committees is proposed in London for final action on the whole work. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES.The recent invention of Mr. Rutherford, of New York, for obtaining photographs of the heavenly bodies, is to be made use of in the great work of mapping the stars of the southern hemisphere, in which Prof. B. A. Gould is now engaged. Mr. D. S. Mack, a scientific photographer, after passing some weeks in the observatory of Mr. Rutherford, has sailed for Buenos Ayres, where Prof. Gould is now at work, with all the apparatus necessary for obtaining these photographs. HARPER'S SCHOOL-BOOKS.-The standard school. books published by the Harpers, which for thirty years past were used in the New York public schools, were excluded last year by the Tammany Ring on account of the persistent attacks upon that corrupt body by Harper's Weekly. Now that the Ring is defeated, these same School Commissioners appointed by Oakey Hall, without any suggestion of the Harpers, have restored the books they excluded, by an unanimous vote. B. L. FARJEON, the author of " Joshua Marvel,' and "Blade-o'-Grass," is pronounced by Mr. Justin McCarthy to be one of the most promising of all the younger novelists of the day. Mr. McCarthy divides the British novelists of the day into four classes. First class: George Eliot-she alone and nobody else. Second class: Charles Reade, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Miss Braddon, Mrs. Craik, Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Henry Wood, and one or two others. Third: Rising novelists, not widely known, but who have thus far been successful. Among these is Mr. Farjeon. The fourth class is composed of that immense rank who are not known, and of whom nothing can be expectedladies of fashion whose husbands pay for the printing of books, etc., etc. A DULL SEASON.-"A duller or more barren period of book-making," says The Nation, “than the present we have seldom experienced. It is not simply the reaction from the holiday activity, but is part of the long-continued stagnation which this activity hardly concealed for the moment. The absolutely new works are few, and the good ones fewer still." ANCIENT LITERATURE.-Among the forthcoming books announced by Trübner, Leipzig, are a second and enlarged edition of Teuffel's "Roman Literature; An Historical Syntax of the Latin Language, by Dr. A. Dräger; A new Critical Edition of Cicero's Letters, by A. S. Wesenberg; A Selection of the Miscellaneous Writings of the late F. Haase ;. and Studien zur Geschichte der Griechischen Lehre vom Staat, by Dr. H. Henkel. TRUBNER'S CATALOGUE OF DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMARS of the principal Languages and Dialects of the World, with a list of the Leading Works on the Science of Language, is now ready. This, the most complete and important linguistic catalogue published in England, will be found useful to booksellers and librarians who hitherto have had no trustworthy guide. Grammars and dictionaries are enumerated in no fewer than one hundred and eighty-five languages, all of which are on sale. PLAUTUS' TRINUMMUS.-Bell & Daldy are about to publish an edition of the Trinummus of Plautus, with English notes by Dr. Wm. Wagner, whose edition of the Aulularia was very favorably received book at Eton and other public schools. by English scholars, and has since become a text AGRIPPA D'AUBIGNE.-M. Réaume, Professor at the Lycée Condorcet, in Paris, and M. de Canssade, are preparing a complete edition of the works of Agrippa d'Aubigné. ST. THOMAS OF AQUIN.-The second volume of Prior Vaughan's "Life and Labors of St. Thomas of Aquin " will shortly be published in London. HISTORY OF FRANCE.-Ludovic Lalanne, well known by his excellent edition of "Malherbes," has just corrected the last proofs of a "Dictionnaire de l'Histoire de France to be published by Hachette. THE TALMUD IN FRENCH.-The first volume of Schwab's translation of the Talmud has just been printed by the French Government press. HONEGGER'S "GRUNDSTEINE EINER ALLGEMEINEN CULTURGESCHICHTE."--The third and fourth volumes have just been issued by Weber, Leipzig. THE TURKISH CODE IN FRENCH.-The learned Orientalist, Baron Ottokar Schlechta, is about to publish a French version of the Turkish Code Civil actually in use in the Ottoman Empire. "AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BIOL JOSEPH GILLOTT, the celebrated steel pen manufacturer, died at Birmingham, England on the 5th instant, at the age of seventy-two. Given to steeling most of his days," says the Boston Tran-OGY," by Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson, and "A script, "he constantly made a point that insured an universal knowledge of his thorough honesty." PROF. HOVEY's book on "Christ and the Atone ment," with especial reference to Dr. Bushnell's theories, is almost ready for the public. DICKENS ON SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS.A selection from the writings of Charles Dickens on the subject of "Schools at.d Schoolmasters," edited by T. J. Chapman, has been issued by A. S. Barnes & Co. RALPH WALDO EMERSON is in Washington, urging the passage of an international copyright law. THE BOOKSELLERS of the East have made up a very good library for Rev. Robert Collyer, to replace the books he lost by the Chicago fire. THE ANTE-NICENE LIBRARY is drawing to a conclusion. Messrs. Clark have now issued the works of Lanctantius in two volumes, and announce the completion of Origen and a volume of Liturgies. These two, which will form Vols. 23 and 24, will complete the series, which has been a complete success. Monograph of the British Graptolitidæ," by the same author, will be published by Blackwoods, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS are likely to be a very famous place. Built upon the square where Newgate Market formerly stood, they will probably become the recognized mart of bookselling. Messrs. Blackie & Son have already left the Row, and have taken up their quarters in the new buildings; Messrs. Houlston & Sons are about to follow, and we hear that several other firms are likely to do the same. Messrs. Trübner will before long remove to new premises on Ludgate Hill, and we may perhaps again see the Row in the hands of mercers and drapers. A change is taking place farther West, in Bedford street, Covent Garden, where Messrs. Macmillan are removing from one side of the street to the other. M. GUIZOT.-The French Academy has awarded the prize of 20,000 francs to M. Guizot for his "Histoire de France," of which an English translation is being published by Messrs. Low. LONDON publishers make the statement that no illustrated book of the holiday sort for ten years past has fairly paid. VICTOR IIUGO's new novel will be entitled, "L'Ambassadeur d'une République." PAUL HEYSE.-The complete works of Paul Heyse, the most versatile and gifted of the younger novelists of Germany, have been published at Berlin. INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE-The Post-office Department has been successful in negotiating treaties with all European nations providing for a reduction of international postage. France alone declined to make such arrangements. That country absolutely refuses to enter into any arrangement looking to a reduction of the present rates. General Creswell says that France acts on the theory that the postal service was not established for the benefit of the people, but to raise revenue for the government. ADVANCE BOOK NOTES. [This department, a new feature in trade journalism, which it is hoped will prove of great import ance to the trade, is intended to include descriptive notices, from advance sheets, of all books of popular sale to be published in the week succeeding the respect ive issues of the TRADE CIRCULAR. Booksellers will thus be enabled to order knowingly 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 depart ment should be forwarded by publishers two weeks before publication, if possible, or at earliest convenient date.-ED.] The Abominations of Society. We spoke last week of Mr. Talmage's forthcoming book, "The Abominations of Society," as largely made up of his sermons on that general topic. As there is a distrust of "sermons," in the reading mind, as necessarily dry, it may be well to explain that, while the part referred to is based on those sermons, it has been largely re-written for the book, while another considerable portion of the work is entirely fresh When such sermonizers as Beecher, Robert Collyer, and this preacher are about, distrust of sermons as stupid is rather uncalled-for. matter. Wilfrid Cumbermede promises to win new reputation for its already wide-reputed author and to be regarded as the greatest of his novels. George MacDonald's power in dealing with the deep things of life finds in it fullest expression. It is outwardly a most absorbing story, and delightful in its pure, almost quaint style, its simple truth, its inimitably real pictures of Nature and of character, and its wonderful dreams; but there is behind all this something deeper, which is destined to make the book almost a religious battle-ground. The story is autobiographical, but the character to which attention will be most largely drawn is that of Charley Osborne, the son of a bigoted, hard-minded, blue-light preacher, who is driven to desperation by his father and by the unfortunate circumstances of his life, and finally commits suicide. MacDonald's aim seems to be to show that if all goes wrong in this world, even to the end, there is yet hope on the other side of the grave. The story has been running in Scribner's Magazine, and strictures have been made upon it, in some quarters, as tending toward Universalism, as to which readers will judge for themselves. It is likely to awaken especially earnest discussion for this feature. Chas. Scribner & Co. publish it January 27, having been compelled to postpone issue by the fact that the proposed first edition of 5,000 was exhausted by advance orders long before the day first fixed, several independent orders of 500 each being since received. It will be in very handsome shape, 12mo., with fourteen full-page English illustratrations; the binding is chaste and attractive, the shield side-stamp bearing a butterfly, the emblem of immortality, and an anchor, that of hope-typical the back is a thistle, in compliment to the author's of Macdonald's subject and sentiment; while on nationality. The Land of Desolation was the name given to Greenland by old John Davis, captain of the ship Sunshine," of fifty tons burden, when he found himself befogged there on his search for the Northwest Passage, as long ago as July, 1585. Dr. I. I. Hayes has adopted the name for his new book of Arctic travel, describing the trip made in that region by the artist Bradford in the summer of 1869. Harper's Magazine has already given readers a foretaste of his capital and clever book, which the Harpers publish January 26, in 12mo., with copious illustrations of Arctic scenery of great interest. It is very bright and entertaining all through, and often very amusing, and will be even more fascinating than most books of travel. The three books describe the Greenland "ruins," the "ice-palaces of Nature," and adventures "under the midnight sun,' these last including bear-hunting with a steamboat, and a visit to the most northern house on the earth, within a thousand miles of the pole, in which lives honest Peter Jensen, "the last white man," and his family, of whom portraits are given. The book is sure to be widely popular. "Patty," by Mrs. Kate S. Macquoid, author of "Rookstone," which was Lippincott's serial last year, is to be published as No. 372 in the familiar and salable brown covers of Harper's "Library of Select Novels." It is a story of a girl in very humble life, who comes into property and sets up for a grand lady, heartless and cold as she is beautiful. She deserts her old father mercilessly, and devotes herself to making unhappy all the men she meets, until at last her husband finds out her carefully concealed origin, and the tables are turned. This character is skilfully drawn, while the minor personages, more humanly tender and lovable, are managed so as to throw Patty's hard-heartedness into stronger light by contrast. The novel is one of considerable attractiveness. It is English-written and English in scene. Mr. Rolfe's Shakspeare Series has filled a need, and the trade will be glad to receive the third issue, Henry the Eighth," which the Harpers will issue January 26. His introduction to the text of the play is itself "as good as a play" in the way of entertainment, and the same is to be said of his copious and valuable notes, historical and explanatory. The first embraces a readable summary of the history of the play and of its sources, and reprints of Mrs. Jameson's, Hazlitt's, Knight's, and Hudson's critical remarks upon it. It is in neat square 16mo., and full of illustrations, among which are pictures of the old Globe Theatre and of the old State halls in the palaces. These editions are not only of great use in schools-they have been introduced into several of the most eminent but exceptionally interesting in the family as well. Lucretius, one of the most famous of the Latin poets (born 95 B. C., and died by his own hand, after being driven mad by a love potion, 55 B. C.), has been re-translated into English blank verse by Mr. Chas. Frederick Johnson, of Oswego, N. Y., whose work is shortly to be published in handsome shape, 12mo., by De Witt C. Lent & Co. This long poem, "On the Nature of Things," is a versified treatise on the Epicurean Philosophy, but abounding in beautiful descriptions of Nature and wise passages. Mr. Johnson's translation will be needed in every classical library. The Infinite and the Finite is discussed by Professor Theophilus Parsons, of Harvard Law School, in a work which Roberts Brothers are shortly to pub. lish, from the Swedenborgian point of view. There is more in it, however, than mere Swedenborgianism; he goes into a discussion of the fundamental elements of religion, which will be generally accepted as of value. Admitting that there are men, both savages and those of highest culture, who have no belief in a God, he explains this by showing the existence of two classes of faculties, natural and spiritual, the former of which overpowers the latter in such exceptional men. To the spiritual will decide upon the English contributions to the series, and corresponding committees have been formed in Paris and Berlin to determine upon the French and German contributions. The following gentlemen have engaged to prepare volumes for the International Series: Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, Professor Tyndall, Professor Claude Bernard, Herbert Spencer, Professor Rudolph Virchow, Dr. Henry Maudsley, Mr. J. N. Lockyer, Professor Huxley, Dr. Edward Smith, Dr. J. Rosenthal, Professor A. de Quatrefages, Dr. H. C. Bastian, Dr. Balfour Stewart, Professor Wurtz, Walter Bagehot, Esq., Professor Widdeman, Dr. Michael Foster, Professor A. C. Ramsey, H. Sainte-Claire Deville, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Lauder Lindsay, Professor W. K. Clifford, Professor Berthelot, Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Professor W. T. Thistleton Jevons. These gentlemen have taken their topics, and several of them are engaged on their works. The publication of the series will be commenced early in the ensuing spring. Other eminent authors, as Wallace, Helmholtz, Parks, Milne-Edwards, Haeckel, Pasteur, and Bates, have given strong encouragement that they will also take part in the enterprise. The International Scientific Series will be published by the Appletons, of New York; H. S. King & Co., of London; Baillière, of Paris; and Brockhaus, of Leipsic; and the authors will receive a "royalty," or percentage, in accordance with the American plan, from the publisher of each country. The project thus combines two important objects: First, it secures from the ablest thinkers of the age an elaborate series of valuable books, to be circulated in a cheap form for the promotion of sound public education; and, second, by combining the proceeds of four markets of the leading countries of the world, it secures for these authors an unprecedented scale of remuneration. faculties Revelation bears the same relation as sensation to those natural, and he laments, though with hope of an immediate reaction, that the pre-Dyer, Professor Bain, and Professor W. Stanley sent age is natural in its tendencies. He sees a "second Christian revelation," and the fulfilment of the second coming of the Lord in the spiritual insight given to Swedenborg, though he does not consider him inspired. The book is likely to excite notice among Spiritualists also, whom it opposes. Radical Problems are handled unhesitatingly by Rev. C. A. Bartol, in a book which Roberts Brothers will soon publish. Its style is wonderfully live, epigrammatic, with a flavor of Emerson, Weiss, and something of old Sir Thomas Browne. It is the natural result of his thought, which has little patience for slow conservatism or commonplace. "Open Questions," he thinks, are our elixir vita-" there is a movement cure for the mind." "Doubtless, in the wide charter of freedom, offensive and extravagant things will be said. The remedy is not to mind them." Incuriosity marks the degree of inferiority," and "Individual ism" is health. "No matter what a man thinks in religion, only how he lives! A profession of religion hinders practice." "The essence of faith is advance"-and so he is a strong upholder of "Transcendentalism." With equal boldness he discusses "Radicalism," Theism," "Materialism," " Spiritualism,' "Faith," etc., paying, in a chapter on "Genius," magnificent tribute, quoting many of his quaint utterances, to Father Taylor. be as well received by radicals in religion and deep There are few books, short of Emerson's, likely to thinkers. THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES. A NEW publishing undertaking, with several features of interest both to authors and the public, is announced by D. Appleton & Co. Prof. E. L. Youmans, who has been in Europe for several months past, has made arrangements for bringing out a series of Monographs, or compressed hand-books, on a wide range of topics, to be prepared by the most eminent scientific men of different countries, and to be known as the "International Scientific Series." The topics treated in this series will be those of equal interest to all reading communities, its general aim being to give authentic yet popular expression to the latest and growing thought on the leading subjects of progressive inquiry. The various branches of physical, biological, psychological, and social science, which have undergone marked revision within a recent period, will be so presented as to help to a better understanding of the phenomena of human nature and the economy of human life. It has been a main purpose in arranging this series to give it an authentic character. Each book will be from a recognized master of his theme. To secure this object, a committee of three of the most eminent scientific men of London JOURNALISTIC. MR. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, one of our finest critics M. Ballou's great Boston "notion," The Globe, and essayists, is to be the literary editor of Mr. M. which is to be, in comprehensiveness, enterprise, and excellence, a surprise in journalism. Certainly we are entitled to expect much of Mr. Whipple's department. AN authoritative work on journalism, from one of the most successful managing editors of America, is in the wind. THE writer of the clever articles on "Bibliomania" and like subjects, in the Evening Mail, under the title of "Bookworm," is Mr. Thos. F, Donnelly, with A. S. Barnes & Co. He is now preparing for that journal a series of papers on the private libraries of New York. The Financier is the title of a new Saturday cussion of questions of political economy, published Review devoted to monetary interests and the disby J. H. & C. M. Goodsell, New York. THE demand for the Chicago Evening Post History of the Chicago Fire, "with illustrations," has been so great that it had to be reprinted in the weekly edition. THE Chicago Pulpit (Index Co.) is a new octavo weekly commenced for the purpose of publishing one of the best sermons delivered each week by some of the many able pulpit orators of that city. It is issued at $2.50 a year. The first number contains an excellent Christmas sermon by Dr. H. N. Powers; the second, a practical sermon by Robert L. Collier. THE Pulpit Harvest is a series of sermons to be issued monthly by Adam, Stevenson & Co., Toronto, 'from published and unpublished sources, by the foremost British, American, and Canadian preachers of various denominations. Per annum, $1.50, or 15c. each. THE Congregational Quarterly, heretofore published in Chicago, has been consolidated with the New Englander. The Chicago publication is reprepresented on the editorial staff of the New Eng lander by President A. L. Chapin, of Beloit College, and Professor Samuel C. Bartlett, of the Chicago Theological Seminary; and Rev. George S. F. Savage, of Chicago, acts as Western agent. The editorial staff of this standard quarterly therefore now consists of five instead of three as formerly. THE United States Jurist (Morrison), which was commenced as a monthly about a year ago, has been transformed into a quarterly. THE Canada Bookseller has been consolidated with the Canadian Monthly, edited by Goldwin Smith. The Radical for January gives the beginning of a Prose Story with Poetical Passages, Timothy Tot," by Francis Gerry Fairfield, one of the most original writers in this country. Littell's Living Age publishes the "Story of the Plebescite," by the distinguished writers ErckmannChatrian. The Home Journal, January 17, contains an interesting letter from Richard Wagner, on the presentation of "Lohengrin" at Bologna. The Nation, January 18, gives a valuable account of the French Academy. Every Saturday, No. 4, contains "Mr. Helps as an Essayist," by Charles Kingsley; "An Episode in the Life of Charles Mordaunt," by Henry Kingsley, etc., etc. Appletons Journal, January 27, contains in the "Table-Talk a most instructive account of the noble work of Miss Stride in aid of the fallen women of London. of selections from the "Collection of Popular Scientic Lectures," edited by the same professors, but unlike that publication this will be printed in English. The regular annual issue commences with January, 1872, but a preliminary number was issued last year. This volume has an article by Prof. Virchow, on "The Cranial Affinities of Man and the Ape"; one by A. von Graefe, on "Light and the Visual Organs"; and one by H. W. Dove, on "The Circulation of the Waters on the Surface IN future the Argosy will be published by Messrs. Bentley & Son. MR. SALA commences a series of articles on Imaginary London" in the present month's isnew novel, "To the Bitter End.” sue of Belgravia, and Miss Braddon contributes her THE London Mail, containing reprints of all important articles from the Times, will, from the present date, appear thrice a week, and be reduced in price to twopence. by Messrs. H. S. King & Co., to be published THE Mining Magazine and Review is announced monthly, under the editorial care of Mr. R. N. Boyd, F.G.S., etc. (London), commences the new year in a greatly THE old-established morning journal, Lloyd's List enlarged and improved form, and it promises to give the most complete and reliable shipping and commercial news published. A JOURNAL called the Indian Antiquary will be GAIL HAMILTON has been engaged to edit commenced this month at Bombay. It is intended Wood's Household Magazine. The Musical Independent, Chicago, and the People's Leader, Boston, have been merged into Dexter Smith's Paper, Boston. The Contemporary Review (Lippincott's) for January has Argyll's paper on "Hibernicisms in Philosophy," a most thoughtful and withal most humorous essay on the confusion of phrases or even of mind into which metaphysicians are occasionally apt to fall; a thoughtful paper, too, by Prof. Maurice, on the "Words Used in Mental Philosophy." The Fortnightly Review for January. The gem of the number is the conclusion of Mr. Bagehot's paper on Physics and Politics," a most powerful defence of the Parliamentary Government. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts for January contains the account of the museums, arts, and artists in Paris during the siege and under the Commune, also a memoir of Henry Regnault. Macmillan's Magazine for January has an interesting paper, by Mr. Bryce, on "The Legal Profession in America," which he believes to be declining. THE Dark Blue contains "A Real Education for Women," by Amelia B. Lewis, THE Quartely German Magazine, edited by Prof. Virchow and Prof. Holtzendorf, is to consist as a medium of communication between Oriental scholars in India and Europe, and will treat of the antiquities, history, geography, literature, religion, mythology, natural history, ethnography, and folklore of India and adjoining countries. Mr. J. Burgess is the editor. CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS. The Art Journal.-Jan.-Line Engravings:Marie Antoinette Listening to the Act of Accusation, after E. M. Ward, R.A.-The Mountain Shepherd, after J. Linnell.-Africa, from the Group of Sculpture by W. Theed.-Literary Contributions :-The Advantage of Physical Geography to the Student and Critic of Art: No. II. Mountains, by Prof. D. T. Ansted. British Artists: T. F. Dicksee, by James Dafforne. Visits to Private Galleries: The Collection of John Pender, Esq., M.P.-Art and Artists dustries: Doulton's Stoneware, Illustrated. The in Munich.-Improvements in Minor British InStately Homes of England: Somerleyton, by S. C. Hall, F.S.A.-Obituary: Sir F. G. Moon, Bart., by S. C. Hall, F.S.A.-Schools of Art.-An Extinct Manufacture: The Old Pontypool Japanware, by W. H. Green, Illustrated.-Exhibitions, etc. The Aldine.-Feb.-Illustrations:-Zekle's Courtin', by Frank Beard.-The Song Sparrow, by Gilbert Burling.-The Monk's Oak, by C. Schmidt.— Music in the Alps, by G, Doré.-An Old Mill, by F. T. Vance.-Manifest Destiny (full page), by W. The Catholic World.-Feb.-The Duties of the Scribner's Monthly.-Feb.-The Fox-Hunters: Poem, by G. H. Barnes.-The Wonders of the West (II.). More about the Yellowstone, by F. V. Hayden. The Mormons and their Religion, by R. H. Seeley.-The Charities of the Fatherland, by Wm. Wells.-Defects of the National Banking System.-Back-Log Studies (renewed), by Charles Dudley Warner.-At His Gates (Chapters IV.VI.), by Mrs. Oliphant.-The Hidden Joy: Poem, by Louisa Bushnell.-The Happy Time: Poem, by David Gray.-Wilfrid Cumbermede: An Autobiographical Story (Chapters LVII.-LX.), by Mac Donald.-How One Woman Kept her Husband, by Saxe Holm.-Christine Nilsson and her Maestro, by Mrs. R. S. Greenough.-A Small Piece of the Woman Question, by Lulu Gray Noble.A Ballad of Calden Water: Poem, by Phoebe Cary. -Topics of the Time :-The Old Cabinet.-Home and Society.-Culture and Progress at Home and Abroad.-Etchings. Good Words.-Jan.-The Golden Lion of Granpere, by Anthony Trollope. Chaps. I. & II.-Hints for Essays, by the author of "Friends in Council." -The Sea, by the Rev. John Monsell, LL.D.Town Geology, by the Rev. Charles Kingsley. I. The Soil of the Field.-" Trust in God, and do the Right." Song by Norman Macleod, D.D.; with music by Arthur S. Sullivan.-Sermons Preached before the Queen at Balmoral (No. I.), by the Rev. Professor Charteris.-At His Gates, by Mrs. Oliphant. Chaps. I.-III.-Will o' the Wisp. A Ballad written for Clari on a Stormy Night. By Robert Buchanan.-What I Did with a Shilling, by William Gilbert-Tendrils and Climbing Plants. Notes from Mr. Darwin. By the author of "Stone Edge."-The Old Garden, by George MacDonald. -The Ratha Jatra of Serampore, by Alexander Allardyce.-A Great Solar Eruption, by Richard A. Proctor. 66 IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER FILES (122,314), Jeremiah W. Foard, San Francisco, Cal.-This invention consists in a novel mode of constructing paper-holders for holding files of newspapers, and also documents and letters, the same being composed of two strips of wood or other light material, which are secured to each other so as to embrace the papers between them by means of a clamping-screw at either end. IMPROVEMENT IN TOYS (122,317), Alex. W. Hall, Charles F. Ritchel, and Samuel Loyd, New York (assignors to Samuel Loyd).-The nature and object of this invention relates to the construction of a gravity toy or puzzle for the amusement of both young and old, and is so constructed that a person initiated in the secret can make it either lie down or rise at will, while a person unacquainted with its principles will find great difficulty and amusement in endeavoring to overcome its irrepressible disposition to rise. IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURE OF PULP PAPER FROM WOOD (122,353), Jas. Bridge, Augusta, Maine.-A new and useful improvement in mechanism for reducing wood or various other fibrous materials for being converted into pulp for the manufacture of paper. IMPROVEMENT IN EYELETING MACHINES (122,366), Oliver G. Critchett, Stoneham (assignor to H. Elmer Townsend), Boston. IMPROVEMENT IN ROLLER-SKATES (122,376), John H. Fenton, Indianapolis, Ind.-This invention relates to a new construction and arrangement of devices whereby wheels or rollers. are attached to the foot-support of a skate in such a manner as to enable the performer to execute all of the varied evolutions of skating on a smooth floor by the same or a similar motion of the body as that employed in propelling the skater on ice. IMPROVEMENT IN PORTFOLIOS (122,461), George Harvey, New York. This invention has for its object to produce a greater degree of convenience and security of the drawings, prints, music, etc., than has hitherto been attained, and it consists in a suspended back which protects from injury the under edges of the contents and by the weight of which the sides are rendered self-adjusting, and in the employment of corner gussets for the exclusion of dust, in combination with outside flaps, elastic or other straps, and hook and catch fastenings. IMPROVEMENT IN BLACKBOARD RUBBERS (122,511), J. F. Bigger and W. A. Pugh, Rushville, Ind. This invention relates to certain improvements in rubbers for blackboards; and consists of t rubber in combination with a box, the two being constructed and arranged to operate in such a manner that the chalk-dust, as it is wiped from the face of the blackboard by the rubber, will be caught and retained in the box until voluntarily removed therefrom; the object of the invention being to prevent the chalk-dust from getting into the hair,. soiling the clothes, or being inhaled into the lungs of pupils or other persons in school-rooms or other rooms in which blackboards are used. The City.-Jan. Frontispiece:-(Albert-type Photograph.) Pompone de Bellievre."-A Town Sermon. (Illustrations.) By Edmund C. Stedman.-The Best Portraits in Engraving. (Photographs.) By Charles Sumner.-The Centenary of American Independence, by Horace Greeley.-The New Docks and Piers.-Studies of the Tides (I.), by J. E. Hilgard.-The Townward Tendency, by Henry W. Bellows.-Our Relations Beyond the Pacific, by De B. Randolph Keim.-Water-Won (I., II., III.), by Andrew C. Wheeler.-Under the Ferns, by Charles S. Gage.-Nota Bene, by William C. Wyckoff.-The Modern Magician, by Julian IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF Hawthorne.-Half Awake, by L. C. R.-Jessie, by PAPER (122,548), S. D. Baldwin, Marysville, Cal. Harriet Prescott Spofford.-My Love, by W. C. W.-This invention relates to a new material or fiber -Hotels, by Thomas W. Knox.-The Humorous Element in American Literature, by A. R. Spofford. -The Editors' Rendezvous. to be used in the manufacture of paper. The fiber which it is proposed to employ is that obtained from the grass which grows in great profusion upon |