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With -which is incorporated the American  Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
                      [established 1852]
         Publication Office, 31 and 32 Park Row, Neav York.
              Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as aecond-claas matter.
Vol. XXV., No. 14.     NEW YORK, April 5, 1884.
Whole No. 636.
jFretrertdt Eegpoltrt
        Born
   NOVEMBER 17, 1835
        Died
    MARCH 31, 1884 
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The Publishers'  Weekly.        [No. 636] April 5, '84.
  The undersigned  resumes control  of The |
Publishers'  Weekly, on the termination, by
the d eath of  Frederick  Leypoldt, of the lease
announced in the issue  of June 30, 1880, which
lease resulted from the agreement entered into
between  Frederick Leypoldt and  the  under-
signed as announced in  the  issue of  Jan.  25,
1879 ; and he gives notice that, pending further
notice of future arrangements, the  issue of  the
Publishers' Weekly will be regularly  provided
for by him.  The regular  issue  of the  other
periodicals issued  from the office  of  the late
Frederick Leypoldt  will also continue, under
arrangements yet to be completed,  in the inter-
est of his estate and  of  his family.  Mrs. Ley-
poldt, who for some  time past has co-operated
with Mr. Leypoldt in relation to  the  business,
has been duly appointed administratrix of the
estate, and  the  undersigned co-operates  with
her in providing for  the interest of those con-
cerned.
                           R. R. Bowker.
  It has been deemed fitting  to exclude from
this  issue of The  Publishers' Weekly,  the
first  since the death of its founder and  editor,
all material  other than that  pertinent to a Me-
morialNumber. Theportrait  has been engraved
since his death by Messrs. H. B. Hall & Sons,
who  were old friends of Mr. Leypoldt, and the
memorial sketch  has  been  prepared with  the
help—and some portions are from the pens—of
many old associates, among them Miss M.  M.
Monachesi,  Dr. T. E. Osmun,  Mr. Henry Holt,
Mr. Jos. F. Vogelius, Mr. A. Growoll, Mr. G. D.
T. Rouse, and Mr. W. A. Stewart.   The portrait
was  taken about eight years ago.   It has been
thought  seemly to  include in the issue a brief
memorial also of Mr. Trubner, who died almost
simultaneously with  his  fellow-worker, with
whom his relations were close and continuous
and  to whom he  had  given early  and helpful
encouragement.   The number has been neces-
sarily delayed because of the portrait and the
sketch. 
 
 
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FOUNDED BY F. LEYPOLDT.
APRIL 5, 1884.
  Frederick Leypoldt was born in the city of
Stuttgart, Wlirtemberg, one of  the centres of the
German  book-trade, on the 17th of November,
1835. It would seem that there was French or
Southern blood in his ancestry, for in after-life he
showed,  in addition to great industry and other
of the best German qualities,  something of  the
French temperament and courtliness of  manner.
He  Avas indeed of a warm, poetic nature,  and
early developed  literary  and  dramatic tastes.
When yet a boy, it is told of him, he wrote a
a play, packed his trunk and visited several cities
of Germany, offering his  play to theatrical man-
agers.  Discouraged  by  his lack  of success in
this direction, he made his first venture in book-
selling,  buying a  few books which he sold by the
wayside to people going past to a fair.  His par-
ents did not look kindly upon  such  a future for
the lad  as these  performances  indicated, and so
strong was his bent  that at last he made up his
mind, with  a pluck he never ceased to  show, to
come to  America, then a  land of promise to all
aspiring souls, and not least to the men with the
passion  of  "Young  Germany"  unsatisfied in
their veins.   This he  did in 1S54.  He  brought
one or  two letters of  introduction, but  his  own
appearance and evident character as a lad served
him quite as well.  Determined to find his  own
place, he ventured into the foreign book-store of
Mr. F. W. Christern, then at 763 Broadway, and
asked if he  did  not want  help.  Mr. Christern
promptly engaged the  lad,  and  a close  and
tender  and  beautiful  friendship,  Avhich termi-
nated only with death, was the result.
   Mr. Leypoldt, like  most young Germans of
that day, hoped to go home again and do his work
in the Fatherland, after he had earned in America
his fair  start.  But  he proved to be too good
an American to desert America.   He went back
once, in  iS57,and then came to this country to
stay, and for  this country as well  as for his  own
he had always the feeling of a man who wants to
see  things right, and who was willing to do his
part to  right anything that was wrong.
   In 1859  Mr- Leypoldt, desiring  to make his
way in  the world, decided, under  the advice of
Mr. Christern, to commence  business  for him-
self  in Philadelphia, where Mr. Christern him-
self  had started business  in  America.   He
started accordingly in  the fall of that year.
   His cosey store, on the  corner of Chestnut and
Juniper Sts., with its well-selected stock  of books
in all languages, soon  became  noted. M  The
building, No. 1323, still stands, and is  the only
one of the block not absorbed by the business of
John Wanamaker.  In connection with his store,
he  shortly afterward opened a reading-room,
where the leading foreign periodicals and maga-
zines  were kept  on file.    He soon counted
among  his customers  the  names of  Bayard
Taylor, Geo. H. Boker, Chas. G. Leland, Prof.
Chas. C.  Short,  Prof.  Hiram  Corson,  Fanny
Fuller, Edwin Forrest, Lucile Western, Rev. Dr.
Furness, Dr. C. P. Krauth, John Grigg, H. C.
Lea, and  a host of others.   His place was also
the rendezvous of the musical and dramatic  pro-
fession, who frequently sought Mr.  Leypoldt's
advice  as to their rendering of  certain parts,
Mr. Leypoldt being a great  lover of  music and
the drama.  At  this time,  also,  his  intimate
friends  were  permitted to see the  evidences  of
the vein of  poetry in his nature.   He made a
spirited translation  of  Boker's " Black Regi-
ment"  into  German, and  wrote not  a little
original verse in his native tongue.
  His  prospects  of success  during  his  earlier
years in  Philadelphia  were of the  brightest.
His  business expanded  rapidly and  he made
many warm friends and  good customers.  But
just  as everything was in working  order, the
Civil War broke out, duties on books and periodi-
cals  advanced from 7% to 2$%,  and the gold  in
which foreign books had to be paid for rose rapid-
ly in nominal  value from  103^ to 285$.  This
put a stop to the importation of foreign books and
periodicals.  Libraries  and  large  book-buyers
held back their orders, waiting for  better times.
Mr.  Leypoldt, to meet the  emergency, at once
added  an  English  department  to  his business.
All the  favorite English and American  authors
were kept in  stock as well as the new books of
the day.  He  became at this  time  (1862)  the
special  agenufor America of  the Tauchnitz col-
lection  of  British authors,  and later  on deter-
mined upon  publishing.   His first undertaking
was Andersen's '' Ice Maiden, and Other Tales,"
translated  by Miss Fanny Fuller, which  passed
through two  editions within a short time.  This
was published in 1863.  His next ventures were
Leland's translation of Heine's "Book of Songs,"
and Brooks's translation of Kortum's " Jobsiad,''
which had at that time but a moderate sale.   He
also first introduced Dore to the American pub
lie, publishing in portfolio a Dante Album. Then
came Lady Wallace's translation of "Mendels-
sohn' s  Letters," which proved a great success.
The "Life of  Chopin" and Polko's  "Musical
Sketches"  followed  soon after, and were well
received.   All his publications were gotten up in
dainty fashion that attracted universal  attention,
not only in this country but abroad.  The now
familiar device  of the owl and open book appear-
ed on his title-page. Mr. Nicholas Trubner, now 
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his companion  in  death, wrote  from  London
complimenting and encouraging him  in his un-
dertakings,  not only by  words,  but  by liberal
orders.   This letter had a great  influence upon
him ; in fact it encouraged  him  to keep on in
the  same  line  he had originally marked out.
Another incident may be mentioned ;  when the
late Mr.  Jas.  T. Fields, of  the then  celebrated
firm of Ticknor & Fields, of Boston, was on a
visit  in  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Fields  entered  the
store and inquired for Mr. Leypoldt.   Upon Mr.
Leypoldt  introducing   himself, Mr.  Fields re-
marked,  " I specially hunted you up  to  make
your  acquaintance, for I was curious  to see the
man who ventured  to  publish  books that older
and richer houses would  be  afraid  of.  I must
say, however, that I am disappointed ;  I expected
to see a man at least six or seven feet high."
  Mr Leypoldt next turned his  attention to  the
publishing  of books for the study of  modern
languages.   Foreign editions could no longer be
imported on  account of their  high cost.  Mr.
Leypoldt, in conjunction with F.  W. Christern,
of  New  York, and  S.  R.  Urbino, of  Boston,
conceived the plan of reprinting such  books as
were best adapted to American  students, and all
three  houses worked in perfect harmony, which
resulted in giving to the American  public reprints
of  the best text-books  with notes and commen-
taries by eminent American scholars, in neat and
substantial bindings, at a lower cost  than the
original editions, which, as a rule,  are either pub-
lished in paper covers or inferior board bindings.
His next move was to establish a select French
and English circulating library, which was highly
appreciated by the Philadelphia  public.
  In 1864 he established a branch house at 644
and 646 Broadway, N. Y., and shortly  afterward
determined to relinquish the retail foreign branch
of his Philadelphia business, in  order  to devote
his  entire attention to  the publishing  business
and the  agencies of Firmin  Didot  of Paris,
Tauchnitz of Leipzig, and Triibner  of London.
At  this time he had 6000 volumes in  his cir-
culating library, and his selection of French liter-
ature  was so good that when he gave up this por-
tion of his  Philadelphia  business also, it was
bought en bloc by the Mercantile Library of that
city.
  About Nov. 1, 1865, a very usual circumstance
occurred.with very unusual results. A young man
appeared with a translation which he  wanted to
have  published.  The young man  was  Henry
Holt.   After the firm of Leypoldt & Holt came
into being, there appeared in May, 1867, a trans-
lation of About's " Man with the  Broken Ear,"
with the following dedication :
Dear Leypoldt :
  You have  not forgotten  that nearly two  years
ago, before our business connection was thought
 of, the risk of publishing this identical  transla-
 tion was " respectfully declined" by you with that
 same courtesy whose exercise in frequent similar
 cases each one of us now tries so hard to shove
 on the other's shoulders.   I hope that your sur-
 prise on reading this note of dedication will not
 interfere with your forgiving the pertinacity with
 which, through it, I still strive to make the book
 yours.                                H. H.
   451 Broome Street, May 16,  1867.
   While  Mr. Leypoldt was  at  646  Broadway
 which was  at  the  corner of  Bleecker St., Mr.
 Holt, in  1865, became associated with him, and
 in January of 1866, the  firm of Leypoldt & Holt
 was formed.  In the early fall they removed to
 more spacious quarters  at 451  Broome St. at the
 corner of Mercer St.  The first book  that bore
 the imprint  of Leypoldt  & Holt was Leland's
 translation  of  Eichendorff's  " Memoirs  of  a
 Good-for-Nothing."  Both partners determined
 to do their utmost to  furnish American read-
 ers with  readable  translations  of  the  master-
 pieces of the standard authors of  Continental
 Europe.   At the same time they did not  neglect
 their educational books.
   Mr. Leypoldt, using the anagram of L. Pylo-
 det on many of his title-pages,  compiled " Be-
ginning French," "Beginner's French  Reader,"
 "Second  French   Reader,"  "La  Litterature
 Francaise Contemporaine," and " La Litterature
 Francaise   Classique,"   " La   Mere   L'Oie,"
 " Gouttes de Rosee." and Whitcomb and Otto's
 "German  Conversations," besides making the
elaborate  vocabularies for Otto's French   and
German grammars.
   In 1867 occurred  Mr.  Leypoldt's marriage, on
the 24th of September, to Miss Augusta H.  Gar-
rigue, daughter of  Rudolph  Garrigue,  Esq.,
then of Morrisania.  Of five children, three—
 Rudolph G., Marion A.,  and Frederick—sur-
vive him.
   In 1868, Mr. Leypoldt, who had taken personal
charge of compiling " Leypoldt & Holt's Literary
 Bulletin, a Monthly Record of  Foreign and Am-
erican Books,"  conceived  the idea of publishing
a monthly record of new American books on the
 plan of Brockhaus's " Literary Bulletin," which
is  supplied  to the  retail booksellers with their
imprint, in any quantity, to circulate among their
customers, keeping them posted on what is going
 on in the  publishing world.  In order  to devote
 his entire attention to this  enterprise and other
 bibliographical work, he proposed to sell to  Mr.
 Holt his  interest in the publishing business on
 condition that the  firm-name should remain un-
 changed for a certain period.
   After this division of labor had been arranged,
 Mr. Leypoldt devoted his energies to the devel-
opment of the Literary Bulletin, of which editions
 were sold aggregating a monthly average of over
30,000 copies.  The first Educational Catalogue
prepared by Mr. Leypoldt appeared as the  Lit- 
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 erary Bulletin  of August, 1869,  and the  next
 month the trade edition of the Bulletin was is-
 sued as the Trade Circular,  2000 copies being sent
 gratuitously to  as many booksellers.
   In   1870, still under the firm  imprint, Mr.
 Leypoldt issued "The American  Catalogue  of
 Books  for  1869, containing complete monthly
 lists of all the  books published in the United
 States during  the year 1869, with statement  of
 size, price, place of  publication, and  publisher's
 name, to which are prefixed an alphabetical and a
 classified index."  The second yearly issue of this
 catalogue, published under  the title of the" Trade
 Circular Annual" from 25  Bond Street, to which
 place  the business both of the firm  and of the
 periodicals had removed,  was  the germ of the
 "Publishers' Trade-List Annual." The catalogue
 proper was followed by a valuable selected list
 ■of  English books of 1870, a  bibliography  of
 " Aids for the Trade and Bookbuyers," a direc-
 tory of publishing firms, a  key to American mer-
 chandise  in  the stationery line,  which should
 have developed into a stationers' trade-list an-
 nual, and did reappear for  one year in the " Sta-
 tioners' Hand-Book," issued by Mr. Leypoldt  in
 1876 ;  a  variety of trade miscellany, with several
 portraits ; a key to noms de plume, a necrology of
 authors,  and finally  the catalogues of twenty-six
 publishing houses, bound as an appendix.   The
 third and last of  these annual catalogues was is-
 •sued in 1872, with an introductory paper on " Lit-
 erature in America in 1871."  Mr.  Leypoldt's
 -own preface was a sorrowful confession—alas, so
 many times thereafter repeated—that lack of pub-
 lishers' support prevented the continuance of the
 work.  The three prefaces  are  reprinted in this
 memorial number, as showing the early develop-
 ment of  the ideals and plans  he afterward la-
 bored so hard to accomplish.
   In April, 1871, Mr. Leypoldt's name appears
 as editor  and  publisher of the  Trade Circular,
 and in July it became the " Official Organ of the
 Publishers' Board of Trade."  In September,
 1871, Mr. Leypoldt severed his office from that
 ■of the  old firm, and issued The Trade Circular
 from 712 Broadway.   It had long been  a chief
 .ambition with him to secure his only competitor,
 The  Publishers'  Circular,  started in  1832,  and
 'then issued by  Mr.  G. W.  Childs,  of Philadel-
 phia, to which  he had been  a contributor.  Mr.
 •Childs  was  finally induced to  sell it,  and in
 January,  1872, the monthly having become now
 The  Weekly Trade  Circular,  the  consolidation
 was announced.  With the beginning of  1873
Hhe title became  The Publishers' Weekly, and
 Mr. Leypoldt was finally and fairly started on the
^bibliographical system he has since built up, to
ahe great  credit of American literature.
  Mr. Leypoldt had now in fact  begun to real-
 ize the aim which he had kept in view for many
 years.   So  far  back  as  1862 he  had written
 an article on European  trade periodicals,  in
 which  he  cordially indorsed the suggestions in
 a letter from Mr. Robert Clarke to Mr. Chas. R.
 Rode, of The Publishers' Circular, then publish-
 ed in New York, in favor of a weekly issue of a
 trade  paper.   This letter was reprinted as an
 appendix to the prospectus of the Trade Circular
 when, at the beginning of its fourth year,  1872,
 it became a  weekly subscription  paper.   Mr.
 Leypoldt's aim was twofold—to make a.practical
 paper,  that should help the trade to sell books
 and make money, and " an organ of trade edu-
 cation," that should help to make bookselling a
 profession.  His  first  editorial in  the  Weekly
 Trade Circular announced his purpose of " gath-
 ering  from all available sources  any  material
 that may contribute to a more thorough business
 knowledge," and his hope that the Publishers'
 Board of Trade, the organization of  educational
 publishers, might be extended to a general union
 of publishers,  which  would finally become  a
 general Booksellers' Union.  It is almost un-
 necessary to remind the readers of this  memo-
 rial, how  faithfully, industriously, and persist-
 ingly Mr. Leypoldt kept these purposes in view.
 There were discouragements enough, and  once
 or twice he was  almost disheartened.  Almost
 —for it was not in him  to give up.  Publishers
 were very remiss in furnishing even the mate-
 rial for the weekly record of new books—for
 which they were asked  nothing more  than  the
 mere sending of the  book or title—and in the
 number of  The  Publishers' Weekly  for
 August 9, 1873, in a spasm of despondency and
 with a view to making graphic proof of his com-
 plaint,  Mr.  Leypoldt confined  the  list  of  the
 week to the books and titles sent in to the office.
 The list was three titles long.   Time and hard
 work have  mostly compassed this difficulty;  the
 machinery of collection has been improved little
 by little, with the cordial co-operation of most
 publishers,  until the weekly  record  has pretty
 nearly   reached the  ideal  its  originator  had
 before  him, as the  basis  of  an approximately
 complete  American trade  bibliography.   The
 Wi.ekly last year registered about 3500 books,
 or 70 a week, and by the adoption of a uniform
 system  of  record  and  the prompt  descriptive
 note, in place of the haphazard "notice" of  the
old fashion, this work, it is generally conceded,
has presented  the  best  current trade bibliog-
raphy that any nation can  boast.  This weekly
record, with the monthly reference list, the edu-
cational and other special catalogues, the annual
catalogue now prefaced  to  the  "Trade-List
Annual," remains, with the culmination of all
in the " American Catalogue," a splendid biblio- 
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graphical monument  to  Mr.  Leypoldt.   The
features  of  special and imprint issues, such as
the annual summary, spring and fall announce-
ment numbers,  and the summer, educational,
and Christmas editions, have also been an im-
portant element in the general plan.
  The " Publishers' Trade-List  Annual"  was
started in 1873, in May of which year Mr. Ley-
poldt removed from 712 Broadway to  37  Park
Row.   While himself in the book business, he
had, with his wonted system, arranged  the  lists
of  other  publishers  for  his own  use some-
thing in  this fashion ; but his own publication
was anticipated by the " UniformTrade-List Cir-
cular,"  a monthly issue of price-lists continued
through a part of 1867, and by the " Publishers'
and Stationers'  Trade-List  Directory," issued
from  Philadelphia in  1869, both by Mr. How-
ard Challen.  This scheme,  however,  was not
continued by Mr.Challen, and the idea of reviv-
ing the  plan was put forward by Mr. Leypoldt
in the Publishers'  Weekly of May  3,  1873.
The "Annual" was published in the fall of  that
year,  binding  up  in alphabetical  arrangement
the catalogues of  101  publishers, with adver-
tisements from  114 others, at the nominal  price
of 50 cents.   It  has  since  then  been kept  up
continuously, and the  eleventh  volume,  1883,
with its  useful prefatory catalogues, shows how
careful was  Mr.  Leypoldt to develop every idea
to the best  purpose for the  trade.  The  idea
has since been taken up in England, Italy,  and
Germany.   A  "Stationers'  Hand-Book,"  of
somewhat similar plan, was issued  by  Mr.
Leypoldt in  1876, but was not continued.
  In 1875 the imprint  periodical originally the
Monthly  Bulletin,  continued  as the Monthly
Book-Trade  Circular, was re-issued  as .the Lit-
erary  News, and Mr.  Leypoldt  began  to  give
more  time to  its  development.   In later years
it became a special  pet of  his,  and in 1880 he
started a  new series, including  a  subscription
edition as well  as imprints.  The idea of this
periodical was an eclectic that should be a useful
aid  to readers as well  as a trade help.  In the
past year, he has had in this work the co-opera-
tion of Mrs.  Leypoldt, and with 1884 the supple-
ment of " Books  for the Young" has been di-
rectly under  her management and that  of Miss
C. M. Hewins, of Hartford.
  Meanwhile Mr. Leypoldt was keeping in view
his  chief  work,  "The American  Catalogue."
The plan was discussed in the Weekly in 1872  ;
in 1873 he announced  that  he would definitely
undertake the task, if a certain guarantee could
be secured ;  in  1874 only  half the sum named
had been promised ; but in 1875 Mr. Leypoldt
announced that he  would undertake it any way.
Work was actually begun in 1876, when 300 sub-
 scribers  were secured and 250 publishers sent
 in  their  trade catalogues.   The  hopeful  an-
 nouncement was  made that the work might be
 expected soon after the close  of 1876.  It was
 another  instance  of "hope  deferred."   The
 work was in capable hands, Mr. L.  E. Jones as-
 sisting Mr. Leypoldt in the compilation, and
 finally taking charge of it for him, with  the help
 of a competent  staff ;  but the imperfections of
 publishers' cataloguing  and their delay in an-
 swering  query after query postponed and again
 postponed  the day of completion. The first vol-
 ume was issued finally in four parts, the last.
 in  March,  i88o%  The second appeared com-
 plete in  June, 1881.  The  cost of  compilation
 had meanwhile extended far beyond any possi-
 ble estimate,  every delay adding  so much  to-
 salary account,  and Mr.  Leypoldt  was  much
 embarrassed by the growing burden.  A finan-
 cial arrangement for the needed capital was ne-
 gotiated  through the help  of Mr. A. C.  Arm-
 strong, and the work as issued  bore the  imprint
 of his firm.   Neither Mr. Leypoldt nor Mr.
 Armstrong made any profit on this work, and it-
 requires  the sale  of the remaining sets to bal-
 ance the original loan of capital.  Such is the
 pecuniary profit on a great bibliographical work .'.
  In completing this summary  of the trade bib-
 liographical system built up by Mr. Leypoldt, a_
 w6rd may be added as to a criticism which was not
 unfrequent, even among the most friendly publish-
 ers. This arose from the feeling that the demands.
 from this office for  their support, however willing,
 they were to respond to Mr. Leypoldt's appeals,
 were  many and various  above  reason.  The
 simple answer is that the  system was compre-
hensive, and that if the demands in question had
come from  different offices  instead of from one,
they would  probably have amounted to more,
though they might have seemed less.  Mr. Ley-
poldt's inventiveness caused him to add occasion-
ally a device which was not of permanent value,
but it was usually he who  was  the loser ; apart.
from this, the  cause of bibliography and of the
trade was served by having a system thorough,
complete, and homogeneous.
  The organization of the book-trade itself was
a consummation to which Mr. Leypoldt looked.
forward with much desire, and The Publishers'
Weekly  was full of plans.   In 1874 the Ameri-
can Book-Trade Union was formed in a conven-
 tion held by Western booksellers  at Cincinnati,,
 Feb. 12 and 13, at  which this journal was repre-
sented, and July 21-23 °f the same  year a gen-
 eral convention was held at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, at
 which  was  formed the American Book-Trade
 Association, with Mr. Randolph  as president..
 One of the points of discussion at that time was
the Trade Sale system, always deprecated by Mr.. 
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Leypoldt, despite any question of personal  in-
terest, and a committee on the subject projected
the plan of a Book Fair, on the Leipzig principle,
to take the place of the Trade Sale.  The system
was inaugurated by Messrs. Leavitt, under the
title of the " Booksellers' Exchange and  Clear-
ing-House," July 19, 1875, but it  did  not prove
permanent and was ultimately replaced  by the
Trade Sale again.  A second convention was held
■ by the A. B. T. A.  at Niagara Falls in 1875, and
a third  at Philadelphia during the Centennial.
The Association endeavored to do away with  the
 "discount" system-, which simply raised prices
■>to an artificial nominal rate in order to take off
 a fictitious discount.  This endeavor was warmly
 supported by Mr. Leypoldt, but the general agree-
 ment made  among  publishers did  not work
 satisfactorily,  and  at  Philadelphia  the  trade
 proved unwilling to decide upon the further and
 logical  step strongly urged by the Weekly, of
■ reducing nominal prices  to real prices, and  the
 A. B. T. A. came to an end.  Mr. Leypoldt's
 disinclination to let himself be put forward kept
 him from all these gatherings, but it was heartily
 acknowledged always that his influence was a
 most potent factor  He entered warmly into the
 plans for  a Book-Trade Exhibit  at the Centen-
 nial, publishing a  Centennial number  of  the
  Weekly,  and also  in the  next  year into  the
  plans for an American exhibit at Paris.  He  was
 always  a patriot in trade work.
    During this Centennial year also, the Library
  Journal was  started.   Mr. Leypoldt had again
  and again started a library department in The
  Publishers' Weekly and looked forward to the
  establishment of a separate periodical. In 1876,
  Mr.  Meivil Dewey, now librarian of Columbia
 •College,  came to  him  with a similar plan,  and
  after several consultations it was  decided to go
  forward.  During these consultations, the plan
  of a Library Conference, such as  had been held
  in  1853, was brought forward, and letters  and
 telegrams were forwarded to leading librarians
  to  get their views.   The first issue of the^wm-
 ■can Library Journal, Mr. Leypoldt as publisher
 taking  the entire risk, was issued Sept. 30, 1876,
 .and  the  conference was held at  Philadelphia,
  Oct. 4-6. Out of this came the American Library
  Association, of which he was a  councillor, and
  tin turn the Library Association  of the  United
  Kingdom.  Mr. Leypoldt was present only at the
  New York and Washington meetings.  His sym-
  pathy with library  work was  always active  and
  effective, and the libraries as well as the trade
  have much for which to thank him.  He under-
  took the  publication  of  Mr. Foster's Monthly
  Reference Lists and prepared or promoted several
  library  helps.  His library work was never remu-
  nerative, in fact it entailed a heavy loss, but it
 •was very cordially recognized.
  In  1879, Mr. Leypoldt, desiring to carry his
bibliographical enterprise  into fresh  fields  and
pastures  new, projected  the Index Medicus, a
monthly key  to medical books and periodicals,
which should be a periodical supplement to the
great Catalogue of the  Government Medical Li-
brary by Dr.  Billings.  Fearing that his friends
and associates would be  inclined to  deter  him
from new ventures, he kept his plans quiet until
they were nearly ready for the launch.    Dr. J. S.
Billings and Dr. Robert Fletcher undertook the
editorship, and the work proved professionally
very valuable.  But its too sanguine  projector
lost over $5000 by it, just as the skies were clear-
ing for him, and of late years it has been con-
tinued only as a  labor of  love, under certain
guarantees from the profession.
  When, at the beginning of 1879, the arrange-
ment was made for the division of labor and re-
sponsibility within the office, by Avhich the writer
took  personal  control  of  The  Publishers'
Weekly, there was no shadow of disagreement
between Mr. Leypoldt  and his editorial  asso-
ciate to  suggest  that division.   The relation
which had been formed at the very beginning of
The  Publishers' Weekly, with its  first num-
ber, and which had  grown steadily closer, was
without interruption of any kind.  No one could
be near Mr. Leypoldt without feeling the strength
and winningness of his character, and holding
him  in  growing  respect  and  affection.  The
burden upon Mr. Leypoldt was relieved by the
change, and  had it not been for the new venture
of the  Index Medicus in 1880, the relief might
have been  complete.   But he  could not stay
 his hand from good  work.  In 1879, the busi-
 ness was removed  to 13  and 15 Park  Row,
where  it remained until  the removal  in  18S3
to its  present  quarters.    In   July,   1880,
 changed  circumstances brought The Publish-
 ers'  Weekly again under Mr. Leypoldt's per-
 sonal management, with an organization of work
 which prevented  the burden being as heavy as
 before.   The " Weekly Record" was by this
 time intrusted almost wholly to the guidance of
 Miss M. M. Monachesi,who was with Mr. Ley-
 poldt in his circulating library at Philadelphia,
 and  the managing editorial work was in the
 hands of Mr. A.  Growoll,  who had  also  been
 associated Avith him for many years.   The con-
 tinuation of his work as he would have it done
 becomes a duty to those into whose hands that
 work falls.
   Some attempt is made in this number, by pre-
 senting a bibliography, as it were, of his current
 work, and  by reprinting a number of prefaces
 and  the  like, either written by him or reflecting
 his spirit at the  time, to  show what Mr. Ley-
 poldt's work was.  But the man was more than
I his  work.   Had  he lived  to win surroundings 
more  conducive to  a free  and full use of his
powers, unhindered by restricting circumstance,
his life  would  have  been  of   still  greater
value to the community.   The portrait which
we give, engraved since his  death from the latest
picture that  he  had, a photograph taken about
eight years since, does him no justice.   Mr. Ley-
poldt was of  small  stature but of large  pres-
ence.  The  quickness and alertness of his man-
ner, which suggested French blood, was accom-
panied by  a  French  stateliness  and  courtly
grace.  His distinguished  bearing, the strong
head  and refined face,  the full and  luminous
brown eyes, the winning  smile, gave a sense
at once of masculine intellect and of a feminine
charm.   He always produced an impression
upon men, and always secured their liking.   It
is a significant fact that though he carried  over-
many business  burdens, his business credit was
very high, higher than  that of  most men of fair
capital;  every one felt sure of him.  That title
he never forfeited.   To have  paid less than a
hundred  cents on a  dollar would  have broken
his heart.   The  doctrine  he  preached to the
trade  he  believed  in through  and  through.
   On this bed-rock of character a most interest-
ing nature was built up. His poetic temperament,
with its inventive power, enthusiasm, and hope-
fulness, militated against the complete  business
success he deserved.  Ordinary business occur-
rences became to him a slight,  a personal grief,
and  occasioned sometimes violent depression
quite  beyond the cause.   Other  men  who did
not know him well  could not  understand this.
Believing that good work ought to  come out
right, he hesitated to face  hard  business facts,
and he permitted himself to  become  a philan-
thropist in his  bibliographical  work when  per-
sonal interest demanded  caution.  His  thought
was always how much good a  new enterprise
would do rather than  whether it would pay.
He could not deny himself to any duty that pre-
sented  itself to his imagination,  and this was
shown not only in his work but in  his wider re-
lations.  He was ardently patriotic ;  he was
naturalized  while in  Philadelphia and  became a
member of  the Gray Reserves, and in New York
he had always a keen sympathy with  the  work
of reform in politics.  He was a  firm believer
in full justice to authors, and it was his aim
that The Publishers' Weekly should be a fore-
most advocate  of international  copyright.  Of
his high  business  ideals, this journal in its
words to the trade  has  been the constant wit-
ness.  But  it was not easy to tempt him into
any  personal prominence; despite  his social
faculty and many social graces, he kept much
aloof from  people, leading the life of  a scholar
and  a worker.  His  tastes  indeed were all
scholarly and refined, and his capacity for work
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was enormous.  But there was a limit, and this
limit he passed.  It was always a siege to force
him to a vacation ; even the warnings of his tirect
head  were put  aside.  When his  last illness
came, his near friends  hoped that he might
have one more chance, and  it was  in plan  to
insist that he should give himself the respite of
foreign travel.  But what Avas  done could not
be undone.   It was  too late.  The  end came.
It was the end of a true life,  martyred to work,
and over his grave many mourn.

         THE TRADE MEETING.
  At a meeting of the  members of the book-
trade, at the store of A. C. Armstrong & Son,.
714  Broadway, called  for   the  purpose  of
taking action in  regard to  the  death  of F.
Leypoldt, and  also of  Nicholas Triibner, the
following were present :  Henry Holt, F. W..
Christern, Peter  Carter, A. D. F.  Randolph,
George Haven Putnam, O.  B. Bunce, of D. Ap-
pleton & Co., R.  Worthington, Geo. Houston,
of Thomas Nelson & Sons, J. C. Derby, Charles
Wiley, A.  C. Armstrong,  Edwin S. Mead, of
Dodd, Mead  &  Co., E. Young, of  E.  & J. B.
Young & Co..O. M. Dunham, of Cassell & Co.,
James Pott,  J.  S.  Armstrong,  Charles S. Holt,
Geo. F.  Stevens, R. R. Bovvker, W. A. Stewart,.
G. D. T.  Rouse, and  A. Growoll.  Mr. Peter
Carter was appointed chairman, and  Mr. O. M.
Dunham, secretary.
  On taking  the chair Mr. Carter said : " You
understand, gentlemen,, for what purpose we have
come together  to-day.   In the death of  Mr.
Leypoldt, the book trade of  America  has  lost
its greatest benefactor.  Though I never saw him
but once, so well was the man  represented by
what he wrote that I feel as if I had lost a  per-
sonal friend.   He  was ever a wise and kindly
advocate of  the  right—a  modest, patient, un-
tiring  worker,  whom   neither  opposition  nor
lack of adequate reward could discourage."
  On motion, the chairman appointed as a com-
mittee to report suitable resolutions,  Messrs. A..
D.F. Randolph, Henry Holt, and George Haven
Putnam.  After  a  recess,  the meeting  was-
again called  to order,  and  Mr. Randolph readi
the following memorial :
  In  the death  of  Frederick  Leypoldt the
American book-trade   has  lost the valuable-
services  of  one who for many years labored'
with signal ability and unselfish devotion to  pro-
mote its best interests.
  Mr. Leypoldt was first  identified with the
trade as  a publisher of books, to which business
he brought a large intelligence and a  high ideal ;
and when subsequently he established the  Pub-
lishers' Weekly  as  an organ of the trade, it
was in the hope that he  might be instrumental
in placing it upon higher and  broader founda-
tions.   He  brought to the difficult  and ofter*
delicate responsibilities of his editorial position* 
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441
great earnestness of purpose and purity of mo-
tive, combined  with  a  singular thoroughness
and almost scientific precision.  With unwearied
industry and patience, year in and year out,"and
often under keen disappointments and discour-
agement, he continued his labors, and those who
knew him best will bear willing testimony, not
only to the faithfulness of the service, but to the
generous  impulses and almost heroic self-sacri-
fice which always characterized the  man and his
work.
   The public libraries of the country are largely
indebted to  him for the establishment of the
Library Journal,  and for a steadfast, earnest,
and effective fidelity to their interests.  To him
also the publishers, booksellers, and book-buyers
are indebted for the American Catalogue, to the
preparation of which he brought the rarest quali-
fications, and to which he gave long years of in-
dustrious and exhaustive labor.  This is indeed
his  fitting  monument, which will  remain the
most comprehensive American bibliography, and
become the permanent basis of all similar works
hereafter.   What  it cost him, they only know
who knew  him best,  while its constant use by
those for whom it was specially prepared is full
proof of its value.
   The  representatives of the trade here assem-
 bled desire to put on  record not only their recog-
 nition of his conscientious and intelligent in-
dustry,which tended to make bibliography almost
 an  exact science,  and in  thus  facilitating the
 work of the  book-maker, bookseller, and book-
 buyer, rendered invaluable service to the cause
 of American literature ;  but also to his blameless
 character  and  widespread  usefulness, and  to
 the loss which the  trade and the reading public
 has suffered in  his death ; therefore,
   Be  it resolved,  that this  minute  be  printed in
 the Publishers'  Weekly  and the  American
 Bookseller, and  that  a  copy be sent to his edi-
 torial associates, and also to Mrs. Leypoldt.
   Mr. Randolph then addressed  the meeting  as
 follows :
   " Mr. Chairman, in every community, in every
 society, there  will be found  here  and there  a
 man who without much notice or  public recog-
 nition  gives himself up  to  a special  work,
 which, for the time,  seems to  command no  ap-
 preciation or reward.  The time will come when
 the man  who  makes the  index  and  the  man
 who makes the catalogue  will command some-
 thing of the attention and reap something of the
 reward to  which his labors entitle him.  As I
 think of our  friend, whom I  never met but
 once, but whose work I knew and whose charac-
 ter  I honor, as  I think of what he did for me as
 a bookseller and as a publisher, and what he did
 for the whole people, my heart grows  warm  to
 his memory.  And yet, how little of public atten-
 tion have  his  labors commanded ; how  insig-
 nificant the reward.  I  think of a man like him
 as I think of that other man who  gathers from
 all parts and places with diligent labor the bones
 of some  animal representing  a  species and  si-
 lently puts them in proper shape for the lecture-
 room, for the platform, or the artist.   It would
 seem  to be mechanical work on his part, work
 unappreciated by the public at large.   Yet that
 labor makes luminous  the  pages of the book to
 the student, and eloquent the lips of the lecturer.
 And so our friend was working year  in and out
 upon this dry  detail, working where  there was
 no stimulus in the  material, where  there was
nothing to provoke  activity ; working day after
day, year in and year out, for  us  and  for  the
world.  Why, it seems  to me, Mr.  Chairman,
that he is like the man who goes down into  the
foul air of the caisson and lays, at the peril of his
life, the  piers  of  the  bridge,  over  which  the
multitude passes in safety and without fatigue.
  " Mr. Chairman,  I do not wish to take up too-
much  time, but  I wish to make this point, among
others.  He  was a reformer !  Well, it is no
new thing  that the reformer is not deemed wor-
thy of his hire,  it is no new thing that he has to
work  and to wait.  And as I look over the years
of that service where he brought all his energies
to bear in the interest of the trade with which he
was connected,  how he spent his money, how he
spent his life to bring it up out of the miserable
depths to which it has  fallen, I ask, did he  get
from  us the  encouragement and support which
he deserved ?  No—No.  But sir, it is one of the
supreme convictions of  my life that  no  truth is
ever  lost;  it is  also a supreme conviction tha
no  principle dies.   The  seed  which our friend
has sown is not  lost!   Is it not yet four months
to the harvest ?  The  time will come when this
seed shall bear  fruit, and will bring in a harvest
of  which any man may be proud.  I may not
live to see it; you may not live to see it; but it
will come,  and  when it does there shall not be a
name so worthy of honor as that of Frederick
Leypoldt."
   Mr. Henry Holt, in seconding the report made
the following remarks :
   " This is the second time within a decade,  if I
mistake not, that from the narrow ranks of  our
calling  we have had to bury,  in the flower of
his years, a good and  useful man  who  had
worked himself to death.   This, too, in a country
which produces more than it can use  or  sell.
When such  results  come, we all  acknowledge
that there  is something  wrong, very wrong, in
our way of life.   This, however is not  the  oc-   ,
casion  to  discuss it  in  detail, but it  is worth
thinking over.   In this mad competition  of ours
(I use the words deliberately) Mr. Leypoldt strug-
gled  with double bravery  because  he was han-
dicapped.   He had the soul of a  poet and a
scholar, and he earned his bread in a tread-mill,
with  none of the  applause  that stimulates the
poet, and little of  the appreciation that contents
the scholar.  He  was  born  a German idealist,
and he  lived an American business man.
   " Yet what a good American he became !  He
told me that for years after landing here, a boy,
he dreamed of getting money enough to go
home.  And at last, when he could go, he came
back in short order, saying that it  was too  slow
over  there for him.  In our politics,  in  our
struggles for good city goverment, his  interest
was intelligent, steady, and intense.
  '' He was such a good fellow too—such a gentle-
man  in his kindly  and courtly little ways—more
 French than German in his manner, but  Ger-
man  to the core in his sincerity !
   " Nobody appreciated luxurious and beautiful
things better than  he  did, and yet he cheerfully
led a life none  too full of them—partly because
he chose to.
  " When he proposed to dissolve our partnership,
he told  me that he would rather earn a poor living
out of the  Publishers'  Weekly and its natural
connections, than  a rich  one out of any other
business.  He  had his  way, and that is some-
thing—something  to  think of  now  he  is gone. 
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Yet  he was  always rich enough to  despise a
poor deed.   And  not  many men are as rich as
that.
  Now that  he  is gone,  and we think of  his
unobtrusive  personality  and  modest life, it is
almost startling to  realize  that he left behind
him  an immortal  piece of work.  But he did !
Some  of  us  are going to leave larger estates
and  have bigger  stones  raised above  us ;   but
after the estates are frittered away and the stones
are fallen, his monument is going to stand.   As
long as there  is any such thing studied as  the
civilization of  the United States, and  that will
be a good while, scholars are going to turn to
Leypoldt's American Catalogue.
  " He wanted to  do more, and would have done
much and well,  if  he had lived a full term.   But
laborious, and useful, and patient and unselfish
as  he  was,  I  cannot imagine him  altogether
unreluctant to relinquish his career :—for a cloud
had  come over his work.  American publishing,
at least in the various forms of literature which
were his delight, is-no longer what it was when
he first knew it.  The barbarous state of  our
laws—a state more barbarous than that of any
other nation  whose literature is of the first class,
and  more barbarous, I have some reason to think,
than that of any European nation  which   has
anything fairly to  be called a literature at  all—
this  state of things has permitted the life-blood to
be drained from the calling for which Leypoldt
labored.  That calling once had its inspirations,
and  to keep  them alive  he fought harder than
any  other man  in America.  And in  this fight,
where he had  to  see  men  with  more  at stake
than he, and stronger  men (though no man had
a more knightly  heart),  standing aside, willing
if need be to  let him bear his weapons alone, I
can   imagine that he had some bitter solace
when he felt  his grip relaxing.
   "  Though he is at rest, out of the fight, it is  not
over yet, and even if  it should stop, it is  sure
to be renewed and in the end to be won.  I  am
not at all sure that Ave  shall live to see it, but of
this  thing I am sure—that when publishing books
of pure literature  in America  again becomes a
career that will fairly reward a wise  man's wis-
dom and a  strong  man's  strength, (I will  not
say a  good  man's goodness, like his,  for that
seeks no reward,) it will be a time when there  are
more  men  working for  it  in  the  spirit  with
which Frederick Leypoldt worked."

  Mr. George Haven Putnam then said :
  " Mr. Leypoldt was a man whom I did not often
have opportunities of  meeting, and of  whom I
always wished  to see more.  I  felt, however,
that I knew him well, for his spirit and character
were  very   clearly  manifested  in   his work.
With the  purposes,  ideals, and methods of this
work  I was  familiar, and all that I knew gave
me a high regard, I  may say a cordial affection,
for the worker.  There was something  knightly
and  chivalric in the  way in which  Mr.  Leypoldt
devoted his strength and  his years to grappling
with   troublesome  problems  and  vexatious
questions, the right solution of which he consid-
ered important for the  Avelfare of the trade with
which he had associated himself, and for  the
community at large.  He might even have been
called  Quixotic,  and believing as I do that Quix-
ote stands for one  of the most noble  types of
pure-spirited  unselfishness, I should not wish a
better tribute to the character of our friend.
  " In some sense, we members of the book-trade
are simply commercial competitors, each striving
to do the best he can in fair rivalry with the others.
The fact, however, that Ave  always think and
speak of our vocation as thetra.de.  shows that we
recognize the  special relations which the busi-
ness of making and selling books bears  to the
community  and the exceptional responsibilities
it must assume.   In connection with these re-
sponsibilities  it is not out of  place to claim,  as
did Mr. Randolph and  as  others  have done be-
fore him, that the work of publishing books, when
undertaken  in the right  spirit, is  in  fact  a pro- ■
fession.  It was this high professional  view  of
the business  which  was  steadfastly  held and
earnestly  and ably  advocated  by  our  friend
Leypoldt.   He felt that our trade ought to con-
sider itself to  be a guild, and  ought  to act as a
guild, with  reference^ to the  emphasizing of a
high standard for  its own members,  and Avith
reference also to exercising united action in all
questions with the community at large and in all
matters affecting the interests of the  business  of
literature.   Mr.   Leypoldt   labored   steadily
throughout all his editorial career as well toward
establishing a high standard  of  true  conduct
and trade relations, as in the all-important Avork
of  educating  the  general public  concerning
books and in  thus facilitating the wider distri-
bution of the best books.
   " He seems to have had  a large  faith in men,
and to have believed that if questions were only
fairly presented to them, they could be  depend-
ed upon to judge rightly.  In this trust in the
right feeling of those with whom  he had to do,
he reminded me not  a little  (if I may be per-
mitted the personal reference) of my own father.
  "Any such optimism and hopefulness must sub-
ject the possessor to many  disappointments, and
the experience of our friend was  no exception.
But whatever the  discouragements,  the ideal
was not lost sight of,  the purpose  and the effort
remained  steadfast to  the end.   And  whether
or not the book-trade of the country ever attain
the high position and the harmony of action for
which  our friend labored, Avhether or  not the
best literature ever  meets Avith the widest popu-
lar appreciation, these  things have been materi-
ally furthered by the work of this man, and the
book-trade  and the  community  are better by
reason  of  the  unselfish  and  faithful  life of
Frederick Leypoldt."

  Mr.  R.  R. Bowker then  said :
  " I take leave to say a word, as one of those
very close to Mr. Leypoldt, and in behalf of his
associates, in those later years in which he did his
great work  for the trade.   The men who were
nearest him loved him the  most, and I think no
more can  be said for a  man  than that.   There
have been  those Avho  misunderstood him ; he
was a man  of high spirit,  and this keenness of
temperament was sometimes  a  burden to him-
self—little things troubled him  very much, and
there would  be moments in  Avhich the irritation of
those little things would cause him to write a line
or a letter which would be easily misunderstood.
But those about him  knew  him to  be always
the most kindly of  men. No man ever worked
with higher spirit,  with higher  aims, or with a
greater sense  of responsibility for his work, and
with greater feeling  that the work itself was its
own reAvard.  And so, in saying this last word,
I feel that I have fulfilled a double duty—of ex-
pressing gratitude to him  from those Avho have
been closely associated with him day by day, and 
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443
gratitude from them in turn to you, gentlemen of
the trade, for the tender and accurate appreciation
of Mr. Leypoldt and his  work  which has been
shown to-day."
   The   resolutions  were   then  unanimously
adopted.
  ' A PROPHECY OF FUTURE WORK.
 From the American Publishers'1 Circular, Feb. 2, 1863.
                Philadelphia, Jan.  27, 1863.
  Charles R. Rode, Esq., New York : I cannot
resist from telling you how much  I was pleased
by the timely and just remarks  of Mr. Robert
Clarke, whose letter you published  in  the last
number   of  the  " Circular. "   Having  com-
menced business as importer of foreign books, I
•but  lately—in consequence  of " the really de-
pressed state" of importing—paid more atten-
tion to the  domestic book-market.   But  when
commencing to  work in this new branch, I soon
felt, " very sadly" too, a deficiency of the book-
seller's  most indispensable  tools — a well-sup-
ported  central  organ and—good  catalogues.   I
Avondered  for  iong, how it  was,  that in this
country,  where  everything is offered to us  so
■extremely practical and handy—especially time-
saving tools and  instruments—the  booksellers
have been neglected so much.  I confess, I am
a spoiled child in matter of  book lists and cata-
logues, having been  brought  up  in Germany—
^'the  living catalogue  of Europe !"  No doubt,
speaking in a more limited sense, the book-trade
 in  Germany has  facilities  to the dealer,  not
 known anywhere  else.  And as  in the above-
 mentioned letter from  Mr. Clarke, the question
 concerned the "Publishers' Circular" and Cata-
logues, allow me to say a few words about them,
•to show,  what we have rather too much in Ger-
many, and rather too little in America.
   Germany supports alone about 25 Periodicals
devoted  to the business  part of the publishing
 line, not to mention more than a dozen literary
 papers, consisting merely of  reviews and criti-
cisms of contemporary  literature.   But the real
 Publishers'  and Booksellers' Circular—the soul
of  the  German  book-trade—is  the " Borsen-
 blatt," founded in 1834 by the " Borsenverein."
 It is now published tri-weekly (during the book-
sellers' fair in Leipzig,  daily), in 4to, nearly the
size of the A. P. C, but each number embracing
seldom less than 20-24 pages !  There you  find
"everything concerning the " publishing interest"
 of Germany : communications, complaints, sug-
gestions  from  publishers and dealers, notices,
 news, etc. ;  an  exact list of  all books published
since the issue of the last number ; extra lists of
 works of art and of foreign publications ;  a  reg-
 ister of  all criticisms  on  books,  as they ap-
 peared in recent periodicals ; circulars of new
■establishments,  and changes in  business ; an-
 nouncements of books in press and  in  prepara-
 tion ;  long  columns of books wanted which are
out of print, or sought for at reduced prices ;
 also of books offered at conditional prices ; quo-
 tations from the money market,  etc.  But by
far  the  largest space  of the  " Borsenblatt"  is
 filled with individual trade avertisements from  all
 parts of Germany, and even from foreign coun-
 tries.  No German bookseller could  do without
 the" Borsenblatt,"  though, besides  this general
 Circular, there are existing several special ones
 for  certain  parts of Germany.   I  have not the
space here to specify all the other bibliographical
facilities offered to the trade, but will mention
a few of the most  useful ones.  These are but
for the announcement  of  new publications.  A
full weekly list, a semi-monthly, several month-
lies (one  of them forming a supplement to the
" Borsenblatt"), a  quarterlv classified Catalogue,
and  a half-annual one, alphabetically arranged
by the authors, with  classified  index.  And  all
do pay !  For Hinrichs's  half annual Catalogue
was  started in 1797,  and the so-called " Mess-
Catalog" (since 1846  a quarterly) dates its origin
back to the  16th century  !  There are besides
special  catalogues  for  nearly every  branch of
science ;  but  before all  must  be noticed the
voluminous Heinsius  and Kaiser (lately  also
Kirckhoff),  which are  published in large 4to
volumes,  each volume embracing a period of
several  years.    Commencing  with  1700,  they
register every  work,  down  to  the smallest
pamphlet, with  the  fullest exactitude as to the
names of the publisher, place  and date of publi-
cation,  size, number of pages, price, etc.  There
are no such elaborate works in any other coun-
try !  But still, even the  examples  of England
and France should be sufficient to make also in
this country an imperious  demand of at least one
well-supported  Publishers'  Circular, and one
good general Catalogue.  England's bookseller's
mediums are sufficiently known here.   I  need
not count them up, but perhaps it is worth  Avhile
noticing also  some  of the French ones.  The
" Bibliographic de  la  France,"  existing  now
fifty-one years, and  published weekly, has  been
in the  last few years very much  extended and
improved. The year 1862, which I have before
me, however,  shows  clearly  the  cause of  its
flourishing condition. The sole secret of  its suc-
cess lies in the supplement, the  " Feuilleton,"
which  consists  principally of  advertisements.
No. 37, for instance, has 104 pages of advertise-
ments, only of educational works. No. 47, nearly
as many—of works suitable for holiday presents.
The  first one  is  so extensive that it required a
classified  index ;  the other has as usual an al-
phabetical list of the advertising publishers.  (1 ob-
serve, though,  the same liberality  in advertising
in the annual  Pictorial Supplements to the Brit-
ish " Publishers'  Circular and the Bookseller.")
The " Bibliographic de la France" gives also an
annual catalogue  of all  publications during the
year.   Another annual  catalogue is  published
(since  1858) by C. Reinwald,  which deserves
particular credit by its excellent arrangement and
neat  form.  Several monthly lists, too, are pub-
lished  in  Paris,  viz., by  Bossange,  Franck,
Hachette,  Reinwald, etc., whilst  nearly at  the
same time, announcements from three different
sides  {Bossange,  Lorenz,  Morin)  promised to
meet a long  felt  want, namely catalogues em-
bracing the last 10-25 years, forming supple-
ments to the Querard,  Bossange, etc., etc.  How
often  do  I miss such  auxiliary works for con-
temporary American literature !  Roorback  is too
carelessly compiled,  and  closes  with  i860.
Trubner, with  all its bibliographical merit, is
but of a limited use to the American bookseller,
as it excludes reprints, and gives  the prices for
England.  But whether we shall have  our an-
nual   catalogue depends  not so  much  on  the
publisher of the " Circular,"  as on the circulars
from the publishers.  The advantages of united
circulars in one have been stated so clearly by
Mr. Clarke,  that  I  need not add anything.  I
only  may resume the very simple  argument:
The more advertisements the "Circular" will get 
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from the publishers, the more subscribers it will
gain, for the more indispensable it will be to the
dealers ;  and again—the  more subscribers  the
more  profitable advertising will become to  the
publisher. A semi-monthly is certainly of greater
use than  a monthly ;  "yet,"  with Mr.  Clarke,
" I trust  the day is not far distant, when we will
again receive your weekly visit," with the  an-
nouncement  in  the  last  December number,
"nearly  ready."  The  bookseller's  new-year
gift—an annual Catalogue !
  I beg  your pardon, sir, for having intruded
upon  you with  my broken English, but I could
not help  saying a  few  words which—if not well
said — certainly  are  well meant!  I shall be
happy if  you will make some use of my letter in
the " Circular," only  I would advise you,  be-
fore doing so, to expurgate  it a little from its
" Germanisms."
      1 am, sir,  yours  very respectfully,
                             F. Leypoldt.
            THREE PREFACES.
 MR. LEYPOLDT'S PREFACE TO  THE  (ANNUAL)
       AMERICAN CATALOGUE FOR 1869.

  In every  country whose literature compares
with ours, there is a  general catalogue of pub-
lications issued annually, and in some countries
these issues  are semi-annual, and even  quarter-
ly.   In Germany there are issued,  in addition to
the numerous  general catalogues, semi-annual
catalogues, giving a full account of the publica-
tions of the  -world in every special  branch of
literature and science.  Yet in the United States
we have not had any Annual  catalogue since
the  publication  of Norton's Literary  Register
and Annual  List for 1856.  This fact is sufficient
indication that such enterprises receive no ade-
quate encouragement.
  The lack of encouragement is twofold.  Even
those most interested in having their publica-
tions properly catalogued, rarely give  informa-
tion that is either accurate or complete ; and even
those to whom a catalogue is  of  most use, do
not seem to  find it of use enough to warrant pay-
ing for many copies.  So both the  compiler's
labors and the publisher's outlay are so out of
proportion to their  remuneration  that,  as we
have intimated, the publication  of catalogues in
the United States is  threatening to  rapidly be-
come one of the lost arts.
  A good catalogue  is  a good thing, no matter
whose time and money  pays  for it, and a cata-
logue may be good without being ideally perfect.
The one here presented  is, on the whole, about
as good as its predecessors.  It  is not  as  good
as they in one feature  of its arrangement, but
the compiler has tried to make it enough  better
in others to  more than compensate.
  The basis of it is the  lists which have periodi-
cally appeared in the  Trade  Circular and
Literary Bulletin.   Kindly and  unsought
assurances from  those whose opinion is conclu-
sive, place it beyond a doubt  that those lists
contain a  catalogue of the publications of the
year as full and accurate as any that was ever
issued  for any other year.  The  catalogue  is,
however,  broken into   twelve  sections,  corre-
sponding  to the monthly periods  of  its issue.
For the  reasons already hinted  at there  was
nothing to  warrant  the  manufacture of new
plates which  should include  the whole in one
alphabetical  sequence.   To  compensate  this
blemish, however, and to add  a new feature of
special and unique value, two indexes have
been prefixed.
  I.—An   Alphabetical  Index,  Complete,
avith  Cross-References,  containing in one
alphabet the short titles of the full lists contain-
ed in  the  twelve  monthly  Trade Circular
Catalogues, arranged according to the leading
words  in   those Catalogues.  The  cross-refer-
ences will help in finding any title hidden by
such inconsistencies in the Trade Circular
lists  as inevitably arise from  the imperfect re-
ports and  eleventh-hour suggestions occasion-
ally furnished.
  Not having been guided by any bibliographical
ambitions,  but mainly by the desire to make a
practical  booksellers' Catalogue, we  have,  in
most instances, entered  these titles according to
the names  most familiar to  the Trade.  Thus,
contrary to bibliographical rule, we have  pre-
ferred to record the works of pseudonym authors
—such as  Eliot, Oliver Optic, etc.—under the
adopted name which the  author chooses to re-
tain on the  title-page.   In  the  first place, hardly-
any bookseller will look for Eliot under Evans
or Lewes ;  for Sand  under Dudevant ; or  for
Optic under Adams ; why, then, detain him by
unnecessary  cross-reference? Moreover,  we
really doubt the propriety of making prominent
that name which the author—for some reason or
orther—(which  no bibliographer should have a
right to ignore merely to show off his knowl-
edge), does not see fit to place on the title-page.
  In order to  satisfy the most exacting,  how-
ever, we have inserted in the Alphabetical Index
such names as are generally recorded  in  other
catalogues,  referring from the  real name to the
nom  de plume.
  II.—A Classified  Index,  According  to
Topics.—In this index,  the  same principles  of
entry have  been followed as in the Alphabet-
ical Index.  If in  the Classified Index  any
inaccuracy  should be detected by  the bibliog-
rapher  or librarian, we beg to call  attention  to
the difficulty of a minute  classification, where
the compiler must be  guided merely by  new
titles (frequently very  inaccurately reported),
the books, in most instances, not being on hand
for constant  reference, as  is  the  case when
classifying  a library.
  An Annual Catalogue  should become a.
Trade Institution.   We  are  trying  to  make it
one.  Should this enterprise meet with fair en-
couragement, we will  issue a  Catalogue for the:
ensuing year, on  the  plan of the  French  and
German Catalogues—the full titles  arranged  in
one alphabet, with an index  classified in minute
detail.

preface to  the trade circular annual for
                    1871.
  In presenting this volume  to the Trade, the
Editor wishes it to be understood that the plan*
of an "Annual," including,  in addition to the
Catalogue of Books, a general summary of trade
information, was suggested too late (December)'
to be  carried  out  satisfactorily.  Should  the
Annual, however, in its present imperfect shape,
meet with encouragement, it can be made a work
of great value.
  The  Editor has done as much as he could with 
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the limited material at his disposal.  He is aware
of the deficiencies, especially with regard to the
bibliographical department.
   It was in the year 1859 when Triibner, in the
preface to his admirable " Bibliographical Guide
to American Literature," said : " American Bib-
liography is almost untrodden ground." ....
America " has disregarded the importance of an
authentic record of her literary progress."  Un-
fortunately this holds true  to-day.   Thousands
of books are made ; large sums spent on adver-
tisements ; all is done for momentary publicity,
but,with few exceptions,  little or nothing for  an
accurate and permanent record.
   No  authentic title-record,  still less  a proper
classification   of  books, is  possible   without
examination of the books.  In Germany, a copy
of every book and  pamphlet is deposited with
the  compiler  of the  official  catalogues.   Here
the  titles of books have to be obtained  and veri-
fied in "ways that are dark."   Blanks  are sent
out, carefully  ruled, and properly  headed,  for
every  item  pertaining to the description  of a
book ; but  it is no exaggeration to state, that,
 out of one hundred,  not  ten come back properly
 filled.  A complete title, if  occupying more than
 one or two  lines, is  of  rare  occurrence.   The
 Editor, in compiling the monthly lists for  the
 Trade Circular must gather his  principal infor-
 mation from circulars, newspaper advertisements
 and book notices, and attempt the description of
 a book by  sifting  these  contradictory  records,
 obtaining from one the  title, from  another  the
 name of  the author, from another, size,  price, or
 number of pages, etc.  Unfortunately,  the pub-
 lication of an  American  Trade Paper is not suf-
 ficiently  remunerative to  warrant  a permanent
 traveller among the  publishers.   But even if it
 were, several  attempts made  were  certainly not
 encouraging.  ' Some publishers seem to believe
 that they were doing too much for us in contribut-
 ing to an accurate record of  their own publica-
 tions.  It  was  one  of  our  "representative"
 booksellers, who, when  politely asked  the  ques-
 tion Avhy he never returned our blanks, seriously
 replied to our assistant, " Why, you  must  not
 expect us to do your work " !
   A catalogue compiled under  such difficulties
 may,  by dint of patience, be made good enough
 to answer the temporary purposes of the trade,
 but will not satisfy a librarian or scholar.   Thus
 the present catalogue, although a great improve-
 ment  on that of last year, is  actually  not  more
 than  a mere price-list  of  books, giving  the
 titles, if not verbatim, in the main  correct ;  the
 names of authors (though sometimes with doubt-
 ful  initials) wherever they could be ascertained ;
 the bewildering" Imperial," " Royal," " Large,"
 " Crown," " Small,"  "  Cap," " Post," " Fools-
 cap," etc., sizes reduced  to simple 40, 8°, 120,  160,
 etc. ;  the names of the publishers, and  above all,
 the prices.
   It is a satisfaction, however, to state that  the
 new copyright law has wisely provided for  the
 deposit of a copy of each copyrighted book, and
 that, in 1872, America  for the  first  time will
 possess,  prepared by the able Librarian of Con-
 gress, an authentic annual record of  American
 literature.   Then it will be possible also to pre-
 sent  some  trustworthy statistics   which  now
 could be made only by guess-work.
   Perhaps of equal importance with  the  Cata-
 logue are, to the  Dealer, the classified Publish-
 ers' Lists, and the Merchandise and Trade Direc-
 tory.   The former include nearly all the repre-
sentative firms in each specialty, and, if publish-
ers will make it a point regularly to supply all
their circulars and catalogues, omissions or errors
can be easily detected  by the Editor  himself.
The latter, however, could not be done satisfac-
torily in the time allowed, nor can it be done by
one person.  Although the Merchandise Register
is sufficiently full to answer its chief purpose of
suggesting a variety of goods that may be turned
to account  by the  Dealer,  its second  aim, of
guiding to direct sources  where to purchase to-
advantage, can only be attained by the assistance
of many.  In adding a limited number of refer-
ences, chiefly of New York, Boston, and  Phil-
adelphia, the Editor merely Avished to lay the
foundation for a Directory, which, if thoroughly
representative necessarily must lead to many new
and profitable transactions.   Dealers in all parts
of the country should contribute to the comple-
tion of this  important department by  reporting
any   goods or  names  that  in  their judgment
should be represented in it.   A further improve-
ment on the present list can be  made by an
alphabetical arrangement of the  firm names,.
which  thus far could  not  be adopted, as new
names were continually added  whilst the  Avork;
was already in the hands of the printer.
   It is hardly necessary to mention the practical
advantage,  for publishers and manufacturers, of
having their trade-lists  presented in a volume
which is daily consulted, while the  dealer must
find this combination time-saving  and conven-
ient.
   If the reception of the Annual warrants its pub-
lication next year, it will  be  prepared  earlier in
the season,  in order to make its issue possible in
January.  Any  suggestions,  or corrections of
inaccuracies, will be thankfully  received  by the
Editor.                        F. Leypoldt.

  MR.  LEYTOLDT'S PREFACE  TO  THE (ANNUAL)
          AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 1871.

   With this, the third attempt to present to the
American  Book Trade, an  Annual Catalogue,
the Editor closes his labors, and  begs leave to
state the great obstacles and discouragements
attending the preparation of such a work, which
have led to  the decision to discontinue its publi-
cation.
   An Annual  American Catalogue,  of  biblio-
graphical accuracy, is something next to impossi-
ble, by reason of the indifference of the majority
of our Publishers in regard to furnishing the re-
quired information.  But a small portion  of the
hundreds of letters  written are  satisfactorily
answered ;  and then the  time spent in writing
and in waiting  for answers that  are  never re--
turned, and in  patching  up  fragments of  titles
derived from indirect sources,  would seem in-
credible to the  uninitiated.  These facts must ex-
plain the absence of many titles, and the  imper-
fect,  and,   in some cases,  incorrect,  record ofi
many others which had to  be inserted as they
were found in newspapers, and in publishers' and
and  library lists which happened to  be  at the
 Editor's disposal.
   The Editor hopes that his list, notwithstanding
its many shortcomings, may prove useful to those
few who have  encouraged the undertaking, and
may,  at the same  time, exhibit the necessity of
a more concerted action on the  part of  pub-
lishers,  if  they Avould  have a  full  and reliable
record, from year to year, of the productions ol
the press. 
446
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 PREFACE  TO  THE AMERICAN  CATA-
                LOGUE,  1S76.
   The American Catalogue, an undertaking
 long since planned and often cherished by the
 undersigned, and as  often laid aside for lack of
 encouragement and opportunity, becomes an ac-
 complished fact with the completion of this first
 volume, in which the materials for the second are
•comprised.   It was projected as the culmination
 of the series of book-trade helps, of which The
 Publishers' Weekly and  " The  Publishers'
 Trade-List Annual"  are the  other chief factors,
 and  as  the  foundation  for a more methodical,
-continuous and comprehensive system of  trade
 bibliography than had before been practicable
'for America.  It  was not until  1S72  that there
 was  hope of sufficient support to warrant  the
 risk  its  publication would  involve, but the dis-
 cussions  of  that  year in  The  Publishers'
 Weekly led to the announcement, in  1873, that
 the work would positively be  undertaken should
 the interest of  the trade take the practical shape
 of subscriptions  for the necessary number  of
 copies.  This  guarantee fund, in that year, and
 in 1874, reached but  half  the  amount  then
 thought necessary, but it was determined in  the
 latter part of 1875 to assume the risk,  and  the
 work was accordingly begun in  1876. ■  It thus
 happened that The  American Catalogue  be-
 came one of the  several important enterprises
 originated with the centennial year.
   It  is necessary to  say a few words as to  the
"position of the undersigned at the time when this
 undertaking was  finally determined  upon,   in
 order that its limitations and his own subsequent
'relations to  the execution of the work  may be
 better understood.  Limited as to both means
 and time, it  Avas with apprehension and reluc-
 tance that he renewed a plan so often given up
 before.  Cheerfully would he have yielded  the
 task  to  other  and more  able hands,  but  there
 were none to take it up, and the need was press
 ing.  Triibner showed no sign of reviving  his
 admirable  " Guide  to  American  Literature ;"
 Roorbach dead ; and Kelly disheartened by  the
lack of support with which his patience  and in-
 dustry were  received, there was no prospect  for
 the  continuation  of  the  American catalogues
 known by their names and which, for the periods
 covered  by them,  had rendered so valuable ser-
 vice.
   These and the few other bibliographical aids
 in existence  had long ceased to answer the daily
 needs of the  bookseller.  The  accumulating
 literature during the  most productive years the
 country  had  known, in addition to the constant
 shifting of the  older books from list to list, so
 peculiar to the American publishing trade (due
■ partly to the early practice of stereotyping and
 partly to the frequent business changes), made
 an entirely  new  catalogue an  imperative de-
 mand.   Circumstances and a growing sense of
 duty  seemed accordingly  to  force the  under-
taking  upon the undersigned  as necessarily
 within the scope of his work.
   With whatever  favor this  Catalogue,  during
its issue in  parts, has  been  received  by libra-
rians, bibliographers, and other  workers  with
books, its origin and consequent shaping must,
 nevertheless, be borne in mind. The wants of the
trade, from which came the pressure for it, and
whose support was its  main  dependence, were
 and  have  remained  the first  consideration.
Clearly defined and  properly designated  as a
 *' Finding List for the Trade," the Catalogue was
 necessarily limited to what was considered the
 living substance of the trade, viz.: books in print
 and for sale.  The line drawn was  a practical
 necessity, as has been fully proved by the results.
 It has been only through strict  adherence to this
 plan,  resisting  the temptation to yield to  the
 cry for something still more comprehensive, and
 the  conviction that it  was safer and  better to
 meet the immediate  needs of  the many, rather
 than to  satisfy the more  ambitious  desires  or
 specific  wants of  the  few,  that the  work has
 been carried through to what may be considered
 practically a successful conclusion.
  The original  design was to prepare Avhat is
 known as  a dictionary catalogue,  comprising
 in one continuous  alphabet  entries under au-
 thors, titles, and  specific subjects.   This  was
 subsequently modified so as to include the au-
 thor and title entries  in one alphabet, and the
 subject entries in a second, and in this form the
 work is printing,  each  alphabet in a volume by
 itself.  It was thought  that by this method not
 only could a portion of the Catalogue (complete
 in itself  and securing the entire material) be
 more quickly prepared  and so  made use of, but
 that, as  the purpose of the two volumes is so
 distinct, reference to them would be facilitated
 if they were separate.   The compilation of the
 second volume, for Avhich the material is thus
 gathered fully in  the  first,  will present  but
 secondary difficulties.
  The first volume now  makes its appearance
 fully two years later than, with the most liberal
 margin,  was anticipated at the  outset.  This
 startling  miscalculation, which almost proved
 disastrous  to the  completion  of the  work, was
 due less to the vastness of  material than to the
 condition in which  it was found.  The imprac-
 ticability of re-working previous bibliographical
 material, and the  necessity of relying entirely
 on direct information from the publishers, soon
 made themselves  evident,  and every estimate
 proved inadequate to cover the unexpected labor
 involved in  the mere process of collecting and
 verifying.   Indeed the avowal must be made
 that  had it  been possible to gauge approximately
 the dimensions that the compilation  was to as-
 sume and  the  difficulties that  were  to beset it,
 the work would  not have been begun.  In  its
 present limitations the undertaking was growing
 so much  beyond  the strength  and resources of
 its originator, that he was finally forced to seek
 the cooperation of another publisher  who had
 faith enough in the soundness of the enterprise
 to lend his aid.
  This plain statement of hard facts is made nec-
 essary, partly in explanation of unavoidable bibli-
 ographical  shortcomings of the work, partly in
 extenuation of the tax imposed on the patience
 and generosity of those to  whose early encour-
 agement  and substantial  cooperation,  by  ad-
 vance subscription, the work  owes its begin-
 ning.
  The principal features of the work have been
 adopted with the approval of competent bibliog-
 raphers ; the details, fully explained  in the in-
troduction, have been the results of careful con-
 sideration,  chiefly in consultation with Mr. L. E.
 Jones, to whose capable management and care-
 ful execution, and Mr. R. R.  Bowker,  to whose
 active  interest and untiring efforts, personally
 and editorially, the work is as much indebted for
 its existence as to those who have supported it
 pecuniarily.                   F. Leypoldt.
  New York, March, 18S0. 
April 5, '84 [No. 636].         The Publishers' Weekly.                             447
           MEMORIAL WORDS.
              The Nation, April 3.
  We  deeply regret to record the  death,  on
March 31, of Mr. Frederick Leypoldt, the well-
known editor of the Publishers' Weekly, in
the forty-ninth year  of  his age.   He was a na-
tive of Stuttgart, but came to this country before
attaining his majority, and at once entered  the
book business, passing from a subordinate em-
ployment in New York  to an  independent  cir-
culating library  and importing and  publishing
house in  Philadelphia, which he  transferred to
this city in  1865, and  in January, 1866, associ-
ated  with himself  Mr.  Henry  Holt.   Out of
their American  and European  Literary Bulletin
grew the  Publishers' Weekly, to which, after
March, 1871, when  Mr. Leypoldt finally  with-
drew from publishing, he devoted himself, mak-
ing it the principal  organ of the  book-trade of
this country, the fountain of accurate trade bib-
liography, and  the  most useful publication  (lit-
erary criticism apart)  for author,  publisher,  and
book-buyer  ever established on this side of the
water.  To Mr. Leypoldt's fertility of invention.
ardent persistency,  and  unmercenary self-sacri-
fice, we owe among  other periodicals  the Lit-
erary News, the  Library Journal, the Index Medi-
cus, various guides to books and to reading, the
 " Publishers' Trade-List Annual" (a congeries
of publishers' catalogues, with educational  and
other bibliographical lists for the year, compiled
from  those  given  monthly in the Publishers'
Weekly),  and the  monumental  "American
 Catalogue" of all woiks in print in this country
down to July 1, 1S70.  This enumeration gives
but a faint idea  of Mr. Leypoldt's  incessant ac-
 tivity, even  when we remember the part played
 by his able colaborers.   Some memorial of  this
 excellent man might well be expected from au-
 thors,  in acknowledgment  of  his  intelligent
 efforts on  behalf  of international  copyright ;
and from publishers, for his happy influence in
 promoting harmony and raising the tone of the
trade.
Harper's  Weekly  {Mr. G.  W. Curtis), from advance
                    proof.
   Two gentlemen, well known as  publishers  and
 bibliographers recently died upon the  same day,
Mr. Frederick Leypoldt in New  York and  Mr.
Nicholas  Triibner in  London.  Mr.  Leypoldt's
name was very familiar  a few years ago  in  the
firm of Leypolt  & Holt.   He was earnestly  de-
voted to the work of his life, which was bibliog-
raphy in  the largest sense, and " The American
Catalogue" is a  monument, of his knowledge, re-
search, and zeal,  To the end  he was closely
devoted to his useful literary labor, and his death
was hastened by his iudustry.
   Mr. Trtibner,  like Mr. Leypoldt, was  of  Ger-
man birth.   He was of  the same  general tastes,
even to the interest in  American literature, to
which  he  also  published  "A Bibliographical
Guide."  He was deeply interested in the litera-
ture of the Orient, and established the American
Oriental  Litenvy  Record.  Mr. Triibner  was a
diligent student,  and a welcome  contributor to
periodicals upon the subjects of his study.
   Both of  these gentlemen were modest and
faithful soldiers in the great army of letters, serv-
ing for love of the good cause, and serving effect-
ively.   The high prizes in that  service  are  not
very many, says Thackeray ;  but  single-hearted
devotion and a constant  labor that lightens  the
labors of others  win prizes of another kind—the
sincere respect and regard of all who know the
fidelity and its result.

          American Bookseller, April 1.
  The  death  of  Mr.  F.  Leypoldt,  editor and'
publisher  of the Publishers' Weekly, Pub-
lishers'  Trade-List Annual,  Literary News,  Li-
brary Journal, etc., the news of which has come
to us just as we are going to press, will be recog-
nized by the book-trade as a public loss.  Iden-
tified for many years with literary trade journal-
ism, his name has become almost a household
word with all those interested in publishing and
selling books.  For  many years before  his en-
trance into the field of  journalism,  Mr. Leypoldt
was a bookseller and publisher, and he brought
to his business, as editor and publisher of several
important trade journals,  a practical knowledge
and experience which were of inestimable value,..
To his practical knowledge he added a great love
for and knowledge of  books per se, and skill in,
bibliography.    Possessed of  unusual  energy;
persistence, and industry,  which  he  devoted
without stint  to his Avork,  his  death by brain,
fever was the penalty he, like many another, paid,
for overwork.   Mr. Leypoldt was  much beloved-,
and respected personally for his many noble
traits of character, and his loss will be felt by his
wide circle of friends, not less than by the book-
making and bookselling  profession.   He  died
on Monday, the 31st ult.  In  our  next issue we
trust to give a more extended account of  his
career.

     Brooklyn  Times (Mr. E. S. Brooks), April1.
   The book-trade of this  country  has sustained.;
an irreparable loss in the death in New York,
on Monday morning, of the bibliographer and
trade journalist,  Mr. Frederick Leypoldt.  Un-
known  out of the regular trade channels and
personally known to but few even  within them,
the untiring work of his life  in  the  interest  of
good literature and in  the more intelligent  clas-
sification  of all the minute details  of the publish-
ing and sale  of  books has been of inestimable
service  to the systematic diffusion of book knowl-
edge in this country.   He literally  died working.
The labor of his life was largely  unremunera-
tive and seemingly unappreciated,  but it is labor
of this kind that helps  to set the world  forward
even more than the acquiring of colossal fortunes
based on  the cupidity or the spoliation  of  our
fellow-men.  The  help to literary labor that Mr.
Leypoldt's  book-making  aids  have  been—the
Publishers'  Weekla', the  Literary  News, the
Library   Journal,  the Publishers'   Trade-List
Annual and the great  "American Catalogue"—
is probably incalculable, and, as the  result of a
life of ceaseless work all too. untimely closed at
forty-eight, the influence they have had and will
continue to have upon the mental  growth of the
nation  will  be his  own best monument.  By a
singular coincidence the cable brings us news of
the death of the eminent  English  bibliographer
and publisher, Mr.  Triibner, on the  same day
as  of his correspondent  and friend,  Mr. Ley-
poldt.
       N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, April 1.
   In the  death  of  Frederick  Leypoldt, and
scarcely less  in  that  of  Nicholas   Triibner,
American letters  suffer loss.  Both contributed
largely  to the advancement  of  American litera-
ture, the one in America,  the other in  England.
Both rendered eminent services to bibliography,. 
448
TJie  Publishers'  Weekly.         [No.  636] April 5,  '84.
not only as publishers, but as diligent and ac-
complished compilers.  Mr.  Leypoldt was the
originator of the scheme which gave us the Uni-
form Trade List,  and the  creator of  that  most
valuable bibliography,  " The American  Cata-
logue." The service which he rendered to gener-
al scholarship in the preparation  of that work is
not easily estimated, and  in the Index Medicus
he rendered  a like service to students of  medi-
cal literature.
  Mr. Triibner was the special friend of Ameri-
can  books in London.   His  " Bibliographical
Guide to American Literature" first gave  Eng-
lish readers a hint of the character and extent of
American literary activity, and his reprints gave
many of our writers their earliest introduction
to an appreciative  British audience.
  Both  these booksellers  combined a genuine
love of letters with their commercial  dealings ;
both were men of literary  taste and judgment  ;
and both held their business in too high respect
to make it mere trade.
                    Neav York, April 3, 1884.
  To Messrs. A. D. F. Randolph and Peter Carter, Com-
   mittee :
   Gentlemen :  Your announcement of the.Book
  Trade Meeting held yesterday has just been rer
  ceived.  Had it arrived in time we should have
  been pleased to attend.
   We  feel that in the death of Mr. Leypoldt the
  publishers  and booksellers have  lost a valued
  friend  and  helper whose place it will be  difficult
  to fill,  and  we shall be glad  to  have our name
 added  to any resolutions which  may have  been
 passed by those present at the meeting.
   Very respectfully,
                Fords, Howard & Hulbert.

                Philadelphia, April 1,  1884.
   It is with the sincerest grief that I learn of the
 -death of  Mr. Leypoldt.  There are but few men
 who ever  rise in  one's estimation above  the
 great  herd  of acquaintances, but I have, ever
 since I knew him first, had a  peculiar  liking,
 admiration, and respect for the man.   His kind-
 liness, strict integrity, indifference to his financial
 interests  where what he  believed to be his  duty
 was involved, and his untiring energy command-
 ed admiration, while his cheerful  behavior  and
 merry laugh—even his fits of extreme depression
 seemed to make one like him.
   The  world  is undoubtedly the worse  for  his
 death.  The  trade,  for  Avhich he has done so
 much—I suppose without exaggeration one might
 say  for which he has laid down his  life—can
 never hope  to have such a faithful slave again.
   Permit me to tender those who were so  closely
 connected with our dead friend  my  sincerest
 sympathy.       Yours  very faithfully.
                      Gilbert H. Shearer.

                    Buffalo, April 5, 1884.
   We are certainly pained to learn the particu-
 lars  of the death of Mr. Leypoldt.  Although we
 had  not the  honor  of a  personal acquaintance,
 we felt  as though Ave knew  him from the many
■enterprises undertaken by him in  the interest of
the  book-trade.  His  labors must have simply
been continuous and indefatigable to accomplish
such results.   We have read the Weekly thor-
oughly  for  weeks  and weeks  and  years  and
  years, and have always felt very much interested
  in all of the works brought out in Mr. Leypoldt's
  name.   We  have taken   pains to  show  them
  wherever chance offered itself, and they have one
  and all  been well received  and  are a lasting
  monument to Mr. Leypoldt's painstaking efforts
  in behalf of booksellers and publishers.  We ex-
  tend herewith our sympathies to his  friends  and
  colaborers, as well as to his family.
           Yours,        Peter Paul & Bro,

           Williamsport, Pa., April 4, 1S84.
   Never has the death of one I knew not brought
  such sorrow  to  my  heart  as  the  death of  Mr.
  Leypoldt, the announcement  of  which  I have
  just read in the Weekly.  I have  thought so
  often that I would like to see  him face  to face.
  Though I have been  in the book  business only
  two and a half years, I believe I do in a degree
  appreciate the noble work he has  accomplished.
  I belieye it both a duty and a pleasure to all the
  publishers  and  booksellers to unite  in some
 memorial to the man  who, so far as my very
 limited experience goes, has done more for  the
 book-trade than  any other.   Pardon  the length
 of this letter,  but I cannot but have a sympathy
 for his family and associates.
         Most  sincerely,       L. S. Tilton.

           Washington, D.C., April 2, 1884.
   It was  only  to-day  that I learned of  Mr.
 Leypoldt's death.  This sad news  was entirely
 a surprise to me, and a most painful one.  Dur-
 ing the twelve years in  which I have known Mr.
 Leypoldt I have  learned to have  a  feeling  of
 strong personal regard for him, and feel now as
 if I had  lost  an intimate   friend.  His honest
 career has always had my respect and  his kind-
 ness toward myself long since won my  regard,
 and I trust I may therefore  be  allowed to offer
 you my sincere sympathy at this time.
   Very truly yours,      Thorvald Solberg.

           Huntingdon,  Pa., April 5, 1884.
   I feel that I can't resist the impulse (and  be
 my feelings ever so poorly expressed) to tell you
 how much I sympathize with you in this present
 affliction.   Mr. Leypoldt and   myself  had  no
 personal  acquaintance, yet I have had quite  an
 amount of correspondence  with  him ; but his
 steady and unwavering  fight for  the  right, his
 perfect conception of what  was right, and his
 constant sermon  to unheeding ears—that right
 was the only watchword with which the American
 Book Trade could ever hope to  regain in any de-
 gree its former prestige—has been my admiration
 for years.   I am not now as intimately connected
 with the book-trade as formerly, but I am still a
 subscriber to The Publishers'*Weekly.  I have
 always hoped that he might some  day and  in
 some measure reap as he has sown,  but another
 reaper and a  greater one has  too  soon  passed
 that way.   It must be a source of satisfaction  to
you to have such a memory of an honest man, for
that he was an honest man there can be no ques-
tion.   Inherent honesty was shown  in every-
thing  he  did and every reform he advocated.
•  .  .   My  appreciation   of  his  work  and
methods  has  extended over all the years of his
connection with The Publishers' Weekly, and
rest assured no words written  you will be any
more heartfelt and sincere than these from
          Yours very truly,     J. C. Blair. 
Aprils, '84 [No. 636].        The Publishers' Weekly.                              449
          NICHOLAS TRUBNER.
  On the same day with the death of Frederick
Leypoldt  came the announcement of that of
Nicholas  Triibner,  of  London.   The  two had
much  in common.  They were animated by a
kindred purpose :  devotion to bibliography Avas
with each a passion ; they had been early cor-
respondents,  and  there  were direct and long-
continued  business  ties  betAveen them.   The
coincidence  of their death  was a  strange se-
quence to their kindred lives.  Mr. Triibner had
become a most successful publisher, but busi-
ness  success never diminished his interest in
bibliography  and  scholarship.  His services to
Oriental literature and to American bibliogra-
phy were  very great ;  every  reader of  "The
Light of Asia" has to thank Nicholas  Triibner
as well as Edwin Arnold.  Indeed all literature
and literary people had  in him a steadfast friend ;
his home in  London was a centre of sympathy
to  many authors and  those of literary tastes.
George Eliot found in Mr. and  Mrs.  Triibner
two of her stanchest friends,  and during  Bret
Harte's  early residence  abroad,  he was a fre-
quent recipient of  their generous  hospitality.
Mr. Triibner was genial,  enthusiastic,  warm-
hearted, in every relation of life, and the home
in which  his  kindly wife was indeed his help-
mate in an all-embracing sympathy, is a pleas-
ant remembrance  to many who mourn  his loss.
IIMIHIIIIIIIMIHWiyillllll'lllli I'UMIIIIMI Hi
         THE TRADE  MEETING.
   After the memorial  meeting to  Mr. Leypoldt,
held at No.  714 Broadway,  New York, April 2,
1884, the committee, consisting of Messrs. Ran-
dolph, Holt, and Putnam, reported the following
resolutions  regarding  the death  of   Nicholas
Triibner, Esq. :
  '' The publishers of New York, at a meeting held
April 2,  1884, Peter  Carter,  Esq., in the chair,
unanimously  resolved upon  the passage of the
following minute :
   " We have  heard with the deepest regret of the
death  of Nicholas Triibner,  of London.   By a
strange coincidence his  loss deprived American
bibliography of one of its founders  on  the day
before it lost, in  Frederick  Leypoldt,  its chief
contemporary promoter.
   " In Mr. Triibner our calling has been depriv-
ed of one of the men who made membership of it a
privilege.  His long, active, and  useful  career
had made his  name  known wherever European
culture was known, or Asiatic culture was studied.
His eminent services were recognized not only
by membership in various learned societies and
various orders  of knighthood, but by respect
and admiration from all who were familiar with
his career.
  " To too many  of us his death is a personal
bereavement.  Not a few of us have been delighted
by  his hospitality  and  some of us have been
honored by his friendship.
  " To those whose loss is still greater than ours,
we offer our sympathy  and the assurance  that
in the career they ought to find so much satis-
faction in remembering, we recognize an  example
well worth imitating."
   The resolutions were read by Mr. Randolph,
 and in seconding them Mr. Henry Holt  spoke
 tenderly and  fittingly of his intercourse with
 Mr. Triibner and of  the  love that  intercourse
 called out.   " I saw him frequently in 1879, and
 whenever I saw him he received me like  an
 elder  brother and showed me that with his won-
 derful  strength of character he had  a  heart  as
 gentle as a woman's."
   The resolutions were  unanimously accepted,
 and the meeting then adjourned.

                 A TRIBUTE.
 Boston Transcript, (Mr. Benj. H. Ticknor,) Mar. 31, 1884.
   Among publishers  who by their scholarly at-
 tainments have dignified  and  illustrated  their
 profession, and by their enterprise have exerted
 a civilizing and enduring influence in  the domain
 of general knowledge, and established new lines
 of commercial intercourse with distant countries
 and  peoples,   Nicholas  Triibner occupied   a
 very prominent place.  Born at  Heidelberg  in
 1817, his tastes early drew him to literature and
 decided his adoption of the business of booksell-
 ing.   After  serving with booksellers in various
 German cities, he attracted the attention of Mr.
 Longmans, of London, who secured Triibner for
 his own establishment.   Here he added a mas-
 tery of  the English book-trade to his  previous
 knowledge of Continental  methods, Avhich en-
 abled  him later  to  enter business for himself.
 One of the first  to  appreciate the value  of
 American literature, a tour in this country made
 him many valuable connections, some of which,
 such  as that with Ticknor & Fields, have con-
 tinued uninterruptedly to the present  time.   His
 " Bibliographical Guide to American  Literature"
 received just appreciation not only here but  in
 Europe.   In recognition  many learned societies
 of the  United States made  him  an honorary
 member.  It was the first systematic  synopsis
 of American literature, and still retains its  value
 for the American as well as the general scholar.
 Mr. Triibner then turned his attention to the
 literature of Asia, and established lines of com-
 munication with all the principal  cities  for the
 production of  Oriental works.  In this  connec-
 tion  he founded his " American and Oriental
 Literary Record," giving, as the title  states, a
 register of the most important works published
 in North and  South  America,  India, China,
 Europe, and the British colonies, with occasional
 notes  on  German,  Dutch,   Danish,  French,
 Italian,  Spanish,  Portuguese,   Russian, and
 Hungarian literature.  The  result of this labor
 and scholarship was to establish Mr.  Triibner  as
 the authorized publisher  of  more  than   fifty
 learned societies, and of the official publications
 of almost every branch of the British and colonial
 governments, and to constitute his  publishing
 house the foremost  in its line.   He may  fairly
 be called the father of the interest in  Oriental
 literature, which is now extending  even to this
 country, and of Avhich such authors  as Edwin
 Arnold and works as " The Light of  Asia" may
 be mentioned  as results.   Personally the  most
 genial,  companionable, and  generous  of  men,
 dispensing the most liberal hospitality and  draw-
 ing around him the most agreeable society and
 the most brilliant scholars, his death will  leave
 a void not  easily filled in society and  scholar-
 ship ;   and the sympathy of  all who have met
 him  in his  accomplished family will go out  to
 his Avidow (the daughter of Delepierre, the late
 Belgian consul at London) andJiis daughter, just
I budding into womanhood. 
45°
The Publishers' Weekly.        [No. 636] April 5, '84.
Frederick   Leypoldfs   Publications.
  THE PUBLISHERS'  WEEKLY.

  The  Publishers'  Weekly,  established  in

 1S72, with which was incorporated the Ametican

 Literary Gazette  and Publishers' Circular (estab-

 lished in 1852), by purchase  from Mr. George

 W. Childs, is recognized as the independent rep-

 resentative of the publishing and bookselling in-

 terests in the United States.

  The central feature of the  paper, that makes

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 and to literary people, is its Bibliographical De-

partment.  Every possible facility of reference is

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 season, and the year, under the author, the pub-

 lisher, the title, the subject, and the class.   It is

 acknowledged that no other journal, at home or

 abroad,  supplies as practical and  satisfactory a

 record of the  publications of its country.

  The bibliographical department includes :

  1. A "Weekly Record"" of all new American publications
 and reprints, giving their full titles (according to the rules of
 American Library Association), with place and date of pub-
 lication, publisher's name, size, number of pages, and price ;
 and also descriptive notes of books received. This first and
 practically the official record is arranged alphabetically by
 the authors or titles, and for ready reference is placed in
 the same accessible position in each number.
  2. A weekly " Order List,'" being brief-title entries, with
 prices, of  the " Weekly Record," arranged alphabetically
 by the publishers.  The object of this list is to present at a
 glance the simultaneous issues of certain publishers, and to
 save time in the making up of order?.
  3. A  monthly "Index to  the Weekly Record" being
 short-title entries, with  the publisher's name and the size
 and price, arranged  alphabetically by  the authors, with
 references from the titles or catchwords, and from  the
 subjects.  AVith each entry is given also the number of  the
 " Weekly  Record" containing the full-title entry and note.
  4. A monthly " Class Synopsis,'1'' grouping the works of
 the month under such heads as Biography, Description,
 Education, Fiction, Fine Arts, History, Law, Literature,
 Medical Science, Physical  and Mathematical Sciences,
 Poetry  and the Drama, Political and  Social Science,
 Theology and Religion, etc.
  5. A semi-annual classified list of Forthcoming Publica-
 tions, given in the Spring and Fall Announcement num-
 bers, in which also the announced books are more fully de-
 scribed  under the name of the publishers, arranged alpha-
 betically.
  6. An annual Index to the books of the year, advertised
 by the more prominent publishers in the so-called Annual
 Summary  Number, which generally is published in the last
 week of January.  In this number is also given a classified
 summary of the more prominent publications of the year.
  7. Regular Lists of the Season, published as follows: A
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 a priced list of the Holiday Books and prominent Juvenile
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  10. Special Bibliographies. The timely bibliography,
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to thousands of  readers.   In substance  it has-
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fulfilling its mission in  the interests of the book-
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lishers' Weekly, which now so thoroughly cov-
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wants of readers and students.

  Its plan is to present each month a full survey
of current literature, by means of  brief  reviews-
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are quoted only from recognized literary journals-
Their selection is  made with an aim not merely
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are given almost every month, and the " Literary
Miscellany."   Of  special interest to the student
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classification of the magazine contents ; (3) ref-
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anything written in  the  interest of reading and
study.

  A complete index, by authors,  titles, or sub-'
jects, makes the annual  volumes  accessible  for
permanent reference.   $1 per year. 
April 5, '84 [No.  636].        The Publishers'  Weekly.
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  THE  AMERICAN CATALOGUE.

  The  American   Catalogue  compiled  by  F.
Leypoldt and Lynds E. Jones, aims  to  present.
for the first time, all the  bibliographical features
of the books in the American market, arranged in
iheyirsl volume alphabetically by both authors and
titles, and in the second volume alphabetically by
subjects.   Over nine hundred publishers are rep-
resented, among whom is a great number of the
smaller publishers  and publication  societies, of
whose books it has  hitherto been  almost im-
possible to keep track ; and  the two  volumes
aggregate 1490 large quarto double-column pages
containing over 125,000 entries.  As it was im-
practicable  to bring the body of the Avork down
to  a later date than July, 1876, Avithout further
delaying its appearance, an appendix has been
added to the first  volume, containing  the pub-
lications of most of the leading houses issued sub-
sequently to that date, and an index to this ap-
pendix  is given in each volume.   As a further
aid,  a list  of  bibliographies is prefixed  to the
second  volume  to assist the student in prosecut-
ing his  researches beyond  the  province  of  the
catalogue proper.   These two lists serve to bridge
over the interval elapsing during the compilation
and publication of the work, and thus practically
remedy a defect inherent in all such publications.
   The catalogue thus forms the  only  approxi-
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 thor, or the title,  or  the subject.   It not only
 furnishes the  desired  information  about any
 particular book of which  the  consulter is  in
 search,  but shows  what others there  are  by the
 same author, or on the same subject in which he
 is interested.   To the bookseller, therefore, it is
 valuable both in filling orders and in stimulating
 business ; to the librarian, in supplying gaps and
 proportioning his collection ; and to all who are
 practically concerned with  books, in  furnishing
 information which nowhere else is obtainable by
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 Two volumes,  unbound (folded), $40; half mo-
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    It is with a view to securing a  new and in-
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  and also with the  hope that by meeting an im-
  mediate want an  opportunity may be given  the
  publisher to retrieve his losses, that it has been
I  decided to proceed at once to the preparation  of
I  a supplement bringing the work  down  to 1833. 
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It is intended to prepare the work on the plan
that has been found the most practical for ready
reference ; viz., giving the  bibliographical data,
as customary,  under  the author, and the refer-
ences from the title and subject; but all in one
alphabet and in one volume.
  All those interested in  this foundation of our
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1882.
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                The American

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       BOOKS OF ALL TIME,

A Guide for the Purchase  of Books.   With  a
  brief Purchase-List revised for Season 1882-83.
  Compiled  by  F. Leypoldt  and Lynds E.
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 thus forms a compact  and novel manual of clas-
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     BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.

A Guide for Parents and Children, compiled by
  C. M. Heavins, Librarian of Hartford Library
  Association.    321110.    Price,  in  paper,  25
  cents.
  " Meets most admirably the demand for carefully select-
ed lists, and contains also valuable and interesting counsel."
—W. E. Foster.
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   LIBRARIES AND  READERS.

Chapters of suggestion and counsel on the  sub-
  ject of reading, the use of books and of libraries.
  By William E.  Foster,   Librarian  of the
  Providence Public  Library, and compilerj of
  the "  Monthly Reference Lists."   i6mo, cloth,
  50 cents.

  Contents.—Some Hints on Right Reading ; Correction of
Aimless Reading ; The Specializing of Reading, for General
Readers;  "Current Literature" and '•Standard Litera-
ture;" Securing the Interest of a Community ;  What may-
be Done at Home ; How to Use a Library ; Books and
Articles on Reading.
  " Full of good sense, begotten of zeal and experience.  It
should be placed in every school library."—Boston Adver-
tiser.


  LIBRARIES  AND  SCHOOLS.

Papers selected by Samuel S.  Green,  Librarian
  of the Free Public Library, Worcester, Mass.
  i6mo, cloth, 50 cents.

  Addresses and papers which have done much
to convince teachers that important aid may  be
had in  their work,  by making a large  use  of
libraries ;. and giving accounts of  successful ex-
periments made in different places, by librarians
and teachers, in bringing about a use of libraries
which has proved valuable  to schools.

  Contents.-The Public Library and the Public  Schools,
by Charles Franc.sAdams, Jr.;  The Relation of the Pu&
lie Library to  the Schools, by Samuel S. Green ;  Libraries
as Educational Institutions, by Samuel S. Green •  The Pub-
C M*£.7f .aSTK W^ l?^ P,?blic Scho°>s' by Robert
C. Metcalf; TheRelation of Libraries to the  School Sys-
tern, by W.lliam E. Foster ; A Plan of Systematic Trainee
in Reading at School, by William E. Foster.       r-"»nB

.v"AL1.?f,thcSe?apers d«erve  and will no doubt receive:
thoughtful consideration."—Critic.                 e