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sho biatt uld filr be JBibliothekswese read by every n , a periodical good librarian which . Indeedit is almost indispensable . The
number , before us in no wise falls A . short of its predecessorsand its table of contents will
sufficiently attest , its value . Herr Richard ^ Foerster contributes the first article on the
* Manuscripts and Editions of tlie pseudo-Aristotelian Secfetum Secretcrum . ' This is
tions followed of the by the Psalter * Mediaeval : a Salzburg German Transla German
a Codex special / by attraction A . J . Hummerle for philolog , which ists possesses in its
extraordinary orthography . The literary criticisms and even the advertisements are replete
with matter ( of interest to book-lovers and . librarians . Thit clever stump-orator Unsworth
periodical ^ used to publication ^ say' that he , not purchased because _ — __ of — a — its _ _ ^ certai news ___ . n —'
ments or literary . One contents of the , but * bills for ' inserted its advertise in the - ^^^^ ¦ * bf , ^~ 1 ^ b -d & m ~~ ¦> __
January number the Gentralblait tel ^ s tion us of of the Pale approaching ' hie publication Musicale : les by subscri Melodies p-
Liturgiques , ou ograp Recueil de Fac-simile ' s Phototypides princix Manuscrits de Chant
liturg ques ique Gregorien pau , Ambrdsien , Mozarabe , . Galileanp h ublie par les ReVe * rends Peres
Be ' ne n— 'dictins — — , j — de — ¦ Solesmes M ^ — — - ^ ^^ m - ™ — v ^ v ' in France ^ p ^ ^» ^^^ T ^» ^^ " ^^^ ^ . ^^ ^^^ This ^ ta ^ P ^ P » ^ fc ^ ^ % ^ work will be of great value , to student * 3 and
anti comp quarians osers . of church music , and to musical
der Das Grap JBuch hischen getverb Weltwerker e : Berliner No . Blatte 1 ( Berlin r filr :
organ Pau f J l Henni of the g ) . book ¦ — — - — — We trade — gladl — — ^ ^ " - in ^ y — . »^» welcome , Germany - ^^ ¦ ~^ p » - ^^ ^ m ^ b ^ v fci m ^» ^ m w . this V * new The ^ PPfcfc PP » P ^ ^ M ^
equivalent Book Trade of ' the is not title , , perhaps ' Das Buch , the gewerbe precise /
wnicn which craft might micrht for the be be more more word strictly atrictlv Gewerbe translated translated means " . Book Rnnk not --only ; Tradebut also implies the technical
, knowled knowledge of a trade d b in n all ot its branches verman —a ge *—* possesse •*• y y y
Englishmen in this penultimate decade of the much-vaunted nineteenth centurywhen the
binding of apprentices is as much , out of date as the stocks or the pilloryand when Jack
all being trades as good and as master his master of , , none is mostl . y The Jack firs of t ,
article in the ' Buchgewerbe' is a life of Raymund Haertel , of the world-known firm of
Breitkop in of Lei these pzi f g latter . & From Haertel days 1732 , , music also until book publishers 1867 publishers the , and firm , ,
the carried * Golden on business Bear , ' in mentioned that famous by old Goethe house in ,
his Wahrheit fascinating . ' Hither autobiograp betook hy themselves , * Dichtung Men und
-Pleyel delssohn an , Scliumann d Liszt ; and , Spo here hr r was Thalberg born , in Berlioz 1810 ,
Haymund , , the younger son of , Gottfried , Christopher Haertelwho may be considered
the founder of the , business as at present carried on by the firm , whose publication of
the complete works of Beethoven should suffice to insure it a very Old Mortalityif not
immortality . The second article is devoted , ' to \ M \^ , Herr m .. m ^/ 4 . * . Paul ¦• mxM V * fc Parey JL . C * i ft . V- * T , the V H V > Presiden Mm JL V > OJL VA \ - > 11 t U of v # X the % JX JL \ Jt
v which German has Booksellers done so ' much Union to , an stamp institution out in
Germany that canker-worm of the , book-
recentl trade , , y underselling as 1842 in . Berlin . Paul has Parey bravely , born served so
and shed his . bloo , d for / , the Fatherland in two campaigns , besides distinguishing
himself in his university and publishing career . Other articlesof importance to all who
'feel the interest , ^ they should in that trade which has done so much to promote the cause
of education , treat of the Berne International Printed Copyright Books Convention on Eng , lish on Punctuation Types ^ their Names in Old
and ^^^^^ v V ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ Ori ^^ V ^^^^ ^ . ^ ' ^^ B gin ^^^^^^ ' ^ ^^^ , ^^^^ J ^ on B ^^ V ^^ F , ^ B French ^ . ^ ^^~^^^ V ^^^^^^ . ^ H ^^^^^^^^^^^ B ^^ ^ ^ ^^^ Literature *^^ . ^^^ P ^^ V ^^ ' ^^^ ^^^ f ^ P ^^ ^^^ ¦ ¦ ^ y in — ^^ America ^ ~^ ^ i ¦ ^ ^^^^^ ^^ " ^^^ t ^^ B ^^* w ^ ; and a quantity of - miscellaneous information
completes a number which promises well for the future of an undertaking to which we
cordially wish success .
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A Booksellers 3 Grievance. The
A BOOKSELLERS GRIEVANCE . the
7 ^ * 7 ^ Editor of Publishers' CriicuLAR . Sir—It ___ is now _ . about _ sixty years since
the announcement , of a new cheap ^ ^ edition of the Waverley Novels put the whole
bookwas selling — new trade —the in — size a flutter of the of volumes expectation the . mode All I I ¦
remember of publication the , excitement and the binding caused - , . b I well the I I y
bri appearance ght covers of . the The book experiment s clothed ^ vas in a great their I I
ventures success w b , im and all of kr led which the h were w way not to ¦ - many so - fortunate - similar . I I ^^^^ ^^^^ b ^^^ ^ . ^^^ ^^ v ^^^^ ^ r , ^ v ^^ v ^ v ^^* ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ * v ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ v ^^^ * - ^^^ ^^^ - ^^^ ^ ^ — ^— — — —— ^ ^ — — ^ h
It grievance was about of which this time I am , about I think to , comp that lai the n I I
began creased . < In ; ost order of substituting probably to cloth cover for the paper in- I I
- b the oard trade s , an additional and the 5 penny s . volume was levied instead upon of I I ; ,
33 being . lOd charged . ; and the 3 s . custom 9 c ? ., as heretofore with similar , was irregu now - I I
larities , all up and down , the scale , has I continued to the present time . I
patient We booksellers and longsuffering are , and tribe ever ; h and ave the been tax , a I I
was v ^ ^^^ v ^|^ ^ m ^ b ^ i * - ^^ orne *^^ ^ ¦ ^ ' ^ i ^^ ^» " ^» almost - ^ r ^^ n ^^ m - \^ r- ¦ ^— ^^^ b ^^ h without i - ^^^^™ - ^^ ^^™ ^— - ^^ w— ^^ v ^ K a murmur — ^ ' - ¦ - ^^ ^^ — . — — ~— Besides — , ^ I these were our golden dayswhen the general I I
public ices was marked content on the to pay covers for , their and books the word the I I pr ;
' discount' in this relationwasas a rule , I almost unknown , We . Mais nous , avo , ns that change I
fort ^ cela . have fallen upon days are I indeed thing but ' golden / in whichit I
any , tomer onl ^ mr ¦ «¦ . p ^ y *^ -mr ^ mi a expects ^ p ^ ^^ sixpenny ^ ^ p «^ ^ . p" ^^ ip » ^^ ' ¦^ p' to " ^ " ¦ r magazine get a ^ p ^ ' ^ p ^ ' ^ . ^ it ¦ ™ ^^^ , ^ p an ^^ — ~^~ i d " ^ is ^^ d ^ w - ^ wanted oes ^^ i — get jvb ^ p ^ - ^ ^^ , i' a , w cus for - bh I I
fo calls urpence loudly half for penny sympath . The y and state help of from things the I I publishing pbV 4 fe ¦¦¦ 1 houses to their less fortunate I
y ~~^ n i ^ . rv , ^ i * m ^ k' «^*^ rf ^ ^ Ibm *^ ^ ^ - ^ ^** ^* ^^ ^ ' ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ a * ^ p' «¦* » «^ ^ p ^ ^^^ " ^>^ ^ ^^^ ^ pp ^^ *^ ^ H . channel brethren ¦ BtP ^ rv ¦¦ ur » which , w and fc » fc « cannot I -w appeal iP fai W « ¦• " ¦ l —» to to »* them —~ meet tmm » - » - - , their ^ pr throug notice ¦ h a H I I ¦* p ^ ^ ^ m * P" ^^^ ** ^*^*^ *^ * " ^ " ^ ^^ *¦ ^» ^ " ^^ ^* " ™ ^^^ ^ ^^^ " ^^ ^— — ' ^ ^^ —^ ^— — ,
to so arrange that at t heir he trade least charges an exact for the deduction future I I very in to to
t of r » he f 2 2 o retai per n »» r cent oftrt l dealer t ^ , shall ftlm . . ll , in The eve 4 p > vp ry prospects . rv caae naafi 7 . lift be made made of the I I I bookselling «—** \^ V- ' »» . » V » V * **¦*¦»* * i »» trade «/ JL ^ W ^>« . X ^ are Mi , lV * , i at * - ^» » V the »* J »* .- ^»* best n ^ r ^»**^ w , a ver » ^^ y -7 far — I I
from who , encourag like the ing writer . It , matters are soon little to lay to down those I I thei ir d % r arms % ; but for a younger lm generation the I
^^ p ^ mm ^< pp . ¦ . m ^ mm ^ p * ^ 4 * ° «^ v PV ^ ^^^* ^ b ^ *^ ^^^ p" « ^ k'V V ^*^ " ^ ^^ ^^ f ^^ k ^ r ^ «^ 9 " ^ ^*^ ** <* ^^* « p ^ ' w ^* ** ^~^ ~~ ^^ H view of the future is one to fill them with very I grave apprehensions . I am & c ., S , W . S . I
Bath , January 5 , 1889 . I
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1889, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011889/page/12/
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