Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-10-27

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nR. JOHN MINTOSH,
~ Would inform the inhabitants of Bradford county
that he respectfully solcits 600 subscribers for his local
work entitled :" FISH n PHILOSOPHY, or Sketches
made During a Short Sojourn in Northern Pennsylvania"
The book will consist of from $50 to 300 pages, l2mo.,
and will be bound in embossed muslin. The price will be
81 ,M. As the work was not written to vindicate
any particular theory, or to advance any particular inte-
rest, it is difficult to say what it aims at-further than to
help while away a leisure hour or two, in what the Au-
thor hopes, not Improbable reading.
The pages are chiefly devoted to descriptions of local
scenery incidents while Trouting on the Schrader branch;
literary criticisms and "reminiscences conversations, de-
velopments Of local character, poetry and philosophical
reflections.
As the publication of the book is not a question of
bread, the author can use the liberty of speaking plain
In the first place, then, he cannot afford to publish the
book unaided-norw would he if he could for the simple
reason, he is unwilling to shoulder the responsibility of
committing a-possibly-poor book to the world. He
therefore seeks to make a corporate concern Of it, and
thus share with the subscribers the Odium of failure,
should it fail. 1t Is a purely gratuitous matter, gentle
men, sign, or not sign. In the second place, the author
is unwilling to 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 the awful spectacle of an ~auto-da-fe, OF what
cost him so much pains and time to create for he Ger
tainly would commit to the flames what remained unsold
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 be printed, asking no favors and if
600 subscribers can be had, he will do so. He can afford,
however, to wait, should the 600 refuse to come TO the
rescue. The Ms will not diminish in value. 1t will re-
main as it has done, cherished by the owner, as was cher
ished and loved {. the poor mans one little eve lamb that
was unto him as a ~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 Time-perhaps-wil determine
if 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 frontispiece, enclosing a medallion
likeness of the principal character, DR.. Plum. And should
a second edition follow, he-the author-wil exert all.the
influence he can command to secure for the original sub
scribers a lock of that distinguished individuals hair as
| thank Heaven, he is appreciatiye, and, Judging from his
autec edents, the author has no doubt that Plum would
gladly wear Il wig for aIwhOle 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 600 subscribers, and one month will be allowed
for names to be given in. II, at the expiration of that time
only one person has subscribed, or any other number be-
tween that and GO0-unless very closely approximating it
the book will not of course be expected to see the light.
But. if the entire number be obtained, those who have
signed, will, in three months from the closing OF the sub,
scfiption lists, be supplied with a copy, or copies, as they
may have ordered. =.
Subscription lists will be opened on Monday next,a all
the stores. and at the T. O. in the borough and at c. III
HERRICKis. at Athens. At Burlington, there will be one
at Messrs. LosG & MERRY's store, and at Ulster Mr.. JOIN
MAruER and at Monroe, Mr.. SEYMOUR PHlsNEY, will act
as agents. Others may be authorized.
Towanda, October Is, 1855.