is a simple, God-fearing country girl, who comes to London when her father dies, and, her uncle also dying and leaving her unprovided for, becomes dependant on Bede's charity, a foundation of her own name. Her life is full of good, but when her brother comes back from Australia rich, he does not like to acknowledge his plain, old-fashioned, and poor sister. How "coals of fire" are heaped upon his head, and how her work is blessed, is quaintly and delightfully told. The story will be interesting at any time and to all; it will be found admirable for Sabbath reading. LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP. THE book trade may well be permitted, if the ordinary business signs and symptoms may be relied upon, to congratulate itself upon a prosperity and soundness which it would be difficult to The parallel from any other branch of business. four-months' notes of purchasers at the fall trade sale all fell due January 19, and it is a most remarkable circumstance that every one of them was paid promptly on time. These notes covered an amount above $150,000, and were in number over a hundred, from $400 to $6,000 each, and given by ⚫ parties all the way from San José, California, to Portland, Maine. Mr. Leavitt may well congratulate himself upon the character of his buyers; and we challenge any trade to show a record which shall match this. It has often been said that the trade sale is a sort of trade-ometer, showing its condition a more satisfactory showing in this respect certainly could not be. FARJEON.-The Harpers are fortunate in having among their connections the rising young English novelist, B. L. Farjeon, with whom they are in direct relations. His new story, which is to be published abroad in Tinsley's Magazine, beginning with the February issue, will be printed here in Harper's Bazar, commencing week after next. Its title, "London's Heart," seems to promise a further working of the vein so successfully struck in "Blade o' Grass." DODD & MEAD are to publish this spring, in addition to works previously announced, a new and cheaper edition of "A Pastor's Sketches," by Rev. Dr. Spencer, a standard work of which probably 50,000 copies have been sold. The price will be reduced from $3.50 to $2.00. This firm has made considerable reductions of price this season in a number of their standard and widely-selling religious books, such as, for instance, Cruden's Concord ance. THE OARSMAN'S MANUAL (Waters, Balch & Co., Troy), a bound volume, quarto, of nearly 500 pages, beautifully printed and liberally illustrated, embraces all that is needful to be known in regard to the structure of pleasure-boats, the art of rowing, the best methods of training, and the history of boatracing in this country and in England. MESSRS. J. M. STODDART & Co. (Philadelphia) have lately published a work designed for the use of teachers, and others interested in educational matters, written by J. R. Sypher, formerly one of the New York Tribune editors. It is being most favorably received. They have also in press a companion to Arthur's "Ten Nights in a BarRoom," a book which, it is said, has sold to a greater extent than any original American work of its class ever published. The new one now just being written is considered equally good with "Ten Nights," and a large sale is confidently looked for. GENERAL KILPATRICK, whose active career during the war, and whose signal success placed him among the foremost men of the time, is busily preparing a work on the most fascinating arm of the service-the Cavalry of the United States-and expects shortly to issue it through the same house. As the dashing General will give most of the exciting events incident to his operations, never before published, we may look for something fresh and new in this department of literature. J. M. STODDART & Co. have purchased the stereotype plates of the "Moral Probe," which has been long out of print, but which has always enjoyed a good sale. It will be republished in good style at an early day. A GUIDE TO THE HUB.-In view of Mr. Gil more's "year of jubilee, which is to bring strangers unnumbered to the goodly town of Boston, the Messrs. Osgood are preparing a periodical and artistic guide-book of that city, which will have more than a temporary value. Boston has the most extended and noteworthy historical associations of any American city, and this phase will There will be views of all the interesting buildings not be neglected by the compiler of this work. and scenes in and about Boston, and the publishers really artistic, and a credit alike to the city and to mean to make the work a nonpareil of its kind, themselves. THE spring list of Roberts Brothers is notable especially for two or three radical religious books which are soon to attract attention. These are "The Professor Parson's Swedenborgian work on Finite and the Infinite," Dr. Bartol's "Radical Problems," of both of which we have given advance notes, and the "To-Morrow of Death," by Louis Figuier, the well-known author of those popular works on the history of the earth. His scientific theory of the after-life is that the body is not destroyed by death, but simply changes its form, while the immortal soul is incarnated in the new body, forming a being next above man in the scale, which lives in the ether about the earth and the planets. Jean Ingelow's second series of "Stories told to a Child," and a translation by Miss Preston of a Provencial poem, "Mireio," are also on their list. Two books of great interest to clergymen and the like are to be published by A. D. F. Randolph & Co. in the spring, by arrangement with the author and English publisher. "The Missionary World" is a comprehensive cyclopædia of everything that pertains to missions since the earliest days of the Christian church-figures, facts, incidents, etc., etc., its aim being to condense into small compass the largest possible amount of information. The other work, "The New Cyclopædia of Illustrative Anec- dote" is said to be the most complete work of the kind ever attempted, and contains a vast collection of authentic anecdotes, old and new, on a very wide range of subjects, classified for easy reference, and designed for use among all speakers and teachers, and in the home. GODWIN'S FRANCE.-It was twelve years ago that Mr. Parke Godwin published the first volume of his "History of France." Much of the intervening time has been spent in France, partly in original research, and he is now actively engaged upon the second volume. THE SING SING LIBRARY.-In a late issue of his paper Mr. Theodore Tilton gives an account of the origin of the library for the prisoners at Sing Sing State Prison. Somewhere about 1858, on a (voluntary) visit there, he found that they had nothing whatever to read, and accordingly issued a brief Appeal in Behalf of the Striped Jackets," which was printed by the journals, and brought contribu 66 tions of three thousand volumes. These books must be nearly worn out by this time, and the prisoners be ready for more. "BEAUTIFUL SNOW."-A New York journal is pitilessly attempting to revive the old discussion on the authorship of "Beautiful Snow," now published among J. W. Watson's poems. It prints a letter from the sister of the other claimant, Faxon, assailing the former in unstinted terms. PRESIDENT WOOLSEY is understood to be em ploying his leisure in a new text-book on political economy. WAGNER'S "BEETHOVEN " has been translated by a Mr. Albert Parsons, and is to be published THE latest" Junius," it seems, is Tom Paine. A Washington savant has not only set to work to prove that identity, but also to show that the author of "Common Sense" draughted the Declaration of Independence. He relies upon internal evidence for his proof. A NINTH series of Spurgeon's sermons, selected by him, is to be published by Sheldon & Co. This is another case of English authors preparing works especially for America. EMERSON has gone back to Concord to revise his earlier essays for the "authorized" edition to which the English publisher Hotten virtually compelled him to give his assent, by announcing his intention to publish at all events, allowing the author to supervise the work if he chose. Does "piracy" as well as charity begin at home, English brethren, or doesn't it? HURD & HOUGHTON and the Riverside Press, Cambridge, announce that, on and after February 1, their Riverside edition of "Cooper's Works,' which has hitherto been published by subscription only, will be open to the trade generally, and they are ready to fill orders for complete sets, or to supply the volumes at regular intervals, according to the preference to their customers. The Riverside edition is contained in thirty-two crown 8vo volumes, each volume containing two steel plates and a number of wood engravings, all by F. O. C. Darley, printed on toned paper, and bound in fawn-cloth, bevelled edges, with medallion side stamp. Price per volume, $2.25, in cloth; $4 in half calf. PROF. F. J. CHILD, of Harvard University, contemplates a new edition of the best old English ballads. with all their different versions, and with full introductions, giving an account of all like ballads in all the European languages. MARK TWAIN'S new book, "Roughing It," is almost ready for publication. In his preface Mark says: "Take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in this book. I regret this very much, but really it could not be helped; information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. I wou'd it were otherwise, but the more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom." MR. MARTIN LARKIN for some years has been making a most careful selection of all the very best pieces in the English language. He has observed that certain good old favorites are always in demand. Hitherto these have been secured only by a purchase of several books. He has brought these together for one volume, and to them he has added many not before published in such form. All the pieces are of the very first class. The name of his new book is to be "Rival Collection of Readings," for private, public, and school use. NOVELLO'S CHEAP MUSIC has become so popular in this country, and the demand for it so increasing, that Messrs. Novello, Ewer & Co. have found it necessary to establish a branch of their business in New York. They have opened a spacious store at 751 Broadway, and now are ready to fill orders without delay. The careful editing, good print, and cheapness of their editions of operas, oratorios, masses, cantatas, etc., and their valuable collections of church music, organ music, The same qualities are found in their endless varipart-songs, glees, etc., justify their eminent success. ety of popular songs and pianoforte pieces, classical and school music, works on the theory of music, etc. A catalogue with American prices can be had on application. The following firms act as special agents for the sale of Novello's cheap music in their respective cities: Messrs. G. D. Russell & Co., Boston, Messrs. Geo. F. Root & Sons, Chicago, Messrs. John Church & Co., Cincinnati. A LITERARY edition of the novels of Rhoda Broughton is to be published by D. Appleton & Co. in handsome 12mo. "Red as a Rose is she," the first volume, will be out this month. It will have a steel-plate frontispiece. A NEW American novel, to be published by the Appletons this month, is by a Connecticut young lady, who is said to write much in the style of Charlotte Bronté. The title is "Righted at Last." The scene is laid in New York city and in Connec ticut, and it is said to be powerful and interesting. THE number of works now printed for the blind in raised letters, is quite large. It will be remem bered that Dickens, in his last visit to this country' gave the money for such an edition of his "Old Curiosity Shop," and several similar donations have been received, the printing office of the Massachusetts Blind Asylum having made most of the books. The entire Bible, the Pilgrim's Progress, the Vicar of Wakefield, several of Shakespeare's plays, Pope's Essays, Milton's Poetical Works, Childe Harold, Dickens's touching story of Little Nell (as above mentioned), the Constitution of Man, Pierce's Geometry, Paley's Philosophy, Tytler's History, Hebrew Melodies, and several collections of psalms and hymns; twenty or so other religious books and elementary text-books, in various studies, are included in the list. AUGUST BLANCHE, whose novels the Putnams are shortly to begin publishing, is a great man in Sweden-statesman, philanthropist, and social reformer, as well as writer. He is now sixty years of age, and has written about a dozen works of fiction, besides dramas, which are pronounced among the best yet produced in that country. G. P. PUTNAM & SONS have undertaken to publish Mr. Treadwell's manual of Pottery and Porce lain. A BOOK is to be published about Eastertide, by Mrs. Eliza Greatorex, the artist, which will interest art lovers greatly It is to be a series of twenty etchings of "The Homes of Ober-Ammergau," the plates to be accompanied by descriptions of the home-life of the people. Twelve of her drawings have been etched by Albert, of Munich, and these etchings are now being exhibited at Goupil's, New York. REV. T. L. CUYLER, pastor of the Lafayette avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, has the charge of one of the largest churches in the ecclesiastical body with which he is connected, yet he finds time to contribute some of the most racy and readable articles to the columns of the religious press-articles which are not only copied into scores of other papers here, but are even reprinted in periodicals of Scotland and England. The friends of this genial and spicy writer will be glad to learn that a volume of his best articles, some of them now printed for the first time and others the favorites of many years, is soon to be issued by Robert Carter & Brothers, under the unique title of "Thought Hives." The same house have just ready Dr. Macduff's new work, "Saint Paul in Rome.' The introduction, covering nearly 100 pages, is an essay of remarkable interest. The account of the supposed identification of the houses of Clement, mentioned in Phil. iv. 3, and of Pudens (2 Tim. iv. 21), cannot fail to attract the attention of the Biblical scholar. The Carters are now selling the fifth thousand of Dr. McCosh's lectures on "Christian ity and Positivism," delivered in this city less than a year since, a fact the more remarkable from the abstruse nature of the work itself. The same publishers are preparing a more compact edition of Dr. Jacobus's notes on "Genesis and the Gospels,' by putting the five volumes into three, and thus reducing the price. As an indication of the interest in Biblical study, it may not be uninteresting to know that 42,000 copies have been sold of Dr. Jacobus's volume on Matthew alone. The same house expect to issue during the spring, “Trading," by Miss Warner, being the conclusion of the series of which "What She Could," "Opportunities," and the "House in Town" were the popular predecessors. All the little girls will be glad to know that the author of the "Bessie Books " is busy, and will soon give them the two concluding volumes of the Little Sunbeams-" Mamie's Watchword" and "Nellie's Housekeeping;" and the boys that the author of the "Drayton Hall Stories" will soon have ready "Our Four Boys," a new volume of the "Dare to do Right" series, the scene of which is laid in Nova Scotia, SHELDON & Co.' are also about to publish Dr. Conant's great work, "The Book of Proverbs," retranslated, with copious notes. There will be two editions of this work, one for the use of scholars, and one to meet the popular demand. Dr. Conant has devoted to the preparation of this work nearly ten years of labor. THE NEW YORK Tribune gives an admirable two column review of Rev. Dr. Manning's "Half Truths and the Truth," and assigns it a high place in philosophical and religious discussion. MINES, MILLS, AND FURNACES of the Pacific States and Territories (Ford) contains a full and comprehensive account of the condition of the gold and silver mining industry of the United States, with practical recommendations of great importance to those engaged in it. The chapter on the treatment of auriferous ores in Colorado is the best account of the stamp-mill process ever published in this country; and the general discussion of smelting-processes for silver ores supplies an instant want. The series of volumes, of which this forms the third, which have proceeded from the rapid but careful pen of Commissioner Raymond, are recognized in this country and in Europe as professionally authoritative and popularly interesting to a remarkable degree. A PROSPECTUS is issued of a third enlarged and improved edition of Von Cotta's "Geology of the Present." Special reference will be made in this edition to the bearing on geological questions of the recent discoveries of Darwin, Mayer, and Helmholtz. JOURNALISTIC. The Liberal Christian, edited by Henry W. Bellows, D. D., has opened a new department, The Liberal Christian Pulpit, a weekly publication of doctrinal discourses, prepared by request especially for delivery in the Church of the Messiah (late Mr. Hepworth's), by some of the ablest and most distinguished ministers of Liberal Christianity. The Liberal Christian of each week will contain one of the discourses of the previous Sabbath. Appletons' Journal has a very curious article by Mr. Bunce, on the "City of the Future," which gives the most tempting picture of improved New York homes, to be built in the air, in the "hanging garden" style. Harper's Weekly has a capital cartoon, by Nast,. "Cincinnatus," representing "H. G. the farmer receiving the nomination from H. G. the editor.” THE Springfield Republican gives evidence of its deserved success this week by appearing in new type and from a brand-new four-cylinder Hoe press, capable of turning out 10,000 impressions an hourthe first that has ever been used in New England outside of Boston. THE regular weekly circulation of the Christian Union is said to be over 73,000 copies, and steadily rising. THE new organ of Protection, The American Protectionist and Workingmen's Journal, presents its first number in a fair-looking sheet of sixteen pages, about half the size of Harper's Weekly. It contains a first paper on "American Industry," an address"The Need of Protection," etc. La America Illustrada is a new Spanish paper semi-monthly, on the eve of the sailing of the regupublished in New York. The paper is to be issued lar South American packets, and its design is to furnish the Spanish-speaking people of the New World an illustrated paper in their own language. The terms of the paper, postage paid, are, for the United States, $4.50, and for the West Indies, Mexico, and South and Central America, $5.00 in gold. WESTERN & Co., of New York, propose to issueRecord, whose object is sufficiently indicated by its a weekly journal to be called The Coal and Iron title. It will be a sixteen-page paper, and will be furnished in two volumes a year, at a subscription price of $3 per volume. It is to be under the business and editorial control of Benjamin R. Western, well known as one of the originators of what is now the Engineering and Mining Journal, and one of the founders of the Manufacturer and Builder. THE Lord Chief Justice of England has undertaken to sum up, in a series of critical articles. in the Academy, the whole of the circumstantial evidence respecting the authorship of the "Letters of Junius," including that of handwriting, as lately brought forward by the Hon. E. Twisleton and Mr. Chabot. CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS. Lippincott's Magazine March. Scrambles amongst the Alps during the Years 1860-69, Ed.. Whymper (Illust.), Chaps. XII. and XIII.Blessed, a Poem, Lucy Hamilton Hooper.-The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, a Novel, Wm.. Black, Chaps. IV.-VI.-The Empress Catherine on the Dnieper, Véra Goetz.-At Home with the Patagonians, George C. Musters (Illust.), Part I.-The First American Art Academy, E. S., (Illust.),. conclusion.-Cupid's Lesson, a Poem, G. fiosmer. – Trial by Jury, Judge. Albert S. Doles.—Aytoun a novel, Chaps. IV. and V.-My Icicle, a Study, Kate Hillard.-Into the New World, a Poem, Millie W. Carpenter.-Country Life in Virginia Now-a-Days, Richard B. Elder.-Our Monthly Gossip: An Amish Meeting; The Public Baby, etc.-Literature of the Day. Good Health-Feb.-Adulterations.-The Conservation of Physical Force, II.-Dreams, Fragment.-Means of Preserving Health, XV.-The Orange. Are Men to Fly?-The New Northwest, II.-Food Supplies from the Animal Kingdom. Sanitary Reform-Salt.-Consumption: Tuberculosis Concluded.-Editorial: How to Get Well. Small Pox.-Trichina.-Miscellany: Are the American Women Deteriorating? Blackwood's Magazine Jan.-The Ward of Sker, Part VI.--French Home Life, No. III., Furniture. -The Two Mrs. Scudamores, Conclusion. The Nine-Hours' Movement.-The Desolation of Jerusalem-Chersiphron.-The Haunted Enghenio. A Sailor's Narrative of the Last Voyage of H. M. S. Megæra, etc. Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine Feb.--Radiant Heat Transmitted by Flames (Illus.) -An Unwritten Chapter of the Metallurgy of Iron. The Weight of Rails-Absorption of Moisture by Brick and Stone.-The Tehuantepec Railroad and Ship Canal. The Porosity of Cast Iron.-Mill for Mixing Concrete (Illust.).-Water Meters as in Use by Water Companies (Illust.)-Theory of the Atmospheric Engine (Illust.).-Results of the Gauge Controversy.-A Classification of Steel, Locomotive Working Expenditure.—The Tin Trade. -What should a Road Locomotive Weigh? etc. THE STATIONERY AND FANCY TRADES. THE STATIONERS' HAND-BOOK and Guide to the Paper Trade, a most useful companion in all branches of the trade, being a complete practical guide to its details, has reached its fifth edition. Published by Groombridge & Sons, London, at 3s. 6d. OLMSTED'S IMPROVED LETTER SCALES are constructed of a glass tube about four inches long, fit. ted into a stand of cast iron; on the top of the tube is a brass cap, to which is attached a delicate spiral brass spring which works inside. A small wire rod passes through the centre of the cap and through the spring, the lower end being fastened to an indicator at the bottom of the spring, and a small circular platform to receive the letter fitted to the upper end. The scale showing the number of stamps required is marked on the outside of tube at the lower end. The improvement claimed is for the glass tube through which the indicator can be seen, removing the necessity for a slot through which to connect the indicator outside with the spring within; thereby decreasing the friction, and making a more delicate balance. There is, also, a screw attached to the spring to raise the indicator to the starting point, in case it should settle through frequent use. Sold by L. H. Olmsted, No. 1 Chambers street. Patent applied for. BAADE'S PATENT READING CASE is a shallow box or rack in which fit a set of primary cards. At the top of each card are pictures illustrating the sentences below. These sentences are shown or formed by exhibiting one word in each column at a time by means of movable slides on the front, resulting in several hundred combinations. Manufactured by A. S. Barnes & Co., N. Y. Price, $10. CHATELAINES.-The newest fashion in jewelry for the ladies are the chatelaines, which are just beginning to be worn here. They are of various kinds, sizes, and materials, from gold. gold and Some spe enamel, set with gems, silver, gilt, and oxydized, down to the simple little hook of gilt-metal by which the umbrella or shopping bag is suspended from the belt, leaving the hands free. The richer ones of gold, etc., are used to hold the watch. Some of them, of various colored gold, in the Louis XVI. style, with the watch-case to match, are very beautiful, and some are real works of art. In silver there are many quaint and curious as well as beautiful designs. cimens of Norwegian design are very beautiful, and possess a novelty not found in the French. As the chatelaines are always worn from the belt, the fashion has created some very rich and complete belts, made of Russian leather, with attached the various little nicknacks which ladies silver-mountings and chains pendent, to which are find so necessary in housekeeping, shopping, or needle-case, thimble-case, shopping-bag, dramtravelling-as, for example, memorandum-books, flask, small mirror, scissors, etc. Some very beautiful chatelaines are made of gold or silver, to hold a fan, the top being made in a monogram of the lady's initials, from which is suspended a short chain and a spring ring to hold the fan. To be complete the fan should have the same monogram on the outside stick. All of the finest imported umbrellas are now made with a band around the handle and a ring attached, so that they may be worn with the chatelaine. POPULAR CHARACTERS FROM DICKENS, the new game just published by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass., is based on the principal characters selected from six of Dickens' most popular works. The method of the game is very simple, but is rendered intensely interesting by the introduction of some novel feature never before embodied in any game. Many of the cards are printed in oil colors, and all the character cards are illustrated with engravings on stone, after designs by the best artists. Altogether it is one of the choicest games published, and destined to be exceedingly popular with all lovers of Dickens. Price, 60 cents. VALENTINES.-New varieties have been brought McLoughlin Bros., N. Y. A full assortment of out this season by Fisher & Denison and all novelties in this line is supplied by the Ameri can News Co. SWARTWOUT'S PATENT METALLIC PAPER FASTENER AND BINDER, designed for fastening papers of all kinds, temporarily or permanently, as may be desired, consists of two thin plates, of equal size, one of which is furnished with long, projecting teeth, fitting exactly into corresponding holes in the other. By a simple process the ends of the teeth are turned up, and the two plates, with whatever is placed between them, are firmly clinched together. We have tried it and found the advan tages which the manufacturers claim for it, viz. : It binds the papers firmly and securely, without fear of their coming apart or tearing out, as is the case with eyelets, ribbon, etc.; gives additional strength and support to the papers; it is easily applied, and as easily removed, without injury to the papers; will bind from one to two hundred pages, and, by the aid of the binding strips, one thousand; ribbon and seal can be used with all the sizes, when required; the No. 1 size is, however, especially adapted for it; it presents a neat and ornamental appearance, and is so compact as not to interfere Manufacturing Co., 42 Cedar street, N. Y.). with the smooth folding of the papers. (Swartwout CRIBBAGE.-The Scovill Manufacturing Co., 36 Park Row, have produced a cribbage board fully equal in elegance of design to the best English workmanship. An inlaid black walnut cribbage board is enclosed in a tasteful case of the composition so largely used by this company for albums and watch cases. It closes with a good spring and opens in book form on strong hinges. The lower part of the case, which is lined with rich velvet and divided in the centre by a metal band, forms two compartments for the reception of cards. The pegs are of neat shape and made of highly polished metal. The exterior is very tastefully ornamented with scrollwork and pressed centre medallions, the upper one representing the four aces, exceedingly well designed. Its portable shape is convenient for the traveller, while its elegant appearance makes it an ornament for the parlor table. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. THE following table shows the imports of books, stationery, and fancy goods at the port of New York for the week ending February 2, 1872, and since the first of the year: Bronzes, pkg, Week end'g Since Jan. 1, Tacks, boxes, 1872. 77 985 Feb. 2. 16 Books, cases, 146 598 Confectionery, pkg, Clocks 67 228 35 303 72 1,892 6,031 NEW YORK CITY.-Geo. H. Sanborn & Co., manufacturers of bookbinders' machinery, have been succeeded by the Mystic River Hardware Manufacturing Co. of Mystic River, Conn. Mr. Geo, H. Sanborn is the principal stockholder in the new company, and will have general charge of its management. PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Perkinpine & Higgins, publishers and booksellers, have removed from their old stand, 56 North Fourth street, to the large and beautiful store, 830 Arch street. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.-The "Collins Paper Co." has just been formed in this city with a capital of $200,000, all of which has been subscribed. The company has purchased the fine mill-privilege on the Chicopee river, near Collins' Depot (Wilbraham). WELLSBORO, PA.-Hugh Young & Co., dealers in books, stationery, wall-paper, etc., have been succeeded by E. B. Young & Co., Mr. Wm. Green, of the late firm, transferring his interest to Mr. Ezra B. Young. COOPER'S WORKS.-The price of Appletons' new edition, advertised in a previous number at 50 cents per vol., has been changed to 75 cents per vol. |