Phil., J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889. c. 40+ 578 p. O. cl., $3.

The J. B. Lippincott Co. publishes this work for "The Brotherhood of Liberty," an order instituted for the advancement of the African race in America. The book is a bold and original treatment of the race question, and is wholy free from partisanship or sectionalism, An appendix contains a full statement of all legislation, national and state, and a succinct digest with table of every case, federal and state, touching remotely or proximately the race question or civil rights.

McCleery, J. F. B. The McCleery method of billiard playing. San Francisco, Payot, Upham & Co., 1890 [1889.] c. 3-139 p. il. S. pap., $1. (Corr. price.)

Mason, Otis T. An account of the progress in anthropology in the year 1886. From the Smithsonian Report for 1886-'87. Wash., D. C., Smithsonian Institution, 1889. 523567 p. O. (Miscellaneous coll., no 705.) pap.

569-691 p. O. (Miscellaneous coll., no. 706.) pap.

Porter, J. H., M.D. Notes on the artifical deformation of children among savage and civilized peoples; with a bibliography. From the Report of the National Museum. Wash., D. C., Government Printing Office, 1889. 213-237 p. O. (Miscellaneous coll., no. 716.) pap. Smith, C: Foster. Honorary degrees as conferred in American colleges: a paper read before the National Educational Assoc., July, 1889. Syracuse, N. Y., C. W. Bardeen, 1889. 9 p. O. (Papers on school issues of the day, no. 7.) pap., 15 c.

Smyth, Albert H. American literature. Phil., Eldredge & Bro., [1889.] c. 304 p. D. cl.,

90 c.

A comprehensive, concise account of American literature for schools. The various writers and their works are grouped thus: The colonial period; The revolutionary period; The New York writers; The awakening of New England; Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell; The

From Cooper to the civil war; After the civil war. A number of readings from authors are appended, as characteristic specimens of the best or most significant writers of the country.

Mason, Otis T. The human beast of burden. From the Report of the National Museum, 1836-'87. Wash., D. C., Government Printing Office, 1889. 237-295 p. O. (Miscellaneous coll., no. 717.) pap.

Miscellaneous papers relating to anthropology. From the Smithsonian Report for 1886-'87. Wash., D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1889.

Whittaker's churchman's almanac: the Protestant Episcopal almanac and parochial list for 1890. 36th year. N. Y., T: Whittaker, [1889.] 314 p. S. pap., 25 c.

Winslow, G: W., comp. Bible selections and responsive readings, for use in schools; with an introduction by Rev. Jos. T. Duryea, D.D. Bost., C: H. Kilborn, 1889. C. 16+326 p. S. cl.. 60 c.

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Blackburn, H. An illustrated catalogue of paintings, drawings, and sculpture in the British Fine Art Section of Paris Universal Exhibition, 1889. 8°. sewed, Is.

Chatto Blind Mathilde. The ascent of man: poems. Cr. 8°. Chatto Cr. 8°. Trübner

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Caird, Mona. The wing of Azrael. 31s. 6d... Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindustani, and Pushtu manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Begun by Prof. Ed. Sachau, and edited by H. Eke, Ph.D. Part 1: The Persian manuscripts. 4°. 63s. (Clarendon Press ser.)....... Frowde Chaffers, W. The collector's handbook of marks and monograms in pottery and porcelain of the renaissance and modern periods. New ed. Post 8°. 198 p., 6s.

Reeves & T Chambers, G. F. A digest of the law relating to public libraries and museums and literary and scientific institutions. 3d ed. Roy. 8°. 8s. 6d ..... Stevens & S Durer, Albrecht. Literary remains. With transcripts from the British Museum manuscripts, and notes upon them by Lina Eckenstein. Roy. 8°. 288 p., 21S.

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Allingham, H. W. The treatment of the internal derangements of the knee-joint by operation. 8°. ..Churchill 170 P., 5S... Aplin, O. V. The birds of Oxfordshire. With a map. 8°. Frowde 208 p., 10s. 6d.. Bellesheim, A. History of the Catholic church of Scotland. Translated with notes and additions, by D. Oswald Hunter Blair. (4 V.) V. 3. 8°.

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NOTES ON CATALOGUES.

W. HOEPLI, 37 Corso Vittoria Emanule, Milan, has published a handsomely printed Catalogo della Incunaboli, Manoscritti, Documenti, Storici, etc. (No. 59, 67 p., 532 titles, 12°.)

J. W. JARVIS & SON, 28 King William St., Strand, London, England, have published for the Index Society the second part of the Index to the Obituary and Biographical Notices in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1780. The whole of the Index is the work of Mr. R. Henry Farrar, but only the first few sheets of the present part have been seen through the press by him, that work having been in charge of Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, we believe. This part carries the Index to Missinden. It will be completed in the third part, which is promised shortly. (176 p. sm. 4°, pap., 10s. 6d.)

PATRIOTISM WITH A VENGEANCE.-British Author-But I should have my royalty on your reprint of my books. Literary Pirate—Sir, in the American Republic of letters we acknowledge no royalty.

Che Publishers' Weekly.

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JANUARY 4, 1890.

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COPYRIGHT IN THE NEW YEAR.

A HAPPY New Year to the trade for 1890! which we trust will open a decade of prosperity such as the trade has not seen for a considerable period. The most important factor toward this prosperity should be the passage of the international copyright measure which we confidently expect to see a part of the law of the United States before the close of the present Congress. The text of the bill now pending is given in full elsewhere. A careful comparison of it with the Chace-Breckinridge bill of last year will show that it is essentially the same bill, although different in form. The changes in arrangement and phraseology are those considered necessary, after the careful consideration permissible since the last session of Congress, to bring the bill more fully into harmony with the existing domestic law and the working arrangements of the Copyright Office, and the only changes in the matter have been in the direction of carrying out

more fully the agreed purposes of the original bill. The representatives of the Typographical Union in the Joint Commitee, for instance, made one or two suggestions which the other interests agreed were in line with the general purposes of the bill, and these were in consequence unanimously accepted. It is by this creditable desire to keep good faith in the compromise which this bill embodies that the joint conference of the Authors' Copyright League, the Publishers' Copyright League, the Typothetæ, and the Typographical Union, has been able to put before

Congress and the people a measure on which all these elements are absolutely united. Like all compromise bills, the measure does not reflect the view of any one interest, and is to that extent unsatisfactory to each; this being admitted, however, the bill is satisfactory to all, and if it becomes a law will do much to put the United States on the plane of other civilized nations in regard to literary property.

The most unfortunate thing that could happen to this bill is that it should become the football in Congress of opposing parties or opposing economic views. Mr. Clemens made the unfortunate remark that he had rather lost interest in the measure because there was no hope of getting a bill passed by a Republican Congress. This was absolutely unjust. The bill has passed a Republican Senate and it received in the last Democratic House the adhesion of a great body of Republicans, while, on the other hand, many Democrats were slow to give their adhesion because of the restrictive features of the bill. But the question is not one of party bearing, neither is it one of protection or free trade. The acknowledg ment of property rights is contrary neither to the protection nor the free trade doctrine, and the restrictive features are so incidental that even the most ardent opponents of the restrictive policy ought to be willing to overlook these features because the body of the bill makes so great a stride toward international justice and peace and good-will among nations. There is every reason to believe that on this question Republicans and Democrats, Protectionists and Free Traders, will put aside their political prejudices, as they ought. The bill will have a hearing before the Senate Committee, January 9, and a hearing before the House Committee will probably follow. We trust that early in the year we may be able to announce definitely the passage of the International Copyright Bill.

WE are already at work on the "Annual Catalogue" and on our " Annual Summary Number," and we ask our publishing friends the moment they can free themselves from the stock-taking and book-balancing of the new year, to make up their Annual Summary lists for 1889. The value of these annual lists to the trade consists largely in their promptness, and we hope this year to set a good precedent for future years in this direction.

THE death of Robert Carter takes from the roll of the veterans of the publishing trade a good man, who goes from us in the fulness of years, after a life rich in good works and the fruit of them, leaving to those who come after him the richest legacy that can be left-a good name and a good life.