required by the laws of the United States relative to copyright, the author, and the heirs, assigns, or other legal representatives of the author, shall be entitled to the full benefit of copyright, as herein provided, and to all the remedies provided by the laws of the United States to prevent or to punish violations of copyright. Provided, That when a book or other work first published in a foreign country shall be issued in volumes, or in parts in any manner, at successive periods of time, the several volumes or parts shall be regarded as separate works, so far as relates to the provisions of this section and to all other provisions of this act. SEC. 5. That immediately after the passage of this act the President of the United States shall transmit copies of it to the Governments of Great Britain, France, Germany, and of the other countries of Europe, and to the Governments of other countries with which the United States may have regular diplomatic intercourse; and he shall take measures to conclude arrangements for the establishment of international copyright between those countries or any of them and the United States, in accordance with the provisions of this act. And when such arrangements shall have been concluded with any foreign country and approved by the Senate, the President shall make public proclamation of the same to the people of the United States; whereupon the authors and artists of the country with which such arrangements shall have been concluded, or their legal representatives, shall be immediately entitled to the privileges and benefits of this act. Books Published in England in 1871. From the London "Publishers' Circular," Dec. 30, 1871. The Publishers' Circular has recorded during 1871 the full transcript of the title-pages, with size, price, publishers' names, and number of pages, of 5.317 books. This gross number includes 160 of mere re-entries for changes of price, and 320 imported new American works, leaving a total of new books and new editions published in Great Britain from January 1 to December 31, 1871, of 4.835, in the following proportions of 3,547 new books and 1,288 new editions. An examination of the corresponding table in our issue for December 31, 1870, in connection with the present, will demonstrate a few notable features. The number of American importations has sensibly diminished, last year's supply being 426, against 322 for this year. We have no explanation to give of this, it not being our intention, in the present article, to state anything but facts-theories are reserved for a future writing. The number of new novels has decreased from 200 in 1870 to 155 in 1871, but the number of new editions of novels has increased from four-fifths of the number of new novels in 1870 to 5 beyond what they amount to in 1871. The increase in Educational Works is well marked, the new books being 479 in 1871, against 406 in 1870. The proportion of new editions is about the same. There is a marked increase in new editions of works on Political Economy, the number being 45, or nearly one-half of the new books on that subject in 1871, against 26, or one-third, in 1870. There is a decrease in the number of new books on Travel and Research. Last year's record showed 245-this year's shows only 144; but the number of new editions in this division is larger than in 1870, thereby raising the average to about one-half of the new books. There is a decrease in the division of History and Biography, in both new books and new editions. The division of Poetry records 176 new books in 1871, against 212 in 1870, but there is no falling off in the number of new editions. Among Miscellaneous we have included all the pamphlets and brochures connected with the Tichborne Case (20), Dame Europa's School (about 35), Battle of Dorking (30). These tend to aug. ment the gross number of new works in this division. We are disposed to state the opinion that there have been published during 1871 fewer poor books, and more good and valuable books, than has been the case in previous years. We shall be able to test our opinion in this respect by the number of new editions in 1872. Certainly we have had in almost every branch of literature additions of rare value; and authors and publishers alike have reason to congratulate themselves upon a condition of affairs, both moral and political, which has made it possible for English literature to place many means of social and intellectual progress before the world at the close of 1871 that the world did not possess at the close of 1870. We do not say this in any spirit of boasting or confidence, but with a most devout and thankful recognition of the source of all wisdom and intelligence. We proceed to mention some of the most important books of the year. In ARTS, SCIENCE, and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: Proctor's The Sun, etc.; Wood's Strange Dwellings; Darwin's Descent of Man (second installment); Bolton's Telegraph Code Dictionary; Clark's Electric Formula; Tyndall's Fragments of Science; De Morgan's The Book of Almanacs; Rollwyn's Astronomy of Spectrum Analysis Crowe and Cavalcaselles Painting in North Italy; Davies's Saturn's Rings; Proctor's Light Science for Leisure Hours; Armour's Power in Motion; Wood's Insects at Home; Williams's Comets; Wooster's Alpine Plants; Thudickum and Dupré on Wine. In BELLES LETTRES, ESSAYS, etc.: Wood's Changes in the English Language (Le Bas Prize 1870); Arthur Helps's Conversations on War, etc.; Taine on Intelligence (translated from French); Lowell's My Study Windows (American reprint); The Coming Race; Kavanagh's Origin of Language; Freeman's Historical Essays; Mackay's Under Blue Sky; Rosetti's Shadow of Dante; Taine's English Literature, Vol. I (translated from French); Blackie's Four Phases of Morals; Guizot's Christianity Reviewed; Hawthorne's French and Italian Note-Books; Robert Dale Owen's The Debatable Land (American reprint); Edkins's China's Place in Philology. In EDUCATIONAL and CLASSICAL: Translation of Plutarch's Morals (American); Church and Brodripp's Letters of Pliny; Canon Wordsworth's A new Greek Primer; Conington's Virgil, volume third; Professor Jowett's Plato; Seeley's Livy, Book I.; Nikal's History of France; Sargent's Materials for Greek and Latin Prose Composition; Rossiter's Elementary Handbook of Physics; Nicholson's Text Book of Zoology; Pope's Text Book of Indian History; Hiley's Mensuration; Wilkins's Classical Geography; Beeton's Classical Dictionary; Tate's Rudimentary Geology; Earle's Philology of English Tongue; Guizot's France (translated from the French); Williams's Euripides. In HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY: Ihne's History of Rome; Dixon's Her Majesty's Tower, Vols. 3 and 4; Hugh Miller's Life and Letters; Autobiography of Lord Brougham, 3 volumes; Earle's English Premiers; Mrs. Hall's Royal Princesses; The third volume of Allibone's Dictionary (American); Helps's Life of Cortez ; Thomas's Kings of Delhi; Memoir of Maclise; Masson's Milton, Vol.. 2; Phillips's Dictionary of Biography; Life of Young the Tragedian; Bewick's Life; Rogers's Century | Exploration; Kingsley's At Last (West Indies); of Scottish Life; Senior's Journals; Chambers's Tyndall's Hours in Alps; Campbell's How to See Life of Scott; Fitzgerald's The Kembles; Grant's Norway; Bowring's Eastern Experiences; HarThe Newspaper Press; Rev. W. Harness's Auto- court's Himmalayan Districts of Kooloo; Brown's biography; Memoirs of Chief Justice Lefroy; Coal Fields of Cape Breton; Ogier's The FortuForster's Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I. nate Isles; Shaw's High Tartary; Murray's HandBook of Asia. In LAW: Ortolan's History of the Roman Law; Campbell's Law of Negligence; May on Conveyances; Letters on International Relations (reprinted from the Times); Goddard on Law of Easements; Lee on Bankruptcy; Elphinstone on Conveyancing; Weightman's Law of Marriage; Glenn's Manual of Medical Law; Seaboard on Vendors, and the first volume of Sleigh's Criminal Law. In MEDICINE and SURGERY: Allen's Aural Catarrh; Tanner's Practical Midwifery; Oldham's What is Malaria; Richardson on Diabetes; Crooke's Chemical Analysis; Dillnberger's Women's and Children's Diseases; Milne on Midwifery; Spence on Surgery, Vols. 3 and 4; Meyhoffer on Respiration, Vol. 1; Mackenzie on Growth in Larynx; Sansom's Antiseptic System; Simpson's Obstetrics, Vol. 1; Reynolds's System of Medicine, Vol. 3; Green's Pathology; Williams's Pulmonary Consumption; Anstie's Neuralgia; Huxley's Manual of Anatomy; Reynolds's Clinical Electricity. Arts, Science, and finely Illustrated Works b....... 80 In POETRY and DRAMA: Swinburne's Songs Translation of Faust (American); Mortimer Col- Poetry and the Drama.......... c........ 36-319 C....... 27-233 Year-books and bound volumes of Serials......... 11 In POLITICAL ECONOMY: Virginia Penny's How Women Can Make Money (American reprint); Maine's Village Communities; Macdonall's Politi- Medicine and Surgery... cal Economy; Jevon's Political Economy; Fletcher's Model Houses for the Industrial Classes; Wheeler's Choice of a Dwelling. In THEOLOGY, etc.: We have had some invalu.able contributions to Biblical Exegesis; Lightfoot on a fresh revision of the New Testament; the first volume (the Pentateuch) of the Speaker's Commentary; Lange's Commentary on Jeremiah, translated; M'Caul's Epistle to the Hebrews; Gardiner's Harmony of the Four Gospels; Boutell's Bible Dictionary; Neale's and Littledale's Commentary on the Psalms, Vol. 3; Girdlestone's Synonyms of the Old Testament; and the 6th volume of Bishop Wordsworth's Bible. Beecher's Life of Christ, Vol. 1, is reprinted from America, and is a valuable contribution to religious literature the first volume of Mercier's Life of Christ; Higginson's Ecce Messias; and Casper's Footsteps of Christ are devoted to Messianic Biography. Pocock's Records of the Reformation, reprinted from records in the British Museum; Jacob's Ecclesias. tical Polity of the New Testament; Dorner's History of Protestant Theology; Bannerman's Essays on Church Unity-are among the numerous works on Church Polity. The first volume of Professor Hodge's Systematic Theology is reprinted from America, and is a most valuable addition to religious metaphysical literature. In TRAVEL and GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: Hare's Walks in Rome; Tollemache's Spanish Towns and Pictures; Leslie Stephens's Playground of Europe; Buchanan's Land of Lorne ; Oxenden's First Year in Canada; Russell's Pau and Pyrenees; Raymond's Mines of the Rocky Mountains; Herbert Barry's Russia in 1870; Stanley's New Sea and Old Land; Elliott's Mysore; Guinnard's Patagonians; Mrs. Harvey's Turkish Harems; Macleod's Peeps at Far East: Huyshe's Red River Belles-lettres, Essays, Monograms, etc... Miscellaneous, including Pamphlets, not Sermons.. Total C....... 15-385 SUMMARY FOR EACH MONTH. 20 2-309 ....5,157 New January.. 48 February By presentation.. By exchange... By transfer from the Patent Office (copyright books).. 8851 5640 Books. Pamphlets. 1186 2924 366 480 65 •23,070 340 9,075 The following is a statement of the books, pamphlets, etc., received during the year, through the operation of the copyright law : Books...... 5599 .......... 3401 5085 Prints, engravings, and chromos..... Total number of articles........ 70 769 4571 331 .19,826 terests of Russia will not be furthered by an international copyright law. A MEETING OF NEW YORK PUBLISHERS was held at the Trade Salesrooms, Tuesday afternoon, for informal discussion of the question of international copyright and the appointment of a representative committee. The Library Committee of Congress (Mr. Morrill, chairman) is to hold a meeting for the hearing of all parties interested in the copyright question, Monday, Jan. 29. FROM BOSTON. BOSTON, Jan. 22, 1872. DURING the natural reaction following the business flurry and excitement of the holidays, our sea of literature is disturbed by scarcely a ripple. There is a general gathering up of results, a survey of the field, an examination of unused material, all in the main satisfactory, with the exceptions that always attend human endeavors. There are disappointed authors who will vary Solomon's injunction so that it shall read, "Put not your trust in publishers," and these latter have their own version, "Put not your trust in authors." As a whole, the technical holiday, trade, covering the sales for and at the season, has been satisfactory, perhaps as much so as for the two or three preceding years. New books have taken the preference, and many of them have been quite successful. "Old stock" is rather more abundant than is pleasant to the contemplation, and those who did not lay in largely, as a general rule, did wisely. There is a marked change in the dispositions and tastes, or perhaps more correctly in the purses, of retail buyers. Selections are made more cautiously, and to one acquainted with the average intelligence and culture of this community, it is gratifying to see the steady growth of a proINTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.-Mr. Henry C. per appreciation of books. Criticism is more Carey has issued another pamphlet on this ques- rational, and of a higher standard, and authors, tion. The substance of his argument is that the and opinions, and composition and engravpublishers would be the great gainers by the pro- ings in their design and execution, are disposed treaty, which would have the effect of giving cussed in a manner that shows an increase of them the monopoly of such books as were repub-culture in literary and artistic directions. A lished here, and that the prices of books would become as high as in England, and virtually deprive thousands of readers of the literature they may now obtain so cheaply. "It will be perceived that the largest item of increase is from the removal of copyright books from the Patent Office to this Library, provided for by act of July 8, 1870. These accessions, although consisting largely of school-books and the minor literature of the last forty years, embrace many valuable additions to the store of American books, which it should be one object of a national library to render complete. Among them are the earliest the number of duplicates of books already in the library, although large, bears a much smaller proportion to the whole number received than was apprehended. Most of the volumes received from this source are already catalogued." editions of the works of well-known writers, and INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT IN GERMANY.— The report of the committee appointed by the Directors of the Booksellers' Börsenverein to discuss the terms of a treaty between the German Empire and foreign countries, for the protection of the rights of authors and the copyright on books, prints, musical and dramatic compositions and works of art, has now appeared in print. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT IN RUSSIA. The Moscow Gazette in an article on international treaties for the protection of literary property gives the official statistics of the import and export of books during the last five years. In 1866, books, maps, and music were exported to the value of 104,097 rubies; imports amounted to 465,153 rubles; 1867, exports, 168,813 rubles, imports, 464,765 rubles; 1868, exports, 128,649, imports, 1,103,380 rubles; 1869, exports, 106,462, imports, 990,400 rubles; 1870, exports, 83,714, imports, 1,153,082 rubles. The Moscow Gazette, from its point of wiew, based on these figures, concludes that the in casual observer might not notice this progressive change for the better, but to one conversant with our market in its details it is very apparent. As a a consequence, our publishers and sellers are more careful than in former years, and aim at a higher grade in their own publications and in their miscellaneous stock. This in general. But off in the horizon are clouds not exactly like Elijah's, "the size of a man's hand," but the size of a book. I do not purpose in this initiatory letter to worry the reader with petty details, but rather to scan in a comprehensive way the field as it now appears. One of the most important works in a scientific point of view, now in progress, is George L. Vose's "Manual for Railroad Engineers." Mr. Vose's original treatise has been for many years out of print, and stray copies bring high prices. This edition is in fact a new work, rewritten, enlarged, and carefully thorough. As nothing has yet gone into print relative to its scope, it may be well to make a few specifications. It will contain all new novel is promised with the title "Can the Old love?" It is by Zadel Barnes Buddington, whoever it may be; the author inclines to Plato rather than Swinburne! Another novel with good promise is Grif," by B. L. Farjeon, whose "Joshua Marvel" has been so popular; this is an Australian story. Vol. I. of Senator Wilson's "Rise and Progress of the Slave Power in the United States," bringing the narrative down to 1862; "Gaudeamus," a book of humorous poems translated from the German of Scheffel and others by Charles G. Leland; "Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books of Hawthorne." The new edition of Ticknor's "History of Spanish Literature" may possibly appear in February, but probably not till March. 66 necessary rules and tables needed for the location, construction and equipment of railroads as built in the United States, with an examination of the principles to be followed in the management of the traffic, illustrated by actual results obtained on some of our important roads. Mr. Vose purposes to give all information required by the railroad engineer: (1.) In making the preliminary examination of the routes, in comparing the merits of different trial-surveys, in finally locating the line and adjusting the grades and curves, staking out the various works, estimating the quantities of material and preparing the specifications for carrying on the operations, the whole illustrated by actual examples of existing railroads. (2.) In the various operations of laying out and constructing tunnels, with numerous illus- Blessings brighten as they take their trations, both European and American, show-flight," and this has been signally verified in ing the precise dimensions and the cost of the case of the purchase by President White, executing such works. (3.) In the construc- of Cornell University, of the very valuable tion of bridges, whether of wood, iron, or library or the late President Sparks, of Harboth combined, illustrated by specifications vard University. This library of about 6,000 and working details of the best bridges of all volumes was remarkably rich in American kinds, including nearly all which cross the history, and very many of its volumes were Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers. (4.) rare, and in some instances not to be dupliIn masonry, retaining walls, culverts, arches, cated. Our Bostonians and our literati of mortars, cements and foundations. (5.) In Cambridge have long known those facts, and the superstructure, ballast, sleepers, rails, now every one is astonished that the collecjoints, frogs, switches, material per mile, etc. tion was not long ago secured for Harvard. (6.) In the equipment, use of locomotives, ex- When the sale of the library was announced, amples in various countries, grades, curves, book-buyers took the admirable catalogue, patterns of engines and cars, relations of pow- and carefully marked the volumes they should er to traffic, etc. (7.) Railroad management. try to purchase, all in a leisurely way. It The book will be a large royal octavo, with never occurred to any one to buy it as a whole, some hundreds of illustrative cuts, and thirty although Harvard or Amherst, or Williams elaborate drawings, each between two and College, should have been wide awake to gain three feet in length, to fold with the volume. the prize. But President White quietly came This publication may be looked for in March, on, and before we dreamed of what he was and it will take its proper place as the stan- about he purchased the whole collection, and dard work on railway construction. (Lee & will add it to the already excellent library of Shepard, Publishers.) his pet institution. The price paid was $12,ooo, by no means exorbitant considering the character of the books. Mrs. Sparks says in her preface to the catalogue: Lee & Shepard have several books in press, of which I will not say much to-day. Among them are "The American Girl Abroad," by Adeline Tafton, a lively, chatty book; "The Twilight of Faith," a religious story in which the twilight broadens into perfect day; a series of Latin and a series of Greek text-books intended to comprise a graded selection from different authors sufficient for a thorough "course," beginning with its simplest forms of composition, and arranged for use in academies and preparatory schools. As Mr. Gardner, principal of the Boston Latin School, stands sponsor for this enterprise, the public will have great confidence in its intrinsic excellence. are also many not always easily fourd, which correspond to "The library possesses quaint and unique volumes. There Mr. Sparks' expressed intention to own every book he might wish to use.' For its historic manuscripts it has long been known. These papers were collected with intuitive skill and increasing ability during various tours undertaken since 1819 for the purpose: first, in the thirteen original States; often elsewhere in his own enlarged country; three times in prolonged visits to Europe; by means also of his extensive correspondence during the years 1819-1866. These letters are arranged in sixty large volumes with a daily index. The journals of the tours point out the deposits of many unknown treasures; sketching scenes, characters and incidents; thus preserving information and reproducing reminiscences of a period far more remote." Poor Sibley of Harvard! How will he mourn the irreparable loss to that library in Gore Hall which seems to be his deity! let no one mention the sale of it to him, unless they carry some rare volume with which to placate his grief and adorn his shelves. And let this mournful episode close this letter, and may its successor be rosy with promise and fulfilment. per J. R. Osgood & Co. keep the public well informed of their doings, but a few items will perhaps be new. A uniform edition of Mrs. Howell's books will be published in March; as also Vol. II. of Bryant's "Odyssey," and a new volume of poems by John G. Saxe; "Yesterdays with Authors;" by James T. Fields, will be out in a fortnight and will contain haps a fourth more matter than appeared in the "Atlantic;" "H. H.," who insists on being "H. H." to the public, and nothing more, will have her "Bits of Travel" ready soon. A B. JOAQUIN MILLER, it seems, met with little favor in his own country, or State. He is now in Mexico, and his wife has taken to the rostrum. LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP. Far OSGOOD'S LIBRARY OF NOVELS.-It is coming to pass that each publishing house shall have its library of novels under one title or another, Osgood's is one of the latest, and to this several new numbers will be added at early dates. jeon's "Grif" will be put on the list for one. Another, which is fresh and American, is "Can the Old love?" by Mrs. Buddington, whose delightful contributions on Dickens and other writers, in Harper's Magazine, have made her quite famous. Its dedication is to those who know themselves to be travelling down the hill of life," to whom "it may be a consolation to remember that old hearts need not be cold ones." Mr. De Forest's "Kate Beaumont "will come next, and thereafter "A Crown from the Spear," by the author of "Woven of Many Threads," and another novel by Mrs. Katharine Sedgwick Valerio, author of "Ina," both of which books were favorably received last year. 46 THE NEW HYMNAL OF THE EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH will probably be ready the latter part of the week. Eight publishers are to print it from the plates prepared by order of the late Convention, and the competition will be close. Editions with music are to be issued by E. P. Dutton & Co., Pott, Young & Co., M. H. Mallory & Co., and possibly others of the eight. There has been great delay in delivering the plates to the several pubdishers, and great indignation is felt through the trade, and, we hear, among the clergymen also, the delay being attributed to the desire of the clerk of the Convention Committee, who has had practically the whole affair in his hands, to get out the musical edition which he has been preparing in advance of the regular trade. ARTEMUS WARD is to be sketched characteristically by "Eli Perkins," of the Commercial Adver. tiser (Mr. M. D. Landon), and G. W. Carleton & Co. are to publish the biography. A BOOK ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN is in preparation by Mr. J. H. Treadwell, 593 Broadway, and he desires to hear from any one having notable specimens worthy of description or iliustration therein. "AMERICAN MARBLES" are to be treated of in a book by Mrs. F. G. Fairfield, which may be expected in the Spring. PROF. CHADBOURNE'S (of Williams College) Lowell lectures on "Instinct," which have both a popular and a scientific value, are to be published by the Putnams next month. They are also preparing a fresh edition of De Vere's" Leaves from the Book of Nature." ELISEE RECLUS.-The case of Elisée Reclus, author of "The Earth," condemned by the French Government for Communism, has excited universal sympathy for him. The leading scientists of Eng land have united in a petition for his release, and one has also been sent from here to Minister Washburne, which Gen. Dix, William Cullen Bryant, Judge Daly, Parke Godwin and Bayard Taylor signed. REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, son of Jacob, of happy fame, whose capital "Laicus" letters in the Christian Union attracted universal attention, has written some like clever papers on parish questions, which Dodd & Mead will publish by and by. THE OLD "GESTA ROMANORUM," or entertaining moral tales preached by the Middle Ages monks, are to be reprinted in a limited edition issued by Mr. J. W. Bouton, in Rev. Charles Swan's translation from the original Latin. They are both of great interest and of antiquarian value, and an introduction, prepared expressly for this edition cially valuable. by Mr. Thos. Wright, F. S. A., will make it espeThe price will be, for the two volumes: $5 for small, $10 for large paper copies; five are to be printed on drawing paper, at $25 each. HISTORY OF NEW YORK.-A very entertaining work may be expected in a "History of New York City from the Discovery to the Present Day," by which Virtue & Yorston are to publish. Parts of Col. Wm. L. Stone, editor of the College Review, it have already been given to the public through It is a most inthe columns of the Evening Post. teresting subject, and a glance at the proof-sheets assures us that it is most interestingly treated. MR. GEO. P. PUTNAM, the veteran publisher, and one of the most active of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Art Museum, has consented to accept the position of Managing Trustee or Honorary Superintendent of that Institution for the first year. He will devote considerable time to its organization-of course without withdrawing from the business with which he has so long been identified. MR. HORACE E. SCUDDER, one of the new partners in Hurd & Houghton, H. O. Houghton & Co., is at once one of the most scholarly and enterprising men in the trade. His "Dream Children,' and like delightful juveniles, have made him quite famous as a writer, and it is to him that the uniform edition of Andersen's writings, which is not approached by any English one, is largely due. He corresponded directly with Andersen, and, indeed, studied Danish for the express purpose of succeeding in that difficult undertaking; and the dear Danish story-teller expressed his delight that his American editor was one whose own stories proved him to be so thoroughly in sympathy with him. It is to Mr. Scudder's graceful pen, also, that the clever editorial writing and paragraphing in the Riverside Bulletin, which have made t best of its kind, are to be credited. HALF-HOUR RECREATIONS IN POPULAR SCIENCE is the name of a serial to be issued monthly by Lee & Shepard, and to be made up of familiar lectures, essays, and other papers on scientific matters, modern discoveries, natural phenomena, social statics, etc. The editor will admit no article too abstruse or too technical to be comprehended publishers are such that they can safely promise a by the general reader; and the arrangements of the been attempted. popularization of science such as has not hitherto for 1872 THE EDUCATIONAL YEAR-BOOK (Barnes) contains a Digest of School Laws; Syslic Schools; Educational Societies and Associa tems of Public Instruction; the Operations of Pubtions; Institutes and Examinations; Theory and Practice in the Class-room; Notes on Private Schools; Practical Forms; Memoranda of Edu cational Matters in Foreign Countries; General Advancement; Notes of late Scientific Discoveries; Curious Items of Value; Anecdotes; Rates of Postage and Stamp Duties; Time and Distance Tables; etc., etc. THE COMMITTEE of REVISION.-Dr. Schaff has been charged with the duty of organizing the American committee which is to cooperate with the British committee in the revision of the Bible, and has announced by a circular the names of a number of American divines of different evangelical Protestant churches who have been invited to engage in the work. Both the American and British committees will mutually submit portions of their work to each other for review and criticism as fast as they complete it; and a joint meeting of both |