News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
Gen. Grants Memoirs.

The first edition IF the personal
Memoirs of U. S. Grant" is 100000
copies. Chas. IMsester & Co.,
the puhllshers,. say they may add
oo'oo0 copies to it. This edition is
now in the hands of the printers, j.
j. Little & Co., s Astor Place, who
are printing the book as rapidly as
consistent with good work. A second
edition is already made necessary by
the large number of subscriptions re-
ceived, and the presses will be set to
work upon it as soon as they have
struck off the last page of the second
volume OF the first edition. This will
be in about three weeks. The second
edition will in any event be as large
as the first.
Although the printing is being done
by single firm, the work of binding
400, 900 volumes would tax the re-
sources of any establishment for near
ly half year. Three binderies will
begin their work as soon as Little &
Co. can supply the sheets. Each
house will bind about third of the
edition. That amount will furnish
ample work for 800 people for about
two months.
The first volume of the first edition
will not be delivered until December,
though it will probably be ready about
the middle of November. December
was set as the month of publication,
and the date will not be changed.
The second volume will not be ready
for delivery until March.
The orders forthe books have been
coming in very seadily, the daily av-
erage being in she neighborhood of
5000. The deb ssss Cen. Grant did
not make peSetal esl-sress So IN che
number of ordrs. The South is do
ing her share Of ordering, the agents
for Virginia sporting that they had
received subscriptions for 1000 sets
in the two Sites within three weeks.
Already, four months before the deliY-
cry of the first volume, 800, 900 sets
of two volumes each have been or
dered. This large number does not
include foreign orders. Mr.. Web
ster sailed for England on the first of
August to complete arrangements for
the publication of the book in that
country. Several large firms have
applied for the privilege of publishing
it. The book will be translated into
French, German, Spanish and Italian.
The translations wild be made abroad.
The cashier for O. L. Webster d
Co., recently said: "The entire man
uscript for both volumes was in Mr..
Webster's hands on the Friday before
Gen. Grant died. Mr.. Webster took
the galley proofs of the last fifty
pages to Mt. McGregor on that day,
and showed them 10 the General. The
General himself wrote the manuscript
of the first volume. and we trans
cribed it for the printers. The second
volume was dictated by the General
to our manager, Mr.. Hall. 1t was
all in our hands by the 18th of July,
sufficient for two volumes of about
six hundred pages each. Gen. Grant
and Mr.. Webstercorrected the proofs
of the first volume, and the General
saw the proofs of the second volume, !
though he did not correct them. The
manuscript brings the story down to
the end of the war, and not to the
day of the Generaps death, as one re-
port had it. We shall hardly make
any change in tie work, no matter
what may be discovered among the
Generals papers,
G. L. Webste' & Co. have taken
every precautionto prevent the book
being sold by th book trade. Each
volume has private mark upon it,
by which it can betraced to the gen
eral agent through whom the canvass
ers were supplied. Each canYasser
is under q contract ut to furnish the |
6ook 9o~t1e ssadeS pa is liable to
damages for breaking it. Several
books have appeared with titles near
ly approaching the title of the genu-
inc book.
Mrs. Grant is to receive rs per
cent. of the profit on the book in
America, and IS per cent. of that
abroad.