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A New Combination

HERE have been many suggestions during

the past year that the book business could find healthy connection with many other lines of merchandise besides those with which books are accustomed to appear. Perhaps the most unusual recent news of such a definite accomplishment is that coming from Elizabeth H. West, State Librarian at Austin, Texas, who reports that in Dallas J. A. Majors Company of 1710 Commerce Street has an automobile shop and books happily combined. West's description is as follows:

Miss

"Passing along a business street of Dallas, Texas, a few days ago, I noticed an automobile shop with books arranged on shelves on one side. The combination aroused my curiosity so that I stepped inside to inquire how it happened. I was told by the young man in charge that the shop was originally a book shop dealing in medical books; the main house being in New Orleans; and that automobiles had been added as a side line.

"I asked him how far the two lines had helped each other out; he replied that the automobile line had apparently had no effect upon the bookselling end of the business, but that the books had helped automobile sales, in that several physicians coming in to buy medical books had become interested in the automobiles with several resultant sales.

"Both lines seemed to be flourishing, and will soon be separated; for the present, however, this combination, unique so far as I know, is continued."

Still Buying a Book a Week

IVE customers who started last year are

cording to the report of Will H. Johnson of W. B. Read & Co., Bloomington, Ill.

Mr. Johnson wrote an interesting account for the PUBLISHERS WEEKLY last May of how he had put into practice the slogan of "Buy a Book a Week," and he has been pleased to find how many who took up the idea have not needed further urging to make the regular additions to their libraries.

A Store Correspondence Card

THE

HE Little Bookstore in East Sixtieth Street, New York, has an attractive correspondence card that gives a personal touch to all the notices that go out. This card is 44 x 5% and has a decorative border with the name and address of the shop in a scroll across the top. There is a good sized writing space, and it can be mailed at the one cent postage rate. This forms a very effective way of notifying people about books that have come to hand which should be of special interest to them.

Writing Sentiment for People

Ods, which have come to be such an imHOSE who either sell or use greeting

portant part of our every-day life, do not often stop to consider the careful thought that is given to the subject of getting the right sentiment into the right shape. A most interesting analysis of what people like in sentiments is given in an article in the January American, based on an interview with J. P. McEvoy, editor for the P. F. Volland Company, and well known to the book-trade for his energy and imagination of the book as well as the greeting card field.

Mr. McEvoy says that "You would be surprised to know how many people are yearning for somebody, and they are either too bashful to say it or they do not know how to write it so they send 'Yearning-for-you' cards. Other popular cards are the 'heart-home-and-mother' and the lonely theme. The best selling Valentine Day card Volland ever had carried the simple line, 'Aw, go on! Have a heart!' The best selling birthday card said 'Cheer up, everybody has 'em." As Mr. McEvoy points out, the editor of a magazine may study the tastes and ideas of the people and yet never know exactly what part of what he prints is most in line with public sentiment. The greeting card manufacturer is left in no such uncertainty. He has a very direct check on the sales, as people read what they buy and buy what they like to read.

Eighty Years a Bookstore

ADAMS Book Store at 165 North Main St,

Fall River, has been celebrating its eightieth birthday.

It was founded in 1842 by Robert Adams and continued by his son, Edward S. Adams, until he retired in 1917 in favor of Laughlin W. McFarland who had been long connected with the store.

To celebrate the anniversary, one of the show windows of the store was filled with papers and mementoes of the days when Fall River was young. Among the papers were receipted bills covering many years, which showed that in those days it was very common to have annual settlements between retailers and manufacturers and also between these same merchants and their customers. It was not until the early seventies that bills began to be presented quarterly.

Among other papers was an order upon Robert Adams for schoolbooks for those children who could not afford to purchase their own. One of these was signed by Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, who was Unitarian minister there and chairman of the school committee. Edward S. Adams still retains his desk at the store tho taking no active part in the business.

Foreign Language Books

THAT

HAT there is less study of foreign languages in the colleges of the country than previously is indicated by the figures given out at a recent conference of eighteen leading colleges and universities at Chicago. Ten years ago, about twenty-five per cent of all the students were taking foreign languages; now, only twenty-one and one-third per cent. This is contrary to what would have been expected as the result of our wider interest in world affairs, and will mean less textbooks for that field and less literature in the foreign languages sold than heretofore. There has been an increase in the study of the sciences.

Leary's Location Threatened

HE time-honored site of the famous second

9 South Ninth St. has been threatened by an ordinance introduced before the Philadelphia City Council whose object is to provide for the widening of Ludlow St. The object of this widening is to provide a delivery approach to the big new extension for Gimbel Bros. department store.

The action will be opposed by Hon. Edwin S. Stuart, head of this book business and former governor of Pennsylvania who moved the business to that location in 1877. Mr. Stuart explains that if it were a matter of civic improvement he would not complain but as it is merely a business proposition he believes that the bookstore should be left on the site where it is known to thousands thruout the country.

No Canadian Import Marking BY an order-in-council just passed at Ottawa, the regulation of making necessary an imprint on all goods shipped into Canada has been again postponed and it seems unlikely that it will ever be revived.

This import regulation was originally planned for October 1st and then, because of objections received from importers, was delayed until January. The act of postponement is effective "until after the close of the next session of Parliament" the Parliament coming to session in March.

International Theatrical Exhibit

THE

HE association, Kunst aan het Volk (Art for the People) will organize in January and February a theatrical exhibition in the Municipal Museum. A section will be devoted to literature concerning the modern theater in all its details. The printed catalog which will be sold at the exhibition will specially mention the names of the editors, the owners, and those who offered books, so that the booklet will become an important acquisition for the literature of the theater, that means a universal bibliography of the world's theater literature, a permanent guide for all those interested in the movement of the modern theater.

Current Clippings

Boni & Liveright will soon publish the first novel of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

There is a rumor that Cosmo Hamilton is making a stage play of A. S. M. Hutchinson's "If Winter Comes."

Amy Lowell started a brief lecture tour, January 11. She went first to Pittsburgh, then to Cleveland, Newark, Trenton, and New York. She will speak five times in New York City.

A woman was overheard asking in the John Wanamaker bookshop the other day for "The Woman With a Mirror." The clerk found that she meant "The Glass of Fashion."

ANOTHER novel by Knut Hamsun has been announced for publication by Knopf. It is "Wanderers," which combines the two original Norwegian novels "Under the Autumn Stars" and "A Wanderer Plays With Muted Strings." Other novels by Hamsun will follow at regular intervals.

AN EXPERIMENT unique in the theater will be launched by the Theatre Guild on Feb. 2, when it will begin the presentation of Shaw's newest play, "Back to Methuselah," at the Garrick Theatre. The length of the play is such that it will require three evenings for its presentation, and accordingly it will be given as a cycle.

"Back to Methuselah" has been available in book form for a number of months, published by Brentano's, but the presentation at the Garrick will be the first performance on any stage. By its readers it has been generally regarded as unactable-chiefly because of its length and the impossibility of condensing it, even if George Bernard Shaw were to give his consent.

ANNOUNCEMENT is just made at the University of Chicago that the contestants for the annual John Billings Fiske Prize in Poetry are required to have their manuscripts in the President's Office not later than March 1. The competition is open to all students in the university, both graduate and undergraduate. The subject, length and form of the verse are left to the discretion of the student. The winning poem will be awarded the prize of fifty dollars, and the university reserves the right of first publication. Selections from last year's prize winner (a cycle of short poems) were published in the University Record, the Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry. The prize was established in 1920 by Horace Spencer Fiske in memory of his father, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Union College, New York.

New Issue of Mileage Books

HE Senate passed on January 21st the In

THE

terchangeable Mileage Book Bill, which directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to authorize railroads to issue mileage books of from 1,000 to 5,000 miles at "just and reasonable rates." The National Association of Book Publishers has been co-operating with other national groups in pressing for some action of this kind, in order to make it more economical to keep men in the field.

It had been argued that a 21⁄2 cent mile rate ought to be obtained, but the Bill leaves the rate to the Commission. Present mileage averages about 3.6 cents to a mile. The general impression is that the mileage will be issued at 234 or 3 cents a mile, or from $6.00 to $8.50 saving per 1,000 miles.

Navy Books Sold

A GREAT quantity of miscellaneous books,

which had been stored in Brooklyn since the war, has been bought by Gimbel's New York Store and was placed on sale January 19th. This large collection of 40,000 volumes is not of the books that were put on the vessels by the War Service of the American Library Association, but is part of a quantity purchased by the navy itself before the A. L. A. established its connection with the ships. The books are entirely new and include a great many on travel, biography, several thousand Everyman's Library, etc.

Communications

TRAVEL BOOKS STOLEN

Army and Navy Club,
Washington, D.C.
Jan. 21st, 1922.

Editor, PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY:

Last August I rented my house at 1825 Q St., N. W., to a Dr. J. F. d'Vallier, who claimed to be a British subject, and was attached to the British Embassy. The man left Washington early in January leaving many creditors and I discover that he has removed and presumably sold about 500 volumes from my library consisting for the most part of travel, exploration, Northwest, Southwest, American Indians, military subjects and general books. To date I have traced only one book, Peary's "Farthest North," which was sold in Boston.

I would grealty appreciate the publication of this letter as it might be the means of enabling me to trace at least a portion of my property. There was also a painting of the Crystal Palace Glacier, Greenland, and several articles of silver.

D. L. BRAINARD, Brig. General, U. S. A., Retired.

Ocean Rates Drop

Tabout 120 per cent above the pre-war level,

cost of shipping from Europe is now

but has receded considerably from the highest rates of 1920.

Newly collected data from the Atlantic ports show that on general cargoes the cost per 100 pounds from the United Kingdom was 17 cents pre-war, $1.20 January, 1920, and at present 40 cents to 75 cents; from Hamburg, which was 20 cents before the war and which rose to $1.50 January, 1920, the rate is now 45 cents.

Personal

J. H. Lange, formerly with Barse and Hopkins, is now connected with Hall Brothers, Kansas City, Mo., and will represent them in New York and New Jersey, with their line of greeting cards.

W. C. BECKER, who has traveled for E. P. Dutton & Company the past 15 years has resigned to go with P. F. Volland & Co. For the past three years Mr. Becker sold the Dutton line to the larger New York trade succeeding the late Le Baron D. Scribner.

Periodical

Two well-known Whitaker publications are now to be issued under one cover, under the name of The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal. It will be an illustrated monthly record of the book, stationery, leather goods and allied trades. It is published in London and the price is to be five shillings per

annum.

Business Notes

BOSTON.-J. G. Williams, whose separation from the Williams Bookstores Co., Old South Meeting House, was announced this month, is now giving his entire time to the Talmud Society at 33 Newbury Street, where he is treasurer and general manager.

NEW YORK.-The Cornhill Publishing Co. of Boston has opened a New York branch at 7 West 49th Street.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.-J. B. Symons is no longer connected with Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. The Melbourne and Tombs' London branch will be continued under new management. All correspondence should be addressed to the head office at Christchurch, New Zealand.

PHILADELPHIA. The Warhan: Book Shop will be opened on February 1st at 1524 Walnut St., by H. H. Warner and S. R. M. Stearns, both University of Pennsylvania graduates. They are to have the remodeled first floor of the house that was once the residence of S. Weir Mitchell. The stock will be general new books.

Obituary Notes

JAMES BRYCE

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VISCOUNT BRYCE died very suddenly at Sidmouth England on January 22.

He was one of the foremost scholars of politics and government in the world. This reputation he first acquired with the publication of "The Holy Roman Empire," a dissertation published when he was only 24 years old. He was for six years the Ambassador from Great Britain to this country and did more for the betterment of Anglo-American relations than any of his contemporaries. He was a famous mountain climber, and had scaled many peaks hitherto considered impossible. One of these was Mt. Ararat. He was a skilled linguist, writing and speaking six languages fluently in addition to English.

James Bryce was born in Belfast, Ireland, May 10, 1838. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and later became a scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1862. For fifteen years he practised as a barrister. More than thirty universities in all parts of the world have awarded him their highest honorary degrees.

Lord Bryce's famous works include:

"The Flora of the Island of Arran," 1859; "The Holy Roman Empire," 1862; "Report on the condition of Education in Lancashire," 1867; "The Trade Marks Registration Act, with Introduction and Notes on Trade Mark Law," 1877; "Transcaucasia and Ararat," 1877; "The American Commonwealth," 1888; "Impressions of South Africa,' 1897; "Studies in History and Jurisprudence," 1901; "Studies in Contemporary Biography," 1903; "The Hindrances to Good Government," 1909; "South America: Observations and Impressions," 1912; "University and Historical Addresses." 1913; "Essays and Addresses on War," 1918; "Modern Democracies," 1921.

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, the author, died at Atlantic City on January 21. He was taken ill about two weeks before and two operations have been necessary. The third was abandoned before it was completed because of the author's weakness and he did not regain consciousness at the end. About two weeks ago it was thought he could not live twentyfour hours, but his characteristic humor came to his aid and to the amazement of his physicians he rallied.

He was born in Yonkers, May 27, 1862. He graduated from Columbia in 1883, and thereafter studied law. He was well known in

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civic and political circles as well as among men of letters. In 1918 he went to France for the Y. M. C. A. and the American Committee for Devastated France. One of his lectures was interrupted by an air raid. is survived by his wife and three sons. The list of his works includes: "Roger Camerden," 1886; "Katherine," 1887 "The Lorgnette," 1887; "Mephistopheles,' 1888; "New Waggings of Old Tales," 1888; "Tiddleywinks Tales." 1890; "The Tiddleywinks Poetry Book," 1890; "In Camp With a Tin Soldier," 1891; "Coffee and Repartee," 1893; "The Water Ghost," 1893; "Three Weeks in Politics," 1894; "The Idiot," 1895; "Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica," 1895; "A HouseBoat on the Styx," 1895; "A Rebellious Heroine," 1896; "The Pursuit of the House Boat," 1897. "Paste Jewels," 1897; "The Mantle Piece Minstrels," 1897; "Ghosts I Have Met," 1898; "Peeps at People," 1898; "The Enchanted Typewriter," 1899; "Cobwebs From a Literary Corner," 1899; "The Idiot at Home," 1900; "Olympian Nights," 1902; "Uncle Sam, Trustee," 1902; "Emblemland," 1902; "Over the Plum Pudding," 1902; "Molly and the Unwise Man,' 1902; "Proposal Under Difficulties," 1905; "The Worsted Man," 1905; “Lady Teazle,"

JOHN CHAPMAN ROCKWELL JOHN CHAPMAN ROCKWELL, who died in Port Chester, N. Y., on January 4th, was widely known as a schoolman and a bookman. He was born in Danbury, Conn., sixty-two years ago, and his early education was acquired in the common schools of that section. He entered the teaching profession upon his graduation from the Potsdam Normal School and, after teaching for several years in Bronxville, he assumed charge of the local schools system of Port Chester. Later he purchased a controlling interest in the Schermerhorn Teachers' Agency. He subsequently retired from that connection to become district superintendent in Westchester County. At the time of his death, he was an agent for Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., of New York. He was widely acquainted in New York State and New England and numbered very many warm personal friends among the schoolmen and bookmen with whom he came in contact.

New York Booksellers Meet

THE

HE New York Booksellers' League held its first dinner of the year at the Hotel Breevort on January 18th. The evening's speakers included, in addition to the Hon. David O'Connell who presided in the absence of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Shaw Desmond, author of "Gods,' "Passion," "Democracy," etc., and Mr. John Farrar, editor of the Bookman. Mr. William Beebe who was announced was unable to come.

The Membership Committee seems to be growing more active. At this meeting it was announced that nine new members had been

added.

A-No. 1 Publishing Co., Erie, Pa.

Abbatt (William), 28 W. Elizabeth St.. Tarrytown,
N. Y.

Abel Publishing Co., 401 Caxton Bldg., Cleveland, O.
Aberthaw Construction Co., Boston, Mass.
Abingdon Press, 150 Fifth Ave., New York.

Academy of Political Science, Columbia University,
Broadway, 116th St., New York.

Adams Press, 240 Broadway, New York.
Adjutant-General's Office, Boston, Mass.
Advertiser (The), Elmira, N. Y.

Aetna Explosive Co., 165 Broadway, New York.
Alabama State Department of Archives and History,
Montgomery, Ala.

Albany Evening Journal, Albany, N. Y.

Alberta Publishing Co., 333 E. 17th St., New York. Albig (George L.), Ridgefield Pk., N. J.

Alden (C. K.), 47 Mather St., Dorchester Center, Mass.

Allen, Lane & Scott, 1211 Clover St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Altemus (Henry) Co., 1326 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. Allied Code Co. of the U. S., 233 B'way, New York. Allyn & Bacon, 50 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. American Academy of Political and Social Science, 36th St. and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. American Acceptance Council, 111 Broadway, New York.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. American Association for International Conciliation, 407 W. 117th St., New York.

American Association for Organizing Family Social Work, 130 E. 22nd St., New York.

American Automobile Digest, Butler Bldg.. Cincinnati, O.

American Bankers' Association, 5 Nassau St., New York.

American Baptist Publication Society, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

American Bee Journal, Hamilton, Ill.

American Bible Society, Bible House, 8th St. and Astor Pl., New York.

American Book Co., 100 Washington Sq., New York. American Bureau of Engineering, 1601 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

American Bureau of Metal Statistics, 115 B'way, New York.

American Bureau of Trade Extension, Washington, D. C.

American Child Hygiene Association, 1211 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md.

American Citizen Publishing Co., Iowa City, Ia. American Civil Liberties Union, 138 W. 13th St., New York.

American Commerce Association, Chicago, Ill. American Committee of Justice, 1904 Adeline St., Oakland, Calif.

American Committee on Conditions in Ireland, 501 Fifth Ave., New York.

American Dyes Institute, 130 W. 42nd St., New York. American Economic Association, Princeton, N. J. American Educational Co., 314 W. Superior St., Chicago, Ill.

American Ethical Union, 2 W. 64th St., New York. American Exchange National Bank, 128 Broadway, New York.

American Exporter, 17 Battery Pl., New York. American Express Co., New Business Dept., New York City.

American Geographic Society, Broadway and 156th St., New York.

American Institute of Accountants, Endowment Fund, 132 Cedar St., New York.

American Institute of Architects, 313 E. 23rd St., New York.

American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 25 W. 39th St., New York.

American Issue Publishing Co., Westerville, O. American Jewish Book Co., 148 E. 57th St., New York.

American Library Association Publishing Board, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, Ill. American Museum of Natural History, Columbus

Ave. and 77th St., New York.

American New Church Tract and Publishing Society, 2129 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. American Numismatic Society, B'way and 155th St., New York.

American Peace Society, 613 Colorado Bldg., Washington, D. C.

American Photographic Co.,

Boston, Mass.

221 Columbus Ave.,

American Poultry Journal, 523 Plymouth Court, Chicago, Ill.

American Poultry School, 115 E. 31st St., Kansas City, Mo.

American Press, 439 Lafayette St., New York. American Publicity Committee, Iowa City, Ia. American Radiator Co., 140 W. 42d St., New York. American Red Cross, 17th St. bet. D. and E., N. W., Washington D. C.

American Sabbath Tract Society, Babcock Bldg., Plainfield, N. J.

American Scandinavian Foundation, 25 W. 45th St., New York.

American School of Home Economics, 506 W. 69th St., Chicago, Ill.

American Silk Journal, 373-4th Ave., New York. American Social Hygiene Association, 105 W. 40th St., New York.

American Sports Publishing Co., 45 Rose St., New York.

American Sunday School Union, 1816 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

American Technical Society, Drexel Ave. and 8th St., Chicago, Ill.

American Tract Society, Park Ave. and 40th St., New York.

American Veterinary Publishing Co., 9 S. Clinton St., Chicago, Ill.

General

American Warehousemen's Association,
Committee on Central Bureau, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Amherst Publishing Co., Amherst, N. H.
Anderson (W. H.) Co., 524 Main St., Cincinnati, O.
Anderson Publishing Co., Los Angeles Cal.
Andrae (E. H.), 1801 Young St., Dallas, Tex.

Anglo and London Paris National Bank, Sutter and
Sansome Sts., San Francisco, Cal.

Apostolic Way, Union City, Ga.

Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, Mass.
Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kas.

Appleton (D.) & Co., 35 W. 32d St., New York.
Arbor Press, Greenwich, Conn.

Arcady Press & Mail Advertising Co., 222 Stark St.,
Portland, Ore.

Architectural & Building Press, 24 W. 39th St., New York.

Architectural Book Publishing Co., 31 E. 12th St., New York.

Architectural Record Co., 119 W. 40th St., New York. Archives of Psychology, Substation 84, New York. Arens (Egmont H.), 27 W. 8th St., New York. Arkansas Bureau of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture, Little Rock, Ark.

Armour & Co., Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill. Armour's Bureau of Agricultural Research and Economics, Chicago, Ill.

Arnold (H. V.), Larimore, N. D.

Arnold (Walter L.), Guilford, Me.

Art Printing Co., 813 Trent Ave., Spokane, Wash. Aryan Theosophical Press, Point Loma, Cal. Associated Industries of Massachusetts, 1034 Kimball Bldg., Boston, Mass.

Association Press, 347 Madison Ave., New York. Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, Washington, D. C.

Atlantic Monthly Press, 8 Arlington St., Boston, Mass.

Atlas Printing Co., Binghamton, N. Y.

Atkinson (Wilmer) Co., 232 W. Washington Sq., Philadelphia, Pa.

Atwood (William F.), 52 Chauncey St., Boston, Mass.

Augsburg Publishing House, 452 S. 4th St., Minneapolis, Minn.

Augustana Book Concern, Rock Island, Ill.