Publishers’ Statement THE CUMULATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY.

SETS OF MAGAZINES FOR SALE.

We have purchased two large stocks of miscellaneous magazines which we are classifying and collecting into sets, especially for years 1900 to date. We shall not be able to print a list of these for several weeks but shall be glad to quote prices for any sets, volumes or odd numbers.

The Need.

The Readers’ Guide To Periodical Literature, 1900-1904, and the current numbers open up a rich field to the investigator, but disappointment often results owing to the library’s not having the articles and if the articles are in the files, they are usually bound and do not circulate and the student can not use the material as advantageously as though it were in single article form.

How We Propose to Meet the Need.

We have already purchased large quantities of magazines and we propose to arrange articles cut from all magazines we index and many others in strict accordance with the subject classification of the Readers’ Guide. We shall be able to fill orders for certain articles or all articles on a subject. When requested, we shall be able to include much that is not indexed. Every article will be neatly stitched in a cover.

The Cost.

For the first article in each order the charge will be ten cents and for each additional article five cents. Articles may be retained two weeks not including time in transit.

Ready January 1st, 1906.

We shall be glad to receive a trial order any time after January first.

Incidentally.

We shall collect many duplicate magazines and we propose to make up sets of magazines, especially for the five years covered by the Readers’ Guide To Periodical Literature, 1900-1904. We hope to be able to supply odd numbers, volumes, or sets and shall be glad to receive lists of wants and also lists of duplicates which libraries may wish to dispose of.

Lists of duplicates for sale should be accompanied by lists of wants since we can pay more in exchange than in cash.

Announcements

The University of Chicago Press announces the addition to its list of publications of two new journals, to be devoted to the interests of the Ancient Classics; viz. Classical Philology, published for the University of Chicago, and the Classical Journal, published for the newly formed Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The former will contain scientific articles and critical reviews; the latter, articles and reviews of a more general nature, with special reference to the needs of teachers.

As usual, The Outlook’s illustrated Magazine Number for December is also its Annual Book Number, and this is in fact the seventeenth year of the appearance of such a yearly survey of the books of the season. In addition to a large number of pages devoted to a classified review of recent literature in its more important departments, there are special features dealing with notable literary personalities, and an article dealing with the American publisher and including a dozen or more portraits of the heads of the most famous American publishing houses. Half a dozen or more authors of note have been chosen as the subjects of personal articles, accompanied in each case with a portrait.

“Russia under the Great Shadow,” by Luigi Villari, is not only one of the most readable of the recent books on the realm of the Czar, but decidedly valuable. In Mr. Villari’s handsome and generously illustrated volume the reader will find a most interesting and temperate account of existing conditions in Russia, based on the author’s recent journey throughout the empire. It is comprehensive, impartial, well-reasoned and trustworthy, and will undoubtedly attract wide attention.

In the December issue of the “Political Science Quarterly” (Ginn & Company) Professor George H. Haynes of Worcester, Mass., discusses the tendency toward popular control of senatorial elections, and the methods taken in the various commonwealths for limiting the choice of the legislature in the selection of United States senators. Professor Frank Haigh Dixon of Dartmouth College describes recent attempts on the part of the states to regulate railways; and Mr. Royal Meeker analyzes the arguments advanced by supporters of the pending shipping subsidy bill. Other leading articles in the December Quarterly are “The Municipal Code of Indiana,” by Professor Fairlie of the University of Michigan; “Communistic Societies in the United States,” by Professor Bushe of Clark College; “Berlin’s Tax Problem,” by Professor Brooks of Swarthmore College; and “Private Property in Maritime War” by Giulio Marchetti Ferrante, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Berne, Switzerland.

List of Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

Acad.—Academy, London.

Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review, 66 Fifth Ave., N. Y.

Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. $6. Philadelphia.

Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J.

Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. London, England.

Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass.

Bib. World.—Biblical World. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Bookm.—Bookman. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.

Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120-122 W. 60th St., New York.

Critic.—Critic. $2. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New Rochelle, N. Y.

Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.

Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia University, N. Y.

El. Sch. T.—Elementary School Teacher. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review.

Engin. N.—Engineering News. 220 Broadway, N. Y.

Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 123 E. 23d St., N. Y.

Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. Williams & Norgate, London, England.

Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.

Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics, 1415 Locust St., Philadelphia.

Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 67 5th Av., N. Y.

J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44-60 East 23d Street, New York.

Lond. Times.—London Times (literary supplement to weekly edition), London, England.

Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.

Nature.—Nature, 66 Fifth Ave., N. Y.

N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review. New York.

Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.

Philos. R.—Philosophical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca. N, Y.

Phys. R.—Physical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon St., Boston.

Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. Princeton, New Jersey.

Pub. Opin.—Public Opinion, 44-60 East 23d St., New York.

Reader.—Reader Magazine. $3. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.

R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $2.50. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor Place, New York.

Sat. R.—Saturday Review (London).

School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Spec.—Spectator (London).

Yale R.—Yale Review, New Haven, Conn.

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names will be found in the Publishers’ Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.

An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates those books sold at a limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20 and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.

The plus and minus signs preceding the names of the magazines indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.

In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.

In cumulated numbers, the new entries for that number are indicated by an asterisk (*).

The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would not otherwise be available.

We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.

This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library; we shall endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will be little occasion to refer to the original publications.

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