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...house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this. Good little boys in story-books open valuable volumes in quest of traditional dollar-bills between the leaves, but many a volume is never opened or even taken from its shelf in some libraries. Cheap literature is not for such epicures as these; they must take their learning, as the poor, sick homeopathics do, in sugar-coated form. The binding of a book improves its appearance, but we must be cautious in judging by appearances, for a table of logarithms may be bound in full...
...series of cheap publications has been begun in New York. The aristocratic patrons of the famous yellow-covered novels (ycleped Beadle's) can now read the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and other rather ennobling pieces, at a like price. Could the piracy so indiscriminately employed with the books of English authors be turned to some public good, the school-boy of the future might buy "Tom Brown" for a dime, and the poorest family might have its Bible, Shakspere, and Principles of Political Economy...
...SAGACIOUS Junior, wishing to dispose of some textbooks, displayed the following enticing notice: "Textbooks for sale cheap; affable clerks." It is needless to say he met with perfect success...
...rich plunder, from the country within a radius of fifty miles. The price for transportation to the lake immediately dropped from five dollars to fifty cents. We learn on good authority that, should Saratoga be fixed upon for the next regatta, a long-contemplated plan for quick and cheap carriage to the lake will be carried into effect. This would remove every objection to Saratoga but one, that of the delay caused by rough water; and this, it is held by men familiar with the lake, could be obviated by setting the race in the morning, - to be rowed...
...number, necessarily small, of those who make a study of Shakspere occupy a large part of their time, but that the "Society's work is essentially one of popularization; of stirring up the intelligent study of Shakspere among all classes in England and abroad," and for this reason cheap editions of the Society's works are to be published. There is not wanting a good deal of interest in reading Shakspere at Harvard, and it is pleasant to mention a small society in one of the classes last year which met once a week for the study of his plays...