mously, and act as a high premium on the export of paper, by the foreign manufacturer. Even in her troubles, France exempts from all imposts paper for export.

Fine grades of newspaper, book, and writing papers are made almost entirely in the United States from rags, and, as we are largely dependent on Europe for them, therefore rags, greatly increased in cost by the export duties levied abroad, must be used, while the market for domestic rags is kept high by the high cost of foreign rags.

The duty on news paper is now and has been entirely insufficient to prevent large orders from being sent abroad, and the manufacture of this paper is but little remunerative at this time. This kind of paper, being made largely from wood and straw, is rendered more expensive to make by the duties levied on soda ash and other chemicals, wire cloths, and feltings. Great advantages are possessed in Canada for this branch of manufacture, with its light taxation, cheap water-power, and chemicals free of duty. Taking into consideration the cheaper labor, cheaper machinery, cheaper capital, cheaper rags of continental Europe; the cheap esparto, cheap machinery, cheap capital, cheap chemicals, feltings, and wire cloths of England; there is but little question under the proposed reduced duties upon paper, that we shall soon be mainly dependent upon the foreigner for it.

The duty now levied upon news paper, under the present tariff, is lower than it has been for sixty years, and lower than upon any other product of American industry. It is stated that a duty on paper is a tax on knowledge; then is a tax upon a shirt a tax upon decency?

Import of paper and manufactures thereof in

1860...

.$730,471.00

..1,895, 150.35

Import of paper and manufactures for the fiscai year ending June 30, 1871...... The import under the present tariff is growing. Is there any reason why paper should be less protected than iron, cotton goods, or woollens? We ask for equal favor for all industries, and no special legislation. B. H. MOORE, E. R. COPE, S. J. MEGARGEE, Committee.

FROM BOSTON.

H. Č. S.

BOSTON, June 7, 1872. The summer drift-wood of literature is floating lazily along; now and then appears some little pamphlet, bobbing up and down as if anxious for catcher and reader; 12mos, light and heavy, are quite numerous, and move with somewhat of a dignity that befits their character, and occasionally a big octavo, half foundering by its own weight, heaves in sight and attracts attention and surprise by its bulk and perhaps by its intrinsic dulness, or 66 deep thought," which is sometimes a synonymous term; "all which being interpreted" means that there is a little "doin'" in the way of new publications; at the same time trade continues dull, and the occasional customer hesitates long before he deems it expedient to wake the sleeping salesman. But in the printing-houses and binderies I find symptoms of business to come, a scenting of the battle of books afar off, a prudent preparation for the trade that is surely somewhere in the future, and may ere we know, be in the living present.

J. R. Osgood & Co.'s "Boston Illustrated" is all that was promised, and must be very popular. It is well and compactly written, historical facts and memoranda are, so far as I have examined, correctly given, and the illustrations are with few exceptions, well drawn, engraved and printed, and it is certainly refreshing not to find any of the old cuts

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that have been battered and shattered in so many editions of " Boston Almanacs " and "guides.' slight taint of advertising is once in a while to be detected, but the business pill is so carefully coated that the reader swallows it before he suspects its nature. The same firm issues this week "Across the Atlantic,' a series of ocean-life sketches by Augustus Hoppin. The success of his 'Ups and Downs," published last Christmas, may have stimulated the artist to this second effort; it is good, but not equal to the other, and, of course, suffers from the very fact that it is a second part of the same tune, although, chronologically, it should have been the first published, for one must needs get "across the Atlantic" before he can do much at travelling on what the affected and affecting returned tourist daintily calls "the other side." We have been accustomed in times past to locate "the other side as somewhere beyond or over Jordan, but every one to his taste! Warner's "Saunterings" has reached its fifth edition and will at least "go one better;" it is a very entertaining book, but its best portion is the preface, while parts of the volume are rather stale, and show too plainly their newspaper paternity. In contrast with these lighter matters J. R. O. & Co. have put forth Ward H. Lamon's long promised "Life of Lincoln," which, it was widely and mysteriously said, was to contain strange revelations in regard to the private life and character of the martyr President. I don't like the book, which fact is of no possible consequence to any one save myself, but there is a comfort in expressing one's opinion, even if it is not asked or deserved; and again, I must not, on principle, praise everything that is said and done in our good city of Boston, although people born here are so excellent that it has been wittily as well as irrev erently said they never need be "born again.' The chief characteristic of the book is that it brings out into the boldest relief, and with most deliberate care and labor, the weak points in Lincoln's life and character; the author evidently is delighted whenever he finds any flaw and any scratch to mar the image we all carry in our minds. He goes into the minutest details of early life, is not content that Lincoln was born in poverty, but the poverty must be the meanest and lowest ; is not satisfied that his early associates were rough and uncouth, they must be coarse, wicked and repulsive; is not so well pleased that he had frailties and errors like other young men, but that he must portray them as deepseated vices. Mr. Lamon delights in shadow, and lets in upon his picture only enough of sunlight to show the dark features with more distinctness. There are many good things in the book, many facts in Lincoln's history that are for the first time made public, for the author had better facilities than any other person for a thorough acquaintance with his subject. But the drawback I have mentioned is a serious one, and vitiates the whole book; the author plainly intends that the reader shall believe Lincoln to have been a man of low, coarse qualities, not acquired but innate, that he was naturally of an impure mind, and never cared to improve upon it, in short, that his was a character to be pitied, condemned, or shunned. Not so do we think, or desire to think of him; his political enemies never did so dishonorably by him as the author of this book-but perhaps I have written enough or too much on this subject, but the book is causing no little remark, and these points may as well go on record.

I omitted to state in its proper place in the order of our literary events that The Radical, a well printed and keenly edited magazine devoted to the advocacy of all extremes and isms in morals and religion, has once more died; it has a habit of dy

ing, and being raised from the dead pro tempore; but this time I think it is "positively and without reserve." It is becoming a very apparent fact here, at the supposed-to-be headquarters of radicalism, that radicals are not over-zealous billpayers, that their mouths open wider than their pocket-books, that they can fill a hall Sabbath after Sabbath so long as there are no fees to pay, that they can enjoy The Radical if they can borrow it! And at last the few really sincere ones who are heart and hand in "the cause," get tired of doing all the work and paying all the bills. Thus it is that The Radical dies its second death. I am sorry, not because I sympathize with its views, but because it ably represented one phase of our religious thought, and in its brief life has published some important and well written papers.

Lee & Shepard will publish some new books in a few days, of which I will give due notice. I may say however, that one of them is another attempt at the long unwritten, and we fear ever to be written great American novel. Its title is "Three Generations," and the author is of course hopeful of fame-and a handsome copyright!

Gould & Lincoln, who first introduced Peter Bayne to the American public, and who publish his books, have in press his new dramatic five-act poem, "The Days of Jezebel," which brings across the ocean very favorable criticisms. The subject, and the characters, and the scenes, are such as to draw out Mr. Bayne's best powers, and the poem is sure to attract the attention and secure the admiration of the thoughtful and careful reader. No one need expect much of wit, of effervescence, of superfluity, of verbal or mental trifling from the mind or pen of the sturdy Peter, and his poem is for those who can study and appreciate that which is the result of first-class ability well applied. In this connection it may be said that Mr. Bayne is the regular English correspondent of the Watchman and Reflector of this city, and his letters are always valuable, informing, and to my idea, give the best representation of English opinions and doings of any of the scores of foreign correspondents. Pressensé, of Paris, is the French correspondent of the "W. & R." and is an excellent twin for his English co-writer. It is seldom that one paper secures two such correspondents.

Little, Brown & Co. have a large undertaking on hand, but they are abundantly able to carry it through to success. It is the publication of an original work on the "Birds of North America," by Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. T. M. Brewer, of this city, and Mr. Robert Ridgeway, of Illinois. The magnificent collections of birds, nests, eggs, etc., etc., at the Smithsonian Institution, have been placed at the free use of the authors of the projected work, and in many other ways, public and private, they have enjoyed remarkable facilities in the prosecution of their studies. The plan is to give a complete account of the birds of the whole of North America north of Mexico, arranged according to the most approved system of classification, and to avoid, as much as possible,

technicalities and irrelevant matter. The illustra

tions are to be very numerous, and more nearly to ap: proach perfect accuracy than anything of the kind heretofore attempted. The portion of the work pertaining to land-birds will be published in two or three volumes in the course of the next winter. As Little, Brown & Co. promise that the "Birds of North America" will surpass in value of text, and accuracy and beauty of illustration, anything of the kind ever published in America or Europe, we may look for something elegant, for L. B. & Co. never promise more than they fulfil. But alas for that "last copy" of Audubon's folio, which has been

sold so many times! When the new work is out there will be no call for the "literary gentleman recently deceased;" he and his Audubon can quietly rest, with no bookseller to call them to glory again. Boston seems given to ornithology. Samuels's "Birds of New England,' in its too many styles, has had a very good sale at the counter, while the State goodnaturedly bought a copy for each town. The best colored plate edition of this book is a fine specimen of typography and illustration. I believe that Mr. Samuels, of this book, and Dr. Brewer, of the book that is to be, do not exactly agree on all points in natural history, it being matter of grave importance whether there are six or seven feathers in a certain bird's tail, or whether another bird only flew over New England, instead of cracking its shell within our sacred territorial limits. Dr. Brewer can now feather and locate his birds as he pleases, and Mr. Samuels ditto ; only we trust that there will be sufficient agreement on essentials, so that our robins and crows may not do double duty with new names and plu

mage.

Some weeks ago, I spoke of a new daily just started here- The Globe. It was then too early to give any opinion as to its character or prospects. I can now say that it has steadily improved from the first, is well edited, well arranged, well printed, and well patronized. It furnishes the news in copious abundance, its editorials are (now) timely and good, its literary department admirable, and it should be, as it is, prepared by E. P. Whipple; its correspondence well distributed and interesting, and, on the whole, it is a very acceptable paper. The other city papers seldom refer to it, but it is evidently making headway. B.

GEORGE P. ROWELL & Co. have issued the its remarkably complete record of the newspaper "American Newspaper Directory" for 1872, with press in the United States, Canada, and the Colonies. We learn from it that this country now maintains no less than 507 dailies, 105 tri-weeklies, 91 semi-monthlies, 685 monthlies, 4 bi-month110 semi-weeklies, 4,750 weeklies, 21 bi-weeklies, lies, and 55 quarterlies—in all 6,432 periodicals; being an increase on the past year of 449. Nevertheless, 74 dailies have died within the last twelve months. Florida alone is without a daily, weeklies. There are 663 papers claiming over 5,000 being barbarously satisfied with bi-weeklies and circulation. Of religious papers there are 302; of Papers devoted to Agriculture, etc., 105; Medicine and Surgery, 75; Education, 95; Commerce and Finance, 76; Insurance, 25; Real-Estate, 43: Science and Mechanics, 54; Law, 23; Sporting, 13; and Music, 28. The Freemasons have 25 periodicals, the Odd Fellows, 10; Woman Suffragists keep 5 "organs" going, and the Temperance there are 283; French, 23; Scandinavian, 12; Reformers, 43. Of periodicals printed in German, Spanish, 8; Hollandish, 6; Italian, 5; Welsh, 3; Bohemian, 6; Portuguese, 1; and Cherokee, 1. ranged by States and alphabetical. It represents The huge octavo is full of valuable statistics, ara vast amount of labor, gives evidence of the excellent organization of this great advertising house, and is, probably, the largest annual in the interests of a business firm issued anywhere in the world.

W. G. PALGRAVE's new book, "Hermann Agha," an Eastern narrative, a reprint of which is announced by Holt & Williams, is, it is said, not a work of fiction, or an account of other people's adventures, but a fragment of autobiography.

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 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 department should be forwarded by publishers at earliest convenient date.-ED.]

Six of One by Half-a-dozen of the Other is

probably the most remarkable example of literary collaboration in existence. It is a continuous novel, originally written for Old and New by its editor, Rev. E. E. Hale, and five of its leading fiction writers, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Whitney, Miss Lucretia P. Hale, the late Frederic W. Loring, and Frederic B. Perkins, associate editor of that magazine. Loring took up Mr. Hale's idea with glorious vim and pushed it through, though it was not till after he had gone West-to his death-that the first "solid sitting" was held and the original plot submitted by the chief somewhat modified. The plot is simply this: the three boys and three girls are brought up in acquaintance with one another in the New England village of Grayford. They are supposed to be mated for life, à la carte, but they all leave Grayford for "foreign parts," and at Norwich, Boston, and New York respectively there are new pairings-off. Later they happen, by one of Mr. Hale's easy miracles, to be all in Chicago at one time, when each finds that neither No. I or No. 2 of the supposed affinities is the heaven-sent one, and a third deal ends in happy marriages and Finis." Curiously, the fire came after this plot was planned, and the story ends with a spirited and most real description of those stirring scenes. The authors selected their parts, the editor tacitly agreeing "that each of the partners should be entirely and personally responsible for all the imaginings, opinions, and statements of all the other partners." The result has been given to the World in Old and New, and is published in book form by Roberts Bros., this week. It will be a puzzle to most readers to find out "who wrote which," and the book is remarkable also for many more substantial good qualities, since all the writers belong to a school of peculiar power. There are half a dozen pieces of preface also. The story makes a 16mo of 245 pages.

Happy Thought Hall, the new book of humor by that man of happy thoughts, J. C. Burnand, was noticed in these columns some weeks since, when Messrs. Roberts expected to publish it immediately. The publication has been delayed until this week, and it will now be issued in square 16mo, with the many amusing cuts in black ink, instead of purple, as was before intended. may remind our readers that it is a capital burlesque of life in an English country-house, which a party of bachelors take to entertain their friends during the se son. It is especially suited for light summer reading.

We

Robert Browning's New Poem. "Fifine at the Fair" is one of the most characteristic he has ever written. It is a hundred and eighty pages long, and deals in Browningesque rhythm and language with the great problems of existence, from texts drawn from the spectacle of the gipsey dancer, Fifine at the fair, as Don Juan, who speaks, walks there, "like husband and like wife," with Elvire. The admirers of Browning will worship him anew on this new product of his rule-defying genius, while to many its intricacy and depth will

A NEW PAPER FOR PUBLISHERS.-Publishers who care to

have their books promptly and ably noticed, should not neglect to place the Boston Globe on their list for editors' copies. The literary column on the first page is a regular and most valuable feature of this admirably conducted paper. In this tions received" is worth the price of any book, as the Globe conspicuous place a simple acknowledgment under "Publica is one of the few American journals which give the necessary attention to a correct title record. But it is the prompt, trustworthy, and well-written reviews that will soon give it that influence which a first-class literary paper can exercise on the sale of a new book. It is a fact to be regretted, that some of our ablest literary journals, the Nation, for instance, sadly underrate the importance of promptness. Tardy reviews, no matter how clever and elaborate, appearing two or three months after the publication of a book, when public opinion is formed in regard to its merits or when later books have engaged the attention of the general reader, have lost the force of that moral influence which, brought to bear at the right moment, so much contributes to the rise or fall of a literary

venture.

The Paper Trade Journal, a new semi-monthly periodical devoted to the interests of paper makers and dealers, stationers, publishers, and printers, is published by Howard Lockwood, 14 Park place, N. Y. The first number, bearing date of May 27, contains the debates in the House of Representatives on the Tariff on paper, books, type, etc.: Memorial of British Authors on Copyright in the U. S.; miscellaneous notes on paper mills, manufacture of paper; market reviews and price quotations from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati paper patents issued since January; importations of paper stock, paper chemicals, etc., and various editorials full of promises to make the Paper Trade Journal "the best periodical of its kind in the world."

The Paper Trade Reporter, in closing its third year, announces that, until further notice, it will be issued on the 24th of each month. The June number contains No. 10 of" Random about paper making; descriptive notices of paper mills and Shots by an Old Marksman"; an article on Soda; Chats manufacturing firms; the usual New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia price quotations, miscellaneous trade items, etc.

Appleton's Journal, June 15, has the following interesting sketches: Richard Wagner, by George B. Mills; Vinnie Ream at Home, by Elizabeth Kilham; An Evening with Sothern, by E. L. Didier. The number is especially full of entertaining matter, literary and miscellaneous news, and good illustrations, the latter including a fine portrait of Franz Abt.

The Watchmaker and Jeweller for June continues its valuable articles on Diamonds and Precious Stones, their history, value and characteristics; Reid's Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking, etc., and announces a new Treatise on the Art of Engraving, for the next issue.

The Financier, that substantial new weekly expositor of monetary interests and political economy, has, in its No. of June 1, a timely editorial on "American Shipping and our Foreign Indebtedness," in which the assertion is made that no steamship of American ownership crosses the ocean, while simply the freights between Europe and the United States are worth about eighty millions a year.

Harper's Weekly for June 15, has a splendid supplement containing a bird's-eye view of Philadelphia, constituting a complete and accurate map of the city.

Harper's Bazar, June 22, promises for the next PatternSheet Number a rich variety of patterns, illustrations, and descriptions of boys' and girls' gymnastic suits; dresses, blouse-waists, aprons, lingerie, etc.; a full assortment of infants' clothing, ladies' garden hats and gloves, sofa-pillows, clothes-racks, for napkins, embroidery designs and medallions; an alphabet for marking children's clothing, etc.; with the usual variety of literary and artistic attractions.

It

The Jewish Messenger enthusiastically recommends the support of the American Jewish Publication Society, just established "for the encouragement of Hebrew literature." says: "We emphatically need the American Jewish Publicaworkings will soon be systematized, its officers are intelligent tion Society. Its rules and by-laws are well designed, its and honorable-the main requisite is the support of the public, and this we earnestly ask of every one of our readers. Send your name at once to the Secretary, at his office, 243 and thus insure not alone the early publication of the three Broadway. Enclose your subscription for 1862-three dollars works announced as the year's programme, but a proper en

couragement to the officers and the permanence of the organization."

The Rod of Justice is a new satirical Catholic journal, published weekly. Price six cents per No. Für Alle (For All) is the title of a new weekly in the Ger

man language, published in N. Y. Price 7 cents per No.

Bonfort's Wine and Liquor Circular, hitherto published monthly, will, in future, appear semi-monthly. The great success which has attended this publication has induced this change. Price 20 cents per copy.

couragement of the fine arts, or for the use, or by the order, of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States; books, professional, of persons arriving in the United States; books, household effects, or libraries, or parts of libraries, in use of persons or families from foreign countries, if used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale; also paper stock, crude, of every description, including all grasses,

lished monthly by Murray, Dewey & Co., San Francisco, Cal. at $1.00 per annum.

What Next? is the title of a new monthly "for wide-awake boys and girls," published by J. B. Alden, Chicago. It is well printed, and at "thirty cents year or fifty cents with a premium chromo," certainly within the reach of school-boy purses. The same publisher has issued the first number of the True Plan, the organ of the "True Plan Publishing and Commission House," a co-operative establishment of which Mr. Alden is the manager.

pings, old paper, rope ends, waste rope, waste bagging, gunny bags and gunny cloth, old or refuse, to be used in making and fit only to be converted into paper and unfit for any other manufacture, and cotton waste, whether for paper stock or other purposes.

Henry Litolf, New York, has just begun the publication of a new musical periodical, the first numbers of which hold out excellent promise. The design is to issue monthly three numbers, one of piano music, one of songs for soprano or tenor, and one of songs for a low voice, the vocal selections being directed by Franz Abt, and the instrumental by Clemens Schultze. The work appears in New York under the title of "The Musical World," and in Brunswick as Die Musikalische Welt, and it is announced that prominent composers have been engaged to contribute.

An Open Question, a novel, by James De Mille, will be commenced in Appletons' Journal, No. 171, July 6th, richly

illustrated.

To take effect on August 1, 1872. ACCORDING to the official text, the following ar ticles have been placed under the ten per cent. reduction: All paper and manufactures of paper, excepting unsized printing paper, and books and other printed matter not herein specifically provided for; all manufactures of india-rubber, guttapercha, or straw; glass and glassware; all leather not otherwise herein provided for, and all manufactures of skins, bone, ivory, horn, and leather, except gloves and mittens, and of which either of said articles is the component part of chief value; all metals not herein otherwise provided for, and all manufactures of metals of which either of them is the component part of chief value, excepting percussion caps, watches, jewelry, and other articles

of ornament.

The following articles shall be exempt from duty Books which shall have been printed and manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation; books, maps, and charts imported by authority for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress; provided that the duty shall not have been included in the contract or price paid; books, maps, and charts specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophicl, literary, or religious purposes, or for the en

skins, tanned, or tanned and dressed, 25 per centum ad valorem. On upper leather of all other kinds, and on skins dressed and finished of all kinds, not herein otherwise provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem. On all skins for morocco, tanned, but unfinished, 10 per centum ad valorem.

INTERNAL REVENUE.-The repeal of all stamp taxes on deeds, contracts and other instruments, with the single exception of the two-cent stamp upon bank checks, orders and drafts, which is retained, will take effect on October 1st, 1872.

LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP.

HISTORY OF THE EASTERN DIOCESE.-The Rev. C. R. Batchelder proposes to publish as soon as sufficient encouragement in the way of subscriptions is received, the "History of the Eastern Diocese," in two volumes, for which he has been collecting materials for twenty years. The first volume will comprise the history of those parishes which existed in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island before the consecration of Bishop Griswold, in 1811; and many biographical notices of the clergymen who served the church in those times. The second volume will contain the entire Journals of the Eastern Diocese, and all the pastoral letters and addresses of Bishop Griswold, with various notes. The work will be printed in the same style as the Documentary History of the Church in Vermont, but upon better paper. The volumes will be issued separately, but all who subscribe for both will be expected to take them, either at the separate times of publication, or as soon the second is ready. The price to subscribers will by $3.00 per volume, in cloth binding, payable on delivery. Other styles of binding will be The number of copfurnished at reasonable rates. ies printed will be limited, and immediate attention will be necessary on the part of those who desire to have this important work. Subscriptions may be sent to the publishers, the Claremont Manufacturing Company, Claremont, N. H., by whom or by the author, whose address is, for the present, Sunapee, N. H., any further information which may be desired will be cheerfully given.

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MR. JOHN ROBSON writes from London that 3,000 books of reference are ready to be delivered to the Library Board of Chicago.

THE American Merchants' Union Express Company have introduced the plan of prepayment of charges on certain classes of goods by means of stamps. The stamps range in price from five to forty-five cents each, and packages weighing as much as fifteen pounds can be sent prepaid by this

means.