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to publish some statistical ;;otiess. is, which this subject will De embraeed.u Book-moking. g.-- here are about four thousand five hundred booksellers and vendors oi books in the United King dom. IT lame of most writers is very ephcmcral; chiefly owing to their choice of subjects of the day. or inc age or nation. English literature does not preserve above eight or tcn authors before the age of Shakespeare; not above twenty from Shakespeare to Ad- dlson; and scarcely fifty from the age Of Addison to the year lSCO. Since the days of Elizabeth one or two hooks or pamphlets per day have been print ed, but the subjects are absolute theolo- 2, forgotten politics, or superseded phi. losoply, and the majority in bad mo thod orbad taste. It has been the same in France, Germany, Italy, Holland. and doubtless was the same amongst the aneients, though We so often lament the loss of ancient works. The de- eiiise Of literature in England, il;ls been accelerated or caused by passion for novel reading, which deprives all other studies of their rcwaff. It resembles i the Roman literature in the decline of the empire; aud for some years past few hee!ss !a;;;;;t a;;t novels have paid their expenses. A good novel yields it's au. thor from Gl000 to EI5OO, and Dr.. JoIson's high price for his dictionary was but fl574. 4 novel written in in two months will yield iis author os. tooO as current speculation, and Eng

 land has therefore become nation of superficial novel writers and caders.

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