The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-12-20

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The quick obedIent lIghtuInes have leapea
over the wires TO all parts Of the land, to tell
the news that the "Literary Revolution, has
failed, and the day Of cheap, good books has
ended almost as soon as II had dawned.
The merry old-llue monopollst publishers
have said III told you i" and their types have
clicked for the old-tlme high ptlces-$s again
for books which the Revolution gave you In
beautiful form for 90 cents.
The happy 50-per-cent-proft bookseller has
laughed at the downfall of the hated thing,
and joked the aspiring school-boy over his
vanished vision OF library of choice books all
his own.
The dashlng dime novel, "seuare-side" H.
brary of nashy fiction, and the $50 encyclope-
dias have begun to dance merry round
But stop little
The car of good literature and useful knowl-
edge only changes Its crippled, honored, bat
tle-scarred horses for sound, fresh stronger
ones, and dashes forward again with flying
colors. The song of Nlcodemus says,
Only hastened the advent OF day"
The Literary Revolution moves on. II had
only begun to array it's forces. Its supposed
Waterloo was mere skirmsh-lt served only
as a signal for the real call TO arms.
A dead Lincoln did not make doomed
Unlon-the people were back of him, and the
people are back of this Revoutlon-they will
see to It that 1t does not halt.
sFAlled," Indeed Over two millions of
volumes of choice books placed In few months
at before unheard-of prices In the hands of
glad purchasers, serve as so many ties to the
living goodwill of the Intelligent masses.
Every creditor of the American Book Ex-
change will get one hundred cents on the dol
lar
Not stockholder will be assessed a penny
even IL "Premium" is not yet to be written
against every share of Its stock.
Vile, baseless SANDER, as the slanderers
meant 1t should, precpitated panic among
the company's creditors. The company stood
"run" as not one bank In hundred could
have done, paid more than two-thlrds of its
liabilities In few weeks time Cover $100, ,000);
then, to save unnecessary sacrifice, and to pro-
teet its friendly creditors and the stockholders,
business was stopped-from Saturday night
until Monday morning
Business goes forward again Immediately,
and any orders for the 'sLibrary of Universal
Knowledge" or other publications advertised
for sale, will be filled promptly on receipt.
To strengthen the fight, numerous friends of
the enterprise have organized a new company
to share the battle with the old. The Useful
knowledge Publishing Company is the name it
takes. The two companies will work In har-
mony and not in competitions being under the
same management every stockholder in the
old having equal opportunity for an interest In
the new, If he wants 1t. The old notices are
still at the front
A book that is worth reading is worth own
ing.
A book that is worth owning is worth pre-
serving-therefore should be we'll printed and
bound.
To make one dollar and friend is better
than to make S. only.
1000 books, profit 81, equals $1,000 1,000,-
600 books, profit one cent, equals $4,000. 1t
Is more pleasure as we'll as more profit to sell
the million.
To which the new company adds
One price to all. S1=l00 cents, whether in
the hands of the poor farmer boy or the rich
bookseller.
Owe no man anything. Buy for cash and
sell for cash. Gold dollars ask no fayors.
| The new company has secured the entire
| stock of the largest purchasers at the great
| November auction sale of the American Book
| Exchanges publications, and has now ready
for delivery limited supply of those standard
| and incomparably cheap books. Catalohues
| of the present stock with the new net prices
| will be sent by return mail.
Specimen pages of the s'World's Dictionary
| of Language and Knowledge" now in prepa-
| ration, double the size of Webster's Una
| bridged, at fraction of its cost, will be ready
| In few days.
| The great "Library of Universal Knowl-
| edge" the largest and best encyclopedia ever
| published in this country, is ready for imme-
| diate delivery on receipt of cash-15 volumes
| octave, large type, extra cloth binding, price
S12 In half Russia, price SIS.
Information given and orders attended to by
return mail. Address THE USEFUL KNowL-
EDGE PUBLISHING Co., 25 Beekman Street,
| New York.
JOHN B. ALDEN, Manager.
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