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CORRESPONDENCE.

The English Stationery and Fancy Trades. LONDON, May 18, 1872.-The Paper-trade during the last month has exhibited more activity than is customary at this somewhat dull season. Such circumstance is in the main owing to the excellence of business generally, though it has been materially influenced by an influx of orders that had been withheld in the hope that old prices would again rule, and also by the partial settlement of the printers' strike. The transactions, however, have been carried out in the most jog-trot manner, nothing having occurred to cause the slightest sensation. Manufacturers, warehousemen, retailers, and the public have equally accepted the advance as a reality, and the balance of trade, which in the early part of the year had been very unsettled, is almost recovered. It is now thoroughly understood that every description of articles connected with stationery has advanced fully ten per cent. To the ordinary goods of commerce this increase can be easily apportioned, but there is a number of small products that have been customarily sold at a penny, the loss upon which must fall wholly upon retailers. This has given rise to a considerable amount of dissatisfaction, and in the items of penny inks and penny memorandums, many tradesmen decline to keep them in stock if their profits thereon are to be curtailed. Though grumbling has been excessive, there has been no combination among the dissentients, except in what is known as the "number trade," the members of which have bodily protested against the publishers of certain weekly penny serials for having discontinued to sell thirteen copies as twelve. Meetings are being organized, the avowed object of the promoters being to taboo from their shops all publications that are not sold to them at old rates.

The printing-trade has settled down after its ex

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Grandeurs of the Yosemite Valley, Cal. After B. Champ

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New England Winter Scene. After B Champney. Companion to above. Price.....$9 00

Size of above pictures, 15x24 on stretchers.

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Philosophy. A chromo-lithograph, in fac-simile of the orig
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citement, but numerous large firms having succeedthe dictatorship of the London Society of Comed in engaging a sufficient number of "rats," defy positors, who, in taking the part of its members, have often imposed such unjust rules that the masters rebel whenever opportunity occurs. Some time ago the society was all-powerful, and though it still has great power, its influence is on the wane. Their late movement for a reduction in the hours of labor has increased the cost of printing without giving the laborers any pecuniary benefit. Indeed it is very questionable if the men, having an extra six hours a week on their hands, are not worse off than heretofore, as to be able to enjoy such hours of idleness an additional six hours' pay ought to be given or they will dip more deeply into their reg ular wages. There are still a large number of compositors upon strike, and there is but little chance of work being found for all until autumn is well advanced, as many of the men were old employees, who, having been retained after their prime had passed, were really doing their employers a service in striking, while by reason of their age, infirmities, or incapacity, they are unlikely to gain permanent "sits in other houses. We hear rwmors that a movement is on foot for sending some of these unfortunates to the United States and Canada, as an idea exists among many individuals in this country that the Transatlantic printers are making a fine harvest. In connection with the printing trade, there has long been a custom here for the employees of printers to solicit the customers of their masters for subscriptions to enable them to enjoy a "Bean Feast," i. c., a day's holiday at some suburban retreat. The custom is much disliked by those who are called upon to subscribe, and as considerable opposition is being given to it, the bean-feast cadging will most probably in a few years become obsolete. English type founders are in high glee at the prospect of the downfall of the

monopoly of the United States founders, and the probability of their products being admitted duty free into the States. Should their hopes be realized they are prepared, we understand, to make very large shipments and to offer their founts and materials at very low rates.

The fancy trade is always at this season of the year remarkably dull, and novelties are introduced sparsely and with diffidence. Warm weather seems to have an extraordinary enervating effect upon the sale of knick-nackery, and the very persons who would cheerfully invest money in the purchase of trifles during winter, consider it ridiculous to ever think of such articles when Sol is in the ascendant. Producers and warehousemen are therefore at this season engaged, the former in making or trying to make novelties, and the latter in seeking for new goods with the view to supply the demand that is certain to be made as soon as the chilly evenings cause promenades and lawn amusements to be far from agreeable. The introductions of the past month have been singularly few indeed; there is scarcely anything that is worthy of notice, and not a single article that is really new. Old designs have been slightly altered, and the products issued as new, a circumstance that has induced ridicule from those who understand the trade, and the only persons among whom such "novelties" have found favor are certain shipping houses who have cleared off small parcels at cheap rates with a view of consigning them to some place, it may be hoped, where Londoners of recent years are not to be found. At the present time the search after novelties is the main occupation of the representatives of several large houses, and if the statements of these gentlemen are reliable the success they have recently met with has been most unsatisfactory. The fancy and toy trades since April may therefore be represented as almost a perfect blank, as the only absolute novelties are: (i) a Biscuit Pincushion made in imitation of a biscuit and of a size adapted for the waistcoat pocket; (ii) the Bubbles within Bubble Blower, a simple but scientific contrivance for enabling soap bubbles to be blown with numerious variations; (iii) a smaller edition of the Self-winding Prismatic Color Top, which makes 10,000 changes, and in a larger form had a few months ago an enormous sale. These articles are issued by Dean & Son of Ludgate Hill. The most strenuous endeavors have however failed to discover any other novelty, though great attention has been given to a fan at once remarkable for economy and effectiveness. In shape it is that of the Marie Wilton of last season, but card board as a material takes the place of wood; it is of German manufacture, and retails at 6 1-2, the English agent being Herr Dreydal of B singhall street.

The record of such a dearth in an important trade is made with much regret, but it is well that for eign buyers should know what are the probable prospects of an early supply of novelties. Either new designs in English goods are being kept dark" or for the next two or three months we must be entirely dependent upon continental manufacturers. May our next report be more satisfactory.

Photography is in England associated with the fancy trade in so much as regards the sale of portraits of eminent persons. A reference therefore to a sensation recently caused here may not be misplaced. Mr. Hudson, a photographer of Camden Town, is producing what he terms spirit photographs, the peculiarity of which consists in the representation of a spirit form appearing in front of the sitter and casting its shadow thereon. The spectre is represented to be a deceased friend of the person

sitting; but this suggestion is not accepted by common sense individuals. The Stereoscopic Company have essayed an attempt at imitation, but they exhibit the shadow behind the portrait, and another experiment shows a "spirit" in front, but as this represents an object placed between the lens and the sitter with the knowledge of the latter, it is evident the secret has not been discovered, as Mr. Hudson produces similar results, and varies them ad libitum without the knowledge of the sitter. The invention has given rise to much curiosity and speculation, and "spirit-photographs" are in considerable demand. It is rumored here that the process is known in New York and Vienna, but if so it appears that American photographers have not made so much stock of the system as has Mr. Hudson.

Paper possessing valuable antiseptic properties has lately been much used upon the Continent, and is about being tried here for the purpose of wrapping up articles which are subject to putrefaction. It is asserted that fish folded within it will keep perfectly fresh for a week. If this be so the value of "phenol " for domestic and other purposes must be great. For the benefit of readers who may wish to experimentalize it may be well to state that the paper is simply saturated with melted stearic acid in which a small quantity of carbolic acid has been previously mixed.

The International Exhibition which opened on the 1st inst. is, in so much as refers to the stationery trade, a glorious failure. It is neither National nor International, though the general public who pass through the rooms will find a goodly display; but a large portion of the exhibits are shown by retail houses. The manufacturing and wholesale trades are very inadequately represented, and most of the eminent firms are conspicious by their absence. However, what there is to be seen is good, though the major portion of the manufactured exhibits consists of articles specially prepared for exhibition, and are therefore without the pale of commercial criticism. In the way of novelty there is but little to notice. The idea of producing new goods does not seem to have been entertained, and though the exhibits are, for the most part, superlatively excellent, their display is not likely to give in any way an impetus to trade. In these utilitarian days, when cheapness is a specialty in hourly demand, it seems singular that the committee rejected goods for which economy of cost was the only merit claimed. If any buyer from the States proposes to visit the exhibition with the idea that he may glean a few business wrinkles let him be prepared for disappointment. He would learn more by glancing at the ordinary shop-windows, as therein may be seen the articles of everyday consumption offered at reasonable prices. The show, however, is to the uninitiated very interesting, and no person of observation can pass through the stationery department and observe the machinery in connection therewith without possessing a very fair outline knowledge of the process by which all kinds of stationery and kindred articles are produced. There are several curiosities to attract attention: notably a collection of Japanese papers from the South Kensington Museum which illustrates the many and varied uses to which paper is applied in Japan; a case of obsolete foreign bank-notes exhibited by Mr. Evans, of Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead; two water-marked paper for Bank of England notes, made between 1725 and 1825 by Messrs. Portal, of Laverstoke Mills; and the governors of the Bank of England supply a specimen copy of every note issued by their predecessors since 1699. Messrs. John Dickenson & Sons, of the Old Bailey,

cases of