Thurston, Rob. H. The development of the philosophy of the steam-engine an historical sketch. N. Y., J: Wiley & Sons, 1889. C. 5+48 p. D. cl., 75 c. Read, with slight modifications, at the Montreal meeting (1884) of the British Association of Advancement of Science. The paper was so favorably received as to be thought worthy of book-form. Townsend, T: S. The honors of the Empire State, in the war of the rebellion. N. Y., A. Lovell & Co., 1889. c. 3-416 p. O. cl., subs., $2.50. The author is compiler of "The library of national records," a most valuable collection of scraps and pamphlets on American history now in the possession of Columbia College. The present volume aims to present concisely the brilliant record made by New York State in the various forms of activity necessary to the suppression of the rebellion. He dedicates his book to the eleven hundred commissioned officers of the volunteer regiments of New York who were killed in the struggle, whose names, together with particulars of death, appear in the volume. The information given is crowded into twenty chapters, the remainder being devoted to three appendixes. Appendix I. gives the names of 1000 New York heroes and how they distinguished themselves; Appendix II. gives the New York regiments, subdivided under State militia, cavalry, artillery, engineer and yolunteer infantry regiments. Appendix III. contains the roll of the dead. sixteen page index makes this valuable historical information available. Tupper, Edith Sessions. A By a hair's-breadth. N. Y., Welch, Fracker Co., 1889. c. 5-135 p. D. pap., 25 c. Paul Raymond refuses his consent to the marriage of his daughter Kate to John Morton, owing to an old family feud. After this interview Mr. Raymond is found with his throat cut from ear to ear." The story deals with the tracing of the murderer, which involves life secrets, Indian drugs, etc, etc., until the hero escapes the gallows "by a hair's-breadth." The scene is Chicago. Tupper, Edith Sessions. By whose hand? N. Y., Welch, Fracker Co., 1889. C. 4185 p. D. pap., 35 c. After bearing with her husband's neglect and inconstancy for nearly six years, Mrs. Dalrymple nerves herself to come to an understanding with him, and for that purpose goes to his room. In the morning her husband is found dead in his bed with the marks of a cobra's fangs in his throat. Every character in the book is suspected in turn, and the various motives which could have influenced such a deed are as skilfully put together as the mysteries of "By a hair's-breadth.' *United States. Supreme court. Complete analytical index of all federal citations of the supreme court of the United States (alphabetically arranged), showing where each case ever decided by this court has ever been reported, (etc.) A supplement embraces v. 119-131. From the indexed digest of the U. S. supreme court reports. 3d ed. Rochester, The Law ORDER ALBERT & SCOTT, 106 Wabash Ave., Chic. Lowe and Butler, Bellum Helvetium..net, $1.00 yers' Coöperative Pub. Co., 1889. c. 16692343+153-189 p. O. shp., $5. *Vermont. Supreme court. Reports of cases. 2d ed., unabridged, with notes and references. Book 8, cont. a verbatim reprint of v. 21-24 of the Vermont reports, [1848-1853.] St. Paul, West Pub. Co., 1889. c. 6+281+6+269 +6 +276+6+286 p. O. shp., $8. Vigny, Alfred, (Comte) de. Cinq-Mars; or, a conspiracy under Louis XIII.; tr. by W: Hazlitt; with drawings by A. Dawant, etched by Gaujean. Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1889. c. ed. 2 v.. 22+245+5+291 p. il. O. cl., net, $6; hf. cf., net, $10. A beautiful new edition of this famous romance; il. with 13 full-page etchings and numerous small il. in the text; the paper is choice, the type large and clean, and the binding tasteful. Winter, J: Strange, [pseud. for Mrs. H. E. V. Stannard.] Buttons; [also,] Bootle's baby. N. Y., Frank F. Lovell & Co., [1889.] 76 p. D. (Lovell's household lib., no. 267.) pap., 25 c. Winter, J: Strange, [pseud. for Mrs. H. E. V. Stannard.] Buttons; [also.] Bootle's baby. N. Y., J: W. Lovell Co., [1889.] 2-76 p. S. (Lovell's lib., no. 1449.) pap., 20 c. Winthrop, A. T. Wilfred: a story with a happy ending. N Y., A. D. F. Randolph & Co., [1889.] c. '80, '89. 298 p. D. cl.. $1. "In issuing the present edition of Wilfred,' in which some typographical errors of previous editions have been corrected, and a few sentences, in nowise modifying or changing the original story, have been added, the publishers desire to state that the book was first published from the author's Ms. in the spring of 1880, and has not been out of print since that time. The publishers have deemed it necessary to make this statement concerning the date of original issue because of certain resemblances in plot and incident between the story of Wilfred ' and that of Little Lord Fauntleroy,' published five years later.”— Publishers' note. Young, Julia Ditto. Adrift a story of Niagara. Phil., J: B. Lippincott Co., 1889. c. 1+275 P. D. cl., $1.25. The scene opens in the comfortable sitting-room of John Forrester, banker and broker, in the city of Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Forrester are tête-à-tête and Mrs. Forrester planning a visit to her husband's cousin, Diana, an unmarried woman, thirty years old, of strong character and with an unknown history. During this visit Mrs. Forrester meets her fate in Stephen Brooks, and his adopted brother, Jerome, also works out his mysterious destiny. Details of the plot are complicated. Dedicated to W. Ď. Howells. Zola, Émile. A mad love: or, the abbe and his court, (La conquete de Plassans ;) from the French by J: Stirling. [New cheap ed.] Phil., T. B. Peterson & Bros., [1889.] 19-378 p. S. BANCROFT-WHITNEY CO., San Francisco, Cal. Browne, National bank cases... Rapalje, On criminal procedure 1.00 Guinea..... G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, N. Y. Hubert, Liberty and a living.. RAND, MCNALLY & Co., N. Y. and Chic. Rand, McN. & Co.'s indexed map of South Dakota..... 25 A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co., N. Y. Col. 50 LUDWIG ANZENGRUBER, the Austrian poet, playwright, and journalist, died December 10. He was born in Vienna on November 29, 1839. He was the author of many dramatic poems and several novels. His popular anti clerical play of · Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld " (1872) first made him known. Among his many dramas are "Der Meineidbauer" (1872)." Die Tochter des Wucherers "(1875). "Hand und Herz" (1875), "Ein Faustschlag" (1878), and "Aus'm gewhonten G. S. RICHARDS, Clerk's Office, Dist. Ct., Denver, Gleis" (1880). Among his novels was Der Schandfleck" (1876). He wrote many of his 5.00 earlier pieces under the pseudonym of L. Gruber. 2.25 1.50 2.50 1.50 1.00 As we go to press news is received of Robert Browning's death at his palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, at 10 o'clock P.M., December 12. He was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, May 7, 1812. His first published book was Pauline" (about 1832). "Paracelsus," a meta1.00 physical dialogue, was published in 1836, and brought its author to the notice of several of the best critics of the day. In 1843 "A Blot on the 'Scutcheon" was brought out at Drury Lane, 50 and though it failed as a representation it evinced such tragic strength as to stamp the author as a great poet. Among his other important works are "Sordello," " Pippa Passes," Return of the 25 Druses," "A Soul's Tragedy," The Pied Piper of Hamelin," "The Red Cotton Night-Cap Country," Men and Women," "The Ring and the Book," "Jocoseria," "Ferishta's Fancies," and "Parleyings." His last volume, "Asolando: facts and fancies," was issued almost at the time of his death. In 1846 Browning married the poet, 4.50 Elizabeth Barrett, after a most interesting and 4.50 romantic courtship. Mrs. Browning died in 1861. 25 5.00 with enough American authors, some of whom can be induced to pay for the plates, whether you pay the bills of the electrotyper or not, to give the list a sprinkling of originality. Put the price on these lines at several times what you expect to get, so that when the books come to be sold the contrast between "publishers' prices" and "our prices" will prove a tempting bait to the unthinking public. A periodical in which you can induce your fellow-publishers to help you by their advertising support, or through which you can get in exchange books which you can job, or which will enable you to "swap" for other advertising, will help you to carry on business at other people's expense. In this way a large bus It will next be in order to look after the dis HOW TO MAKE PUBLISHING "PAY." THERE were old-fashioned times when a pub-iness can be successfully started on small capital lisher made his business pay by the old-fashioned by an enterprising man who is not too scrupulous methods of putting his own brains as well as his about the ordinary Christian virtues. author's into his books, arranging his prices and discounts so that an intelligent and capable distributing machinery for your books. The first tributing machinery could place them before readers all over the country, and paying a hundred cents on the dollar to paper-makers, printers, authors, and others concerned. We do not say that that day has gone by, and that there are no longer old-fashioned publishers who follow the old-fashioned methods. But we do say that the modern theory of publishing, as exemplified in many recent instances, is sadly different. The recipe for publishing that "pays," according to these modern methods, is somewhat as follows: thing is to sell to jobbers as much as they will buy and to send out travellers to the "regular" book trade throughout the country and stock up the retail stores to the greatest possible extent. This being done, the next point in the machinery is the supply of the dry-goods bazaar or of local “cheap John” agents at somewhat lower rates than you have been supplying the regular trade, so that the “butchers" may be induced to buy because of the opportunity to undercut the “regulars" to whom you have already sold. But this by no means fills out the measure of the enterprise of a publisher of the modern pattern. The next thing to do is to start a peripatetic auctioneer, who can be sent into a town and undersell both the regular bookdealer to whom you have sold and the "cheap John” bazaar who has been undercutting him. In this way, a vast market can be made. But there are still two methods left. The library associations, which make so much of a point of "publishers' prices" and "our prices," find much of their opportunity in books of fiction priced on this happy plan, and they should absorb a fair quantity from your stock. Finally, you yourself can undercut everybody to whom you have sold by offering your standard sets as premiums for your periodical at next-tonothing or something less. Any man who can't get rid of a lot of stock in these several ways is certainly not "smart." In the first place, form a corporation, preferably under the laws of some State which enables any amount of business to be done on small capital without risk except to creditors. It will be easy to find paper-makers who will sell you in as large quantities as you want, either charging you an extra couple of cents a pound more or less for insurance, or expecting at a closer price to recoup most of their probable loss when a break comes by such profit as they have made from you, and taking the balance out of the old-fashioned people who do pay them a hundred cents on the dollar. It will also be easy to find printers who will be willing to take the risk of trusting you indefinitely, shrewdly knowing that they can recoup themselves, when it is time for a break to come conveniently, by closing a mechanic's lien on the paper which they have printed up for you, leaving the paper-maker to that extent as well as other creditors out in the cold. There are banks which will assist you in your glorious career | enterprise and wonderful prosperity which will by "taking the chances" and discounting your paper or assisting you to swap" notes and otherwise financier." By carefully watching what copyright books or books on which copyright is expiring have paid the publishers who have pushed them to success, you will find a considerable amount of reprinting material already tested for you. and its supply can be eked out These processes lead to a career of phenomenal last for months and possibly years. When things begin to look shaky an additional resource will be found in selling stock in small lots and then suggesting to stockholders that they will be personally liable for good round losses unless they "pony up" an all-round assessment which alone is required to put the busines on a thriving basis. This little plan cannot be worked more than twice, and by and by will come time for a new and final stroke. This final resource is an ordinary bankruptcy of the day, in which you arrange for a number of preferred claims, designating an assignee to represent you or getting a receiver appointed by the court on your nomination, and then notify the creditors who are out in the cold that they may come in on your terms or stay out, as they please. Chapter one being thus finished, you begin promptly on chapter two. Reorganize your company under a new name by compromising with the larger creditors at whatever percentage their persistence and "cheek" may require anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent. in different cases. Give notes for the old company for the amount of the compromise to those who have come into the arrangements, and severely ignore those who have not. Then explain that the new company is an entirely different organization from the old, and in more or less pleasant a metaphor inform those who are frozen out that their impudence in asking for their money will receive no further attention. It is perhaps well to pay the notes covering the first or second instalments, but after that it is scarcely worth while to bother with the other notes. By this time most of the creditors will have become so discouraged that they will not bother you very much, though they may call you names in private conversation. But you won't mind this. You have now repurchased your old stock, with the help perhaps of your paper-maker and printer, who are chiefly concerned, at 25 per cent. or so of the original cost, and the door is open for a career of underselling even more glorious than before. Books made at the expense of the other creditors at a quarter the cost of their paper and print can be sold at a wonderful cheapness, and your special agents throughout the country can now begin a "war" on the regular local booksellers, who have the effrontery to ask a price which enables them to pay for their books, that will bring crowds to the book-butchers, indignant every mother's son of them at the outrageous prices charged for books by the regular trade. And so on. This is a picture drawn from the life. We do not mean to say that any one house of the several which have run their glorious career within recent years has reached that apex and acme of smartness which has enabled them to use all these means of prosperity and so scale the topmost height of publishing success under the new methods. That Napoleon of the trade is yet to arise and burst upon the wondering world. But each one of the methods we have indicated has been used in the course of trade development" in the past few years, and in each case it has been looked upon with a shrug and a grin as rather "smart." It is perhaps a minor consolation to reflect that permanent success is not built up in this way. We do not find in existence to-day houses which were built up by this process a generation ago, and possibly our successors a generation hence will no longer know the now flaring names of the houses which in this generation are building themselves up and knocking other people down on these methods. But the prevalence of those methods has made it almost impossible for a new publisher to start in business and to make a legitimate success in the old-fashioned hundred-cents-on-thedollar way. And it is largely the fault of the oldfashioned publishers themselves, who have for the last fifteen or twenty years been shutting their eyes to the fact that their own methods give opportunity to these men. How long, how long, shall these things be? "WAR" has broken out again-this time on the Pacific Coast. It started between the San Fran cisco representatives of the Belford, Clarke con cern and the Bancroft house, and of course has demoralized the trade in every bookstore in that important city. Messrs. Samuel Carson & Co., who "keep a poet," take a hand in the fray in rhyme in the advertising columns of the daily papers. This "war" is doubtless one of the incidental results of the Belford, Clarke failure and shows how directly episodes of this interesting kind demoralize the distributing machinery throughout the country. THE COPYRIGHT BREAKFAST TO COUNT DE KÉRATRY. A COMPLIMENTARY breakfast was given to Count Emile de Kératry, at Delmonico's at one o'clock last Saturday, Dec. 7, by American authors, artists, and publishers, most of them members of the American Copyright League. Count de Kératry is in this country as the authorized representative of the sentiment of international copyright of the Société de Gens de Lettres, Société des Auteurs Dramatiques, and other French literary societies, and as an envoy of the French Government to present a draft of an international copyright treaty to our Department of State. He was born at Paris in 1832 and came from an old family of Brittany. His father, a literary man, was in political life, and was one of those who offered the French crown to King Louise Philippe in 1830. George Sand took counsel of him at the beginning of her literary life. Count de Kératry served as cavalry officer in the French Army, and took part in the campaigns of the Crimea, Algeria, and Mexico. He was elected under the Second Empire a member of the French Parliament (1868-70), representing Brittany, as his father previously had done, and was made a member of the National Government of Defence as Préfect of Police of Paris during a part of the siege. Later he was commander-inchief of the forces in Brittany (60,000 men), and during the government of M. Thiers he was Préfect of Toulouse, Marseilles, and Lyons. He has since retired from public life, and has devoted his |