Lovell's Quarterly Bulletin of New Publications
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See page 8 for LatestLOYELL'Sissues. Please preserve for Heference. QUARTERLY BULLETIN —OP— NEW PUBLICATIONS. Containing a complete classified Catalogue of LOVELL'S LIBRARY pages 3 to 22. MUNRO'S LIBRARY pages 23 to 25. LOVELL'S HOME SERIES pages 25 to 27. LOVELL'S HOUSEHOLD LIBRARY pages 28 to 29. THE FAVORITE LIBRARY page 30. LOVELL'S INTERNATIONAL SERIES page 31. LOVELL'S OCCULT SERIES page 31. LOVELL'S ILLUSTRATED SERIES page 31. LOVELL'S AMERICAN AUTHORS' SERIES page 31. LOVELL'S FOREIGN LIBRARY page 31. Vol. I. JULY, 1889. No. 5. The John W. Lovell Company, for seven cover to catch the eye and enlist the notice years, has made it a business rule to supply of the great reading public. the trade with the best selling books at the To compete with those who are offering lowest price. undesirable books at low prices, we have com- " Lovell's Library " has been issued at reg- menced the publication of " The Favorite ular intervals, and the list now comprises over Library of Choice Fiction," comprising 50 1,400 numbers, which retail at from 10 to 40 numbers from the pens of such writers as W. cents each. C. Russell, Rider Haggard, Walter Besant, Arrangements have been made with Frank Florence Warden, and Miss Braddon. F. Lovell & Co., by which their " Household We will also supply for the future " The Library," of 25 and 50 cent books, will be Home Series of Choice Reading," retailing supplied exclusively by us for the future. for 25 cents and comprising 500 numbers. This library comprises 230 numbers. The same enterprise which has been em- The " International Series," which has be- ployed in the past will characterize the future come so deservedly popular, from the same in procuring the best material to be had. house, now numbers 30 issues. Two new monthly series will be issued, be- Literary ginning with July, which for attractiveness in Notes. cover, quality of paper, clearness of type, and Among the miscellaneous works which merit of contents has seldom been equalled in Frank F. Lovell & Company are continually the cent books. 50 issuing, that no field may be left untouched, is " The Occult Series," in handsome cover one which should find an enormous sale, " The lithographed in four colors, will begin with A B C of Electricity," by William H. " The Blossom and the Fruit," by Mabel Col- Meadowcroft. The telegraph, the telephone, lins, the daughter of Charles Dickens, who, and the electric light are in constant use irr espousing the principles of re-incarnation, about us, yet how little we know of the subtle has made for herself a name not far removed and dangerous fluid and the apparatus for that of her illustrious father. from controlling it. Mr. Meadowcroft's volume is " Lovell's Illustrated Series," 50 cents, will short, simple, and well illustrated, defining " begin, with An I. D. B. in South Africa." electrical terms and bearing Mr. Edison's This series will be profusely illustrated. The sanction and approval. initial issue, by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon, * treating of the illicit buying of diamonds * * in South Africa, presents a picture of African " Lines and Rhymes," to be issued in July, life drawn from a five years' residence on the will be a boon to readers and recitationists Dark Continent. who have exhausted the supply of threadbare To supply the constantly increasing demand compositions. Mr. James Clarence Harvey for the work of home authors, a semi-monthly has prepared from his writings a volume of series is in preparation, and each issue will selections, pathetic, dramatic, and humorous, be characterized by an individuality of its which are especially adapted for public read-,^ own in the shape of an original and striking ing and recitation. / f — — — lovell's quarterly bulletin of new publications. Among the books of the "International Press Notices. Series," "The Fog Princes," by Florence " Derrick Vaughan, Novelist," by Edna Warden, is meeting with great favor. The Lyall. This is one of its author's shortest old theme of buried treasure is treated with stories, but it is interesting and well a freshness, originality, and strength which told. The hero is handicapped by a drunken fa- will appeal to many readers who admire bold- ther, one of the fine English gentlemen ness of treatment in plots which border on who in society are models of deportment, the improbable. yet are brutes at home. There is a love story, of * * course, and it is well handled. Indeed, the " of The Fatal Phryne," by the author "As entire book is an illustration of how good a in a Looking-Glass" and Mrs. 0. G. Wills, is tale may be when " boiled down." New a story of inordinate jealousy which prompts York Herald. the well-drawn, principal character to admin- ister a drug to his supposed rival, the effect "Divorce," by Margaret Lee. A new edi- of which is to give him the appearance of a tion has appeared with the review of the book leper. by the Hon. W. E. Gladstone, which ap- * * * peared in the Nineteenth Century. It is a remarkable story, in which the injustice of the Mr. S. Baring Gould in " Mehalah " and divorce laws of this country are strikingly set " John Herring " sustains the enviable repu- forth in the conclusion of the married lif a of tation he has earned for producing dramatic Gilbert and Constance Travers. The manner and artistically constructed stories. in which a good and true woman is treated by In all these series, comparison with other a polished, selfish brute is painted with a stern price lists is invited. No catalogue in this realism that is very effective, and the reader country comprises so wide a selection com- admires the wife while he despises the hus- bined with excellence of quality, and the ad- band who could throw over the mother of his vantages to the dealer have never been children, whose money he had squandered, for equalled in the history of popular publications. an artificial woman of the world. Fashion- able life in New York, in some of its phases, Lovell's Literature Series. has never been more faithfully portrayed than it is in this novel. Boston Gazette. In this series, the works of Ruskin, Car- "Hartas Maturin," by H. F. Lester. lyle, and kindred writers will be given a Chandler Moulton says : "I have dress befitting the dignity and merit of the Louise theosophic novels but, upon subject-matter between the covers. Although read many ; my word, ' Hartas Maturin ' is by far the clever- the retail price will be fifty cents, the appear- est and most impressive of them all. It is a ance of each volume will be such that it may singularly vivid and enthralling story ; and it well adorn the shelves of any library. has the merit, besides, of being distinctly * * * moral in its tone." Kansas City Journal. " Clothed with the Sun," by Annie Bonus P. Lovell Co., New York, have Kingsford, will be ready in July, bound hand- Frank & started a new "library" of fiction—"The In- somely in cloth, complete in one volume ; ternational " the three first volumes of which price, $2.00. — * are " Miss Eagan, of Eagan Court," by Kath- * * arine S. Macquoid ; "Hartas Maturin," by H. earliest possible publication To secure the F. Lester, and " Tales of to-Day," by George authors, the John W. of the works of foreign R. Sims. These books are in good type, on resident Lovell Company has established a good paper, and the publishers announce that as nearly as possible agency in London, and royalties are paid to all the authors, English the works of the most popular English au- and American. They further say that the simultaneously on this side thors will appear prices are slightly in advance of those of some of the Atlantic. other libraries—" piratical " editions implied * * * —and that these figures indicate what may oc- Pending the decision in regard to the Inter- cur should the International Copyright law be national copyright this seems the only method enacted. As the prices are no higher than by which foreign authors can derive the those of some poorer books which seem to benefit due them from the publication of their sell, there is nothing in the announcement reader, and, to works in this country. to trouble the American do of the series justice, That compensation is due them no one will the publishers new no deny, and this agency has been established to such intimation is attempted. Plenty of money in the United States is waiting for ^ bringbl about a more friendly relation between really good books at modest prices. New m, thetl authors of England and the publishing interests of America. York Herald. CATALOGUE JULY, 18*9. LovELL's 0P Library. Classified for more convenient reference as follows : Catalogue by Numbers pages 3 to 8 I Catalogue by Subjects pages 17 to 22 Catalogue by Authors " 9 to 16 All the numbers of Lovell's Library are always in print. Applications for Catalogues, with Imprint, should be sent direct to the Publishers. JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY, Publishers, 150 Worth St., cor. Mission Place, New York. CATALOGUE BY NUMBERS. 1 Hyperion, by H. W. Longfellow.. .20 81 Zanoni, by Lord Lytton 20 Promise of Marriage, by Gaboriau. 10 2 Outre-Mer, by H. W. Longfellow. ..20 82 A Daughter of Heth, by Wm. Black. 20 Faith and Unfaith, by The Duche88.20 3 The Happy Boy, by B. Bjornson. .10 83 Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible.20 The Happy Man, by Samuel Lover.10 4 Arne, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson..