OUR EDUCATIONAL ISSUES.

WE feel that we owe direct explanation and apologies to the patrons of the WEEKLY, and especially to those of the imprint editions of its EDUCATIONAL CATALOGUE for the variations of plan which have so perplexed them this year, and for the postponements of date of issue. (Any whose imprint editions have not come to hand by receipt of this number may now expect them without delay.)

Work was commenced on the educational list the middle of June, in view of the difficulties then foreseen and of the delays therefore probable. Simple as the result seems in its printed shape, the work of preparation has occupied the greater part of Mr. Leypoldt's personal time since the latter part of that month, besides much of the time of assistants. And it has been a work of unprecedented perplexity, even in the varied cataloguing experiences of this office. To devise thoroughly satisfactory methods of making distinct the variations, amalgamations, new editions, and other complexities of various series (now brought collectively together), and to obtain some clue which should guide through the labyrinthian confusion of prices, required long and repeated experiment. New difficulties, of editing or typography, seemed to present themselves at every step, and it was with these before us that the changes of plan for which we offer apology were made.

It was found at last that the proposed retailprice catalogue could only be made at a delay and expense that entailed serious loss, and we were reluctantly compelled to give that up at least for this year. The Catalogue being now in its new shape, future editorial work will be comparatively light, nor will the typographical delays of this year again present themselves. We hope next year to present the Catalogue not only more promptly, but to prepare such imprint editions as will completely satisfy the several divisions of the trade. Let us hope that by that time the price system may be more generally satisfactory.

BOOKSELLERS' AND STATIONERS'

PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION.

On the 26th ult. it became for the first time the sad duty of the Secretary of this Association to notify its members of the death of one of their number, Mr. Solomon D. Prescott, in the employ of Messrs. A. Williams & Co., Boston. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees held on the 31st, it was ordered that the sum due to the legal representatives of the deceased be paid at once, and not to take advantage of the 90 days' grace allowed by the Constitution. It is hoped that the members will appreciate this step and send in their assessment without delay.

The following new applicants were elected members of the Association: S. C. Abbott, Omaha, Neb.; G. H. Mars, Chicago; C. J. Stromberg, Chicago; J. Allen, Chicago; Jas. Campbell, New York; C. L. Robinson, New York; W. C. Horn, New York; George Maguire, New York.

The Treasurer and Secretary were put under bonds of $2000 each.

For the benefit of those who are as yet unacquainted with the workings of this Association, we print the following synopsis of the Constitution:

THE BOOKSELLERS' AND STATIONERS' PROVIDENT AssoCIATION OF THE U. S. was organized to bring about a better acquaintance among the members of the book, stationery, and kindred trades, and the maintenance of such plans as shall tend to the mutual benefit and protection of its several members or their families; its prominent object is to pay a fund to the family or other legal representative of its deceased members. An assessment upon each incoming member of two dollars and ten cents as initiation fee, and one dollar and ten cents upon the death of a member from each surviving member, provides a fund in the treasury which, upon satisfactory proof of death, will be paid to the legal representative of the deceased member.

Statistics of similar organizations, in principles and purposes, show that the yearly payments for one thousand dollars of benefit are much less than half the average premium charged by ten first-class insurance companies, carefully averaged.

There are no salaried officers nor agents (excepting the secretary).

The business of the Association is conducted with prudence and economy, and with a strict observance of the laws which govern it, thus securing stability and a surety that its purposes will be faithfully and continuously accomplished.

The treasurer and secretary furnish bonds of at least two thousand dollars each, and more when required by the Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees, composed of fifteen members, elected at each annual meeting in June, hold the same relation to the Association as a Board of Directors do to a Bank. They hold monthly meetings for the transaction of the business of the Association, and for the consideration of applications for membership, and are required to have a thorough supervision of its affairs.

Members of firms, employers, and all employés, whether salesmen, porters, or those engaged in any department of the book, stationery, or kindred trades, and who are between 18 and 45 years of age, and of good moral character and good general health, are eligible to membership, and are solicited to join.

Candidates for admission will make application, accompanied by a physician's certificate, upon the forms prescribed and furnished by the Association, and will be recommended by one or two persons of good standing. The application must in every case be accompanied by the initiation fee of two dollars and ten cents, which fee will be returned if the applicant is rejected.

The medical certificate must be filled out by the examining surgeon of the Association, or by the applicant's own physician if the applicant lives outside of New York City. Any further information will be cheerfully given, and blank forms of application or copies of the constitution will be mailed to any one of the trade who may request them. Applications for membership in the Association should be made to the Board of Trustees, through the secretary, J. F. Vogelius, 12 East 23d Street, New York, to whom all communications should be addressed.

TRADE-MARK DECISION.

AN important trade-mark decision has been made by Judge Lawrence, of the New York Supreme Court, in the case of A. M. Collins. Son & Co., against the Reynolds Card Manufacturing Co. Plaintiffs are manufacturers of photographic card mounts, of which the varieties are designated only by numbers, 1-50 or more. These numbers are the only trade-mark employed, and are arbitrarily used without the name of the firm accompanying.

The defendant, a corporation recently organized, has adopted certain of these numbers as convenient designations for its own cards, claiming that such numbers are common property, and are well understood in the photographic card trade as indicating different qualities of card-board.

A test case on the number 35 was brought by the Collins Company, and the decision sustains the plaintiffs' alleged trade-mark in the numbers. Judge Lawrence says:

"This case cannot be distinguished, in my opinion, in principle from that of Gillott vs. Esterbrook. In that case the Court held that a manufacturer has the right to distinguish the goods manufactured by him by any peculiar mark or device he may select and adopt by which they may be known as his in the market, and that he is entitled to the protection of a court of equity in the exclusive use of the peculiar mark or symbols appropriated by him designating or indicating the true origin or ownership of the article to which they are affixed. In that case the plaintiff had inpressed the figures 303 upon his pens, and the pens were put up in boxes with a label on top containing the name of the maker and the numerals, and the pens were known and ordered by dealers as 303 pens. In the case at bar, the labels do not contain the name of the plaintiffs as makers, but the evidence satisfies me beyond doubt that the figures 35 were known to and recognized by dealers when employed as designating carte. de-visite mounts as referring to the particular kind of card which was manufactured by the plaintiffs. And under the authorities, I am of the opinion that the plaintiffs have a trademark in those figures and are entitled to be protected from its infringement by a court of equity."

The Collins case differs from the famous Gillott case in the important particular that in the former the numeral stands alone without the manufacturer's name.

POSTAL MATTERS.

RECENT POST-OFFice decISIONS AFFECTING

PUBLISHERS.

From Post-Office Gazette (July, 1879).

3. Temporary permits are to be granted by postmasters to new publications when the first issue of the same is presented at their office for mailing. Formal entry is permitted in case of all publications admitted to the second class, when the publishers of the same make formal application, to be entered as provided in Sec. 199,"New Laws and Regulations." It will be seen in this latter case that the admission of a publication to the second class is a condition precedent to its being formally entered. When a publication to which a temporary permit has been granted, and issued a sufficient time to satisfy the postmaster that it is a legitimate second class publication, the temporary permit may be cancelled and the publication permitted to enter under Sec. 199.

6. The words "There may be placed upon the cover or blank leaves of any book or of any matter of the third class," etc., as contained in Sec. 22, Act of March 3, 1879, are held as including the words "with the compliments of, etc.;" but such privilege does not apply to second or fourth class matter.

8. Upon first-class matter one full rate, three cents, must be prepaid to insure its being forwarded in the mails. When one full rate is not prepaid, it is the duty of the postmaster to send the package to the Dead Letter Office; but as a matter of courtesy in cases where the sender's card may be printed on the envelope, it is customary to notify the sender in order that the error may be corrected. The stamps in such matter should not be cancelled.

10. Printed blanks may pass in the mails as third-class matter.

II. Drawings, plans, designs, original paintings, etc., should be included in fourth-class matter, which is subject to postage at the rate of one cent for each ounce, etc.

13. The rate of postage on "hand-bills and posters" is one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof.

15. The question of the liability for the subscription price to a publication of a party who regularly takes the same out of the post-office can only be determined in a court of law. The postal law does not refer to the subject.

16. Books and pamphlets are third-class matter, also engravings; postage rate, one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. It is only second-class matter that may be sent at the pound rates.

17. The law cannot be construed so as to admit "autograph albums," with matter or signatures written therein, at any less rate of postage than three cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof.

18. Original drawings executed by architects or others are now entitled to pass through the mails at rates for fourth class

matter.

19. Free county newspapers are rendered subject to postage at the rate chargeable upon third-class matter by the enclosure of handbills therein.

23. It is admissible to write or print upon the wrapper of a package of third or fourth class matter a request or instructions to a postmaster to notify the sender in case of non

delivery of such package, so that he may send postage for its return.

26. Sample copies of any legitimate publication of the second class are entitled to be sent in the mails, or delivered throughout the boxes or from the general delivery of a post-office, when prepaid at the rate of two cents per pound. They must be done up in wrappers, and have the words "sample copy" written or printed thereon.

29. A package of fourth-class matter would not be rendered subject to a higher rate of postage by the enclosure of a partly printed invoice, but an invoice wholly in writing would subject such package to letter rates.

30. Book manuscript for magazines, periodicals, and newspapers, as well as music manuscript, is subject to letter postage, unless accompanied by proof-sheets or corrected proofs having relation to such manuscript, and sent in unsealed packages, in which case it is entitled to pass as third-class matter.

NEWSPAPERS WITH MORE THAN ONE of-
FICE OF PUBLICATION.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF FIRST ASS'T Postmaster-General,

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27, 1879. SIR In reply to your letter without date, I have the honor to say that, under the statement made in that letter, vour publication cannot be mailed at the Philadelphia post-office at the pound rates of postage.

A publication of the second class is required by Sec. 185 of the "Postal Laws and Regulations," edition of 1879, to be issued from a known office of publication. A known office of publication is defined to be a "public office for the transaction of the business of a periodical, where orders may be received for subscriptions and advertising during the usual business hours. Publications issued without disclosing the office of publication must not be forwarded unless prepaid at the rate of third-class

matter."

The Department does not hold that a publication of the second class can have but one office of publication. On the contrary, it has decided that it may have more than one, and that it may be mailed from the post-office where such known office of publication exists. The postmaster, however, at any such office, or at all such offices, must have official knowledge of the existence of such known office of publication. There are several ways in which such official knowledge may be communicated to him

Ist. When the paper itself shall disclose all

of such offices.

2d. When the paper itself discloses but one such office, shall have at other offices where it is desired to be mailed a branch agency for the transaction of its business.

3d. When the publication shall have been entered at the post-office where it may be published, under the provisions of Sec. 199, and shall print upon each issue the words required under such section, to wit: "Entered at the post-office at, as second-class matter."

Your publication purports to be published at Kelleysville, Charlotte Co., Va. It bears that address at its head. There is no indication that it has another office of publication, and hence it could only be mailed at Kelleysville. It will be borne in mind, however, that pub

lications of the second class claiming the right to circulate free in the county where published must be excepted from the foregoing provisions, unless their different offices of publication shall be located in the same county. Very respectfully, (Signed)

JAS. H. MARR, Acting First Ass't Postmaster-General.

M. I. J. GRIFFIN, Esq.,

Barnville, Charlotte Co., Va.

THE Postmaster-General has ordered that, to obtain proper statistics of the Department, an actual count be made annually, upon the first seven days of September, of the number third and fourth class matter, deposited for of letters and postal cards, and of packages of mailing at post-offices and in postal cars. number of articles of second-class matter, including sample copies, mailed upon those days, will be obtained from certificates of the publisher.

STATIONERY NOTES.

The

KOCH, SONS & Co. have become the sole American agents for the "Johann Faber" lead pencil, manufactured by Johann Faber in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Johann Faber was for 37 years active partner in the concern of A. W. Faber, at Stein, Bavaria, where he devoted his exclusive attention to the manufacturing department. He retired in 1877, and, after two years' rest, has associated himself with his two sons, Carl and Ernst, and started on an extensive scale the manufacture of lead and colored pencils. It is said that no pains will be spared to make the "Johann Faber" pencils the finest in the market; and while nothing but first-class goods will be offered, every attention will be given to the latest improvements in their manufacture, and they will be offered at as low a scale of prices as is compatible with the grade of goods to be supplied. The pencils will be distinguished by their original and modern style of labels and packing, and it is claimed that they will soon have a reputation second to

none in the market.

UNDER the title of "Unterwegs," Berthold Auerbach is about to publish a collection of dramas and short stories.

THE Evening Post states that Mr. Robert and Boston life during early colonial times. Lowell is engaged upon a tale of Cambridge

MR. EUGENE L. DIDIER, of Baltimore, has. resumed work on his proposed "History of American Publishers," which has been interrupted by the preparation of the Bonaparte volume.

MR. E. B. TYLOR, F. R.S., has now placed in the hands of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. the firsportion of a work called "Man and Civilizat tion," on which he has been long engaged. Iis designed to serve as a text-book of anthro. pology, and will be printed uniform with ProfHuxley's" Physiography." Prof. Ray Lankest ter has undertaken to contribute chapters on the anatomical portion of the subject. It is. hoped that the book may be ready by the end of the year