To SUBSCRIBERS.-Much inconvenience has been caused during the past year by the publica- tion of two editions of the BIBLIOPOLIST. For the future, one uniform edition on fine paper will be published, the subscription to which will be one dollar per year. NOW READY.-THE AMERICAN BIBLIOPOLIST, VOL. 4, THICK 8vo, 656 pp., CLOTH, UNCUT EDGES, $3.00; HALF MOROCCO, ROXBURGHE REMIT FOR 1873.-Subscribers who desire a continuance of the BIBLIOPOLIST will kindly favor us by remitting one dollar, the amount of the subscription for the current year. The Title and Index to the 4th volume are now ready, and may be had on application to the publishers. Price ten cents. Many of the back numbers of the BIBLIOPOLIST are out of print. The publishers can, however, supply one or two sets bound in cloth, uncut edges, as follows: Vol. 1, $4.25 ; The New Standard Book of Ornament. MESSRS. J. 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To each plate is joined a page of text descriptive of the Ornament, its epoca, denomination of style, &c. The whole work is preceded by a valuable history of the rise and progress of Ornament, sketching its various changes, its relation to the progress of civilization, and other matters of collateral information, illustrated and explained by numerous woodcuts. From its historical and practical value it is a work which no public library should be without, and it is equally desirable to the Fine Art Collector from its additional qualification of beauty and delicacy of execution. The Subscribers will be glad to receive orders from t e Trade and others at once. J. SABIN & SONS, 84, NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. Vol. V. A Monthly Literary Register and Repository of Notes and Queries. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1873. LITERARY (AND OTHER) GOSSIP. Mr. George Cruikshank writes, with reference to an illustration in the Christmas number of London Society, announced as by "George Cruikshank," that it is not his work, but that of a son of Mr. Percy Cruikshank, his nephew. It is curious to find the veteran caricaturist, who was in the infancy of his fame when George III was King, should find himself competing for his own name with his grandnephew. Dr. John G. Shea has in the press (to be published by subscription only) "A History of the Early French and Spanish Missions within the Limits of the United States." Twenty years since Dr. Shea published a work of this character, and now proposes to issue an enlarged and improved edition, embracing the extensive material afforded by the printed, and especially the manuscript matter, that has become accessible during that period. The work will form two volumes octavo, to match Charlevoix's New 'France. The edition will be limited to 100 copies, and will be supplied to subscribers at $7.50 a set. Subscribers' names will be received by J. Sabin & Sons. Piety and business are very pleasantly blended in the following copy of a circular, which it is said has recently been issued by a commercial firm in Bombay: "Gentlemen, we have the pleasure to inform you our respected father departed this life on the inst. His business will be continued by his beloved sons, whose names are stated below. The opium market is quiet, and Malwa 1,500rs. per chest. 0, grave! where is thy sting? O, death! where is thy victory?' We are yours truly." A recent number of Henry Ward Beecher's paper makes the assertion that the Rev. John Weiss, who is presently to lecture on Shakespeare in this city, was prevented delivering his Shakespearian discourse in Association Hall on account of the "unsoundness of his theology. We hope that this rumor is not true; for the Young Men's Christian Association is too valuable and decent a body to incur deserved ridicule without deep pain being given to thousands of very excellent citizens. But if Mr. Weiss is not to be allowed to lecture on Shakespeare because he happens not to have precisely the same religious belief as that of the officers of the society in question, perhaps it would be as well for these gentlemen to attain consistency by subjecting to a rigorous catechism every lecturer whom they permit to speak in their hall. It would be interesting to learn, for instance, what Mrs. Scott-Siddons thinks is the chief end of man, and what are Mr. Yates' views on original sin and justification by faith. Mr. Bellew ought to be required to print his confession of faith on the billboards, and Bret Harte and John Hay should be compelled to explain by what means the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation. Let us have no loose way of doing this business. If Mr. Pickwick's heartless warming pans and tomato sauce were merely an ingenious symbolism for expressing erotic frenzy, who knows but that Mr. Weiss' lectures on Shakespeare are a dark pretence concealing the theism of a Theodore Parker or the optimism of a Frothingham? If "soundness" of religious doctrine is to be the condition of a lecturer's being permitted to appear upon the stage of Association Hall, let the officers of that association prepare a theological test formula at once. This will simplify matters, and, while freeing us from the pernicious liberalism of a wicked Weiss, not subject us to the pious vagaries of a Harriet Beecher Stowe or the picturesque paganism of the author of "Little Breeches."Herald. D. M. Dewey, Rochester, has published "Later Lays and Lyrics," by W. H. C. Hosmer, author of "Legends of the Senecas." The Boston Gazette says that Mr. Edwin Forrest, a short time before his death, offered Mr. James Parton $5,000 to write his biography. The Lancet understands that Mr. Tom Taylor has left the Government service, the office he held having been superseded by the new Local Government Board. He entered the public service in 1850 as assistantsecretary to the then Public Health Act Board, at £750 per annum, and, in 1858, was appointed secreretary under the Local Government Act at a salary of £1,000 a year. He now retires at the age of fiftyfive, with a pension of £650 a year. |