D. D., rector, and S. B. Whitely, organist, of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn), besides a tune-book, to accompany the Hymnal, by Pott, Young & Co. A Broadway firm prides itself on being "peculiar." "We do not publish an edition of the Hymnal!"

A NEW Philadelphia Bible and Album publishing house, A. J. Holman & Co., consists of Messrs. A. J. Holman, George S. Lane, and J. Parker Martni, all of them lately of Mr. W. W. Harding's establishment, the first-named having been manager for that house for thirty-five years. They have a new establishment, with the most improved appliances for manufacture, at 930 Arch street, and have prepared four new sets of stereotyped plates, from which they have just issued four new and fine Bibles, in handsome and readable type, and with illustrations after Doré and others. There are a "Crown Quarto Bible" and a "Marginal Reference Bible," in pica type, and a "Text Bible," and an "English Marginal Reference Bible," in large pica type. The old house of W. W. Harding is sparing no effort not to be outdone by its new rivals. THE American Bible Union (Baptist) has found it wise to put the publication of the latest portion of Dr. Thos. J. Conant's revision of the Scriptures into the hands of a regular publishing house, and consequently his new version of "Proverbs" will be published by Sheldon & Co. This great Biblical scholar considers this the great work of his life; indeed it has absorbed ten years of it, and he finds in the close study to which he has subjected it a wealth of meaning of which previous translators seem to have known nothing. The work has been an undertaking of such dimension that $50,000 was spent before the plates were delivered into the publishers' hands. The work will be issued in two editions—a scholar's, and a popular in small quarto. The first will have the original text, the authorized version and the new translation in parallel columns; the second will have explanatory notes.

"ELI PERKINS" (Mr. Melville D. Landon) capital letters from Saratoga to the Commercial

Advertiser last season attracted much attention for their sharp, bright wit and effective satire. They will form the basis of a book, which will be adorned by the artist Arthur Lumley with several hundred clever cuts, to be printed in with the text by one of the new processes, under the title of Saratoga in 1901." Sheldon & Co. will publish the book, which may be expected to make a hit.

MR. J. B. DUTRON, representing the great Paris house of F. Didot et Cie., is now in New York with specimen copies of works published by his firm, and has already made negotiations with several New York houses. He is to be found and the publications of his house seen at 42 East 14th street, Union Square.

THE NEW HYMNAL of the Protestant Episcopal Church is having a large sale. Messrs. Pott, Young & Co., who were the first in the field with a cheap edition, have now in the binders' hands their eighteenth thousand, all printed from the standard plates. The first ten thousand of their 40-cent edition were all sold in advance of publication.

AN autograph hunter recently presented his album to Messrs. Guizot, Thiers, and de Bismarck. Mons. Guizot wrote: "In my long life I have learned two sage things: one is to pardon a great deal; the other is to forget nothing." Mons. Thiers wrote: 66 A little forgetfulness would not militate against the sincerity of the pardon." Prince von Bismarck wrote: "I have in my life learned to forget a great deal, and to win forgiveness for a great deal."

A COMPLETE concordance to the Constitution of the United States, so that any clause may at once be found if any word in it is remembered, has been prepared by a Dr. Stearns of Baltimore.

THERE is to be a new book by Charles Dudley Warner, our new American humorist, whose grain is more like Lamb than the coarser fun-makers who are at present the majority of our representatives in that department of literature. It is to be called simply "Saunterings," and will be published by James R. Osgood & Co. uniformly with H. H.'s "Bits of Travel," being indeed quite a model book in contents, it is said. It will include the delightful reminiscences of "Sorrento Days," with which he has charmed late readers of Old and New, and his letters and after-sketches of travel contributed to the Independent and the Hartford Courant, of which latter he is an editor. The thousands of admirers of his "Summer in a Garden," and of his Back-log Studies," in Scribner's-the latter, in especial, quaint, thoughtful humor, of which any humorist, living or dead, might be proud-will look forward with pleasure to the new book.

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SAYS the Watchman and Reflector: "In these days of great book sales and large discounts, who shall determine on a standard retail price? Those spasmodic and forced sales do very well for the time being, but make mischief with purchasers and prices far into the future."

THE EDUCATIONAL YEAR-BOOK for 1872 is a carefully compiled volume of statistics of the public schools of the United States, together with a vast amount of information in regard to the school system, its laws and practical value. There is also an able article on education in foreign countries, and a selection from Prof. Huxley, treating of the use of the Bible in schools. The work shows great patience and devotion to the subject. It is the first volume of the Year-Book; and, considering all the difficulties of obtaining the information required, the compiler may be complimented on his success. A. S. Barnes & Co. are the publishers.

THE BANKERS' MAGAZINE for March contains an elaborate list of the directors in the seventy-nine banks of the city of New York, embracing the wealthiest merchants and bankers of the city.

MACMILLAN & Co., of New York, will publish in and Merchant's Year Book for 1872." This is the a few days Mr. Frederick Martin's "Statesman's only work in the English language which furnishes a clear and concise account of the actual condition of all the civilized countries of the world. The present (the ninth annual) issue has been carefully revised and corrected on the basis of official reports received direct from the heads of the leading governments of the world, in reply to letters sent to them by the Editor-which valuable assistance has made it possible for him to collect an immense amount of information, political, statistical and commercial, of the latest date, and of unimpeachable trustworthiness.

THE Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in reference to the constitutionality of legal tender paper money, will be issued at the office of the Banker's Magazine, New York, in March, 1872, with the several opinions of Justices Strong and Bradley in favor of such paper; and of Justices Chase, Clifford, and Field in dissent. As this decision is final, it is one of the most important law cases decided in the present century-involving larger amounts probably than any other case in this country.

THE Independent says that Ezra Abbot, LL. D., recently nominated Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Cambridge

Divinity School, is "the only man in the country whose erudition in that department deserves to be compared with that of Tregelles and Scrivener, in England, or Tischendorf, in Germany."

AN “Elementary Manual of Music,” by Mr. H. Leslie, intended to teach young pupils the elements of music in a plain practical form, and prepared also with a view of aiding clergymen and others in training choirs, will shortly be issued by Messrs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Mr. Allison, the pianist, has also a similar work for the training of young

pianists.

A VOLUME of Essays on Social and Political Subjects, by Prof. and Mrs. Fawcett, will be published shortly. The volume will contain an introduction to the course of lectures Prof. Fawcett is now delivering at Cambridge "On Modern Socialism, and the Economic Programme of the International."

IN the volume of "The History and Literature of the Israelites" (Longmans), the Misses de Rothschild present us with an abridged edition of the large work, in two volumes, which was published about a year ago, and to which we then called the attention of our readers in a notice of some length.

Evening Chimes. Hartig.....

The abridgment is ably made without any very great damage to the original work, and is most extensive in those parts which treated of the poetical and prophetical writings. As a general introduction to Jewish literature, written without prejudice or bias, the book possesses a considerable literary value.

CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN will shortly publish a work entitled "The Dog," by "Idstone," which will give notices of the best dogs of the day, and with portraits of famous dogs, drawn from life for this work by Mr. George Earl.

their breeders or exhibitors. It will be illustrated

THE prospectus has been issued of the Timber Trade Review, a weekly journal, to be published in London, and to be devoted to the timber and concomitant trades, which have been unrepresented in journalistic literature.

PAPER MILLS.-The useful Paper Mills Directory, just published in London, informs us that the number of English mills in working order in 1871 is fewer by three than in 1869. Two new mills only have been established during the past year. In Scotland there is an increase of three mills during the past three years.

Mother Goose; or, Nursery Rhymes and Songs, set to music
and illustrated. New ed. Paper boards. Price.....$1.50
WM. A. POND & CO., N. Y.
Vocal.

From Fleeting Pleasures. The Hymn of Brother Clement. 4 Voices. Alexander Ewing....

G. ANDRE & CO., Phila.

-35

Greeting to Spring. Jungmann..

.30

Salvia. Leybach..

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.50

Smitten. Words by Goethe. Henry J. Wiesel..........35

Instrumental.

Scherzo, Frederick Brandeis, op. 28...

"Sheltering Arms" Galop. W. M. Watt...

G. SCHIRMER, N. Y.

Piano Music.

.60

-35

.30

Good-Night, my Love. Abt. English words. D. C. Addi

No. 3. Valse.