The New York herald., 1866-09-06
PUBLISHERS CONVENTION.

Conventions are the order os tho day. Not less i'm
port,n than mos, Of those held by politicians s the
convention OF publishers and booksellers today OF the
new trade sale Broadway. Messrs Leavist,
slrebeigh Co win preside IL aud sellers and buy
ere from North and South from East and West viii
meot las Bill Arp uscd 20 sayl "banonze Trade.
after all prove OF tho safest aud sreediest
agents OF reconstruction the politicians do not hurry
up they may find that the Publishers and other classes
OF merchants have quietly anticipated some OF them.
and baed The rest by ciociing practical restoration
OF the Union.
We wish The high price OF paper land or sodl might
not prevent the publishers la convention assembled
from resolving and sticking to tho resoutcuto lower
the almost fabulous prices which books have attained II
the present continue 10 rule, II not 10 rise,
those who read and study books will mostly have 10
sold az lons AZ Mrs Petroleum and Mr. shoddy affect
them The righ sort OF thing TO buy with the resi- OF
the house lnrrure In the long rnn however, we are
inclined 10 think that the readers OF books Will prove
tho bot cnstonora little more consideration for
their pockets would ray.
N Costly rs books they sell rrodeiousy Poo
pie may not read moro than Of old but there are mora
people 10 read The increasing population % the United
stntes offer an immense an Unlimited market tie
publishers in Eagland and America And Il 4 reaiing
population everywhere alole the ltes of railway ana
Steamboat travel, and TO great extent els,whcI from
A. widely dinusei that what DoQuncey said of Germany
not Wholly lnarrcshie . our own country -"iniei.
ectua culture has mauured the whole soil, not district
bot i has penetrated,
The buky catalogue Of DE New York Trade Sale with
is supplcuient shows how fully the grcwing dcmand Is
supplied No previous catalogue has exceeded TINS IN
compass variety aud extent Falsius and csitenburs
would BE- much ariazed rs hir contempyraries were
at their 'dcvilf work. OF multiplying Bibles, n they
couid come 10 life aud attend this trade sale From
DoIay and oxford Bibles and srefb editions ~ casi
cal works In literature and sccnce 20 the latest aud
met cphemcrai pamphlet, they would zee sampies o
evc-y kind OF Publication About hundred and twenty
eminent publishers including score Of Brisr publish
eis have contributed large qusntitlc, q ,hcr leading
books Harper Bros. are almost the only American
ntn n note unroprcscused Al this convention oi
publishers I, cannot fat 20 be very attractive
sale More than s3cJ00o worth OF books atc 70 b. sold
All print on the catalogue arc 10 10 sold without
serve but new feature is that no duplicates will be
offered. Among the largest invoices IN the catalogue
are those Of J. B Tippinoo,t 4 Co, Of PhiIsdcpha.
Tcknor Fields ~ Boston, ShsdonS Co H. Appleton
Co, Charles scribner Co, Mason Brothers and W
j. widde,on, OF New York Gould Lincoln. and Z.
l5oo sets Of album pictures. variety Of l.ho-chrcms
,ic fnc sissies OF fno oil paintings aud large assort
ment OF their popular juvenlc works Tho principal
foreign contributors arc H. a. Bohn, strahan Co, and
Cassei pcItsf Gapin The sale opens this morning al
nine O'Clock, with the invoice Of ilpriuco,t Co, of
Phrsdeiphs which Otis 'hsy Two psses y, ,he GAIA
i9gAs.