WILLIAM BRISBANE DICK, the senior member of the firm of Dick & Fitzgerald, died on September 5, at Pittsfield, Mass., at the Maplewood Hotel, where he had spent the summer. Mr. Dick was born in Philadelphia, December 15, 1826. He came to New York in 1844 with his uncle, Wesley F. Burgess, who was head of the house of Burgess, Stringer & Co., publishers and booksellers, who had their store at 222 Broadway, under Barnum's American Museum. When Mr. Stringer retired to form the firm of Stringer & Townsend, the old firm changed its name to Burgess & Garrett, which it remained until 1850, when Mr. Burgess sold out his interest to his partners and retired. When Mr. Burgess withdrew Mr. Dick formed a partnership with Mr. Ransom Garrett and Lawrence R. Fitzgerald under the firm name of Garrett, Dick & Fitzgerald. In 1851 Mr. Garrett sold out to his partners and retired from the firm, which then adopted the flame of Dick & Fitzgerald, and removed to 18 Ann Street, in the same building which it occupies to-day. Originally the firm published miscellaneous books by American and foreign authors, the latter in excellent translations, in good editions, at from twenty-five to seventy-five cents a volume. Among its better-known original American books published by the firm we recall Neal’s “Charcoal Sketches,” with illustrations by Darley. They also published a reprint of the London 'Lancet' and kept in stock medical books published by themselves and other houses, as well as foreign papers, periodicals, etc. After the dissolution of the firm of Burgess, Stringer & Co. the firm began making a specialty of books of amusement for in and outdoors, speakers, reciters, books of instruction, etc., many of which bear Mr. W. B. Dick's name as author. In ISSI, when Mr. Fitzgerald died, Mr. Dick assumed sole control of the business. On January 1, 1898, he retired from active work in the firm, which has been conducted since by his son, Harris Brisbane Dick. Mr. Dick was a member of the Lotos, Grolier and Church Clubs, of New York, and of Lafayette Post, G. A. R. His home in New York for years was at the Park Avenue Hotel.