Street. In order to provide the capital necessary for this purchase a partner was taken in, and the firm became Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan until the retirement of Mr. Barclay in 1850, when it adopted. the name of Macmillan and Co., which it has retained ever since.

In 1858-the year after Daniel Macmillan's death- -a branch house was opened at 23 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and in 1863 the headquarters of the firm were once more removed to London (16 Bedford Street, Covent Garden), the retail bookselling business remaining at Cambridge as an independent establishment, where it is still carried on under the name of Macmillan and Bowes. A further move was made in 1872 to the present offices (29 and 30 Bedford Street), and it may be noted that the three buildings in which the business has been carried on since 1858 are within forty yards of each other.

In 1863 Mr. Alexander Macmillan was appointed Publisher to the University of Oxford, a post which he held until October 1880, when the delegates of the University Press abandoned the system of employing a private publisher and took the management of their numerous publications into their own hands. When this change was made the University of Oxford expressed its appreciation of Mr. Macmillan's services by conferring on him the degree of Master of Arts honoris causâ.

In the year 1869 Macmillan and Co. opened a branch house in New York under the management of Mr. George E. Brett, who conducted it until his death in 1890, when the firm of Macmillan and Co. of New York was constituted on an independent basis, consisting of the members of the London firm with Mr. George Platt Brett as resident American partner. Macmillan and Co. of New York, besides representing the English firm of Macmillan and Co., are the authorised American agents for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and importers of the publications of many English and Scotch houses.

The present members of the firm are: ALEXANDER MACMILLAN, GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK (admitted in 1865), FREDERICK MACMILLAN (1874), GEORGE AUGUSTIN MACMILLAN (1879), and MAURICE MACMILLAN (1883).

In conclusion the Publishers wish to express their obligations to their valued assistant Mr. JAMES FOSTER, who has undertaken the arduous labour of compiling the following Catalogue.

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LONDON, May 1891.