Evening star., 1937-03-21

sible attention. Remittances should
be made payable to the receiver gen.
eral Of Canada, and If from points out
side Canada must include postage
and registration fees In addition to the
face value of the stamps.
ITO meet the wishes of first-day
cover collectors arrangements are be-
ing made to furnish advance supplies
of the new stamps to the district di-
rector Of Postal Services at Ottawa,
Canada
Persons desiring to secure first
day covers should forward (under
cover) to the district director of Postal
Services, Ottawa, any covers intended
for transmission on the first day Of
issue, April /, together with remit
tance by postal money order express
order or bank draft (not personal
check for the face value Of the stamps
desired to be ,.sed, payable to the re-
ceiver general Of Canada at the Cana
dian point OF mailing. If blocks of four
stamps are required to be used, covers
affording the necessary space must be
sent.
Requests for first-day covers must
not include orders for stamps in mint
condition, as issued
1T is expected that further denom-
nations OF this series, namely: Four,
five and eight cents, will be issued at
an early date"
BY courtesy of Rev. DR.. Anson
Phelps Stokes former secretary cf
Yale University, now canon residen-
tiary at Washington Cathedral, a list
OF philatelic publications recently Of
fered for sale by famous London
firm OF book dealers is reproduced as
follows: Account of the Celebration
OF the Jubilee of Uniform Inland
Penny Postage, 1840-1890';; Postage
Stamps of the Great War and After"
by D. B. Armstrong, 1919; Stanley
Gibbons philatelic hand book on Gre
NADIA, Sir Edwin Denny Bacon and
F. H. Napier, 1902; Forty Years at
| the Post Office: Personal Narrative, +"
F.. E. Baines, 1895; "On the Trail of
the Mail Coach" same author. 1895;
"A Plan for Obtaining a More Speedy
Postage Communication Between Lon
don and the Distant Part of the King
COM" H. Burgess, 1919; The Ad-
hesive Stamp: a Fresh Chapter in the
History Of Post Office Reform" p.
Chalmers, 1881; THE Penny Postage
Scheme of 1897: Was 1t an Invention
or a Copy?" same author, 1881; "Cata-
logue of Postage Stamps, American
and Foreign, and U. S. Revenue
Stamps" George Dexter, 1868: "Al-
bum Weeds R. B. Earee, 1882 Life
OF Henry FaWcett, Postmaster Gen
eral," Leslie Stephen, 1886; The
Postal Changes" ]. Gilbert 1850;
Outline of Postal History and Prac-
tice, With History of the Post Office
of India" I. G. j. Hamilton. l9l0
Life and Letters of Sir John He,i-
mixer Heaton, Postal Reformer," Mrs.
| Adrian Porter, 1916, Post Office Re !.
| form: It's Importance and Practica-
bility; Private and Confidential Sir
Rowland Hill, 1887; Life of Sir Row
land Hill and History of Penny Post
age" 1880; Sir Rowland Hill: the
Story of Great Reform" 1907 His
tory of the Post Office, Together With
an Historical Account of the Issue of
Postage Stamps in New South Wales. -
| A. HouiSon, 1890; The Royal Mail,
| It's CurioSities and Romance" j. W.
Hyde, 1885, Illustrated Catalogue Of
| All known Reprints of Officially Is
sued Postage Stamps, Envelopes, Post
cards, Wrappers, Etc" Dr. Kalckhof
and Harry HIckes, 1892; Historical
Summary of the Post Office in Scot
land" T. B. Lang, 1856, Her Majes-
tvs Mails: an Historical and Descrip-
tive Account of the British Post
Office" w. LeWins.
Also, The International Directory
of Philatelic Literature Collectors" v
Marsh, 1908; THE British Post Office
From Its Beginnings" C. F. Dendy
Marshall, 1926, The Postal Union in
Story and in Stamps" Fred j. Mel
vile, 1929; THE Mayfair Find of Rare
Stamps" same author, 1925; "Cata-
logue and Price List of the Stamps of
Great Britain W. Morley, 1897; De-
velopment of Rates of Postage" A. D
Smith, 1917; Half a Century in the
Dead Letter Office" G. R. Smith, 1908;
Stamp Collectors Magazine" 1863
1864. "A History of Postal Agitation
From Fifty Years Ago. H. G. Swift
1900, The London Postal Service of
Today" r. C. Tombs. 1891; The Bris-
tol Royal Mail" same author, 1900;
The Kings Post: Being a Volume OF
Historical Facts Relating to the Posts
Mail Coaches, Coach Roads and Rail-
way Mail Services of and Connected
With the Ancient City of Brits Bristol
From $780," same author, 1906; "Ro-
nance of Common Stamp" w
Ward, 1927; Postage Stamps of the
Papal States same author. 1929, and
Royal Mail to Ireland" E, Watson
1917.
Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin
has introduced Senate bill No. l74l
to change the existing law against the
reproduction of stamp designs. The
text of his proposal reads: ITO amend
existing law to permit the printing and
publishing of Illustrations of United
States postage and revenue stamps for
philatelic purposes, be it enacted by
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives OF the United States Of America,
in Congress assembled, that title l8
United States Code, 1884 edition, be
amended by inserting the following
section, to wit: '220 (a) That nothing
in sections 161, 172, 2l9 and 22o OF
the act entitled "An act to codify, re-
wise and amend the penal laws of the
United States" approved March
1909, as amended (U S. C. 1884 edi-
ton, title 18, secs. 275, 286, 348 and
349), shall be construed to forbid OF
prevent the printing or publishing
of illustrations in black and white Of
United States and foreign postage OF
revenue stamps from plates so defacec
as to indicate that the illustrations are
not adapted or intended for use as
stamps, if such illustrations are fol
use in philatelic books, journals or al