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    Sal^ Jotting^

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    Gonllnenlax !Qofe«

    of underselling . The President of the Exchange Union of German Booksellers has

    recently decreed that no bookseller may in future fnf . nrfl allow allnxir his Tiis retai r ^ fai l l customer nnsffttnAr a hig Tiierhpv her rat rp .+. e

    of discount than 5 per cent . ; and already , as a W preliminary B _ r * fc i i i - ¦ ¦ -i - ¦ — ¦ ^ w w step Pt ^ ^ ^^ b _^ in ^» A ^ b ¦ this XfJi ¦ tij directi ~ i ¦ fc a fc ^^ ^^ ^** on % ^ a * , a the ~ ^^ various w i ¥ > ^ fa ^^ «< w > n >^

    Ministers of the different German States have cent beeii , requested heretofore not allowed to demand to purchasers the 16 . § The per Baden Home Minister and all the Saxon

    Ministers have acceded to this request . As w wa e ha havfi ve alread alvAa . dv had \\ i \ x \ occasion nnnaainn to f . o state Rt . at . *> a tpi re-

    fusal on the part y of booksellers to comp , ly with the rules of the Booksellers' Union is

    very properly met by a refusal of the Union to allow any publishers who are also members

    to supply them with their publications . We have recentlbeen favoured bthe Presidency

    of the Union y with a circular y informing us of the submission of some of its recalcitrant

    members . We trust those firms which have not yet sent in their submission may soon renounce rfinmiTinp the f . Tifi error error of oft their f . Timr ¦ mra . \ Tft . and and ainpflrpiv sincerely

    ! wish all success to the ways Borsenverein , der deutschen Buehhandler in its praiseworthy endeavours to protect the honest trader from

    those who would take from him his fair profit and his business too . But Herr Alfred

    Lorentz states that , writing there is to no the intention IBorsenblatt of doing , distinctl away y

    altogether , throughout Germany , with the discount ri -V ^ AA to % S private k / VTAAM or of infringing

    on v . ^ . *~~ r the ^« . . * S rig -V ht ~^ of ^ each ^ V X _^ persons £ _ T V district ^ J . , * V to / JU ^ prescribe — ' A . AAAAA . AAAS > AAAC its own discount .

    M . Ajiatole France , writing in Le Temps of the 8 th inst . ives some interesting particulars

    about the new , g novel of M . Alhonse Daudet 4 L'lmmortel' now appearing in p ISIlhistration ,

    with the masterl , y designs of Emile Bayard ^ , perhaps the best living book-illustratorThe

    . hero man man or of of letters letters the story and and is o one one ne ot of As tne the tier torty fortv -Re" hu members members , a worth ot of y

    the French Academy w ^ hose scientific or Hence literary the reputation title * L is 'lmmortel supposed . ' to Astier be und -R ying 4 hu .

    purchases , as genuin , e , books and documents which whirYh have Tiavft bee Vififin n fraudulentl fra . nrJn 1 finf . lv manufactured mji . nnfa ^ f . nT'firl .

    He publishes these spurious y productions and becomes the laughing-stock of literary society . MFrance tells us that the story is founded on

    . what really happened to M . Michel Chasles in the thft year Vfiar l 18 ftf (> \ 7 7 . 1 M VT . Chasles CJha . alfta then f / htm 76 * 7 (\ vp ^ ts old r » l rl

    and a Member of the Institute , , presented years to , the v—— . ^* - Academy - » -- ^ ^ s «^ # w . ^> jfcjfc * . w of ^_^ a . is Sciences . ^ ' ^ - ^* . ^ jr » .. » ^_/ -v ^ fcj two ^/ v * x . a letters A ^ » y V IS V ^ - * . »^ P said KJWAVA to VV- '

    have Cardinal been Richelieu written , on in 1635 the subject by Rotrou of the to foundation of the French Academy VtVUV / lAA by the

    ¦*• ^ - ^ maa « alvvxvi . JL ^ - ^ * . ^ fJL & . \^ -M * . M . V ^ JLJLV / JLJL J . A V Ik ^ T UA . 1 \ J Cardinal . About the same time M . Chasles lett presented letters ers said sa . irl to to +, o the be V » ft Bel written "wrii g ian . fin b V Academy » v Rabelais TJ . a . VkAlfi . is two to f . o

    Charles "V . But these letters were y detected as forgeries , because the 4 signature 7 was written

    proper * ' Maltre JMLaitre titl ' ' e instead instead of the supposed ot of * JFr ^ Yere ^ re author ' Rabelais Rabelais . Far . , from the th « b bei einfif ng disp disconcerted . nno . ftrtififl - 1 M VT . Ckaales dia . slftH declared rlftrila . rftH that f . ha . f .

    l this letters ftf . f . Ara was b hv only Rotrou TJ . a nf . rnn slip , and f of \ r \ c \ the Rabelai T-J . n pen . Hpsln , s and formed fnrm that pH but Vmf the

    a small part y of his palseographical treasures . discovery He added of that the they laws also of gravitation clearly proved hitherto the

    g .

    Pascal attributed . M to . Chasles Newton to subsequent be really l due y submitted to Blaise his documents to the inspection of the Academy . Amongst them were letters of Pascal to

    Newton , and a memoir by Newton him young self , wno who was was then then on onlv ly ele eleven ven ! ! Sir fcir JJ David avid

    Brewster , the biographer of Newton , declared them to be ' wretched forgeries / M . Chasles ¦ had ¦ fc purchased these and other m forged hK letters *» ¦**¦

    i vi -wr ^ j ^ jLr ^ v >^^ % Jm * * t ^ s ^ J ^ ^ A ^^^*^^^ ¦ yw fc ^ I'm ^ - ^ i . t i * t <• - ^—^ - ^ ^— ' ^^ . «^ «^ ' ^^ i ^ from their fabricator , one Vrain Lucas , for about £ 6 , 000 ( 150 , 000 francs ) . Lucas was

    arrested arrfistfifl , tried f . riftH , and aTid condemned onnrlfiTnnfifl to to be be im im- - and a prisoned . nrl a fine fine for * , of nf two 500 fiOO years francs fra . nn , to . pay Truth Trn all +. li law is i « . af a expenses . ft te , « r all a . ll .

    stranger than fiction . , , MM . Hachette & Co . have just published ' La Vocation V ^ V ^ l ^ V du V ^ Comte / Ghislain 1 -. — — - — ' the *^^^ new

    novel «¦ < 1 ^» V by _ t Victor / . l . " *~ r M . JL «—^ .. Cherbuliez ^—^ VAAA IS ^/ ^ . ^~ , ^ which - - - , r has . r . * . * re ^^ » v - cently appeared in the JRevwe des dewx jftfondes .

    They also announce a posthumous work by Georges Duruy , * Victoire d'Ame . '

    The concluding part of M . Morandiere ' s important work on ' BridConstruction' is

    just published . It comprises ge Metal Bridges , Viaducts and Suspension BridMoveable

    Bridges , and the execution ges of , works for bridges .

    de M Calvin . Abel , ' and Lefranc 4 L' ' Histoire s new work de la ' La Vul Jeunesse gate en France 3 Samuel Beyerare two recent

    additions , par to French Protestant , literature . MThBentzon has collected and

    MCal-XTJ . . i ff . XJ . . X-r \/ JLX V ^ J vyll -4 AtVkJ vv / XX \ y V ** UV ^ VA CJVJLXV ^ L ^ L *^ L . . X ™/ t * A mann Levy has published ' Recits Am ^ ricains Reunis . ' The same house publishes ' Bob au

    Salon , ' par Gyp , with drawings by Bob . ' Le Lifi Messrs Livre Livrfi . des dfis Marpon Jeu . Tftii- x x-. 7 7 par n & Flammarion PaulBichet PanlRif » lip . t- wi w announce ^ th ith illus illua-

    trations by Henriot , ; ' Les Plaies d , / Egypte—Les Anglais dans la Valle ' e du Nil , ' and ' Le Japon Artistique , ' by S . Bing .

    La Society G £ ne * rale de Librairie Catholipublishes c Le Livre d V 4 . 'Or du Pontificat b j ^^ - «/^ -aA de -v >« .

    ^ . * . que »> - * >* - « . ^ s y ^ *~ * ^— ' ¦*• ^ ua ^ vkj r - " ^ i _ r m m " » - » - ^^ ^_/ j *_ >^^ ^^ k ^_ ^ v .. ^^«^» v ^^ volu volume L ^ on me XIII or of . * , ' La La and F France ra a popular . fi . J Tnivft uive edition ' 7 hv by Itidouard Edonard in one

    Drumont . , announce The new d as novel ' an b absolutel y Emile Zola chaste , which story is

    which be laced in the hands y of women may p lished and even in October in those under of young the title irls , of ' ' ill Le b Reve e pub . '

    The new volume of Magasin illustr 6 d Educatton cation et eA , de de . Jttecreation J ^ pr .. irpn . tinn , contains cor » t . « . iris _ besides hfisidfia the t . hft

    first part of Jules Verne ' s 4 Deux , Ans de Vacances , ' 'La Decouverte des Mines de

    Jbalomon , par Rider idaggard .

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    806 jLe : uuuauera July 16 , 1588

    Sal^ Jotting^

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    Hardly less interesting than the great Turner sale was the disposal of the Wimpole

    b Libra Messrs ry , which . Christie has Manson recently & been Woods dispersed . It was y only a portion , , though an important

    formed por nortion tion . , during of of the h \\ p > collection o the . cA \ pmt last . irvn century of nf val va . l u n able a . V » b lft y books books Lord

    Uhancellor Hard wick e . Migh prices were paid for the most interesting lots , as for the

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 16, 1888, page 806, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16071888/page/8/