The Werner Co., 1898. c. 222 p. D. cl., $1.50. [2046 "Schenk's theory" is that the sex of an offspring may be determined before its birth through the means of various methods and diets that he has experimented with. These he describes in his book, also giving an account of his experiments. Dr. Schenk is professor at the Imperial University, and director of the Embryological Institute in Vienna. Schreiner, S. C. Cronwright. The Angora goat, (published under the auspices of the South African Angora Goat Breeders' Assoc.;) and A paper on the ostrich; reprinted from the Zoologist for March, 1897. N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. 15+296 p. il. O. cl., $3. [2047 Shugert, Fanny Alricks. The day breaketh: a tale of Jerusalem and Rome in the days of Christ. Phil., H: Altemus, 1898. 4-291 p. D. cl., $1. C. [2048 "The aim I have had has been to weave a story of the fearless devotion of the early Christians, and to present to the young of to-day in entertaining form a sketch of the enduring zeal which the apostles displayed in obeying the command of the Master. It covers the most trying times of the great transition from Paganism to Christianity-the period commencing with the stoning of Stephen and ending with the death of John, the last disciple."- Preface. Stokes, S: W:, M.D. William Stokes, his life and work (1804-1878), by his son, N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. 7-256 p. por. D. (Masters of medicine, no. 4.) cl., $1.25. [2049 Stuart Mrs. Ruth McEnery. Moriah's morning, and other half-hour sketches. N. Y., Harper, 1898. c. 4+219 p. il. D. cl, $1.25. [2050 A collection of thirteen short sketches, most of which have already appeared in the Editor's Drawer of Harper's Magazine. Their purpose is to amuse and entertain through the medium of light and humorous character drawing, principally of types encountered in modern plantation life in the south. Most of the stories are cast in the dialect form, though this is not invariably adopted. The last sketch of the book, “A minor chord," supplies a note of pathos, contrasting with the tone of comedy prevailing through the preceding pages. Taylor, A. R. The study of the child: a brief treatise on the psychology of the child; with suggestions for teachers, students, and parents. N. Y., Appleton, 1898. c. 35+ 215 p. D. (International education ser., no. 43.) cl., $1.50. [2051 Chapters on the senses; Consciousness and apper. ception; Attention; Symbolism; Language; Muscular or motor control; The feelings; The will and its func. tions; The intellect and its functions; The self, habit, and character; Children's instincts and plays; Manners and morals: Normals and abnormals; Stages of growth, fatigue, point, etc. Bibliography (5 p.). Thomas, Cyrus. Introduction to the study of North American archæology. Cin., O., The Rob. Clarke Co., 1898. C. 14+391 P. O. cl., $2. [2052 As this work is adapted to the use of students and general readers, the author has followed the conservative views of the most recent authorities, omitting the discussion of disputed questions which offer no hope of final solution, as the origin of the Indians, glacial man, etc. After the introductory chapters setting forth the plan adopted, the classification followed, the materials available for the study and the method of study, the author arranges the remainder of his work in three divisions, viz., the Arctic, the Atlantic, and Pacific divisions. Included under these divisions are descriptions and discussions of the characteristic types of the different sections. The discussions relate to the distinguishing features of the antiquities, their probable age and authors, the movements of popula tion therein, etc. Thompson, Maurice. Stories of Indiana. N. Meg of the scarlet foot: a novel. N. Y., Harper, 1898. 5+120 p. D. cl., $1.50. [2054 mining village. It revolves around the central charThis novel is a story of modern life in a Lancashire acter of the heroine, Meg, and follows her adventures, bodily and spiritual, in her rude and untrained endeav life and love. The book is strongly tinged with a cerors to solve and reconcile the ultimate meanings of tain romantic mysticism in keeping with the atmosphere of an unrefined rural community where simple superstition and fatalism prevail. Vivian, T: J., ed. With Dewey at Manila. N. Y., R. F. Fenno & Co., [1898.] c. 3100+6 p. por. map, il. sq. S. pap., 25 c. [2055 "The plain story of the glorious victory of the United States Squadron over the Spanish fleet Sunday morning, May 1, 1898, as related in the notes and correspondence of an officer on board the flagship Olympia." *Von Hofmann, Dr. E. Atlas of legal medicine; authorized translation from the German; ed. by F: Peterson, M.D., assisted by Aloysius O. J. Kelly, M.D Phil., W. B. Saunders, 1898. C. 12 p. 56 plates in colors, and 193 il. D. cl., net, $3.50. Walton, Eleanor G. She who will not when [2056 P. M. Rumford. she may; il. by C. H: Altemus, 1898. C. Phil., 4-140 p. D. cl., $1. [2057 The story is told in a series of letters supposed to be written by an unconventional young society woman who was devoted to art, and who opposed her wouldbe suitor on the strength of pronounced views about matrimony and platonic friendship. For a time the hero submits patiently, but finally tiring of the ideal existence pictured by the fair writer, he betroths himself to another girl. The letter containing this news reaches the heroine when she has decided to revoke her decision. The last scene is described in a letter from the heroine's mother. The letters are dated from Milford, New York, Newport, Hotel Cecil, Strand, Vienna, and other points of social interest. Watson, T: H. Naval architecture: a manual on laying-off iron, steel, and composite vessels. N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. C. 12+171 p. plans, il. O. cl., net, $5. [2058 *Whyte, Alex., D.D. Bible characters. V. 2, Gideon to Absalom. N. Y. and Chic., Fleming H. Revell Co., 1898. 245 p. 12°, cl., $1.25. [2059 *Whyte, Alex., D.D. Father John of the Greek church: an appreciation; with some characteristic passages from his mystical and spiritual autobiography. N. Y. and Chic., Fleming H. Revell Co., 1898. 83 p. 12°, cl., 75 c. [2060 Wilde, M. Vaughan. Juleps and Clover. N. A love story, with its scenes in the mountains of North Carolina. All but one of the characters are southerners; he is a New York society man, who falls in love with Clover Gwynne; she deceives him as to her relations with another man, and there is a duel, in which the northern man kills his antagonist. Wills, Freeman. W. G. Wills, dramatist and painter. N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. 3+284 p. por. Ō. cl., $3.50. [2062 Wilson, C: Ashley Carus. Electro-dynamics the direct-current motor. N. Y., Longmans, Green & Co., 1898. 6+298 p. il. Ď. cl., $1.75. [2063 plied to his debts. He will then secure a release and go free. The bill as agreed upon changes the time when the act shall become operative. It goes into full force and effect immediately, except that voluntary petitions cannot be filed until thirty days and involuntary petitions until four months after the passage of the act. Voluntary bankrupts will have its benefits almost immediately, and creditors will not run the risk of having its provisions evaded by dishonest debtors, who might give preferences and make fraudulent conveyances or other disposition of their property in defiance of the act, and thereby defeat its operation as to them, were the time when it is to take effect postponed. TARIFF ON PRINTED MATTER. THE NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY LAW. THE Conferrees on the bankruptcy bill, who THE Board of Classification of the United have been trying for nearly three months to States General Appraisers on June 22 announced harmonize the conflicting votes of the House three decisions bearing upon various phases of the tariff on printed matter. In one case the and Senate on that measure, reached an agree-collector at the port of New York had assessed ment on June 14. On June 24 the Senate adopted the Conference Report by a vote of 43 to 13, and on June 28 the House adopted it by a vote of 133 to 53. There is no doubt that the measure will be approved by the President. In the main the provisions of the compromise measure concerning the grounds of bankruptcy are the same as those embraced in the Nelson bill passed by the Senate, with more liberal provisions to prevent preferences by insolvents. The framework of the bill is in substance that of the House bill. The agreement is along the lines of the House bill in the way of procedure, and it embraces both voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. While the conference report aims to provide for a substantial bankruptcy law, the measure is much less drastic against debtors than any law has yet been, and much more liberal than State laws affecting bankrupts. a duty of 25 per cent. ad valorem upon Welsh The third decision was against the A. E. Wilde Co., who protested against the ruling of the surveyor of customs at Cincinnati as to the rate and amount of duty assessed upon books for children's use. A representative sample of It is provided that an insolvent person may the merchandise consisted of a child's book go into the courts and announce his insolvency entitled "Fröliches Treiben." The front of the cardboard cover had a rural picture, the and that he is guiltless of an intent to defraud body of the book within containing eight pages and is willing to turn over all his property to of text and colored pictures, all done by a lithhis creditors. The court will thereupon inves-ographic process. The text was exclusively tigate, and if it finds that he is guiltless of intent to defraud will arrange that his property be applied to the payment of his debts, and that he shall have a release for them. This will enable him to begin again, and if he accumulates any money his old debts cannot be brought up against him. In regard to involuntary bankruptcy, it is provided that the creditors of an insolvent person can go into the courts, and, by making the proper showing that he is insolvent, can have him declared a bankrupt and his property ap foreign. In the decision the Board stated that be well founded but for a new provision in the the claim of the importers for free entry might present tariff, namely, paragraph 400, the last part of which provides for "books of paper or other material for children's use, containing illuminated lithographic prints, not exceeding in weight 24 ounces each, and all booklets and fashion magazines or periodicals printed in whole or in part by lithographic process or decorated by hand, eight cents per pound." The Board ruled that the books in question were covered by the above paragraph and affirmed the assessment of duty at eight cents a pound. APROPOS of the changes in the firm of Estes & Lauriat, and the continuance of its publishing business under the name of Dana Estes & Company, it may not be out of place to review in brief the career of its founder, Dana Estes. Mr. Estes was born in Gorham, Me., March 4, 1840. His American ancestor on the paternal side was Richard Estes, of Dover, England, who came to this country in 1684. On the maternal side he is fourth in descent from Hugh McLellan, of Gorham, who came in 1733 from Londonderry, Ireland, and was a descendant of Sir Hugh McLellan, of Argyle, Scotland. Mr. Estes received his early education in the schools of his native town, and at the age of fifteen, in 1855, went to Augusta, Me., where he had his first business experience and training as a clerk in a wholesale and retail general store. In 1859 he went to Boston and engaged in the book business with Henry D. Degen & Son. Two years later, on the very day on which Fort Sumter was fired on, Mr. Estes enlisted in the Fourth Battalion Rifles, which was afterwards the nucleus of the Thirteenth Massachusetts. He was in active service until disabled by being three times wounded in the second battle of Bull Run, August 31, 1862, in which engagement his only brother, Albert S. Estes, was killed. After recovery from his wounds he took a position temporarily with the bookselling house of William H. Hill, Jr., where he remained until the return from the war of his former employer, Henry D. Degen, with whom he formed a copartnership under the name of Degen, Estes & Co., and carried on a small publishing and bookselling business on Cornhill. The firm made a specialty of children's toy-books. and after some years' experience, not finding the field broad enough for two, Mr. Estes sold out to his partner and took a position as salesman with the firm of Lee & Shepard, remaining with them until the firm of Estes & Lauriat was formed. Believing in the idea of connecting the miscellaneous bookselling business with the publishing business Mr. Estes cast about to find the most able man connected with the retail book business, and succeeded in inducing Charles E. Lauriat to join him in his new enterprise, with the understanding that Mr. Lauriat was to have sole charge of the miscellaneous bookselling department, while Mr. Estes was to manage the publishing business of the firm. In 1872, just three months before the historic fire, the firm of Estes & Lauriat began business in the store at 299-301 Washington Street. The great fire came, and stopped at the very threshold of their store. Indeed, their stock was badly damaged by the blowing out of the front of the building in the efforts to stop the progress of the fire, and by the removal of a large part of their fine stock to a place of safety. Notwithstanding the discouragement occasioned by this calamity the firm proceeded to carry out its plans. The first of their large publishing ventures was the issue of Guizot's "History of France," which proved the foundation - stone of their great success and subsequent prosperity. In the year following the fire the new firm was confronted with the panic of 1873, and the senior partner had also the DANA ESTES. have ever since made a specialty of bringing out high-grade subscription-books, especially in the department of history, in which they have published besides Guizot's histories of France and England, Martin's history of France and Duruy's histories of Greece and Rome. Another specialty in this department is their éditions de luxe of standard novelists, including Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, BulwerLytton, George Eliot, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and others. Among other notable publications issued by this firm during the past quarter of a century may be mentioned the Zig-Zag Journey Series, books of travel for young people, of which Mr. Estes originated the title and plan, and which, under the editorship of Hezekiah Butterworth, have been among the most popular of their class; the Vassar Girl Series, by Lizzie Champney, a similar set of books, intended especially for girls; and the Knockabout Club, a series of books of sporting and adventure, by C. A. Stephens. Among their most popular books of the present time, by American authors, are the cookbooks of Miss Maria Parloa, of which about a million volumes have been sold; and the popular stories by Laura E. Richards, of Gardiner, Maine, the talented daughter of Julia Ward Howe. Of a single one of the last-mentioned ("Captain January,") the firm have sold nearly one hundred thousand copies, and the sale con tinues unabated. One of their noteworthy specialties has been the publishing of works in natural history, by Dr. Elliott Coues, Prof. J. S. Kingsley, Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., and others; and another popular series is their set of works on Italian cities, by Clara Erskine Clement and other authors. In 1890, finding that their publishing business had outgrown the offices on Washington Street in which it was conducted, Mr. Estes erected two large buildings on the Summer Street extension, extending nearly through to Congress Street. These buildings, known as the Estes Press Buildings, and fitted with every modern improvement and convenience for the purpose, accommodate some of the largest printing and bookbinding establishments in the country, and afford headquarters for the firm's own publishing, book manufacturing, and subscription departments. Here the new firm-Dana Estes & Company-has its headquarters, and here, too, is domiciled L. C. Page & Co., which is owned and managed by three stepsons of Mr. Estes-L. Coues Page, Charles F. Page, and George A. Page-as shareholders and officers. Since the removal of their publishing business to Summer Street the miscellaneous department has occupied the whole of the premises" Opposite the Old South," and the business there conducted is one of the largest of the kind done by any house in the United States. Mr. Lauriat continues in charge of this department, which will hereafter be conducted under the firm-name of the Charles E. Lauriat Co. He has made special features of the importation of the finest grades of rare and standard literature, the supplying of public and private libraries, and the catering for the very best class of the bookbuying public. Mr. Estes, as has already been noted in a former issue, still retains an interest in the retail busi ness. An interesting episode of the firm's publishing enterprise was their purchase of the right to publish the popular annual juvenile, "Chatterbox," and the establishment of an international trade-mark on the name of the book, in a series of eight or ten cases against infringers in the various United States Courts of the country. They were finally triumphant, after litigation lasting nearly ten years, and involving an outlay of nearly thirty thousand dollars of expense on their part and fully an equal sum on the part of the defendants, thus establishing the principle that an appropriate trade-mark on a book, if good in England, can be protected in the courts of this country. Mr. Estes' experience in this litigation brought him prominently forward in organizing the movement to give foreign authors their rights by an international copyright law, and he acted for a number of years as secretary of the International Copyright Association. Mr. Estes has been too busily engaged with the affairs of business to devote much time to literary work, but he has edited a series of volumes entitled "Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science," and in 1872-4 compiled several volumes of juvenile and standard poetry. He has always been much interested in ar chæology, and in 1888 brought from Northern Italy a large collection of Paleo-Italian antiquities of great archæological value. Mr. Estes was first married April 11, 1867, to Louisa S., daughter of Peter and Mary (Filgate) Reid, of England. He was married again November 10, 1884, to Grace D. (Coues) Page, daughter of Samuel E. and Charlotte Haven (Ladd) Coues, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. By the first marriage there are three children: Frederick Reid, Dana, Jr., and Philip Sydney Estes. At its commencement on June 23, 1898, Bowdoin College conferred the degree of A.M. upon Mr. Estes. ORIGIN OF THE "RIVERSIDE PRESS." IN 1852 H. O. Houghton established a printing-press in Cambridge, Mass., on the banks of the Charles River, in a building formerly used by the city for the town poor. Mr. Houghton, not wishing to have any name attach itself to his new press which might be suggested by the former use of the building, sought the advice of his friend James Brown, then of the firm of Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, who one day said to him: "This press stands by the side of the Charles River; why not call it The Riverside Press?" and this most natural name was then given to it, so that now the term "Riverside" has come to cover a thickly populated district, and to be applied to various neighboring industries. After Mr. Houghton became a publisher as well as a printer, the word 'Riverside" was used in connection with those of his publications which were designed to be of especial excellence, both in contents and in typography. Horace E. Scudder, in a privately printed memoir of Mr. Houghton, in speaking of the name of the Riverside Magazine for Young People, says: 'He had, when the magazine was started, a little shyness about its use; but he had already perceived its value as a trade-mark, and he found it a grateful substitute for the use of his own name, which he did not care to see used superfluously in the conduct of business. Indeed, the impersonal character of the word 'Riverside' was its great value in his eyes. It stood for something objective, gathering his ideals, his aims, his honorable ambition, so that he could enjoy and glory in it without any shamefacedness. Riverside,' he once said to me, is like a diamond which I can hold up before my eye, and turn it this way and that, and let the light fall on it, and see it sparkle.'" The name Riverside is now borne by excellent complete editions of Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Emerson, Aldrich, Hawthorne, Browning, Burroughs, Stowe, and Thoreau, and by many other books and collections of books. The books of especial interest to educational people which carry the name "Riverside" are, those of the Riverside Literature Series and Riverside School Library, which now number 175 volumes; all of them illustrate well the meaning that Mr. Houghton always wished to attach to the word Riverside. The Riverside Press soon outgrew the small building in which it was first started, and now consists of a large building, or collection of buildings, in which are employed between five and six hundred persons. |