selling lower than this indicates. If a single copy was sold for less, and I do not know that it was, it was a mistake that would subject the clerk to making up the deficiency."

"What about the chance of the trade being able to combine to force publishers to sell to all at the same discount from the list price?"

"I don't see how it could be made practical. About 10 years ago such a compact was suggested, and I attended a convention of publishers and booksellers at Niagara. I myself spoke in favor of the bookseller and did all I could, but the scheme fell through. After all, it is a question of supply and demand, and is governed by the laws of trade. I don't see how books can be treated differently from other merchandise. If a man buys a $1.50 listed book from me or from any other publisher at the regular 40 per cent. discount, he gets it at 90 cents. He regards it as his own book, and who is going to stop him if he offers it for sale at $1.25?

The original offender, if offender he may be called, who raised an outcry, was Macy of New York, who sold a book at $1.25 that was listed at $1.75. The publisher refused to sell him any more copies, and cautioned every jobber not to sell a volume. But, nevertheless, there never was a time when Macy did not have copies of this book for sale upon his counters."

OBITUARY.

DAVID W. JUDD.

DAVID W. JUDD, for the past six years the President of the Orange Judd Co., died February 6 of pneumonia, at his residence in the Rutland Flats, New York City. Mr. Judd was born in Lockport, N. Y., on September 1, 1838. His father was one of the Kansas pioneers who went to that State in the days of the Border war, and became well known for his uncompromising work for anti-slavery opinions. Mr. Judd went to Oberlin and then to Williams College, from which he At the outbreak of the Civil graduated in 1860. War he attached himself to the 22d Regiment of N. Y. Volunteer's, acting also as correspondent for the N. Y. Times. After four years, during which he was much in active service and twice taken prisoner, he left the field and joined the editorial staff of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, where he remained until called to the management of the Orange Judd Co., which had been organized by his brother. At that time the American Agriculturist was in need of a strong hand, and under his able management attained and has sustained its present high rank and influence. In 1872 Mr. Judd was made agent of the New York Associated Press. From that time forward honors crowded upon him, and it was the astonishment of all who knew him how he found time for the varied and arduous duties the confidence of his fellow-citizens called him to perform. He represented Richmond Co. in the Legislature in 1872. In 1873 Governor Dix appointed him Quarantine Commissioner. Senate unanimously confirmed him, and repeated the compliment when he was renominated sucsessively by Governors Tilden, Robinson, Cornell, and Hill. In the Assembly he was a memTHE following table from the Börsenblatt of ber of the Committee on Commerce and NavigaJanuary 25, prepared by Messrs. J. C. Hinrichs, tion and on Apportionment of the State. He of Leipzig, presents a view of the book produc- introduced in the Legislature the bill establishtion in Germany. It is well to remember, how-ing the National Rifle Association at Creedmoor, ever, 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 :

"Do you believe that small concerns can sell books alongside the great general stores?"

"I believe that any man of energy, capacity, and knowledge of the business can run his business on as small a margin of profits as the great concern. Increase of business increases the ratio of expense in handling it."

GERMAN BOOK PRODUCTION IN 1887.

867
126

7. Education, German School-Books,

etc.

1,916

2,063
464

566

German

570

585

800

722

429

370

9. Classical and Oriental Archæology,

Old

11. History, Biography, Memoirs..

585

The

and making an appropriation of $30,000 for it. The Judd prize for marksmanship was founded for his efforts. He was a member of the Union League Club and the Republican Club. He was the author of "Two Years' Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland," edited "The Educational Cyclopædia" and the "Life and Writings of Frank Forester." Mr. Judd was never married. He has three married sisters and two brothers living, all of whom attended the funeral service, at the Broadway Tabernacle on Wednesdays Feb. 8. He was buried at Lockport, Feb. 9.

MARY HOWITT,

She

MARY HOWITT, who half a century ago was the favorite author of young and old, died at Rome, Feb. 3, at the advanced age of 88 years. was born in Staffordshire, England, where her family were people of property by the name of Bothom. At twenty-three she married William Howitt, with whose name all her writings are inseparably connected. This talented couple produced a brilliant and varied list of works, and distinguished themselves as poets, writers for the working classes, editors, historians, romances, ex377 plorers into the myths and traditions of all Europe, especially of Scandinavian lore. In this 452 country their translations of Frederika Bremer and Hans Christian Andersen have been widely read. William Howitt died in 1879.

404 389

725

81

Mythology..

10. Modern Languages,

Literature

12. Geography, Travel..

13. Mathematics, Astronomy.

14. Military, Hippology.

15. Commerce and Manufactures.

680

16. Building, Machines, Railways, Mining, etc...

437

17. Forestry and Sport

122

18. Domestic Economy, Farming, Hor

ticulture

416

JOURNALISTIC NOTES.

THE Tillotson Newspaper Syndicate have arranged to publish the Reminiscences of J. L. Toole, the comedian, related by himself and chronicled by Joseph Hatton.

MR. HENRY HOLT's review of the international copyright question will be printed in the March number of the Forum. In the same issue will be given a curious study of the leading American newspapers, wherein it is shown what proportions of their space are given to religion, to crime, to literature, to art, to sport, the markets, and to editorial matter by the large dailies of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis. This comparison has been prepared by

Mr. Henry R. Elliott, a New York journalist.

THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. since the first of January has resumed exclusive control in America of the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, and the Scottish Review, and will furnish

these great English quarterlies in the original sheets, and will also furnish the original sheets of the Nineteenth Century, the Contemporary Review, and the Fortnightly Review. The J. B. Lippincott Co. have relinquished the publication of the American Naturalist, and its publication has been assumed by this house, to whom its list of sub

scribers has been transferred.

in his specialty of political satire; a little work
called "A Pocket Dictionary of Etiquette" has
been prepared for the house by a lady who is a
leader in the best society of New York City and
the Byrnes-Hawthorne combination has nearly
ready another of the popular detective stories to
be known as " Section 558, or, the fatal letter."
TICKNOR & Co. have just issued "Harvard Rem-
iniscences," by Andrew P. Peabody, who for a
quarter
University with which he has been connected for
of a century has been a high officer in the
nearly sixty years; a posthumous volume of es-
says by Edwin Percy Whipple, which has received
the name of " Outlooks on Society, Literature,
kins, Jr., entitled "The World's Verdict," a story
and Politics;" and a new novel by Mark Hop-
of American life in Paris and Nice, with pictu-
resque Russian and French accessories.

Without Straw," and that whole series of extra-
SINCE the days of "A Fool's Errand," "Bricks
ordinary novels laid amid scenes of slavery, war,
and reconstruction, Judge Tourgée has not at-
tempted much fiction, confining himself to jour-
nalistic work and lecturing. But he has sent ou t
clever things with such touches of his character-
istic power as show that the wonted fires" are
Fords, Howard & Hul-
only covered, not out.
bert will shortly publish a story from his pen en-
titled "Black Ice," which is said to contain some
notable character-studies, with incidents of flood
and field that make the pulse beat quick.

THE Office of L'Union Internationale pour la Protection des Euvres Littéraires et Artistiques, which was organized in September, 1886, is about HARPER & BROS. twenty-five years ago began to issue the first number of a monthly periodical to be known under the title of Le Droit d'Auteur, the publication A. W. Kinglake's "Invasion of which is to be the organ of international copy-vals the fifth and sixth and last volumes of this the Crimea," and are now issuing at short interright and devoted to official and other communications concerning the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works, special questions on the subject that may arise, laws that may be passed, etc., which are of international interest. The annual subscription will be 5 francs and 60 centimes. We have not yet received a copy and shall be able to give fuller details when we have examined the prospectus to be forwarded with

the first issue.

"Introductions

GINN & Co. have just issued "An Epitome of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene-including, the effects of alcohol and tobacco," by H. H. Culver, of Bishop College, Marshall, Tex. They will publish on February 25 to Chemical Science," by R. P. Williams, Instructor in Chemistry in the English High School, Boston, a working chemistry on the inductive plan, prepared with care, and with unusual simplicity.

CASSELL & Co. have in press " John Bull, Jr.," by P. Blouët, better known under his pseudonym of Max O'Rell, who considers this his best effort

remarkable work. They have also just ready "Monarchs I Have Met," by W. Beatty Kingston, a well-known English newspaper man ; and "Tariff and Revenue Discussed," a pamphlet composed of the President's last message, Mr. Blaine's comments on it, and the tariff papers published in the January and February issues of Harper's Magazine, which were written by Henry Watterson and the Hon. George F. Edmunds.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have just published an entirely new portrait of Mr. Whittier, which was finished just as he completed his eightieth year. It represents him in his beautiful old age, yet seems the portrait of a man little more than sixty. To Mr. Whittier's intimate friends this is said to be much the most satisfactory portrait of him that has ever been made; it presents his features and characteristic expression with remarkable accuracy. The portrait is life-size. and to secure its widest distribution is sold for $1. They have in press a volume of poems by Mr. I. R. Pennypacker, editor of The Philadelphia Weeky Press. Several of Mr. Pennypacker's poems have already found their way into standard collections.

THE stories of E. P. Roe appear to have as great a hold upon the American people as ever. Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. announce the third edition, 32d thousand, of "The Earth Trembled," published in October last, and they are printing a cheap edition of 100,000 copies of an "Original Belle," the scene of which is laid during the Ne w York draft riots in 1863. It was of this story that Mr. Jackson Schultz said, in a public address: "This book represents the real inwardness of the events of that thrilling period of the riots of July, 1863, as I have never before seen them in print. The battle of Gettysburg is also portrayed as

vividly as words can do it in the same work. When I read this novel I hardly realized it was a novel, for the history was so accurate."

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS add to their announcements for the spring season: in the Story of the Nations series, "The Story of Holland," by J. E. Thorold Rogers; in the series of Great Cities of the Republic, "The Story of the City of New York," by Charles Burr Todd; in the series of American Biographies, "Charles Sumner and his Work," by A. B. Johnson, for fifteen years Sumner's private secretary. Also, "Hints from a Lawyer, or, legal advice to men and women," by Edgar A. Spencer; "A Hard-Won Victory," by Grace Denio Litchfield, author of "Only an Incident," etc.; 'Lajla," a Norwegian story, translated from the original by Ingerid Markhus; "A Pocket Guide to Europe," by Thomas W. Knox, new edition, revised and corrected, uniform with the "How to Travel," etc., by the same author; and "The History of the Town of Fairfield, Conn.," by Elizabeth H. Schenck.

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L. W. ADAMS, CARE D. LOTHROP Co., Boston, Mass.

Memoir of Sir Benj. Thompson (Count Rumford), by
Geo. E. Ellis. Boston, 1871. State condition and net
price.

ROBERT ADAMS, FALL RIVer, Mass.
A Golden Heart, by Hood. London.
Illustrious Women of France, by Challice.
Sylvia's Lovers, by Gaskell,

Success and How He Won It. London.
Nelly Brooke, by Church.

AMERICAN MAGAZINE EXCHANGE, SCHOHARIE, N. Y. Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper or Harper's Weekly, April 28. 1877, to Jan. 25, 1879, inclusive.

Harper's Magazine, April, May, 1851; May, 1852; June,

1862.

Scribner's Magazine, Sept., 1871; May, July, and Aug.,
1872.

ANDREWS & COMPANY, ANN ARBOR, MICH.
Stephens' War Between the States, v. 2.
Knight's Studies in Shakespeare. $3.00.
Thackeray, The Humorist and Man of Letters.
Daniels' Negotiable Instruments, second-hand.

BACK NUMBER BUDD, 1280 BROADWAY, N. Y.

Harper's Weekly, nos. 1 to 53, and 334: 1861 to 1865.
Harper's Young People, nos. 1 to 104.
Scribner's Magazine, v. 1 to 4.

Puck, nos. I to 208.

BRENTANO'S, New York, have secured the
American market for "The Great Seals of Eng-
land," by the late Alfred Benjamin Wyan and
Allan Wyan.
The work gives a descriptive,
illustrated, and historical account of these seals,
with many curious and interesting particulars as
to their general history and the laws concerning
them. It sets before the reader the few royal
seals which are known to have existed in Saxon
times, and with the reign of Edward the Confes-
sor it commences a series of seals which continue,
unbroken, down to our day. A fac-simile of
each seal is given, accompanied by a description
of the seal and its design. This is the only work
published which has given a complete account of
the subject of which it treats. Three hundred
copies only are printed in quarto. Of these
twenty-five will be for sale in the United States.
Each copy will be numbered and signed. A dis-
count will be given to the trade from the subscrip-
tion price on all orders received before publica- Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, etc., etc.
tion. It will be ready about March 1.

Harper's Monthly, v. 1 to 6; Dec., 1887; 1861 to 1865.
Nation, any nos. from 1 up.
Critic, V. 1, 2, 3.

THE remaining twelve chapters of Mr. Ruskin's Autobiography are to be issued en bloc instead of in parts.

F. V. WHITE, & Co., London, have in press a volume entitled "Confessions of a Publisher," by the author of "Bootle's Baby.

MACMILLAN & Co. will shortly publish, under the title of "Half-Length Portraits," a volume of papers on various men of letters by Mr. Henry James.

G. HEDELER, Leipzig, has just ready two parts of Charles Jobmann's "Monogrammenschatz a treasury of monograms-of peculiar value to lithographers, engravers, designers, embroiderers, etc. The work will be complete in 28 parts at 45. each, and is to contain in all more than 4000 figures.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

1. Can any of the readers of the WEEKLY give information as to the book, "Moral Philosophy, Science, and Religion, Written in Cypher, with a Key"? A. D. R.

2. Who is publisher of "Kean, Native American Legends and Literature," and " Rosenkranz, Pedagogics as a System," translated by Brackett (St. Louis)? B. W.

Life, v. 1, 2.

Any almanac from 1831 and 1850.

American Almanac, 1880.

Any nos. of N. Y. Herald, 1861, 1862, 1863.
Popular Monthly, v. 3, no. 2; v. 5, no. 3.
N. Y. Sun, Oct. 17, 1880; Aug. 14, 1878.

St. Nicholas, Nov., Dec., 1886; Nov., Dec., 1887; Nov.,
Dec., 1884: V. 1, 2, 3.

Send list of one or more of any of the above. I am open
to buy or exchange.

THE BOOK ANTIQUARY, EASTON, PA.

Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, etc.
Monsel, History of Penna.

German-English Dictionary of Technology.
Wallace, Am. Trot. Reg., v. 1-6.
Monthlies, v. 2-10.

Herodotus, English tr.

Abbot, Shakespearean Gram. 3d ed.

Thomas Graham, Chemical and Phys. Researches, Analyt.
Contents by Dr. R. Angus Smith. Edinb., 1876.

J. W. BOUTON, 706 BROADWAY, N. Y.
Holmes' Authorship of Shakespeare.
Lyrics by Pearl River. Lippincott.
Gough's Wit and Humor.

Wit, Humor, Pathos, and Parodies. Excelsior Pub Co.
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1 each Engineering News of vol. beginning Jan., 1887.
nos. 2, 3, and 6.

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Bread upon the Waters.

Frick, Physical Technics, il., new ed. 1878.
Harp of a Thousand Strings.

Conwell, Why and How Chinese Emigrate.
Sanderson, Republican Landmarks.
Byrne, Irish Immigration to the U. S.
Harper's Weekly, 1864, complete.

Harper's Magazine, v. 1, 10, 11, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 34, 71, 72.

CHAPIN'S, 91 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

St. Nicholas, V. 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 15.

Harper's Young People, 1880, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887.
Scribner's Magazine, V. 1, 2, 3, 32, 33, 34.
Continent Magazine, V. 1, 4.

Leslie's Popular Monthly, 1886-'87.
History of the O'Hara Family.

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Kavanaugh's English Women of Letters.
McDonald's Unspoken Sermons.