Now Ready. JULES VERNE'S LATEST AND BEST. MICHAEL STROGOFF, The Courier of the Czar. BY JULES VER NIE.. AUTHORIZED EDITION FROM 【ORIGINAL PLATES.} With all the Original Illustrations Engraved Expressly for this Work, after Designs by Ferat, One volume, crown 8vo, extra cloth, beveled edges, and richly stamped in black and gilt. With 90 full-page Engravings on wood. Superbly printed on calendered paper. Price, $3. In laying the scene of his latest story in There are few countries which are so full of interest to Americans as is Russia. that great empire, Jules Verne seems to have aimed to gratify his readers in this country. A revolt in some of the remoter provinces makes it necessary for the Czar to communicate with his brother, the Grand Duke, at Irkutsk. Michael Strogoff, one of the corps of the couriers of the Czar, is selected for the dangerous service. His marvelous coolness, prudence, and courage are constantly and thoroughly tested in the course of his perilous journey, but at last he falls into the hands of the insurgents. The story of his thrilling adventures is related with such vivid power as to make it seem like an actual narrative, while the descriptions of the country, of the people, and of their customs are evidently the result of actual study and close observation. This volume contains also a brilliant story of Mexican Life, by Jules Verne, entitled THE MUTINEERS, richly illustrated. SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO., Publishers, Nos. 743 and 745 Broadway, New York. SIDONIE. SIXTY THOUSAND COPIES SOLD IN EUROPE. LUCY H. HOOPER says of it: "It is one of those rare romances which do not perish with the flowers of spring or go out of fashion with the fall bonnets. The author is gifted with rare and remarkable qualifications, imagination, intelligence, the power of creating character, and above all, with a purity, sweetness, and sincerity of nature, that lend to his writings a charm exquisite, yet indefinable, like the perfume of a flower." LATELY PUBLISHED: MEETING THE SUN. A Journey all Round the World. 50 illustrations. $4.50. THE LAND AND GAME BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. With descriptions of the Birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes. An entirely new and accurate work, which no sportsman or collector can afford to be without. 8vo, $3. JUST ISSUED BY ESTES & LAURIAT, BOSTON. Short advertisements, per line. $20 00 12 00 7 00 4 00 2 50 25 Front, back, second and third pages, and pages facing editorial matter, $25. Applications for these pages should be made at least ten days before publication day. Special rates for twelve, six, and three months' contracts. 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Scribner's continues its two serial papers, and has further, in addition to the opening of Saxe Holm's "Farmer Bassett's Romance," an important paper, by E. S. Nadal, on "White, of Selborne," the natural historian; an account, by Kate Field, of an interview with the musician Sir Julius Benedict; a story by Boyesen, "How Mr. Storm met his Destiny;" a description, by an eye-witness, of " Farragut in Mobile Bay," etc. MR. MCCARTHY's new story, "Miss Misan money order, or registered letter. We can not be responsi-thrope," will be the serial of the year in the ble for loss. Address, P. O. Box 4295, N. Y. PUBLICATION Office, Galaxy, beginning with the February number. The same issue will have a paper by Henry 37 PARK ROW, N. Y. James, Jr., on "The Letters of Honoré de Balzac," and one by Walter Burlingame on the "Murder of Margary." Bret Harte, W. Winter, and Miss De Vere will have poems, Secretary Welles will continue his articles on the "" Lincoln Administration," and there will be the usual departments. NOTES IN SEASON. SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & Co. publish this week, from original plates, Jules Verne's new story, "Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar," in a handsomely-illustrated volume, which contains also Verne's Mexican tale of "The Mutineers." As this is the authorized edition, all the original illustrations, engraved from designs by Ferat for the transatlantic edition, are given. MRS. SOUTHWORTH'S new novel, "Fatal Secret," which is printing from the author's manuscript, written expressly for this volume, and never before printed in any form whatever, will be ready at T. B. Peterson & Bros. on February 3. As of her two previous works, "Ishmael" and "Self-Raised," ten editions have already been exhausted, orders had best be sent in advance by those desiring copies of this new work. ABOUT the 1st of February the Harpers will publish"Captain Fred. Barnaby's Ride to Khiva," and "Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay," edited by Otto Trevelyan, in an edition uniform with his "Life of Macau gives some historical data as to "Who was IN Harper's for February, Mr. J. S. C. Abbott Blennerhasset?" and Mr. Conway sketches "William Lovett," the self-taught defender of Chartism, while A. H. Guernsey describes "The Land of the Incas," and A. Van Cleef writes similarly of "Barbadoes"-all four of the articles being illustrated. In addition, there are the serials, stories, short articles, poems, etc. JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co. publish in a single volume the numbers of the American Architect for 1876, which furnishes cumulative proof of the excellence of the publication, its great value to architects and builders, and its positive interest for all intelligent readers. THE London Athenæum gives in its number for December 30th its usual annual summary of foreign literature. lay." A paper edition of Black's "Madcap Publishers' Board of Trade. Violet" will be issued by the same house almost immediately. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. III and 113 William street, New York. January 16, 1877. ENGAGEMENTS. JAMES MILLER has now ready the promised "Life, Letters, and Essays of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning," by Richard H. Horne, which Mr. R. H. Stoddard has edited and pleasantly introduces. It is issued in two volumes, "Little Classic" style, and ought to make the By A. S. BARNES & Co.: C. L. Patton, New best of reading. Orleans.. WITHDRAWALS. By A. S. BARNES & Co.: John H. Bourne, New Orleans; C. E. Armstrong, Buffalo. By HARPER & BROS. : P. B. Hulse, New York. By SOWER, POTTS & Co. : Frank Goheen, Phila. H. W. CURTISS, Secretary. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS JUST PUBLISHED. The Prices in this List are for cloth lettered, unless otherwise indicated. 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With special Reference to the Economy of Collecting Works of Art, and the Importance of Taste in Education and Morals. By W. J. Loftie, B.A., F.S.A., author of "In and Out of London." 12°. $1. (About Feb. 1.) Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting, Woodwork, and Furniture. By Rhoda and Agnes Garrett. 12°. $1. (About Feb. 1.) JOHN WILEY & SONS, New York. The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin de Teras-Hydraulics and Hydraulic Motors, with Theory of con. By Alphonse Daudet. HENRY GURLEY, New York. Arrows and Anecdotes. By Dwight L. Moody. Steam Engine. Transl. from Vol. 2 of Weisbach's Engi- Text-Book of Mineralogy. By Prof. E. S. Dana, of The Publishers' Weekly. JANUARY 20, 1877. PUBLISHERS are requested to furnish title-page proofs and advance information of books forthcoming, both for entry in the lists and for descriptive mention. An early copy of cach book published should be forwarded, to insure correctness in the final entry. The trade are invited to send "Communications" to the editor on any topic of interest to the trade, and as to which an interchange of opinion is desirable. Also, matter for "Notes and Queries." Notes from librarians will also be gratefully received. In case of business changes, notification or card should be immediately sent to this office for entry under "Business Notes." New catalogues issued will also be mentioned when forwarded. FULFIL THE LAW. OUR text will be found in the closing paragraphs of the ninth and twenty-second pages of the January Postal Guide: "All packages mailed at less than letter rates of postage should be wrapped so that their contents can be readily ascertained without destroying the wrapper. . . . To inclose any written matter in printed matter subjects the mailing party to a fine of five dollars, unless the party addressed pays letter postage on the package. "The postage on manuscript for magazines, periodicals, and newspapers is three cents for one half ounce, or fraction thereof. Manuscript music is also subject to letter postage. "Matter of the third class inclosed in sealed envelopes notched at the ends or side, or with the corners cut off, cannot be mailed except at letter-postage rates. "Matter of the second and third classes containing any writing whatever will be charged with letter postage, except as follows: "The sender of any article of the third class of mail matter may write his or her name or address therein or on the outside thereof, with the word "from" above or preceding the same, or may write briefly or print on any package the number and names of the articles inclosed." And the purport of our little sermon is, Fulfil the law. Perhaps it is largely from the annoyance we are personally put to in perpetually finding some package awaiting us at the post-office on which a considerable amount (from forty cents to above five dollars) of postage has been assessed, either from its bad wrapping, so that it cannot be examined, or from its being found to contain on examination some unimportant writing which the sender through inadvertence or ignorance of the law had omitted to erase, that we preach. But probably our experience is the experience of all, especially in a business like the book trade, where the mail - is so generally used for the transportation of books and other third-class matter. The letter of the law and the ruling of the department are very plain and distinct, and their execution, in the New York office at least, is very strict. Of the justice of the law, or of its general good or bad working, we do not speak; we must take the law as it is. No writing save the name or address of the sender (for the intelligent department at Washington rules against even a pencilled price on the fly-leaf) must be contained in it, and it must be so done up that it can be readily examined without injury to the wrapper. A little more circumspection by senders in preparing packages would often save the receivers the disagreeable alternative of either rejecting the parcel altogether or of paying perhaps double its value to obtain it. WE have soothing news in store for the fluttering book trade. The Trade Sale" is back! It sounds as familiar and cheery as to say Santa Claus is back, Barnum is back, Spring is back. Booksellers will smile all sorts of smiles at the tidings; and the fancy and drygoods stores, the street-corner, sidewalk, and basement bibliopoles, the auction, gift, lottery, butcher, great combination, dollar and fifteencents to the - dollar concerns will chuckle, chuckle. Also the binders, paper-mills, and notaries. How much per pound, yard, dozen, gross, and "what off" to ministers, lawyers, doctors, school-teachers, students, soldiers, sailors, farmers, cobblers, tinkers, tailors, and other "friends in the trade"? "After the wants of the bidder have been supplied, the lots will be doubled," "quadrupled," and so on, and so "Going, going, going!" The committees are dead, the "Ring" is dead, the Book Fair is dead, but the Trade Sale is back! Le roi est mort; long live the king! on. PRIZE QUESTION No. 14. Which are the most salable Poems? GIVE ten titles in the following order, as usual: Author, title proper, number of volumes, if more than one, size, price, publisher. Name only single poems issued in separate editions. Collective works and books of poetry are to form the subject of special prize questions. Answers must be received by January 25th. PRIZE QUESTION No. 15. Trade Sale or Book Fair: Either, both or neither? GIVE some rhyme or reason, grave or humorous, pro or contra, or non-committal. Brevity, pith, and wit will count more than words; words more than lines, etc., etc. Two or more answers of equal merit will share the prize. The decision will be based on points well made, not position taken. Any answer that may instruct or amuse the trade will be printed with name of writer, Answers must be received by February 3d. |