toward the end of the season, trade may to a certain extent revive, MESSRS. PORTER & BAINBRIDGE, Beekman street, have recently issued to the trade a number of specimens of memorial cards, in order to show what they are and what they are designed for. The fashion comes from London, where these cards are used to announce a death to the relatives and friends of the deceased. The cards may be had of various sizes, with various widths of border, to suit the taste of the parties requiring them. They cost from $3.45 to $13.60 per dozen packs, according to size and quality. MESSRS. T. S. WHITE & Co., of St. Paul, Minn., have received the contract to furnish the government of that State with stationery. The aggregate amount involved is $1066.82. Messrs. White & Co. is the youngest firm in the North west. ¡Obituary. THE recent death of John Churchill is a loss which must be felt not only by the English book trade, which, from his long connection with it, had learned to look up to him as one of its chiefs, but to English literature as well, which as must all leading publishers-he had done much to form. Born in Dorsetshire, he was sent to London when but fifteen to be apprenticed to a surgeon. Fate, however, brought him into the family of Mr. Cox, an engraver and bookseller, and there the glimpse into the life of a bookseller led him to prefer it to that of a surgeon, so that he was accordingly bound apprentice to Mr. Cox. When his term of apprenticeship was over, he entered the establishment of the Messrs. Longmans, and not long after he married, and entered business on his own account as a medical bookseller in Princes street. His rise henceforward was rapid and steady, his growing business forcing him, from time to time, to seek larger quarters, his personal reputation increasing with it. Heart disease and gout troubled his later years, and compelled him to resign his business in favor of his sons. He died at Tonbridge Wells, on the fourth of August, having all but completed seventy-four years. LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. It has not yet been absolutely decided, as we go to press, whether the proposed supplementary Book Fair, in October, will be held or not. Mr. Leavitt has, however, made the preliminary preparations, and called the attention of the publishing trade to them by circular, and in our next we shall be able to announce the final decision of the committee, which has not yet had its formal meeting as we go to press. no doubt every thing has been done by the creditors to promote an early and satisfactory settle ment. THE Tribune summarizes the Messrs. Osgood's poetry announcements, in addition to the Whittier holiday volume, as follows: "Mr. Whittier has also made up a volume of selections, entitled, 'Songs of Three Centuries,' with an introductory essay by himself. Prof. Longfellow will give us a new volume, entitled, The Masque of Pandora, and Other Poems.' It will include 'The Hanging of the Crane,' and 'Morituri Salutamus, among the 'other poems.' Then we shall have Home Pastorals and Other Poems,' by Bayard Taylor. No collection of Mr. Taylor's shorter poems has been made since 1862; and since then he has done some of his best work, The already famous Goethe ode will be included in this volume. 'The Bird and the Bell' will be the title of a new volume of verse by the artistpoet, C. P. Cranch, and Mr. George P. Lathrop the new assistant editor of The Atlantic Monthly-will also make his poetical début with a volume entitled Rose and Rooftree,' for which Mr. La Farge has made a frontispiece. Besides all these novelties are numerous new editions of old favorites-' The Odyssey of Homer,' translated by Bryant, Roslyn edition; and a similar edition of Taylor's translation of 'Faust,' to be called the Kennett Edition,' in compliment to the poet's Pennsylvania home, as well as various others." It is only fair to say that Mr. E. Steiger's system of trade catalogues is the most remarkable in this country, and we wish to point out to home publishers and booksellers that a great part of the remarkable success of his German importing business has come from his careful attention to bibliography. The lesson may be usefully applied here. Mr. Steiger has now issued no less than twenty-seven classified catalogues in uniform small 16mo, covering the most important lines of German books, including a holiday catalogue, narrative literature, picture and children's books, kindergarten literature, theological books, philosophical books, Bibliotheca Glottica, dramatic library, etc., etc. These valuable catalogues are sent either gratis or for a nominal sum, and all the set may now be had of Mr. Steiger (22 and 24 Frankfort street), at $1.25, in a neat self-binder, for these and additional catalogues, in half morocco. Every live bookseller who has any German trade should have the full set of Steiger's catalogues, and the American trade may well thank Mr. Steiger for the example he has given them. Mr. Steiger can already say practically that bibliography pays. One of the most important books of the fall will be issued by the Lippincotts in Dr. Allibone's long-promised "Prose Quotations." It will make a large octavo, giving 8,810 quotations, on 571 subjects, from 544 authors from Socrates to Macaulay-the most comprehensive work of its kind apparently yet issued. THE meeting of the creditors of Lee & Shepard was called for Thursday morning, 16th, at their office in Boston, and the meeting of those of Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, by Mr. James Miller, assignee, on Friday morning, at their office, 678 Broadway. We go to press too early this week to give the results of these meetings, but the sentiment of the trade was so reflected in the spirit of the resolution of sympathy of the Central Booksellers' Association, that we have | Baettenhausen. WE have received the following music from Messrs. S. T. Gordon & Son, N. Y.: "Rhapsodie Hongroise," by Franz Liszt ($1.50); "On the Lake of Saratoga," by Albert Wimpheimer, (75 cts.); “Forever," by George W. Persley (30 cts.); Capriccio," by William Baettenhausen (50 cts.); "Evening Song," by William 64 MR. J. DISTURNELL is one of our oldest pub lishers, having been in the business half a century, and published in that time 80 books. But he is still at work, and his proposed com "THE series of Little Classics' made a sort of furor," says Mrs. Moulton in the Tribune "they were so dainty and pretty that every body bought them-and their success has led Osgood & Co. to undertake a new set of Lilipu-pilation of "New-York as it Was and as it Is" tian volumes, smaller yet, to be called the Vest-Pocket Series.' They will be beautifully printed, and bound in flexible cloth covers, at a uniform price of fifty cents per volume. The first volume will be Whittier's SnowBound,' then Longfellow's Evangeline,' then two volumes of Emerson's Essays, including, in each, three of the best essays. SnowBound' is illustrated. Such little loves of books-so tiny and so perfect-it would be hard to find anywhere else." will revive the annual issued by him a generation ago, and will contain many of the interesting steel plates of those volumes. It is to be a book of facts, giving condensed information as to the features and institutions of both this city and Brooklyn, with references to their past. A classified business directory is to be appended. The volume, of 300 pages, 16mo, will appear next January. be published by G. P. Putnam's Sons after its appearance as a serial in the New-York Wit ness. MISS SUSAN WARNER, author of "The Wide Wide World" and "Queechy," has nearly comPERHAPS the chief holiday book of the completed her new novel," Witch-hazel," which will ing holiday season-certainly, indeed, if it parallels the success of The Hanging of the Crane," to which it is a companion volumewill be Whittier's new poem, "Mabel Martin," as illustrated by Miss Hallock and Mr. Moran. It was they who made the previous volume so charming, and they have been at work the whole year on this, which is said to give promise of even finer and more exquisite art work than its illustrious predecessor. Of course, Anthony has had a hand in the engraving. Mr. CHARLES LANMAN, author of the "Dictionary of Congress," etc., has nearly ready for the press a Centennial work entitled "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States during its First Century." It will contain about 7000 biographical sketches and 8000 additional names of persons who have been connected with the Government since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, embracing the delegates, representatives and senators who have served in the Continental and Federal Congresses, the Federal and State judiciary, ministers to foreign countries, executive officers in all the departments of the nation, and the governors of the States and Territories. There will be also a large amount of tabular information, from official sources, to illustrate the growth and present condition of the Government of the United States. To his series of pamphlets published for free distribution, Mr. Henry Carey Baird, of Philadelphia, has now added another-" Inflated Bank Credit, as a Substitute for Current Money of the Realm.' The Way To Pay Debts without Moneys,' and to make The Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer.' This, with his former publications, “Rights of American Producers," "Some of the Fallacies of British-FreeTrade-Revenue-Reform (Letters to A. L. Perry)," Results of the Resumption of Specie Payments in England," " Letters on the Crisis, etc.," and Protection of Home Labor," will be furnished the trade gratuitously on application to the publishers, H. C. Baird & Co. EX-PRESIDENT THOMAS HILL, of Harvard University, is preparing a little volume on "The True Order of Studies." His appreciation of the value of mathematical studies is very high; indeed, says the Tribune, he is spoken of as the only man who ever got religion out of geometry, as in his book, Geometry and Faith." The book will be issued during the fall by G. P. Putnam's Sons. A NEW style of binding, of course a novelty from the fertile Riverside Press, is to be introduced by Hurd & Houghton in Mr. Scudder's coming new juvenile, The Doings of the Bodley Family." The book will be in boards, the cover being printed in black on the favorite granite paper, but there is a backing and binding of cloth, so that the side looks like a slab of pasteboards inlaid in cloth. The end papers, inside, will be also a new idea-covered in and girls at play. The book is as bright inside blue sketching with lovely designs of boys as it is novel outside. It will be published on the 25th, with Hon. A. P. Russell's "Library Notes." MR. N. L. THIEBLIN, who made no little rep. utation as " Azamut Batouk," and is the writer of the spicy Stranger's Note-Book" in the Sun, has written a" New-York boarding-house romance," "Little Gelinotte," which has just been started in the Boston Courier as a serial, and was afterward to have been published by Lee & Shepard. It will be remembered that they issued some months since a very bright and agreeable book on "Spain and the Spaniards," by the same author. The field of the new story affords capital opportunity for so pungent a writer, and it is hinted that it will contain character sketches of New-Yorkers, drawn from living specimens. The story is being illustrated, in dashy French style, by Mr. M. H. Le Vasseur, formerly French consul at St. Louis. THE London Athenæum has little fondness for American humorists and their "dry" humor, and cheerfully observes that "there seems some JOSEPH GILLOTT'S Celebrated Steel Pens. Sold by all Dealers throughout the World. MANUFACTURERS' WAREHOUSE, No. 91 JOHN STREET, New-York. HENRY HOE, Sole Agent. JOSEPH GILLOTT & SONS. BAKER, PRATT & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF BOOKS AND STATIONERY, 142 & 144 GRAND STREET, NEW-YORK. We offer great advantages for the purchase of goods in ALL DEPARTMENTS of our business, unequaled by any house in the trade. In MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS We carry complete stocks of all the principal American Publishers, together with a large variety of carefully selected Foreign Literature. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT-BOOKS And School Supplies of every grade. Importing direct from all the leading manufacturers of Europe, and representing by special agency many of our largest American houses, we are enabled to offer a complete stock of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC STATIONERY At exceedingly low prices. Fully recognizing the importance of PROMPTLY EXECUTING the demands of our customers, we seldom allow an order to remain in our hands unfilled over night. Our "back order" system, the dispatch of all new books on the day of publication, and the inclosure of all parcels without charge, has secured us a large number of regular customers, to whom we take pleasure in referring. Your correspondence solicited. Address, BAKER, PRATT & CO., P. 0. BOX 4138. 142 & 144 GRAND ST., NEW-YORK. THE UNIFORM TRADE-LIST ANNUAL. "The Uniform Trade-List' was to me a work of great interest. I had long been a collector of catalogues, both American and English; but somehow, it had been my general experience that just at the moment I had occasion to refer to a particular catalogue, that catalogue was not to be foundand this is the general experience of collectors, whether booksellers or bookbuyers. Here, then, in a convenient form, was a catalogue which, as far as the United States were concerned, saved me all further trouble. Herein was collected the lists of the Appletons, the Harpers, the Lippincotts, the Osgoods, and other well-known houses, with the catalogues of publishers whose names had scarcely been heard in this country, and whose publications were entirely unknown. The unobtrusive simplicity of the plan was no inconsiderable merit; the book required no pushing; it told its own tale, and its usefulness was apparent to all."-Extract from Preface of Whitaker's Reference Catalogue of Current Literature. OPINIONS AND INDORSEMENTS OF THE TRADE. Extracts from Letters received. THE AMERICAN NEWS CO., NEW-YORK.-Having evidence that the TRADE-LIST ANNUAL has proved one of the most time-saving and profitable instrumentalities used by the trade, and by whom it is daily consulted, we hope, in our own interest, as well as that of the trade generally, every publishing house will be represented in it. Please send us, when it is ready, 250 copies. D. APPLETON & Co., NEW-YORK.-We find the UNIFORM TRADE-LIST ANNUAL SO valuable for reference that it is in daily use, indispensable for library orders, and certainly the most complete collection of catalogues ever issued of American publishers, and is equally a necessity for the bookbuyer and the bookseller. We want 100 copies. BAKER, PRATT & Co., NEW-YORK.-Please send us, as soon as ready, 100 copies of the TRADE-LIST ANNUAL. After our experience of the past year, we wonder that the trade has gone for so long a time without any uniform Trade-List. We have found that of the last year made by you of very great convenience, and we do not see how any bookseller can get along without it. We hope those houses which failed to furnish their catalogues last year will do so this. We believe that a publisher can not advertise his books so advantageously through any other medium as this. Let us have the ANNUAL as complete as possible, and we shall feel under renewed obligations to you for your efforts to help the trade. CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, PHILADELPHIA.— We want 50 copies of the ANNUAL. We use it daily as a book of reference for prices, and we find it of incalculable value. Would not be without it on any account, as it saves us an immense amount of trouble in hunting up lists of prices. COBB, ANDREWS & Co., CLEVELAND, O.-Just what we wanted. DODD & MEAD, NEW-YORK.-The ANNUAL has become, beyond all question, a necessity to booksellers. A. H. DOOLEY, TERRE HAUTE, IND.-The ANNUAL is just what the book trade needs-and that badly. It would be of great advantage if you could induce the small publishersout-of-the-way publishers—and publishers of subscription books, to insert their lists. JAMES T. DUDLEY, ST. PAUL, MINN.-Your ANNUAL is of incalculable value to booksellers. It is to be hoped that those publishers who, unfortunately for themselves and greatly to the inconvenience of the trade, were not represented last year, will not fail to put in an appearance in the forthcoming volume. EYRICH & Co., JACKSON, MISS.-We would not take ten times its cost for it. HADLEY BROS., CHICAGO.-We have found it of great service last year, and don't want to be without it in future. JAMES B. JOHNSON, ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-I know it would be the means of taking many orders where clerks would be too lazy to hunt up catalogues. WESLEY JONES, BURLINGTON, Iowa.-I consider it of as much value to a bookseller as a counter in his store to display his books upon. W. B. KEEN, COOKE & Co., CHICAGO, ILL.-The ANNUAL will prove an indispensable requisite to all booksellers. LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON.-We find your ANNUAL the mcst useful work for reference we have ever had for general use in the trade, and will supply our list for your next issue. Pu us down for 100 copies. LEE, SHEPARD & DILLINGHAM, NEW-YORK.-The TRADELIST ANNUAL is the cheapest salesman a bookseller can have. It can answer more questions on books than the oldest hand in the trade. Booksellers should keep it on their counters. It will be as much consulted in bookstores as the city directory in drug stores. We want 100 copies. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA. We have found your TRADE-LIST ANNUAL a very useful and reliable assistant in our business. Our order is for 50 copies. LORING, SHORT & HARMON, PORTLAND, ME.-We think your plan excellent, and just what is wanted. MOSELEY & BRO., MADISON, WIS.-It does you great credit, and is worth to us ten times its cost. Any publisher that has not his list in it is a slow man. H. B. NIMS & Co., TROY, N. Y.-We hope you will be able to get lists of all the small and out-of-the-way publishers, for it is their books that we always have the most trouble to get a knowledge of. M. NORTON, SCRANTON, PA.-It is one of the most useful and necessary articles of furniture we have in the store. JAS. R. OSGOOD & Co., BOSTON, MASS.-Your Annual amply fills the promises you made for it, and proves the wisdom of your plan. For booksellers it is so convenient that they must regard it as virtually indispensable; and publishers can not fail to appreciate the advantage of having all their books catalogued in a volume, which every seeker of book information will surely consult. PORTER & COATES, PHILADELPHIA.-We believe it to be a most important enterprise, and valuable alike to the publisher and bookseller. We have a number of copies in constant use in our retail department, and consider them indispensable. PURNELL, ATKINS & Co., LEXINGTON, KY.- Has saved us hours of probably unsuccessful searching through single catalogues for books which we have found in the ANNUAL in a few minutes. WILLIAMS, STURGES & Co., Knoxville, Tenn.-It is precisely what we need, as it saves much trouble in collecting the thousand and one "Cats." from as many publishers. WILSON, HINKLE & Co., CINCINNATI, O.-We have just finished something very like swearing, at not finding a certain Boston firm in the ANNUAL. A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co., NEW-YORK.-We have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the value of the TRADE-LIST ANNUAL; we could not now do without it. Not a day passes that we do not consult it many times; and we wish you abundant success in the proposed re-issue. L. THORVEL SOLBERG, OMAHA, NEB.-I find occasion to refer to it so often, that a facetious customer, noticing my hesitation in answering a question relating to some book, said, "Go get your Booksellers' Bible." GEO. E. STEVENS & Co., CINCINNATI, O.-We found it of the greatest advantage to us, saving both time and labor. Ten copies are in use in the different departments of our business, and besides these, we furnished a number of copies to other dealers. W. W. WATKINS, CAZENOVIA, N. Y.-I have given it a prominent place on my counter, and sold many books from its chance perusal. |