Kellogg, chaps. 1-4.-Only Girls, by Virginia F. Townsend, chaps. 1-2.-Among the Raftsmen. by Frank H. Taylor: Alfred in the Danish Camp, and Dolly Varden, etc., etc. Record.-July-Ancient Mounds in the West, by Anson S. Miller. That Old Pump, by C. G.--Home is Where There's One to Love Us.-"It's All in the Mixing" (illustration).-A Wonderful Instrument.-Pioneers of Printing in Chicago (portrait).-A Home.-The Growth of Life Insurance. - How Safes are Made.-Joy Bringers, by H. L. Hastings.-The Turkish Bath.-Subscription Books.-The Chicago TypeFoundry.-Earth Closets. -Reviews of Books.-Publishers' Department. Our Young Folks.-July-A Chance for Himself (Part VII), by J. T. Trowbridge.-Glimpses of Boston, by S. A. Drake. Cow Lilies, A Poem, by Marian Douglas.-Wondering Tom (Part II), by Mary E. Mapes Dodge.The Whisperer, by Mrs. A. M. Diaz.-How a Letter went to Papa, by Annie Clyde.-When I was a Lad, A Poem, by J. T. Trowbridge. -Our Young Contributors.-The Evening Lamp, etc. Popular Science Monthly.-July.-Corals and Coral Architecture, by Elias Lewis, Jr. (With Illustrations).-The Physiology of Emotion, by Dr. G. F. Blanford.-A Giant Planet, by R. A. Proctor.--The Migrations of Men, by Prof. A. De Quatrepages.-On the Digestibility of Vegetable and Animal Food, by Prof. Voit.-Mr. Martineau on Evolution, by Herbert Spencer.-Musical Mice, by Rev. S. Lockwood, Ph. D.)-The Study of Human Nature, by Rev. H. W. Beecher. -Astro-Meteorology, by Prof. Daniel Kirkwood.-Iron and Civilization. by A. S. Hewett, Esq.-Nervous Control of Animal Movements. From the French of M. Onimus. (With Illustrations).-Ventilation, and the Reasons for it, by R. Angus Smith, F. R. S.--James D. Dana. (With Portrait).- Editor's Table: Man as an Object of Scientific Study.-The Discoverer of Oxygen, etc. The Quarterly Review.-April.-The State of English Architecture.-Thomas Carlyle.-Trade with China. -Milton-Modern Scepticism.-The Duke of Somerset.The British Parliament, its History and Eloquence.-Diary of a Diplomatist.-Education, Secularism, and Non-conformity.-Concession to the United States. Scribner's Monthly.-July.-West Point, Illustr., by Benson J. Lossing." Will You Walk into my Parlor?" Illustr., by Mrs. S. M. Peterselia.-Draxy Miller's Dowry. Part III, by Saxe Holm.-Harker and Blind, by James I. McKay. The Postman's Ring. Poem, by Adeline D. T. Whitney. At His Gates. Chaps. XVIII-XXL., Illustr., by Mrs. Oliphant.-As Others See Us, Illustr., by Burt G. Wilder.-Mr. Lowell's Prose.-III., by W. C. Wilkinson.Before the Shrine. Poem, by Kate Putnam Osgood.-BackLog Studies. VII., by Charles Dudley Warner.-Woman as a Smuggler; and Woman as a Detective, by Fanny Howell.The Law of the Heart, and the Law of the Street, by James B. Hodgkins.-Topics of the Time, and usual Departments. Sunday School Teacher.--June. --The Worth of a Good Record, by Rev. H. C. Trumbull.--The Sabbath School vs. The Family, by Rev. Wm. A. Bartlett.--Christ as a Teacher, by Rev. Joseph Alden, D.D.-Kindergarten and the Sunday School, by Mrs. M. H. Kriege.-A Sunday School among Russian, Serfs by Vera Geot.-Abraham, the Father of the Faithful.-A Concert Exercise, by J. M. Larrabee. - Egyptian Darkness, by Rev. J. S. Denner.-Elisha and Israel-Lessons. Infant Class Department, by Miss Sara J. Timanus.The Fifth National Convention.-National S. S. Convention. -Literature, etc. NOTABLE COMMENTS. Mr. Howells' Works.-The recent publication of a new edition of the works of Mr. Howells has called forth the following notice, from an accomplished critic, in the Boston Globe: "We cannot conscientiously recommend the writings of Mr. Howells to any American gentleman who is engaged in upholstering his house with rare books in splendid bindings. Mr. Howells has the misfortune to be a new author. His observation, his humor, his wit, his fancy, his knowledge, his singular grace of style, the adaptation of his genius to the needs of the present time, should exclude him from every 'gentleman's library.' Why? It is ignominious to confess the fact; but truth compels us to admit that his works can be purchased at all book-stores for two dollars a volume. He is therefore unfit to be admitted. If he confined his edition to a hundred copies, and charged a hundred dollars for every copy, then he might have some charity shown toward him. As it is, his democratic mode of publication shuts him out from the sacred shelves of that bibliographical heaven, a 'gentleman's library."" "Still the great body of the cultivated public has an instinctive delight in original genius, whether it be refined or sensational. Mr. Howells is eminently refined. His humor, however vivid in form, is subtle and elusive in its essence. He depends, perhaps, somewhat too much on the feeling of humor in his readers to appreciate his own. Everybody understands such a humorist as Mark Twain, because he storms down on se of the ludicrous in an overwhelming flood of eccen tricity, oddity, and caricature. We roar with laughter as we read. Howells, on the contrary, has the true Addisonian touch; hits his mark in the white; and, instead of provoking uproarious laughter, strives to evoke that satisfied smile which testifies to the quiet enjoyment of the reader. His humor is the humor of a poet." The Nether Side of New York-Mr. Edward having represented the Times at Police Headquarters for Crapsey is a veteran reporter of the New York Press, many years. His opportunities for becoming thoroughly acquainted with the low life of the metropolis have thus been very great, and with the born reporter's keen appetite for facts, and some faculty for generalization, he has acquired a thorough and useful knowledge of the subject. Readers of the "Gal axy "have found that he has that clear, graphic, and effective style which is the model for newspaper reports, indeed for most sorts of writing, and comes from knowing what one has to say and saying it plainly. To these "Galaxy" papers have been added others on subjects too delicate for treatment in the pages of a general magazine, and of these is made a book which Sheldon & Co. publish, in octavo, under the same title of "The Nether Side of New York; or, the Crime, Vice, and Poverty of the Great Metropolis." The work is in no wise sensational, nor is it meant to pander in any way to the prurient. It is the result of four years' honest, careful. conscientious work by an earnest man, who hoped "to furnish a basis of fact for the operations of the social reformers of the future." It is a thoroughly commendable book, and in striking contrast with the miserable bids to the prurient, so many of which have been put forth as subscription books on this subject. Mr. Crapsey has to do with foul subjects, but he paints such in all their foul truth, and, except that it is perhaps not well to acquaint the young and innocent at all with these matters, the book cannot fail to do good everywhere. Truth is the best weapon against vice, as against all wrong.-N. Y. Evening Mail. Mireio. "If any reader of ours is at a loss what to read on the loveliest day in summer, let us counsel him to read Mireio.' And when you have read Mirèio,' gentle reader, take up "Three Books of Song,' and learn that there are ways out of the oldest literature into naturalness as sweet as that of the newest."-Atlantic Monthly. OF Mr. Clarence King's recent work on the Sierra Nevada, the Saturday Review remarks: "Mr. King's narrative combines a liveliness of perception, and a graphic skill in portraying what meets his eye which will serve to recommend his work to the larger class of readers in general. Whether in face of the stupendous scenery of this mountain chain, or in the companionship with new and abnormal types of life here forced upon the traveller or the explorer, he shows that he possesses the gift of making himself thoroughly at home, together with the art of admitting his readers into fellowship with what he sees and sympathetic enjoyment of what he feels. Throughout his book Mr. King gives signs of literary power which needed but to be wielded with more regular effort, to be trained in more artistic methods of handling his materials, and to be seconded by greater skill and taste on the part of his publisher, to bring Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada' up to the highest standard among compositions of its class." The "Leisure Hour" Binding.-Says the Watchman and Reflector: "These books are issued in a cheap but very pretty and durable style, the paper and print are excellent and the unique binding looks as cool and inviting as a clean linen duster' on a hot day, in consoling contrast with the flaming red and blue, and gilt covers that make one perspire even to glance at. A red-bound book in a hot day! We thank Holt & Williams for their brown-linen idea. Una and her Paupers, Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones (Routledge). "Few memoirs," says Mr. Beecher, are better calculated to produce a profound impression upon all who are susceptible to the exhibition of remarkable Christian excellence. It is one of the few books which render piety attractive." Neither Rome nor Judah, by Ernest Hoven, Presb. Bd. of Pub., is, according to the Lutheran a thoughtful tale of the era immediately succeeding the death of Christ, and represents the mental condition and views of the heathen but cultivated Roman, and of the earnest but prejudiced Pharisee respecting the Messiah. It is an interesting reproduction of the conflicting thoughts of the times, and is written in pleasing style after the manner of Ware's "Zenobia” and “ Aurelian.” Only Three Weeks is commended as follows by the London Spectator: Its sketches of character are lively; some of them admirable, some caricatures, and some both, at different times. Its descriptions of scenery are delightful, and its dialogue easy and clever. Let every one who wants to be refreshed by a bright and original story, and is not too sensitive about endings, send for 'Only Three Weeks. ""' Harper's Monthly regards Joanna H. Mathews as one of the very best story-writers for young children. The Atlantic Montkly calls Hare's "Walks about Rome," (Routledge) "a condensed library of information about the Eternal City, LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP. THOMAS CARLYLE, Kinglake, and Froude have written notes in favor of the Canadian copyright plan. Mr. Carlyle writes to Mr. Trevelyan: "Some weeks ago I signed a petition drawn up by Huxley, which probably you have seen, accepting cheerfully the American offer to English authors, and leaving English publishers entirely to their own devices in the matter which latter class of persons, as you justly urge, should never have been imported into the discussion at all! This Huxley petition, I have heard somewhere, is not to be granted; whereupon I gladly fall back on your proposal; and indeed, from the first, should have preferred it as the really practical method. If you can push forward this proposal of yours to a victorious issue, I shall, out of public spirit, have a true satisfaction; though, for my own poor share, taking little or no interest in the question for a good while past. J. RUSSELL WEBB.-The dawn of the new era of instruction is brightening to the day; it will soon be easier to learn than not, and children will cry for their books and slates as they cry already for homopathic medicines. J. Russell Webb, although his head was silvering with age, still keenly remembered his child trials and sufferings in his struggles with the incomprehensible alphabet, his real miseries in the toilsome "first steps," and resolved that these things ought not to be. The outcome of that resolution was his "WordMethod," whereby thousands of little minds have stepped pleasantly into the fields of juvenile literature, and never have wearied and rebelled in the old A B C tread-mill. Mr. Webb now presents a further development of his happy idea: a series of "First Lessons in Language and Drawing." The parts of speech are taught by their use, and words are associated with the things they represented through the medium of pictures. Talking, reading, writing, spelling, drawing, are all blended naturally together, the admirable object-lesson plan being incorporated in the system, and the pupil is attracted on easily and surely to a real practical knowledge of the elements of language, and to some skill in the expression of his thoughts by word of mouth, in letters, or pictorially. The book is a square 16mo of 120 pages, and is sold for 25 cents a copy. PROF. William Russell, author of American Elocution, etc., says of Bacon's" Manula of Gesture," in press by J. C. Griggs & Co., "Mr. Bacon's treatise on the subject of Gesture is, in my opinion, the most instructive exposition of that subject, whether for the student or the teacher of elocution, that has as yet come under my notice. It is both complete in its range and exact in its details. In the hands of an intelligent teacher, or of an earnest student, it will, I think, prove a valuable manual and successful guide." S. C. GRIGGS & Co., have also in preparation, for immediate publication, "Getting on in the World," by William Mathews, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Chicago. The deep interest with which a portion of the work has been read in the form of contributions to the Chicago Tribune, and the desire expressed by many persons of obtaining it in a more permanent form, have prompted the preparation of the present volume. The shrewd sense and vivid biographical illustrations with which the work abounds, render it eminently readable, while the practical knowledge and worldly wisdom with which it teems, make it a most instructive guide to those who would learn the secret of success in life. An experience of more than twenty years as a popular contributor to the press of the country, is a guarantee that the work will be one of high excellence. THE Late Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, according to the Home Journal, left very minute and voluminous journals and diaries of his life, from the age of fifteen; a compilation of which is in preparation by his widow, and will before long be published. The difficulty is very great of condensing within reasonable limits a mass of professional and historical documents, plans, and charts, every one of which bears evidence of the talent of their author, or of his inflexible patriotism and priceless honor. The portion referring to events from 1861 till his death, in 1870, is particularly valuable, historically; and by its publication a new version will be given to more than one unsettled question pertaining to the secret history of the war. The work is to be published for the benefit of the Admiral's children, to whom, after forty-five years official life, he left only two thousand seven hundred dollars each; a sufficient commentary on the unbending integrity of their father, and his right to the proud title, "hon est man. T. R. CALLENDER & Co., Phila., have published "The American Centennial Anniversary Chart," a large, beautifully colored map of Philadelphia,showing Fairmount Park, where the Centennial Anniversary Buildings will be erected, etc., and views of Independence Hall, on the Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, up the Schuylkill, Union League House. Size, 40x28 inches. A MAP OF BOSTON, has been published by L. Prang & Co. It is made up from the latest and most reliable sources, and contains all the changes and improvements made in the city up to the time of its publication. It is also provided with a directory of streets, hotels, public buildings and places of amusement, thus forming a complete. guide. Price, 25 cents; colored 50 cents. A COMMITTEE has been formed in London, under view of aiding the Municipality of Strasbourg in its the presidency of the Duke of Manchester, with a attempt to replace the splendid library destroyed by the German bombardment. Books, etc., should be sent to the Bibliothèque Municipale de Strasbourg, care of Messrs. Hachette & Co., 16 King William from Messrs. Trübner, the Philological Society, etc. street." Contributions have already been received THOSE who are drawn to the reading of the novel "Albert Lunel" by the announcement of Lord Brougham as its author will find, among other things, various entertaining passages relating to this country and to President Washington. The withdrawal of the novel from the market immediately after publication by its eccentric author was not known to many Americans, and surprise and curiosity will doubtless give to the book great temporary popularity. CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER have just issued "Butler's Ecclesiastical History, from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century." The former volume of this history, embracing the first to the thirteenth century was highly commended by learned and venerable presiding bishop of the the Rt. Rev. Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, the Church; by Bishop Stephens, of Pennsylvania; by Dr. Howe, bishop elect of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania; by Professor J. S. Stone, of the Divinity School, Massachusetts; and by other eminent divines and journals in the country. Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, sixty-fifth semi-annual part for July, will be ready on the 20th, the usual time for publication. This is the thirty-second year of the is sue of this invaluable compendium of dis and improvements in medical science. Since 1840 it has constantly increased in circulation, until now it has a more extensive patronage than any other medical journal extant. The regular terms to the trade will be found in the advertisement of the publisher in this week's issue of the Trade Circular. THE PHYSCIAN'S HAND-BOOK for 1873, will be reach with the voice, and preach, to untellable good, the helpfulness of holiness. The weekly Plymouth Pulpit, of J. B. Ford & Co., is a welcome Sabbath visitor wherever it goes; and the half-yearly volumes which contain twenty-six of these, and the same number of Mr. Beecher's sermons are heaped-up treasure-houses of the richest, promptly published by September 1. This stand-finest, most helpful thoughts. The fifth and sixth series from Sept. 1870, to Sept. 1871, form the latest two published volumes, and are just issued in the handsome octavos adopted by J. B. Ford & Co. for Beecher's sermons. They cover a wide range of subject, but agree in their possession of the highest worth and most beautiful eloquente. We may note that Mr. Beecher's sermons on "Fuand "The Tendencies of American Progress," are ture Punishment," "The Training of Children,” included in the fifth series, and that among those of the sixth are sermons on "The Lessons from Paris," and "The Two Revelations." ard Manual which enters upon its sixteenth year of publication has long become an indispensible ready guide to the medical practitioner. It is annually improved by incorporating all the new remedial agents discovered during the past year. The publisher, W. A. Townsend announces in this number a reduction of price and rates to the book-trade. G. & C. MERRIAM, the publishers, recently filled an order for 16 copies of "Webster's Unabridged," from Colombo, capital of the Island of Ceylon, in the East Indies. During May they had two orders from Japan, one of 80 and one of 36 copies; also one of 12 copies from Constantinople; 99 copies also went to the China and Japan market in April, from San Francisco. "Webster's Speller" keeps up its sale of nearly one million copies per annum. The actual number for the past year was 976,204. LORD DALLING (Sir Henry Bulwer), has left the "Life and Letters of Lord Palmerston" in a more perfect state than might have been expected, when we remember the state of his health during the last year of his life. Down to 1848 the work is in type, and the portions relating to the events of 1851 and 1852 are complete in manuscript. He had also finished the better part of the Essay on Sir Robert Peel, which, with a sketch of Lord Brougham's career, was to form a part at least, of a second volume of "Historical Characters." "HARPER'S HAND-BOOK" for travellers in Europe and the East" is now in its eleventh year, which fact is itself evidence of its acceptability and usefulness to travellers. This issue for 1872 is a goodly 12mo of 763 pages, bound, as usual, in morocco tucks and accompanied with no less than thirty maps, and fifty-six plans of cities. Mr. W. Pembroke Fetridge still devotes his time to keeping accurate, travelling about Europe, and during the past year has written much of the work; bringing it down to the beginning of this year. A new general map of Europe has replaced the old one (in pocket) and there are thousands of revisions in the text. It is the most comprehensive and most nearly complete single-volume guide-book in existence, and its value to the traveller can scarcely be over-estimated. A goodly octavo of "Travels in Europe and the Holy Land," by the Rev. Eugene Vetromile, D. D., apostolic missionary, is issued by D. & J. Sadlier & Co.; the two volumes in one, with portrait. Father Vetromile journeyed over the unusually travelled part of Europe, and all through the Holy Land and Egypt; his notes cover therefore a considerable ground, and present many facts. Most of the books of travel abrad are from the Protestant point of view; this shows the other side of the picture, and will, therefore, be especially acceptable to believers in the Catholic faith, who will gladly follow the Father in his interesting tour. THE publishing world is well represented at the Boston Jubilee, by Mr. Jas. R. Osgood, whose executive ability and vigor has been quietly and opportunely proved anew by his work as chairman of the Press committee. The five hundred knights of the Spread Eagle, more or less, who attended the jubilee as ears for the people at large, were admirably provided for, and unanimously expressed their appreciation of Mr. Osgood's foresight and patient care. He was in attendance at the Coliseum and at work all the time, and the trying ordeal never ruffled his complacency. Each member of the press was presented with a copy of that admirable hand-book and guide "Boston Illustrated," on his arrival at the Press committee room "with the compliments of Jas. R. Osgood & Co." in order that none might be lost in the mazes of the Hub. And this enterprising house has also issued a local daily "Jubilee Doings," most cleverly edited by Aldrich, and most cleverly illustrated by Hoppin, which is to be continued through the Jubilee. FRANK LESLIE'S Illustrated Newspaper, June 29, has begun "Hard Luck," an American story, founded upon incidents in Western life, by C. Shackelford. The same number contains a double page interior view of the great Coliseum, at the opening of the exercises. HADLEY BROTHERS publish a new revised edition of Hiram Hadley's "Lessons in Language," which proposes to introduce to the study of English Grammar by teaching the science of the English language through the use of it, rather than the use of the language through the science of it. It contain twenty-six large pictures, and sells for 60 cents, retail. Stationery, Printing, and Paper Trades. POISONOUS WALL-PAPER.-Notwithstanding the well-ascertained fact that nearly all the green coloring now used in wall-paper contains arsenic, the dangerous, such paper-hangings are to be seen gaseous exhalations of which are known to be everywhere, in country and town alike, and no amount of reasoning or proof seems, thus far, to have had the slightest influence in inducing the proper care in choosing paper for walls. There can THERE used to be an opinion which grew almost be but little doubt that sickness and death often to the dignity of a proverb, that sermons were the occur as a result of inhaling the volatile poison that stupidest, dullest, and dryest kind of reading; must fill a room whose walls are covered with paper "but we have changed all that" There is'nt any every square foot of which contains from one to ten better, fresher or more enjoyable reading, all grains of arsenic. This is not rare. In the manthe world round to-day than such sermons as Coll-ufacture of all papers of a pale green tint, or even yer's or Beecher's. They enter thousands of in blue, arsenic is used in abundance, and many sewhich these wonderful preachers cannot vere cases of poisoning have been traced directly to it, while it is well known that its use is on the increase in papers of all colors, and even in white. The Prussian Government, realizing the danger, "forbade the use of arsenic in any colors, whether distemper or oil, for in-door work. A similar law passed in our country will be necessary, unless people can be made aware of the danger. There is another most pernicious practice, which is followed by results scarcely less fatal, that of pasting one layer of paper over another, each successive season. This has been proved beyond question to be the cause of typhoid fever and other diseases; especially is this the case where walls absorb moisture during damp weather, causing the paste to become decomposed, and filling the room with an odorless gas, all the more dangerous because it is not easily detected.-American Builder. IMPROVED PASTE FOR WALLS.-A new form of paste for attaching paper hangings to walls, and one which, besides possessing the merit of cheapness has the advantage of preventing the paper from separating or peeling off, is prepared by first softening 18 pounds of finely powdered bole (fatty clay) in water, and then draining off the surplus water from the mass. One and a quarter pounds of glue is next to be boiled into glue water, and the bole and two pounds of gypsum are then stirred in, and the whole mass forced through a seive by means of a brush. This is afterward diluted with water to the condition of a thin paste or dressing when it is ready for use. This paste is not only much cheaper than the ordinary flour paste, but it has the advantage of adhering better to whitewashed surfaces, especially to walls that have been coated over several times, and from which the coating has not been carefully removed. In some cases it is advisable, when putting fine paper on old walls, to coat them by means of this paste with a ground paper, and to apply the paper hanging itself to this with the ordinary paste. NEW PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC PROCESS.-According to the London News, a new system of photographic lithography has been introduced in Berlin, based upon the fact that caoutchouc, like jew's pitch and some other hydrocarbons, is capable of receiving a photographic impression. A thin film of caoutchouc dissolved in benzole is first spread upon paper, and exposed in the camera in the usual manner. The portions which have been subjected to the action of light are rendered insoluble, and the other portions are then washed away, as in Mr. Pouncey's process. The caoutchouc, wherever it remains on the paper, will receive a greasy ink from a roller which is now passed over the sheet, and the impression thus obtained may be transferred to the lithographic stone, and printed from in the usual manner. The plan is virtually a reproduction of Pouncey's process, with the substitution of caoutchouc for the bitumen of Judea. THE DOLLY VARDEN PATTERN.-A paperhanger in Boston found himself, a few weeks ago, with a large stock of extremely ugly wall-paper on hand, which he despaired of selling. A lady came in one day, and seeing the large bouquets of flowers which formed the design of the paper, complimented him upon his enterprise in securing the Dolly Varden pattern. He took the hint, spoke of the fashionable article to his customers, and in a few weeks sold every roll of it. A NEW PAPER.-A new process of making paper from Scirpus lacustris, lake-sedge, has been invented by S. D. Baldwin, of Marysville, California. After experimenting a number of years with this material, he has succeeded in obtaining therefrom a fine pulp, capable of being made into the best quality of writing and printing paper. This species of Scarpus is abundant in the shoal waters of rivers and bays in the Northern States, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, growing in greatest luxuriance in the great lakes and the St. Lawrence river. By employing stems cut in June, fifty to sixty per cent. of pulp has been obtained, as fine and strong as that from Sea Island cotton. A great varity of experiments show its value as a serviceable and economical paper stock, and indicate that it is destined to come into general use. PAPER FROM RICE GRASS.-We learn from good authority, says the Paper Trade Journal, that a company of New York gentlemen have formed an association, with ample capital, for the manufac ture of paper from the fibre of rice grass. Ample experiments have been made to show the adaptability of this material for paper making, and the gentlemen interested in the scheme, who are wellknown metropolitan capitalists, are confident of success. Their works are to be erected in Canada, and we hope in a short time to give full particulars of their plans and labors. MCKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN, Philadelphia, propose to get up portraits of all "the to-be-pitied men who may be set up as candidates for the Presidency, and to furnish electrotypes to patriotic editors." They have just introduced a new set of very comie mortised card cuts, at $1.50 each,-a capital novelty, which may prove a profitable investment to printing stationers. The New Postal Law. THE new law just passed makes some important changes in existing postal regulations. The most important is the authorization of one-cent postal cards for correspondence or printed circulars similar to those which were introduced in Great Britain nearly two years ago, and are now in use in nearly all European countries. The House provided in the bill for cards with a paper flap to cover and conceal the writing. The Senate changed this to an open card. In conference committee the style of the card was left to the discretion of the Postmaster-General, who prefers the open cards, and will order that kind only to be manufactured. and will be provided with lines for the address, The face of the card will bear a one-cent stamp, and the back will be ruled for the letter. price of the card and stamp will be only one cent. It will probably be three or four weeks before they will be ready for sale, as the plates for printing have yet to be prepared. The The following are the new rates to be charged on third-class printed matter, viz.: On all pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, magazines, handbills, posters, unsealed circulars, prospectuses, book manuscripts, tween author and publisher), flexible patterns, proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets (passing besample-cards, phonographic paper, letter envelops, postal envelops and wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental paper, photographic representations of different types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions, a postage of one cent for each two dress, to be prepaid by postage-stamps affixed. ounces, or fraction thereof, on packages to one ad On all books (other than those printed by order of Congress) postage at two cents for each two ounces, or fraction thereof, limited to four pounds in weight. On samples of merchandise, metals, ores and mineralogical specimens, two cents for each two ounces, or fraction thereof, packages limited to twelve ounces in weight. SPECIFICATIONS OF AMERICAN PAT- the scroll or flange, so that the fingers may be ENTS. PENCIL-CASE-(No. 126, 448, May 7.) Wesley H. Davis, Hartsville, Ind.-This invention has relation to a combined pencil-holder and pencilsharpener; and consists in the combination with a wooden lead-pencil of a reversible cap and metallic holder. ADVERTISING CALENDAR.-(No. 126, 481, May 7) Robert C. Odgen, of New York.-This invention relates to calendars which have a sheet, leaf, or tablet for each month, said sheets, leaves, or tablets being hinged or fastened together and to the back, so that any one month may be exhibited to view by dropping that or another leaf, sheet, or tablet down. One side or other part of said sheets, leaves, or tablets is generally used for advertising The invention consists in the hinge or connecting device for fastening the leaves, sheets, or tablets together and to the back. MARKING-POT.-(No. 126, 501, May 7.) Jerome L. Tarbox, of New York. This invention has for its object to furnish an improved marking-cup, called the "champion marking-cup," which shall be so constructed as to serve as a can for the ink, a cup for marking, and a compartment for rubbing the stencil-brush to distribute the ink and prevent blotting, and which shall at the same time be simple and compact in construction, and convenient in use. INKSTAND. (No. 126, 514, May 7.) Alexander W. Brinkerhoff, Upper Sandusky, O.-This invention has relation to inkstands; and consists in the novel construction of the same, whereby provision is made for preventing the pen from striking the glass when inserted; for preventing the spilling of ink; the breaking of the stand by frost; and for causing the ink to drain toward and into a narrow cup in the centre of the stand, so that a full dip may be taken when there is but a small quantity in the stand without tilting the same. DESK PAPER-CUtter.—(No. 126,659, May 14.) Jerome W. Whetmore, Erie, Penn.-The object of this invention is-while, to some extent, it stiffens the sheet-metal paper-cutter in a manner similar to that in which it has already been done-to secure greater facility in picking up the cutter when the work is done. The nature of this invention is, partially cutting away the central part of readily passed under the cutter. BOOK-HOLDER.-(No. 126, 901, May 21.) Chamberlayne Phelps, Clayton, New York.-This invention consists of a book opener and holder made of an elastic curved plate, the two ends of which form a clasp, and one of which ends is provided with a cross-bar to hold the book open, and the other end is provided with a curved lip to fit in the back crease of the book, and the holder is provided with thumb and finger plates, which serve as handles for operating it. 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