This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...the year preceding, and the number of them that take high rank in the scale of literary appreciation is proportionately less. The causes of this depression are doubtless the same that affect other departments of business. Special reasons are to be found in the effect of the tariff as it now stands to favor the foreign book-manufacture at the expense of the American trade, and the increased prominence of newspapers and periodicals as sources of literary nutriment to the mass of readers. As these publications have gained in strength and in solid literary and scientific value, they more completely satisfy the mental cravings of their readers, and in the same proportion diminish the disposition to purchase books. This form of competition with the book-trade is not without its...

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