The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-14
The Mew Battle Front of the Lit
erary Revolution.

The quick, obedient lightnings have
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 50 l told you se,' and
their types have clicked fer the old
time high priees-$8 again for books
which the Revolution gave you in beau
iful form for SO cents.
The happy 50-per cent-proit book
seller has laughed at the downfall OF
the hated thing. and joked the aspiring
school boy over his vanished vision oi
library of choice books, all of his
own.
The dashing dime novel, "square-
side y library of fiashy fiction, 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, battle-scarred 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 hastened the advent of day.
The Literary Revolution moves on.
It had only begun to array its forces.
Its supposed Waterloo was a mere
ski nish-it served only as a signal for
the real call to arms.
A dead Lincoln did not make a
doomed Unien-the people were back
of him, and the people are back of this
Revslution-they 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 unheard- eff 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 stakeholder 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 pan
| ic among the eompany's creditors.
The company stood a g run y as not
one bank in hundred could have dene,
paid more than two-thirds of it's liabili-
| ties in few weeks time lover 800, ,O00) ;
then, to save unnecessary sacrifice,
and to protect it's 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 g Lii
brary of Universal Knowledge" or
| other publications advertised for sale,
will be filed promptly on receipt.
To strengthen ths fight, numerous
| friends of the enterprise have organized
a new company to share the battle with
the old. The Useful knowledge Pub
| fishing Company is the name it takes.
The two companies will work in har-
mony and not in competition, being un-
tder the same management; every
stockholder in the old having equal op-
portunity for an interest in the new, if
he wants it. The old mottoes are still
at the front:
| A book that is worth reading is worth
owning.
| A book that is worth owning 10 worth
| reserving-therefore should be well
| printed and bound.
To make one dollar and u friend is
better than to make 81 only.
1000 books, profit 81, equals $1,000 !;
| ,000, 900 books, profit one cent, equals
$4,000. It 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 ofthe poor farm
er boy or the rich bookseller.
Owe no man nytlling. 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 n
| limited supply ofthose standard and in
comparabIy cheap books. Catalogues
of the present stock with the new net
prices will be sent by return mail.
Specimen pages of the : Worlds
Dictionary Of Language and KnoWl-
edge" now in preparation, double the
size of Webster's Unabridged, at frac-
ton of its cost, will be ready IN a few
days
The great I. Library of Universal
Knowledge the largest and best eney-
elopadia ever published in this cOnn-
| try, il ready for immediate delivery on
receipt of cash-15 velnmes octave,
large type, extra cloth binding, price
$I2; in half russia, price $15.
| Information given and orders attend
ed to by return mail Address The
/ USEFUL KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING Co.,
26 Beekman Street. New York.
JOAN B. ALDEN, Manager.
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