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    T^a d^ Cftange^ It If is ia announced on...

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    In fflerao^iam

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    Thomas Beet. We deeply regret to announc...

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    How Not To Catalogue Books.—The Whole Wo...

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    providential well - ^ ^ 4 * as of . a -m . the ^ » ^ thickness ^ a eventual a ^*^ »» ' - ^ ^ - ^ of ^ success the ^^ human of all skull reason , as

    able reforms defeat , to be y discouraged measure which by I the bel tem ieve

    to porary be sound . I am too old to be persuaded by a m m ny ^ 4 w a m **» pp w- ^ **** earances ^^ ^*^ » »*» — — - ^ - ^ ™ , j h — owever - - , — - specio _ us , jthat truth

    has lost or can lose that divine quality which gives her immortal advantage over error .

    c Forei isely / gn on r t ig ht to property e footing «„» in as boo Ame ks r ican tands home pre-,

    is d ri i g equa ht , van and lly t great the b moral . ecause But wrong " literary as the of appropria propert stealing y t either ion at a age

    as not open rong , ful gross . , It , and touches pal , pable the , public it is not conscience regarded more faintly . In ordinary cases it- is the thief ,

    but _— _ . — . _ in . this case . _ —— the thing stolen , that is invisi- ble . To steal i & , no doubt , more immediately

    profitabl methods e of than honesty acquisition , but it b is y the nevertheless more tedious apt to prove costlier r ¦ - ¦ - ¦ in the long run . How costly j

    those our ^ T ¦ v own ^^ —~ know " ^» experiments - ^^ " »™ who "" — — — ^— have — ~ — — — in studied — larceny a m the have rise been and only - pro

    gress to of our as virtue literature is , said which to has do been in forced ite of wei — g grow ^ ht laid upon j _ _ it . But , even if , this sp parti A-

    cular form of dishonesty against which we are merciall contending y profitable were always I and think everywhere the American

    compeople are so honest , that they may be made mate — to see — b that us profit alone which is all allowed civilised to be nations legitiy among ,

    profit of a f , oj too unscru , which ulous goes wholl men ^ j y m into ust have the pockets some- thing queer about p it 7 someth , ing which even a

    country ox so rich as ours , cannot ¦ *— afford ' . I have lived to see more than one successful appeal from the unreason of the p eop le ' s represen JL

    tatives to the reason of the people themselves . I am therefore not to be tired with waiting . It is wearisome to ourselves and to others to

    go on repeating arguments which we have been so usin se g lf t hese evident forty but years I think , and it which is true to us that seem no

    reformer has ever , gained his end who has not first made himself an intolerable bore to the

    vast majority of his kind .

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    702 The Publishers Circular june 2 j l 8 so

    T^A D^ Cftange^ It If Is Ia Announced On...

    T ^ a d ^ Cftange ^

    It If is ia announced onnminpor ] that fTifif . Mr TVTr . J . Abner A Vfnp > T Harper H » i " f »* J > ir has retired from active participation in the work of the firm of Messrs . Harper Brothers .

    Wo understand that Mr . T . Irving Crowell haB been admitted to partnership in the firm of Messrs . T . Wise Crowell & Co ., of which

    his father is the chief partner . Messrs . B . S . Lloyd & Co . announce that

    Graham they have Lloy ta d k , en the int son o par of t their nershi senior p Mr , . F . have removed from George Yard to 78 Queen

    Victoria Street , E . C . The old established bookselling VJand

    stationery business carried on for many years by Misa Rachel Thompson at 23 Baxter Gate , Donoasterhas been purchased by Mr . Edward

    Todd , of Kendal , . Mr . Burghe 3 arranged the transfer .

    In Fflerao^Iam

    In fflerao ^ iam

    Oliver Bell Bunce . We w e are are extremely extremelv sorry sorrv to to hear near of ot the tne deat deathh

    on the 15 th ult ., of Mr . O . B . Buncethe , well-known American author and magazine ,

    editor . Mr . Bunce was born in New York on February 81828 , and whilst still a lad

    entered the , old established stationery firm of Messrs . Jansen & Bellof that city . In

    , w -+- AM . this position he acquitted himself well ^ and his literary bent was displayed in several , plays

    which he wrote at that time . Two of Mr . th Bunce e elder ' s y W ou allack thful , t who raged took ies were the leading produced part by .

    At the age of twenty-five Mr . Bunce embarksd on on business ousiness on on his nis own own account account as as pu publisher blisher

    but the undertaking failed through lack of , requisite italHe next became

    cap . manager of Gregory the publishing a business con which cerns he of conducted Mr . Jamesij ¦ with lb .

    muc h J success | / , for several years after the ^ ^ ^^ ^ ~ death " «* S A & of the principal . It was , howeverthrough

    his . association with the well-known , house of Messrs . Appleton & Co . that he won

    reputation of A . pp Mr leton . Bunce ' s Jour was nal for airi many out of years that editor

    publi-, cation did seri spran al which g Picturesqu met with e America ' remarkable , a spl and

    enwas deserved the nominal success . editor Mr . William , but the Cullen actual Bry work ant

    fell upon Mr . Bunce , who indeed was the orig * » inator of the scheme . This ' — — ^ - success . ^ ^^ - ^ ^^ ^^ ^ r ^^^ ~ r ¦ was ¦ » - ^» ^^ p

    f tures ollowed Palestine by Picturesque . Mr . Europ Bunce e , on and whose Pic- i que 11

    ¦ p literary laced ^ m ^ great M judgment reliance ¦ Messrs in regard . — App — — ~~ to - le ^ , ~ m •** - ton the ^ tr ^^ ^ ^ B tf ^>* ^ ^ ~ ^ |~ ^ maim . justl ^ . * " < ^ k - ^ ^ k ^ ^ ^ ^ « ^ . ^ y -

    scripts submitted to the house with a view to publication , somehow found time to write

    severa for the l reviews novels . , and He h also is las wrote t artic occasionall le appeared y

    in the April number of the North American Review , and formed the subject of a leading

    article in the Publishers' Circular of i that May Mr 1 . . Bunce It is not was , perhaps also the , author genera of lly Don known 't' I

    a little with guide extraordinary to grammatica welcome l speech on , which both ,

    sides of the Atlantic , and which has also been translated into several foreign languages . A

    great deal of Mr . Bunce ' s work was done behind scenesand he never had leisure to do

    y full ears justice , moreover to , his , his literary lifeto abilit quote y . the For express many

    -, sion heroic battle one of with his illness friends ' , he was died * one of long con ;

    sumption , and to the last he met the increas I ing inroads of that terrible disease with

    thequre possessed t courage not of merel a trul y a y va igh liant sense man of . duty He I

    , awakened but a fine everywhere sense of honour the , deepest and ¦ ^^ ¦ - ~ his r ' ^ expression ~^ ^ death ik h . ^ ^^ ^^ r ru r \^ » ha ^ ' — ~ * *

    of regret . Mr . Bunce leaves a widow and four children , three daughters and one son .

    One of his daughters is the wife of Mr . Y . Ferris , a young and promising literary man on

    the other side ot the Atlantic .

    Thomas Beet. We Deeply Regret To Announc...

    Thomas Beet . We deeply regret to announce the death of

    Mr . Thomas JBeet , the well-known bookseller

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1890, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061890/page/14/