Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-12-15
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The New Battlefront of the Literary
Revolution.

The quick, obedient lightnings have leaped 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 are ended almost soon az it
had dawned.
The merry old-line monopolist publishers have
said i told you so and their types have clicked for
the old time high prices-S again for books which
the Revolution gave you in beautiful form for soc.
The happy 50per-cent- profit bookseller has laugh
ed at the downfall of the hated thing and oked the
brary Of choice books all his own.
The dashing dime novel; square side' library of
fashy felton, and the $50 encyclopedias have begun
to dance merry round
But stop little!
The car of good literature and useful knowledge
only changes its crippled, honored, batte-scarred
horses for sound, fresh stronger ones, and dashes
forward again with flying colors. The song of Nico-
demus says,
sand the darkness which seemingly banished the
dawn . q
Only fastened the advent of day."
The Literary Revolution moves on It had only
begun to array its forces It's supposed WaqerloO
was mere skirmish-it only served as a signal for
| the real call to arms.
| A dead Lincoln did not make doomed Union
| the people were back of him, and the people are
back of this revolution they will to it that it
does not halt.
"Failed," 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 classes.
| Livery CTCullOT OF tle american BOOK EXCHANGE
| will get one hundred cents on the dollar.
Not stakeholder will be assessed penny even If
Premium is not yet to be written against every
share of Its stock.
vile, baseless slander, as the slanderers meant it
| should, precipitateda panic among the company g
creditors. The company stood a run as not one
bank in hundred could have done, paid more than
two-third5 of its liabilities In few weeks time lover
100000; then to unnecessary sacrifice and to
protect It's friendly creditors and stockholders bus-
ness was stopped-from Saturday night until Mon
day morning =.
Business goes forward again Immediately, and any
orders for the Library of Universal Knowledge, or
other publications advertised for sale, will be filed
promptly on receipt
enterprise have organized 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 harmony and not in compe-
tition, being under the same management; every
stockholdern the old having equal opportunity for
an interest in the new if he wants it, The old mot
, toes are still at the 'front.'
A book that is worth reading is worth owning.
A book that is worth owning il worth preserving
, therefore should be well printed and bound.
To make one dollar and q friend is better than to
make $5 only.
1900 books profit 81, equals $1,000: 1,OOOOOO books
profit one cent equals $4,000. It is more pleasure
f as well as more profit to sell the million.
To which the new company adds:
One price to all. $l-100 CENTS whether in thu
hands of the poor farmer boy or the rich bookseller
, Owe no man anything. Buy for cash and sell fol
t cash. Gold dollars ask no favors.
n The new company has purchased the entire stoel
of the largest purchaser at the great November auc
: tion sale of the American Book Exchanges publ
cations, and has now ready for delivery a limited
, supply of those standard and inComparaby cheal
5 books. Catalogues of the present stock with TIL
new net prices will be sent by the return mall
Specimen pages of the "lhe Worlds Dictionary o
a Language and knowledge now in preparation
double the size of Webster's Unabridged at a frac
Q tion of its cost, will he ready in few days.
a The great "Library of Universal Knowledge" tn
largest and best encyclopaedia ever published il
g this country, is ready for immediate delivery
:, ceipt of cash15 volumes octave large, extra clot
J binding, price $l2; in half russia, price SIS.
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turn mail. Address The UsEFUI. KNOWLEDGE PrB
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= JOHN b. ALDEN, Manager