New-York tribune., 1867-09-26
-, 80 ronerorlv educated men. and in the United

rich mon are generally educated men, and in the United
states the class WHO most want such BOOKS cannot ouy
tbcm Our clergy are poor; students are gen
crally poor; our lawyers and doctors are hoI rIcn
class; our professors hiu E W. LASS read
little but the daily papers; ana our mon o iuc ,h, @ ,or @
few to be of any aeeout h ,o o esTstining libraries
which WILL by and bY abuudantly atone ior te
and ndaeI.icc OF the rich, aud make the best market
for hooLs the world has seen. England would
readily "take" 10000 copies OF a three Suihet1 pooh
Of tirsrae merit and universal interest. frelen
ronsotion Of the same would sell 5000 IN France, ana
nrobabiy 1000 more in other Continental countries
tins of readers and few hundreds in each of those
nations would become possessOrs OF INC woik 10
he nins OF an author like Mr. Motley by three possibly
by four. 20,000x3=G0OoO
The following paragraph presents well deserved tes-
tmony (Which we have doubt every writer OF large
experienco with the class described will checriuiy cor
roborate) to the honor and fair dealing OF
THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS
II s the grossest Injustice to hold American publishers
responsible for the system OF reguated pluhuer WHICH
they have Inherited, and which niures them more I'M
mcdatey aud palpably than any other class eNe9pung ~
deal There are no business men more honorable or
more generous than the publishers 0, tae It Hnr.Ie
are thew toward authors. The relation usually
existing between author and publisher IN .he Iii uli'eu M
states il that of warm and lasting frendsp-sueh US
that which subsisted for so many years between l'e M
and Putnam aud which now annates and dgnlnes the
and Messrs Ticknor Fields, and which gathers IN the
wclkuown room Of the llarperS most OF WrluIs VINO
attached
Is one OF n singular mutual trusuness The author re-
ceiyeS his scmannual account from the publisher WIN
as absolute a faith I'm its correctness as though nc Hhu
himself counted the volumes sold; and the publisher con
signs the manuscript Of the established author 10 the
nrintpr almost without Opening confident tna We IT.
IL succeeds fails the author has done ms best we
have heard Of IN which publisher had serious
cls of complaint against an ani0r, Dut never nave We
X ow an author to bc Intentionally wroged by puD
lisicr We nave known publisher IN the mdst OF iie %
ruin his house. TO make II one ot the nit occS u ms
carc 10 save authors from loss make their neYtaDlc
losses less. How common, too IL ~ IN the trauc LOT
uuishcr 10 20 beyond tine letter of his BOND, ana, Ier
Inc successful sixth than the stipulated price lNt
every speak Of the market as he mas u fOr 3ur
part after fifteen years OF almost day intete1so "l ~,
publishers have recOllect0ns OF them tha arc 10y
agreeable and call 10 mind transaction IN Wlch
they did not show themselves TO be men OF hon9r as
much as men of We have not the least DOUBT
that Mr. Peterson honestly thought lie had acquired
rgh by fair purchase sell the property OF CnaeS
Dickens I'm the United states az long as he shoud CON
tnue I'm business and then 10 dispose OF that gh 10 MS
successor are equally confident that McsSrs harper
felt themselves completely justified In cndeavorng 10
crush the Diamond EdtOn OF Thackeray All TINS chaoS
and uncertainty all these fruds ana cinltes, nave 0h
and the same cause.-The existence In the world OF klnd
of property which Is at the most precious, the
easiest stolen. and the worst protected
Among tho contents Of this number Mr.. Whpple's
subtle and comprehensive criticism Ben Jonson viii
be read with pleasure. and 80 will Mr. IT, T. Tuckermans
apprcclative estimate of the writings VI Adolphus Iro
lope and Mr. Bayard Taylor's account Of journey in
Spain Mr. T. b. Aldrichs musical stanzas entitled 1.-THE
Flight OF the Goddess happily describes the transition
from a vague bohemian life that OF stad and solid
Bostouian aud the fatal efforts OF tho same on the
Imagination Of the poet Ills verses however give the
e to hs doctrine. long he write such pictur-
esquc poems he need not seek 20 the Muse by eX-
changing Lis pleasant surroundings FOR old clothes ana
a garnet.