Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-01-05
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care 70 read At all, aud who are not on the
verge Of starvation, shonld not own the
best books by the best authors in litera-
turc, science, art, history, etc. Within the
last I've years several publishers have In.
angurai-d new method which places the
best works Of fofeign writer's within the
reach Of :b. most modest purses.
! There Is no protection under our laws
| for foreign authors, ~ that book which
an English writer would sell in his own
/ country for several thou-and dollars will
bring him nothing in the United States
unless q publisher here should pay Inn,
something ss mere act Of grace.
Disracli, for instance, has just published
a novel. "Endymlon.' IN England he " a.
paid for II many Thousand pouuds-in the
United States all that is required - that a
Publisher should buy several copies Of the
work. put them ~ the hand. Of his prin.
tcr-. PRINT, hind, advertise aud sell At such
pic, as would rrmuncratc him. He may,
OF hts own free will, pay the author snn,-
thing ~ to Lr able I" say that he has
ID" authors special prmi~sinn 10 prin;
th- b""k. But this IL u matter left entir'-
Is 10 himself So American publishers are
free "f IN i:ip"rtlnt item of '1Sprn-" Which
inrcr- thur English brethren 10 increase
III" price Of their publications.
Uud,r This condition 81 affair." il IL the
privilege of any person ~ the 'nit"d States
To- publish and -.ll any English work. In
al ilc hrm Of D"nnclly. lloyd ~ Co.. CHI.
cage, h"grn tn publication "f the LAKE
sri" Library, thu largc Publishing h"u-' =
OF NV York l,o.iun aud Philadelphia
fDrnl-hrh ia" i'oplr with English works
~ price much less than the book sold tor
~ England. VT still more than many PIT.
SONS could afford to pay i"i them lna--
much 49, ih'l were relieved nf al import
ant item "t expense, their prices fnr tn"
cheaper >'Slr> were really ,NturtiorIat,;
hrsldc-. their cheap books were printed
mnir cNlwustVcly than Wa actually u'c.--
>ar,. The paper hound rdrtiuu- of lIa:-
pets Library Il fiction were mot intended
/" Toe very rudurab.". why then thu need
of printing them IN "a form ~ expensive
Ia view "f all TINS, the Chicag" firm
mentioned ahnvc bryan the publication of
foreign works If achu"N l,ds-d merit IN
the cheapest -tS L. possible. The novels OF
Dickens, Collins, Read, Tha, krray, Brad
don and others. were SOLD ut from ten to
twenty cents. li,rc,nijIr they could not
b" had toI less than iifiy. seventy five cents
aud u dollar. True, these books A. pub
l~hcd were not lasting yet n they would
supply the main want. m immediate read
ing, rhry -nilic,d for this purpose.
THIS vr tHkr to br the beginning Of the
cheap publications. which are nov honiing
III" country. The Seaside Library NOW
contains more than seven hundred books,
TIA" majority being standard and ~our of
them classics. They nclndr history, ira
vel, hl"srphv, iirt,"n, -'Icucr, poetry, AZ.
HARPER Bro, who, 10y reason at their
N''' "''''"' '"'''''>'"G 'i''""'hS'H
through their prr'"dl'His, and III" prestige
of ih'u nam" aVd A-". hNrr hitherto h"tn
able Ia dril competition, hav, been forced
total mt" the style, and III their Franklin
Square Library publish perhaps the mat
c't and III every Way III" most CSC !!"nt at
all these cheap editions
hut thIN revolution rot "aIy mrludr~
cheap pIp'r-"oN"rrd editions. The Amer
can Book ENchaugr publish in y more dn-
rabl" form, with better binding. many of
th"~" standard works which arr of absolute
NECESSITY /" = >tud,at. Aud very lately =
NJ I,b,, " I,,,II .u,.,- ia. ,;,.lI ~ th,.