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    Iv Hme^Ican H Ew| And !Qofe#

    readiness to accept a bill containing what is called — — a manufacturing - - ^ J clause , p A roviding — «^ y for the — ,

    printing & cr in the United States of all foreign books r enjoying % the protection of American copyright . They are also agreed in allowing

    with the permission of the holder of the copy , - right , the importation of copies of the foreign

    editions of such books . On this point one or twx > Philadelphia publishers take issue with

    the . rest of the trade . They want £ 6 preserve the absolute prohibition of all foreign editions

    of books copyrighted here , which prohibition was contained in the original Chase bill and

    which is still retained in that bill as re-introduced in the Senate . On this pointif on any

    the present movement for international Jfc , copy - , right will go to pieces . The Authors' League

    will not agree to any such prohibition and the sentiment of the Publishers' League is

    overwhelmingly against it . It remains tp be seen whether one or two Philadelphia firms are

    stronger than both these bodies . The Publishing Worlda monthly journal —of

    K A a H A j \ H B , j t / v literary ^ discussion ^^ dealing ^^^ particul ^ ^ arl y , we believewith publishers' interestsis to make

    its first , appearance in New York , this month . The editor is to be Mr . Hug CJ h Craig ., formerly fof

    the American Bookseller . 'American Fisheries / a popular treatise on

    the game and food fishes of America , with special reference to habits and modes of captureby Prof . ' C . Brown Goodeof the United

    States , Fish % / Commissionwill be issued , at once as a subscription book by , the Standard Book Co . of New York . Copies of this work can be had

    j . through Messrs . Sampson Low , Marston , Searle & Rivington , Limited .

    The Teacher is the title of a new monthly educational magazine which has made its

    appearance in New York . Messrs . G . P . Putnam ' s Sons' ( New York )

    further announcements for the spring season include ' Charles Sumner and His Work' a ,

    biography , by A . B . Johnson , for fifteen years Sumner ' s private secretary ; and ' A Hard-Won Victory' a novelbGrace Deriio

    Litch-,, y field , author of ' Only an Incident , ' 'Knight of the Black Forest , ' & c .

    The Rev . Dr . A . P . Peabody is about to issue a volume of c Harvard Reminiscences' a

    book dealing with JPalfrey , Fclton , Kirkland , , Norton , Clarke , Hedge C ? , Jand other Harvard

    worthies . The book will be published by Messrs . Ticknor & Co ., Boston . The same firm will publish at once * The World ' s

    Verdict , ' a novel by Mark Hopkins , jun . ; and another posthumous volume of essays by the late Mr . E . P . Whipplecalled ' Outlooks on

    , Society , Literature , and Politics . ' Mr . Geo . P . Upton is preparing a companion

    volume : to his * Standard 4 < Operas , " 4 t Oratorios K " and " Cantatas r . "' It will w T be called ---^ V ^^ ^^^^ ^ 1 ^ W ^^ , ^ K ^ KT ^ F ^ "H ^^ ^*^^^ ^^^ ^ F" ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ~ " ~ ^ ^^ ' ^ " — — — . ^ .

    • Standard Symphonies , ' and will include Beethoven ¦— . * T ^^ ^^ iv «»« b ^ . ^ » ^»»» n > '« s ^ nine ^^«*^ - » . - ^ symp —— - ^ » — ~ - — - p honies — - _ -- , y the — most — - ____ popular _^_ _ _ _

    ones of Haydn , the great ones of Mozart , the symphonies of Mendelssohn , Schumann , and

    Schubert Stallu Hart , and and some some ot of Liszt JLaszt . Saint oaint--Saens oaens . ^ and and of the musi , cians of the modern , school . ^

    Messrs . D . Lothrop & Co ., Boston , have ¦ projected B ^^ fe ^^ ^^ ^^ Hr ^^ ^*^ ^ a *^ new »^ ^^ » . ^ serie " ^ ^*^» « a- ^ r s «*¦ of - *^ - ^ m books w * r ¦ •*¦ - *^ ™^ ¦¦ " , to - ^ - " ^^ ¦ be " ^ ¦— ' . known ' — ' - — - ¦ ¦ " ¦¦

    as 'The Story of the States . ' Among the book Story s of decided California upon ' b publication NoaK Brooks are ; l ' The ThQ

    Story of Massachusetts , y , by Edward Everett Hale ; ' The Story of New York' by Elbridge

    , S "Virg . Brooks inia / ; ' by Louisiana Marion , ' Harland by Maurice ; ' Thompson Texas , ' by ;

    E . S . Nadal ; and ' South Carolina , 'byThomas Nelson Page .

    The article on John Lothrop Motley , the historianin the forthcoming fourth volume of

    , 'Appleton's Dictionary of American Bioh / will be written bOliver Wendell

    grap Holm y es . Dr . Holmes also y contributes to the March number of the Atlantic Monthly the

    first of a new series of articles , under the title * Over the Tea Cups . ' ;

    Mr . James Russell Lowell has iii press a new collection of poems called ' Heartsease and

    Rue . ' , Messrs . Henry Holt & Co . New York

    will publish soon an illustrate , d book called , ' Uncle Sam at Home / in which an English 1

    man , who has taken up his residence in that city , gives his views of the United States ,

    socially , politically , and financially . The February number of Lippincotfs opens

    with a complete story , 'The Spell of Home / one ^ S AAXa' ' of ^— ' * . Mrs AfJkA 9 * J m . < A ^ . ^ . f L - ¦ m , f Wister T * * . *** «^^^^ ' s IV translations ^ . M . UIA 4 MAUI ^ M . \ -T AJt . « wP fro . » . ^ "V ^ m *«^

    the Geraian , in the easy conversational , style * Mrs .. Belva Look wood describes her ' Efforts to

    Become a Lawyer . ' Ame * lie Rives also contributes a story entitled ' . The Man of the Golden Fillet ; ' and Sarah M . B . Piatt , Edith M .

    Thomas , and Ella Wheeler-Wilcox have each a contribution in-verse . A noticeable feature of this number of Lippincottfs is that all the

    signed articles are by ladies . Messrs . Appleton & Co . New York — have

    . X A ' , - - - - - _ , , in in its the Relation press for to earl Reli y gious publication Thoug , ht ' Evolution '

    bPro-, y fessor Joseph Le Conte , illustrated ; ' The Mind of the Child / observations concerning

    the mental development of the human being in the first years of lifeby Professor W .

    Preyer , translated from the , original German by H . W . Brown ~ ' ; * The Rules — of — Aseptic — . x ,

    and Antiseptic Surgery / a practical , treatise for the use of students and the general practitionerby Professor Arpad G . Gerster - 7

    x ' , x , M . D ., 8 vo . illustrated ; * A Text-Book of Diseases of the Skin / \> y Professor John V .

    Shoemaker , A . M ., M . D ., 8 vo . with chromolithographs and numerous engravings ; and 'A Text-Book on the Diseases of Women - — t / b — y

    Professor Alexander J . C . Skene , M . D ., 8 vo , illustrated . ' Black Ice # ' a new novel / by «/ Albion W .

    ,, Tourg ^ e , author of ' A Fool ' s Errand , ' will shortly be issued by Messrs . Fords , Howard

    & Hulbert , New York . have The the J following . B . Lipp books incott ¦ in Co the *^^ p . , Philadel : * H phia alf- ,

    ho « v ^— ' ^^ u - rs ^^ —~ — with — - ^ — ' — the — - - Best — — — c ^ 9 ^^^ Foreign ^^ ^^ ^^ ' ^^^^ ^^ ^^ Authors -mr press v ^ « ^*^ w *^ v *^ / transla •¦ i ^^ i ^ ^^ j ^ ^^ - 4 tions vols selected . : , * Tne and Merchant arranged of b Venice y Charles / beinff Morris the ,

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    March i , 1888 The Publishers' Circular 211

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1888, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031888/page/9/