Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-15
MisrellGn Gus.
"T1TSEI AND PRILosoPHY.'
n HOLM NINTOSH

IN. JouN -hINiOSfl,
AZ Would inform the Inhabitants OF Bradford county
that he respectfully solicit< Gn0 subscribers for his local
work entitled . FISH M PHILOSOPHY or Sketches
made Daring a Short Sojaurn in Northern Pennsylvania.
The book will consist of from $50 to 300 pages, l2mo.,
and will lie bound in embossed muslin. The price will he
$t,00. As the work was not written to ymdirafe
any particular theory, or to advance any particular mite
rest, it is difficult tp say what it aims at-further than 10
help while away Il leisure hour ar TIVE, in what the All
thor hopes. not Improbable reading.
The pages are chiefly devoted to descriptions OF local
scenery incidents while Trouting on the Schrdder hfalich;
literary criticisms and "reminiscences conVercatloilS' ae,
rel"puents of local character, poetry and pihosophical
reflections.
Is the publication Of the book is not a question of
bread, the author can uSc the liberty of speaking plain-
In the first place, then, he cannot afford to publish the
book unaidcd-nur would he il Ire could for the simple
reason, he is unwilling to shoulder the responsibility of
committing a-possibly-pnor book to the world. He
therefore seeks to make u corporate concern of it, and
thus share with the, subscribers the odium of failure,
should it fail. 1t Is q parely g~ratuitous matter, gentle
men, sign. or not sign. In the second place, the author
is unwilling tn have his stock of books added TO, by too
many hundred copies of a work that failed to redeem the
price of its publication neither does he desire the horror
of witnessing tile awful spectacle of an auto-dafe, of what
cost him SO much pains and time to create for he Ger
tainly would commit Ia the flames what remained !nsold
OF the edition, should they remain too long on his hands.
He Is determined to pay the publisher on the receipt OF
the edition, should it he printed, asking no iasors and II
GOO subscribers can lie had, be will do 80. He can afford,
however. to wait, should the 600 refuse to come to the
rescue. The Ms will not diminish in value. 1t will TO-
main a. it has done. cherished by the owner, as was cher
iShed and loved s. the poor mans one little eve lamb, that
was unto him as q daugher." The author will ask no one
to undertake to publish it on the strength of its merits:
perhaps from pride, perhaps from, a prophetic apprehen-
sion Of its lack Of merit. Timc-perhaps-wil determine
II he did well to be influenced by the latter consideration.
The author will further say, that should the desired num-
Der of subscriptions be obtained, he will feel tempted to
promise an embellished frontspiece, enclosing n medallion
likeness of the principal character, DIR. Plum. And should
a second edition follow, he-the author-wille exert allthe
influence he can command to secure for the original sub
scribers a lock of that distinguished individuals hair as
thank Heaven, he is appreeative, and, judging from his
antecedents, the author has no doubt that Plum would
gladly wear a wig for a whole year, to have the pleasure
of furnishing to his friends so interesting a souvenir.
The publication of the book, then, is dependent on the
receipt of GOO subscribers, and one month will be allowed
for names to be given in. ID, at the expiration of that time
only one person has subscribed, or any other number be-
tween that and 600-unless very closely apprnXimating it
the book will not of course be expected to see the light.
But, if the entire number be obtained, those who have
signed, viii, in three months from the closing of the sub
~scription lists, be supplied with a copy, or copies, as they
may have ordered.
Subscription lists will he opened on Monday next at all
the stores, and at the p. O. in the borough ; and at {. H..
HERRICKS, at Athens. At Burlington, there will be one
ut Messrs. LONG & MERRY'S store, and at Ulster Mr.. JoHN
MATTER and at Monroe, Mr.. SEYMOUR PHlNNEY, will act
as agents. Others may lie authorized.
Towanda, October -, 1855.