New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-01
LITERARY NOTES.

The Rev. T. +. Thiselton Dyers Domestic FOLK
Lore " is the latest volume in Casselfs popular
library.
Mr.. NJ. T. Bgelow. corrector Mt the UNIVERSITY
Press Cambridge, Mass, has prepared n.'1 @,'a
ual of Punctuation and other Typographical Ni"'
tersv lee d. Shepard, for the use OF primers
authors. teachers and scholars. The chapters Oh
printing and accounting classical ana moooin
languages are especially useful to composi'ors.
manor entitled "Tle German Empire " will ap-
near in the September Harper explaining 'no COM
plex functions of the German Goverhmeh' I'D i''
various departments 1t is similar In Its purpose 10
the articles that have already appeared i'll HorpT
ON the French and English Governments, ana ls by
Mr. Herbert futile, who appointed recently
nonresident professor of International Law at Cor
nell University He is the author of several interest
ing works relating to foreign politics.
American innovation" disturbs the happiness OF
testy English cousins one of whom writes to The
Pail Mall Gazette: Every lover of good English is
revolted by the aspect of page of an English
classic as il comes from American press, with its
honor farU, neghbor, theGtr, and other kindred
denominations. Why is it, then, should like
to know, that the malpractice is
to be found in existence among those who might be
expected to be most fastidiDus in such thingss III
an advertising circular tells me that such and such
tradesman has the honor to inform me of this or
that am not particularly surprised, though do
than other things. But what is surprising is that
people who ought to know better-ifI may judge
from an accumulation of the seasons cards on my
table-unformly and without exception desire the
honor of my company at dinner, and request the
1dr0r of answer"
AS all the world knows, Leipsic is the great book
market of Germany. 1t retains its supremacy by
the completest organization the trade has ever seem
Influences are at work, however, which, The London
Bookseller thinks, will break eventually tins
organization and introduce the English and French
trade system The present SYSTEM designed origin
ally to benefit the provincial retailer has now be-
come his oppressor. " Every German bookseller OF
importance, be he publisher or retailer, is repre-
sented at Leipsic by agent OF the larger agents
there are about thirty, of whom have over 800
clients The agents keep the stock of their pub
Usher clients collect and transmit the orders of the
retailers and settle the accounts of the trade by
system analogous to that which obtains in the Lon
don Bank Clearing House. Formerly by far the
greater part of the whole German book trade
was transacted in this way, the Leipsic agent
being the connecting link between, say, the
Stuttgart publisher and the Breslau retailer,
and enabling the to supply the other at mini
mum of cost and time. So things went on until the
great cheapening of postal communication and of
transport in general which the last fifteen years
have brought about" Then sprung up class called
the "Leipslc mdersellers" who are not without
kindred in this country They had the stock of the
whole German trade at their elbow, and the provin
cial customer can buy cheaply through them
than through the local dealer. The bank of the
trade is in Lepsc. and everything that strengthens
the trade organization improves the facilities of the
"underselers," who scarcely be rooted out
without radical change in the present trade organ
ization.