hand, let this man sell his books at large discounts anywhere from to off, and where he gains advantage by a purchase at extra low rates, give that advantage to his customer, as is the usual practice, and what is the result? He will reduce his gross profit to only 15 per cent, and where is the 20 per cent which he needs to pay his expenses, to say nothing of his own living? True, he may increase the amount of his business, but his expense account will also mount up. With new goods constantly coming in, increased sales, and general activity, he has the appearance of the greatest prosperity; he has good credit, having started with some capital, and his stock increases each year, is quite sure to do so. When the final day of settlement arrives, as it is sure to do sooner or later, what is this man's condition, and what are the circumstances of his case? He has been in business anywhere from five to ten years, has sold thousands of books, has taken in and paid out thousands of dollars, lived on the best to be had, and has come out with enough to pay ten cents on the dollar, perhaps twenty-five; and whose is the actual loss? The loss falls on the confiding publishers and his neighboring booksellers, who have always trusted him, because he did pay their bills promptly when he started, although he has all these years been doing his best to ruin any legitimate book-busi ness. After his failure, he goes into bankruptcy, and, leaving the old property in the hands of his creditors, takes a fresh start, with some figure-head as the apparent owner, and is soon again in a blaze of prosperity, with fresh stock, and new and fresh credit, and everything again in great success, whilst the poor creditors are looking diligently after the first possible chance of a dividend. Looking at the matter in one light, this has been a great success, and this kind of business has been done for years, and will be done in years to come, just as long as the publishers and jobbers continue to give credit to this class of men. If one of them is really swamped so badly as to be unable to start, his place is soon filled by some other equally active, the competition is as bad as ever, and the "old fogies" who will persist in buying no more goods than they can sell at a profit and pay for, are just as much behind the age as ever. Let us look at another class of booksellers who mean to do a legitimate business, but don't know how to do it. The trap which catches them is an overload of stock, which depreciates rapidly on their hands, yet is taken on their stock account at what it cost. In this way they are building up a fictitious value until they are liable to own only half the real value of what their stock-book calls for. In this view of their business, they are careless of their expense account, especially of their own family expenses, and under an impression that their business is showing a much larger profit than it really is, they spend what they haven't got, and live down their actual capital without being aware of it. These men are brought to grief by wrong figures, and no one is more surprised than they themselves, when an expert discovers their real condition. Instances have been known of publishers who, instead of valuing their stereotype plates at their worth in old metal-a safe custom-have taken them, year after year, at cost, and adding each year's inte rest. If every bookseller who gets a book into his store billed at $1 would but consider that the actual cost of that book is $1.20, and that on all he sells of books bought at one-third or even one fifth off, he is making no actual profit, but is getting out his expenses as well as the cost, he might be more careful how he lets out his stock at what may appear a profit, but is, in fact, an actual loss when figured with the expense account. These are matters that all intelligent booksellers can not examine too closely, and we commend their consideration to all who really desire to so conduct their business that on a call for settlement they can count on one hundred cents with which to pay every dollar. Then the profit and loss accounts of the wholesale houses will have fewer items on the wrong side of the ledger. FACTS. Report of the Committee on Assemblies. THE Committee on Assemblies, appointed by the "American Book Trade Association," at its last annual meeting at Put-in Bay, in July, 1874, would make the following report, through the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, the official organ of the Association : Your Committee have not thought it wise to call a meeting of the "Book Trade Association" before the expiration of a year from the date of the previous convention. The importance to the whole trade of meeting together to compare notes, take measures to rectify abuses, etc., can not be over-estimated. In order, however, to exercise their full influence for good, these conventions must be largely attended by all branches of the trade, and time must be allowed for full and free discussion. In a country of so great extent as ours, it has seemed to your Committee almost impossible to secure a well-attended meeting of the Association more frequently than once a year. The past year has been one of trial for the "reform movement," but its victories have been commensurate with its trials. The meeting which your Committee are about to call will assemble under the most favoring circumstances, and upon the wisdom of its deliberations will depend the permanency of this great reform movement; and upon successful reform depends the prosperity of publishing and bookselling in this country for years to come. The experience of the past year is full of lessons to us. Ist. It has been clearly shown that reform is possible, and by a generous confidence in each other it may be fully accomplished. 2d. The power which the booksellers of the country, united in a just cause, possess, is beginning to be clearly manifest. At the beginning of the movement it was felt by many that there is a natural antagonism between the publishers and booksellers. This is not the case. The prosperity of the pub. lisher depends upon the prosperity of the booksellers of the country. Without prosperous jobbers and retailers all over the country, through whom the publisher can reach the public, it would be well-nigh impossible, by any means now known, to reach consumers enough to make one book in ten successful or profitable to the publisher. So long as the booksellers are united and reasonable in their requests, none will be more willing to yield to them than the enterprising and far-seeing publisher. Should any, however, pursue a narrow or stubborn policy, the remedy lies with the booksellers themselves. What publisher or jobber could stand against the book trade of the country united in a just cause? 3d. It seems to your Committee that the success which has so far attended our movements has been due largely to the conservative and reasonable course pursued. Even the public, whom it might be feared would oppose any thing like a lessening of discounts, have acknowledged the justness of our course, and have felt that it would on the whole be a gain to the whole community, to have the bookseller treat all alike, and at the same time secure a living profit for himself. It would seem now that nothing but our own folly can defeat this great movement for a just reform. A willingness to compromise antagonistic views, and each yield to the wish of the majority, have so far marked our course. If this wise moderation is continued and harmony secured, no factious opposition can possibly prevent the consummation of this reform movement. The place of meeting has been a question of serious consideration to your Committee. Their only object has been to secure the largest attendance. They have decided upon Niagara Falls, and have made very favorable terms with Gale & Fuller, of the International Hotel. These terms can be learned in detail by addressing the Secretary of the Committee, R. R. Bowker, at the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY office. The time of meeting will be Tuesday, July 13th. The Booksellers' Exchange and Clearing House meet in New-York, July 19th. All booksellers, whether members of the American Book Trade Association or not, are cordially invited to meet with us. It is confidently believed that this Convention will work a great era in the history of the American Book Trade. If those who propose to attend will send their names to Mr. Bowker in advance, it will forward the preparations of the Committee. (Signed) ISAAC E. SHELDON, The Last Trade Sale. THE last of the trade sales, which have been so prominent as well as anomalous a feature of the American book business, was marked by a general and well-sustained attendance (the registry numbering some one hundred and twenty), animated bidding, and an average of fair and even high prices, as such prices go. Opening on Monday the 5th, it ran over last week into the Monday of this week, the buyers naturally decreasing towards the close. A the desk in turn were Messrs. William R. Leavitt, T. W. Warren, J. K. Pratt, and the ever-popular "Joe" Foster, who doesn't believe in Put-in Bay. He never shone brighter than at this, his last opportunity-although he will have it that the reform is all nonsense, and that there will be plenty of trade sales-and the one feature of the sales which many of the trade will regret is his laughter-provoking fun. Among those present at the sale as buyers were Leg gat Bros., W. S. Appleton, Henry Miller, Mr. Dillingham, James Miller, Baker & Pratt, and others, of New-York; Boston was represented by A. W. Lovering, A. F. Graves, Mr. Lauriat of Estes & Lauriat, etc.; Philadelphia, by Mr. Kimball from the Lippincotts, Porter & Coates, Mr. Claxton, H. N. McKinney, etc.; Chicago and Cincinnati, by Gen. McClurg, George E. Stevens, and others. The greater part of the buyers were equally divided between the Eastern and Western States, Ohio largely representing the latter, with some firms from inland New-York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. 66 On Tuesday afternoon, the stereotype plates belonging to the estate of Gould & Lincoln were sold, but at rather dull prices, the sale dragging. Messrs. Estes & Lauriat secured "Arvine's Cyclopædia of Anecdotes of Literature and Fine Arts" (725 pp. 8vo, retailing at $4). Mr. James Miller bought the plates of Chamber's "Home Book" (12 vols. in 6, 2160 pp., 16mo), of the Aimwell Stories (7 vols.), of the Home Twilight Stories (4 vols. illus.), and of Aunt Mattie's Library (4 vols. illus.); Robert Carter, those of Hugh Miller's "Life and Works" (12 vols., illus. by 2 steel plates, and wood-cuts, and casts), Williams's 'Lectures on the Lord's Prayer" (12mo, 258 pp.), and Krummacher's 'Suffering Saviour" (12m0, 474 pp.); the Lippincotts, those of Gosse's "Romance of Natural History" (12mo, 372 pp., illus.); Messrs. H. A. Young & Co., of Boston, those of Bayne's Christian Life" (12mo, 528 pp.), his "Essays in Biography and Criticism" (2 vols. 12mo), Hovey's "God with Us" (12mo), Hackett's "Illustrations of Scripture" (12mo, pp. 354), and his "Christian Memorials of the War" (12mo, pp. 256); Dodd & Mead, those of Cruden's Condensed Concordance" (8vo, pp. 576); E. P. Dutton & Co., those of Westcott's "Introduction to the Study of the Gospels" (royal 12mo, 476 pp.); W. F. Draper, of Andover, Mass., those of Ellicott's "Life of Christ" (12mo, 881 pp.). These were the more notable plates bought, some on the catalogue being "jumped." On Monday, the regular auction opened with the Osgoods' invoice, which sold briskly, many lines being duplicated. In fact, it was a notable mark of the sale, due doubtless to its being the last, that the duplications were frequent and often large. The Osgoods increased their "Little Classics" from 100 to 800 sets; their Household Edition of Longfellow, from 100 to 1150 "Uncle Tom's Cabin," from 50 to 80; and "Tom Brown at Rugby," from 50 to 150. Hurd & Houghton also duplicated, but to a smaller extent, while the Scribners did so very largely, Marion Harland's "Common-Sense in the Household" swelling from 50 to nearly 3500; "Arthur Bonnicastle," from 36 to 350; Reveries of a Bachelor," from 25 to 225; Lange, from 150 to 300; Library of Travel and Wonder," from 100 to 400; the Bric-à-Brac Series, from 25 to 300, etc. Henry L. Shepard & Co. likewise duplicated, but at not so good prices as the Scribners. Of the prices obtained, we have space only to quote a few of the notable ones, high and low, of the more important invoices. Among the Osgood books, Emerson's "Parnassus" ($4) fell at $2.30, and Longfellow's "Hanging of the Crane" ($5), at $2.95; while William Blake's "Book of Job" ($10) fell off to $4 and $2.75. The "Little Classics," which were so largely 64 duplicated, brought 58 and 52 cents ($1); Hoppin's "On the Nile" ($10). $5.25; but Trowbridge's" Emigrant's Story" ($1.50) only 50 cents; Taylor's Prophet" ($2), 75 cents, and Conant's Circassian Boy" ($1.50), 30 c. Howell's "Foregone Conclusion" ($2) duplicated at $1.15. Mrs. Jameson's works (in 10 vols. at $1.50) readily obtained 87 and 82 c., while Aldrich's "Prudence Palfrey" ($1) fell at 35 cents, and Hawthorne's "Idolatry" ($2) at 75 cents. In the Putnams' stock, Miss Brackett's "Education of American Girls" ($1.75) was taken at 873 cents; Hart's "German Universities" ($1.75), at 85 cents; and the Works of Hood (in 7 vols. at $2.25), at $1.15. Lower prices were Hermann and Dorothea" ($1.25), 50 cents; Irving's "Washington" (2 vols. $3.50), $2.05; "Life of Audubon" ($2.25), 95 cents. Bryant's "Among the Trees" ($3.50) brought $1.70; Evelyn's " Diary" ($2.50), 90 c.; and Miss Greatorex's "Colorado Etchings" ($5), $2.25 and $2.37. Hurd & Houghton's Globe Edition of Dickens (15 vols. at $1.50) sold for 87 cents; their Household Cooper (32 vols. at $1.25), for 65 cents; and their Smith's Bible Dictionary" (4 vols. at $6.50), for $3.90. The Works of Bacon (15 vols. at cents. 44 $2.75) fell at $1.20. Mrs. Ames's "Men, Women, and Things" ($1.50) was taken at 55 c., while her "His Two Wives" ($1.75) easily brought $1. The poems of the Cary sisters (two-dollar books) ranged from $1.15 to $1.20. Mrs. Clement's art books ($3.25) duplicated at $2, but Ténot's "Paris" ($2.50) was dull at 40 The Oliver Optic books (in Lee & Shepard's list) brought from 65 to 90 c. ($1.50), and, as usual, were in large lines and sold well. Buckle's "Civilization" (3 vols. at $2) fell at $1.25, and Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" ($1.25), at 70 cents. Of the Scribner books, the "Common-Sense in the Household," which so largely sold ($1.75), ran from $1.17 to 94 cents; and Bonnicastle" ($1.75) also duplicated, at $1.05 and 95 cents, Kathrina" and "Bitter-Sweet" ($1.50) bringing 90 cents, and "Reveries of a Bachelor" ($1.75), $1.05. Lower prices of that house were D. G. Mitchell's "Dr. Johns" ($1.75), 55 cents; Schaff's Christian Church" ($7.50), $2.30; and his " Apostolic Church" ($3.75), $1.30. 46 OBITUARY. S. R. WELLS. WE regret to announce the death of Mr. Samuel R. Wells, the well-known phrenological publisher, which took place from typhoid fever, at his residence in West Fifty-first street, on Tuesday morning. Mr. Wells was pleasantly known to all who had met him, and was a man of marked intelligence and wide knowledge. Both as a writer and publisher, he has done much to advance the specialty which was to him a mission. He was born in West-Hartford, Ct., in 1820, and took a diploma as a physician. But he early became interested in phrenology, and having married in 1843 a sister of O. S. & L. N. Fowler, who, from 1835 to 1854, occupied part of the old Clinton Hall building in Nassau street, became a member of the firm on its removal to 308 Broadway, in the latter year. under his sole direction, and took his name. Mr. Wells started the Phrenological Journal and the Science of Health, wrote a number of works connected with physical subjects, of which the most important was his "New Physiognomy," and founded the Phrenological Institute. He was just about removing to a new store opposite Astor Place. Mr. Wells was buried on Thursday, from St. Timothy's P. E. Church, of which he was a member and vestryman. BOOKS RECEIVED. ENGLISH PORTRAITS, by Sainte-Beuve. (Henry produced an equal amount of literary work of Holt & Co.) No contemporaneous writer has the same high order of excellence as Sainte Beuve. The Causeries du Lundi and the Nouveaux Lundis, from which these selections are made, fill alone twenty-five volumes. One hesitates, in these days of condensed literature and "reading made easy," to attack such a vobe made acquainted with his merits in the best luminous writer, and is thankful accordingly to and briefest manner possible. The present volstyle, and also of his claims to consideration ume gives the reader an idea of Sainte-Beuve's critics of the age. as one of the most distinguished literary It includes portraitures of Mary Queen of Scots," "Lord Chesterfield," Benjamin Franklin,' "Edward Gibbon," William Cowper," and an essay on "Pope as a Poet," and English Literature, by H. the life and writings of Sainte-Beuve precedes Taine." Quite an able and extended article on these, and the writer of it, who modestly withholds his name, offers an ingenious apology for including the names of Mary Stuart, Benjamin Franklin, and Taine, under the appellation of "English," evidently expecting some 44 adverse criticism upon the title of the book. However this may be, no one will question the contents of the volume, as the selection is most delightful reading. 12mo, cloth, $2. MR. VAUGHAN'S HEIR, by Frank Lee Benedict. (Harper & Brothers). Possesses all the elements of a successful novel, and yet the result is scarcely satisfactory. The plot is original, the characters numerous and well defined, the change of scene frequent, and the incidents dramatic; but the reader comes to the end of the story with a feeling of being inadequately rewarded for the time he has spent on it. The trouble seems to be an embarrassment of riches, for the book contains suggestions sufficient to work up a dozen stories, put together too carelessly, however, to produce a perfect whole. The scene of the story shifts back and forward from Europe to America in the most startling manner, all the characters being imbued with a fever of unrest which is truly American. 8vo, paper, $1. THE STORY OF VALENTINE AND HIS BROTHER, by Mrs. Oliphant. (Harper & Brothers.) The son of an English earl marries when very young, and through a sudden impulse, a beautiful but uneducated gipsy girl. The experiment is not a happy one, and after a few years of misery on both sides, the wife forsakes her husband, taking with her their two boystwin brothers-and returns to her wandering life. All efforts to find her or the children are In 1862, the house of Fowler & Wells passed in vain, but when the boys are seven years of age she leaves one secretly at his grandfather's house, disappearing again with the other. From this point the history of the two boys begins, the various influences upon each of surrounding circumstances being graphically and carefully worked out. This is the best novel Mrs. Oliphant has written in a long time, and will be read with intense pleasure from beginning to end. 8vo, paper, 75 cents. ANALYTICAL THERAPEUTICS, by C. Hering. (Boericke & Tafel.) This work is the result of an endeavor to collect and unite in one book the facts developed by the homœopathic school, from provings through practice. The material, which contains a good deal of hitherto unpublished matter, has been condensed into the smallest compass, and is so arranged, both in the divisions and in the style of printing, as to facilitate the mind through the eye, in selecting rapidly the remedy for a given case. The profession will recognize at a glance the immense labor bestowed upon the work, and its great value and importance to the practitioner. Copious explanations are given of the plan of arrangement and the manner in which to use the work. Ample indexes are also given to all parts of it. 8vo, cloth, $4. THROUGH NORMANDY, by Katherine S. Macquoid. (A. D. F. Randolph & Co.) The author modesly calls this only a guide to the towns best worth seeing in Normandy, and to such parts of the country as lie out of the ordinary track of the tourist. But the reader will find it something more than this. Woven in with vivid descriptions of towns and ruins and scenery, are innumerable old legends and historic memories and picturesque bits of character sketches, so that we have a volume of travel as interesting as a romance in parts, and yet valuable as a guide-book, through its minuteness and accuracy. An "Index for Travelers" contains fares and hotel-prices. The illustrations, by Percy Macquoid, number almost one hundred, but are small, and inserted in the text. 12mo, cloth, $2.50. SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS, by N. L. Thiéblin. (Lee & Shepard.) Mr. Thiéblin is best known in England, where he was for many years foreign correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. After the Franco-Prussian war he was engaged by the New-York Herald to go to Spain, and the present volume is the result of his sojourn there. It will be found very attractive; it possesses all the minuteness of detail a newspaper man loves to collect, and is colored by the ardent imagination which belongs to the journalist proper. The author seems to have been both ubiquitous and omniscient, so great is the amount of information he presents relative to the Spain of to-day. 12mo, cloth, $1.75. WHAT IS MUSIC? by Isaac L. Rice. (D. Ap. pleton & Co.) Mr. Rice's definition of this query evolves a theory about music too long and complex for transcribing in these columns. The book will well pay perusal, however, as it is beautiful in its theory, and embraces the views of such distinguished men as Euler, Herbert Spencer, and Helmholtz on the same subject. 12mo, cloth, $1. THE SCIENCE OF MUSIC, by Sedley Taylor, M.A. (D. Appleton & Co.) One of the volumes of the "Popular Science Library." It aims to place before persons unacquainted with mathe matics "an intelligible and succinct account of that part of the theory of sound which constitutes the physical basis of the art of music." 12mo, cloth, $1. THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITOR, by E. J. Newlin, D.D. (U. D. Ward.) This little volume of questions and answers belongs to the second quarter of the Sunday school lessons of the International Series for 1875, and is intended for the use of parents and teachers. It is in a very handy form, and the questions are concise and to the point, and full of suggestions, aiming to fully develop the meaning of the text; they refer to "Judges, Ruth, and 1 Samuel." 18mo, paper, 25 cents. God's Rule for Christian GIVING, by William Speer. (Presbyterian Board of Pub.) The abroad, for almost thirty years, a worker in the author of this essay has been at home and missionary fields. The constant struggle he has inet with to obtain means for carrying on the great work of the Church, and the manner in which his efforts have been constantly balked from the need of money, has called his attention to what he designates the "science of Christian economy." He has written this work to impress, by every means within his reach, upon Christian associations the necessity of giving, to aid and advance the kingdom of the Lord. 12mo, cloth, 75 cents. HOW SHALL I WOO THEE? (Happy Hours Co.) According to the title-page, a curious and beautiful collection of tenderly delicate, sweetly pathetic, and amusingly quizzical loveletters." But we do not find a letter among the collection. It is really a collection of very amorous songs, taken from well-known authors, and obtaining its title from the first poem, How shall I woo Thee?" by Catherine H. Esling. 16mo, paper, 30 cents. (Wm. H. DIVINE PICTURES OF THE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES, by Rev. Ezra D. Simons. Young.) The Book of Revelation furnishes the text for these "divine pictures.' They are eleven in number and are gathered from the prophecies, and epitomize certain periods of Christianity, and shadow forth the future of the Church here and hereafter. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. THE ROMANCE OF AN HONEST WOMAN, by Victor Cherbuliez. (William F. Gill & Co.) The "honest woman" of these pages is a thoroughly French heroine. Although the author makes the most painful endeavor to be strictly moral, he does not impress one with the genuineness of his heroine's motives. She seems artificial, as do the circumstances out of which the romance grows. Still, this may all be attributed to the French code of morals, and the story found perfectly enjoyable, nevertheless. It is very brightly written, and never drags for a moment, far exceeding in interest and literary merit either Prosper" or "Joseph Noirel's Revenge." 12mo, cloth, $1.50. WE have to acknowledge a copy of THE UNITED STATES TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS' DIRECTORY FOR 1875, published in Boston by the National Association of Wool Manufacturers. It contains a list of all the woolen, cotton, silk, jute, flax, linen, and paper manufacturers through the United States, and also a list of the iron and steel manufacturers. 8vo, cloth, $5. LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS. MR. HENRY CAREY BAIRD announces to the trade that Mr. J. Franklin Garde has been admitted as a partner with him, from April 1st, and that the firm will be known as Henry Carey Baird & Co. They will continue their business of industrial publishing and bookselling at 406 Walnut street, and announce that they will be glad to receive from the trade proposals for the sale of stereotype plates or “remainders" of scientific and practical books. A new catalogue of 96 pages is now ready. MESSRS. FITCH & DUMARS, who have been established in Elmira for four years, have succeeded so well that they have recently removed into a handsome and commodious new store, at No. 135 East Water street. DODD & MEAD have two important books in preparation, one a volume on missions by Prof. Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst College, Congressman-elect, and one on the relations of the civil law to ecclesiastical polity and property, by no less an authority than Judge Strong, of the U. S. Supreme Bench. A CHARMING biography of Hippolyte Flondrin, "the Fra Angelico of our day," is to be published on this side by Pott, Young & Co., | under the title of a "A Christian Painter of the 19th Century." It is a lovely story of a lovely life. AND still they come. Porter & Coates announce that they have in preparation an important national work, "The American Centenary: A History of the Progress of the United States, during the first One Hundred Years," by Benson J. Lossing, author of " Field-Book of the Revolution," etc., etc. In addition to a detailed account of the progress made by each State during this period, it will illustrate the progress of our manufactures and other industries, and will contain a number of steel engravings of important government buildings and other places of interest. Mr. Lossing is well known as AGENT WANTED, Wexperienced in the introduction of School-Books. a WANTED-An agent, with a New-England acquaintance, Ad dress, with references, P. O. Box 1612, PHILADELPHIA, PA. BOOKS WANTED popular compiler of historical works, so that the letterpress is sure to be interesting, and the publishers promise that no expense will be spared in order to produce a work worthy of so great a subject. THE twentieth thousand of Allan Pinkerton's "The Expressman and the Detective" is issued by Keen, Cooke & Co., of Chicago, who also announce a series of shorter stories from the same pen, under the title of " Claude Melnotte as a Detective, and other Stories." They propose also a series of "Science for the People," of which the first volume will propound "an improved system of phrenology," and treat of mesmerism, spiritualism, mind-reading, etc., under the title of " The Mysteries of the Mind and the Heart Explained." E. J. HALE & SON have in press a volume of poems by Paul H. Hayne, the principal one of which is entitled, "The Mountain of the Lovers." To this is added "Poems of Nature and Tradition." It will be elegantly printed and bound, and will be ready about the 1st of May. THAT wonderfully enterprising house, Geo. P. Rowell & Co., began with this month the is sue of their Advertiser's Gazette, weekly, in neat 8vo style, somewhat like their Newspaper Reporter. Mr. Newton Perkins is editing the journal. It is very interesting in its contents. and advertisers will find it well worth reading. REV. DR. HATFIELD, of New-York, has offered $100 for the best home-mission hymn sent to 149 West Thirty-fourth street, this city, before next July. MISS M. BETHAM EDWARDS has written a new novel called Felicia," which will soon be published. UNDER the title of "American Humorists" all of Mr. Aldrich's recent prose writings have been published in German in two volumes. A COLLECTION of Schiller's business letters, including 260 never before printed, will shortly be published in Leipzig. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. OR SALE-An interest in the oldest and largest Book and Does a very large and paying business. To a practical man this offers a rare opportunity. Terms easy. Address, for a short time, CHAS. K. ARTHUR, Syracuse, N. Y. Boston. RARE CHANCE-Book and Stationery Store of thirty-four DAWSON BROS., ST. JAMES STREET, MONTREAL. PORTER & COATES, PHILADelphia. One Froude's Short Studies, old edition, first series, 12mo, cloth. Scribner, 1870. One each Art Journal, any volumes since 1867, in cloth or numbers. RANDOLPH & ENGLISH, RICHMOND, VA. Prescott's Mexico, vol. 2. Ferdinand, vol. 1, 8vo, cloth. U. S. Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861 back to 1830, any year. A. SETLIFF, 108 CHURCH STReet, Nashville, Tenn. Buckminster's Sermons. Edition of 1828. Hume's History of Natural Religion. The Recluse's Daughter. The Casquet. (Old annual.) R. WORTHINGTON & Co., NEW-YORK. Hamerton's Etchings and Etchers. years' standing for sale. Is located in a large town in Western Maryland, doing a large trade and making money. Good and satisfactory reasons given for selling. Very little capital required. Address RARE CHANCE, care of Publishers' Weekly. SITUATIONS WANTED. THE TRADE! I desire a situation with an enterAm twenty-four years old, and have an experience of over nine years in the trade; seven years with my present employer, Frederick Allen, oi Auburn, N. Y., to whom letters of inquiry may be directed. Trising Book and Stationery House. HE advertiser, who has been for nearly ten years past endesires employment. He has a thorough, practical knowledge of all the details of business, is a good penman and accountant, a ready correspondent, and good salesman. Has a fair understanding of French and German. No objection to traveling. Unexceptionable references furnished." Address G. W. C., Publishers' Weekly Office. |