Our Illustrated Xmas Number WE are arranging to publish our Illustrated Christmas Number as early as possible, and shall be glad if publishers will kindly send in books and blocks as soon as ready. Also" copy" for advertise ments. How to Economise A Suggestion from Gladstone How to economise book-space presents itself daily as a perplexing problem for the librarian of a growing library. The resourceful librarian of Bowdoin College, Mr. George T. Little, in a paper read before the American Library Institute at its late meeting in New York, September 27th and 28th, described a novel scheme that seems to work well in Maine, and ought to prove equally satisfactory elsewhere. Instead of fixed shelves with intervening passages, a part ΟΙ the Bowdoin bookstacks have closely-contiguous sliding book-cases, with proper aisle space and lighting to admit of their being drawn out one by one as desired. Ball-bearing rollers or wheels, metal rails sunk in the floor, and a guiding slot and T-iron at the top, are required for the combined movability and firmness of these novel shelves, whose construction seems to have been suggested to Mr. Little by a notable paper of Mr. Gladstone's in The Nineteenth Century for March, 1890, on the housing of books. An objection to Mr. Little's plan is that" Out of sight is out of mind," and the fact that the books are buried in sliding pull-out cases will certainly make the object of the book-thief easier of accomplishment. M. H. I.E SOUDIER, of 174, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, has just published the Second Part of his admirable Bibliography of French Publications since January 1st, 1900. This important work is in two royal 8vo volumes, price 75 francs in paper cover, and relates to the years 1905-1909. The material for it is supplied in the weekly issues of the "Mé norial de la Librairie," published by M. Le Soudier. The system of classification is that which we believe was first employed in the "English Catalogue of Books," viz., giving the name of author, title of work and subject, in alphabetical order in one index. This system was unanimously approved by the International Congress of Publishers in 1897. We congratulate M. Le Soudier on the excellent way in which his work is produced. In reply to many enquiries we may mention that our own five-year volume of the English Catalogue of Books, 19061910, is now rapidly approaching completion, and will be published this autumn. MURIEL NELSON D'AUVERGNE. "TARNISHED CORONETS" [Werner Laurie] &c. She closed a brilliant academic career at Glasgow University by taking the degree of M.A. with honours in English history and literature, two years ago. She is well-known in Suffragist circles and has fought hard for the cause in all parts of England. The portrait is by Langfier, Glasgow." The Turin Exhibition He MR. WILLIAM WEBSTER, who represents several London publishers on the Continent, told us an amusing incident in connection with his recent visit to the Turin International Exhibition. arrived at the rather straggling buildings about 6 p.m., and found most of the exhibits closed. Seeing an attendant, and not knowing Italian, he asked him in French if he could see the British Exhibits, but the attendant could only shake his head and show him the way out. When they arrived outside in the daylight Mr. Webster noticed the man had the London Fire Brigade. badge on his is well-known. When Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, the well-known Professor, was sent from the University of Virginia to the University of Berlin, he dined with the Kaiser at the Palace, and, during the conversation at dinner, he asked the Kaiser to tell him what was the best history of Germany, as he would like to read a book recommended by him. After enquiring how large a book Dr. Smith desired, the Kaiser recommended "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century," as the best work in two volumes. Later in the evening he stepped into the library and presented Dr. Smith with a copy of the work. "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century has run into eight editions in Germany, and a second edition of the English translation, which was recently published by Mr. John Lane, is now in the press. MENTION THE "P.C."-Our readers who order books &c, they see mentioned or advertised in THE PUBLISHERS CIRCULAR will do us a great service if they will mention the fact to the Publishers and Wholesale Agents. A SELECTION FROM MESSRS. METHUEN'S AUTUMN ANNOUNCEMENTS GENERAL LITERATURE. THE POEMS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.--Edited with notes by C. D. LOCOCK. With an Introduction by A. CLUTTON-BROCK. With 2 Illustrations. Two Volumes. Demy 8vo. 21S. net. DEATH. BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK, Author of "The Blue Bird." 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Ibsen's Danish Publishers IN a very interesting article in the Cornhill, Mr. Edmund Gosse tells the story of his visit to the Gyldendalska Boghandel, a most important publishing house in Scandinavia. In 1761, we are told, a schoolmaster, Jens Mortensen by name, owned a house called Gyldendal, or Golden Dale, in a hamlet in the north of Jutland. At this time the Jutlanders were giving up the patronymic system, so the schoolmaster adopted the name of the valley as his own surname. Thus his son came to be Fören Gyldendal. This son in 1769 set up as a bookseller in a small way in Copenhagen. The shop was called the Gyldendalska Boghandel, or Gyldendal's bookshop, and thus it has remained to the present day. During one hundred and forty years the business has been kept in the hands of four members of the firm, Fören Gyldendal, THE October issue of the Marconigraph (published by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., price 2d.) is of exceptional interest. It opens with particulars of a wireless station to be erected in the Falkland Islands, which is likely to have an important bearing upon Imperial communication. Mr. J. Henniker Heaton contributes a notable article in which he discusses the bearing of wireless telegraphy as a link in the chain of Empire. He also contributes some charming personal reminiscences of Mr. Marconi, and cites an instance of the interest evinced by the late King Edward in the brilliant scientist's work. An article on "Wireless in Peace and War" illustrates portable wireless sets as used by cavalry in military operations, some of these Silverwork and Jewellery appropriate colour. Each volume con MR. JOHN HOGG (13, Paternoster Row, E.C.), is publishing in November a new revised and enlarged edition of Mr. H. Wilson's "Silverwork and Jewellery." This is in the Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks, and will contain special chapters fully illustrated, based on demonstrations, and with notes by Prof. Unno (?) Bisei of the Imperial Fine Art College at Tokyo, giving the traditional methods of Casting, Damascening, Inlaying, Engraving and Metal Colouring still practised in Japan. tains a frontispiece. Special attention has been given to the quality of the paper, and the style of type-page, which is artistic with broad margins. Readers of the Mauve Library' can be sure of many delightful hours in charming company. The first three volumes are: 'Everybody's Lonesome,' by Clara E. Laughlin; A Melody in Silver,' by Keene Abbott ; The End of a Song,' by Jeannette Marks." This has a very charming frontispiece. Messrs. Putnam will announce in the near future several more volumes. JEANNETTE MARKS Author of The End of a Song," in Putnam's Mauve Library e sets having recently been supplied to th Turkish Government. W Wireless as a Career for Young Men contains some excellent advice and explains how it is possible to take up the career of a wireless operator. There are innumerable articles describing the uses of and adventures with "wireless " in all parts of the world, the illustrations forming an important feature of this uniqne magazine. Down Chiswick way is a small oldstyle bookshop, which has lately changed hands, and is being brought up-to-date. The new proprietor is clearing out all the antiquarian stock-" No sane offer refused." A passer-by wanted a decent edition of Pepys' Diary, and thought it would be well to enquire there. The spick-and-span proprietor replied: No, sir; but we have Letts'. Oh, I can assure you they are much superior to the oldfashioned sort. . ." The enquirer fled.The Book Finder. Edward Bruce Kirk, F.R.A.S. J. Brierley 5s. net. Evolution, Life and Religion. A Study. By Rev. EDWARD BRUCE KIRK, F.R.A.S., Membre de la Société 5s. net. 3s. 6d. net. The Wisdom of God and the Word of God. 3s. 6d. net. By Rev. W. HARVEY-JELLIE, M.A., B.D. (Lond.), Dr. ès Let. (Paris). S. A. Tipple Days of Old, and other Sermons. E. S. Watson (Deas Cromarty) 3s. 6d. net. Christ, or Chaos. A Reading of History. Thoughts for Life's Journey. Hubert Foston, M.A., D.Lit. 2s. 6d. net. James Clarke & Co., 13 & 14, Fleet Street, London, E.C. Messrs.W. H. Smith & Son's Fountain Pen, Self-Filling Patent A GREAT number of our readers are interested in the sale as well as in the use of fountain pens and the object of this notice is to call their attention to one, the sale of which offers advantages of the utmost importance. In the first place, it is, as will be seen from Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son's advertisement in this, our Announcement Number, that it is sold. : 1. With a two-year guarantee; 3. The bookseller and stationer is 5. The nib, in 14-carat gold, is made in nine varieties, viz., fine, medium and broad; fine, medium and broad turn-up point; fine, [EL medium and broad oblique;' 6. The chief point about this fountain pen is that it is a patent and practical self-filler of very good workmanship and material at a price unapproached for value given by any other pen. It retails at 3s. 9d., with a two-year guarantee; and a proof of the quality is that in spite of the large numbers sold very few are returned, and those only because the simple plain instructions have not been read before using the pen. To fill it, nothing more is needed than to hold the nib and holder so the latter is just submerged in the ink, and then "pull the plug"; this pumps the ink into the barrel. To clean the pen, you just pump water in and out a few times in the same way-no ink-dropping and fingerstaining glass tube is required. The proprietors are investing large sums in the "W.H.S." Fountain Pen, because they know it to be a first-class article; they are advertising it all over the country, and [Every Advertisement Directs the Customer to the Retailer This is a point which is very satisfactory, in view of the way some seem to think it wise to ignore the trade after probably building up a business with its help. Having had many years' experience with all sorts and conditions of fountain pens, we can confidently say we have never met with a better than the W.H.S. at double or treble the price. Some day we hope to meet with a copying ink which will copy and at the same time not clog a fountain pen-this pen is so easy to clean and fill that even clogging loses much of its drawbacks. "Hesba Stretton " THE death took place on Sunday night, October 8th, at Ivy Croft, Ham, near Richmond, of Miss Sarah Smith, better known as Hesba Stretton," the author of 'Jessica's First Prayer" and other well-known stories of children. For more than twenty years Miss Stretton had made her home at Ivy Croft, where she had the company of her elder sister, Elizabeth, who died last February. Miss Hesba Stretton was in her eightieth year, and she had been confined to her room for the last four years. The daughter of a bookseller, she was born at Church Stretton, near Shrewsbury, which gave her the second part of her pseudonym, the first part being made up of the initial letters of the Christian names of her five sisters. In 1859 she began to write for Charles Dickens, who was Her won was then editor of Household Words; and with the publication of her first story, 'The Lucky Leg," there sprang up a friendship which maintained by Dickens until his death. But she did nothing very striking in literary work until 1867. In that year there appeared a new story about a girl-waif, and Hesba Stretton" woke one morning to find that she had made a name. story, "Jessica's First Prayer," immediate popularity. Tens of thousands of Lancashire and Yorkshire mill-workers and town-dwellers read it and grew enthusiastic over it; and as years passed, the book was translated into every European language and into most Asiatic ones, the circulation mounting to 1,500,000 copies. Yet there were many who thought Alone in London" superior to "Jessica's First Prayer as a child-story. Besides the volumes mentioned, she wrote "Pilgrim Street," which also had a wide circulation, the Half-Brothers," the Fern's Hollow," the "Fishers of Derby Haven," and other stories. Apart from literature, her interests were few, but to the success of some modern movements she contributed materially. The most important of these was the crusade against the ill-treatment of children, which resulted in the formation of the London (afterwards the National) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. During the famine of 1892 in Russia. Miss Stretton collected Trade Notes and Changes MR. HENRY BOHN.-The death took place on Saturday, at his residence in Kensington, of Mr. Henry Bohn. Mr. Bohn, who was in his seventy-eighth year, was the eldest son of Mr. Henry George Bohn, the founder of Bohn's Library. He was a partner in his father's firm, and afterwards in the publishing firm of Griffin and Bohn, before he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1866. With the late Mr. McConnell he was for many years a special pleader on the North-Eastern Circuit. Mr. Bohn was an enthusiastic collector of china.-The Times. MR. H. G. ROBINSON, Stationer, &c., III, Newington Road, Edinburgh, has taken over the business so long conducted by his father, Mr. H. Robinson, at III, Leith Street, Edinburgh. Northern Branch of the Associated Booksellers Presentation to Mr. H. M. Cater THE annual meeting of the Northern Branch of the Booksellers' Association was held on the afternoon of Thursday, October 12th, at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, when the opportunity was taken of presenting Mr. H. M. Cater with a piece of silver plate and a cheque. Mr. Cater is retiring after representing Messrs. Blackie & Son for many years, and the booksellers and the representatives of the other publishers felt that they could not allow him to depart without marking in this manner their high esteem for his character, and for the great interest he has always taken in all their trade associations. |