The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-25

i rect letter prese than had ever been obtained.
| II was called the standing edition. because,
stereOtypes not having come INTO use, the entire
volume was kept IN type to supply the demand
| for reimpressions. In 1902 he was elected by
the senate of the State Director of the Bank
| OF Pennsylvania, and IN June that year sue
ceeded in obtaining in New York large meet
| ing OF the printers and booksellers OF the
United States the object being, as at the great
literary fairs in Frankfort and Ieipsic, to re-
| ciprocally buy. sell, and exchange their respec-
tive publications. After four or five years.
experiment the project, which had not worked
well, was abandoned.
I'm 1914, Mr.. Carey wrote and published the
Olive Branch of Which IL, 600 copies were sold
| the object being to harmonic the two antago.
| nistic parties of the country. Edition alter
| edition went off, fresh matter being constantly
added. Mr.. Matthew Careys last work OF i'm
partance was published In 1922 being Essays
| on Political Economy in which the leading
| idea is protection to native industry and manu-.
factures. Mr.. Duyckinck states that from 1919
TO 1923 Matthew Carey published no less than
hfty'nine separate pamphlets in favor of a pro-
tecuVe tariff, amounting to 23022 pages, and
having an immense circulation,
by this time Matthew Carey Was in prosper
Gus circumstances. His business had gradually
extended, until he became one OF che largest,
and certainly was not the least enterprising ard
Intelligent of American booksellers. Following
the fashion OF the time, he had entered largely,
WIN the advantage OF a good education and dis
criminative Judgment into the republication of
the best English books.
Henry Carey, his son, born in December,
lT93, was extremely well educated. His own
and his fathers wish made the book business
his own, and ne entered the store at the early
age OF eight, reading and digesting many books,
and thus unconscIously preparing himself for
the authorship which was to be his self
devoted labor of later years, and the instruction
OF large and popular circle of readers and
believers. On attaining his majority, in 1914,
Mr.. II. c. Carey became his fathers partner ana
the firm was Carey Son until 1921, when
Mathew Carey retired, and the firm of Carey S5
Lea was lormed-the partners being brothers
n-laW: Mr.. II. Q. Carey remained leading part
ner when, in 1926, the firm of Carey Lea t5
Carey was established - the junior partner
being Mr.. Edward Carey. In 1928 the firm sepa-
rated into Carey & Lea and Carey & Hart. On the
retirement of Henry G. Carey from the first of
these houses, in 1886, Mr.. Isaac Lea the remaining
partner, admitted his brotherinlaw into part
nersbip, anu the firm OF Lea Blanchard was
formed Blanchard Lea, but
reduced to Henry 9. Lea in 1865 by Mr.. Ban-
chard's leaving the concern. The prm OF Carey
d Hart ranked very high among American pub
fishers; and among the distinctive works which
1T issued may be named the collection of con-
temporary British sayists-Carlyle, Macaulay,
Taltourd, jeffrey, Sidney Smith, Allison, Mack
mtosn, etc.-the publication of which in this
country led to their issue in a collective form
by the writers in London and Edinburgh. Carey
d Hart dealt literally with native authors.
About eleven years ago Carey & Hart retired,
and Messrs. Jesse Parry q Mcmillan took their
place at the southeast corner of Chestnut and
Fourth streets. In 1867 the panic-tempest which
proved so fatal to many business men did not
spare this new firm.
'The original business was greatly enlarged
after H. c. Carey became his fathers partner.
and was extended by him into channels pre-
Vlously almost wholly uneXplored. He it was
VINO engraited the medical branch upon the
general business. In 1924 he established the
system. of trade sales, which has ever since
Deen the great medium of exchange between
American publishers and booksellers. Before
he quilted trade Mr.. H. c. Carey broke into
authorship with an Essay on the Rate of
Wages in which it was shown that, besides
probty and intelligence, he had inherited his
tathers leading views on political economy
From this work Frederic Bastiad copied its
leading ideas. 1t has been translated into
French, Italian, and Swedish. 1t was expanded
llS37-4O) into The Principles of Political
and nationally antiMalthusian. Perhaps Mr..
Carey's most important work-certainly that by
which he is best known, and which has been
translated into several foreign languages-is
the Principles of Social Science 1S5S-60) in
three volumes octave.
Henry G. Lea, of the late house of Blanchard
d Lea, and grandson of Matthew Carey, is the
only member of the family now in the book
trade. In SAMSON street, near Seventh, Mr..
Lea has just erected handsome building for
the publication of original and foreign medical
and surgical works. Chief among the former
are the Medical Lexicon, letc., OF DIR. Robley
DunSllsOu, Vi Inllduelpnla. Mr.. Lea also pub
fishes ?the american Journal of the Medical
Sciences Quarterly, edited by DR.. Isaac Hays,
and monthly magazine, the Medical Ne,cs and
LlbTdTy."
The hound Table of this week has an article
on "Wanted-A Literary Exchange" which we
publish below. The idea suggested is a good
one, and many ofits features are already found
in the Press Club of Philadelphia To be sure
the Club is not business society for judging of
literary merit; but it Is the grand resort for all
journalists from other cities, who desire to know
or become acquainted with the press of Phila.
delphia. A good library of reference is secured,
and papers and magazines kept on file. We con-
slider it as near such an exchange as the Round
Table suggests as the idea in practice will allow
We give below the artcle:-
ut is little remarkable that no one has ever
established in this city general exchange
or bureau tor the sale and purchase OF literary
wares. The fed is certainly very broad and
entirely unoccupied, while the promise of pecu-
mary reward appears to us to be very great.
The only attempt that has ever in the taintest
degree approached to the plan we have in mind
was made by the late Mr.. Park BENJAMIN. But
this was of TOO little consequence to be consi-
dered as test, although Mr.. BENJAMIN was
hooded with manuscripts and with literary com
missions OF every conceivable kind. The time
has fully come for something more than this
for an institution that shall give to every writer
IN the land fair market for the disposition of
his works-the valuations to be made by a
dlsinterested board. The purpose OF this article
is 10 explain the manner in which we think such
plan could be ACCOMPLISHED and tho advan-