kruptcy Annulled:

urts, James, Plumstead, formerly Chatham, newspaper oprietor, &c.

re, John, Montreal Road, Brighton, late stationer and graver; solicitor, C. Lamb, Brighton.

as, Alfred, Brewer Street, Regent Street, preparer photographic papers; solicitors, Stocken and Jupp, adenhall Street.

, Edward, Carter Lane, wholesale stationer. rism, Robert, late trading under firm of Robert ason and Co., High Street, Edinburgh, marbletver manufacturer; claims by 4th February. m. James and Robert Gray, Saltmarket Street, Glasgow, ling under firm of Gage and Gray, publishers and sellers; claims by 21st January.

st, Ebenezer, Late Sunderland, stationer, &c.; solicitor, Y. Robinson, Sunderland.

All John, Grenville Street, Dublin, printer, &c.; agent, Forsythe, Eustace Street, Dublin."

Life, Abel, Scale Lane, Hull, printer and newspaper prietor.

hert, Thomas, Foss Gate, York, bookseller, stationer, od newsagent; solicitor, R. Dale, York.

taling, Benjamin Colston, Bishopston, Horfield, late ater, stationer, &c.; solicitor, W. Benson.

As, Edward Nathan, Farnborough Terrace, Battersea, wuthor; solicitor, R. J. Dobie, Basinghall Street. Cars, George, Russell Street, Bermondsey, stationer, Cagent, &c.; solicitor, J. B. Pittman, Guildhall abers.

wood, George, Berwick Street, Soho, late picture iar; solicitor, A. Watson, Cannon Street.

Henry Andrew, late Carey Street, publisher.

Pema. J. S., jun., printer; first of 6s. 4d., Edwards. barzell, John, Fleet Street, publisher; final dividend, at , Benham and Tindell, Essex Street.

phie, G., printer and stationer; first of 5s. 6d., Carrick, Exeter.

guments, Compositions, Trust Deeds, &c. :

Abraham, Macclesfield, stationer; trustee, William Tatton, brushmaker, Sutton, near Macclesfield.

kr, William Henry, Campbell Street, Newcastle, book#ir; trustee, Thomas C. Jack, publisher, Edinburgh. - Richard William, Southampton, musicseller; comp. 8. by two equal instalments, on 7th December and 7th March, guaranteed.

ay, Micheal Joseph, George Street, Plymouth, photoaber; comp. of 2s. 6d. by two equal instalments 1st October and 1st November.

*wan, Edward Joseph, Duke Street, Liverpool, printer, ap. of 23. in one month from registration.

et, Charles Edward, Scarborough, bookseller and sationer; trustees, Robert Johnson, bookseller, Southtort; Edmund Wrigley, wholesale stationer, Manster; and Thomas Harrison, gasfitter, Scarborough. ew, Samuel, Hardy Street, Liverpool, printseller, &c.; eap. of 10s. by two equal instalments on 1st November 1st April, secured.

and, William Edward, Bradford, printer; comp. of by instalments, half on registration and residue, in

*re months.

th, Bailey, King's Road, Chelsea, bookseller and stacioner; comp. of 10s. by six equal quarterly instal

ments on 19th March, June, December, 1868; and 19th March and June, 1889.

Hazard, John Lewis and James, Canden Street, Islington, printers; comp. of 5s. 6d. by two instalments; 2s. 6d. in three, and 3s. in six months.

Hirst, Mark, Sheffield, lithographer; trustee, Joseph Barber, accountant, Sheffield.

Lockless, John, York Road, Albany Road, Camberwell, newsagent, &c.; comp. of 2. n 30th September. Pendleton, Charles, Chipping Norton, printer, stationer, and newsagent; comp. of 44, on 1st November.

Philp, Edward, jun., Toriano Avenue, Camden Road, journalist, &c., to pay £80 a year by quarterly instalments, until debts are paid in full. First on 25th December; trustee, Williain Meech Sherring, gentleman, Great Russell Street.

Shellard, John Edwin, Colston Villa, Horfield Road, Bristol, bookseller; truster, Richard Howard Leaker, smith, Anchor Lane, Canons Marsh, Bristol. Tingman, James, Southport, bookseller and stationer; trustees, George Heywood, stationer, Manchester, and George Richardson Carter, Bank Manager, Southport. Walker, William, sen., Runcorn, bookseller, printer, and stationer; comp. of 103. by four equal instalments on 1st April, 1st October, 1868; and 1st April and 1st October, 1869; trustee, Jonathan Potter, Runcorn. Wilcocke, Sanuel Hull, Blackinan Street, Southwark, musicseller; comp. of 3s. in six weeks.

Williams, George, Wolverhampton, printer; comp. of 58' by two equal instalments, first on 1st December, and second in three months after.

Partnerships Dissolved :—

Ashford, Henry, and Thomas Bristo Ashford, Newgate Street, photographic publishers.

Benrose, Henry Howe, William Bemrose, jun., and Richard Lothian, Paternoster Row, publishers, as regards Lothian.

Burton, John, Alfred Henry Burton, Oliver Burton, and John William Burton, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Burton-on-Trent, and Melton Mowbray, booksellers, stationers, printers, binders, and photographers, as regards A. H. Burton; debts paid by remaining partners. Lloyd, Richard and James, Gracechurch Street, printsellers, publishers, and dealers in pictures and drawings; debts paid by J. Lloyd.

Lyall, James Watson, and James Hogg, Stirling, news-
paper proprietors, under style of "Stirling Journal and
Advertiser," and in Perth and Crieff, under style of
"Perthshire Journal and Constitutional;" 31st Der.
McKay, Andrew William, and Lewis Pocock, Pall Mall,
East, printsellers, &c.; debts paid by McKay.
Wilkinson, John, and John Gilbert Frazer, Lupin Street,
Birmingham, paper and twine dealers; debts paid by
Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, William, William Hall Burnett, and George
Hood, Middlesborough, booksellers, publishers, sta-
tioners, printers, &c.; debts paid by Wilkinson.
Petition to wind-up under Companies' and Societies' Acts :-
The Strand Printing and Publishing Company (Limited);
solicitors, Miller and Smith, Watling Street.
Resolution to wind-up voluntarily :-

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The Cheltenham Newspaper Company (Limited); liquidators, George Parsonage and William Byrne, accountant, Cheltenham.

A WORD TO THE TRADE-A few pages further n will be found our Seasonal list of announcenents of forthcoming books. Every publisher n town and country contributes each his poron, and altogether the list is a goodly one. Many of the books are such as booksellers enerally may dispose of, or such as a few years ago they would have kept in stock. Now publishers, as a body, constantly say, "We nd, on the part of the trade, a very generally spread dislike to give us an order for stock books." That such is the case need excite no wonder, when we remember how little the chief publishers have done to promote the interests of the retail trade, and to discourage the pernicious practice of underselling; but things must be met as they are, and not as we could wish them to be, the question may therefore be asked,-are bookhers thoroughly alive to their own interests, and are they masters of their own position? We think that they are not: they have shown too much apathy, and have allowed business which they

ought to have retained to slip through their fingers. Publishers have done their part of the work in preparing saleable books, and offering them to the trade at prices which afford a reasonable margin of profit. They have also spent considerable sums of money in advertising and making them known; but, having done all this, they have too frequently had to complain that they have met with no response from the trade; their books have been sold only to such customers as they had themselves interested by means of advertisements, and who would have purchased those books even though there had been no intermediate booksellers at all. Here and there, there are some exceptions-booksellers, who do know their business-who watch the advent of new books, and who, as soon as they are ready, bring them before the notice of customers. Such men are genuine booksellers, and generally are successful in their business. We do not find them sitting down and crying out that bookselling is all going to the dogs, and that they wish they had never B

had anything to do with it. On the contrary, if we enter into conversation with them, we find them hopeful; they tell us that they are looking out for Mr. Somerville's new work, Mr. Darwin's "Variations of Animals," Mr. Smiles's "Huguenots," ," "Sir Philip Francis's Life," Lord Lytton's prose works, &c., and expect to sell their three, six, twelve, or twenty copies of each; they have made up their minds as to their customers, and have determined to sell.

We want to increase the number of good booksellers. It is no use grumbling and fretting. There are plenty of books published and announced for publication, and they must be sold either over the bookseller's counter, or under the auctioneer's hammer, or to the butterman. Let us suggest that the first is the most legitimate method, and that which most strongly commends itself to authors, publishers, and to our own tastes. Many will say, "We would sell these books if we were asked for them, but our customers go elsewhere, and do not come to us for standard books. We supply them with newspapers, periodicals, and stationery, but they go to the large underselling houses in London for their high-priced books." Such being the case, we beg to suggest that you should secure them for yourselves. Learn from our pages what books are published and what are forthcoming, and as you probably know the tastes of your customers, bring either the books or the advertisements before their notice, and the chances are ten to one that you sell the book or get the order.

The small

Make a beginning with some popular author; Dickens or Thackeray, for instance. est bookseller in the country cannot make bad stock by putting volumes of these authors on his counter. The cheap and elegant edition of Dickens's works has been some time in course of publication, but the first volume of a new edition of Thackeray's works makes its appearance this day. Make up your mind to sell your twenty-five, or other given number of sets; for remember, that by planting the first volume you secure an order for the whole. We do not intend now to write an essay on Thackeray's writings, but you must "get up" some information about him and his works, especially about the first which appears-" Vanity Fair." Make Becky Sharp's acquaintance; also learn the characters of Captain Dobbin, the Sedleys, the Crawleys, and the Osbornes. All this you may do in a few hours, after the shop is closed. You will linger over the pictures in the volume, and will wish to retain it for your own private library, if we mistake not; and, having arrived at this point, you will readily sum up all the arguments to be used, and will easily call to mind all the persons that will or should be buyers in your neighbourhood.

You cannot sell everything; you may, however, in this manner, work off twenty or thirty authors a year. The best medical works of the season will be required by the medical men; the best law books by your legal neighbours, and perhaps by those gentlemen who are in the commission of the peace. Gift and presentation books you must keep in stock, or you cannot sel at all, but of these a judicious selection should be made, and if you determine so to do, you will scarcely fail to find purchasers.

Booksellers have an enormous power if they I will but learn how exercise it. The reading capacity of the country has increased a hundredfold during the present century, but bookselling has been stationary, or nearly so. Many monster establishments have sprung up, but there is no

disputing the fact that in the smaller towns booksellers are scarcer than they were, and that, notwithstanding all appliances, those that remain have not kept pace with the times. We hope to see a change, and with that view throw out these suggestions.

BOOKS WANTED AND BOOKS FOR SALE.-This month we again repeat the conditions on which alone hooks may be inserted in these lists. Some of our subscribers are unreasonable enough to think that when they break these rules, and in consequence do not find their lists inserted, that we ought to write and apologise for their non-insertion. In our next number, the CHRISTMAS BOOKSELLER, there will be no free insertion; all must be paid for-the first book sixpence, and each one after the first, threepence; and unless stamps accompany the list no notice will be taken of it.

I. Books Wanted. -1. No list should include more than five books. 2. The list should be written plainly, in the same manner as the "Wants are printed. 3. No books which have been advertised for in any other publication, or recently in this, are admissible. 4. Catalogues wanted, or books bearing upon specific subjects mentioned generally, and not by name, or more books than five, or books advertised for elsewhere, or recently in the BOOKSELLER, must be paid for at the rate of sixpence each article, and stamps sent with the list. 5. Lists must be received by the 25th of the month. 6. The Editor holds himself at liberty to reject or leave out any book or list he may think proper.

II. Books for Sale.-This department of the BOOKSELLER is intended for the use of subscribers who have overbought, who have had good books thrown upon their hands, or who have become possessed of good or rare books unsaleable in their own localities. There is no limit as to the number of books, but a charge of sixpence is made for the first, and threepence for each succeeding one-the description, if possible, not to exceed one line, and the prices should be appended. Stamps must accompany the list, or no notice whatever will be taken of it.

MANCHESTER.-Will any of our Manchester correspondents be good enough to inform us which of the booksellers there buy the books procured by Mr. J. F. Becke, Mr. James Hunt, and other members of the swindling fraternity who have so long flourished in Manchester, Salford, Longsight, and the neighbourhood? Receivers are worse than thieves, and the Manchester booksellers ought to unite in exposing dishonest members of the trade.

BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.-A meeting of the members was held on the 24th October, for the purpose of revising the rules. It was proposed to shut out from the benefit of the institution the second wives of members unless after an extra payment. It was also proposed that no one older than forty should be eligible to become a member. Eventually the age was limited to fifty, and the payments were increased, but no alterations were made in the rules relating to the fair sex.

THE ARGOSY.-From December next, with the commencement of the new volume, The Argosy passes into other hands. It will be under the direction of Mrs. Henry Wood, author of "East Lynne, and will be published at 13, Tavistock Street, Strand. A serial story, by the editor, will be begun in the December number.

Mr. Fred. Müller, of Amsterdam, is one of those learned men of whom the bookselling trade has reason to be proud. He is learned, but not pedantic-agentleman and a tradesman-modest, yet proud of his business and of his stock-rich in all kinds of book knowledge, but no miser. Such is Mr. Fred. Müller, of Amsterdam, who has just published a catalogue, entitled "Mé. moire Bibliographique sur les journaux des Navigateurs Néerlandais réimprimés dans les collections de De Bruy et de Hulsius, et dans les collections Hollandaises du XVIIe Siècle, et sur les Anciennes éditions Hollandaises des Journaux de Navigateurs Etrangers: la plupart en la possession de Frederick Müller a Amsterdam." An elegantly printed volume of 380 pages. How it has been compiled, and how little assistance in the way of information he reeived from others, he tells us in his preface; also of the obligations he is under to M. Tiele, conservator of the Leyden University library; and to Mr. John Lenox of New York, a gentleman who appears to be a collector of such books. M. Tiele himself gives us a notice of the part he has taken in the work. As far as we have had the means of comparing the titles herein given with the originals, the compilers appear to have been rigidly exact, while the notes in French are lucid and exactly such as are required, and such as might be expected in any work emanating from Mr. Müller. It will be well for the pretenders at South Kensington to study the contents and plan of this volume before they again try their hands upon a "Universal Fine-Arts Catalogue," a piece of ignorant presumption, that none but persons in the pay of government could be capable of.

PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING. It appears strange, but so it is, that men in power and their subordinates have never taken kindly to the press. All sucking ministers like to have their speeches fully reported, but when they get to the top of the ladder they are not pleased that their juniors should have the same privilege; at least it seems so, and the officers of both Houses are apparently infected with the same spirit. The gallery accommodation is of the most iniserable character, and this, narrow as it is, is allowed to be uncomfortably crowded by editors and leader-writers. Lord Charles Russell and his subordinates will not allow the use of one of the vacant committee rooms for writing purposes, and the Serjeant-at-Arms is astonished at the audacity of the reporters asking for more elbow-room.

An interesting sale takes place in Holland in December, and we have do doubt many English buyers will be attracted. The collection of books now to be sold has been the labour of three generations of Eucshedés, printers, of Haarlem. The grandfather, a native of Groningen, settled at Haarlem in 1703, and in concert with his son John undertook many important typographical works. A lover of books, he collected many early editions. In the taste of book collecting he was followed by both son and grandson; one loved classics, the other theology, and a third, books illustrative of the art of printing. Many noble specimens of the art are contained in the library, including a Wynkin de Worde, some block books, and other curiosities. Although we regret the breaking up of such an interesting library, there is the consolation of knowing that its dispersion will enable many persons to procure specimens otherwise unattainable.

Farewell dinners to literary men are just now attracting their full share of public attention. On the evening of Thursday, October 31st, the collaborateurs of Mr. Anthony Trollope met

at the Albion Tavern, and congratulated him at once on his success as a novelist and his retirement from the Post Office, in which establishment he had laboured for more than thirty-three years. On the following evening the friends of Dr. Norman Macleod, editor of Good Words, dined at Willis's Rooms, and gave him God-speed previous to his departure for India, whither he proceeds, in company with Dr. Watson, as a deputation from the Established Church of Scotland to the Mission Churches in our Great Eastern empire; and now, at the moment when the Bookseller is on the press, the admirers of Charles Dickens-to the number of nearly five hundred, including all the élite of the literary, artistic, and dramatic worlds-are assembled at Freemason's Hall, under the presidency of Lord Lytton, heartily wishing him good health and a cordial welcome in America, for which country he is to sail on the 9th of November.

A good work, says the Athenæum, has just been accomplished at Penzance,-the gathering together of the various libraries and museums of that town into one large and commodious building. There are now accessible under one roof the Museum and Library of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall-the former containing one of the finest collections of minerals in the kingdom; the local Museum of Natural History and Antiquities; and the Penzance Public Library. The institution last named is the only public library of any pretensions in Cornwall, and in many respects it may fairly be considered to rank amongst the best of our provincial libraries. The Rev. C. V. Le Grice, the schoolfellow and friend of Charles Lamb, took a great interest in its progress, and did perhaps more than anyone to promote its efficiency. chief additions of late years have been a valuable series of works on Celtic and Saxon literature, bequeathed by Mr. Pedler, of Liskeard, and a collection of several hundred volumes of old English books and plays, the gift of a wellknown Shakesperean scholar.

The

A statue has lately been erected in Hull to Andrew Marvell. It stands on a pedestal, consisting of a single block of red granite.

An interesting publication has lately appeared in Moscow, the reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in no fewer than thirteen Sclave idioms, but in Russian character and spelling. editor of the work is M. Jezber, formerly editor of the Slavenine.

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MONOGRAMS.-Mr. Jack, of Edinburgh, has published a handsome quarto volume of letters in combination, or "monograms," designed by a French artist, M. Renoir. The work will be found invaluable to silversmiths and engravers generally, but especially to those engaged in designing stamps for note paper and envelopes, as every conceivable combination of initials is here provided for.

A new comic penny weekly, called Toby, has been started, with Percy and George Cruikshank, junior, as editor and artist. These gentlemen are the sons of the late Robert Cruikshank, and nephews of the immortal George. The writing is of the old old pattern, a little wcra and faded; but the illustrations, roughly produced by the graphotype process, possess the merits of origi nality.

Mr. W. Perry, wood-carver to the Queen, has written an interesting little treatise on the Identity of Herne's Oak in Windsor Park with the ancient tree existing in 1786, rather than with that which fell a few years ago. The book, which is published by Mr. L. Booth, is liberally illustrated with wood-engravings.