Ambler, William, Leeds, paper tube manufacturer;
solicitors, Blackburn and Son, Leeds.
Atherton, George, Cursitor-street. and Annis-road, South
Hackney, printer; solicitor, J. P. Godfrey, Gray's Inn.
Burch, Edward, Elizabeth-street, Pimlico, stationer, &c.;
solicitor, G. W. W. R. Harrison, Basinghall-street.
Burns, George, Edgeware-road, printer; solicitor. J. T.
Porter, Orchard-street.

Collin, William Henry, late in co-partnership with William North Rees, under firm of Rees and Collin, Tomlin's-grove, Bow-road, and Gracechurch-street, publisher and printer; solicitor, H. Mason, Basinghall-street. Cope, William, trading under style of W. S. Kirkland and Co., Salisbury-street, Strand, Rue de Richelieu, Rue de la Fontaine Auteuil, and Universal Exhibition, Paris, bookseller, agent, &c.; solicitors, Ashurst, Morris & Co., Old Jewry.

Evans, Wardle Eastland, Market-place, Great Portlandstreet, musical instrument maker; solicitor, T. Kearsby, Bucklersbury.

Francis, William, Lansdowne-street, Hull, bookseller and stationer; solicitor, T. Gilder, Hull.

Gearing, Henry, Lindfield, bookseller, stationer, &c.; solicitor, C. Lamb, Brighton.

Gimson, William, trading under firm of William Gimson & Co., Old-street, card board manufacturer and wholesale stationer; solicitors, Rooks, Kenrick and Cook, Eastcheap.

Hough, Alfred James, Bournemouth, late Christchurch, bookseller, printer, stationer, and newspaper proprietor; solicitor, R. D. Sharp, Christchurch.

Jenkins, George Washington, Torrington-place, Finchley, fancy stationer, &c.; solicitor, R. J. D. Dobie, Basing

hall-street.

Kirsch, George Berkley, Edward-square, Caledonian-road, late Kenton-street, Brunswick-square, bookbinder; solicitor, E. F. Marshall, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Lipscombe, Henry, Lowesmoor, Worcester, stationer, &c.; solicitor, J. Tree, Worcester.

Lockwood, William Frederick, Wansbeck Cottage, Morpeth, music dealer, &c.; solicitors, Hoyle, Shipley and Hoyle, Newcastle.

Mussabini, Neveles Gaspard, Morden-grove, Lewishamroad, journalist; solicitor, W. E. Goatley, Bow-street. Neal, Thomas, Grove-road, Victoria-park, late printer, &c., Clifton-street; solicitor, T. Heydon, King's-road. Palliser, William, Lintz-ford, Winlaton, paper maker; solicitor, S. Robson, Gateshead.

Pettigrew, Thomas, St. Andrew-street, Dublin, printer and bookbinder; agent, T. M'Govern, Dame-street, Dublin. Phillips, William Henry, Cardiff, late in co-partnership with Samuel John Davies, under firm of Phillips and Davies, law stationers, &c.; solicitor, R. W. Griffith, Cardiff.

Watts, James Hinkley, Goode-street, Tottenham Courtroad, bookseller and dealer in engravings; solicitor, J. B. Pittman, Guildhall Chambers.

Whitlock, Frederick, Moseley-road, and Paradise-street, Birmingham, photographer; solicitor, A. B. East, Birmingham.

Assignments, Compositions, Trust Deeds, &c. :

Buxton, George William, Salford, engraver; trustee, James Gaskin, commission agent, Everton-road, Manchester. Clarke, Charles Henry, Paternoster-row, publisher; composition of 4s. by two equal instalments in three and six months, secured.

Clarke, Robert, Preston, printer and newsagent; comp. of 2s. by four equal instalments on 31st July, 31st October, 31st January, and 30th April.

Dane, John Spencer, Dew-street, Haverford West, music seller; comp. of 2s. 6d. in one month.

Davis, Jacob, Ann-street, Spitalfields, picture dealer, &c.; comp. of 1s. 3d.

Jackson, Henry Pilkington, Low Harrogate, printer; trustee, James Abraham, surgeon, Low Harrogate.

Juch, Ernest, London Wall, editor of the "Hermann" newspaper; comp. of 5s. in six months, by two equi instalments on 1st Nov., 1867, and 1st Feb., 1888. Latham, William James, trading under fra of W. 1. Latham & Co,. Cross-street, Hatton-garden, lithographer and engraver; comp. of 6s. 6d. by two equal instalments, in three and six months; trustee, Thomas Bowel, jaar. accountant, Basinghall-street.

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Latimer, Robert, Brampton, bookseller, printer and dationer; trustees, Thomas Routledge, currier, and Gears Hewitt, tailor and draper, both Brampton. McGhie, Thomas Sumner, Liverpool, printer and stationer: comp. of 38. on 31st August.

Marles, Jason, North-street, Exeter, printer; comp d 10s. by four equal instalments, in three, six, nine, an twelve months, secured.

Mottram, John, Cloak-lane, printer, lithographer and engraver; trustees, Daniel Forshaw, gent., New Cro road, and Lucy Cockerton, Florence-terrace, New Cross Oliphant, Henry William, Fern Villa, Banstead, journalist; comp. of 1s. in twelve months.

Rees, William North, and William Henry Collin, Grace church-street, printers and publishers; trustees, Richard William Starkey, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, James Spicer, Upper Thames-street, wholesale stationer, and Theodore Richard Schweitzer, gent., Throgmortonstreet; solicitor, P. S. Brisley, Lawrence Pountney-lane. Rees, William North, Gracechurch-street, and Hanwell, publisher and printer; comp. of 18. in twelve months; trustee, William Holmes Postans, wine merchant, Rood

lane.

Riley, John, Leicester, stationer, &c.; comp. of 12s. 6d. by three instalments of 5s., 5s. and 2s. 6d. on 4th Nov., 1867, 4th Feb., and 4th May, 1868; trustee, George Simons, paper maker, Nottingham.

Ryland, George Crowther, and Frank Hanbury Ryland, under firm of Frank H. Ryland, Birmingham, publishers of the "Monthly Commercial Calendar;" comp, of 2s. 6d. 1s. 3d. in two and 1s. 3d. in four months; trustee, Joseph Blower, accountant, New Canal-street, Birmingham. Ryland, George and Thomas Lyttleton Holt, Birming ham, newspaper proprietors; comp. of 23. 6d. in six

months.

Stokes, Edward Conrad, Bridgewater, bookseller, stationer and newspaper proprietor; comp. of 5s. by two equal instalments, in one and two months from rerietration; trustee, Frederick Burt McDonald, Sanitary Inspector, Bridgewater.

Straker, Edwin William, Upper Thames-street, printer; comp. of 5s. in seven days after registration. Strickland, George, Arthur-terrace, Caledonian-road, lithographer and engraver; comp. of is. in twelve

months.

Wansbrough, Henry, Redland Hill House, Redland, Bristol, late trading under firm of Wansbrough and Lucas, Redcliffe-street, wholesale stationer, printer and factor; trustee, John William Lucas, paper merchant, and Edward Jones, baker, Berkeley-place, both Bristal

The partnership subsisting hetween Messrs. King and Loder, wholesale stationers, Little Knightrider-street, having expired by effluxion of time, Mr. Loder has retired, and Mr. Whitaker has taken his place. The firm will trade as King and Whitaker.

PATERNOSTER Row.-Like many other parts of London, the Row is undergoing a process of restoration that will leave little of the original behind. The work has been very gradual, and on two occasions was accelerated by accident. The first improvement was the rebuilding of Messrs. Bagster's and the Aldine Chambers, after a fire; the style followed on that occasion being that of the ordinary brick wall with square holes for windows. A slight improvement was made by the Sunday School Union in rebuilding the premises now occupied by Messrs. Trübner; but Mr. Compo, the architect employed by the Religious Tract Society, went far ahead with their new house. Mr. Kent having succeeded to the old-established business of Messrs. Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, rebuilt their house at the corner of Ivy-lane; no unnecessary expense was incurred in ornamentation, but the house is conveniently arranged for business. Fire very providentially effected the removal of a tallow. melting establishment which had long poisoned the Row, and at the same time so damaged Messrs. Longman's houses, that it was necessary to rebuild them and several others; and the present handsome, well-designed block of buildings arose in their stead-Messrs. Blackwood's house forming part of the pile. The next improvement was that of Messrs. Hamilton's, whose business had long been much cramped for want of space; the house adjoining has also been re-erected on the same plan. We should have mentioned that Messrs. Simpkin & Co. had pulled down and re-erected their place of business in Stationers' Hall-court. Messrs. Nelson, of Edinburgh, having purchased the lease of the block at the corner opposite Messrs. Longman's, are about erecting a house which it is said will be the handsomest in the neighbourhood; it will bave two fronts, one to Warwick-lane, and the other to the Row, the principal entrance being at the corner. Lastly, the old house in Lovell'scourt, used as a printing-office by Mr. Pardon, has been pulled down-also two houses in PaterDoster-row-and are now being rebuilt to form a Convenient printing-office, with two shops facing

the Row.

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COMPENSATION CASES.-The premises occupied by Messrs. Kelly & Co., publishers of the Post-Office Directories, being required for the new Courts of Justice, a claim for more than £20,000 was made for the business, premises, and loss by removal; but after some negotiations, the sum of £12,500 was agreed upon.— Mr. Wm. Stevens claimed £19,729, but it was arranged that he should receive £10,000, have the place rent free till Lady-day, 1868, and repurchase his machinery and plant for the nomi

nal sum of £200.

BRADFORD.-As a mode of promoting social intercourse among the members of the Booksellers', Stationers, and News-agents' Associa tion, the committee arranged an excursion on the 6th inst. to Bolton Woods. The company comprised representatives of the principal bookselling and news-agency houses, including the president of the society, Mr. J. Lund. The excursionists went by train to Ilkley, and thence by waggonettes via Bolton Bridge to the Strid. From the Strid they proceeded to Barden Tower, and then down the opposite bank of the river to the Valley of Desolation, visited the Abbey, and returned to the Red Lion about five o'clock. Here, after tea, sentiments appropriate to the occasion, and relating to the nature, objects, and working of the society, were spoken to by different members.

MANCHESTER.--On Monday, the 19th, a dinner was given at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, to the booksellers of that city, by Mr. George Routledge and Mr. Gent (of Manchester), partly to celebrate the great success of the forthcoming new edition of Baines' "History of Lancashire, (in which Messrs. Routledge and Sons, and Mr. Gent, are jointly interested,) and for the further object of getting the booksellers in the important city of Manchester to know and understand each other better. In every way the meeting was of a most satisfactory character, and there was a general feeling that the trade should hold occasional meetings, and by understanding each other better and co-operating, it was thought that something might be done towards checking the evil of underselling. It was stated during the evening that the large number of 381 copies of the new edition of Baines and 289 of the large paper (five guinea) copies had been subscribed for by the Manchester trade alone, making a total of 670 copies subscribed for in Manchester before the book is ready. Mr. Harland, the editor of the book, was present.

EDINBURGH.-Mr. Menzies informs us that on the 1st of July he "assumed into partnership Mr. Wm. Turner, Mr. D. Macnab, Mr. G. S. Mackenzie, and Mr. Thomas Innes, each of whom had for several years been at the head of a different department of his business; that the firm will be John Menzies & Company; and that the business transactions will continue to be carried on in all respects as heretofore."

LIVERPOOL.-Mr. William Ridings has become partner in the house of Messrs. Webb & Hunt; the business will in future be carried on under the firm of Webb, Hunt, & Ridings.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.-Mr.W. B. Stephens has recommenced business as a bookseller and stationer at No. 11, Collins-street West.

UNDERSELLING.-The following sensible circular has been forwarded to their customers by Messrs. Pearse and Brown, of Swansea :

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"Pearse and Brown respectfully beg to inform their Customers that they have resolved, after mature sideration, to discontinue the allowance of Twopence in the Shilling on the published price of Books.

"P.&B.'s reason for taking this step is, that they are persuaded it is a system which cannot be carried out with fairness to the Trade or to the Publishing Houses; the small remnant of profit which is left after the deduction is made being insufficient to meet ordinary trade expenses."

"RATTENING."-Mr. Bosworth's letter in our last has evoked a very mixed response. Some say, "Serve him right; and why don't other publishers do the same?" Others think it "a shame that one man should be stopped, while others are allowed to undersell as much as they please."

Mr. Holmes informs us that he has recently sold Mr. Parson's business at Southgate, to Mr. Bramwell, of Spa-road, Bermondsey. The business, for many years in the hands of Mr. Winkley, junior, Harrow-on-the-Hill, has also been disposed of to Mr. Overhead. Mr. Dunn, of Reading, has purchased the bookselling and stationery business belonging to Mr. Welch of that town.

Messrs. Miller & Richard, type founders, have removed their London establishment to No. 110, Hatton-garden.

Mr. Pearson has removed from 68, St. Martin'slane, to No. 6, Museum-street, Bloomsbury.

PHILADELPHIA.-In the BOOKSELLER for June we gave an account of the opening of the new and magnificent Ledger building. The persons engaged in the establishment have lately presented the following testimonial to their talented employer:

TO OUR HONOURED AND ESTEEMED EMPLOYER, GEORGE W. CHILDS, Esq. Sir:-The three hundred and nine employés of the PUBLIC LEDGER ESTABLISHMENT

Desire to convey to you some slight expression of THEIR HEARTFELT THANKS

For your great kindness and consideration for all of them, continued without intermission since you have been

PROPRIETOR OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER;

For your innumerable acts of generosity and courtesy, of which all of them have been the frequent and gratified recipient.

For your goodness of heart, your benevolence, your enterprise, and your cardinal virtues, which not only honour you, but reflect honour upon those who labour for you.

For the uniform justice with which you have ruled the Public Ledger Office-a justice always tempered with mercy-a mercy always anxious to pardon.

And, above all, honoured sir, your employés desire to thank you

For having built a palace for them to work in, a printing-house which is unparalleled in the world, a printing-office which in all its departments is the most healthy, comfortable, and spacious on the Americau Continent.

For all this, and more than this, that you have done for them, your employés desire, though it be in insufficient words, to convey to you

THEIR MOST SINCERE THANKS,

And on their behalf, we subscribe ourselves your GRATEFUL FRIENDS AND EMPLOYÉS. Here follow the signatures of the different Heads of

Departments.

Messrs. Macmillan and Co. announce that they have in preparation a series of books under the generic title of A Sunday Library for Household Reading. At first sight it would not appear that there is any lack of books for this purpose; but every father of a family has felt that however large his library, there was still a difficulty in finding suitable books to put into the hands of his children on the Sunday afternoon or evening. This is just the class of books which Messrs. Macmillan offer to supply-books that will afford profitable subjects of conversation; instructive yet not tiresome, and suggestive yet reverent. The subjects announced are "The Pupils of St. John," by Miss Yonge; "Seekers after God," the "seekers" being the heathen philosophers Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius; "The Hermits," by the Rev. Charles Kingsley; "Alfred the Great," by Thomas Hughes; "St. Louis, St. Francis de Sales, Calvin, and others," by M. Guizot; and the Reformers, "Huss, Wycliffe, and Latimer," by the Rev. Professor Maurice. The other contributors are George Macdonald, the Rev. B. F. Westcott, Mr. L. B. Seeley, Bishop Alexander, Miss Wedgwood, and Miss Winkworth ;-the last-named will contribute a volume upon a subject peculiarly her own, "The Sacred Poets of Germany." The work is to appear in monthly parts and quarterly volumes.

A Hymnal, based upon Sir Roundell Palmer's "Book of Praise," will shortly be issued by Messrs. Macmillan. It will contain the very cream of that book, and will probably be very largely adopted for Congregational use. It con. tains 320 hymns. One edition will be published at sixpence, in cloth, another, in larger type, at a shilling, and a third, with musical notes to every hymn, selected by Mr. John Hullah.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. -The only books of which we have received notice as being in preparation for the forthcoming season, are the following. first A Drawing Room edition of Burus to be published by Mr. Nimmo, of Edinburgu, who says:-"The volume will contain upwards of sixty entirely original illustrations, drawn erpressly for it by R. Herdman, R.S.A.; Gourlay Steell, R.S. A.; D. O. Hill, R.S.A.; Sam. Bong, A. R.S.A.; Clark Stanton, A. R. S. A.; J. B. Madonald, A.R.S.A.; W. M'Taggart, A.R.S.A.; John M'Whirter; George Hay; W. F. Vallance; J. Cassie; E. J. Douglas; John Lawson; J. (). Brown; Chas. A. Doyle; Mrs. D. O. Hill. The names of the artists who have kindly promised their assistance-comprising several of the most distinguished members of the Royal Scottish Academy--are a sufficient guarantee that they will be executed in the highest style of art. The Publisher has every contidence that he will be able to produce a book worthy of the memory of Burns; and, at the same time, such a collection of examples of Scottish art as has never been surpassed. The engraving of the illustrations will be under the direction of Mr. R. Paterson; and the volume will be printed by Mr. R. Clark of Edinburgh."

Another volume of Tennyson's poetry, "Vivien and Guineveve," illustrated by Doré, uniform with the "Elaine," issued last year by the same publishers-Messrs. Moxon and Co.

Messrs. Bell and Daldy will publish three volumes "The Masterpieces of Italian Art," "The Masterpieces of Wilkie," and "The Ancestral Homes of England."

"The North Coast," a volume of original poems by Robert Buchanan, will be published by Messrs. Routledge and Sons.

Messrs. Low, Son, and Marston will issue a new edition of Mrs. Austin's translation of the "Story without an End," with fifteen illustrations by E. V. B., printed in colours.

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Mr. Basil M. Pickering, a true sou of his father, announces a collected edition of the poetical works of the Right Hon. John Hook ham Frere, an author almost forgotten, but who in his day created a sensation. Just fifty years ago, in 1817, there appeared a small volume, bearing the title of "Prospectus and Specimens of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stowmarket, in Suffolk, Harness and Collar-Makers, intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table." This exhibited a considerable amount of talent, and inspired the Don Juan and Beppo of Lord Byron. Two lines have become proverbial"Adown thy slope, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby Dilly, carrying six insides." Mr. Frere's other poetical works were, we be lieve, printed abroad, and never published in this country.

The correspondence between Maximilian and Napoleon III. is said to be in this country, where it will shortly be published. A pamphlet on the subject of the unhappy Archduke judicial murder has been seized and suppressed in Paris and Florence, by the several goveraments of France and Italy.

Dr. Littledale, in a letter to the Guardian, says that the criminal statistics of Sweden are the highest in Europe; Saxony, the home of Luther, comes next; and that the moral condi tion of Norway is a byword. Another corre spondent says that, from 1830 to 1834, one person in every forty-nine in towns in Sweden was punished for some crime or other.

The Broadway has taken the town by storm. Fifty thousand copies of the first number were sold on the day of publication. It was a bold experiment to give a shilling magazine for six1 pence, but the sale of ninety thousand has shown the good judgment of the publishers. The contents are varied and attractive; the author of "Guy Livingstone" contributes the tirst five chapters of 'Brakespeare, or the Fortunes of a Free Lance;" Robert Buchanan, Clement W. Scott, and H. S. Clarke, short poems; John Hollingshead, a paper in a very questionable taste, Dramatic Critics Criticised;" Ernest Griset gives eight grotesque experiences in the Life of a Wonderful Crab; Mr. J. C. M. Bellew contributes some pleasant recollections of Holland House; the author of "The Gentle Life" writes about "Falling in Love," Mr. Edmund Yates gossips about "In the Season;" the Rev. C. W. Dennison supplies an American paper; and Mr. F. C. Burnand gives two chapters of " Second Thoughts."

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St. Paul's, and not the Metropolitan, is to be the title of Messrs. Virtue's new magazine. The first number will contain the commencement of a new tale, by Mr. Anthony Trollope, to illustrate which Mr. Millais' pencil has been retained

Tinsley's Magazine, like the Broadway, will in future be published on the 16th of each month. Aunt Anastasia, in her chapter on "Pretty Prayer-Books," tells us of a curiosity, viz., that her first had Dr. Watts's hymns bound up at the end! The chapter on Paris Fashions is amusing; it seems that Count Bismark's name has been applied to the shade of brown, which is now fashionable for chignons, and the writer goes on to say, "Whether or not we shall have Bismark in the form of a scent as well, I am unable to say. Possibly, as he is only a Count, such a result is not to be looked for. It is chiefly between reigning princes and princesses and perfumers that an intimacy exists. Now-a-days a princess cannot marry without some perfumer immediately announcing that he has made use of her to compose a perfume. Thus, when the Czarowich was married, a Parisian perfumer announced the Essence of Princess Dagmar.' Formerly Sovereigns cured the king's evil; now they content themselves with scenting our linen. People have some very erroneous impressions about perfumers; they imagine that they are always occupied in choosing from among the various plants those most likely to furnish an agreeable perfume; but it seems that they pass their time in turning over the leaves of the "Almanach de Gotha," and when the name of a princess strikes them, they ask what will be the best thing to make of her — an essence or a cream. This question satisfactorily settled, they take their princess, distil her, place her upon their shelves, and dispense her at the rate of three francs a bottle."

The first volume of "Cassell's Magazine," now completed, will make an elegant table-book, full of pictures, with plenty of light reading for those who have but a few minutes to spare, and a complete three volume novel for those who wish to take it up again and again.

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Mr. William Carew Hazlitt wishes to organize printing club, with the title of the Roxburghe Library," under the control of a single head-of course his own, the authors to be selected by himself, but paid for by the subscribers; the annual subscription entitling subscribers to two volumes.

OLD BALLADS.-Mr. Lilly has just published a volume of ballads which will at once commend itself to all lovers of our olden literature. About the antiquity and authenticity of the seventynine ballads and broadsides here printed there can be no question-they were in the possession of Mr. George Daniel of Canonbury, and after his death, sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson for, we believe, £700; and the whole of them have been reprinted, without alteration or correction, in this handsome volume. In an interesting introductory chapter, we are furnished with a very lucid account of ballads generally, and of the place they supplied in the literature of their period That they were a political power, and like the press in all ages, hated by the rulers, is clear, from a proclamation being. issued as early as 1533 for the suppression of "fond books, ballads, and rhymes." In 1537 we have an account of one John Hogon having been taken up for singing a political ballad in public, and a few years later the legislature passed an Act against "Printed Ballads, Plays, Rhymes, Songs, and other fantacies." At this time few of the common people could read, but all could listen; and, consequently, the balladmonger's trade was a thriving one. The ballads thus sold and sung, were spe edily destroyed, hence their rarity. Nor are the older ballads those which alone become rare. Where are now the countless ballads which were commonly sung about the time of the first Reform Bill-those in which the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Queen Adelaide were held up to ridicule? It would be hard to collect one half of them; but no one can doubt their influence upon the masses. The ballads here reprinted are exceedingly varied in their nature; some relate to wonderful events, such as "The true report of the forme and shape of a monstrous childe borne at Muche Horkesleye, Co. Essex, 1562," and other monstrosities, which appear to have been of more than common interest to the ladies in those days. Others are of the true ballad kind, "Patient Grissell," and The Marchant's Daughter of Bristow." Others are on Scriptural subjects, and many are against Popery. We need not describe the volume at any greater length, for those who are curious to know its contents will do well to see it for themselves; or at any rate, to send Mr. Lilly two postage stamps and request him to forward a nicely drawn-up synopsis of the work.

Mr. Maidment is editing a collection of old Scottish ballads, which will be published by Mr. W. Paterson, of Edinburgh. He is said to have discovered, that at about the date when the ballad of Sir Patrick Spens was written, there was a family of that name resident on the Fifeshire coast, and that he has obtained a clue to the identity of Sir Patrick.

The new volume of Macmillan's elegant Golden Treasury series is in French, La Lyre Francaise, a collection of the best chantes and chansons, by M. Gustave Masson, of Harrow, who has prefixed a short memoir on popular songs in France, and in addition to the alphabetical index has appended some useful notes and a chronological table. If we mistake not, the volume will become a standard prize book in all the better class of schools, and a general favourite at the same

time.

Mr. James Anthony Froude has returned from Spain, where he has been for some months, gathering materials from the records of the government and the Inquisition, for the remaining volumes of his history.

The Book Society in Paternoster-row has issued a "Sunday-Scholars edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs at the low price of 2d. The preface by the Bishop of Carlisle contains some of the most disgusting expressions we ever saw in print. It is marvellous that a Christian bishop can write such filthy words, or that a Society can be found which takes a pride in circulating a book containing them.

Those who like to see genuine humour, albeit in a homely dress, will do well to lay out sixpence on a copy of "The Visit to the Greight Parris Eggsibishun of Bobby Shuttle un his wife Sayroh," just published by Messrs. Abel Heywood & Son, of Manchester.

Mr. Samuel Ferguson, Q.C., author of "Forging the Anchor," and some smaller poems, published in magazines, has been appointed head of the New Record Office, in Dublin, at a salary of £800 a year.

The London Review regrets to hear that Mr. Dickens' health is such that he has been recommended by his medical attendant to abstain from work, and without loss of time to take a voyage to America.

Mr. Edmund Yates, the well-known Flâneur of the Morning Star, has retired from the office of gossiper in chief of that paper, an office which he filled very much to the satisfaction of the lovers of scandal and dealers in small talk.

Mr. Henry Bohn finds it difficult to retire altogether from the book trade, and although he has given up his old premises in York-street to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, he has opened another place of business (close by) in Henrietta-street.

The Viceroy of Egypt has presented the French Society of Men of Letters with the sum of £1000, with which to found a free admission to the College Chaptal.

The Negro population of the United States have eight newspapers edited and got up entirely by coloured people. These newspapers are severally published in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Cincinnati.

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The question of dramatic copyright in America has been raised in rather an interesting way in an action brought by Mr. Lester Wallack, the manager of Wallack's Theatre, New York against Mr. W. J. Florence. Mr. Wallack chased from Mr. T. W. Robertson the copyright of his successful play, produced last April in London, called "Caste." Before it could be produced in New York, however, Mr. Florence of the Broadway Theatre, being in London, saw the piece night after night, committed it to memory, with all the action, &c. (it has never been printed, and, returning to America, produced it at the Broadway. Mr. Wallack appears to have c tended that such a feat of memory is impossible: but it does not seem that Mr. Florence could have got at the dialogue of the play in any other manner, and similar prodigies are not unknown. The important question, however, was whether in any case there had been an invasion of copy right. Judge Barnard decided in favour of Mr. Florence no doubt inevitably so, considering the present state of copyright between the two countries. The London Review agrees with the New York Tribune in thinking that, in the absence of a binding law, considerations of honour should have prevented Mr. Florence from a course of conduct which is far from reflecting credit on him.

SOMETHING LIKE A BOOK.-Early in the 17th century, Cionacci, a Florentine nobleman, projected an edition of Dante in a hundred volumes, wherein he purposed, by appropriating a volume to each canto, to comprise in chronological order, every comment then existing, together with a Latin translation of the Strozzi Library!

A Royal Sign Manual warrant of Charles the Second, issued in the first year of his reign, is printed in the Builder, which states that it is

new to our dramatic history, and was found in an old office book belonging to the office of the Lord Chamberlain. Neither Malone nor Payne Collier noticed it. In the sign manual eleven plays are assigned to Sir William Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Theatre; one by Webster, The Duchess of Malfi;' one by Sir John Denham, The Sophy; and nine by Shakespeare. We have here, then, fresh and startling evidence of the pre-eminent popu larity of Shakespeare over other dramatists in the reign of Charles the Second."

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A popular SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY is announced by Messrs. Longman, to be published in Monthly Shilling parts, under the able management of Mr. J. G. Wood, editor of Messrs. Routledge's Natural History, and author of that agreeable work, Hands." The title of the work will be, Bible Animals, being an Account of the various Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and other Animals mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. It will give the popular natural history of every creature named in the Bible, from the Ape to the Sponge, with especial reference to the bearing of these particulars upon the numerous Scripture texts in which living creatures are mentioned. Like "Homes without Hands," "Bible Animals" will be copiously illustrated with original designs, engraved on wood by Mr. G. Pearson, from drawings by Messrs. F. Keyl, T. W. Wood, and E. Smith. These illustrations will be taken in every

practical case from living specimens; and the graphic accessories of each subject (foliage, landscape, architecture, &c.) no less than the action of the central figure, will have reference to some passage or passages of Scripture.