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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 310 BOOKS AND RUMO...
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St Dunstan's House, E.C., March 15, 1890.
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FREDERICK MACMILLAN'S letter MR. in the ...
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I | 310 The Publishers' Circular March 15 , 1890 1 —1 . —_— , .
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Literary Intelligence 310 Books And Rumo...
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 310 BOOKS AND RUMOURS OF BOOKS 311 NOTES AND NEWS 314
THE BOOKSELLERS' TRADE DINNER 315 IS THE DISCOUNT SYSTEM DOOMED ? 318 THE POETRY OF THE ' ANTI-JACOBIN' 322
AN EVIL IN THE GERMAN BOOK TRADE 322 CASSELL & CO 323 THE READERS' PENSION 323
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK'S PUBLIC LIBRARY BILL .. 323 MR . W . B . SCOTT'S LIBRARY 324 HOW ILLUSTRATIONS jtRE PRINTED 324
CONTINENTAL NOTES 325 TRADE CHANGES 326
IN MEMORIAM 326 i
REVIEWS , & c 326 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN MARCH 1 & 15 330
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM MARCH 1 TO 15 332 AMERICAN NEW BOOKS ..., 337
NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 339 MISCELLANEOUS 352
BUSINESS CARDS 359 , 360 ASSISTANTS WANTED . 361 SITUATIONS WANTED 361
BUSINESSES FOR SALE 361 BOOKS FOR SALE , 361
BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 362
St Dunstan's House, E.C., March 15, 1890.
St Dunstan ' s House , E . C ., March 15 , 1890 .
Frederick Macmillan's Letter Mr. In The ...
FREDERICK MACMILLAN'S letter MR . in the Bookseller on the question of
underselling in the book trade gave an additional interest to the social gathering of booksellers ,
publishers , and authors which , in the form of a dinner at the Holborn Restaurant , was so
very successfully held last Saturday evening , under the presidency of Mr . Charles Longman .
Between the music and the speeches , of which we give a report in another column , the one
general question which was heard in all parts of the room was , * What do you think of Mr .
Macmillan ' s suggestion ? We do not propose to discuss this suggestion at present ; but we
are very glad to say that among both publishers and booksellers there is a general
appreciation of Mr . Macrnillan's action in bringing this subject again forward , and advocating
prompt and concerted measures on the part of both branches of the trade . We give in another
column the gist of Mr . Macmillan ' s suggestion , and a few opinions on it which have already
been published in the Pall Mall Gazette , and we shall be glad to assist in making the views
of the London and country booksellers known . As regards the Booksellers' Provident
Institution , we imagine there were few in the room who did not find their knowledge of that
Institution . very greatly increased as they listened to Mr . Charles Longman ' s most
interesting account of it . Great as our admiration has always been for this benevolent
Institution , we confess its position was placed in a new light to us by the chairman ' s
comparisons between it and other institutions of a similar character . We heartily agree with
him in wishing that the benefits it offers were better known , and earnestly advise everyone
employed or interested in the London book trade to study Mr . Longman's speech . 'If a
young man under 25 paid £ 21 to the Booksellers' Provident Institution he would have ,
besides his share of the invested funds
( £ 30 , 000 ) , an insurance which in money value was worth £ 80 ; and if they included the funds
of the Retreat it was worth £ 100 . ' We call prominent prominent attention attention to to these these words words , because because
, they intimately concern all who are engaged in the enormous book trade of London .
They imply , also , something far more valuable ¦ than the sums named—they mean that the
young man who invests his £ 21 in this Institution is , to some extent at least , insured i
against poverty . He can work without the ! harassing harassing dread dread of ot providing providing tor for the the iuture future . II
, with its visions of illness and want . ! Hearty thanks are due to the gentlemen i
who so ably carried out the arrangements of I the dinner . They must be gratified to
know that so successful was the affair that I it will certainly become the annual event I
of the bookselling world . We should have I liked to see a few more authors present , but
doubtless M . Du Chaillu and Mr . Rider Haggard will give such an account of the
hearty reception they got as to encourager les
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has lost its oldest , and probably its most I generally respected member , by the death , on !
the 2 nd instant , of Sir Edward Baines , of Leeds . Sir Edward had entered his ninetieth
year , and was , in fact , the doyen of journalism not merely in England , but in Europe .
Throughout his long and disinterested career ' he was a consistent Liberal and Nonconformist
who combined unswerving loyalty to his convictions with unfailing courtesy towards those \
who differed from him . For thirty-five years ho sat in Parliament for his native town of
Leeds , and on his retirement from public life in 1880 he was knighted in recognition of his
great but unobtrusive services . As a young reporter , Sir Edward Baines was present at
the famous ' Battle of Peterloo ' at Manchester
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 15, 1890, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15031890/page/4/
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