The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-03
HOME BOOKS FOR
SCHOOL CHILDREN
The State Board viii Have an OPP
portunity to Adopt Them.
ARE PUBLISHED IN RICHMOND.
Ard Written 10y Competent Virginia
and other Southern Authors-A
Great Saving Of Money offered,
Too-Claims of Publishers.

When the state Board Of Education
meets here on the 18th Of this month 10
select the text books Tor use in the pup
Die schools during the next four years
very determined fight VIII be made in re-
half of books prepared by Southern men
and women and published In virginia
By a careful calculation III is estlHltttu
that more than 100000 goes out o. VIZ
riula annually FOR school books publish
al al the North. Something like 5000
are spent for books used In the SCHOOLS
OF Richmond. There is no longer any
apparent reason why this money should
NOT remain I'm virginia During the last
two or three years several Virginia pun
fishers have invested thousands or DOL
lars I'm preparing for the market schooi
books by Southern authors. The results
OF their efforts are SURPRISING lHVy
VIII exhibit 90 the Board books re hand
somoly gotten mp as any that ever came
from The printing prc7s.
WELL-KNOWN FlIthS.
Some of those who are interested IN
the publication of school books are the
II II. Johnson Publishing Company j..
l. HU Printing Company A. Ho9n q
Company l.. ID. Jenkins Nmttet d
Shopperson. and =. l.. Zen company
THESE firms are an cooperating I'm the
movement to have home books FOR our
school children.
These people are we'll organized for
the fight that is 20 be made. They eN-
pect TO Offer better books 40 cheaocr
prices than the Northern houses. They
win not only show books handsomely
printed on the best of paper, Win very
attractive Illustrations. and containing
more matter than the Northern book Tor
the same grade but they Will present
testimonials from scores of the most sue
AL \ rrHfF a. their
publications ore on tnat could be desir-
ed
II may be that this is the beginning
Of a movement that will make Richmond
q great book publishing city. should
these gentlemen succeed IN getting tneir
publications on the ist 90 tho exclusion
% books made in the North 70 IS trste
certain that the other Southern states
VII fan nto line and adopt the Virginia
WHAT TT MEANS.
should our plan succeed SAID MT.
poen. 1T viii mean hundreds or thous-
ands OF dollars 90 be expended IN THIS
civ The printing houses VIII be kept
busy aud competitors VIII nave 10 De
hr0urht here from Lynchbnrg' Noriolk.
Petersburg D1nvile and other CUES IL
VIII leave more work Tor tno'e VINO re-
main "a home Every book bincery IN
40. wish our people could fully APP
preolate the possibilities that are open
ing up Tor Richmond. -
M Il. r.. johnson who ha0 labored
20 theoretically and successfully as a
publisher endorsed all that MT hoeh
said "Wc have the books" said ne.
"rhey have been examined by competent
fucres and pronounced I'm every way
sstisfactorv We place the prices lower
than Northern houses. This Is home
enterprise. Tho money we pay for books
will be kept in virginia. DO we not de-
serve 60 De supported? We are try1rs
70 encourage Southern authors. The sue
cess Of the movement will be assured
should our State stand 10y US. Then tho
teachers in the Southern states will
know when they can have any good
book they may prepare published
RESULT or MUCH LABOR.
These cuterpgia.ug gentlemen have been
preparing schoO. books for two years.
a great msss " manuscript were se.
cured and they were edited and revised
by competent persons. The books are