REMARKABLE NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR EASTER AND THE SPRING. An Appropriate Easter Gift. A new poem by GEORGE KLINGLE, author of "Make Thy Parchment-paper covers with lettering and decoration in purple and gold, $1.50. New "grass-cloth" or Whatman paper covers appropriately hand-painted, $2.50. Each in a box. A new volume in the dainty "Photogravure Series of JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL. With four new photogravure illustrations by FRANK M. GREGORY. Parchment-paper binding, with very attractive design of angels stamped in silver across the top of the cover, and with letterings below, in purple. Each in a box, 75 cents. Cloth, similar stamping in silver and purple, 75 cents. (For full description of the other volumes in the series, send for catalogue.) A new volume in the beautiful" Words of Comfort and GOOD AND TRUE THOUGHTS FROM ROBERT BROWNING. Beautifully printed, from new plates, in blue, on very fine, laid paper, wide margins, ivorine binding, with white "seal" heavy paper, roughened edges, with design in blue on the ivorine. In a box. $1.00. "Whatman covers painted by hand, by Amy Cross. Each in a box, $1.50. The most attractive booklets ever published at the price. Six small volumes, well printed in purple, on laid paper, covers of "seal" heavy paper, roughened edges. Each cover bears a bright card with design of birds in colors. Each is tied with ribbon and is in an envelope. Price, each, 25 cents. 1. Easter. By Rose Porter. 2. Words of Peace and 3. Rock of Ages. 4. Words of Comfort and Hope. 5. Silver Thoughts. 6. Golden Words. Rest. FOUR PHOTOGRAVURES. A rich Easter offering, containing four photogravures of celebrated paintings. Saint Cecilia, by Carlo Dolce: The Angel Choir, by Sir Joshua Reynolds: Reading Magdalen, by Correggio; Madonna, by Gabriel Max. Each photogravure is of large size, is printed in a striking color, and is well worth framing. The four are in a folio of "seal" heavy paper, with title embossed in silver, and with pale purple ribbons for tying. In a box, $6.00. A Delightful Birthday Gift. A BIRTHDAY BOOK OF BIRDS. By FIDELIA BRIDGES and DORA READ GOODALE. New birthday verses (written especially for the publishers), illustrated by fac-similes of water-color designs of birds-Doves and Peach-blossoms; Humming-birds and Wisteria: Vireos and Nest: Robin-redbreasts and Snow. New satin-panel binding, with a perfect reproduction, in miniature size, of Miss Bridges' design of "Bobolink and Clover." This appears in colors on a panel of white satin set in the delicately tinted heavy "seal-skin" paper cover. Cover has roughened edges and "Birthday Greeting" embossed in gold below the satin panel. In a box, $1.50. New "grass-cloth " binding with hand-painted design. In a box, $2.50. Very attractive and novel in effect. Any of the above will be sent to any address (at publishers' expense), on receipt of the advertised price. Send for CATALOGUE, Containing full descriptions of many Easter PUBLICATIONS. On receipt of 10 cents, this catalogue and one of Fidelia Bridges' colored STUDIES OF BIRDS will be sent to any address. MENTION THe Publishers' Weekly. FREDERICK A. STOKES & BROTHER, Publishers, Importers, Booksellers, Stationers, and Dealers in Works of Art, 182 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. TRADE WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED The American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular. [ESTABLISHED 1852] PUBLICATION OFFICE, Franklin Square (330 PEARL STREET), New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter. The Second List of New Books from D. LOTHROP COMPANY since New Year's. The Deathless Book. By Rev. D. O. Mears, D.D. 12mo, $1.50. The deathless book, of course, is the bible. Dr. Mears has gathered into ten lectures an enormous amount of various knowledge which taken together goes to establish the bible wonderfully. These lectures seem to cover the subject almost exhaustively. They are adapted to clergymen and biblical students rather than to popular reading. St. George and the Dragon. By Margaret Sidney. 12mo, $1. The story is full of lively boys and play, with a mixture of work for St. George, perhaps more than was good for him. He bore it well however; and just at the end of the book you come to the pay he got. The Doctor of Deane. By Mary T. Palmer. $1.25. The heart history of an eligible physician in a town with two young women in it bright and beautiful and uncommonly good withal. One of those beautiful women shows herself in the very first chapter and the other in the second chapter. The author lets them loose upon the hero at once-of course the doctor of Deane is the hero. By the time the reader reaches Chapter III. he finds the rector of Deane actively concerned about his lonely condition. Here are the four; and the story is right ahead of us. Brilliant and tender by turns; engaging at every stage; and with many an honest help towards guidance of life. Volcanoes and Earthquakes. By Samuel Kneeland. 8vo, $2.50. No other explanation of this book can be so good as the author's own words in beginning it. We change them only to make them shorter. "I shall relate my experience in the volcanic countries; state the theories of and try to bring some order out of the chaos of popular earthquake literature. So that anyone can form a satisfactory idea of the principles which underlie these phenomena.' The author is one of the most distinguished of American men of science. Whether he has the grace of a facile and flowing style is of little account. His subject is almost above that. The book is for information as well as diversion. It strikes the level of every-day people, and satisfies. The illustrations are like the text: no great regard for fineness; but they illustrate. What subject is grander or nearer our loftiest thought! There is such fascination in the subject and such ease in the mastery of it, we shall be surprised if Volcanoes and Earthquakes does not prove to be one of the most acceptable books of 1888. Ethel's Year at Ashton. By Mrs. S. E. Dawes. 12mo, $1.25. A city girl on the death of her widowed mother, who had been able to do but little for her beyond giving her good desires and commending her to her uncle, a well-to-do New England farmer, is taken home by him. Her mother had given her this motto: "Seek daily opportunities of doing good;" and the book is made up of the good that came to many from living up to that motto, beginning with very small things. The story is good. The events are pleasing; and so out of the beaten track that the effect of the reading on children not too far along will be uncommonly good. Profiles. By "Pansy" (Mrs. G. R. Alden) and Mrs. C. M. Livingston. 12m0, $1.50. A book of five stories by Pansy." and six by Mrs. Livingston, such stories as they are inventors of, engaging stories of course, but stories that have their end in something better than mere entertainment. Some excellent writers argue for goodness. These story-tellers illustrate it. Pictures are better than argument. Stories, such stories, are better than pictures. The Hereafter. 12mo, cloth, 60 cents; paper, 25 cents. Short answers to the question What are the strongest proofs and arguments in support of the belief in a life hereafter? Given by twenty-three religious teachers, including leading clergymen of various denominations, with their autographs. Christmas Eve and Easter Day. 16mo, cloth, 75 cents. Easter edition in white vellum, $1.25. By Robert Browning. With an introductory essay on The Theory of Robert Browning concerning Personal Immortality, and a brief introduction and explanatory notes to each poem by Heloise E. Hersey. Preface by W. J. Rolfe. Adapted for the use of Browning clubs and literature classes. The Publishers' Weekly. MARCH 3, 1888. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One page. Half page.. Quarter page Eighth page.. Per line.. Special positions, $5 per page extra. Applications for special pages will be honored in order of receipt. A deduction of $3 per page for standing matter. Pages for re-insertion must be ordered kept standing. Special rates for yearly or other contracts. All matter, whether for the reading-matter columns or our advertising pages, should reach this office not later than Wednesday noon, to insure insertion in the same week's issue. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year, postage prepaid Three months, postage prepaid.. Single copies, 8 cents; postpaid, to cents. ..$3 20 I 00 PUBLICATION OFFICE, FRANKLIN SQ. (330 PEARL ST.), N. Y. REFERENCES. Annual Summary Number, Feb. 11. Copyright Number, Jan. 21. English Books, Jan. 7, Jan. 21, Feb. 4, Feb. 18. esting, as it describes minutely the water highways that have been in use by white men since the times of Jean Nicolet, who traversed them in 1634, and Joliet and Marquette, in 1673. FUNK & WAGNALLS have just ready Better Not," by J. H. Vincent, the well-known Chancellor of the Chautauqua University, who warns in epigrammatic sentences against dancing, theatres, card-playing, etc.; " A Bundle of Letters to Busy Girls," by Grace H. Dodge, a member of the N. Y. Board of Education, who has written a book full of practical sense; and "Still Hours," a collection of aphorisms by Richard Rothe which have had a great circulation in Germany and are now translated by James T. Stoddard, forming Vol. 1 of the Foreign Theological Library. CHARLES C. SOULE has just issued Leonard A. Jones' "Index to Legal Periodicals." This volume indexes the leading articles, editorials, correspondence, annotated cases, and biographical notices in 140 American, English, Scottish, Irish, and Colonial legal journals down to January 1, 1887. 5800 volumes of mågazines have been examined and indexed by Mr. Jones. The value of this work to lawyers will be very great, especially in tracing out the many excellent articles, Index to January Books, Feb. 4.-February Books, Mar. 3. supplementing the text-books, and thoroughly PAGE 456 453 451 458 453 454 458 454 457 458 discussing particular points of law, which abound in the back volumes of the leading law journals P. BLAKISTON, SON & Co. have just ready a work on "Practical Physiology, including chemi454, 460 cal and experimental physiology, with reference to practical medicine," by Dr. Wm. Sterling; and a work on the Diseases of the Heart and Circulation in Infancy and Adolescence," by Dr. J. M. Keating and W. A. Edwards; the 6th edition of Tanner's "Memoranda of Poisons," their antidotes and tests; and a third edition of Dr. Gerald F. Yeo's "Manual of Physiolygy." They have nearly ready a volume entitled "Diseases of the Nervous System," by Prof. Wm. R. Gowers. This work is issued in London in two 454 volumes, the reprint, however, by special arrangement with the author, will be issued in one and contain some additional matter. It will contain 400 illustrations. 433 457 455 457 434 454 457 453 454 459 458 454 454 454 D. APPLETON & Co. have just ready "David Poindexter's Disappearance, and other tales," by Julian Hawthorne; and will publish next week "International Law," by Leon Levi; "One Maid's Mischief," by Geo. Manville Fenn; and Why We Believe the Bible," a cheap edition of Mr. Ingraham's popular book. CUPPLES & HURD publish to-day the sixth edition of "Ancestral Tablets," in an improved form; "How to Write the History of a Family." by W. P. W. Phillimore; "What Shall Make Us Whole?" a contribution throwing light on mental healing; and "Thomas Carlyle's Counsels to a Literary Aspirant and What Came of Them." A. C. MCCLURG & Co. will publish shortly a book of interest to canoeists and all lovers of nature, entitled "Historic Waterways." by Reuben G. Thwaites, Secretary of the State Historical So ciety of Wisconsin. It gives a detailed account of six hundred miles of canoeing down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers. To the student of American history it will also be specially inter T. Y. CROWELL & Co. have in preparation a volume of reminiscences, by Col. Alex. V. Verestchagin, brother of the celebrated Russian war painter, entitled "At Home and in War." The first part consists of realistic and vivid reminiscences of the author's life in his native village, Part third previous to the emancipation of the serfs, and his experiences in St. Petersburg and the Military Academy. Part second includes recollections of the Turkish campaign of 1878. covers the Turkoman expedition and the capture of Geok-tepe. The English translation has been made by Miss Isabel F. Hapgood, who is at present in St. Petersburg and has been personally authorized by Col. Verestchagin to do the work. It will be illustrated by portraits of the author and other distinguished Russian officials. Two Authors' Readings-one in the afternoon, the other in the evening-are to be given in the Congregational Church, Washington, one on Saturday, March 17, the other on Monday, the 19th. Mr. A. M. Palmer is to have the management of the affair; and the proceeds will be added to the treasury of the American Copyright League. It is expected that a strong impetus will be given by these readings to the movement for international copyright. WEEKLY RECORD OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.* The abbreviations are usually self-explanatory. c. after the date indicates that the book is copyrighted; if the copyright date differs from the imprint date, the year of copyright is added. Books of foreign origin of which the edition (annotated, illustrated, etc.) is entered as copyright, are marked c. ed.; translations, c. tr. A colon after initial designates the most usual given name, as: A: Augustus; B: Benjamin: C: Charles: D: David: E: Edward; F: Frederic; G: George; H: Henry; I: Isaac ; J: John; L: Louis; N: Nicholas; P; Peter: R: Richard; S: Samuel; T: Thomas: W: William. Brief poetical selections printed in blue ink on one side only of sheet: bound in rough white paper and tied with a white and gold cord; a pretty picture of birds printed on ivorine is fastened with cords on front cover. Chadwick, G. A., D.D. The gospel according to St. Mark. N. Y., A. C. Armstrong & Son, [1888.] 4+446 p. O. (The expositor's Bible.) cl., $1.50. Sizes are designated as follows: F. (folio: over 30 centimeters high): (Q. 4to: under 30 cm.); O. (8vo: 25 cm.); D. (12m0: 20 cm.); S. (16mo: 17%1⁄2 cm.); T. (24m0: 15 cm.); Tt. (32mo: x21⁄2 cm.); Fe. (48mo: 10 cm.). Sq., obl., mar., designate square, oblong, narrow books of these heights. *American (The) decisions, cont. the cases of general value and authority decided in the courts of the United States; comp. and annot. by A. C. Freeman. V. 95. San Francisco, Bancroft-Whitney Co, 1888. C. 865 p. O. shp., $5. Argles, Mrs. Marg., ["The Duchess." pseud.] Marvel. N. Y., M. J. Ivers & Co., [1888.] 294 p. D. (American ser., no. 65.) pap., 25 c. Argles, Mrs. Marg.. ["The Duchess," pseud.] Marvel. N. Y., Norman L. Munro, [1888.] 284 p. D. (Munro's lib., no. 822.) pap., 20 c. *Barr, Mrs. Amelia E: Christopher, and other stories. N. Y., Phillips & Hunt, 1888. 352 p. D. cl., $1.25. Barrows, W:, D.D. The United States of cont. recent cases of general value decided in Blake, W: P., ed. History of the town of Hamden, Ct.; with an account of the centennial celebration, June 15, '86. Prepared and published by the authority of the town. New Haven, Price, Lee & Co., 1888. C. 8+350 p. por. O. 1., $3. Div ded into two parts; the first gives an account of the celebration of the centenary; the second is "Historical and descriptive" It comprises chapters on title. boundaries, and top graphy: Sketch of the geology; History of mining in Ham en; Forest trees; Agriculture; P bac works; Manufacturing industry; School and education; Ecclesiastical history: Military history; Pupu'ation; Family histo y, notices, etc. Bonnet Jules. Olympia Morata; from the French by Grace Patterson. Phil., Presb. Bd. of Pub., 1888.] c. '87. 284 p. S. cl., 85 c. O mpia Morata lived in the sixteenth century and her so ykes us back to the time of the great movements, the Renaissance and the Reformation, with both of which the ife of this young woman was closely connected. No only are the facts of the biography of an illustrious woman given, but we are also introduced to a history of int nse interest, chicfly the story of the Reformation in Italy and the sufferings it brought to those who espoused is principes, *Brow, Everit. National standard history of Troy, N. Y., Nims & the United States. See notice of the purpose of this series, "Weekly Record," P. W., Jan. 25, '88, [839.] Chamberlain, Montague. A catalogue of Canadian birds, with notes on the distribution of the species. St. John, N. B., J. & A. McMillan, 1887. 9+143 p. O. cl., $2. The author states in his preface that "the object of this catalogue is to bring together the names of all the birds that have been discovered in Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and north to the Arctic; to present these in the system of nomenclature, and in the sequence now generally adopted by American ornithologists, with the geographical distribution of each species." Besides the distribution the notes give the relative abundance, the breeding area, and the winter quarters of each bird, so far as is known to naturalists. *Christian International lesson commentary for 1888. St. Louis, John Burns Book Co., 1887. 369 p. D. cl., $1. Church, Mrs. Ella Rodman. Little neighbors at Elmridge. Phil., Presb. Bd. of Pub., [1888.] c. '87. 352 p. il. S. (The Elmridge ser.) cl., $1.15. The These little neighbors are such as the various species Denison, T. S. The man behind: a novel. C. 311 p. D. cl., $1.50. By the author of “ An iron crown." An American story, of which the scene is laid in a little stragging village of the Southwest. The characters are plain, uneducated people, with the exception of Jack Hollencombe, who is the villain of the story. He ruins an innocent girl who trusts him, and then casts her off. Nellie Pickrell's afterife in a great city with a ruined reputation and a nameless child is extremely sad, Jack Hoilencombe for a time prospers, but at last in running for a great political office his sin finds him out. *Devlin, Robert T. A treatise on the law of deeds, covering the alienation of title to real property by voluntary transfer, tax deeds, and sheriff's deeds. San Francisco, BancroftWhitney Co., 1887. 2 V., 25+754; 22+ 982 p. O. shp., $12. Dodd, Anna Bowman. C. The republic of the future; or, socialism a reality. N. Y., Cassell is list the piles generally are verbatim transcriptions (according to the rule of the American Issociation) from books received. Books not received are indicated by a prefixed asterisk the cannot be held responsible for the correctness of their record. |