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      Ameeioan Literaby Pbospeots.

      Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering , U . S . Navy , is an important ' scientific and technical « 1 * « . • • < n lish <¦•* fiction * % ¦• which v * i costs i the it American a «••

      -nothing to work reprint in , limits active the preparation number . of American Eng novels , , but Judge A . W . Tourgee ' s publisher c Bricks

      withou ' The Grandissimes t Straw , ' and : ' a A Story Boyal of Gentleman Creole Life ; ' ' by George Wallace ' W s . * Ben Cable -Hur George : a tale Fleming of the ' Christ s ' The , '

      Head tt ^ of *• Medusa ^ r ¦ % , ' and t 'B y the ¦* Tiber m * i , ' from & , the ii pen of the » i autho ii , r of f ' Si r ^* gnor Monaldini tut i *• ' s

      JSmmf win be among the notable novels of the season , and are sure to attract attention .

      868 The Publishers 1 Circular Oct. 15, I...

      868 The Publishers Circular Oct . 15 , isso

      Correspondence.

      CORRESPONDENCE .

      To the Editor of the ' Publishers * Circular . ' BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION .

      Dear Sir , —Upon first reading the paragraph on the Booksellers' Provident Institution in the columns ot of one one or of your Your contemporaries contemporaries . , 1 I telt felt sorry sorrv he he had had not not mad made e a a d direct irect charge charge against against the the institution Institution .

      instead of dealing in generalities , but upon reading it a second time I could not help coming to the con- , clusion that it was only a happy effort at satire . My reasons for coming to such a conclusion are the

      following facts gleaned from the report just issued : — No society could be mismanaged that only spent £ 139 . 17 s . 3 d . in collecting £ 1 , 707 and disbursing £ \ 508 or about 8 per centof its income . It would be a difficult matter to point to another institution so

      economical ,, ly managed . Again , , if young men neglect to join an institution with over £ 30 , 000 invested in the Funds , and offering greater advantages than any kindred society , it should not be charged to the society as mismanagementbut to the young men connected with the bookselling trade who refuse to

      share its benefits . As a conclusive , reason I do not think the society would have received the generous support from the trade that it has done had the mismanagement been real instead of satirical . Among the donors of the last few years I find the name of the proprietor of the Bookseller \ £ 10 and am sure he

      , would not have subscribed to an institution that could be honestly charged ' with past and present mismanagement and crippling its usefulness / Yours truly , A Member .

      [ We are sure our contemporary joins with us in wishing the continuous and increasing welfare of the Booksellers' Provident Institution , and that his strictures were intended to be made with this end in

      view . —Ed . ' P . C / J

      Trade Change.

      TRADE CHANGE .

      Dunnett The ) , business has been carried purchased on b of y Mr the . truste Thompson e by , Mr of . E Bury . B . Goulden St . Edmunds one of ( recentl the sons y by of Mr Mr . .

      Alderman A ^ k ^ B Goulden ^^^^ ^ A , of Canterbury I— . I ^_ . The valuation ^ ^_ was made ^— on behalf ^~ , ^_ ~ m- - > - of -i the trustee by ^

      Messrs . Holmes & Son , for the purchaser by Mr . Goulden , of Crewkerne .

      Books Received : —

      Books Received : —

      From Messrs . Dean & Son . — 'Little Folks' Fairy Library . ' Each volume has abundant coloured

      pictures , is bound in gilt cloth , and has a coloured picture medallionwise let into the side of the coverwith a very attractive effect . One of

      the series , contains the nursery rhymes we all were once familiar with , and another contains poetry

      of ot animals a a kind kind and which which the pleas Dleas various es es young vounff incidents peop noonle le of . , on on life birds hird and « ., aspects , of nature .

      From Messrs . James Duffy A Sons . — The Life of the Venerable Mother ] Mary , of the

      Incarnation , Joint Foundress and First Superior of the Ursulines of Quebec / by a Heligious of the Ursuline Community . The materials of this

      biography have been culled from two earlier sketches , published in 16 ^ 7 and 1863 , and the historical statements are based ¦«¦¦ on the Canadian

      — ' - — --- ^ v ¦ — ' ^ . ^^ ¦ »^ w » - ^^ v ^ v » ^^ ^ fc ^ ^ MVh ^* ^^^ VW 4 K ^ I » V 4 V Mt ^ ^ J ^ " <^ histories of the Abb 6 Ferland and Bancroft . It is a work which will be much valued by members of the Roman Church as a record of one of the

      noblest pioneers of its faith in the New World . From Mesars . Griffith A Farrau iv . — « The Other bip ^^

      b Side : How it Struck r - — - r - - - us — — / b ^^ ^^ y ^ p ^^ pm , ^ 0 ^^^ p' ^ a . ^ p ^^^ ' ^^ B . Berry " ^ ' ¦ pi ¦ w ^™ r ^ v ^ . — ^^ p ^ A p l ^ i ^ -

      luxurious book as regards type and and in

      style a thoroughly pleasant and unconventional paper , description of a trans-Atlantic tour . Hotel life , street ¦— — — — ¦ *• — locomotion -v ¦ % * v •«* WAV ¦»• , railways * WM . 1 U I * I Ui , prairie r ••***^* villages ** *^ O , the

      natural in New York features but of the in the country cities , and of Montreal life , not only and Quebec / fc are sketched with 111 evident \ 4 keenness llv *¦• ^* ' * of

      ^¦^ j **^^ vxy , UA * y ulkV »/\» AAV ^ Vfc W » 1 J w a vv LA v V ^ A * » w appreciation versations which , and ensued K the reproduction between / II the UllVJ of author the con and ——

      -» V * W € *»/» v / A *» IT XJIl ^ JUi > IXO \ AV \ A KIjIjCDU uuwav * thos lively livelv e whom feature feature he in in met the the on book book his . . wanderings It It is is from from forms firs first t w to a

      last purely descriptive . It is free from homilies and moralisings , and it is , what bo few books wish wish are ,

      emphatical emDhaticalllv y true true to to its its title title . . To To all all who wno to get a glimpse of things as they really are * on the other side / we can recommend Mr . JBerry s

      genial book . Fro Popular m « Hand Becreation and Heart / ' The Publishing Theatreas Office It . is — ,

      and ' Charles WUBJCKTO JL V ^ ' UUll The Bullock JJUJ JLf Ober 1 UUJ ^ l ^ A & . , - Ammergau B Xi l / Jl .. XJ ? D . . ' The J . UO llVJ Play 11 firs TOL AUUUIIU t . ' paper p » Jk By / OA , , was « the « ww Bev - read — .

      ' b and y Mr the . Bullock others at are the reprinted Sheffield Church from Hand Congress and ,

      Heartof which he 10 the editor . . Mr . uunou * p aim ib , to render recreation innocent and healthy » I

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1880, page 868, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101880/page/8/