Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-31
HOW WI SELL OUR BOOKS.


An honorable business career of fifty years
warrants us In makinga statement concern
ing the methods of our business and the
manner in which we come before the
general public for their patronage.
In 1892, Mr.. Winthrop b. Smith saw the
opportunity for the building up a great
publishing business in the West, and called
upon two Of the most distinguished Western
educators is make for him a series of Read
ers and Arithmetics. DR.. VIM. III. Nc
Guffey, of the Miami University, began
the compilation of a series of Readers, and
in 1884 the first of the McGuffey Readers
was published. About the same time, DR..
Joseph Ray, of Woodward College, began
the preparation of hisseries of Rays Arith-
Notice, which was first issued TN the same
year with McGuffey's Readers. These two
series of Readers and Arithmetics are the
nucleus about which has grown the Eclectic
Educational Series, which now umbers
over two hundred volumes, and has an an
nual sale of more than four million copies.
These books are now used in the schools
of every state and territory in the Union.
Parts of the series have at various times
been adopted for exclusive use by several
states. They have been adopted in COM
p~etition with many other series of ike
books, and they have gained their present
extensive circulation solely through tne
intrinsic merits of the books and their low
price.
The original intent of the Publishers to
have a Western series prepared by Western
educators has always been kept in MIND
and the names of the authors comprise
some of the most distinguished of American
Educators: amongst these may be named
William H. McGuffey, D.. d., DR.. Joseph
Raw, A. NJ, DIR. T. S. PinneO, Hon. Ihos'
W. Harvey, Hon. Emerson E. White, LII.
D., VIM. J. Milne, Phi. D., Ii. D.. ). A.
Norton, Pb. D., l. w. Andrews, Ii. D. lion.
John NJ. Gregory, Ii. D.. A. Schuyler, ID:
D., LII. D., President L. c. Hewett, Alfred
HOlbrook, John Clark Ridpath, 5. II. Pea
body, A. NJ, Hon. Eli 7. Tappan, }. b.
Peaslee, PHI. D., A. d. Hepburn, A. NJ,
W. D. Henkle, and many Others, whose
books have given to many thousands OF the
youth of America q common school Ice
ton, and q preparation for their after career.
To the publication of these books and
their success and introduction in the schools
of the Uuited States, the firm of Van Ant
werp, Bragg & Co., and their predecessors,
have devoted their capital, their time and
energy. ,
The publishing business of the United
States is in the hands of not less than
seventy-fve firms, who issue each a series
of competing school-bOoks. Among so
many houses competition is most active,
and the only monopoly in any book is the
monopoly of brains that makes IL publ
cation better than another, and thus ensures
its preference over any other like publica-
ton. Any American citizen has the privi-
lege of compiling any schoOl-book that he
may desire, and he may secure the exclusive
right Gifts publication by complying with
the copyright laws of the country.
All schoOl-bOOk publishers offer their
books for sale at a list price, each firm
making such prices as they think proper on
each Of their publications.
The principal books of the Eclectic Edu-
cational Series are as follows, to which Is
annexed the list price at which any book
may be purchased from us by any one.
If the p%artyidesiring to purchased does not
live in Cincinnati, the cost of mailing Tor
POSTAGE and transportation must be added.