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    THE ART OF PAPER MAKING.* In the twenty ...

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    Bookselling in Melbourne.—' One of the s...

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    Can The Booksellers Position Be Improved...

    marked price for books is impossible , the case might be met bforming a booksellers' union

    which would en y able those so associated to make their own terms .

    If a thousand booksellers agreed to unite and to subscribe each £ 5 capital ( as we are prepared to do ) for the expenses of forming

    and working an association , and then in their corporate capacity approached the publishing housesthe result would probably be that the

    , publishers would place them on equal terms with the wholesale firms , who are allowed a discount much in excess of that granted to the

    retail bookseller . If the lar ^ e discounts referred to were secured to the booksellers a good profit would be ensured in place of a

    merely nominal one . Those who think well of this scheme should at once send me a post-card stating

    thatsub-, ject to the details being satisfactorily arranged , they are willing to join the proposed Booksellers' Union .

    Arthur Everett , of the firm of Mews . W . H . Everett < k SonSalisbury ,

    Square , Fleet Street , London , EX . •<>• •

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    ¦ I 446 The Publishers' Circular April 15 , l 8 jo i

    The Art Of Paper Making.* In The Twenty ...

    THE ART OF PAPER MAKING . * In the twenty . chapters ¦ which ....-.- compose _ _ __ _ _ — this _ —

    __ book , Mr . Watt has written a clear and comprehensive description of the manufacture of paper from ragsespartostrawand other

    , , , fibrous materials . The book is an admirable example of a technical manual , and no etibrt has evidently been spared to render it not

    merely reliable and thorough , but also to bring its statements concerning the various operations involved , and the most approved x .

    Xmachinery now in use , up to date . Mr . Watt devotes special attention to some of the more important methods of producing pulp from

    * A CJ 1 A wood fibre , and he does so avowedly because he believes that from this ' inexhaustible source the paper-maker will ultimately derive

    much of the cellulose used in his manufacture . ' In fact , the author of this book is of op A inion that ,

    when the processes for disintegrating woodfibre are as well understood in England as in America and the Continentthev are certain

    , to be extensively adopted by our home manufacturers . At the beginning of the Queen ' s reign the only articles employed in the

    manufacture of paper were linen and cotton rags , flax and hemp waste , and a few other fibreyielding materials . The reduction of the

    Excise Duty , however , from threepence to threehalfpence per lb ., which took effect in 1837 , created a greatly increased demand for paper

    <_ - > •/ JL m , and caused much anxiety amongst manufacturers lest the supply of rags should prove inadequate jl to their requirements A . Again C * , in

    the year 1861 , this duty was totally abolished , from which period an enormously increased demand for paperand consequently

    paperm . A . , JL . •/ A material , was created by the establishment of a vast number of daily and weekly newspapers and journals in all parts of the kingdom ,

    Machinery The Art and of Appliances Paper-Making used , . with By a Alkxandbb Description Watt of the . 1 II | Illustrated . Crosby Lockwood & , Son , London .

    The Art Of Paper Making.* In The Twenty ...

    besides reprints of standard and other works ¦ in a cheap form , the copyright of which had i iredIt inot too much to

    b exp unless efore , the other . repeal * materials . s of the than paper A A those duty empl say had ™ ~~ that oyed been "UOIl I i discoveredthe abolition of the

    , impost wo & l d large have . proved Mr . W of att little gives service a long to lis the t of public the raw afc '

    materials which are now available in making — f ~ g , and to the uninitiated some of ^ -- ^ paper them v ** \ j 4 - * JL

    such as peat , beanstalks , binders' clipping sail-cloth , beetroot refuse from sugar ^^ -works ' ' - ' * - « JHJ «

    leather waste , etc ., seem rather unpromising . By the help of a number of excellent

    illustrations these render the different cesses of bleaching pages , loading , sizing , calender pro - - ing , cutting , and finishing tat once intelligible —

    and *_» * great ** pains are taken _ ^ to explain the various kinds of machinery used in

    papermaking . The value of the book is enhanced J . JL by a list of works relating to the subjectj and

    by the avoidance , on the v— » part of the author , ~ ~~ as far as possible , of technical terms that are ,

    likely to prove unintelligible .

    Bookselling In Melbourne.—' One Of The S...

    Bookselling in Melbourne . — ' One of the sights of Melbournethe most marvellous

    , 1 have yet seen , is that known as " Cole ' s Book Arcade , " in Bourke Street , which is not

    merely a place for the dissemination of knowledge , useful and otherwise , but a readingroom as wellinto which thousands enter T

    pick up a book , take a seat , and read as long as they like without spending a farthing . Mr . Cole himselfthe owneris a remarkable

    man . He hails , from Ashford , , in Kent , and had been some time in the colony trying to make a fortunebut with little successand *

    now evidently he , has , to borrow an Ameri , - canism , " struck ile . " As a comp iler he has

    done some good work . His aim is to publish the Library of the Future , to be composed

    entirely of the cream of human thought and knowledge . To this scheme he gives the title of " The Federation of the World ' s Library . "

    It is to consist of one hundred of the best books in the world ; one bookthe best of its j

    , kind , is to be on astronomy , another on geologyanother on geographyand so on . Each

    book is , to be complete of its , kind and highly condensed . Jt is easily '' and perfectl A . y *' done ,

    he says . A moderate-sized book , lie tells us , holds all the best songs in the world ; a

    moderate-sized wisdom-book—it is a humiliating reflection will hold all the wisest sayings in the world ; a moderate-sized hookcarefuly

    , botany prepared " . ' > - ¦ ' VIWI II , . or "V ^ , of any KJVJkM J astronomy ^ of 7 A , the V »» V / t sciences ^ f V >* * V , geology V- * \> ^' , l will J W * * ¦ , g )— chemistry j * ivo * ^~^ a clear ,

    knowled library of ge a of hundred the princi volumes ples of of each six . hund Such red a

    pages each can be produced to soil at £ 10 , thus and bring all ing the all most the beautiful most important thoughts knowledge within the

    reach of every human being . Mr . Cole calculates th i . hni e wo xnrn that r -vlrl ld there the 4-h c * one nrt are a thousand ffi million rkiinn . nrl printed best Ko « h are firft poems worta WOrtll m

    the remaining , nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand all put together . Mr . Colo tells mo

    that , with the exception of school books—

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1890, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041890/page/14/