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    Booksellers' Provident Institution . — this The institution usual month was ly meeting held at the of the offices director 56 Old s of _Bailey , on Thursday , the 17 th ult ., Mr . , George Cox presiding . The sum of £ 117- 7 s . 6 d . was voted for distribution in temporary and permanent assistance to seventy members and widows of members . t Classified _Educational Catalogue . —The new edition , the third , now before us , differs from its predecessor mainly in being , more than half as thick again , owing to the great increase in the number of books published for instruction , and will be so much more useful to the master , student , librarian , and bookseller . The work of School Boards has been a stimulus for inconceivable the production variet of elementary y on arithmetic manuals , in Eng almost lMr grammar , and science . Minute and careful enumeration of these aids to learning is one of the main features of Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . ' s 'Classified Catalogue / especially in this new edition . It is perhaps worth remarking that although for convenience sake the catalogue is called 'classified '— that being a familiar word—the arrangement / is a great deal simpler than that . For example , works on the Calculus are found under that word , instead of troubling an unlearned cohsulter to think or find out that the calculus is a branch of mathematics—and so with other branches of , learning . Recording and keeping distinct the various editions , translations , and commentaries on the classics of Greece and Rome is also a matter which has received great attention . Processes of Automatic Engraving . — These the results are dail attainable y becoming are occasional more numerous lso satis , and - factory as to command attention . Many y of the pictorial periodicals of the day depend entirely upon some form of ' process' work for their illustrations ; while even those which aim at a character for artistic production have recourse to occasional specimens of so-called automatic engraving for reliable . information A great desire as has to the naturall methods y arisen of production and the capabilities of the various processes of ascertaining ; so that the essential the means difference may be acquired between process engraving and wood engraving , and of distinguishing which offer themselves between the in competition various processes with manual engraving . It is evident that such technical knowledge must be of immense practical _direct are asked their importance b attention y one or to to two the publishers correspondents sources , and of such we to information . In the Art Journal of 1886 there are Shirley some Hodson articles who on the is the subj author ect by of Mr an . James illusby trated Messrs work . Sampson on , processes Low published & Co . This recen book tly gives a brief history of the older forms of in of manual usi the > , m includirg _engraving ost important , heliotype together of the , with photog processes descri lyptic ptions now or p ea Woodbury hoto . h - case zincograph t practi ype , cal y , _stmnotype relief directions aquatinting , are photogravure , iven & c . for In , accoiiplishing the workand the book g contains , ifo ' ' — - ====

    w satisfactory specimens of many of the processes dealt , with . The ' Grievances Again . —We think , remarks the Broad Arrow , the verdict of outsiders—if we may so say—will be 'Much in ado a -about small nothing *' . The . Successful whole thing authors lies and writers very of compass books which on the face of , them carry success , can go to any leading publisher terms . But and untried practicall authors y make and their that m own ultitude be deluge content publishers of asp to irants take with to their fame their MS * and own ., must profit shoulders . either who upon the risk of bringing out their works , or place themselves in the hands of a respectable _$ rm and consent to such arrangements aswill secure the publishers against loss . The business of our leading publishers is conducted in such a way that the dishonest practices and secret profits spoken of by Mr . Besant are impossible . Does Mr . Besant suppose ihat these firms are , year after year , in collusion with their staff of clerl __ s , _ti _^ eir printers , stationersand bookbin _^ Mr . Besant * says lie has received no answer to what his repeated share in question the proceeds , 'Where of ja there book is should lidrisk be , given to the publisher 1 ' We undertake to say that if Mr . Besant is quite sure about the ' no risk '—it all hinges on that—he might get in one day a dozen replies to his question from as many high-class firms . If we may be allowed to guess , we should say that , any firm would be satisfied with a profit of 15 per cent . The truth is , the grievances of authors lie with the unsuccessful , who seem to regard the whole fraternity of publishers as a gang of wolves , and even successful authors are sometimes not unwilling to take up a cry which ceases to attract because of the frequency of its reiteration . Byron , we believe , altered a certain text thus : ' Now , Barabbas was a publisher . ' What Byron said jocularly we are afraid many people believe honestly , they verily think that robber and publisher are synonymous terms . That there is ground for such belief amongst our leading publishers we as honestly doubt . One word more with Mr . Besant . He instances , as an example of profits , a book of which 10 , 000 copies are printed ; but of how many books are 10 , 000 , or even 1 , 000 , printed and sold ? The difficulty is , we should say , with the small editions . Mr . Andrew Tuer ' s remarks seem most practical ; but we , for the life of us , cannot see how . a printer like himself can make such an extraordinary suggestion as keeping the type standing and working off a hundred copies or so as required . ' The Bookworm . '—Numerous have been the attempts to start and maintain a periodical that should deal almost exclusively with the literature of the past . Perhaps the most original in design " and execution was J . Ph . Berjeau ' s Bookworm , which appeared about twenty years since , and is now priced high in second-hand booksellers' catalogues . The Bibliographer ' ' appeared in December 1 S 81 , under the editorship of Mr . H . B . Wheatley ,

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1887, page 1500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121887/page/78/