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In the 1890s, the book seller Arthur Hinds (1856-1947), together with Gilbert Clifford Noble (1864-1936), started a publishing house in New York. In 1904 they merged with Eldredge & Brother, of Philadephia, thus forming Hinds, Noble & Eldredge. Hinds & Noble continued as a bookseller, becoming Barnes & Noble later in the century. In 1916, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge changed into Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge. They published music among other items (e.g. school text books).
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge's catalog contained many light piano works such as Friedrich Baumfelder's Lorelei, Op.408 and Carl Wilhelm Kern's Dancing on the Lawn, Op. 298. No. 2.,as well as many songs by Ernest Richard Kroeger (1862—1934) and several works by Giuseppe Ferrata (1865—1928). However, the firm's greatest music publishing success was the The Most Popular series of music books (ca.1905-1920). This series was in competition with Appleton's contemporaneous The whole world series.
