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Herbert Augustine Smith. Bost., Ginn & Co., 1896. C. 22+82 p. D. (Annotated English classics.) pap., 30 c. [1731 *Marryat, F: Novels. New ed., by R: Brimley Johnson; il., drawn, and etched by D. Murray Smith. In 24 v. V. 1, Peter Simple. V. 2, Frank Mildmay, or the naval officer. Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1896. 33+322; 12+410 p. D. cl., ea., $1.25. [1732 *Maspero, Gaston Camilla C: The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldæa; ed. by A. H. Sayce; tr. by M. L. McClure; rev. and brought up-to-date by the author. 2d N. Y., Appleton, 1896. map, il. 4°, cl., $7.50. [1733 *Metcalf, W: Steel: a manual for steelusers. N. Y., J: Wiley & Sons, 1896. 6+ 169 p. 12°, cl., $2. [1734 Mitchell, Silas Weir, M.D. The collected poems. N. Y.. The Century Co., 1896. c. '82-'96. 11+353 p. D. cl., $1.75. [1735 The collection includes the dramatic poems "Philip Vernon," "Francis Drake," "The cup of youth," etc., as well as miscellaneous and occasional verse. These poems were previously scattered through several volumes and published by different houses. Morse, J: Torrey, jr. Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. 1896. C. 2 v., 7+358; 4+ 335 p. pors. D. cl., $4; hf. cf. or hf. polished mor., $7. Large-pap. ed., 2 v., 8°, net, $10. [1736

This work includes the chapters of autobiography which Dr. Holmes wrote, and not only gives such facts of his life as readers desire to know, but enables them to see the "admirable doctor" as he was. His childhood, his student years at Andover and Harvard, his travels and studies in Europe, his practice as a physician, and his long term of useful service as a professor in the Harvard Medical School, his unique literary career as poet, lecturer, essayist, and novelist are all described with skill and judgment. The volumes are illustrated with many portraits and views. Nevinson, H: W. In the valley of Tophet. N. Y., H: Holt & Co., 1896. C. 2+276 p. D. buckram, $1. [1737

Short stories, having a slight connecting thread, with their scene laid in an English mining village called Wenley-on-the-hill; the industries are coal and iron, and the people are very poor and ignorant. The titles are: A vicarious sacrifice; An undesired victory; The tale of Shadow; On the road to Parnassus; His ewe lamb; An anti-social offender; The old Adam; An autumn crocus; Miss Rachel; The tragedy of Kinestead; Geordie's marrow, etc.

Normand, C: Empire ornaments, etc., during the epoch of Napoleon 1.: a reproduction of the work, Nouveau recueil en divers genres d'ornements et autres objets propres à la decoration, published at Paris, 1803. N. Y., Bruno Hessling, 1896. 36 pl. portfolio, bds., $6. [1738 Nye, Isabel Clifton, ["Roldah," pseud.] Delpha; or, marriage as a failure and a success: a dramatic love-story founded on life. N. Y., G: W. Dillingham, 1896. 270 p. D. (Dillingham's globe lib., no. 13.) pap., 50 c. [1739 Delpha marries at seventeen a man who, within a year, becomes a convicted thief; nine years afterward she meets Cliff Blake, a manly lawyer who wins her love and begs her to take advantage of the years of separation from her husband or his possible death and marry him. There is a struggle between what she thinks right and her love, which leads to some dramatic scenes.

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Peattie, Elia W. A mountain woman. Chic., Way & Williams, 1896. c. 6+251 p. D. cl., $1.25. [1740 Contents: A mountain woman; Jim Lancy's Water

loo; The three Johns; A resuscitation: Two pioneers; Up the gulch; A Michigan man; A lady of yesterday. Pinchot, Gifford, and Graves, H: S. The white pine: a study with tables of volume and yield. N. Y., The Century Co., 1896. 7+102 il. D. cl., $1. [1741

p.

A valuable contribution to the natural history of the most important lumbering tree in North America. The motive that prompted its preparation was a desire to assist in making clear the real nature of forestry and to hasten the general introduction of right methods of forest management. Mr. Pinchot's work as a consulting forester is best known in connection with the management of Mr. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Fores in North Carolina. Tables showing the percentage of

merchantable timber in comparison with the diameter of the tree, the yield for a given area, the height of a forest pine at a given age, etc.

Postgate, J: W. The mystery of Paul Chadwick: a bachelor's story. Chic., Laird & Lee, [1896.] c. 5-248 p. 1 il. D. (Pinkerton's detective ser., no. 27.) pap., 25 c.

book: containing the order for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, according to the use of the American Church, 1892. Bost., Daniel Berkeley Updike, [The Merrymount Press,] 1896. unp. F. pigskin, $75. [Ed. limited to 350 copies.]

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Containing, besides the collects, epistles, and gospels according to the standard prayer-book of 1892, the ancient plain song edited by Sir J: Stainer, seven original illustrations by R. Anning Bell, 14 borders by Bertram Goodhue, and 300 initials; rubricated and with music in red and black.

Rae, W. Fraser. Sheridan a biography; with an introd. by Sheridan's great-grandson, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. N. Y., H: Holt & Co., 1896. 2 v., 22+ 422; 8+451 p. pors. fac-similes O. buckram, $7. [1745

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the brilliant author of "The rivals," "The school for scandal," and other plays, the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre, the great Whig leader, politician, and orator, is here portrayed by a writer whom his great-grandson considered unusually fitted for the task. He says in his introduction: "The Sheridan of actual life is depicted with all attainable clearness, and the representation differs fundamentally from the portraits of him by previous biographers, none of which is lifelike, while some of them are obviously dishonest." Seawell, Molly Elliot. A strange sad comedy. N. Y., The Century Co., 1896. '96. 3+281 p. il. D. cl., $1.25. [1746 Begins in Virginia immediately after the war in 1864. In 1874 the story reopens in Newport. An old Virginia gentleman and his delightful grand-daughter are the unsophisticated students of American artificial society life as lived at Newport. The scene again shifts south and the "strange sad comedy" is played between a most eccentric hypochondriac and a French adventuress. Especially brings out the freedom and perfect modesty of well-bred Southern giris as compared with the acquired manners of recently enriched

New Yorkers.

c. '92,

N. Y., Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd., 1896. 119 p. il. 16°, cl., 75 c. [1748 *Smith, Oberlin. Press-working of metals. N. Y., J: Wiley & Sons, 1896. 276 p. il. 8°, cl., $3. [1749 Songs from the Greek; tr. by Jane Minot Sedgwick. N. Y., G: H. Richmond & Co., 1896. C. 58 p. D. cl., $1.25. [1750 Translations from Sophocles, Euripides, Theocritus, Moschus, Ceos, Eubulos, Philemon, Sappho, Meleager, Rufinus, and others. There are many anonymous epigrams and anacreontic poems.

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into several remote nations of the world in four parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships. N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. 3-307 p. O. cl., $1. 1751 Thurber, Alwyn M. Quaint Crippen, commercial traveller. Chic., A. C. McClurg & Co., 1896. C. 253 p. D. cl., $1; pap., 50 c. [1752 The hero is a drummer for a Boston house dealing in staple goods; he is chiefly remarkable for a happy-golucky disposition, an unconventional way of doing business, which is very irritating to the senior member of the firm that employs him, a theory about foreign missions, and last but not least his large sales. On a notable trip he meets his fate in the person of a young widow, who is responsible for a change in his views on the foreign mission question, and other radical changes which are described in a quaint love story. Virden, L. Mae Nelson. Second science reader. Chic., A. Flanagan, [1896.] 153 p. il. D. cl., 30 c.

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*Wagner, W: R: Prose works; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. V. 4, Art and politics. N. Y., imported by C: Scribner's Sons, 1896. 20+415 p. 8°, cl., $6. [1754 Ward, Julius H. The White Mountains: a guide to their interpretation. 2d ed. rer. and enl. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., c. '90, '93. 7+308 p. il. map, D. cl.,

1896. $1.25.

[1755 In the present edition, besides much revision, the following chapters have been added: The gateway at North Woodstock, The mountain colors, Snow-shoeing on Osceola, and the Winnipesaukee region.

Wheelwright, J: T. A bad penny; il. by F. G. Atwood. Bost., Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1896. c. 2+162 p. D. (Papyrus ser.) cl.. $1.25. [1756

The events worked into the story took place in an unprosperous, out-of-the-way Massachusetts sea-board town about eighty years ago. The son of an old seacaptain whom he destined for the ministry had far stronger leanings towards the sea. The turning up of "a bad penny," an uncle formerly the family scapegrace changes all the plans of the sedate old people of Oldbury, and James, the hero, goes to sea and falls in love and inherits a fortune, and all ends happily. Ysaguirre and La Marca. Cold dishes for hot weather. N. Y., Harper, 1896. c. 8+ 126 p. S. cl., $1.

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The book has the two-fold purpose of providing a appetite, and of sparing the forces of a housekeeper at series of palatable dishes for the capricious summer a season of the year when ingenuity and energy are alike apt to flag. The information is given in the form of terse receipts which include all divisions of the bill of fare from consommé through fish, meats, poultry. game, and salads to desserts of various kinds.

LIST OF NEW ENGLISH BOOKS. Selected from the current [London] “Publishers' Cir· cular."

Armstrong, G. E. Torpedoes and torpedo vessels; illustrated with a frontispiece by Chevalier de Martino, and numerous photographs and diagrams. Cr. 8°, 304 p., 5s. (Royal navy handbooks).. ..Bell

Bock, J. Zincography: a practical guide to the art as practised in connection with letter-press printing; revised and enlarged ed.; translated by E. Menken. 5th ed., cr. 8°, 54 P., 2s. 6d ..... ....... Menken

Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena, dictated by her, while in a state of ecstasy, to her secretaries, and completed in the year of our Lord 1370; translated from the original Italian, with an introduc tion on the study of mysticism, by Algar Thorold. 8°, ....Paul 368 p., 15s

Foster, J. E., and Atkinson, T. D. An illustrated catalogue of the loan collection of plate, exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum, May, 1895. Imp. 8°, 148 p., 215., ...Bell

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Olympic games, B.C. 776-A.D. 1896. Part 1, The Olympic games in ancient times. Part 2, The actual games. 4°, 10s., net.... Grevel Ransome, A. The treatment of phthisis. 8°, 252 P., 7s. 6d.... Smith & E Rousseau, J. J. Confessions; now for the first time completely translated into English without expurgation. 2 vols., 8, 732 P., 42S., net.... Privately Printed Sabatier, P. Life of St. Francis of Assisi; translated by Louise Seymour Houghton. 8°, 484 P., 9s., net. Hodder & S Stanley, H. M. Magdala: the story of the Abyssinian campaign of 1866-7: being the second part of the original volume entitled "Coomassie and Magdala "; with numerous illustrations from drawings by Melton Prior and other artists, and a map. Cr. 8°, 200 p., 2s. 6d. Low Tarot of the Bohemians: the most ancient book in the world; for the exclusive use of novitiates; by Papus; from the French by A. P. Morton. (Absolute key to occult science.) Illustrated with plates and wood-cuts. 8°, 370 p., 5s., net.... ......Redway

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.] MAY 19, 22, 3 P.M.-Americana-the collection of an Americanist, including a number of first editions and early imprints. (1181 lots.)-Bangs.

MAY 20, 21, 10 A.M. and 2 P.M.-Americana and miscellaneous books, including the remaining portion of the library of the late D. William Patterson, of Newark Valley, N. Y. (1081 lots.)-C. F. Libbie & Co., Boston.

Che Publishers' Weekly.

FOUNDED BY F. LEYPOLDT.

MAY 16, 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.

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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 Ameri

Thomas & Andrews, who were booksellers at 47 Newbury Street, and druggists in the next store, at No. 45.

J. White, at the "Franklin's Head," on Court Street, who besides books kept also stationery and cutlery, and recommended his "Dutch oil cloths of different widths," and his "excellent Hair-seating."

Munro & Francis, 7 Court Street.

W. Pelham, first at 59 and then at 39 Cornhill, who made a specialty of “books from Philadelphia and New York."

S. Clap, Court Street, who was also auction

eer.

Samuel Bradford, 5 Kilby Street, bookseller and auctioneer.

Thomas Clark, who kept a book-store "nearly

"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 BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN BOOK

TRADE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

It has commonly been supposed that American book-trade bibliography began with Roorbach's " Bibliotheca Americana," 1820-1848. It is true that the few who had taken the trouble to study the subject more minutely were aware of the fact that a catalogue of American books, compiled by booksellers for the use of the trade in general, had been issued in Boston in 1804, but even these had no more definite knowledge of the catalogue than is contained in the short reference made to it at second-hand by Nicholas Trübner, in his Bibliographical Guide to American Literature," issued in 1859.

It may, therefore, interest our readers to learn that we have recently had the good fortune to examine the catalogue referred to, through the courtesy of Mr. Charles A. Montgomery, who secured it at the sale of the library of the late Hon. Fernando Wood, exmayor of New York City. It will be noticed on the title-page of the pamphlet, which we print in fac-simile on the following page, that the catalogue was “published by the booksellers of Boston." Who these booksellers were we have been unable to discover, notwithstanding a careful search through the files of the Independent Chronicle, the Boston Gazette, and The Columbian Centenniel and Massachusetts Federalist, the leading Boston journals published from 1799 to 1805. The principal booksellers of that day, judging from their regular advertisements, would seem to have been: Ebenezer Larkin, 47 Cornhill.

also the Author's Book-Store on Union Street. Samuel Hall, afterwards Hall & Hillers, at 53 Cornhill. Hall sold out in 1805 to Manning & Loring, who removed the business to 2 Cornhill. Hall was quite a character in his way and a leader in his profession. He published in 1800 "The History of Little King Pippin," a mite book of doggerel rhymes for children. Among the rhymes was one ingeniously calling attention to "Hall's Book-Store near the State House in Boston."

Joseph Nancrede, 24 State Street.
John Milliquet, 7 Cambridge Street.

W. P. &. L. Blake, who kept the "Boston Book-Store," at 1 Cornhill. This firm published the "Junius Letters," in 1804, in two volumes, at $4.50 a set.

West & Greenleaf seem to have been so well known that they never thought it necessary to give their street address.

B. & J. Holman, 50 Marlborough Street.
E. Lincoln, Water Street.

Caleb Bingham, 44 Cornhill.

It is more than likely that John West, of the firm of West & Greenleaf, and S. Hall were the compilers of the catalogue. Both were active in the movement for reform inaugurated by The American Company of Booksellers in 1801, and West was one of the delegates to the fourth annual meeting of that Company, held in New York June 18, 1804. Hall, as we have already noticed, was also deeply interested in everything that concerned the book trade. He advertised extensively and issued hand-lists and circulars at frequent intervals.

The catalogue is a pamphlet of 79 pages, 44 x 7 inches. The number of books recorded is 1338. These are divided into six divisions, as Law, Physic, Divinity, Bibles, Miscellanies, School-Books and Singing-Books. The total number of law-books recorded is 34. As only the place of publication is given, and the pub