PATENTED HINGE BACK Photographic MAR. 15, 1864. ALBUMS. We respectfully call the attention of the trade to the above Album, it having the advantages of LAYING OPEN PERFECTLY FLAT, and being MORE DURABLE THAN ANY OTHER ALBUM MADE. The following notices of the press of this city will readily show its superiority over all others as to strength, &c. What the AMERICAN LITERARY GAZETTE AND PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR says: DICK & FITZGERALD, No. 18 Ann Street, New York, THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN: OR, ETIQUETTE AND ELOQUENCE A Book of Information and Instruction for those who desire to become Brilliant and Conspicuous in General Society; or at Parties, Dinners, or at Popular Gatherings. Containing Model Speeches for all Occasions, with Directing how to deliver them; 500 Toasts and Sentiments for every body, and their proper mode of introduction. With an im rican Code of Politeness for every Occasion: Etiquette at Washington, &c. &c. To which is added, The Duties of a Chairman of a Public Meeting, with Rules for the Order Conduct thereof; together with Valuable Hints and Exam for Drawing up Preambles and Resolutions, and a great deal of instructive and amusing matter never before pubisted. 12mo., cloth, nearly 400 pages. Price $1 25. Also, HILLGROVE'S THE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. Hinged back, patented July 21, 1863. Manufactured by Altemus & Co., Philadelphia. Hinged back, patented July 21, BALLROOM GUIDE, In this patent binding each leaf is attached to a small rod covered with morocco, forming a separate hinge of its own, admitting the book to be opened to its full extent without dan ger of the slightest injury. This ingenious invention cannot fail to be universally approved, as it combines utility with beauty. The manufacturers have done good service in making so decided an improvement in an article in such great demand. What the PUBLIC LEDGER says: The AN IMPROVEMENT IN BOOKS.-Photograph Albums have become as indispensable as photograph likenesses. Altemus & Co. have just completed their new patented continuous hinge back album, which they are now delivering to the trade, being the most complete and substantial book made. trouble with most albums of this kind is that the leaves, secured by the ordinary way to the back of the book, are liable to break away. By this new method, each separate leaf turns on a neat, and easily working hinge, so that there is no strain whatever upon the back of the book, and the leaves remain perfectly secure within the covers. Applied to all books, particularly large and heavy ones, this would be a great improvement. What the NORTH AMERICAN says: IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING.-Altemus & Co., of this city, have completed their preparations for applying, on a large scale, the new method of binding which they recently patented. This consists of a continuous hinge back, so constructed as to combine the greatest possible flexibility with a degree of durability which no other process has hitherto accomplished. For photographic albums, account books, and, indeed, all descriptions of books which require to be frequently opened, the new plan offers very superior advantages, and we cannot doubt that it will speedily be introduced into general use. What the SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES says: AND COMPLETE PRACTICAL DANCING-MASTER Containing a Plain Treatise on Etiquette and Deportmen Balls and Parties, with Valuable Hints in Dress and the 7 let. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy-six desty tive engravings and diagrams. By THOMAS HILLGROVE, Professor of Dancing, 237 Pages, bound in Cloth, with gilt side and back, 75 Bound in boards, with cloth back, Also, THE PARLOR MAGICIAN; Or, One Hundred Tricks for the Drawing-Room Containing an Extensive and Miscellaneous Collection of Cons juring and Legerdemain; Sleights with Dice, Dons Cards, Ribbons, Rings, Fruit, Coin, Balls, Handkerchie etc., all of which may be Performed in the Parlor or Drawing room, without the aid of any apparatus; also embrac choice variety of Curious Deceptions, which may b formed with the aid of simple apparatus; the whole trated and clearly explained with 121 engravings. Paper covers, price. 25 cents. Bound in boards, with cloth back, 38 cents. Also, The Patented PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM, Altemus & Co., manu- THE DEVOUT CHURCHMAN'S COMPANION facturers, Philadelphia. The patent secured on this ingenious invention is for a combination hinge, holding the leaves together securely, and admitting the book to be opened to its fullest extent without the slightest injury. The style of finish of the one before us is chaste and beautiful, and we believe it to be decidedly the strongest photograph album made. We are prepared to furnish the trade at greatly reduced prices, our Albums without the Patent Hinges. Catalogues, with styles and prices, sent on appli cation. ALTEMUS & CO., Manufacturers and Patentees, N. W. corner Fourth and Race Streets, PHILADELPHIA. or, A Faithful Guide in Prayer, Meditation, and the p tion of the Holy Eucharist. Edited by the Right Bev, W ODENHEIMER, A. M., Bishop of New Jersey, author of “Ye Churchman Catechized," "The True Catholic no Romanis | etc. The merits of this standard work are too well known comment. The "Companion" will find a place in the library and clot of every true "Churchman." 12mo. Cloth, bevelled ba and red edges. Price $1. In Press, DR. AITKIN'S SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. DICK & FITZGERALD, No. 18 Ann Street, New York WILLMER & ROGERS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in MAR. 15, 1864. Foreign Newspapers, Magazines, and Books, 47 Nassau Street, New York. DON). LONDON SOCIETY-(Splendidly illustrated). CHURCHMAN'S FAMILY MAGAZINE-(Illustrated). ROYAL MAGAZINE (New)-(Illustrated). ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE. CHRISTIAN WORK. And others. Corrected Lists of all British Newspapers, and Periodicals are published every month, and sample copies of any publication furnished, or imported on order. We are also the specially appointed Agents in America for the eminent publishing house of MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER, LONDON, and keep for sale a stock of their most desirable Books, which we can furnish to the Trade on very favorable terms. We keep a full assortment of SMITH, ELDER, & CO.'S SHILLING SERIES OF STANDARD WORKS OF FICTION. 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WILLMER & ROGERS, 47 Nassau St., New York. (Established 1844.) E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS, 501 Broadway, New York. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS. Of these we manufacture a great variety, ranging in price from 50 cents to $50 each. Our ALBUMS have the reputation of being superior in beauty and durability to any others. Extract from the Home Journal. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.-There is a most dazzling display of these beautiful holiday presents at ANTHONY'S, 501 Broadway. One peculiarity of the albums of this house is their durability. They will retain their shape, appearance, and freshness, when most others shall have become tarnished, or fallen to pieces. This is a very important point in an article so much handled as an album. 147 Prominent Foreign Portraits. 2,500 COPIES OF WORKS OF ART, Including reproductions of the most celebrated Engravings, Paintings, Statues, &c. ̧ Catalogues sent on receipt of Stamp. 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OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, 27th February, 1864. SIR: On looking over my notes of what has been done in the various fields of literature during the present month, it is pleasant to find that a sound and healthy tone preponderates; and that polemics, which were the rankest weeds of last year's harvest with the anti-Colenso crop of mushroom scribblers as the enemy who scattered them, have almost disappeared. Thanks to the judgment on "Essays and Reviews" recently pronounced by the House of Lords, and the very sensible recent appointments of Lord Palmerston to the highest dignities in the Church, we shall probably hear very little more on this subject of Colenso's biblical researches from that party in the Church which delights to call itself "The Religious World," till the May-meeting, at Exeter Hall; but as that is all merely talk, and at best will only appear in the ephemeral pages of newspapers, again, I say, let us be thankful. Mr. Carlyle's fourth volume of his "History of Friedrich the Second," bringing it down to March, 1757, is published to-day. It will possess great interest to you, as well as to us on this side of the Atlantic, in these days of war and rumors of war, for Frederick was certainly the greatest of modern strategists, and the book, therefore, is one of the most useful for military students. Reader" is now the recognized organ of all our great scientific bodies, and devotes weekly eight of its pages to full reports of scientific writing, and all matters connected with science, furnished by the secretaries or the workers themselves. This is a great want supplied, the "Athenæum" never being but a plaything in all matters of a purely scientif nature. "The Reader" is a great success; since the birth of the "Saturday Review," there has been nothing like it in the shape of literary journalism which has taken such a firm hold on the reading public. I know that you have valued it from its commencement, and have expressed what you thought respecting it in most favorable language. The "Round Table" of New York evidently thinks equally well of it by the very copious extracts it makes from its pages amongst its own original matter without acknowledgment of any kind. A capital book is just come to hand, "Journal of a Diplomat's Three Years' Residence in Persia," by Mr. E. B. Eastwick, which gives a far greater insight into present oriental life and polity than any book which has yet been published on the subject. Kin dred books are, "Some Glimpses into Life in the Far East," which comprises sketches of official and native life in Singapore and its neighborhood; and the Rev. George Sandie's "Horeb and Jerusalem." a book of very unequal execution. I have sai nothing of Signor Pierotti's "Jerusalem Explored," two very handsomely illustrated quarto volumes, full of plates, because the author, holding fast by the traditions of the Church of Rome, is said to have mistaken, in many cases, one locality for another and the plates, which are excellent, thus constitute its chief merit. Since Commodore Wilkes gave his amusing account of the Fiji Islanders, who cooked but could not eat the flesh of one of a crew of shipwrecked mariners because it reeked so of tobacco, ble savages, and their desire to place themselves we have had a great deal of talk about these amisunder the protection of Great Britain. A pleasant book is Mrs. Smythe's "Ten Months in the Fiji Islands, with Introduction and Appendix by Colone! W. S. Smythe," nicely illustrated and treating largely of missionary work amongst the Islands. Forsyth's "Life of Cicero" is a book which is both praised and censured. It is not a perfect book, but recollecting that the late Archdeacon Hare, who had made the biography of the great Roman the study of a life, signally failed in his attempt in the article Cicero, in the "Encyclopedia Metropolitana," Mr. Forsyth deserves great credit for what he has done, giving us a far more readable book than Abeken's "Cicero in seinen Briefen," which, valuable in every way as a book of reference, even in Merivale's translation, is dull and tedious beyond measure. Messrs. Trübner & Co., who are always enriching our literature with importations from America, which they engraft into it, have just sent out Mr. George Ticknor's "Life of Prescott," a charming biography of a man as much esteemed with us as with Americans themselves, a book which, but for its price, would have commanded a most rapid sale, and the prospect of which has brought out the announcement of fiction. Though there has been a full crop, with I purposely refrain from mentioning works of a London reprint in octavo at one third of the cost. the usual amount of good, bad, and indifferent The same firm have recently published one of the novels, there has not been one amongst them that most beautifully printed books which the press of will live beyond the brief space allotted to these London has produced, "The Life and Times of Ber- circulating library ephemera. A new "weakly trand du Guesclin," written by Mr. Jamison, of conservative paper made its first appearance on the South Carolina, a curious and interesting picture of 13th instant. the strange unsettled state of Europe in the four-weakly," as that fully expresses the character of I have purposely written the word teenth century, when a needy adventurer, half the paper; for a more wishy-washy attempt at cutthroat half soldier of fortune, could turn king- journalism never issued from the press. maker, and dethrone one brother and set up another in his place, or wrest a province from one crown and give it to another, all of which Du Guesclin did. Amongst voyages and travels, Mr. Massie's "America, the Origin of her present Conflict; illustrated by Incidents of Travel during a Tour in the Summer of 1863, throughout the United States," is sure to be reprinted in America, Mr. Massie being at once a warm friend of the Northern States, and a great admirer of Federal institutions. Another book, giving experiences of American life, is Dr. Thos. Nichol's "Forty Years of American Life." Though a Northerner by birth, Dr. Nichol's proclivities are decidedly and unmistakably Southern. Dr. Hunt's book "On the Negro's Place in Nature," in so far as it upholds slavery, also inclining to the South, has been most roughly handled by Professor Huxley in his seventh lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, the report of which you will find in the "Reader" of to-day. By-the-by, "The Your obedient servant, N. OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, Feb. 19, 1964. here as dull as it is at present. The publishers I do not remember to have seen the book trade and booksellers tell me that nothing sells. The atmosphere is filled with war and rumors of war, which disarrange trade; the fluctuations of the rates of interest disappoint every attempt to reckon profits and losses, the innumerable bankruptcies dis hearten the whole commercial world, everybody is retrenching their expenditure of money as much as possible; what can books, which all the world, except some pale, poverty-stricken student, declare to be very luxuries of luxuries, what can books do in these unjointed times? The peripatetic tradesmen of the quays, who drive their trade all the year round, except on rainy days, tell me that nobody buys anything from their dingy, weather-stained |