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Vocation, or, the call of the Divine Master to a sister's life, by the Rev. C. C. Grafton. The Publishers' Weekly, FOUNDED BY F. LEYPOLDT. MARCH 27, 1886. PUBLISHERS are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness in the final entry. The trade are invited to send "Communications" to the editor on any topic of interest to the trade, and as to which an interchange of opinion is desirable. Also, matter for "Notes and Queries " thankfully received. In case of business changes, notification or card should be immediately sent to this office for entry under "Business Notes." New catalogues issued will also be mentioned when forwarded. "Every man is a debtor to his profession, from the which, as men do of course seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help thereunto."-LORD BACON. SHALL THE BOOK TRADE BE BET- publishers or booksellers, or both, to keep up' the present system. As a matter of fact, this is the one thing which cannot be done. The present system needs to be changed, but it cam be changed only in the direction of public bene. fit, and not against the interest of the public. This means that the change of price, if a change is to be made, must be for lower prices, and not for closer ones. The American Book Trade Association was not a combination to keep up prices in the ordinary sense. It was a combination, however, to conform actual prices closely to publishers' prices. It broke down for two rea sons one, that it was not possible to hold to it permanently the entire trade; the other, that dealers were unwilling to take the further step of reducing prices as well as holding discounts, sơ that the movement was felt to be against the interests of the public. Under these circumstances its failure was inevitable. A combination to keep books up to the nominal publishers' price directly or by refusing the public the customary discounts, is not possible-nor is it desirable if it were possible. The book trade, of all trades, must depend upon the good-will of the buying public, and such a combination would be considered a slap in the face of buyers. Almost every publisher now in the trade recognizes the desirability of making some change, and there is general agreement that a reduction of prices by the adoption of closer discounts is the one change desirable. But most of the publishers concerned manifest a strong disinclination to take this step, because they believe they would not be supported by the retail trade. What they fear is that the only lists which would benefit are those which are strong in copyright books, on which there is, in a limited sense, no competition (although, in a general sense, they must compete with non-copyright books), and that the non-copyright lists would suffer because dealers would be all the more inclined to buy those lines on which the publishers' price was nominal and extravagant, but on which the dis FROM one end of the trade to the other, from the publisher at the great centres to the small retailer in the little villages in the far West, there is a general agreement that the book trade is not only depressed, but that it is depressed beyond what is necessary if trade methods were as they should be. The difficulty is something more than the mere shifting of trade from the bookstores to the bazaars. The sale of books does not seem, as a matter of fact, to keep adequate pace with the growth in population and the development of the country, and it is the general experience that a smaller edition of a new book is actually sold than would have been sold some years ago. This is to be accounted for in a measure, of course, by the period of general depression through which we have been passing; but that accounts for it only in a measure. A great part of the difficulty is to be attributed to the simple fact that the pub-count nominally allowed was proportionately. lishing trade has permitted itself to fall behind in its own business methods, and so has broken down to a considerable extent the distributing machinery of the trade. It has been well said that the book trade is largely a business of solicitation, and when there are no longer booksellers at each small centre throughout the country to ask readers to purchase books, sales are definitely lost. The correspondence which has been printed in our columns for some weeks back has been very significant, but a large part of its significance comes from the division of opinion as to the remedy. Strangely enough, in many cases the first thought is for a close combination of greater. Several houses have, in fact, thrown their weight against the proposed change on the ground that the margin under reduced discounts would not be sufficient to do business, and the publishers most willing to take action really do fear that the retail trade would desert their lists for competing lines on which prices are purely artificial. This is an important point for the retail trade to consider, for at this moment it blocks the way to that method of reform. The further remedy suggested, in line with the idea of combination, is that publishers should refuse to sell to dealers like Wannamaker, Macy, and the bazaars generally. This course is not in accord with the modern idea of trade, and, even if there were no other objections to it, would not be possible to carry out. In many cases it has been found, indeed, that the stores which offer books at the lowest cut prices have not bought direct from the publishers at all, but through middlemen; and it is practically impossible to engineer agreements and keep up the surveillance necessary to prevent stock being sold in that way. It seems to us unwise for the trade to waste effort in this direction. What we need is to bring back good business methods within the book trade, and then there will be less reason to fear the competition of the so-called bazaars, some of which, it must be said, are developing into large and well-conducted bookstores. It is scarcely fair to say that a shop like Wannamaker's is not a bookstore because it deals in quantities of other things besides books. If a change in the discount system is to be brought about, it should be decided upon at once, that new prices may be promulgated in July. At present, the movement is blocked by the fear, on the part of certain publishers, of the results indicated. The practical question is whether that fear can be removed by the general acquiescence of the distributing trade. change is made, we are likely to go from bad to worse. COMMUNICATIONS. THE “BUNTLING BALL" PRIZE. If no March 23, 1886. To the Editor of the Publishers' Weekly. We have seen in several papers criticisms like the following, which we clip from the Brooklyn Union: "Some two or three hundred people guessed the name of the author [of The Buntling Ball '], and they were informed by the publishers that their share of the $1000, amounting to about $3 $3.87] each, would be paid to them in books selected from Funk & Wagnalls' list of publications. The guessers who believed in the $1000 cash prize may now regret the waste of the postage-stamp which carried their guess. Permit us to say: We may 1. We do not question the right of any one to criticise as severely as he may please the offer by us of one thousand dollars for the correct naming of the author of an anonymous book. have been right or we may have been wrong in making this offer it depends wholly on the standpoint from which it is viewed. It would be of little profit to discuss this now. 2. It is not true that we have not kept the letter and spirit of the contract in our offer. We did not compel the persons who guessed correctly to take pay in our books. We gave them the option of taking books at a discount or cash. The fact is, that nine tenths of the amount was paid in cash and the other tenth was not paid in cash only because the guessers" preferred books. We went beyond the letter of our offer. By our offer the money was to be paid when 10,000 copies were sold. Ten thousand copies were not sold-only 8000 were disposed of. We were under no obligation to pay the money now. We would have been perfectly fair had we re fused to distribute the money until the ten thousandth copy had been disposed of, which might not have been for twelve months or more, perhaps never. 46 3. There were several authors who were named almost, if not altogether as frequently as was the true author, up to a week before the close of the offer. Gilbert, Robert Grant, Fawcett, Croffut, Bunner, were guessed almost an equal number of times. Holmes, Lowell, Hay, Stedman, Carleton, were "guessed" over and over again. In all some 250 different authors were named. Had it not been for an inadvertence, a few days before the closing of the offer, the author had not been named correctly nearly so often. By an oversight a manuscript story by the author of "Bunting Ball" was placed in the hands of a syndicate of papers. The manuscript was in the well-known handwriting of the author. This, of course, gave away the secret. As a result, from a single establishment, as may be seen by the printed list (with P. O. addresses) of those who guessed" correctly, 25 correct 6. guesses came in, from another 12, and from many others one, two, three each. Prior to the secret thus leaking out only comparatively few persons had guessed correctly. 66 Whatever may be said about this experiment, it has made pretty manifest that there are not many people who are able to determine from internal evidence the author of a book. FUNK & WAGNALLS, 10 & 12 Dey St., N. Y. JOURNALISTIC NOTES. THE Polyclinic, Philadelphia, a monthly journal of medicine and surgery, will in April be enlarged by sixteen additional pages. A regular series of clinical reports will form the principal feature of the added matter. GEORGE E. WOODBERRY, the latest biographer of Poe, has written a sketch of Mr. Lowell's home life, which will appear in the Critic of March 27th in connection with Thomas Hughes's criticism of the poet's humorous poems. THE American Pulpit is the title of a new weekly religious paper to be published in New York. The proprietors are a company of Southern gentlemen who propose to circulate the paper more generally in the South. The distinctive feature will be a series of reports of the sermons of the most eminent preachers. 66 Lippincott's is to have a new department entitled Our Experience Meeting." It is described as a sort of public confessional for leading authors, actors, artists, musicians, politicians, etc., who may feel autobiographically disposed." The April number will contain_contributions from Julian Hawthorne and Joel Chandler Harris. THE Cosmopolitan is the title of a new magazine published at Rochester, but with a branch office at New York, of which the first number is the number for March. It is a handsomely printed publication of sixty-five pages, of about the familiar magazine size, and is illustrated with several creditable full-page and smaller cuts, one of them being a portrait of Gladstone. The table of contents is an inviting one. Mr. Boyesen heads the list. Among the other writers are Lewis Swift, Prof. W. C. Richards, and Frank P. Smith. DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF THE SPRING ANNOUNCEMENTS. THE descriptive summary which here follows presents as usual, in its alphabetical arrangement by publishers, a survey of the entire field, so far as the necessary information is at hand. Other books, not yet fully determined upon, will find mention in subsequent issues. In our announcement lists proper, the books will be found arranged by classes, while the advertising pages will afford further detailed information as to prices, sizes, styles, etc. THE ADVENT CHRISTIAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY, Boston, will have ready in the beginning of April "The Christian Secret of Holiness," by Rev. Mark. M. Pearse. WILLIAM L. ALLISON, N. Y., has new editions in press of the following standard works of literature: "Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets," with introduction, notes, and life, by Henry Glassford Bell; "Swift's Choice Works, Hood's Choice Works," and "Lamb's Choice Works." In works of adventure they promise editions of "The Fur Country," by Jules Verne; and "Arctic Explorations during the Nineteenth Century," including all expeditions undertaken from Ross to Greely. JOHN ALLYN, Boston, will add to his list of text-books for study of the ancient classics, " Cæsar's Gallic Wars," seven books, with vocabulary, notes, maps, plans, and illustrations, edited by Prof. F. W. Kelsey; and " First Steps in Latin,' by William Nichols. rence Alma Tadema, daughter of the famous artist; and "Songs and Ballads of the Southern People," collected by Frank Moore. In his torical literature they will have 'The Rear Guard of the Revolution," by Edmund Kirke; and "The Development of the Roman Constitu tion," by Ambrose Tighe, in their History Primer will be furnished by George Ticknor Curtis. In Series. In philosophy Creation or Evolution " literature there will be a work on Comparative Literature," by Prof. A. M. Posnett, and 'Shaftesbury," by H. D. Traill; and " Raleigh," by Edmund Gosse, will be added to the English " Worthies Series. A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON, N. Y., will publish, by arrangement with Macmillan & Co., "Mrs. Leicester's School," and other writings, by Charles Lamb, with introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, who shows with every new vol ume that the editing of Lamb's works is a most congenial task. Forewarned-Forearmed," by J. Thain Davidson, is to be uniform with his Talks with Young Men," which proved so great a success, and made quite palatable the straightforward and brotherly advice they gave. They also announce The Last Days of the Consulate," a translation from the French of Fauriel, Member of the Institute of France, ed 64 44 THE AMERICAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF HEBREW, Chicago, will issue, as soon as they have obtained eight hundred subscribers, a work of great value by Justin A. Smith, D. D., editor of the Standard, Chicago, under the title of " The New Age." The book will be composed of selections from the lectures delivered before the Theological Seminary to the senior and gradu-ited with introduction by M. L. Lalanne; "Moate classes. Dr. Hulbert, of the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, who attended many of these classes, says: "That such lectures as these on the Reformation as an intellectual and as a religious movement; on Protestantism in its genesis, form, and history; on Calvinism in modern thought and life; on Denominationalism in its nature, origin, principle, and results; on the confessions which sprang from the great revolution, are to be given the public, gives to me the profoundest satisfaction. I am confident they will receive the most enthusiastic reception from all students of history and all lovers of New Testament Christianity.' ANDREWS & WITHERBY, Ann Arbor, Mich., will publish for the Department of Philosophy of the University of Michigan a collection of monographs relating to various philosophical subjects, or aiming at a philosophical treatment of miscellaneous topics. The first series to be issued during the present year-probably during the first half of the year-will consist of four numbers, containing the following papers and addresses, delivered before the Philosophical Society of the University: University Education," by Prof. G. S. Morris; "Goethe and the Conduct of Life," by Prof. Calvin Thomas; "Educational Value of Different Studies," by Prof. W. H. Payne; "Philosophy and Literature." by Prof. B. C. Burt; and "Herbert Spencer as a Biologist,'" by Prof. H. Sewall. The price of the series of four numbers (the lectures by Profs. Burt and Sewall being printed as one number) has been fixed at 75 cents. Single numbers will cost 25 cents. D. APPLETON & Co. have in press "Tales of Eccentric Life," by Dr. W. A. Hammond and Clara Lanza; Love's Martyr," by Miss Law ments on the Mount," a series of devotional meditations, by Rev. George Matheson, a volume not to be read through at a sitting, but taken little by little and pondered carefully; "The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes," by Geirhardus Vos, with introduction by Rev. Dr. W. H. Green, which carefully and dispassionately examines the arguments of the recent radical school of critics, and refutes them in a terse, clear style; and Theism and Evolution," by Rev. J. P. Van Dyke, with introduction by Rev. Dr. A. A. Hodge, a scholarly discussion of evolution, dealing with the speculations of Darwin, Haeckel, Spencer, Bain, Huxley, and others, ability to explain the origin of matter, force, and giving an array of facts to prove their inmentality, conscience, and will-power, without meeting the doctrine of theism, a work which will rouse evolutionists to more unanswerable argument. A new edition of "At Home in Fiji," by C. F. Gordon Cumming, is shortly promised, and a new and superior library edition, in sixteen volumes, of printed from large, clear type on paper made Macaulay's Complete Works," specially for this edition. Mr. E. P. Whipple has written a biographical and critical introduction, and there are full indexes and two steel portraits. J. O. AUSTIN, P. O. Box 81, Providence, R. I., has in preparation a "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island," which will embrace the record (in the earlier generations) of four hundred and sixty-five distinct families, including births, marriages, deaths, wills, and various items of interest in the lives of the early inhabitants. The volume will be ready this year, the two hundred and fiftieth year since the settlement of Rhode Island. It will be issued in a limited edition to subscribers at $10. |