one, with decided odds in favor of the Lovells, who have been able to reënforce their lines with the two libraries of the Worthington Company and some desirable additions from the lists of Estes & Lauriat and De Wolfe, Fiske & Co.; who are further strengthened by a wonderfully efficient distributing machinery, the good-will of George Munro to ease them in the competition with the cheap paper libraries; and lastly, who have the first call" on the Pollard & Moss plates-that is, if these are not sold to the Lovells, it will be because they will be tied up in a lawsuit, and so be kept out of the market for a year or longer Quite a number in the trade seem to regret this turn in the affair. They had hoped that the plan proposed might be adopted, viz.: that all the publishers of the twelvemos should determine on a uniform price to every large buyer, be he book seller or dry-goods man, the rate to be governed only by quantities; that jobbers were to receive the extra inducement of a three-cent rebate on quantities of 5000 or more, and were to be encouraged to handle all the local trade, including the dry goods concerns. As matters stand now it will be Greek meeting Greek." INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. PROGRESS OF THE COPYRIGHT BILL. ON the 14th inst., the House Judiciary Committee took favorable action upon the International Copyright bill, and on the 15th, a substitute measure was reported to the House by Mr. Adams, of Illinois. This so-called substitute is in reality the bill as introduced into the House by Mr. W. C. P. Breckinridge and by Mr. Platt in the Senate, with certain modifications in form. As introduced, the bill simply specified the changes to be made in the existing statutes. The substitute gives in full the sections of the Revised Statutes as it is proposed to have them read. This change was made by the House Committee after consultation with Senator Platt, and it is believed the Senate Committee will agree to it. The committee's report, which has been drawn up by Mr. Adams, quotes the Henry Clay report, and the report in favor of International Copyright made by the Judiciary Committee of the last Congress. both in full, and also quotes largely from Washington Irving and from the memorials presented to the present Congress by American authors. committees are acting now in entire harmony. The Judiciary Committee's bill and report will be printed at once, and the Patents Committee have adopted theirs so as to make it correspond therewith. There will be no minority report from either committee, though a few members have objections to urge which they will present on the floor in debate. The bill will be given a place high up on the calendar, and an effort made to set an early day for its consideration. This, it is believed, will not be difficult, as under the new rules a date may be set by a majority vote, whereas the old rules required twothirds-a proportion very difficult to obtain in furtherance of such a measure. During the past week two noteworthy reinforcements to the ranks of the supporters of the copyright cause are to be recorded in the American Newspaper Publishers Association (already noted), and the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association. Each of these bodies passed unanimously a resolution in favor of the present efforts of the friends of copyright reform, and in each instance this action was taken after a detailed explanation of the provisions of the bill of Mr. R. U. Johnson, Secretary of the American Copyright League. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ENDORSE IN TERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. AT the meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association held in New York on the 19th inst., Mr. R. U. Johnson, of the American Copyright League, was invited to explain the present status of the copyright movement and the details of the pending bill. At the conclusion of his remarks the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That the members of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association hereby record their cordial sympathy with American authors in the effort they are now making to obtain from Congress an international copyright law; and we cannot too strongly express our sense of the necessity of such a measure both as an obligation of justice and as a stimulus to American literature and to the spread of American ideas at home and abroad." Robert U. Johnson, Esq., Secretary American Copyright MY DEAR SIR: I desire to say that I am in entire sym efforts they are making to secure from Congress an international copyright law. Intellectual labor is the highest and noblest occupation of man, and there is no work to the fruit of which a man has a higher claim than to the fruit of mental labor. Many authors have reason to complain in almost the words of the Gospel," We have labored and others have entered into our labors." On the 18th, Representative Simonds, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Patents, report-pathy with those distinguished authors in the earnest ed a bill identical in text with the one intr duced by Mr. Adams, with a brief report in which the committee favors this bill because: first, there is a strong presumption that authors, citizens, and aliens have a natural exclusive right to their intellectual productions; second, the present American practice represses American authorship: third, the works of fiction which a people read are a powerful means of education, and the present American practice tends to force the American people to read works of fiction which are unAmerican, weak, and often grossly immoral; fourth, the present American practice tends to the repression of the practical art of book-making in America. The threatened antagonism between the Patents and Judiciary Committees in the House seems to have wholly died away, according to a despatch to the New York Post, and the two It seems to me eminently just that adequate protection should be afforded to authors, so as to secure them against what is conceived to be a manifest violation of their rights. I am, my dear sir, yours faithfully, FEB. 15, 1890. JAMES, CARD, GIBBONS. A COMING LITERARY FEAST.-Clerk-Going to remain long in this country? Guest (just arrived from steamer)—Ah, about a fortnight. I fahncy. I just ran over to gahther materials for a book I'm going to write on America and the Americans."- Puck. PROTECTION TO AUTHORS IN THE UNION. A CORRESPONDENT having called the attention of the London Athenæum to what appeared to him an enormous sale of pirated editions of the works of English authors, F. R. Daldy, the Secretary of the British Copyright Association, points out "to British authors and owners of copyright, that it rests with them to protect their own interests against the sale of pirated editions of their works in Italy, or in any other country that has become a party to the International Copyright Union. Under Article 2 of the Berne Convention they are entitled to the same rights which the law of any of the countries in the Union grants to natives. In Italy piracy is punishable by fine, not exceeding 5000 fr., and confiscation of all pirated copies or editions, together with the plates, if any, connected therewith; and the court also has the power of awarding damages to the author or his representatives. The steps necessary to insure this protection are to make good their title to the work by registering it at Stationers' Hall, and then to instruct their lawyer, Italian or English, to move the Italian courts to seize the copies and fine the vendors. Registration in any other country than the country of origin is now unnecessary." "Again, it was said by the writer on Profitable Bookbuying,' that, at the Johnson library sale a fortnight ago, 'some ten or twelve Shelley's were sold at prices ranging from $100 to $200 apiece;' that these books once were parts of a single volume, which had been picked up for $4 by a New York bookseller, who sent it to Paris, where it was rebound in its present form; that the dealer had then sold the lot for $150; that these books finally came into the hands of Mr. Johnson, the Boston collector, and at the sale of his library all, or nearly all of them were sold to the agent of N. Q. Pope.' Mr. Pope did not buy the Shelleys. Furthermore, instead of ten or twelve poems' selling at $100 and upwards, there were only three that fetched so much. These were 'Queen Mab,' 'Laon and Cythna,' and Adonais; and the statement that they were ever included in the collected volume which has been named is also fictitious. The 'Queen Mab' (1813) in the Johnson sale was among the earliest copies of the first edition, for it contained the title-page bearing the words Printed by P. B. Shelley,' which was a short time after publication cut out of the copies remaining unsold, because Shelley's friends feared he would be prosecuted. The book in this form is never found in the volume of collected poems. Moreover, the history of Mr. Johnson's copy of the poem has been traced to the day when it was sold separate PROFITABLE BOOKBUYING. UNDER the above heading, the Evening Post on the 8th inst. gave as an instance that bookbuying had by no means been exhausted as a means of reaping large profits, instances from the Johnson sale, in which some ten or twelve poems by Shelley were said to have been sold at prices ranging from $100 to $200 apiece. "Allly and in the original boards to a customer of a or nearly all of them," the writer goes on to say, well-known Broadway firm. Laon and Cythna "were bought by the agent of N. Q. Pope, a (1818) is also never found in this collection in its Brooklyn millionaire who came from Chicago. first form and with this the original title. Such The prices he paid were not considered in any was Mr. Johnson's copy, which fetched $110. sense extravagant, for the books were first edi- Furthermore, the Johnson copy was bound, not tions, and in London, first editions of Shelley in Paris, but by Zaehnesdorf, of London. Of the command a high price. Mr. Pope paid some copies of Adonais' in the Johnson sale, a gen$5000 for the Danielis copy of Shakespeare in tleman who is versed in the intricacies of first ediLady Burdett-Coutts' library, and $16,000 for a tions of Shelley says: The editions of Shelley's single missal. The money-making part of his works were originally small, and had a very limlatest purchase is shown by the prior history of ited sale; and his publishers finally bunched tothe Shelleys. Only a few years ago, the entire gether in one volume a number of the octavos, book, now divided into a dozen volumes, lay in which had been published separately. In a few a bookstore on Broadway, where E. F. Bona- cases the first edition of "Adonais," with the marventure saw it, and bought it for $4. He carried gin cut down from quarto size, so as to bind in it to his own store, and offered it to a customer octavo, together with " Epipsychidion," a much for $50, but the customer, seeing the four-dollar rarer book, will be found included in the volumes. price marked on the volume, refused to give Such a copy of “Adonais" sold at the Johnson sale Bonaventure so large a profit. The latter then for $35, while the uncut copy in the original paper sent the book to Paris, and had it rebound in its wrappers brought $215 at the same sale. Mr. present form, after which he sold the lot to a Johnson did not have the "Epipsychidion" in his regular customer for $150. He explained at collection.' Equally valid reasons might be the time that he knew it was worth more, but given for saying that the Johnson copy of Alaswas willing to let it go as a part of a large pur- tor,' which fetched $65, and the Cenci. $32, chase." were not in the made-up volume. There is also the authority of a reputable bookseller for the statement that the octavo Adonais' was recently sent to Paris in quarto, with the original paper covers, and was cut down to octavo by the binder through a misunderstanding of the owner's instructions. It is therefore necessary to say that all of Mr. Johnson's first Shelleys which might once have been bunched together' in the single "The writer of that story said therein that the volume that was sent by the New York dealer to In conclusion, the writer cites another remarkable adventure, calling attention to the sagacity and shrewdness (?) of the Broadway bookseller. On the 15th, H. C. W., apparently an author. ity on the subject, writes to the Evening Post to correct a few inaccuracies in the article referred to. Referring to the story of the Daniell first folio of Shakespeare, H. C. W. says: Paris to be cut apart and rebound, were sold at very low prices indeed. "The falsity of the statements concerning the Daniell Shakespeare and the Shelleys would seem to leave little room for faith in the story of the other bibliographical adventures of this bookseller." GERMAN BOOK PRODUCTION IN 1889. THE following table from the Börsenblatt, prepared by the Leipzig firm of J. C. Hinrichs, presents a view of the book production in Germany. It is well to remember, however, that these statistics present not only the output of books in the German Empire, but of Austria and Switzerland as well. In fact, all countries whose publishers are members of the Börsenverein are represented: 1888. 1889. ceipted bill or memorandum saying simply, To I account-book, 82 cents,' a receipt was handed me for dz. 844 @ 2800,' with all the discounts following-something calculated to puzzle a decipherer of cuneiform inscriptions. In nguring up the discounts, the dealer (as any one with a taste for vulgar fractions will see) had managed to'shave' about one cent-probably to cover the time spent in computation; but as he had saved me at least $1.50, I did not call his attention to it. The general effect of the memorandum he handed me was that of a plumber's bill turned upside down-the figures growing fine by degrees and beautifully less, instead of dollar being heaped on penny's head." [Now, if the "Lounger" had only mentioned that he was the son of a clergyman, who knows but what the generous shopkeeper might not have knocked off another "sixty and ten"?-Ed. P. W.] It is significant to notice that the book production in Germany has been steadily increasing, while that of America and England has been vacillating. Also that the increase is largely in the direction of the more solid branches of literature, as theology, law, medicine, and natural history. THE BEAUTIES OF THE DISCOUNT SYSTEM. THE Critic's "lounger" wanted to get an account book last week. The manufacturer's catalogue gave the price as $28 per dozen. "I didn't want," he says, " a dozen, but only one, and I sup. posed the price would be one-twelfth of $28, which is, approximately (I say it under correction), $2.33. If the price had been $2.50, I should not have been surprised, as a single article is usually charged for at a higher rate than when a number are bought. But instead of $2.50, or even $2.33. I found that all I had to pay was $2.33 less sixty per cent. = 94 cents, less io per cent. 85 cents, less four per cent. = 82 cents. The sixty per cent. and ten per cent. were the discount to the trade,' and the four per cent. was a discount for cash.' So, instead of a re = "ALBERT ROSS" is the pseudonym of Linn Boyd Porter, of Cambridge, Mass., whose · Albatross" novels are published by G. W. Dillingham. The Writer. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD'S new novel, dealing with the experiences of a successful mechanic who tries many kinds of life and phases of thought, and who finally joins the Elsmere brotherhood, is ready for the publisher. CHARLOTTE ADAMS is in Bloomingdale Asylum. She was actress, author, editor, and art critic. Some may a brilliant girl- was artist's model, recall her strangely confidential and vitrioli, papers in Lippincott's.-[Philadelphia] Society. AT the time of his death, a few weeks ago, Peter Henderson, the well known seedsman, had just completed a new edition of his valuable "Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture." The preface which he wrote is dated in January last. This edition contains a great deal of new information, and will make still more useful a work which has already become a standard. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. The Rural New Yorker has passed into the hands of Messrs. Lawson Valentine and E. H. Libby. Belford's Magazine for February contains an article entitled" A Tardy Recognition," which attacks the house of Harper & Brothers, and in giving an account of the origin of Harper's New Monthly Magazine prints on facing pages its cover and that of Bentley's Miscellany, drawn by Cruikshank, calling attention to their resemblances and differences. La Revue Française, which was brought out last March, and suspended after the first number, has resumed publication. No. 2, dated February, 1890, is just out. It makes a beautiful appearance and offers an interesting table of contents. The Revue is published at 39 W. 14th Street, New York, at $4.00 a year; single numbers 35 cents. The publishers announce that the next and all future numbers will be illustrated. A MOST praiseworthy movement is about to be set on foot by The Ladies' Home Journal, of Philadelphia. It proposes to give to any young girl of 16 years or over who will send to it, between now and January 1, 1891, the largest number of yearly subscribers to the Journal, a complete education at Vassar College or any other American college she may select. The education offered includes every branch of study, with every expense paid, the Journal agreeing to educate the girl irrespective of the time required or the expense involved. To this is also pinned a second offer which guarantees to any girl of 16 or over who will secure 1000 yearly subscribers before January 1, a full term of one year at Vassar or any other preferred college, with all expenses paid, thus making it possible for any number of young girls to receive free educations at the best colleges. Any girl can enter into the competition, and any such can be thoroughly posted by simply writing to The Ladies' Home Journal at 435 Arch Street, Philadelphia. LITERARY AND TRADE NOTES. D. APPLETON & Co. have under way the second volume of Mme. Carette's memoirs of the Louis Napoleon period. The Writer, P. O. box 1905, Bost., Mass., has in preparation a Directory of American Writers, Editors, and Publishers." WILBUR B. KETCHAM will publish in May a second edition of "Probation and Punishment, or, the future state of the wicked and the doctrine of a second probation," by S. M. Vernon. THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION will exhibit in their library at Thenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue, New York, on Washington's Birthday, a collection of about 3000 books relating to the fine arts. AN exhibition of Lalanne's etchings and drawings will be open daily until 6 P.M. at the gallery of Frederick Keppel & Co., 20 East 16th St. (Union Square), from the 15th of February till the 15th of March. CHATTO & WINDUS have in press the first two volumes of Justin Huntly McCarthy's "History of the French Revolution." It is to be in four volumes, and will be published uniform with his father's "History of the Four Georges." THE BELFORD COMPANY have purchased the manuscript of the novel "Broken Barriers," by Ardennes Jones-Foster, author of Electric Bound." Mr. Foster is now engaged upon another novel entitled David the Jew." It is for early publication. BELLAMY'S "Looking Backward" passed 301,000 copies last month, and the demand is reported to have been over 1000 a day. It is estimated that of the foreign pirated editions, about 50,000 copies have been sold in England. France comes next, followed by Germany and Denmark. THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY Co. will soon publish in pamphlet form, "Who Was Bruno? a direct answer to a plain question, from the latest published documents," by Mr. John A. Mooney. It is the first book published in this country giving the Catholic side of the Bruno affair. LONGMANS, GREEN & Co. will publish at once "The Skipper in Arctic Seas," by Walter J. Clutterbuck, one of the authors of "Three in Norway," who now describes a voyage in the waters between Iceland, Greenland, and Spitzbergen; and a new volume in the Historic Town Series, treating of Winchester," written by G. W. Kitchin, Dean of Winchester, who speaks with love of the picturesque traditions and anecdotes of that old English city. THE EASTMAN DRY PLATE Co., Rochester, elsewhere calls attention to the Kodak camera, one of the later novelties in the steadily progressing art of photography. This camera is specially intended for amateurs. It consists of a small, oblong box no longer than an ordinary cigar-box which contains the prepared paper and the lens, covered by a revolving shutter, which is presented to the object to be photographed, and moved by a stud. The pictures taken are necessarily small, but said to be perfect little gems. "GEYER'S REFERENCE DIRECTORY" for 1890 will be ready in April. All the trade knows the value of this directory of publishers and dealers in books, stationery, paper, toys, fancy goods, notions, pictures, picture-frames, etc., which the publisher spares no pains to render as all-embracing and correct as possible. With each name is given an estimated capital or credit rating whenever attainable. We who know how difficult it is to get material for such purposes can best appreciate Mr. Geyer's industry and energy, and urge the trade to encourage him with prompt orders. PERSONAL NOTES. GEO. J. COOMBES, late of 275 Fifth Avenue, may hereafter be found at the store of J. W. Bouton, 1152 Broadway. All books in continuation and unfilled orders will be attended to by Mr. Coombes, through Mr. J. W. Bouton. MR. J. SHERWOOD SEYMOUR, who for a number of years was connected with the advertising denection with that firm to become the business partment of Harper & Bros., has severed his conEdward St. John, who has withdrawn in order manager of the Evening Post, succeeding Mr. that he may be able to give all his time to the growing business of Babyhood, which we are pleased to hear has been a success from the beginning. Both of these gentlemen have done good work in their former places and will no doubt acquit themselves creditably in their new and larger spheres. We add our congratulations and good wishes to those of their many friends in the book trade. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Under the heading "Books Wanted," subscribers only are entitled to a free insertion of five lines for books out of print, exclusive of address (in any issue except special numbers), to an extent not exceeding 100 lines a year. If more than five lines are sent, the excess is at 10 cents per line, and amount should be enclosed. Bids for current books and such as may be easily had from the publishers, and repeated matter, as well as all advertisements from non-subscribers, must be paid for at the rate of 10 cents per line. Under the heading "Books for Sale," the charge to subscribers and non-subscribers is 10 cents per line for each insertion. No deduction for repeated matter. Under the heading “Situations Wanted," subscribers are entitled to one free insertion of five lines. For repeated matter and advertisements of non-subscribers the charge is 10 cents per line. All other small advertisements will be charged at the uniform rate of 10 cents per line. Eight words may be reckoned to the line. Parties with whom we have no accounts must pay in advance, otherwise no notice will be taken of their com munications. Parties desiring to receive answers to their advertisements through this office must either call for them or enclose postage stamps with their orders for the insertion of such advertisements. In all cases we must have the full address of advertisers as a guarantee of good faith. Brady's Speeches. Boyd, Mock Trial of. Humboldt, Sphere of Government. Hoffman's Law of the Church. Pinckney's Life, by Wheaton. C. N. CASPAR, 437 E. WATER ST., MILWAUKEE, WIS. 500 Plays, ed. by French, etc., second-hand. Schem, D., Am. Conv. Lex., v. 6 and 7, 9, pp. 561-640. Child, Philotea, Grec. Romance. Francis, N. Y., 1851. Fellows, Loisette Exposed, pamphlets, 25 c. ret. ROBERT CLARKE & Co., CINCINNATI, O. Harper's Young People, no 4-1. Boynton's History of West Point. Simcoe's Journal of Queen's Rangers. N. Y., 1843. W. B. CLARKE & Co., BOSTON, MASS. Two pamphlets, other than Mayer's, on the History of the Mass. 2d Reg. Adj.-Gen. of Mass., Report for 1861. Set Jowett's Plato, 2d ed., hf. cf. Macmillan & Co. Geo. W. Curtis' Life of Bryant, pub. by Chas, Scribner's Sons. Scientific American, Dec. 21, 1889. DE WOLFE, FISKE & Co., BOSTON, MASS. The Great Lone Land, W. F. Butler. The Talisman, Walter Scott, 2 v., or v. 1 alone. Ticknor & Fields, 1858. EDWARD DEKUM & Co., PORTLAND, ORE. The Art of Speech, L. C. Townsend, pap. ed. Good work on fresco and decorative designs. Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. M. H. DICKINSON & Co., KANSAS CITY, Mo. Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. W. DRYSDALE & Co., 232 ST. JAMES ST., MONTREAL, Can. Franklin's Life, 2 v., Harper's ed. Citizen of Prague, Harper's ed. McFarlane, To the Andes. Pat to the Test. Nivin, On Popery. Henry De La Tour. Heydenreich's Gustavus Adolphus. London, 1868. Knight's Pictorial History of England, 3 v. WARREN F. Kellogg, 15 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS. The Life of Carl Theodor Körner, written by his father, with selections from his poems, tales, and dramas, tr. from the German, by G. F. Richardson, in 2 v., 16°. London, Thos. Hurst & Co., 1827. LEGGAT BROS., 81 CHAMBERS ST., N. Y. W. H. Lamon's Life of Lincoln. St. Nicholas, November, 1886. A. C. MCCLURG & Co., CHICAGO, ILL. Mangan, James Clarence, Poems. Russell, Half Tints. Bourke, Apache Campaign. Wisconsin Historical Society Publications, v. 1 to 5, incl. Ross, Fur Hunters, 2 v. WM. MCCRACKEN, AGT., 132 5TH AVE., PITTsburg, Pa. Confucius, Life of, by Legge. JOSEPH MCDONOUGH, 30 N. PEARL ST., ALBANY, N. Y. Dickens' Works, Globe ed.. odd vols. Ency. Britannica, Scribner's ed., v. 21, 22, 23, 24, and index, in any style of binding, hf. black mor. preferred. Will pay good price. MANAHATTA PURCHASING AGENCY, 834 B'WAY, N. Y. N. Y. Stat. at Large, v. 7, old ed. Memoirs of Cath. Bauer. Remington, v. 1, 2, (3 [2]), 4. V. 2 D. S. Dickinson's Life. Putnams, 1867. |