The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-27
BOOKS AND BOOKMAKERS.


out, with 100000 words.
OVER 100000 Christmas cards are
sent out Of Great Britain annually.
THE public libraries of France have
4 100000 volumes, of which l,55O,OOO
are in Paris.
THE Salvation Army distributed last
year in thirteen languages 23,470, $50
publications.
QUITE a number of stationers and
paper men have recently been elected
TO the London School Board.
The complaint of the Belgian print
ers against prison labor is to be exam
ined into by the government.
AN international exhibition is to be
held at Liverpool. Paper, stationery,
printing and book binding will be ex-
tensively exhibited.
A french economist estimates the
value of the paper made in the United
States and Europe at Sl00,000,0t0 per
annum; its weight is 100000 tons
The Hoffman House is about get
ting out a catalogue that will cost S20,-
600. The ink used cost $50 pound.
The catalogue Will contain sixty-eight
pages.
STATIoSERs on both sides of the
water are discovering that good sta
tionery pays, while poorer qualities do
not. Some manufacturers have been
ong time making this discovery.
STATIoNERs, paper mat ers and
printers in Great Britain are being Sc
lected for public positions much more
generally than elsewhere. There it is
regarded as an honor, here dishonor.
"PAPER AND Press" published in
Philadelphia, still holds its own as
one of the most useful publications
devoted to paper makers, pressmen,
compositors, job printers and pub
fishers.
OVER 1000 women are compositors
in Paris and are giving the male print
ers a good zeal OF trouble because Of
low-prieed labor. Book-work is going
to Paris from the provinces on this ac-
count.
AN international exhibition will be
held at Edinburgh May 4. G ass 5
will include paper, stationery, etc. !;
Glass II, educational, technical and
scientific books and appliances; Glass
IA will include maps, globes and dia-
grams, etc.
ENGLISH paper makers report quite
an increase in paper export. Imports
of foreign paper fall off in quantity
but increase in value. During nine
months last year, one-half million dol
lars worth of foreign stationery was
imported into England.
Iva certa Austrian town thirty
female printers were introduced, ! he
typographical society adopted a novel
way of removing them. 1t took some
two or three years to do it, but it was
accomplished at last, by the girls all
becoming the wives of the p inters.
THE Senate Committee on Patents
will hear further testimony before it
makes its report upon the interna-
tional copyright bill. The committee
will do well to take note of this one
proposition: No cop right bill can or
ought to be passed which makes for
eign books contraband and American
books unnecessarily dear. The foreign
authors right of property in the pro.
ducts of his pen should be recognized
and protected here. The American
publishers ri Int to make money in
his business is already recognized
and is amply protected by the present
% per cent. duty upon imported
books.
CATALOGUES are increasing in cost,
beauty and expansiveness. One New
YORK silver house is paying out $780,
600 for an edition of 1000 copies, to
contain 400 pages, or 1900 words, with
steel engravings, Photographic and
lithopraphic sketches. This book
weighs fourteen pounds. The edition
consumed for y-five tons of the finest
and heaviest calendered paper; twelve
tons of cardboard, 5000 yards of the
finest silk cloth for covers. The press
work for the 1000 copies cost $4,000
100000 sheets of gold leaf and $4,000
sheets of silver leaf were used. As
many as fifteen tints have been used in
some of these catalogues; three colors
are used on the covers.
A NEW department which will be
opened in LippiRo0H Monthly Mdgd2in'
for April promises TO prove of unusual
interest. 1t will be called "Our Expe
rience Meetings." and will afford {
sort of public confessional for promi
nent men and women of all callingi
and classes who feel autobiography
cally disposed To the April meeting
Julian Hawthorne contributes my
Literary Autobiography" Edgar Faw
cett, "a Few Literary Experiences; ;
and Joel Chandler Harris, a semi
humorous sketch of his own career
under the title of "An Academia
, Author" In early numbers will ap
pear "The Experiences of an Amateur
Reader" by Mrs. James Brown Potter
in which the "'Ostler Joe" episode
: will for the first time be placed in (
! rorrect light before the public; "HoV
! / Became an Author" by Hen y Gre
; Vile; Literary Confessions of West
ern Poetess," by Ella Wheeler VIII
r cox; Experiences of an Art Model,
, by Charlotte Adams, etc.
Funk q WAGEALLs, in a length,
card, successfully defend themselve
aga INST the aspersions of the Brook
lyn Union for having divided tn,
, $1,000 prize offered for the name o
the author of the Bunting Ball" be
tween the 200 or 800 persons witt
made the right guess, and they say
1t is not true that we have not KEEP
the letter and spirit of the contract il
our offer. We did not compel tn,
persons who guessed correctly to TAX
pay in our books. We gave them tn,
option of taking books at a discoun
or cash. The fact is that nineteenth
. of the amount was paid in cash, AM
the other tenth was not paid in casl
only because the "guessers" preferred
the books. We went beyond the let
! ter of our offer. By our offer tn,
money was 10 be paid when 1900
copies were sold. Ten thousand copie
were not sold-Only 5000 were dis
posed of. We we're under no obllga
ton to pay the money now: W.
would have been perfectly fair his
we refused TO distribute the none!
until the ten thousanth copy ha'