Lombardy takes the lead, followed by Piedmont, Tuscany, Venetia, and Latium, in the order named.

OBITUARY.

In

GEORGE WELLINGTON DILLINGHAM. George Wellington DILLINGHAM, the wellknown publisher, died at his home in Summit, N. J., on Friday evening, December 27, aged 54 years. On Thanksgiving Day, while out riding, he met with an accident, his horse coming into collision with a coach. He was violently thrown to the ground, was unable to remount, and was carried to his home. He was able, however, a few days afterward to attend to his business. On December 20 he was for the last time in New York. The accident injured his head and spine, and, complicated with a kidney trouble from which he had been suffering for some years, resulted in his death. Mr. Dillingham was born in 1841, in Bangor, Me., where his father, Nathaniel H. Dillingham, still lives. In the fall of 1858 he went to Boston, and became clerk in the store of Crosby, Nichols & Co., afterward Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Co., at that time one of the leading firms in New England. In 1861 he entered the employ of A. K. Loring, then at 319 Washington Street, Boston, with whom he remained until 1864, when he entered the publishing house of G. W. Carleton, one of the most successful publishers in New York City. From the start Mr. Dillingham became a moving spirit in the Carleton house, which was recognized by its proprietor in admitting his assistant to partnership eight years after he entered his employ. Mr. Carleton early became the largest pub

IT is only recently that the story about Mr. Du Maurier not being the real author of "Trilby" has been circulated in London. Now, of course, the artistic and literary circles are hammering out arguments "for" and "against" Mr. Du Maurier with all the gusto that was displayed in New York four or five months ago. "But, of course," says the N. Y. Mail and Express, "the fresh zest with which this matter is discussed should only be flattering to the artist-author. The greatest writers have all been through the same experience. Sir Walter Scott was frequently introduced to authors of the Waverley novels before he had acknowledged that he himself wrote them. Mrs. Henry Wood, one of the best known of lady writers, was frequently pestered with claimants to the authorship of her novels. It seems to be a mania with some people, for there are instances of persons indulging in the practice who could not expect to gain anything by their action, and could hardly be considered responsible for their strange conduct. There is a gentleman, now in a prominent position in the Church of Eng-lisher of native sensational books, and he land, who assured a friend of Mrs. Henry Wood that he edited the Argosy, a monthly magazine which at that time was conducted by Mrs. Wood herself. He also declared that he had written quite half of Mrs. Wood's novels. Another time, when a daughter of Mrs. Wood was at a ball, a young gentleman, who was introduced to her, afterward went to the host and, with a very grave face, assured him that the young lady could not be Mrs. Wood's daughter at all, adding:

"I know Mrs. Wood; she lives near my home in the country and we often meet. This young lady lives in London, and I see plainly knows nothing about the real Mrs. Wood.'

"Then there was the case of the young country clergyman who, when George Eliot was writing anonymously, posed for a long time as the author of her novels."

reaped from their wide popularity a constant and bountiful harvest. Novels like those of Mary J. Holmes, Bertha M. Clay, Augusta Evans Wilson, Allan Pinkerton, May Agnes Fleming, and a host of others proved veritable bonanzas and were industriously mined. While cultivating this field Mr. Carleton, however, did not neglect legitimate literature; indeed, he was often in advance of his time, as was proved in his enterprise in issuing translations of writers-as Hugo and Balzac-a quarter of a century before the public recognized their merits. Mr. Dillingham, when he became sole proprietor, on Mr. Carleton's retirement in 1886, continued the business on these lines, and added to the business prosperity which had followed the firm since its establishment by Rudd & Carleton in 1857.

Mr. Dillingham was a cousin of Charles T.