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 contents of the two Valames ef the year, exactly 59G have been reprinted ofier US by booksellers, leaving 250 which are ex- eidsiyely iD the 'Library." Though that portion was furnished to the booksellers much below the usual rate, and printed on small sized type, still the price in boolS form was SIP 00-eqaal to seveRteen dol tdrs for the year.

 When the advantages of circulation by mail are considered, and also that, III clubs of five individuals, each gets the work for S4 GO, which difference pays the postage, it must be admitted, on all hands, that it IS the greatest reduction on the usual selling prices of any article ever at tempted, much less eaecufed.4 But the subscriber does not fonnd his claims to public patronage alone on the cheapness of his periodicai. Ihe works published have been of highly literary and very attrac~ tive character, as is proved by second book editions having followed those of atsie Li- brary" with rapidity, and every one of which, even at the advanced price charged in that form, has had most rapid sale.

 The time and attention of literary gentlemen are almost entirely devoted to making selections for the work, and in seeking, from the mass of books in the public institutions of Philadelphia, as well as from the pew books imported from Great Britain, the most interesting and valuable matter; and he has had the pleasure of bringing before the American public sev erai works which otherwise would prob ably not have been reprinted here.

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 Tn addition to the plan originally pro posed, the four pages of the cover have been added, in whose ample columns the editor weekly crowds literary intelligence of various kiuds-extensiye extracts from the new est and best books as fast as they issue from the other presses, and endeav- ots, without favor or partiality, 10 point out to his readers such works as have most merit. 1t contains an extensive record of what is passing in the literary world, and, in fact, supplies desideratuEn te lit erary circles in this country, never preyi- ously furnished.

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