Bankrupts:

James Hayday, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, bookbinder; solicitors, Linklaters, Walbrook.

John William Marsh, Tipton, bookseller and stationer; solicitors, James and Knight, Birmingham.

Samuel Kinsman, Poole, printer and stationer; solicitors, Meredith and Lucas, Lincoln's Inn.

Ebenezer Charles Brown, Birmingham, musicseller; solicitors, James and Knight, Birmingham. Thomas Lambert, York, bookseller and stationer; solicitor, Mr. Mason, York.

John McInnes, Barrhead by Glasgow, and Falkirk, trading as McInnes and Son, printer and publisher. Wm. M. Bruster, Swansea, printer; solicitor, J. T. Vining, Moorgate Street.

Thomas Edwards, Carlow, stationer and printer; agent, T. Geoghegan, Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. Wm. M'Morran, Girvan, stationer. Assignments:

Charles Ritchie, Fore Street, wholesale stationer; trustees, S. C. Millington, Budge Row, and Wm. Watson, Cannon Street West, wholesale stationers.

Samuel Cook Sothern, Yarmouth, bookseller and stationer; trustee, S. W. Spelman, Yarmouth, auctioneer.

Thomas Ragland, Wigan, bookseller and stationer; trustee, Samuel Scott, paper stainer, Chelsea.

Peter Grant, Red Lion Square, printer; trustees, R. M. Gill, Bartlett's Buildings, and H. N. Palmer, West Street, Soho, type founder.

Thomas Lambert, Fosse Gate, York; trustee, Chas. Ferrand, Esq., York. Dividends:

William Boyce, East Dereham, bookseller, first, 2s. 2d., at Pennell's.

Lace and Addison, Liverpool, printers, eighth, 9d.; sep. estate of Lace, eighth, 1s. 3d., at Morgan's, Liverpool.

W. F. Crofts, printer, first, 1s. 9d., at Pennell's.
A. M. Stephen, Dundee, first, 3s. 4d.
J. Knox, Prince's Street, Edinburgh.

E. Morgan, wholesale stationer, third, 3d., at Pennell's.

Henry Stocking (1841), bookseller and stationer, 9d., at Insolvent Court, Portugal Street. Insolvents:

William Wallis, Dover, stationer.

George Courthope Green, Camberwell Green, paper-maker.

William Insull, Dudley, stationer, &c.

Frank Thomson, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, printer. John Evans, Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico, bookseller.

James Brook, Ipswich, stationer and bookbinder. Thomas Betts Kirk, Nottingham, stationer and printer.

William Wood, Cowpen Quay, in Woodhorn, bookseller and stationer.

Partnerships Dissolved:

William F. Healey and Charles Marshall, Chester, printers; debts paid by Healey.

William Griffin and Thomas S. McGhie, Liverpool, printers; debts paid by McGhie.

Thomas Chalk and William Holl, Worcester, newspaper proprietors.

Elizabeth Aikman and Daniel Macfarlane, Edinburgh, wholesale stationers; debts paid by Mactarlane.

J. Richardson, T. Lewis, and T. Appleton, Middlesboro'-on-Tees, printers, &c.

Carter and Bromley, Royal Exchange, stationers; so far as regards W. Winch.

TRADE CHANGES.--The somewhat old-established business of Messrs. Kershaw and Son, manufacturing fancy stationers, formerly of Wilderness Row, and latterly of Watling Street, has been brought to a close by the sale by auction on the 4th inst. of the stock, fixtures, and plant; the recent death of Mr. Kershaw, jun., being a principal reason of the father's declining the continuance of the business. We have to record the death of Mr. M. A. Peebles, of Tower Royal, a gentleman well known in the paper-trade as agent for several of the leading Scotch paper-makers.-Messrs. Charles Ritchie, and Co., wholesale stationers, of Fore Street, Cripplegate, are about discontinuing their business.

We have to thank our Manchester correspondents for the information forwarded to us with reference to the doings of the new notorious firms trading under the name of James Beck and Becke and Co. Any warning or threat from us will be useless in deterring those parties from carrying on a species of trading which, according to all accounts, has met with a success which is to us very surprising, considering the repeated warnings we have given the trade-but there are some parties in Manchester who, we hope, are not beyond being warned by us, who have had dealings with those people. Of these, some to their credit, have stopped transactions whenever they found out the character of the parties with whom they were dealing, but we would take this opportunity of warning a member of the trale, whose place of business is not a hundred miles from a leading thoroughfare in Manchester, that he may some of these days discover that to receive stolen property is as dangerous as it is discreditable

32 Pages of Illustrated Matter. 32 Oval Woodcuts.

1 Set Hannah's Concordance. The above are in excellent condition, having undergone a thorough repair previous to the last impression. The plates may be seen with Messrs. BLACKIE & SONS, Villafield, Glasgow, and copies of the Bible can be seen at Messrs. GRIFFIN, BOHN, & Co., Publishers, Stationers' Hall Court, London; Mr. ROBERTSON, Bookseller, Grafton Street, Dublin; Messrs. COWAN & Co., Publishers, Princes Street; Edinburgh; and Mr. ROBERT DONALD, Bookbinder, 62, Argyle Street, Glasgow.

Offers addressed to the said ROBERT DONALD will be received up till 15th August, 1861.

Gratitude. That the publishing trade generally will profit greatly by the abolition of the paper duty there can be no question; but the chief gainers will be those who publish low-priced periodicals circulating in large numbers. We are, therefore, desirous of drawing attention to the fact that the persons to whom we chiefly owe the remission are considerable losers by their efforts. The gentlemen forming the Associations and the secretaries are several hundred pounds in debt, and it behoves publishers generally to see them reimbursed. We are not in possession of all the particulars, but believe that in a few days a circular will be issued, and we shall be both surprised and disappointed if it be not immediately responded to. We believe that none but the secretaries know what unremitting labour was necessary in following up every advantage, and in securing the necessary amount of support until the victory was achieved. To these gentlemen we hope some fitting testimonial will be presented.

Messrs. Longmans some time since astonished the literary world by the announcement of a new Greek English lexicon, by Dr. Donaldson, which should supersede that of Liddell and Scott. The transaction was considered a plucky one, as the Oxford book had obtained possession of the field; for besides the learning and industry of the editors, two of the very best men in the country, it had the influence and wealth of the University to back it. Messrs. Longmans' announcement was, therefore, a bold one, and scholars were on the look out for something good; but Dr. Donaldson died, and the projectors bethought themselves of the poet's advice Κρείσσον τοι σοφιὴ καὶ μεγάλης ἀρετῆς, and acted upon it, so consequently the promised book is not forthcoming. The publishers have joined their forces to those of the University, and Messrs. Liddell and Scott are to have all the benefit of Messrs. Longmans' assistance. Competition there will be none. By an advertisement in this month's BOOKSELLER we observe that, in conjunction with Messrs. Parker, the Messrs. Longman are joint publishers of the new edition of the University book, which will still retain its well-earned supremacy, there being no opponent worthy of the name in the field.

A new weekly penny magazine is, we hear, to be issued by the Christian Knowledge Society; it is said that in quantity as much will be given as in the London Journal or Family Herald, and that as no expense will be spared in procuring the very best writers, the magazine will command a large circulation. Of this we have no doubt, if it be well conducted, and be untrammelled by a committee of management. We wish it success. The Society is fulfilling its proper duty in providing sound useful reading for the poorer classes, and even if it lose two or three thousand pounds a year by such a work, it need not be a cause of regret. But when it engages in such elegant and expensive works as Pratt's Flowering Plants, and similar books, intended for the exclusive use of the middle and upper classes, and not of a religious character, the Society clearly goes beyond its vocation. In this instance it is following its legitimate functions, and we shall be glad to find that the trade will lend it every assistance in promoting Christian knowledge.

Messrs. Darton and Co. have commenced a Boy's Own Library, by the publication of a volume of "Chimney Corner Stories," including the wonderful and extraordinary life and adventures of Neddy Bray, by William Martin. The volume is illustrated in such a manner as to secure the approbation of all boys fond of books of adventure.

BOOK-TRADE IN THE NETHERLANDS (HOLLAND), 1860. In the course of 1860, there appeared in the Netherlands 1963 productions of the press, a number surpassing the sum total of the preceding year by 133. Of these, 63 treat of theology as a science, and 371 of practical theology, the last number also comprising works of an edifying kind. On jurisprudence and legislation the trade of 1860 published 96 works; on political science and economy, 183; on medicine, surgery, and the obstetrical art, 55; on chemistry and pharmacy, 17; on philosophy, 9; literature and philology, 45; polite literature, belles lettres, and the fine arts, 27; education and instruction, 190; on history and antiquity, 126; geography, 17; natural history, 59; geometry and arithmetic, 29; the art of war, 33: commerce and navigation, 48; architecture and mechanics, 30; farming, 28. Of books for the young, there were issued, 75; of poetical import, 93; for the theatre, 21; 125 novels; 27 illustrated publications (keepsakes, annuals, elements of drawing, &c.); maps, 32. The number of sermons, either published separately or collectively, numbers

465.

Messrs. J. F. Shaw and Co. have just published a a new series of admirable Tracts for the People, consisting of narratives based on "household proverbs, such as "An old store is no sore; "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," &c.-such tracts as any one may be induced to read, and with such morals as none of the readers will forget. The circulation of half a million of copies in little more than six months, is perhaps the best criterion of their usefulness.

Weale's Rudimentary Series.-In 'bringing this admirable series of practical works to a conclusion, Mr. Weale may well congratulate himself upon the fact of having produced so comprehensive and useful a course. One hundred and thirty-two volumes, independent of those included in the Educational and Scientific Series, represent a most serious amount of labour, and it is perhaps not too much to say, that no other publisher could have devoted the same thoughtful consideration, or could have brought an equal amount of experience to Lear upon the subject. As a whole, they are without doubt by far the very best manuals of the kind, and by the manner in which they were published, they were placed within reach of the humblest mechanic. That they have been eminently successful in a commercial point of view, proves that wellconsidered schemes of usefulness, well carried out, are not invariably failures. The most recently published treatise, "On the Acoustics of Public Buildings," conveys to those interested in the subject a much larger amount of practical information than any other treatise. Yet all that can be said upon this important subject is given for eighteenpence. The advantage of this, over the old-fashioned mode of publication, is just this, that formerly the book would have been printed in quarto at one guinea, and that a very few persons would have bought it; but now, not merely the builder of a Spurgeon's Tabernacle, but scores of the workmen also buy and read the book, and when the proper time comes, can apply its principles to the work they are engaged upon. If such a treatise had been in the hands of the late Sir Charles Barry before he constructed the Houses of Parliament, the nation would have been saved many thousand pounds. The series is most comprehensive, and includes the making of bricks, of, roads, of wells, carpentry, smiths' work, various constructive arts, and some of the ornamental kind also, and the treatises are all written by practical men.