Books for the "Weekly Record," as well as all information intended for that department, must reach this office by Tuesday morning of each week. Publishers are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of each book published should be forwarded, as it is of the utmost importance that the entries of books be made as promptly and as perfectly as possible. In many cases booksellers depend on the WEEKLY solely for their information. The Record of New Publications of THE PUBLISHers' Weekly is the material of "The American Catalogue" and so forms the basis of all trade bibliography in the United States. "I hold every man a debtor to his profession, from the which, as men do of course seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and an ornament thereunto."-LORD BACON. BUSINESS AND COMPROMISES. A CAREFUL merchant should have always before him the controlling facts, that is, figures, of his business. It is astonishing how many do not. Many have only a general knowledge from their ordinary books of account of how debits and credits stand from month to month and to what extent customers' accounts are col lected or collectable; they have no working knowledge of the cost per dollar of business which they are under for rent, for personal expenditures, and for clerks-to go no farther than these very general items. Many have never calculated how much capital their business is really requiring, but go floundering on in a sea of troubles amidst notes and loans and accommodations, at great temporary cost, when perhaps one advance of actual working capital, not extravagantly large, could be had at much less cost, giving the merchant a clear head and free hand in selling his goods instead of a weary brain and discouraged heart in "tiding over" his accounts. Men have sickened and died for lack of this foresight, or for lack of the self-restraint which confines business within its capital until by its success in a small field it can be broadened and extended safely into larger ones. In small businesses, where a man keeps his accounts himself, in his books or in his head, this is not less possible and necessary, while in the managing of great affairs no man is a capable executive who has not within his reach even the minutiae of cost per unit of output. While a man is doing a cash business and asking no unusual credits and is in shape to pay his hundred cents on the dollar right along this is no one's business but his own; but it is his own business. When, however, whether from misfortune or other cause, a merchant has reason to seek or accept compromise from his creditors and to pay less than one hundred cents on the dollar, it is his business not only to know himself but to inform those from whom he proposes to accept a reduction of indebtedness just what the causes of non-success have been in detail and what the chances are, in detail, of success on the plan of compromise proposed. In a mixed business, where publishing, jobbing, retailing, one or all, in books, stationery, and other goods, severally or collectively, are involved, or where several stores are associated in one business, there should be a clear statement of the relative costs with the profit and loss of each; and if the merchant does not know these or does not state them he ought to be at that much disadvantage with his creditors. Two items which on careful examination of bankrupt accounts are often found controlling are those of personal expenditures on the part of the principal and rent in comparison with sales. Sometimes, also, business is done at a loss because of lack of judgment in purchasing stock, perhaps in large quantities for the sake of getting special discounts, perhaps in purchasing two or three copies of a book of which only one copy may sell. There is too often an opinion in these days, expressed or underlying, on the part of merchants who are arranging a compromise, that it is rather disagreeable and exacting on the part of creditors to be impertinently curious on points like these. But unless such points are covered a creditor has no right to put the interest of his other clients in jeopardy by putting on his feet again a man who does not show in the knowledge and conduct of his business the When a comprobabilities of future success. promise is on foot, the burden of proof rests beyond doubt on the man for whose benefit the compromise is to be made, and the trade in which the contrary opinion prevails is not in normal and sound condition. THE SCRIBNERS ABSORB THE CHRIS TIAN LITERATURE CO. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have purchased the publications of the Christian Literature by the voluntary action of all the stockholders. Company. The company has been dissolved All debts and liabilities of the Christian Literature Company will be paid by H. A. Sherman, the secretary of the company. Mr. Sherman will have charge of the sale of the company's publications with Charles Scribner's Sons. All books announced for publication by the company will be completed and published by the Scribners. All orders already received will be of denominational histories, thirteen volumes, filled by them. was published by the company under the ausThe Christian Literature Company was orig-pices of the American Society of Church Hisinally formed in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1884, to reprint the Ante-Nicene Christian Library of T. & T. Clark, of Edinburgh, as their translation of the Ante-Nicene Fathers was called. The late Bishop A. C. Coxe was secured as editor. The plan was to arrange chronologically the volumes of the Clark series and put three volumes into one, selling it for the price of a single volume of the Clark series. Bishop Coxe provided additional prefaces and notes, but all the original notes and prefaces were retained, so that the American reprint contains everything which appeared in the English edition. In addition, the American edition includes a volume containing a translation of newly discovered manuscripts of the Ante-nounced for publication, and will be ready next Nicene period and a volume giving an index of subjects and texts and a bibliography of AnteNicene Literature. The series met with a hearty reception and to-day commands the market. tory, and under the supervision of eminent MONUMENTS OF FRENCH TYPOGRAPHY THE French propose to distinguish the year 1900 by publishing two monuments of French typography which, in a measure, will commemorate the Exhibition. The one is to be a In 1888 the company was reorganized and moved to New York. Its next enterprise was to reprint the Clark translation of the works of St. Augustine, under the editorship of the late Dr. Schaff. An arrangement was made with the Clarks, and Dr. Schaff engaged several scholars to revise the translations and provide additional prolegomena and notes, so that the American reprint is to be preferred to the original. The same plan of combining volumes and reducing the price was followed."History of French Printing in the Fifteenth The works of St. Augustine were followed by those of St. Chrysostom, reproduced partly from the Oxford Library of the Fathers and partly from the newly prepared translations. The next series issued was the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers containing translations from the Greek and Latin Fathers, from 325 to 800 A.D. This enterprise was far more ambitious than the preceding. The translations were entirely new. The first two volumes were under the editorial supervision of Dr. Schaff and the next five under Dr. Henry Wace, King's College, London, the most famous English patristic scholar now living. These and the succeeding five volumes were published by the company jointly with James Parker & Co., of Oxford and London. Prominent American and English scholars were secured to make the translations. This series is still incomplete. Two more volumes are yet to be issued. One will probably be ready this year and the other early next year. The company also published Ten Epochs of Church History. This series is the natural outcome of their previous work of_furnishing_the best English edition of the "Fathers." The volumes are written in an historical spirit of veracious appreciation, and not in the misleading temper of controversy. It is impossible for persons of ordinary leisure and opportunity to make a profound study of ecclesiastical history, and a series of popular monographs, giving, so to speak, a bird's-eye view of the most important epochs in the life of the Church was a real want; and the Ten Epochs of Church History are intended to furnish just such monographs. Seven volumes have been published, and the remaining three volumes will be ready during the next year. The American Church History Series, a series and Sixteenth Centuries," by A. Claudin, to which we have already referred in these columns. It will be produced by the Imprimerie Nationale in the most perfect manner, and will be supplemented with 1200 plates of reproductions from rare books. The other work to be thus honored in an édition de luxe of unrivalled attractions is "Les Aventures de ma Vie," by Henri Rochefort. Of the 300 copies of which the edition will consist, each will be unique. Apart from being numbered, and bearing the subscriber's name in print (as is usual with éditions de luxe), every copy will contain on the flyleaf a maxim or aphorism touching on art, politics, or some social topic in the handwriting of M. Henri Rochefort himself, and this maxim or aphorism will be interpreted by a water-color or drawing or unique engraving by some great artist. Among the painters, sculptors, and engravers who have consented to contribute are Alexander, Benjamin Constant, Jacques Blanche, A. Besnard, Carolus Duran, Dubufe, Cheret, the Cains, Damoye, Dannat, Aman-Jean, Falguiere, Frappa, Friant, Gervex, Gagliardini, Harpignies, Harrison, Helleu, Humphrey, Johnston, Lhermitte, Jean Paul Laurens, Aime Morot, Puech, Puvis de Chavannes, Roybet, Paul Renouard, Regamey, Mdme. Sarah Bernhardt, Tattegrain, Willette, Weerts, and many others not less eminent. They have in fact constituted themselves into an artistic committee for the purpose of watching over the production of this work, which is to represent a high-water mark of excellence from the point of view both of typography and illustration. The general illustrator will be M. Lucien Métivet, whose name, says the Pall Mall Gazette, will be familiar to all readers of the Vie Parisienne, and only wood-blocks will be used; a fact, by the way, which has made the choice of paper a matter of peculiar difficulty. The ordinary papier de cuve procurable in France is of no durable value for woodcuts. This is due to the fact that modern washerwomen, with their chemical processes, completly ruin for the purposes of the art-printer the linen rags from which papier de cuve is exclusively made. In England the right sort of paper can be procured easily enough, owing, no doubt, to the influence of William Morris and other æsthetic leaders, who, when they sought to revive the ancient art of printing from wooden blocks, took care to have the right materials to hand. Book connoisseurs would do well, in fact, to bear in mind that no modern French paper manufacturer has hitherto produced a paper upon which woodcuts could be printed without the danger of their ultimately turning reddish brown. One is so accustomed to believe that the French are in advance of other nations in matters of applied art, that an instance to the contrary is worth noting. As it is the intention, however, of the committee which is bringing out this édition de luxe of Rochefort's adventures to make it an essentially national production, the paper for it will not be purchased in England, or elsewhere, but will be specially manufactured in France, and a competent expert will be appointed to select, in the first instance, the necessary linen rags, which must be free of all chlorides and other corrosive substances. No such monumental work has been issued in France since the admirers of Voltaire printed, in the great philosopher's honor, an édition de luxe of his collected writings. Rochefort will bring his memoirs up to date, and each volume of the four will contain a portrait of the author at a different epoch of his remarkable career. The printing is in the hands of Gaston da Costa, one of the most remarkable typographic experts in Europe. The engraver will be Albert Primaire. Of course, after the edition has been printed the blocks will be destroyed and the type distributed, while the original illustrations will be raffled for among the first 120 subscribers. The committee is its own publisher, and no copy of this extraordinary édition de luxe of one of the most charming volumes of reminiscences ever written will be given to the booksellers. We agree with the Tribune that it seems a pity that a better book was not chosen." From Voltaire to Rochefort is a far cry. But with these sumptuous volumes the matter is not really important. BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATIONS. THE BOOKSELLERS' LEAGUE. THE BOOKSELLERS' LEAGUE will give its third League Members' Dinner at the French Restaurant, J. B. G., 111 W. 25th Street, Wednesday evening, October 12, at 6.30 sharp. After the dinner the members and guests will engage in progressive euchre. Prizes will be awarded to those scoring the highest and lowest. Those who intend to be present are requested to notify J. N. Wing, at Charles Scribner's Sons, by Monday the roth inst. at the latest. Additional tickets for friends may be secured for 60 cents each. REV. JESSE AMES SPENCER, D.D., died in New York September 2. He was born at Hyde Park, N. Y., in 1813. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1837, and from the General Theological Seminary in 1840. He had charge of churches in Goshen, Flushing, and New York City. For many years he was professor of Greek in the College of the City of New York, and was active in literary work. He was author of a "History of the United States," in four volumes, "The Story of the Young Ruler," and "The Five Last Things." At one time he was, by appointment of the General Convention of the Church, the custodian of the Standard Bible. from 1850 or '51 to 1866, was a member of the S. Dow ELWOOD, who for about fifteen years, firm of Markham & Elwood, booksellers at Rochester, N. Y., died in Detroit, Mich., September 20. He was born in Otsego County, N. Y., December 25, 1824. In early life he was the railway mail service. In 1849 he went to a school teacher, clerk, and employee in California. In the fall of 1850 he returned East and settled in Rochester, N. Y., where he became a bookseller. In 1866 Elwood caught the oil fever, and removed to Petrolia, Ont., where he opened a private bank. In 1871 he removed to Detroit, where he helped to estabhe was first secretary and treasurer, and since lish the Wayne County Savings Bank, of which 1891 president. THOSE who take an interest in literary matters are aware that, like so many other successful writers of fiction, Thomas Hardy began his career with poetry. He is now correcting the proofs of a little volume of fugitive pieces, entitled "Wessex Poems and other Verses," which Harper & Brothers will shortly publish. The Regent Publishing Co., Bellport, Suffolk County, N. Y., has just brought out a short story, entitled "Rita de Garthez, the beautiful reconcentrado," by Mrs. Isabella M. Witherspoon. According to the publisher's announcement, "the plot hinges on the destruction of the battleship Maine, and deals with the effect of Spanish tyranny upon the Cuban mind." A. H. SAVAGE LANDOR'S book, "Our Expedition to Tibet," is announced in England under the title of "In the Forbidden Land." Mr. Landor has spent ten months in careful revision of his materials. Apart from its claims as a book of adventure it has a scientific interest. Mr. Landor climbed to the highest altitudes, and also discovered the sources of the elusive Brahmaputra. Wells Gardner, DARTON & Co., London, have nearly ready a work which promises to be of exceptional interest to book-lovers and to booksellers. It is entitled The Pleasures of Literature and the Solace of Books," selected and arranged by Joseph Shaylor, a well-known London bookseller. The book covers a wide German book-trade genealogy and history. This volume is a striking example of Teutonic painstaking in collecting masses of the driest details concerning bygone events. And yet to those interested in tracing the genesis and the career of any one of the 15,000 firms Germany from 1737 to 1895, the 20,000 referwho were engaged in the book business in ences in this volume to the documentary material concerning them on file in the archives of the Börsenverein must be of incalculable value. The work of compiling and editing this material has been done by Dr. Konrad field and contains something for all tastes. It brarian of the Börsenverein, who since the Burger, the enthusiastic and indefatigable liwill contain an illustrated title-page with a frontispiece from Meissonier's celebrated pic-ditional names. (12+825 p. 8°.) The second volume went to press has gathered 10,coo adture entitled "A Reading at Diderot's House." work, entitled "Aus der Ex-Libris Sammlung Andrew Lang has contributed an introduction. der Bibliothek d. Börsenvereins d. deutschen E. & J. B. YouNG & Co. make the following | Büchhändler," has interest for a wider circle. additions to their fall announcements: "The This artistic folio was prepared as a memorial Later Mediæval Doctrines of the Eucharistic commemorating the seventieth birthday of Dr. Sacrifice," by the Rev. B. J. Kidd; "Outlines Albrecht Kirchoff, of Leipzig, the well-known of Scripture History up to the Birth of Our bookseller, antiquary, and historian of the Lord," by Lady Martin; " Eight Sermons on German book trade. The portfolio contains St. John the Baptist," by the late Dean Goul- reproductions, in facsimile, of sixty-five speciburn; "Readings from Mother's Meetings, from mens of ex-libris in the rich collection of the Advent to Septuagesima," by Lady Laura library of the Börsenverein, arranged in hisHampton; Stories from the Faerie Queene," torical sequence, thus forming an interesting by Mary McLeod, with full-page and smaller contribution to the history of the ownership of drawings by A. G. Walker; and two new vol- books in Germany and the progress of the work umes in The Bible-Students' Library—(v. 7,) of the engraver and colorist. Not the least "The Book of Daniel, from the Christian interesting part of the book is the accompanyStandpoint, with essay on alleged historical ing explanatory text. (12 p.+50 pl. fol.) difficulties, by the editor of the Babylonian and Oriental Record," by Dr. John Kennedy, of New College, London, and (v. 8,) "The Age of the Maccabees," by Dr. A. W. Stearne, of Corpus Christi, Cambridge. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY will publish at an early date, for the Columbia University Press, a concise outline of the life and work of Bismarck, by Prof. Munroe Smith. While the narrative covers Bismarck's entire career, due stress is laid upon its central motive, the unification of Germany, and the less important periods are subordinated to those in which really decisive results were attained. In this way room is made within the limits of a small volume for a clear presentation of Bismarck's diplomacy in 1864 and 1870. Aleading feature of the book is its careful analysis of Bismarck's parliamentary politics from 1871 to 1890 and of the results attained. In describing the critical period (1878-79) in which the governmental alliance with the Liberals was broken, and the free-trade policy of the Empire abandoned, the author depends in part upon his personal observation of events and upon information derived from prominent party leaders. It is believed that the book will be of value to those who desire in brief compass a distinct impression of a great career, and it is of particular interest as a commentary on the secret movement_of Bismarck's diplomacy as revealed in Dr. Moritz Busch's "Memoir," published by the same firm. THE German Book Trade Association (Börsenverein der deutschen Buchhändler) has recently published two volumes. one of which, entitled "Geschäftsrundschreiben über gründung, kauf, verkauf u. s. w. buchhandlerischer Geschafte," has, of course, interest only to the German book trade and the student of BUSINESS NOTES. CONCORD, N. H.-Woodbury E. Hunt has opened his new bookstore in Dutton's block. GLENS FALLS, N. Y.-P.F. Madigan, owing to ill-health, has sold his book and stationery store at 4 Warren street to A. S. McMurray, of Fort Edward. Mr. Madigan came from Rutland to Glens Falls in 1889. He will retain an office in Glens Falls, and will act as general agent for subscription books. Griffith & Hoch, of Carthage, has opened a MACOMB, ILL.-R. R. Griffith, formerly of book and stationery store at 204 North Lafayette Street. MAYFIELD, KY.-J. C. Morrow & Co., booksellers, have been succeeded by Coulter & Kennedy. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-A receiver has been appointed for O. B. 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Word must reach us before Wednesday evening, to be in time for issue of same week.] OCTOBER 10-14, 3 P.M.-The miscellaneous books in the library of the late Rev. William Stevens Perry, D.D., Bishop of the diocese of Iowa. (1884 lots)-Bangs. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Under the heading "Books Wanted," subscribers only are entitled to a free insertion of five lines for books out of print, exclusive of address (in any issue except special numbers), to an extent not exceeding 100 lines a year. If more than five lines are sent, the excess is at 10 cents per line, and amount should be enclosed. Bids for current books and such as may be easily had from the publishers, and repeated matter, as well as all advertisements from non-subscribers, must be paid for at the rate of 10 cents per line. Under the heading "Books for Sale," the charge to subscribers and non-subscribers is 10 cents per line for each insertion. No deduction for repeated matter. 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Pastor Blumhardt, Record of the wonderful spiritual and physical manifestations of God's Power in healing souls and bodies, by R. K. Carter; pub. in 1887. State price. Bartlett's Book Store, 33 E. 22d 8t., N. Y. Zola's L'Assommoir, cl. and pap. Any books on Astrology. Psychopathia Sexualis. Davis, pub., any ed. The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. How to Paint Photographs in Water-Colors and in Oil, by George B. Ayres. Appleton. Young, Night Thoughts. Brentano's. 218 Wabash Ave.. Chicago, III. Holbach, System of Nature. Pub. by Mendum about 1870. Force and Nature, by Winslow. Pub. by Lippincott about 1870. 8. E. Bridgman & Co., 108 Main St., Northampton, Mass. Household of Lafayette. Gurney, On Friendship. Brinton's Religions of Primitive People. Through Finland in Carts. Earle, English Prose. Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures. Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. title and index to v. 22, or number containing this. Twentieth Century, July 5 Dec. 22, 1894; July 25, '95. Duyckinck. History of the World. pts. 1, 32, 33. Locomotive Engineering, Jan., 1897. J. W. Cadby, 131 Eagle St., Albany, N. Y. Architectural Record, nos. 1, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28. Official Gazette of U. S. Pat. Office, v. 13 to 29, 36, 54 to 57. Review of Reviews, March, May, Sept., 1890; July, '91. N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, v. 3 to 10. Southern Literary Messenger, v. 2, 3, 6, 10 to 17. M. E. Carleton, Flint, Mich. Farraday's Forces of Nature. C. N. Caspar Company, 437 East Water St., Truth, nos. 277 and 283. Good price paid. Set of Reference Handbook of Medical Sciences. A H. Clapp. 32 Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y. Babyland, bound boards or cl., back nos. The Robert Clarke Company, 31 E. 4th St., Cincinnati, O. Noblesse Oblige, Leisure Hours. Holt & Co. Lieut. Allen's Report on Alaska, with map. Gov. Publication. Taylor's Manual of Ohio School System. W. B. Clarke Co, Park and Tremont Sts., Boston, Mass. Rainbows for Children, new or second-hand copy. Fire and Sword in the Soudan, by Slatin Pasha, 8° ed. Kalevala: Finland Epic. Pub. by Alden. Morte D'Arthur, introd. by Prof. Rhys and ils. by Social Arrows, by the Earl of March. Pub. by Longmans. Greene, Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey, 1877-78. 2 copies of Roadside Songs of Tuscany, Ruskin, 8°, $2.50 ed. Henry IV. and Marie de Medici, 2 v. Confessions of a Young Man, G. Moore. Hugh M. Connor, 218 Princeton St., East Boston, Mass. Proceedings of Triennial Convention of P. E. Church for 1839, 42, 45, 48, 51. Hist. of Scituate, Mass. Catalogues of new and second-hand books, especially encyclopædias. A. J. Crawford, 312 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo. New Englander or Yale Review, Jan., 1892, containing Hawthorne's "Marble Faun." Damrell & Upham, 283 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Cradle Songs of Many Nations, words and music compiled by Herman Rheinholdt. Pub. by Dodd, Mead & Co. E. Darrow & Co., 235 E. Main St., Rochester, |