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All matter, whether for the reading-matter columns or advertising pages, should reach this office not later than Wednesday noon, to insure insertion in the same week's issue. Books for the "Weekly Record," as well as all information intended for that department, should reach his office by Tuesday morning of each week. 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 each book published should be forwarded, as it is of the utmost importance that the entries of books be made as promptly and as perfectly as possible. In many cases booksellers depend on the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY solely for their information. The Record of New Publications of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY is the material of the "American Catalogue" and so forms the basis of trade bibliography in the United States. ious works were published, and little in political science or popular science, or in poetry. The prominent losses by death in the ranks of literature include from among our own writers the historian, John Codman Ropes; Elliott Coues, the scientific writer; Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth and Horatio Alger, Jr. Among English writers, Dr. Andrew Kennedy Boyd, better known as the "Country Parson;" Grant Allen, Florence Marryat, and also the Rev. William Garden Blaikie. Cherbuliez and Emile Erckmann, the literary partner of Alexander Chatrian, popular French writers, belong also to the missing of the year. Likewise Elise Polko, the graceful German author. The total number of books received by us during the year amounted to 2715, still an increase over former years. The balance of various sources amounted to 2606 titles. These two totals together make the whole number of books of the year-5321. “I hold every man a debtor to his profession, titles recorded with an asterisk and taken from from the which, as men do of course seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and an ornament thereunto."-LORD BACON. THE BOOKS OF 1899. THE year 1899 left the impression of being an abnormally busy one with the publishers-an impression created chiefly, perhaps, through the concentration of the business of the year into its last three months. We recorded in our weekly lists of new publications during 1899 a total of 5321, more, it is true, than in 1897 and 1898, but less than in 1895 and 1896, when the figures were 5469 for the first year and 5703 for the second. As compared with 1898, in which publication was seriously interrupted by our war with Spain, 1899 was an extremely good year, an increase being shown in the books published in almost every class of literature. It was, likewise, a good-selling year, an enormous number of books being reported as having been disposed of, especially during the holiday season. Where quantity is so much to the fore, quality is apt to be in the background. But the year was not without its desirable and readable books, many of which achieved a remarkable popularity and sale. The most inspiring and hopeful literature of the year belonged to the department of Biography and Memoirs. In these days of reconstructing past literary estimates, if one would keep pace with the times, it would not be safe to leave unread a single one of the biographies of the year. In history, description and travel, many excellent works were sent out on Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, the Klondyke, on Africa and the Boers, and other subjects of timely interest. Few notable relig The table which follows gives in classes the figures, approximately, of the book production of this country in 1899, with those of 1898, for comparison. All the departments show an increase, excepting Theology and Religion, Political and Social Science, and Medical Science, in each of which there was a slight decrease. Fiction, it will be seen, still keeps the lead, as it has for many years. Law follows, as in the previous year. But Theology and Religion, which occupied the third place, fell to the fifth, taking the position of Juvenile in the list, which rose to the third place. The changes in the other classes were not so notable. Education and Language, Biography and Memoirs, and Description and Travel, went up a little, but the other classes kept their old positions. |