Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-24
A BUSY PUBLISHING HOUSE.
How Book are Made at Lothrop's. Books
for all Ages and Conditions OF Readers
and Some of his newest new Things.

We make The following extract from
- IamlNhirr's' letter i'll one of our eX-
changes:
one Of the busiest book making hives in
Boston l. that Of ID. LOthrOp II Co., at the
corner Of Franklin and lIawlcy streets. If
/ there were even any dronc, about they have
been killed oil long ago, To make room for
workers. One can imagine that the boy who
discovered that one of the definitions of work
i, 10 f'Iimciit. and illustrated hi, mastery Of
the new acquisition by saying, Il love To fer
mrnt IN the garden was familiar with 10th
rop'I business. There, if anywhere, work
! does mean tn icrmcut. And the result of the
/ fermentation is remarkable in both quantity
and quality
L"throp publishes about hundred new
| hooks year and about IL million volumes.
! This docs not include the is,ucs Of his maya
/ zii:r~ in their monthly numbers, but does i'll
| cludc them when bound in volumes. ANY
/ one who knows or can GUESS what the select
/ Ing, printing, binding mot To saw the naming)
| OF one hundred new books year, imply Of
work and executive ability, will readily
| believe that Iothrop, is very busy place.
| One Is sometimes tempted To believe that
| Lothrop keeps il magician who has but to
| wave his wand and from host of books
stories come forth and find their mates and
group themselves in Series and Libraries,
| with hcwildcrin%iy pretty covers, and ask the
world to buy tlIcm-and the world does buy
them. The WIDE AWAKE, BABYLANp, LIT
| TIE Folks READER and PAN,Y are his quar-
tct; the WIDE AWAKE, for boys and girls
| from eight to eighteen mo from four To
eighty would be more accuratcl; BABrLAND
| for wee folks just large enough To look with
! great eye, of wonder at pictures, while
mamma or nurse read, the simple story; the
LITTLE FOLK, READER, for older little pco-
pie, for primary school children, who find
great enjoyment in reading its excellent
original stories and studying its equally cx-
ccllent original pictures; and PANSY, de
| signed for Sunday school reading. The first
three are edited by Ella Farman, and are cx-
ccrdin%ly crciitabc To her good judgement,
taste, ingenuity and care for the moral tone
of the boys and girls who are So fortunate as
| supply of bright stories for these, month
after month"; would after while give out,
! but it never does. Punctually every month
each appears with its full quota, and always
| excellent indeed. The quota of the WIDE
| AWARE is now vastly more than full, the tide
al the Chartauqua Young Folks Reading
Union having becu turned into it, making it,
! in addition to magazine of entertaining
| stories, poems and pictures. Il cyclOpSdia Of
information i'll history, biography, music,
| physical geography, zoology. law and various
practical matters.
Lothrop are: The Old Oaktn Bucket"
with il picturesque suggestions embodied in
graceful and artistic pictures lay Miss l.. b.
Humphrey; and the Kingdom of Home"
| Il book of domestic POEMS selected by Arthur
Gilman and quite lavi>hly illustrated with
designs which will please lovers of choice
| picture, j. we'll aS lovers Of home and the
domestic associations which the book so
fclcitou>ly celebrates All this is hut mere
hint of what Lothrop is doing.
PETER THE GREAr.-In England Peter is
perhaps better known by his cccentricitics
than by his genius. Bishop Burnct had a poor
opinion of linn, and Evelyn's servants called
| his people right nasty" The monarch who
could not bear 10 face Il crowd; who drove Il
whrclharr"w through the much priced hol-
! lyhcdgr; who carried 4 ruby worth ten thou
sand pounds in his wai-tcoat pocket, wrapped
IN brown paper, rs present 10 King Will
| liam; and, finally, who labored in Drptford
dockyart - Il common ip-carpentcr-such
| is English memory of the great Gar. In the
Judgment Of the general public, Peter will
not for moment be placed in the same rank
with Napoleon; yet he was general victo-
throIcd: the head nf his church and the
father of his country. rs such, his crucltics
and madness are forgotten; he i cnshrincd
| in the hearts of the Russian people
| NEVER WRoNG.-I0u have probably OBJ
served that the most difficult people 10 get
| along with are those who are always perfectly