died in the same year (1878). The enterprise was not abandoned, and is now about to be put on the subscription market by H. J. Johnson and J. M. Stoddardt. There will be twenty-five sections' in the issue, and each will contain four photogravures from designs in oil by F. O. C. Darley and A. Chappel. The form selected is quarto."

MME. ADAM (Juliette Lamber) has been compelled by ill-health to resign the editorship of the famous Nouvelle Revue, of which she was the founder, and has chosen as her successor Dr. Cyon, a Russian physiologist of repute, who was co editor with Jules Simon of the Gaulois, and is credited, -despite his denial of the charge, with having written the Russian part of La Société à St. Petersbourg' in the Comte Vasili Series. The Pall Mall Gazette says: 'Mme. Adam's position in letters and in society was unique. Her abdication leaves a void which no living French woman seems able to fill.

In reply to a recent newspaper paragraph underrating the profits from Miss Alcott's books, the publishers assert that more than one million copies have been sold, and say that during the present autumn the total sales exceed those of any previous year.

MRS. LOUIS T. HOGGIN of San Francisco has in press a dainty volume entitled 'Livre d'Amour.' It promises to be a work of art in binding and typography.

THE portrait in the October Book Buyer is that of Professor Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. The Professor says of himself: "If I did not write I should probably drink, or bet on races. 1 was born with strong communicative impulses; all sorts of things accumulate in my brain, and have to be worked off in one way or another."

FRANK R. STOCKTON's latest story, 'The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine' was issued in paper covers and in cloth binding on the 20th of October by the Century Co.

MRS. GRANT has received from the publishing house of Charles L. Webster & Co., a check for $150,000. This is the second instalment of the money earned by the brave soldier and ex-President after Ward and Wall Street had left him penniless. The first payment made by the publisher from the profits of the Grant Memoirs was in the form of a check for $200,000, sent to Mrs. Grant some time ago. "If our suits are decided favourably," said Mr. Webster to a reporter, "we shall send Mrs. Grant another check for $100,000 in a month. The suits to which I refer are those arising out of the unauthorized sale of our book by Wanamaker. Two of our general agents in Philadelphia, who violated their contract by letting Wanamaker have the books at wholesale prices, now have the nerve to withold the amount due us from them on the ground that their business was injured by this very sale of Wanamaker's. The amount involved is about $50,000 and 1 think we shall force them to pay. Mrs. Grant gets 70 per cent. of the profits, not of the receipts and we can't tell how much it will amount to until the book stops selling. A limited and richly bound edition of 500 or 1,000 copies will probably be issued soon at a subscription price of $100 a set. Each volume will contain a page or part of a page of the General's manuscript. It will be finely illustrated, some of the engravings not having appeared at all before.

ARMSTRONG & Co. have in the press a Legendary History of the Cross.' It will contain 100 full page fac-simile wood cuts from an early Dutch book, and will be uniform in style with the Biblia Pauperum, issued by this house two years ago.

MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have published Vols. I. and II. of the new Riverside Edition of Longfellow's Poetical Works; a ninth edition of 'An Introduction to the Constitutional Law of the United States,' by John Norton Pomeroy, L.L. D.; a new Little Classic Edition of Hawthorne's Works, in twenty-five volumes; Part II. of the 'Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin' in the Riverside Literature Series; and 'Watch and Ward,' by Henry James, in the Riverside Pocket Series.

THE Pilot Publishing Co., Boston, have published a volume of verses by John Boyle O'Reilly, entitled 'In Bohemia,' in which are included the best of his latest poems.

APPLETON Co. have published an edition of Shakspere which they call The Warwick,' It is printed from the same plates as the 'Parchment Shakspere' but on a thinner paper, and is bound in light boards.

DR. HASKIN's 'Reminiscences' of Emerson and his maternal ancestors have attracted so much attention that the publishers, Cupples, Upham & Co., will issue at once a second edition in book form, printed in large type and illustrated with a number of silhouette portraits.

MR. W. J. ROLFE'S 'Select Poems of Robert Browning,' which is to be published by the Harpers, will be a book of some two hundred pages, uniform in style with his 'Shakspere' and other English Classics." It will contain a brief account of the life and works of Browning, selections from the best critical comments on his poetry, nineteen of his minor pieces and the drama of 'Pippa Passes,' with explanatory and critical notes. Among the shorter poems are Hervé Riel,' 'Clive,' 'The Lost Leader,' 'Rabbi Ben Ezra,' 'Childe Roland,' 'One Word More,' 'Prospice, etc. For some of the notes the editor has been indebted to letters from Browning himself. He has also had the assistance of Miss Heloise Hersey, formerly Professor of English Literature at Smith College, with whom indeed, says The Literary World, the plan of the book originated.

D. C. HEATH & Co. have now ready, the Bibliography of Pedagogical Literature,' by Dr. G. Stanley Hall, an important work containing the names of the best books in every department of education, some 2500 titles being recorded, and in such a way as to be of real service to the teacher desiring to secure the very best in his department; 'Studies in Greek and Roman History, or Studies in General History, from 1000 B. C. to 476 A. D.,' by Mary D. Sheldon; 'Modern Petography,' an account of the application of the microscope to the study of geology, by George, Huntington Williams, of Johns Hopkins University; Illustrations of Geology and Geography,' by N. S. Shaler, W. M. Davis, and T. W. Harris, for the use of schools and families; 'Hauff's Märchen: Das Kalte Herz,' edited by W. H. Van der Smissen, with notes, Glossary and Grammatical Appendix; 'Elementary Course in Practical Zoology,' by B. P. Colton: and How to Teach Reading and What to Read in the Schools,' by G. Stanley Hall.

ONE of the handsomest books of the season will be Goldsmith's 'She Stoops to Conquer' illustrated by Edwin A. Abbey. Ten of the illustrations have been reproduced by photogravme and printed on India paper. Mr. Alfred Parsons supplies the Dobson has initial letters; and Mr. Austin written an introduction in verse describing the scene at Drury Lane Theatre on the first night of the comedy.

WE are pleased to learn that the lamented death of Mr. Charles Perkins will not delay the publication of Messrs. Scribner's great 'Cyclopædia of Painters and Painting.' The second volume will be published immediately, the third volume is in type, and the fourth and concluding volume was completed by Mr. Perkins shortly before his death.

FOREIGN NOTES.

THE CLARENDON (Oxford Eng.) press is issuing Mr. Irving's recent Oxford lecture on ‘English Actors and their Characteristics' as a shilling brochure.

WE are to have another collection of Mr. Randolph Caldecott's sketches from the London Graphic. The volume will be issued by Messrs. Routledge.

THE entire works of Gustav Freytag are to be published in forty-eight parts, or twenty-two volumes. The first part will contain 'Recollections from my Life,' these with poems making up one volume. The second and third volumes will be taken up with dramas, later ones with novels, essays, and biographical studies.

Boys, and those too of “a larger growth" will be pleased to hear that Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, is writing a sequel to Kidnapped.'

A SELECTION from Burke's speeches and writings, especially of passages bearing upon political questions, is being prepared by Mr. E. A. Pankhurst under the title of 'The Wisdom of Edmund Burke.' Mr. Murray will publish the volume.

HERR PFAU has issued a second part of his 'Buch berühmter Buchhändler,' containing the lives of ten celebrated booksellers. Amongst them we find Caxton, H. Stephanus (Etienne), Elzevir, and Trübner. We noticed the first part of Herr Pfau's interesting work on its appearance.

MR. GOLDWIN SMITH will contribute a paper on 'Bunyan' to the next number of the Contemporary Review. The same number will also contain a descriptive article on Popular Comic Newspapers' by Mr. Pennell.

MR. WALTER SMITH will issue on the 1st of next month the initial volume of The Reader's Shakspere.' The work will be completed in nine monthly volumes at 68. each. There will also be an edition of seventy-five copies on large paper. The Comedies' will fill the first three volumes, The Histories' Vols. IV. and V., 'The Tragedies' Vols. VI., VII., and VIII., and The Songs, Sonnets, and Poems,' Vol. IX.

MR. O. J. DULLEA is writing an account of 'Claude Lorraine.' It will be published in Th· Great Artist Series' issued by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co.

A LIFE of Mrs. Siddons has been under aken by Mrs. A. Kennard, and a monograph on Mme. de Stael by Miss Bella Hardy. Both volumes will be added to Mr. John H. Ingram's Eminent Women Series.'

DR. CHARLES MACKAY is writing his autibiography. It is to be in two volumes, and will bear the title Through the Long Day.'

MESSRS. DAVID BRYCE & SON, of Glasgow, have just published in a cheap form 'The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman,' with the eleven illustrations by George Cruikshank. It contains the humorous notes which Mr. Blanchard Jerrold says were written by Dickens.

THE STORY OF JACK AND THE BEANSTALK,” with fifty illustrations by the late Randolph Caldecott and a version in hexameters by the Honourable Hallam Tennyson, is announced for publication by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. The same publishers are also issuing an édition de luxe in one volume of Mr. Caldecott's 'Old Christmas' and 'Bracebridge Hall.'

'THE DIVERSIONS OF A BOOKWORM' is the title of a small volume to be issued immediately by the The author of The Pleasures of a Bookworm.' publisher will be Mr. Elliot Stock.

AN English translation of one of the best known works of the Russian novelist Tchernychewsky has just appeared, under the title of 'What's to be Done.' Tchernychewsky was not only one of the foremost literary men in Russia, but one of the earliest and most influential of the Nihilists. The book was written in a St. Petersburg dungeon, where its author was confined for twenty-two months prior to being sent to exile in Siberia.

UNDER the title of "The Mermaid Series,' Messrs. Vizetelly & Co. will shortly publish in several monthly volumes select plays of the old dramatists, under the general editorship of Mr. Havelock Eilis. Among the earlier volumes will be Marlowe and Massinger, and to the first of the series will be prefixed a comprehensive introduction by Mr. J. Addington Symonds.

LIZST'S MEMOIRS, which his heirs are about to give the world, are said to be remarkable for their collection of stories The macstro has delineated with considerable vigour the faults and foibles both of his enemies and of his friends. The book is full of portrait-sketches of "men of the time," but there is said to be not a breath of scandal in it. The book is to bear the title 'My Life.'

BROWNING's poems and essays relative to Shelley are to be included in a volume published by the Shelley Society. There will be a portrait of Browning in the book, and a 'fore-talk' by Mr. Furnival.

ONLY five hundred copies will be struck off of the fragments of Thackeray which Mr, Redway is collecting under the title Sultan Stork.' The volume will consist of ten bits of prose written between 18331844 and thr e pieces of verse, neither of which has been previously printed in a permanent formı. Mr. R. H. Shepherd's 'Bibliography of Thackeray,' revised and enlarged, is to be inserted as the last portion of the volume.

Mr. ALFRED RUSSELL SMITH is publishing in a limited series a reprint of rare contemporary tracts, detailing the battles, sieges, and skirmishes of the Civil War. The first of the series will be a 'Miraculous Victory by Lord Fairfax against the Army under the Earl of Newcastle at Wakefield in May] 1643.'

A WORK of interest for booksellers will be the 'Enclycopädie des gesamten buchändlerischen Wissens,' herausgegeben von Hermann Weissbach und Theodor Ebner, of which the Theoretical Part will ap pear before Christinas.

HERR AUGUST REHER, of Altona, has in preparation a Title Catalogue, of no fewer than 16,000 popular scientific works. The price, date, and the name of author and publisher, as also the classification, will be given.

MESSRS. FIELD & TUER announce for speedy publication by subscription 'The Signs of Old Lombard Street,' by F. G. Hilton Price, F. S. A., with sixty whole-page 4to illustrations by James West.

A NUMBER of Indian folk-tales collected by the Reverend Charles Swynnerton are announced by Mr. Elliot Stock. The volume will contain a large number of stories gleaned from oral recitations by natives, and will be illustrated by native artists.

MR. RUSKIN has started another series of volumes. It is called 'Dilecta,' and comprises correspondence, references, and other documents illustrative of his autobiography. The first part is already in press.

MESSRS. HODDER & STOUGHTON have in preparation a library edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,' edited by the Reverend John Brown, of Bedford; and also Bunyan's 'Holy War' from the first edition.

MR. ALMA TADEMA and his work is to form the subject of "The Art Journal Annual' this year. 'The biographical portion has been written by Miss Helen Zimmern. The 'Annual' will be ready with the November magazines.

MR. F. B. JEVONS has written A History of Greek Literature.' It surveys the Greek world of letters from the earliest times to the death of Demosthenes. Messrs. Charles Griffin & Co. are the publishers.

THE next volume in the series of Canterbury Poets,' published by Walter Scott, will be 'The Children of the Poets,' an anthology from English and American writers of the last three centuries, arranged, with an introduction, by Eric Robertson.

MR. SAMUEL BUTLER'S new book, which Messrs. Trübner & Co. are about to publish, is to form another link in the writer's discussion of Life and Habit' and 'Evolution, Old and New.' It is described as 'Luck and Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification.'

To the Loan department of the Art Exhibition held during the recent meeting of the English Church Congress, Mr. Riley contributed a Syriac New Testament of the year 1222, containing all the books of the New Testament except the Apocalypse, and contributed also some choice specimens of ivory and wood carving from Russia. The book rarities includes a missal of the fourteenth century; the Syriac New Testament already mentioned; The Booke of the Common Praire (Edward VI's first Prayer Book), printed in 1549; The Newe Testament, illustrated, printed in 1552; Aurelii Augustini Opuscula Plurima (S. Augustine), printed in Strasburg in 1489, a beautiful specimen of early printing, these last three being some of the loans of the Rev. L. R. Ayre. Many interesting autographs were shown, those of Archbishops Laud and Cranmer and O. Cromwell being among the number.

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT Science and Art Department has issued four tracts of great use to bibliographers and students of art at large. These are respectively lists, 1, of Books and Pamphlets in the National Art Library (South Kensington Museum) on Pottery and Porcelain; 2, on Gems; 3, on Furniture; and 4, on Sculpture. These lists are sold for a few pence each. They have been compiled under the direction of Mr. R. H. Soden-Smith.

FR. SEBASTIAN BOWDEN has in hand a translation of Dr. Hettinger's famous Commentary on Dante,' which will be published by Burns & Oates, London, during the present season. The work is strongly commended by Cardinal Manning, who says; "There are three books which always seem to me to form a triad of dogma, of poetry and of devotion-the Summa' of Aquinas, the Divina Commedia' and the Paradisus Animæ.

M. JOUAUST of Paris is publishing an edition of Rabelais from the text of 1588, with the additions and variants of 1595 given in foot-notes. There are other notes and a good preliminary Notice. There are to be seven volumes at the modest price, M. Jouaust's type and paper considered, of three francs.

MR. ELLIOT STOCK announces a 'History of the Old English Letter Foundries. With notes Bibliographical and Historical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography,' by Talbot Baines Reed. The aim of this work is to collect into a connected history the scattered records of the Art of Letter Founding in England. Commencing with the obscure period when printers were their own letterfounders, the gradual developement of the art as a distinct British industry is traced step by step in the history of the various foundries down to the year 1830. The volume will be fully illustrated. The subscription price is one guinea.

MR. DOWDEN's 'Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley,' a protest in two volumes against Mr. Cordy Jeaffreson's last book, and a refutation of most of, if not all, its misstatements, is announced by Kegan Paul; as are a volume of short stories by Andrew Lang, and a tragedy, 'Gycia,' by Mr. Lewis Morris, neither of which can fail to be amusing. Messrs. Macmillan will publish Mr. Henry James's 'Princess Casamassima' and a new novel, called 'Sir Percival,' by Mr. J. H. Shorthouse: it is known that the first is infinitely better reading than 'The Portrait of a Lady,' it is hoped, but not expected, that the second will be an improvement on John Inglesant.' Mr. Stevenson's new book, announced by Messrs. Chatto & Windus, will consist of fantastic stories, pure and simple. All, with one exception, have been published before. Meanwhile, Mr. Stevenson is engaged on a story to be printed separately-of the Elixir of Life, which should take rank with his best and happiest efforts.-Critic.

THE History of Pre-Raphaelitism' on which Mr. Harry Quilter is engaged turns out to be a work of considerable magnitude. It will deal not only with the history of the most important artistic movement of modern times, but also with its relation to ancient and contemporary art. It will also include Mr. Holman Hunt's essays, originally published in the Cornhill Magazine, and many unpublished letters. One of the chief features will be the illustrations. These are to consist of autotype reproductions of interesting and characteristic works by Sir Everett

Millais, Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. Ford Madox Brown, Mr, Sandys, and the late D. G. Rossetti, as well as some carcitures by the latter artist. The book, of large quarto size, will be published simultaneously in England and America in the course of next autumin, and will be issued in two editions at two and five guineas. There will also be an "author's edition" of about twenty copies, with proofs of the plates on vellum and bound by Orcagna, of Venice; but the prices are not yet determined.

REMARKABLE things are found in books sometimes. Here is a list of a few discovered in a Koran that was stripped preparatory to rebinding by a well-known London binder the other day:-A filee, beetle, spider, fly, louse, several seeds, some grains of corn, and yet another mysterious insect, which no one has been yet able to identify.

WE notice in an Edinburgh bookseller's catalogue a copy of the extremely rare first edition of Burn's Poems,' price $67.50. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' is the description on the title-page. The work was published, it will be ecollected, in 1786, just a hundred years ago, at Kilmarnock.

A VERY famous bookbinder let a little much needed light into this branch of the book trade at the meeting of the English Conference of Librarians. He suggested that books should be sewn with the best thread; that the sheets should be sewn all along where possible -that was to say, that each sheet should have a thread to itself; that the books should be sewn flexible or on raised boards, that good boards should be used; that all books should have a cloth joint. What a Utopian dream!

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK says:-"I am disposed to think that the great readers of the next generation will be, not our lawyers or doctors, shopkeepers of manufacturers, but the laborer and mechanic. Does not this seem natural? The former work mainly with the head. When their daily duties are over, the brain is often exhausted, and of their leisure time, much must be devoted to air and exercise. The laborer and mechanic on the contrary, besides being occupied often for much shorter hours, have in their work-time taken sufficient bodily exercise, and can therefore give any leisure they might have to reading and study."

MR. WM. H. MCALLISTER writes as follows to The Literary World:-" Will you please print the following question-addressed personally to each one of your

readers:

If you were imprisoned for life, and could only have two works for your library, what two would you choose? "I should like to see the answers to this question!!" Shakspere and the Bible, Mr. McAllister. Next.

VOLTAIRE's old home at Ferney now belongs to a sculptor, who has preserved the philosopher's bedroom in its oli state. The room contains a bedstead, table, and armchairs. On the wall are two pictures of Catherine of Russia and of Voltaire himself. At Ferney and through the country roundabout Voltaire is almost forgotten.

As a statue of Miles Standish is to be erected in Boston, it is proposed that Priscilla and John Alden be similarly honored.

MR. WOOLNER will present to the Dumfries Observatory a cast of his bust of Carlyle. This bust was made for Louisa, Lady Ashburton, in 1865, and is the best ever made of the subject.

ALEXANDER OF BULGARIA; OR THE BETRAYED PRINCE,' is the title of a ten-pfennige novel on the Berlin book-stalls.

MR. FRANK MURRAY, of Derby, Eng., entitles his last catalogue A Tour in the Book-Lover's Paradise; with a few titles snatched up and offered with prices attached to the curious.'

MESSRS. E. P. DUTTON & Co. send us their Elite Engagement Calendar,' a desirable and useful holiday gift for the ladies. These calendars are put up in sets of twelve cards with a frame, to show the current month. The cards are handsomely printed in red and black with blank space for engagements, and an appropriate quotation for each month.

A NUMBER of young English artists publish a quarterly which they call The Hobby-Horse. The last number contains a facsimile of Blake's Little Tom the Sailor,' from the collection of Mr. Gilchrist. This broadside is said to be unique.

SIR RICHARD BURTON'S translation of the 'Arabian Nights' will be complete in four more volumes, the contents of which are advertised as follows; Vols. 1 and 2 Terminal Stories' from the Breslau edition; vol. 5, a selection of tales contained in the fourth volume of Scott's translation; vols. 4, and 5, Gallard's ten most popular stories, not yet traced to Arabic

sources.

THAT most industrious of book-makers. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, has recently published The Book Fancier, or the Romance of Book-Collecting' Mr. Fitzgerald treats of book collectors, booksellers, the Elzevirs, Plantins and other old printers, of bookbinding, of the curiosities of printing and cognate matters.

AN English paper states that Messrs. Cassell & Co. wrote to Dr. Ball, the Astronomer Royal for Ireland, asking him to write a popular work on astronomy. Dr. Ball replied that he was very busy, an that nothing less than 2,000 guineas would tempt him to undertake the task. Dr. Ball no doubt thought "that settled it." But by return post he received a check for the £2,100 with the request that he would commence the work as soon as possible. The Story of the Heavens' is the result. Si non e vero e ben trovato.

SHAKSPERE students will learn with regret that Dr. C. M. Ingleby died on the 26th of September. No more diligent or accurate Shaksperean scholar is left behind, and his 'Shakspere Hermeneutics,' his Shakspere's Centurie of Praise,' and his "Still Lion' are in the hands of every lover of the poet, Dr. Ingleby was born Oct. 29, 1823, at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature, and a trustee of Shakspere's birthplace. The intelligence of his death will be received with sorrow in all literary and antiquarian circles.

AT the meeting of the English Library Association Mr. H. R. Tedder read a paper on The Classification of Shakspereana,' a subject which had been suggested by a request from Prof. Spencer Baynes that he would furnish a select bibliography to that gentleman's forthcoming life of Shakspere in the Encyclopædia Britannica.' It had been calculated that the mass of literature connected with the life and works of the great dramatist would amount to not fewer than 10,000 volumes in number. The writer then proposes an elaborate arrangement of the works by Shakspere and the works on Shakspere. In the latter division, he said, biography would be a very extensive class and should be divided into general and special works, such as those on the autograph, birthday, bones, crabtree, deer-stealing, arms and genealogy, name, occupation, birthplace, religion, &c. The scheme might include the titles of all the books, pamphlets, prints, and articles in reviews or elsewhere in any way connected with "the greatest name in all literature."

ONE of the "historic" firms in connection with the English book trade has just passed into other hands. We refer to Messrs. Pickering's business, which has been purchased by Mr. Thomas Chatto, a son of Mr. Chatto f the well known firm of Chatto & Windus. The publishing branch is to be revised and maintained. "Pickering's beautiful edition" is a stock phrase and a true one, which is more than can be said of many used by the trade, în booksellers' catalogues.

WE are glad to note that "Phil Biblion" of The American Bookmaker is sound on the subject of margins." He says, "A book without a margin is no book at all." It is like Richard III., "curtail'd of fair proportion," "deform'd, unfinis'd," "scarce half made up." No sane bibl ophile wants a rivulet of text meandering through a meadow of margin. Just proportion will satisfy most men-but in margins as in other matters liberality is highly appreciated. So Messieurs Book Speculators put up liberal margins. MR. STOCKTON's riddle, " The Lady, or the Tiger?" has gone all over the world. A lady missionary in India writes to a friend: "I have a letter from a friend who has been visiting in an out station where there are a lot of Karens (one of the wild tribes of Burmah) who have learned some English, and who continually come to her, she says, to ask if she has not learned which came out of the door-the Lady or the Tiger.''

L. JACOBSEN & Co., Buenos Ayres, have issued a catalogue, of 720 pages, of Spanish books.

HERR JOSEPH SPITHOEVER, the well-known bookseller in Rome, is about to erect an infirmary, an infant school, a chapel, and public bath 3. as a free gift to his native town, Sendenhorst, in Westphalia.

WHAT became of Baskerville's Types? is. question often asked but not satisfactorily answered, says the Art Age. It is generally supp sed that, after the sale to Beaumarchis, the plant was absorbed into one of the Parisiau type foundries, but the editor of Typologie in an interesting communication to the British and Colonial Printer and Stationer, says that the plant was purchased by Beaumarcha s, and transported to Kehl, near Strasburg, where in 1789 was printed with Baskerville's types the celebrated edition of Voltaire's works in seventy volumes (in octavo). Lately I fortunately fell across a well preserved edition. The body of the work is in small pica, and the notes in brevier. There are extracts in bourgeois, and several sizes of titling letters all, bearing the same face or cut.

Mr. Tucker's note is satisfactory as far as it goes, but it stil! leave open the question, what finally be came of Baskerville's types?

MORROW, the New York barber who wrapped O'Donovan Rossa in the English Union Jack, has en aged in a peculiar publishing business. He is issuing a a neatly bouna editior in half calf of well-known and popular books. So far he has published Our Mutual Friend,' 'Reveries of a Bachelor, and Tunglewood Tales.' By pressing a button at the bottom of the pages the neck of a bottle is made to pop up through a trap door at the top. They are adapted for use in libraries or on the cars.

ASPIRING bibliographers, and those too, who think that bibliograpy is "as easy as lying" may with advantage read the following extract from a recent review of Mr. Henry Stevens's Recollections of Mr. James Lenox:'-" To succeed as a bi liographer, a man must, besides a natural power of distinguishing, have an eye which comes to the work as a correct ear comes to the study of music; but he must also have a wide education, must know all the dead and most of the living languages; he must be enough of an artist to recognize an artist's touch; he must have an extensive

knowledge of all kinds of books in different libraries; and, above all, his memory must be unerring. With there qualifications be may begin to learn watermarks, founts of type, lines in a page, and all the mysteries of early printing, paper-maki ›g, and binding. These are but the preliminaries of bibliography, and must be acquired apart altogether from any literary or critical study of books. If they can afterwards be combined, well and good; but at the beginning they are independent. The man who, like Hill Burton, can write pleasan ly about old books is not to be trusted for scie tific bibliography; and Dibdin, with his ignorance of things in general and his wretched style, is often after all a safer guide.

ALL the world knows what a magnificent rhet rical effect Mark Antony made of the opening of Cæsar's will. The Duc d'Aumale has decided to anticipate matters a little, and, instead of leaving the task to his posthumous panegyrist, has opened his own will; but it is doubtful whether the coup de theatre will come off with equal success. In a wld ted June 3, 18-4, he leaves to the Insti ute, in trust for the nation, the château and domain of Chant lly, "with its woods, lawns, waters, edifices, and all that they containtrophies, pictures books, artistic objects, all that collection which forms, as it were, a complete and varied monument of French art in all its branches, and the his ory of my country in times of glory." The bequest is a noble a d splendid one, and other potentates in other lands might show at once their foresight and their magnanimity in imitating it. The last words, however, of the very sentence in which the bequest is made show the cloven hoof. The man who accepts as "times of glory" the centuries of which Chantilly is the monument, and who sneeringly contrasts them with the present age, may be sincere, but can scarcely be enlightened, in his patriotism. Even in the first fiush of it- gratitude the Fre ch nation may be excused for saying to itself, "Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes."

GOAT skins used in making morocco leather are tanned in sumac, and died in the ordinary way, having been previously immersed in a solution of sulphuric acid. The grain or stamping on it is done by either hand or machinery, similar to that for the purpose of dicing or graining. Very fine, mall skins for gloves are often prepared by an immersion in a solution of alum and salt, instead of tannin, flour and the yoke of eggs being after wards applied to soften and whiten. Buff leather was first made from the skin of an animal called buffe, or urus, which was then common in Western Europe. This leather when new was always of a tawny yellow, and the skins gave name to the color Cordovan leatner takes its name from Cordoval in Spain, where it was first made. The hides were dressed to be used with the grain side outward. The title of cordwainer came from this leather. Russian leather is tanned in an infusion of willow or birch bark, and derives its peculiar and long-enduring odor from the birch il with which it is dressed. The preparation of Levant le ther is pecul ar and laborious. It is first "struck out" in warm w ter on a mahogany table, blacked" with logwood and iron liquor, then polished with revolving rollers, and ・ grained up" by the workman with a "corking board” on a table. The grain is set into the leather on a hot stove, and after this it is oiled with cod oil. In finishing, Japanned leather is worked by the hand alone, as oo machine has as yet been disc vered to do the work. The mixture consists simply of linseed oil and Prussian blue, the last coat being of linseed oil and 1 mpblack, put evenly over the surface as it lies spread out on a table. A mixture of ox blood and acetate of ion is now often used in the blacking of skins.- Art Aye.