the Tragedian: Bewick's Life; Rogers's Century | Exploration; Kingsley's At Last (West Indies); of Scottish Life; Senior's Journals; Chambers's Tyndall's Hours in Alps; Campbell's How to See Life of Scott; Fitzgerald's The Kembles; Grant's Norway; Bowring's Eastern Experiences; HarThe Newspaper Press; Rev. W. Harness's Auto- court's Himmalayan Districts of Kooloo; Brown's biography; Memoirs of Chief Justice Lefroy; Coal Fields of Cape Breton; Ogier's The FortuForster's Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1. nate Isles; Shaw's High Tartary; Murray's HandBook of Asia. In LAW: Ortolan's History of the Roman Law; 'Campbell's Law of Negligence; May on Conveyances; Letters on International Relations (reprinted from the Times); Goddard on Law of Easements; Lee on Bankruptcy; Elphinstone on Conveyancing; Weightman's Law of Marriage; Glenn's Manual of Medical Law; Seaboard on Vendors, and the first volume of Sleigh's Criminal Law. on ANALYTICAL TABLE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED a New Books; b New Editions; c Am. Importations. Theology, Sermons, Biblical, etc....... Educational and Classical.. Juvenile Works and Tales... Novels and other Works of Fiction....... Ja.......562 b.......164 C........ 42-768 c........ 16-661 In MEDICINE and SURGERY: Allen's Aural Ca'tarrh; Tanner's Practical Midwifery; Oldham's What is Malaria; Richardson Diabetes; Crooke's Chemical Analysis; Dillnberger's Women's and Children's Diseases; Milne on Midwifery; Spence on Surgery, Vols. 3 and 4; Mey. hoffer on Respiration, Vol. 1; Mackenzie on Growth in Larynx; Sansom's Antiseptic System; Simpson's Obstetrics, Vol. 1; Reynolds's Sys Political and Social Economy, Trade and (8:105 tem of Medicine, Vol. 3; Green's Pathology; Williams's Pulmonary Consumption; Anstie's Neuralgia; Huxley's Manual of Anatomy; Reynolds's Clinical Electricity. Law, Jurisprudence, etc....... Commerce........ C........ 17-332 a....... 75 b... 44 C........ 22-141 a.......101 C....... 11-157 a. ...203 Arts, Science, and finely Illustrated Works....... 80 In POETRY and DRAMA: Swinburne's Songs Translation of Faust (American); Mortimer Col- Poetry and the Drama... .......... 36-319 a.......213 C... 39-325 a.......176 a. ...359 Year-books and bound volumes of Serials..b....... 11 Medicine and Surgery... In POLITICAL ECONOMY: Virginia Penny's How Women Can Make Money (American reprint); Maine's Village Communities; Macdonall's Political Economy; Jevon's Political Economy; Fletcher's Model Houses for the Industrial Classes; Belles-lettres, Essays, Monograms, etc... 'Wheeler's Choice of a Dwelling. In THEOLOGY, etc.: We have had some invaluable contributions to Biblical Exegesis; Lightfoot on a fresh revision of the New Testament; the first volume (the Pentateuch) of the Speaker's Commentary; Lange's Commentary on Jeremiah, translated; M'Caul's Epistle to the Hebrews; Gardiner's Harmony of the Four Gospels; Boutell's Bible Dictionary; Neale's and Littledale's Commentary on the Psalms, Vol. 3; Girdlestone's Synonyms of the Old Testament; and the 6th volume of Bishop Wordsworth's Bible. Beecher's Life of Christ, Vol. 1, is reprinted from America, and is a valuable contribution to religious literature: the first volume of Mercier's Life of Christ; Higginson's Ecce Messias; and Casper's Footsteps of Christ are devoted to Messianic Biography. Pocock's Records of the Reformation, reprinted from records in the British Museum; Jacob's Ecclesiastical Polity of the New Testament; Dorner's History of Protestant Theology; Bannerman's Essays on Church Unity-are among the numerous works on Church Polity. The first volume of Professor Hodge's Systematic Theology is reprinted from America, and is a most valuable addition to religious metaphysical literature. In TRAVEL and GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: Hare's Walks in Rome; Tollemache's Spanish Towns and Pictures; Leslie Stephens's Playground of Europe; Buchanan's Land of Lorne ; Oxenden's First Year in Canada; Russell's Pau and Pyrenees; Raymond's Mines of the Rocky Mountains; Herbert Barry's Russia in 1870; Stanley's New Sea and Old Land; Elliott's Mysore; Guinnard's Patagonians; Mrs. Harvey's Turkish Harems; Macleod's Peeps at Far East: Huyshe's Red River Miscellaneous, including Pamphlets, not Total C....... 15-385 ዐ. ....117 b. .... C....... 48 13-178 SUMMARY FOR EACH MONTH. 20 2-309 .5.157 Am. Importations. 48 21 March.. By presentation.. By exchange... ............ By transfer from the Patent Office (copyright books).. Books. Pamphlets. 8851 5640 1860 3471 1186 2924 366 480 65 .23,070 340 9,075 terests of Russia will not be furthered by an international copyright law. A MEETING OF NEW YORK PUBLISHERS was held at the Trade Salesrooms, Tuesday afternoon, for informal discussion of the question of international copyright and the appointment of a representative committee. The Library Committee of Congress (Mr. Morrill, chairman) is to hold a meeting for the hearing of all parties interested in the copyright question, Monday, Jan. 29. 66 FROM BOSTON. BOSTON, Jan. 22, 1872. DURING the natural reaction following the business flurry and excitement of the holidays, our sea of literature is disturbed by scarcely a ripple. There is a general gathering up of results, a survey of the field, an examination of unused material, all in the main satisfactory, with the exceptions that always attend human endeavors. There are disappointed authors who will vary Solomon's injunction so that it shall read, Put not your trust in publishers," and these latter have their own version, "Put not your trust in authors." As a whole, the technical holiday trade, covering the sales for and at the season, has been satisfactory, perhaps as much so as for the two or three preceding years. New books have taken the preference, and many of them have been quite successful. "Old stock" is rather more abundant than is pleasant to the contemplation, and those who did not lay in largely, as a general rule, did wisely. There is a marked change in the dispositions and tastes, or per-haps more correctly in the purses, of retail and to one acquainted with the average inbuyers. Selections are made more cautiously, telligence and culture of this community, it is gratifying to see the steady growth of a proINTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.-Mr. Henry C. per appreciation of books. Criticism is more Carey has issued another pamphlet on this ques-rational, and of a higher standard, and authors, tion. The substance of his argument is that the and opinions, and composition and engravpublishers would be the great gainers by the pro- ings in their design and execution, are disposed treaty, which would have the effect of giving cussed in a manner that shows an increase of them the monopoly of such books as were repub-culture in literary and artistic directions. A lished here, and that the prices of books would become as high as in England, and virtually deprive thousands of readers of the literature they may now obtain so cheaply. "It will be perceived that the largest item of increase is from the removal of copyright books from the Patent Office to this Library, provided for by act of July 8, 1870. These accessions, although consisting largely of school-books and the minor literature of the last forty years, embrace many valuable additions to the store of American books, which it should be one object of a national library to render complete. Among them are the earliest editions of the works of well-known writers, and the number of duplicates of books already in the library, although large, bears a much smaller pro portion to the whole number received than was apprehended. Most of the volumes received from this source are already catalogued." INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT IN GERMANY.The report of the committee appointed by the Directors of the Booksellers' Börsenverein to discuss the terms of a treaty between the German Empire and foreign countries, for the protection of the rights of authors and the copyright on books, prints, musical and dramatic compositions and works of art, has now appeared in print. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT IN RUSSIA.-The Moscow Gazette in an article on international treaties for the protection of literary property gives the official statistics of the import and export of books during the last five years. In 1866, books, maps, and music were exported to the value of 104,097 rubies; imports amounted to 465,153 rubles; 1867, exports, 168,813 rubles, imports, 464,765 rubles; 1868, exports, 128,649, imports, 1,103,380 rubles; 1869, exports, 106,462, imports, 990,400 rubles; 1870, exports, 83,714, imports, 1,153,082 rubles. The Moscow Gazette, from its point of view, based on these figures, concludes that the in casual observer might not notice this progressive change for the better, but to one conversant with our market in its details it is very apparent. As a consequence, our publishers and sellers are more careful than in former years, and aim at a higher grade in their own publications and in their miscellaneous stock. This in general. But off in the horizon are clouds not exactly like Elijah's, "the size of a man's hand," but the size of a book. I do not purpose in this initiatory letter to worry the reader with petty details, but rather to scan in a comprehensive way the field as it now appears. One of the most important works in a scientific point of view, now in progress, is George L. Vose's "Manual for Railroad Engineers." Mr. Vose's original treatise has been for many years out of print, and stray copies bring high prices. This edition is in fact a new work, rewritten, enlarged, and carefully thorough. As nothing has yet gone into print relative to its scope, it may be well to make a few specifications. It will contain all necessary rules and tables needed for the lo- new novel is promised with the title "Can the 66 Blessings brighten as they take their flight," and this has been signally verified in the case of the purchase by President White, of Cornell University, of the very valuable library or the late President Sparks, of Harvard University. This library of about 6,000 volumes was remarkably rich in American history, and very many of its volumes were rare, and in some instances not to be duplicated. Our Bostonians and our literati of Cambridge have long known those facts, and now every one is astonished that the collection was not long ago secured for Harvard. When the sale of the library was announced, book-byers took the admirable catalogue, and carefully marked the volumes they should try to purchase, all in a leisurely way. It never occurred to any one to buy it as a whole, although Harvard or Amherst, or Williams, College, should have been wide awake to gain the prize. But President White quietly came. on, and before we dreamed of what he was about he purchased the whole collection, and w, add it to the already excellent library of Ais pet institution. The price paid was $12,info, by no means exorbitant considering the character of the books. Mrs. Sparks says in Girl her preface to the catalogue: Chatty ligious into pera series of W are "The library possesses quaint and unique volumes. There also many not always easily found, which correspond to. Mr. Sparks' expressed intention to own every book he might wish to use." For its historic manuscripts it has long been. known. These papers were collected with intuitive skill and increasing ability during various tours undertaken since 1819, thors sufficient for the purpose: first, in the thirteen original States; often. elsewhere in his own enlarged country; three times in proginning with its longed visits to Europe; by means also of his extensive cor osition, and 5 preparatory schools. Lee & Shepard have several books press, of which I will not say much toAmong them are "The American Abroad," by Adeline Tafton, a lively book; "The Twilight of Faith," a story in which the twilight broade fect day; a series of Latin an Greek text-books intended to c ed selection from different Comprise a gradfor a thorough "course," simplest forms of com for use in academies As Mr. Gardner, på ̊ School, stands s public will hav sic excellen J. R. C ce. informe sood & Co. keep the public well perha of their doings, but a few items will He .ps be new. A uniform edition of Mrs. well's books will be published in March; s also Vol. II. of Bryant's "Odyssey," and a new volume of poems by John G. Saxe; "Yesterdays with Authors," by James T. Fields, will be out in a fortnight and will contain perhaps a fourth more matter than appeared in "the" Atlantic;" "H. H.," who insists on being "H. H." to the public, and nothing more, will have her "Bits of Travel" ready soon. cipal of the Boston Latin onsor for this enterprise, the e great confidence in its intrin 2 A ranged in sixty large volumes with a daily index. The journals of the tours point out the deposits of many unknown treasures; sketching scenes, characters and incidents; thus preserving information and reproducing reminiscences of a period far more remote."" Poor Sibley of Harvard! How will he mourn the irreparable loss to that library in Gore Hall which seems to be his deity! let no one mention the sale of it to him, unless they carry some rare volume with which to placate his grief and adorn his shelves. And let this mournful episode close this letter, and may its successor be rosy with promise and fulfilment. B. JOAQUIN MILLER, it seems, met with little favor in his own country, or State. He is now in Mexico, and his wife has taken to the rostrum. LITERARY AND TRADE GOSSIP. OSGOOD'S LIBRARY OF NOVELS.-It is coming to pass that each publishing house shall have its library of novels under one title or another. Osgood's is one of the latest, and to this several new numbers will be added at early dates. Farjeon's 'Grif" will be put on the list for one. Another, which is fresh and American, is "Can the Old love?" by Mrs. Buddington, whose de. lightful contributions on Dickens and other writers, in Harper's Magazine, have made her quite famous. Its dedication is "to those who know themselves to be travelling down the hill of life," to whom "it may be a consolation to remember that old hearts need not be cold ones." "3 Mr. De Forest's" Kate Beaumont 11 will come next, and thereafter "A Crown from the Spear," by the author of "Woven of Many Threads," and another novel by Mrs. Katharine Sedgwick Valerio, author of " Ina," both of which books were favorably received last year. THE NEW HYMNAL OF THE EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH will probably be ready the latter part of the week. Eight publishers are to print it from the plates prepared by order of the late Convention, and the competition will be close. Editions with music are to be issued by E. P. Dutton & Co., Fott, Young & Co., M. H. Mallory & Co., and possibly others of the eight. There has been great delay in delivering the plates to the several pubWishers, and great indignation is felt through the trade, and, we hear, among the clergymen also, the delay being attributed to the desire of the clerk of the Convention Committee, who has had practically the whole affair in his hands, to get out the musical edition which he has been preparing in advance of the regular trade. an introduction, prepared expressly for this edition cially valuable. by Mr. Thos. Wright, F. S. A., will make it espevolumes: $5 for small, $10 for large paper copies; The price will be, for the two five are to be printed on drawing paper, at $25 each. HISTORY OF NEW YORK.-A very entertaining City from the Discovery to the Present Day," by work may be expected in a "History of New York Col. Wm. L. Stone, editor of the College Review, which Virtue & Yorston are to publish. Parts of it have already been given to the public through the columns of the Evening Post. It is a most interesting subject, and a glance at the proof-sheets assures us that it is most interestingly treated. MR. GEO. P. PUTNAM, the veteran publisher, and one of the most active of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Art Museum, has consented to accept the position of Managing Trustee or Honorary Superintendent of that Institution for the first year. He will devote considerable time to its organization-of course without withdrawing from the business with which he has so long been identified. MR. HORACE E. SCUDDER, one of the new partis at once one of the most scholarly and enterprisners in Hurd & Houghton, H. O. Houghton & Co., ing men in the trade. His "Dream Children,' and like delightful juveniles, have made him quite famous as a writer, and it is to him that the uniform edition of Andersen's writings, which is not approached by any English one, is largely due. He corresponded directly with Andersen, and, indeed, studied Danish for the express purpose of succeeding in that difficult undertaking; and the dear Danish story-teller expressed his delight that his American editor was one whose own stories ARTEMUS WARD is to be sketched characteris-proved him to be so thoroughly in sympathy with tically by "Eli Perkins," of the Commercial Advertiser (Mr. M. D. Landon), and G. W. Carleton & Co. are to publish the biography. A BOOK ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN is in preparation by Mr. J. H. Treadwell, 593 Broadway, and he desires to hear from any one having notable specimens worthy of description or illustration therein. "AMERICAN MARBLES" are to be treated of in a book by Mrs. F. G. Fairfield, which may be expected in the Spring. PROF. CHADBOURNE'S (of Williams College) Lowell lectures on "Instinct," which have both a popular and a scientific value, are to be published by the Putnams next month. They are also preparing a fresh edition of De Vere's " Leaves from the Book of Nature." ELISEE RECLUS.-The case of Elisée Reclus, author of "The Earth," condemned by the French Government for Communism, has excited universal sympathy for him. The leading scientists of Eng; and have united in a petition for his release, and one has also been sent from here to Minister Washburne, which Gen. Dix, William Cullen Bryant, Judge Daly, Parke Godwin and Bayard Taylor signed. REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, son of Jacob, of happy fame, whose capital "Laicus" letters in the Christian Union attracted universal attention, has written some like clever papers on parish questions, which Dodd & Mead will publish by and by. THE OLD "GESTA ROMANORUM," or entertaining moral tales preached by the Middle Ages monks, are to be reprinted in a limited edition issued by Mr. J. W. Bouton, in Rev. Charles Swan's translation from the original Latin. They are both of great interest and of antiquarian value, and him. It is to Mr. Scudder's graceful pen, also, that the clever editorial writing and paragraphing in the Riverside Bulletin, which have made t best of its kind, are to be credited. HALF-HOUR RECREATIONS IN POPULAR SCIENCE is the name of a serial to be issued monthly by Lee & Shepard, and to be made up of famil iar lectures, essays, and other papers on scientific matters, modern discoveries, natural phenomena, social statics, etc. The editor will admit no article too abstruse or too technical to be comprehended publishers are such that they can safely promise a by the general reader; and the arrangements of the popularization of science such as has not hitherto been attempted. THE EDUCATIONAL YEAR-BOOK for 1872 (Barnes) contains a Digest of School Laws; Syslic Schools; Educational Societies and Associatems of Public Instruction; the Operations of Pubtions; Institutes and Examinations; Theory and Schools; Practical Forms; Memoranda of EduPractice in the Class-room; Notes on Private cational' Matters in Foreign Countries; General Advancement; Notes of late Scientific Discoveries; Curious Items of Value; Anecdotes; Rates of Postage and Stamp Duties; Time and Distance Tables; etc., etc. been charged with the duty of organizing the AmerTHE COMMITTEE of REVISION.-Dr. Schaff has ican committee which is to cooperate with the British committee in the revision of the Bible, and has announced by a circular the names of a num ber of American divines of different evangelical Protestant churches who have been invited to engage in the work. Both the American and British committees will mutually submit portions of their work to each other for review and criticism as fast as they complete it; and a joint meeting of both 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. 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 Griechis chen 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 by English scholars, and has since become a textbook at Eton and other public schools. at the Lycée Condorcet, in Paris, and M. de Caussade, are preparing a complete edition of the works of Agrippa d'Aubigné. AGRIPPA D'AUBIGNE.-M. Réaume, Professor 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 suc- HISTORY OF FRANCE.-Ludovic Lalanne, well cessful. Among these is Mr. Farjeon. The fourth known by his excellent edition of "Malherbes," class is composed of that immense rank who are has just corrected the last proofs of a "Dictionnot known, and of whom nothing can be expected-naire de l'Histoire de France" to be published by ladies of fashion whose husbands pay for the print- Hachette. ing 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." 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. 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 Atonement," 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 and 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. |