The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1882-01-07
Ihe Rev Battlefront of the Lit
erary Revolution.

leaped over the wires to all parts of
the land, to tell the news that the " Lit
erary Revolution - has failed, and the
day of cheap, good books has ended al
most as soon as it had dawned.
The merry old-line monopolist pub
fishers have said II told you &c." and
their types have clicked fer the old
time high prices-$S again for books
which the Revolution gave you in beau
iful form for so cents.
The happy 5O-per cent-profit book
seller has laughed at the downfall of
the hated thing, and joked the aspiring
school boy over his vanished vision of
a library of choice books, all of his
own.
The dashing dime novel, square
side " library of fashy fiction, and the
$50 encyclopedias have begun to dance
a merry round
But stop a little
The car of good literature and useful
knowledge only changes its crippled,
honored, battle SCARED horses for
sound, fresh, stronger ones, and dashes
forward again with flying colors. The
song of Nicodemus says
"And the darkness which seemingly
banished the dawn
Only fastened the advent of day"
The Literary Revolution moves on.
1t had only begun to array it's forces.
It's supposed Waterloo was mere
skirmish-it served only as signal for
the real call to arms.
A dead Lincoln did not make a
doomed Uni0n-the people we're back
of him, and the people are back of this
Revolution-shey will see to it that it
does not halt.
Failed" indeed Over two millions
of volumes of choice books placed in a
few months at before e-unheard of prices
in the hands of glad purchasers, serve
as so many ties to the living good will
of the intelligent masses.
Every creditor of the American Book
Exchange will get one hundred cents
on the dollar.
Not stockholder will be assessed a
penny, even if " Premium " is not yet
to be written against every share of its
stock.
Vile, baseless slander, as the SANDER
ers meant it should. precipitated a pan
ic among the company's creditors.
The company stood g. run" as not
one bank in a hundred could have done,
paid more than two thirds of it's iiabili-
ties in few weeks time lover 800, ,000) /;
then; to save unnecessary sacrifice,
and to protect its friendly creditors
and the stockholders. business was
stopped-from Saturday night until
Monday morning!
/ Business goes forward again imme-
diately, and any orders for the 6 Ii
brary 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
q new company to share the battle with
the old. The Useful knowledge Pub
fishing Company is the name it takes.
TIE two companies will work in har-
meny and not in competition, being un-
der the same management; every
stockholder in the old having equal op-
portunity for an interest in the new. if
lie wants it. The old notices are still
at the front:
A book that is worth reading is worth
owning.
A book that is worth ewning is worth
pr6servihg-therefore should be we'll
printed and bound.
To make one dollar and friend ia
better than to make SIS only.
1000 books, profit 81, equals $1,000 !;
1000. 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 81 or 100 cents,
whether in the hands of the poor farm
er boy or the rich bookseller.
Owe no man anything Buy for cash
and sell for cash. Gold dollars ask no
/ favOrs.
The new company has secured the
entire stock of the largest purchasers at
the great November auction sale of the
American Book Exchanges publica-
tions, and has now ready for delivery a
limited supply ofthose standard and in,
comparably cheap books. Catalogues
of the present stock with the new uet
prices will be sent by return mail.
Specimen pages of the "World's
Dictionary of Language and Knowl-
edge" now in preparation, double the
size of Webster's Unabridged, at frae-
tion of its cost, will be ready in a few
days.
The great +" Library of Universal
Knowledge" the largest and best ency-
clopBdia ever published in this coun-
try, is ready for immediate delivery Oh
receipt Of cash-15 volumes octave,
large type, extra cloth binding, price
| SI2; in half russia. price SIS.
Information given and orders attend
ed to by return mail. Address THE
USEFUL knowledge PUBLISHING Co.,
26 Bsekman Street. New York.
JOHN B. ALDEN, Manager.