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m ' v l 654 The Publishers' Circular jun...
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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 654, 671 BOOKS AND...
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St. Dunstan's House, E.C. Jime 1, 1889.
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1JHE Committee appointed at the recent m...
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»O« Last October Mr. Yizetelly msunderto...
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M ' V L 654 The Publishers' Circular Jun...
m ' v l 654 The Publishers' Circular june 1 , 1889
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Literary Intelligence 654, 671 Books And...
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 654 , 671 BOOKS AND RUMOURS OF BOOKS 655 , 656 NOTES AND NEWS 656 , 657
AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 657 , 658 CONTINENTAL NOTES 658 , 659 LEPROUS LITERATURE ... / .... p 659 , 660
AUTHORS' ERRORS 661 LADY NOVELISTS AT BRIGHTON 661 , 662 SALE OF THE HAMILTON MANUSCRIPTS .. 66 & , 663
SALE JOTTINGS .. 663 TRADE CHANGES 663 , 664 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 664—666
REVIEWS , < fec 666—671
INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT r BRITAIN BETWEEN MAY 16 & 31 .... 671 , 672 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN
FROM MAY 16 TO 31 ~ 672—675 RECENT FOREIGN WORKS 1 675
NEW BOQKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUB-, LISHBD 676—696 MISCELLANEOUS 696—705
BUSINESS CARDS 702—703 ASSISTANTS WANTED 705 WANT SITUATIONS 705
BOOKS FOR SALE .... 706 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 706—712 ¦ v 1 - ¦ -- — ... . - i - i — i — - ¦ 1 —
St. Dunstan's House, E.C. Jime 1, 1889.
St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C . Jime 1 , 1889 .
1jhe Committee Appointed At The Recent M...
1 JHE Committee appointed at the recent meeting of the Printing and Publishing
Trades have drawn up an admirable statement concerning the proposed Schedules of Rates
under the Railway and Canal Traffic Bill , so far as they apply to the carriage of books ,
stationery , and printed matter . The memorial to the Board of Trade , which has been
numerously and influentially signed by publishers , booksellers , and stationers , contains argu ¦ w-
ments against the raising of the classification of books and printed matter which , in our opinion ,
are unanswerable . At present the rates which prevail in the United Kingdom are higher
than those of nearly every other civilised nation in the world ; indeed , a much more
enlightened policy is pursued by the United States , Germany , Switzerland , and our own
Dominion of Canada . Literature and the various accessories to its production are placed
in these countries , so far as conveyance by rail is concerned , upon a special and advantageous
footing as compared with other articles of commerce . If any alteration is made in the
rates , it ought certainly to be in the direction of further reduced charges , and if books are to be
regarded as fourth-class merchandise , a grave injustice will be done to booksellers up and
down the county , who are compelled by the Exigencies of their business under modern
conditions to constantly vary and add to their stock . ' Great inconvenience , moreover , would
be caused in every department of the Trade if bound books were placed in one category and
¦ . " ¦» - ' » mr stationery in another . Indeed , if the proposed classification is adopted , the universal practice
of sending by rail parcels containing both books and stationery will have to be
abandoned , meaning , of course , a fresh and irritating increase of labour .
We have already expressed ourselves pretty freely on other aspects of this matter , and we
are glad to think that the whole of the Trade ia < db
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and decisive action . The advanced < classification of printed matter is a point which ought
to be most stoutly protested against ; and the same remark applies with even greater force
to tne liberty which it is proposed to give to the Railway Companies to fix their own tariffe for the
conveyance of small parcels . The memorial to the Board of Trade points out that in the only
case where Railway Companies have hitherto defined what they regard as a reasonable rate
for small parcels they have ' fixed the maximum charge at double the maximum tonnage
rate for merchandise hrthe fifth ( or the highest ) class , plus twice the terminals / If this
precedent were followed , then the charge would positively exceed the cost of sending the same
bulk of goods in separate parcels of 14 lbs . each through the Post Office . This new
attempt to impose what is practically an additional burden on the dissemination of
knowledge is one which ought to be promptly brought under the attention of every trade
organisation and Chamber of Commerce in the
country .
»O« Last October Mr. Yizetelly Msunderto...
» O « Last October Mr . Yizetelly msundertook in
the most unqualified terms to withdraw from circulation some disgraceful and obscene
translations of Zola ' s novels . It ia true that he afterwards made some alterationsbut ,
, as the Solicitor-General pointed out at the Central Criminal Court ton Thursday : ' All
the objectionable matter still remained in the books , and Mr . Vizetelly had continued the
sale of what were undoubtedly most objectionable publications . ' Even his own counsel
was compelled to admit that it was impossible to offer any defence to the chargeand the
, Recorder ordered his recognisances to be estreated , and sentenced the defendant to three
months' imprisonment as a first-class misdemeanant . The Recorder , in passing sentence ,
declared that ' impure literature did a great deal of mischief to a large class of persons , '
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1889, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061889/page/4/
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