And what we propose to do with the American public is to give it twenty-four books like this a year--a complete library--for the absurd sum of six dollars.

We don't intend to sell 'em--it's no name for the transaction--but to give 'em.

And what we want to get out of you--beg, borrow, buy, or steal from you is an opinion whether we shall make the American public this princely present in paper covers like this, or in some sort of flexible boards, so they can set them on the shelf and say no more about it.

Now, Dan'el, come to judgment, as our respected friend Shylock remarked." Beacon had got done looking at the dummy, and he dropped it on the table before Fulkerson, who pushed it away, apparently to free himself from partiality.

"I don't know anything about the business side, and I can't tell about the effect of either style on the sales; but you'll spoil the whole character of the cover if you use anything thicker than that thickish paper." "All right; very good; first-rate.