son is, of course, always dull, but if money continues easy, there is no reason why the trade should not prosper and be prepared for great things when the cold weather comes.

Novelties.

WE desire to call attention to the elegant line of wall-papers imported by Mr. Fr. J. Emmerich, No. 27 Maiden Lane. These goods are manufactured by the old established house of Delicourt (Hoock Frères, successors,) Paris, and are considered, both in regard to quality and design, to be unsurpassed. The manufacturer has been awarded medals by the International Expositions of 1851, 1867, and 1873. Mr. Emmerich has on hand a large quantity of samples, from which a choice can be made to answer any purpose. The stock on hand in this line of goods is small, but orders will be taken for any quantity. The hangings are, of course, more expensive than any thing of the same kind made in this country, but it may be said with truth that there is nothing manufactured on this side of the Atlantic that can equal them. The designs are furnished by the best European artists, and some of them are of the most elaborate character. The patterns designed for large halls or corridors are well worthy of attention, as they are probably the

finest of the kind ever offered in this market.

These patterns comprise a variety of hunting scenes, garden and water views, and rich in teriors, after the style of Versailles. All these designs are lithographed in colors, and far superior to the ordinary block prints that are now so general.

Messrs. Lee & Shepard, Boston, have recently put upon the market a very convenient article in the form of a roll for mailing, made of light but strong pasteboard, that will not crush in

transmission. These rolls can be furnished of

any size to suit engravings, pictures, music, chromos, etc. They are superior in every respect to the old-fashioned wooden rolls so long in use. They cost much less for postage, and require no paper or twine. They can therefore be used with a great saving of time and money.

One of the latest novelties in the way of stationery hardware is the wire book-rest. This is a strong, compact, adjustable book-rest, and is furnished at the moderate price of fifty cents. It can be used with any size book, and adjusted at any required angle. When closed, it occupies but a very small space, and can be readily sent by mail.

The newest article in fancy goods is the circular straw fan, imported from Germany. These fans are absolutely new, and may be had at all prices, from $4.50 per dozen to $24 per dozen. They are made of finely plaited straw, and handsomely trimmed with flowers and swan'sdown. Some of them have bouquets of flowers and small humming-birds in the centre. They are certainly very elegant, and particularly adapted to the warm season for ordinary use. They are imported by Messrs. A. & E. Wallach, Nos. 451 and 453 Broadway.

Stone's stock cabinets are one of the latest articles upon the English market. It is designed for the use of stationers, for showing, selling from, and keeping in perfect condition all kinds and sizes of note-paper, envelopes, etc. They are made of all sizes.

Mr. Willy! Wallack offers the trade several other novelties, among which may be mentioned Boyce's' excelsior book-clamp. This little article will be readily accepted by the trade, as its chief merits are simplicity, durability, and cheapness. It is quickly and easily manipulated, and having a leather strap for a handle, it can be carried upon the arm, leaving the hands free. This is of course a great advantage other clamps in use can not be carried on the to school children in winter. Most of the arm, and as the handles have more or less metal in their construction, they are painful to use in cold weather. It is expected that Boyce's clamp will meet with a large sale, as it only costs $2.25 per dozen, and can be readily sold at retail for 25 cents.

Each box contains one quire legal octavo note, and one pack baronial envelopes, made of the new satin check paper, and one quire legal octavo note and one pack Alexandra No. 4 long envelopes, made of satin stripe paper of different tints. These boxes cost $18 per dozen.

Mr. Wallack has also improved the "stick it under my nose" paper-file. The improvements consist in two staples securely fastened under the nose, preventing it from being pressed down, and keeping the needle in its proper position, and in backing the metal plate on a black-walnut board, making the file stronger and more substantial.

LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS.

By a curious mistake between editor's desk and printer's case, a portion of an editorial of last week was reset, and much of its matter was presented to the reader in these columns also, no doubt to his grave perplexity. But we also have been moving, and that is a sufficient excuse in all New-York newspaper offices for any sort of blunder.

MR. JOSEPH L. BLAMIRE, the well-known head of the Messrs. Routledge's branch house in this country, sailed, with his wife and daughter, by last Saturday's steamer, for a few months' stay in England and Scotland. The wishes of many friends for a pleasant voyage and safe return follow him. On Friday evening, Mr. Blamire, with a few friends, was invited by the employees of the house to a collation at the lunching-room above the store. Mr. H. M. Reed presided at one end, and Mr. J. Lovell Smith at the other end of the table, and after the toast of the house had been responded to by three times three, the chairman gave the health of Mr. Blamire, and called on Mr. Marcus Woodle, Mr. Blamire's right-hand man, for some remarks. These remarks, felicitously congratulating Mr. Blamire on the pleasant relations that had always existed between himself and those about him, culminated in the pleasant surprise of the presentation to Mr. Blamire of a magnificent American watch, costing between $200 and $300, and a massive and beautiful chain. On the former was the recipient's monogram and the inscription, "Presented to Joseph L. Blamire by the employees of the American House of George Routledge & Sons, on the eve of his departure for Europe: New-York, April 30th, 1875." Mr. Blamire responded happily, saying that he would ever treasure their golden gifts as mementoes of their golden friendship, and the pleasant gathering broke up with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne."

and the second "Story," and the "Vade Mecum Series," two volumes of selections for common travel; and also a series of contemporaneous portraits of eminent French writers, artists, actors, etc., by Theophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, and others, comprising recollections of Gautier, Balzac, Scheffer, Alphonse Karr, and Rachel.

JOHN FORSTER'S Life of Swift is announced for publication by Murray.

and Ainsworth, "Preston Fight,” are to be pubNEW novels by Yates, "A Silent Witness," lished by Tinsley Brothers, London.

BARON TAUCHNITZ has in the press a biographical sketch of Prince Bismarck, with his portrait. It is said to be highly approved by the Prince himself, as being the best book yet written about him. The volume will shortly appear in the Tauchnitz “Translations of German Authors."

THE author of " Antony Brade" and "The New Priest in Conception Bay" is at work upon a novel, the plan of which has occupied his thoughts for many years. Messrs. Roberts A recent Bros. will publish it in the autumn. critic, in Scribner's Magazine, in an article on Robert Lowell's writings, says: Of the latest of these works, Antony Brade,' we can not speak too highly."

MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS will republish in this country the autobiography, memoirs, and As Godcorrespondence of William Godwin. win was the intimate friend of most of the men celebrated in the literature of his time, the book will be one of unusual interest.

ONE of the most important sales of the season will be held by J. Sabin & Sons, through Bangs, Merwin & Co., at the salesrooms of the latter, Monday afternoon, May 24th, and following days. This is the library of Mr. Thos. W. Field, author of the "Essay on Indian Bibliography," and was used by him in the compilation of that work. It is of course full of Americana, especially rich in books relating to the Indians, collections of historical societies and works in American history and biography in general. The catalogue, already issued, covers nearly 400 pages, is very beautiful typographically, and is enriched by many bibliographical notes, and an interesting preface by Mr. Sabin.

JOAQUIN MILLER has written a novel of California life, "In a California Eden," which will be published by Roberts Bros. It starts off in dashing style, with the picture of the election of a" Judge "at" the Forks," and promises to present live pictures of that curious semi-civiliza

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tion which Bret Harte has worked so well. is said to have completed also a three-volume novel of Italian life, and to have ready a new volume of poems.

WM. F. GILL & Co. announce two new sets of books, the "Treasure Trove Series," which is to collect papers, apparently much as "Little Classics" does, although it is announced as on a new plan, the first to be called Essay,"

WILSON, HINKLE & Co. have now ready their new series of Graded School-Readers and Primary Speller, upon which a well-known educator, Thos. W. Harvey, A.M., has been

engaged for several years. These Harvey's Readers promise to attract wide attention among teachers, since in their preparation all the recent advances in teaching have been considered, and the best artists, including Darley, Moran, Miss Hallock, the Beards, and a score of others, have contributed illustrations.

THE Paris letters to the Tribune of M. Arsène Houssaye have made a real hit, and the publication of them by Wm. F. Gill & Co. in book form, which is promised for later in the month, will furnish bright summer reading. They give mirror-pictures of Parisian "life."

MR. B. F. TAYLOR'S "Pictures of Life in Camp and Field" is promised by S. C. Griggs & Co. for to-day. The book is made up of letters written to the Chicago Journal during our war, and are spoken of by Western critics as among the finest descriptive pieces in existence. One of them is to be printed in Mr. Rossiter Johnson's "Little Classics."

SCRIBNER, WELFORD, ARMSTRONG & Co. publish editions of the newly revised edition (by W. T. Lynn) of Sir David Brewster's life of Sir Isaac Newton, an admirable book; and of the History of Caricature and the Grotesque in Literature and Art, by Thos. Wright, which is an entertaining book, full of wood-cut reproductions, in the same field as Mr. Parton's current papers in Harper's, and in the form of the Chatto & Windus series of cheap books.

A NEW and much enlarged edition of Thomas' "American Fruit Culturist" is to be published soon by Wm. Wood & Co. Much of it is rewritten by Mr. Thomas, who is the assis. tant editor of the Country Gentleman, Albany, and all the new varieties and methods of culture are included to date. The new edition will be an octavo of 600 pages; the old was a 12mo of 450.

The stock of this file is made of black walnut. A groove is cut in the upper surface, along which runs a flexible steel rod, secured at the upper end with a brass screw eye, and at the lower by means of a brass thumb-screw passing through a slot in the rod. It is, without doubt, the most serviceable file in use. A single sheet is held as firmly as a larger number; therefore, the difficulty of securing the half-sheet supplements that frequently come with the N. Y. morning papers is overcome. For circular of prices, etc., address

A. KOENEN & BRO., 81 Nassau St., N. Y.

"HOME SKETCHES IN FRANCE, and Other Papers," by the late Mrs. Henry M. Field, nearly ready at G. P. Putnam's Sons, is put forth by her husband as a memorial for her friends, but it is of real interest to the whole reading public as the record of a remarkable woman's life and work. It contains, beside her charming letters from France, and pleasant descriptions of her visits to George Eliot and Mrs. Charles, some account of her later days by her husband, and a few of the many beautiful tributes paid to her memory by her distinguished circle of friends. It is a book that should be given to true women, as showing what may be done by them to make the world brighter and better for their presence.

MR. JOHN RUSKIN has just published in England the first part of "Mornings in Florence; being simple studies of Christian Art for English Travelers," on Santa Croce; and the first part of "Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, while the air was yet pure among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which my father knew." This is a charming title-page for the bibliographer.