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FROM PHILADELPHIA.

PHILA., May 10, 1872.-The book business is quiet here in all its branches. Very few new books are coming out, and booksellers report retail sales light though better than at the corresponding period last year. J. B. Lippincott & Co. have brought out one or two important works since I last wrote. One is "The Life of John J. Crittenden," written, or rather edited, by his daughter, Mrs. Chapman Coleman. Mrs. Coleman has confined her labors to penning the introductory chapters, and linking together with a slight thread of argument the let ters and speeches which form the body of the work. Her style is vivacious, and she relates an anecdote with great skill. One is tempted to wish that she had continued the story of her father's life in the same racy manner all the way through. It might not have been so valuable as the dry mass of documentary evidence with which she has filled her book, but it would have been infinitely more interesting to the general reader. Another valuable work from Lippincott's is "Injuries of Nerves and their Consequences," a treatise by Dr. S. Wier Mitchell. This work is important, not only because its author's high rank in his profession renders him an almost indisputable authority, but because his treatise is almost the only one-certainly the only important one-on this subject ever written. The same publishers have issued "The Science of Wealth,” a manual of political economy, by Hon. Amasa Walker, a work of considerable ability, but one which we Philadelphians think lightly of because it advocates the free-trade heresy. They have also published "Black Robes," by Robert P. Nevin, a well-written collection of historical sketches relative to early missionary work among the North American Indians; "The Parasite," a harmless comedy, from the French, and "The Life and Letters of Pliny," by Rev. Alfred Church, the last being vol. xi. of their "Ancient Classics for English Readers." Among the books announced by Lippincott as nearly ready are Eleonore," and "By His Own Might," two romances from the German; a "Class-room Drill on the English of Bunyan," by J. B. Grier, Professor in Lafayette College; the first part of a concordance to Shakespeare's poems, by Mrs. Horace Howard Furness; "Thrown Together," a novel, by Florence Montgomery, author of "Misunderstood;" and a new novel by "Ouida," title not yet announced.

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T. B. Peterson & Bros. have just published "Who shall be Victor ?" by Miss Eliza A. Dupuy," a sequel to "The Cancelled Will," noticed in my last. All of Peterson's late publications are going off well. "Mrs. Southworth's new book, "The Lost Heir of Linlithgow," has reached its sixth edition in eight weeks, and its sequel, "A Noble rd," published a month ago, has reached its

third edition. Vol. VII. of Peterson's new edition of Dumas, "The Memoirs of a Physician," will be ready next week. These publishers have added a new feature to their catalogue, by embellishing it with portraits of their most prominent authors, each accompanied by a brief sketch of the subject's life and writings. The latest additions to the gallery are Charles Lever, Henry Cockton, T. S. Arthur, and Charles G. Leland. Portraits of George Lippard and Gustave Aimard are in preparation.

Eugene Cummiskey has nearly ready "Going Home," a new Catholic novel of 436 pp., 12mo, by a lady who writes under the nom de plume of "Eliza Martin," price $2. "The Sunday-School Prayer and Hymn-Book" is just issued. It is a 32m0, 274 pp., and contains 36 illustrations of the Mass, price 40 cents to $3.

The School-book publishers are preparing for the fall campaign. E. H. Butler & Co. have ready a new pronouncing speller (16mo, 132 pp., 30 cents), in which Webster's system of marking is adopted, in conjunction with a modified form of these publishers' new method of combining words in pictures. Eldredge & Brother have some eight or ten educational works in preparation, and have ready Martindale's "First Lessons in Natural Philosophy" (16mo, 191 pp., 60 cents), a very simple and attractive text-book for beginners, judiciously illustrated.

Henry Carey Baird, who makes industrial publications a specialty, has issued in cloth a work which he published a few weeks ago in paper. It is by Sir John Barnard Byles, a well-known English law-writer, and is called Sophisms of Free Trade." It is a powerfully written investigation into the merits and demerits of the Free Trade doctrine, and will serve as an offset to Hon. Amasa Walker's book above-mentioned. It is published for the Industrial League, and distributed gratuitously. Mr. Baird has also published a neat little treatise on railway curves, by E. W. Beans, C. E. Mr. Baird recommends it as a very good thing. I never did know much about railway curves myself. It is a 16m0 of 56 pp. in morocco, pocket-book form, and retails for $1.75, at which price it certainly ought to be good. Mr. Baird has in pre-s, for speedy publication, "The Theory and Practice of the Art of Designing Fancy Cotton and Woolen Cloths from Sample," by Frederick T. Ashton, designer, 4to, illustrated; also a treatise by A. A. Fesquet, of 450 pp. 8vo, on "Galvanoplastic Manipulations," which, for the benefit of those who do not understand big words, is defined to mean "Electrometallurgy;" also "Speeches on the American System," by Hon. Andrew Stewart (Svo, 400 pp.); also "The Galvanized Iron Cornice Worker's Manual, by Charles A. Vaile, 4to, illustrated; also "The School of Chemical Manures," by A. A. Fesquet; also (for the Industrial League) "A Dream of a Free Trade

Paradise, and Other Sketches," by Cyrus Elder, illustrated by H. L. Stephens.

Henry C. Lea has published "Smith on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood," a second and enlarged edition (8vo, 741 pp.) He has nearly ready Galloway's Qualitative Analysis," first American, from the fifth London edition (1 vol. 8vo); also Watson's "Principles and Practice of Physic," a new edition of a work which has been for twenty-five years a standard with the profession. It is in 2 vols. 8vo, with several hundred illustrations; also a fifth edition of Gross's "Surgery," the leading American work on this subject (2 vols. 8vo, 1,400 illustrations); also Roberts on "Urinary and Renal Diseases," second American from the second English edition (8vo, illustrated). John Campbell & Son have published a second edition of H. & C. Howson on The American Patent System" (8vo, $2). They will shortly publish vol. I of the "Legal Gazette Reports," an important series of law reports, edited by John H. Campbell, and two or three volumes of "Pittsburgh Reports," from the Pittsburgh Legal Journal.

Alfred Martien has in press "The Mantle of Elijah," a religious novel, by a new writer, which is expected to make a stir in the reading world. We shall know more about it when it comes out.

The Baptist Publication Society publish "Rome in America," by Dr. J. D. Fulton, a treatise on the Papal Question, which was brought out some months ago in Boston. The Society has purchased the plates, and will issue the book hereafter. They have in preparation, and will shortly issue, "Lectures on Missions," by Rev. Dr. Knowlton (12mo, 250 pp.)

Lindsay & Blakiston have recently issued a new and neat catalogue of their publications, à propos of the Medical Convention in session here this week. They have in preparation a reprint of the sixth edition of Aitkins's "Science and Practice of Medicine," a work which has met with great success both in this country and in England. It is edited, with numerous additions, by Meredith Clymer, M. D., of New York.

The subscription publishers generally are busy with the new works announced last month, nearly all of which are reported as doing well. The Franklin Publishing Company has just started a new religious work, entitled "The Landmarks of Truth," by D. M. Evans (large 12mo, 493 pp., $3 and $5, illustrated). This is a really valuable work. Its object, says the preface, "is to present, within a reasonable compass, a complete armor of defence against the assaults of modern scepticism and criticism in all their phases, and to give a clear and concise view of all the religious denominations of the world." To this end a multitude of the highest authorities have been consulted, and many dark passages of Scripture expounded according to the newest and best lights. The book has received the commendation of the leading religious minds of the country; the subjects are arranged in alphabetical order, a short essay being placed under each head, so that, at first sight, it looks like a Bible dictionary-an excellent plan, and one which obviates any necessily for an index.

The New World Publishing Company is about to issue "From the Flag to the Cross, or Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War," by A. S. Billingsley. I have not seen the work, but the table of contents looks good. It will be an 8vo of about 500 pages, thirty illustrations, price $3.50 to $5. The same company has just issued a handsome and very complete Bible. It contains some 1,250 4to pages, and includes, besides ths text, a history of the books of the Bible, an abridgment of Dr. William Smith's Bible Dictionary, an Index,

Psalms in Metre, Photograph Album, 450 illustrations, maps, etc. Price $8 to $14.

Speaking of Bibles, did you ever know who many big quarto "Family Bibles" our Philadelphia subscription publishers sell? Nearly every house has from one to a dozen Bibles as part of its regular stock, and some of them sell enormous quantities. W. W. Harding estimates his sales at an average of 2,000 a month. John E. Potter & Co. say their books show an average of 1,040 a month for the last year and a half. Who says we are not a religious people? I sought for an explanation of this vast Bible trade-to me astonishing, and the answer was ready: "Just see how many people are married every day, and they all want a family Bible when they go to housekeeping.' Then I saw the point.

This same house of John E. Potter & Co. was in its turn astonished the other day by a single order for ten thousand copies of T. S. Arthur's "Ten Nights in a Bar-room," a good indication that that lively old work is still far from the end of its career.

On dit that Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger are to have a mammoth house erected for them on Market street, below Seventh, south side. The Book Trade Association is quiescent. H. C. S.

FROM LONDON.

LONDON, April 25.-Among Messrs. Longman's announcements are Lord Hatherton's Memoir and Correspondence relating to Political Occurrences in June and July, 1834; Buckle's Posthumous Works, which has been so long announced, but which is now definitely promised to be published in the spring; A Colonist on the Colonial Question, by John Matthews of Toronto; Evans on the Ancient Stone Implements, etc., of Great Britain; Woodward's Historical and Chronological Cyclopædia; Thudichum's Chemical Physiology, etc., etc.

The copyright question has come to the front with us, but the main point of discussion appears to be how our Canadian brothers are to stand in the settlement of an international copyright. Mr. Thomas Longman, a member of the famous firm of Longman & Co., has issued a pamphlet dealing with the question as it concerns our colonies, in which he says that "the object both of the Canadian government and the United States is in the main one and the same. It is to obtain the labors of English authors at less than their market value." He appeals to writers to look after their interests and not to part with the control of their property. Our government has been memorialized on this Canadian part of the question, the memorial being signed by seven authors and seven publishers, and the matter is at present in the hands of the Board of Trade. It is a significant fact, however, that English authors seem careless about the matter, and the agitation is mostly confined to the publishing fraternity. Can this be accounted for by the fact that authors having property in their works are always fairly met by the American publishers? A paragraph in your issue of April 11, just received, speaks of a work by Mrs. George Cupples having been reprinted here under another title. It may not be generally known that this course is frequently adopted and American books introduced into the English market under other than their original titles. The object of this is that the English publisher copyrights his title and thus obtains a roundabout sort of right of issue directly conflicting with a legitimate sale by the American author here. Recent publications include Reeves's Royal and

Republican France, 2 vols., 21s.; Howson's Essays on Cathedrals, 12s. ; a fourth edition of Grote's History of Greece; eleventh edition of Forster's Life of Dickens; Rustow's War for the Rhine Frontier, vols. 2 and 3; Tibullus, translated by Cranstoun, 6s. 6d. ; English Catalogue of books published in 1871, 5s. ; a second and enlarged edition of Wedgwood's English Etymology, 26s.

in the Federal Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land."

This country is especially barren of, and especiaily needs good political history, and Mr. Frothingham's work, which is excellently prepared in every way, is in the right direction. He traces the political history of the colonies with minuteness and care, finding in the fusion of the two ideas of a Germanic local self-government, inherited as principle, and of national union, forced upon the minds of our progenitors as a necessity of defence, the origin of the United States. The many detailand laws of the first settlers of the country are especially interesting. Copious and valuable footnotes give the authorities and subsidiary information, the style is very good and quite entertaining, and the work is altogether a laudable contribution to American literature, the life work of a great scholar.

Among the Parliamentary reports recently issued is the annual account of receipt and expenditure of the British Museum. The chief of each department gives a short account of the doings of his branch for the year ending March 31, 1872. Mr. Rye, the keeper of the printed books, reports that the number of volumes used in the year amounts to 1,302,859; the number of readers 105,130, giving an average of 361 daily, each reader appearing to have consulted on an average 12 volumes a day. The British Museum Library is not a free public library, the possession of a reader's ticket being the result of some trouble, as the applicant for such a ticket has to give guarantee of his good behavior, etc., hence the number of readers represents not so much a certain number of persons in search of entertainment, but hard-workers, literary bees, who produce their honey in the shoals of books is sued from our press every year. E. C. B.

ADVANCE BOOK-NOTES.

[This department is intended to include descriptive notices, from advance sheets, of all books of popular sale. Booksellers will thus be enabled to order know

ingly and confidently on books likely to sell well in their localities, and to obtain such information as to the character of new publications as will "post" them for calling the attention of particular customers to books likely to suit their taste. Advance sheets for use in this department should be forwarded by publishers at earliest convenient date.-ED.]

The Rise of the Republic of the United States is the title of a most important new work by Richard Frothingham, Jr., soon to be published in an octavo of above 600 pp., by Little, Brown & Co. Mr. Frothingham is known as one of the finest political writers in the country, having been for many years editor of the Boston Post, and his most successful work as a local historian has been an excellent preparation for this greater work, whose aim is thus defined at the start:

"I purpose in these pages to sketch the political history of the Rise of the Republic of the United States. I shall endeavor to frame a narrative of events, with their causes and relations, which derive interest and importance from their connection with the formation and direction of public opinion, the development of fundamental principles, and the embodiment of these principles into institutions and laws. I shall aim to show how the European emigrant, imbued with the spirit of a new civilization, organized self-governing communities, and to follow the stages of their growth into a Union. I shall then trace the origin and rise of a sentiment of nationality, and the effort by which it became embodied in the Declaration of Independence, which was the first covenant of our country; and

The "Guide to the Study of Insects," including a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists, by A. S. Packard, M. D., is the standard work of its kind. In the previous editions it has received the highest encomiums, foreign as well as American, for its thorough excellence as a popular manual of American entomology. A third edition, revised and much enlarged, is now preparing at the Salem Press (J. W. Putnam & Co.), the trade being supplied through the "Naturalists' Agency, Salem, Mass." Throughout the country there are very many professional and amateur "bug-hunters," many of the latter being young people, among whom the new edition will have a wide sale. Many newfillustrations, as well as much new matter, have been added, so that it has now fifteen instead of ten plates and six hundred and seventy instead of five hundred wood-cuts, and the price is reduced to $5.00. It forms a substantial octavo of about 700 pages.

Woman Helpers in the Church is the subject of a volume edited by William Welsh, and shortly to be published, in large 12mo, pp. 388, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. It contains a series of some forty papers and narratives of the sayings and doings of ministering women, who have been efficient in the Church of God. It is somewhat in the nature of that widely-known book, Dr. Spencer's "A Pastor's Sketches," and will be found full of suggestions to those who would find work for Christ. The experiences of women in the hospitals, in social life, in house to house visiting, among the poor, in Bible classes and mothers' meetings, in the church organization itself, and in the missionary field, are profitably recorded. The work enjoyed the approval and, to a certain extent, the editorship of the late Bishop Stevens of Pennsylvania.

Minna Monte is the title of a simple domestic story by "Stella," to be published shortly by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The heroine while a mere girl plights her troth to a young man of noble qualities, who is just leaving home for college; a false report of his engagement to another is circulated, and the heroine is drawn into a marriage with a widower, whose former wife had died from neglect. Then follows a long period of suffering, the fickle heart of the husband growing more and more cold, and a shameful intimacy springing up between him and another woman. The wife's sister comes to live with the unhappy couple, and so far from being a sympathizer, turns spy upon the wife and aids in her persecution. The husband is at last murdered by men interested in his wealth, and after time has somewhat heals old wounds, the love of youth is revived, and the scene closes on constant hearts united and happy.

LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP.

JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co. have in press for early publication "Domesticated Trout; How to Breed and Grow Them," by Livingston Stone.

OF Mary J. Holmes's new novel, "Edna Browning," G. W. Carleton & Co., the publishers, have received advance orders for nearly 20,000 copies.

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J. R. OSGOOD & Co. expect to publish in June the elaborate work of Leone Levi on the History of British Commerce; a new volume of sketches by Bret Harte, which is to bear the name of "Mrs. Scagg's Husband, and other Pieces;" Eastlake's "Gothic Revival," and Hints on Household Taste," and some novels in Osgood's Library. JOHN CHURCH & Co., Cincinnati, are bestowing much care on the forthcoming issue of another of those successful singing-books by George F. Root. The title will be " The Glory," and the publishers

state that the book will have all the good features of "The Triumph' with improvements; but that it will be entirely new in plan, in lessons, in departments and music, and by far the best and most carefully made singing-book of the favorite author. It will be issued early in July.

THE ANNUAL CYCLOPÆDIA for 1871 will appear early in May. In addition to the usual vast fund of information, this volume will be of special interest, as containing an account of the closing scenes in the Franco-German War, the rise of the Communists, and the battles that ensued, and the history of the English-American arbitration case,

so far as it has proceeded. The volume will contain portraits, on steel, of Charles Francis Adams, M. Thiers, and the Emperor of Russia.

FANNY FERN's new book, entitled "Caper Sauce," will be issued in a few days by G. W. Carleton & Co., together with another spicy English reprint, Angelina Gushington's Thoughts on Men and Things.

MR. P. B. SHILLABER, the genial inventor of Mrs. Partington and author of "Knitting Work," has written a new volume in which, as is reported, the queer old dame will communicate more of her reflections on life and affairs. Lee & Shepard will publish it some time during this summer or

autumn.

MERRIAM & Co. have made a new shipment of sixty copies of Webster's "Unabridged" to Japan. Nearly 600 copies have been sold there.

DAVID PULSIFER'S graphic account of the Battle of Bunker Hill has been issued by A. Williams & Co. in a neat 18mo volume, with a fac-simile of a contemporary map of Boston and Charlestown, The little volume also contains the account as told by General Burgoyne.

"A SATCHEL GUIDE FOR VACATION TOURISTS IN EUROPE" (Hurd & Houghton) is intended to serve people who wish to take a hasty run of two or three months over Europe, and are glad to find some judicious friend, like the cultivated author of this guide, to mark out their trip for them and put them in the way of seeing the best things at a moderate expense.

THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE, with Tunes (Randolph). The Sacrifice of Praise was originally published without music, and afterwards a committee was appointed by the session of the Brick Church to adapt tunes to the hymns. The work of completion has been one of magnitude, as almost the entire ground of English and American tune-books has been reviewed. It has had the assistance and advice of the most distinguished organists and directors of music of New York.

The best arrangements of the tunes have been secured and the names of the composers inserted, as far as they could ascertain from the best authorities. The book is a substantial crown 8vo volume of 525 pages, is printed on good paper, and has an open and clear page, showing the music and words to great advantage. The appendix containing notes on the origin of music and several indexes greatly enhance the value of this beautiful book.

DR. ELAM'S new book, shortly to be published by the Osgoods, is entitled "Clerical Studies of the Brain," and is principally devoted to setting forth the symptoms and causes of what the author 'Cerebria,' but also discusses other inflammations of the brain.

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WE are most glad to make record of the commendable action of Mr. S. C. Griggs, late of S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago, in dealing with the creditors involved in the losses of that house by the great fire. "Having done better in collecting insurance, collection of debts and receipts from parties whose accounts we had lost in the fire, and hence had no record of, together with a trade for six months past far better than anticipated, the reat the time of the fire," so he writes to each of sult is more favorable than we supposed possible those with whom the firm had outstanding acsimply just and honorable," he encloses to each counts, "deeming it as I would be done by, and his personal proportion of an extra dividend of twenty per cent. on the original accounts. This action on his part has called forth the warmest feeling toward him on the part of the trade, and is a model of fair dealing in business. Such men are an honor to the business community of which they are a part, and it is by the sterling character of such that great houses are built up.

WILKIE COLLINS and Charles Reade, it is stat

ed, are to furnish the Harpers with serials for their periodicals in the fall. Reade promises to be a better boy this time,

JOHN MORLEY, the author of "Voltaire," has nearly finished a life of Rousseau.

TENNYSON's engagement with Strahan & Co. is approaching its termination. It is said to have been a most profitable one for his publishers, about 80,000 copies of "The Holy Grail" alone having been sold. Mr. Tennyson is reported to have been much prostrated by the death of his friend, and the godfather of his children, Professor Maurice.

COPYRIGHT LAW.-A memorial was presented to Earl Granville, urging Her Majesty's Government to secure a just and equitable copyright treaty with the United States. Among the signers are Carlyle, Froude, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Morley and Ruskin. Lord Granville replied that the Government would carefully consider the subject.

APPLETON & Co. will reprint in cheaper form 'South-Sea Bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor"-one of the liveliest and most entertaining of recent books of travel.

PHOTOGRAPHERS' CONVENTION.-In the Convention of photographers held in St. Louis, May 8, the President awarded gold and silver medals to the greatest improvement in photography in 1870

the first being awarded to Lyman G. Bigelow and the second to Colonel Wilcox. The medals for 1871 were given to John R. Clemens and Scoville & Bendann Brothers of Baltimore.