At the preachers' meeting in New York City a short time ago, a paper was presented on “The Ethics of Authorship.” In reporting it the regular New York reporter of the Christian Advocate calls for one on “The Ethics of the Publisher,” and says:— If an author holds himself down to clean, pure, honest writing, his manuscript is likely to be returned; whereas if he introduces something distinctly salacious, and gets it in, if possible, with the opening chapter, the probabilities are the book will be published at once, and will become immediately popular. And it is just at this point our own book concern has its most bitter competition. Never once has it descended from its high level. Its books are clean. They can be read without shame or reproach. And there are other publishing houses equally careful, but the number is few, and very few. Yes; there is needed instruction in “the ethics of publishers,” and even for professed Christian publishers. And this instruction, especially for the professed Christian publishers, must be nothing else than, to the very letter, the ethics of the sermon on the mount—the ethics of the law of God in all its broad intent.