Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-12-20
The New Battlefront of the Literary
Revolution,

The auiek, enedient lishtaings have le.ped
eSsT tbs se Tlre' to all parts of tho land toll
failed and tho day of cheap. good book. las
enTei T aimssE as soc aoen as it had dawned.
said tald yoa
ed for the old M time high prieessS again for
laughed at the down fall Of the hated t6n aad aa
vision of library of choice books ali his own.
TIE dashing dime novel. "square-side" libra.
~ of hasy fiction. and the $50 epcyeIopnTia,
have begun to dance merry rounJ2
But stop a littlel
The car of good literature and usefulk.ov1.
edge oaiy changes its crippled, honored battle
% SCARED horses for sound. fresh. .tronger ones,
And TSs dashss 81 f9Tw5d again with yinE
"And the darkness which seeminzIv h.pish.d
the dawn
only hasteneti the advent of day"
The Literary Revolution moyes on. Jtib,a
enly only begun to array its fsrees. Its supposed
Waterloo wasia nero skirmish-it served oni1
dead Lincoln did not m aie a doomed 1Jn,on
~ ahe psopie were back of him. and the people
are are bae5 Of this Reyoiutionthey will sec to it
"Failed, ;" indsedi Over two millions Of VOL
Gmes Iin OF cheiee books placed in few months at
seIoTe-unheard-of prices in the hands of elad
@ Larchs.ers. serve as so many ties to the iiyin
: soed-wlll of the intelligent ussses. 'AH
ehsags will get one hundred CENTS Oh the dollar.
Not st9ckhelder will be- assessed penny
ha ~ tteu
againsteyery share of its stock
HlIo' 5sselesa SANDER, as the slan dcrers me.pt
nanr1s panic among the cem-
a not o4s & bank 3 IN hundred could have done. paid
mere fhan two-thiraE sf its liabilities in few
necessary sacrifice, and TO protect II. fvjendjv
creditors and the stock holders. business was
ssSPrEa-,tron Saturday nigh, until Menday
Business goes forward again Immediately. and
~ i2r the library of Universal Knowl-
.dr r.
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10 siren gthen the fight, numerous friends Of
to share the battlo with the old! The Wssf1SI
knowlsdge Publishing Company is the rsrae It
msny and not il compotition, being under th.
same mana@amsnt; every stockholder in the Old
at the front: a. s''iI
book ssi that "a j. worth reading is verth owning
oooe tnst lt worth owning is worth pre-
sserYi9s-therefore shsuld be well printed and
TO make ono dollar AID a friend i, batter +b,,
to make SIS only. ~ ="
1000 1909 books. profit 81. esaal, $1,000: 600 900
million. 't- 'Ae
To which the aev company adds:
One price to all. s1=IOo cents, whether in
bas tas hanHs OF the poor farmer boy the rich
for cash Gold dollars ask no fayors
Ihe new company has secured the entire
yember auction sale of the Americas Book Ex-
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denvsrJ inited supply of thoss sta ndard and
1aeomparabiY cheap books. CataloKuss ef The
Present stock with the new NET nrises Sin Ls
sent by feturn mail. HA 20
Specimen pages Of the "wsrld's Die.ie..ry
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