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How Not To Catalogue Books.—The Whole Wo...
the Notification of Infectious Diseases would afford useful assistance to all such endeavours
on the part of librarians to avoid any possible transfer of contagion , and they would do well to avail themselves of its aid . It should be
remembered , however , that it does not cover every communicable disease , measles being a noteworthy exception . In order to secure
still further the desired immunity , it is advisable that each borrower be required , under suitable penaltiesto guarantee the freedom
, of his household from infection at the time being , to report immediately the appearance of infectious disease , and to arrange for
disinfection of books on loan to him . We would further suggest that the work of disinfection be carried out , if possible A . ' , at the library % /
building itself . Its efficiency could then be assured . —Lancet . Retirement of Mr . Joseph Tarn . —The
retirement of Mr . Joseph Tarn , through failing health , from the service of the Religious Tract Society , was thus announced at its
annual 1 The meeting Committee in Exeter of the Hall Reli : — ious Tract Society have acceptedwith great g regret
the resignation of Mr , . Joseph Tarn , who , ha-5 so long held the post of cashier in the Society ' s service ; and whose name , like that
of his father and of his grandfather before him , has become thoroughly identified with its work . The Committee havewith great
, satisfaction , appointed to the vacant post Mr . H . G . Pinn , who , during twenty-eight years of service in its counting-househas
, given ample proof of his devotion to the Society and of his fitness for the important ; post L lie has been called upon A to occupy a . */ . '
Mr . Tarn entered the service of the Religious Tract Society thirty-eight years ago ; his fatherMr . William Tarnhaving been in
, , the same employ for thirty years , first as reader for the press aind afterwards as financial secretary ; and his grandfather , Mr . Joseph
Tarn , having had a large share in the founding of the Society at the closo of the last century . Thus three generations of the same family . . .
have aided in the progressive work of this Society . PriJI . y . SHERM AND THE BaNKIU TTCY 1 * 1 LL .
A meeting of publishers was held on the 23 rd ult . at Stationers * Hall , when the committee recently appointed submitted the result of
their deliberations on the Bankruptcy Amendment Bill . The resolutions drawn up by the Committee and unanimously adopted without
dLvmssion , were as follows :--That the submitting of a Htatemont of his affairs by a debtor allowing himself to he insolvent should not
constitute an act of bankruptcy ; that the enactment that an act of bankruptcy should continue for six months was prejudicial to the
interest of creditors ; that the proposed amendment empowering official receivers to become trustees in ¦ all f % estates at in ¦ to ± f £ 500 was calculated # l K > W
to affect - ' - - - *> v ^ w r ** r A prej J ^ A ^ « H udiciall J ^^ * » y ^/ W V ^^ y up ^ the m ^ J ^^ ^ interest ^ L ^ X ^ Vr V W of V'W ¦ * creditors ^ S ^ W A ^^ ^ p ^ m ** ^^ r ^¦ 'V ; that no scheme of arrangement or composition
should be submitted by a debtor under Clause 7 unless the fame was accompanied by full
details of the securities proposed for the carrying
should out of the ov sch ide eme that ; that befor Clause e the offici 7 , paragrap al recei ver 6 , pr
the appli d ebtor to the a ba court nkrupt he should order summ adjud o g n preliminary meeting of the creditorswhose
cl JL aims amounted V to £ 10 and upwards in , order that he might consult with them as to the course to be pursued a , ; and that creditors should
have the power of dealing with estates in such manner as they considered most beneficial to their interestsof which they were the best
, judges , and they maintained that there was the Ies 3 necessity for resorting to bankruptcy , as under the Deeds of Arrangement Act all
private arrangements must be registered or become invalid . Representatives from the following firmsamongst othersattended
, , the meeting : —Messrs . Cassell , Routledge , Chambers , Black wood , Nelson , Kegan Paul ,
Grosvenor & Chater , Clay , Marlborough , Gould , and Dickens . Trade Changes in New York . —There is
unusual activity in the publishing trade in New York just now ; not that the number of books in course of publication is noticeably larger
than usual , but an unusually large number of publishers and booksellers are , for one reason or anotherchanging their quarters , for better
, or for worse—in most cases for the better , we are happy to believe . In the first place The Critic will be issued after May 1 from Nos .
52-54 Lafayette Place , where it has found a home perfectly adapted to its growing needs in the large fire-proof brick building with
terra-C 7 A . <_/ cotta trimmings _ just erected next door to the Astor Library . The offices of The Critic were in the same street from Feb . 1882 to Dec .
1883 , and its advantages as a place of business are familiar to editors and publishers alike . Chas . E . Merrill & Co ., educational publishers
and the Orange Judd C 6 ., publishers of agri- , cultural books and periodicals , will remove on the same day to the same building , which is
provided with freight and passenger elevators , and probably will soon be tenanted entirely by publishers . The present quarters of The
Critic , at 743-745 Broadway , will bu occupied hereafter by Scribner ' s Magazine , which has ' outgrown 1 J its present m . offices in the Scribner
building . Other changes in the neighbourhood have been necessitated by the approaching demolition of Clinton Hall ( formerly tho
Astor Place Opera House , famous for tho Forrest-Macready riots )^ on the ground floor of which David G . Francis , the well-known
dealer in old and rare books , and John Wiley & Sons , publishers of scientific works and tho writings of Iluskinhave been quartered for
t , twenty-two years . Mr . Francis has < jone to 12 East loth Street ; Messrs . Wiley to 53 East 10 th . From the corner of Broadway and 8 th
Street , Ivison , Blakeman tfc Co ., educational publishers , have gone , as a part of the American Book Co ., to 808 Broadway . A change
still further up-town is that of J . O . Wright , dealer in old books and fino editions , from Sypher ' s in East 17 th Streetfto (> East 42 nd
str */ A eet . . , Mr . Russell Lowell on Copyright . —
Mr . Russell Lowell has written the following
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June 2 , 1890 Ine rublishers Circular 7 oi
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/13/
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