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self to the production of a connected work in- stead of being occupied with a newspaper. In An Ettay on Beauty he also gave evidence of a fine taste in criticism, and of great metaphysical acuteness. His newspaper was always the pro- moter of general and local reforms, and for the part which Mr. Prentice took to procure negro emancipation, the anti-slavery society of Glasgow jpaid a just tribute to his memorv. He died at Nfainhill, near Glasgow, aged fifty-four years.
1837, Sept. 7. Died, William Sherwood, one of the oldest and most respectable publishers and booksellers of Paternoster-row, Loudon. He was born at Bristol, in the year 1776. At a very early age he engaged himself with Mr.Symonds, of Paternoster-row, whom he served with the utmost diligence and activity, when his employer was imprisoned for the publication of some political work. In 1806 he succeeded to the Dusiness of his employer, in partnership with Messrs. Neely and Jones. On the retirement of those two gentlemen, he entered into part- nership with Messrs. Gilbert and Piper. No one could attend more sedulously to the duties ot business than did Mr. Sherwood, daring his whole career : for eighteen years he never indulged himself with a holiday ; in fact, his close attention, and disregard of premonitory symptoms, in all probability shortened his valu- able life. But Mr. Sherwood was not only a man of unwearying industry, but of the kindliest disposition, courteous and affable to all around him; his valuable advice and assistance were never withheld from any who solicited them. In the year 1831 he, conjointly with some members of the medical profession, projected and com- menced the publication of the Cyclopeedia of Practical Medicine, which immediately took its place as one of the most important medical pub- lications of the age. On its completion, in 1835, it was followed by a similar work on Anatomy, and in 1837 the Cyclopeedia of Sur- gery was commenced, on the same plan. Mr. Sherwood enjoyed the personal friendship of many valuable members of the medical profes- sion, whose works he published. He had been unwell for a short time, and the last day he attended to business was on the 17th of August. He died at HoUawell, aged sixty-one years, leaving a widow, with two sons and five daugh- ters, to deplore the loss of an affectionate father, and his dependents a kind and considerate friend. He was buried in St. Paul's church- yard, in the burial ground of the parish of St. Faith.
1837, Sept. The Michaelmas catalogue, at Leipzig, comprised 3,480 new works, and fifty- eight maps, Ace. The number of publishers who issued these works was 667.* There were published in Germany 500 literary, scientific,
and religious periodicals, and 170 political jour- nals, inmdinK thirty-six in the German canton* of Switzerland.
1837, Sept. 21. Died, Benjamin Wreatlet, the well known book auctioneer, of Piccadilly, London. He was educated at the blue-coat school, Lincoln ; and was for many years a con- fidential assistant in the old established book- selling house of Leigh and Sotheby, in the Straud. He succeeded to the business of Mr. Stewart, of Piccadilly, and, by his obliging dis- position, was very popular with the public. His death was occasioned by the overturning of a phaeton at Willingham, by the furious uiving of the post-boy. He was twice married, and left a widow and several children.
1837, Oct. William Hancock, of London, took out a patent for an invention which, in all probability, will work a revolution in the art of bookbinding. Mr. Hancock's invention consists in attaching or binding the leaves of a book, by means of caoutehouc, thus dispensing entirely with the process of sewing. The superiority of Hancock's process over the method of stitehmg, consists in allowing the book to open perfect flat, and without strain on the hack. It also dispenses entirely with the use of paste, a sub- stance which it is well known breeds those destructive insects which commit so many rava- ges in large collections.
1837, Oct. 19. Died, William Jdstins, for many years the superintendent of the printing of the London County Herald newspaper, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
1837, Nov. 7. Died, Thomas Noble, many years editor of the Derhy Reporter,* and other papers. Mr. Noble was the author of some poems of merit,t and of Zelomer, a romance, translated from the French.
1837, iVop. The Author'* Aivocate,and Youna Publiiher't Friend, by the author of the Perilt of Authorship, &c.
1837, Nov. 7. Died, William E. Jones, a respectable printer and bookseller at Southamp- ton. Mr. Jones, with twenty other persons, fdl a sacrifice to their endeavours in extinguishing a fire on the premises of Messrs. King, Witt, and Co. lead, oil, and colour, manufacturers, at Southampton, when, unfortunate to relate, more
- The book trade of Oermany was at this time almost
monopolized bjr three iDdividaala, the most powerful was baroo Cotta. of the Algemmu Zeitung ; besides the above paper, he is the proprietor of six literary periodicals or a high standing, and of several others of an inferior rank, and is said to have from three to foor hundred
editon in pay. He is th* proprietor of the copyright of all the works of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and Wetland. The next literary grandee of Germany, is Rei- mer, of Berlin, who owns the copyright of all the worlcsof Jean Panl.Tiek, Kleist, Johannes von Mnller, NovaliB and Schlegel, and the third is Brockiians, of Leipzig, pro- prietor of the ConvernatiotU'lMticon, which alone occupies more than one hundred literary men. Brockhaos is also the publisher of a most colossal Enefelopteiia, which when finish ed.will consist of at least aoo volmnes,andls now (Oct. 1837,) on the point of commencing anew daily paper. The government of Prussia promulgated an ordinance, ia Dec. 1B35, which stated that every person who would obtain permission to edit a journal in that kingdom, most have acquired an academical degree.
- 18S3, Jan. 3, Derif Reporler, No. 1 1 printed and pub-
lished by Walter Pike, c5oni-market, Derby. In a few numbers the title was changed to the Derby and ChetteT' fttld Reporter^ under which it continues to be published.
t See Songt of the Prat, page SO, for a poem on prin- ting, by Mr. Noble.
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