New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-03

Gou,isbirp condition. The eminent vitality Of the
9cdH an 1yGrGjt gives at least one at contradiction
TO the assertion, That NJ. Banduilart could Drlng
instances out of the no experiments in practcai
proof of it, il too probable; hut am assured Nv PEI
sons who must know that many of the experiments,
carried ON 10y men VINO look to themselves ~ " he
themselves and transact their business win rno
Credit an Ifdrad and others on purely business to i
have assured the best kind of success; modest
as yet on the material side but rich IN to fr the
Of sef-dependence and IN reasonable hoP' ~
future of ossocia-
OF all the claims in favor of the power o. ddo none
ton put forward 10y the devoteea Oh nractIcal
was met with more udlcue from F,1 annlica-
mem than their utOpian notion OI us rt The
lion to teaching 80 the sciences anu mar If Tine
result of the labors of jean m az which excellent
POurbGc de Pdin-eXbaustatlOh pt TIN TPipI,NF--
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bringing into practice, among OF H., ation conn
of i1stTnctye popular lectures III Tue ia ',eiLIe
oI lstuCilNe PLonGed the sncerS OF the schslplo'
uroctical folks 10 frOwns ana hoWIS. ~ ,otovcorthv
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pi.ian printers and salarled ceFkS To ot ,y,iters
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nrnffs which the wOrkingman; AT iOur vi ~ W.
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weeks in order TO compose clp'Hi ,In,ns of
undertake the publishing OF the list S,A NT ;t T
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with ready sale, yielding money cAough 10 ~ I
six more and so they Went ON TO llc Nv biDg
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uiuass seemed TO be assured Tor the lutit' NhVu
new difficulty presented itself to the aSNoca'cs I'M
had grown ont of the very success Oh 'ilcl
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print Them But the outlay Tor rent clSlh hlle ~
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aside bv selling their books at more nan COST Nlple
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now call ON stock hOdcTS fOr 20 sous week, WHO
was cbrerfuy responded In. and produced at le emu
of two years n capital of l2UD francs. AlH ;? ,lio
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umc Ii is composed of the best authors III lie I'M
puope--poetS philosophers. hlstorianS-Suci us ~
Sage De Maistre, Pascal: LtS ffot"c'dfS Vi "S'''
for five cents ,l
And now these working capitalists at last declared
a dividend in their own favor. and NOted lhenSe'cSS
copies of the volumes, when LOT inc hSt =, 20
tbriV eDteTpriSe they bought M the same price ud'
The pubc paid for them But after suhclehly ieJoc-
ing over this magnificent result, they grew uheuSN
seif-critcal and decided that Nntonal Library W
Classics ought to be supplemented by library oi
education adapted to lead forward Hose disnheIleu
of instruction to capacity of enjoyment OF the accu
minated literary wealth of France. The new series
of small Volumes which counts twenty -IuhI ped
tb General title of HEcole MuiHCLe They are bret
clear treatscs on grammar arithmetic, natuIaI MS
tory chemistry, French history, etc. ana NIltleh en-
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learned men. who have associated IN llVV EVHIu
will theirbrains TO the pockets ana laDOfs oil lht
earlier associates - .e....:l.,,
The Two Libraries together, founded on contnpu
tious of twenty SOUS now contain ld3 NolulheS, 9
which M TO the present time, more thah Two III
| hon copies have been SOld.