PIRATES AND AUTHORS. Continued. 



out my efforts would never have known you. I say readers have rights as 

 well as authors; what they are I will not discuss; I say, simply, let the laws 

 be changed as authors demand; while Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, and 

 Lamb are free to readers, any " monopoly " which living authors can secure 

 upon their own writings will not seriously hurt readers and, furthermore, 

 folly in law-making, if foolish changes should be made, would be likely 

 soon to work its own cure, in this age of the printing press. 



Finally. Hamerton's "Intellectual Life" ought to sell by the hundred 

 thousand ought to sell a hundred where it has sold one by the methods of 

 your approved publishers; when the "good time coming" is here, and 

 authors can make their own terms with publishers and the public, perhaps 

 you will give me a little credit and thanks for the LARGER audience you 

 will then have because of my present "piracy," Respectfully, JOHNB. ALDEN. 



THE "PIRATE'S" FRIENDS 



Rejoicingly testify to the value of the Pirate's prizes, one of the finest of which 

 is HAMERTON'S "The Intellectual Life," reduced in cost from $2.00 to 

 50 cents in fine cloth, or $1.00 in full Russia, gilt edges. 



"Mr. Alden is doing incalculable service to the cause of international 

 copyright." Pioneer Press, St. Paul. 



"Your efforts towards extending useful information to all classes * * * 

 ought to render your name immortal." GEN. J. W. PHELPS, Brattleboro, Vt. 



HAMERTON'S 'Intellectual Life.' " Young men ought to own this book in 

 a way few books deserve to be owned,that is, by absolute mental possession." 

 Dominion Churchman, Toronto. 



" Published in a style befitting the value of this most instructive and 

 charming essay. The essay is a jewel worthy of the finest setting." Tran- 

 script, Portland, Me. 



"John B. Alden has done another good service to literature by publishing 

 'The Intellectual Life, 'by PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, in very neat and con- 

 venient style at a price far below what it has heretofore been obtainable for. 

 * The Intellectual Life,' which has become a classic in our language, is as 

 practical and sensible as it is delightful reading." Christian Intelligencer, 

 New York. 



"MR. HAMERTON, fine artist and critic as he is, would certainly not object 

 to this American reprint of the wisest and most graceful of his works, if he 

 could see in what a dainty and beautiful form Mr. Alden has brought it 

 out." The Moravian, Bethlehem, Pa. 



" One man has done more than all other agencies combined to cheapen 

 choice literature in this country, and that man is John B. Alden. Mr. Alden 

 has had the bitterest denunciation and opposition of many of the rich pub- 

 lishers who have built up colossal fortunes by levying a heavy tax on 

 knowledge. His undertaking involved pioneer work. The difficulties 

 thrown in his way would have discouraged and defeated a man of less 

 energy and determination than Alden, but he has steadily pressed forward 

 until the whole country has felt the effect of his enterprise." Herald-News, 

 Denison, Texas. 



" The success that is being achieved by Mr. Alden in his fight against high 

 prices encourages him to improve constantly upon his work, and his publi- 

 cations to-day are mechanically and in every other way the equals of those 

 got out by any other publishing house in the country." Evening Journal, 

 Detroit, Mich. 



"Inclosed find $138.47. The books are as cheap as they are good. Are 

 notable examples of the publisher's skill, and the virtue of Alden's unex- 

 ampled prices." M. E. SATCHWELL, Spirit Lake, Iowa. 



