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TO OUR SO OK 



The iVe\v Yorlc Journal of 



Commerce, one of the oldest, most 

 substantial and influential dailies on the 

 continent, says: "Announcements of 

 new books by Junk & Wa^nalla should 

 always be carefully consulted. The 

 publications they advertise are entirely 

 different from anything issued by any 

 other firm in America. The peculiar 

 work to which they devote themselves 

 is the supply of books of the highest 

 character and of permanent value, * * * 

 at prices as low as the cheapest novels. 

 They occupy a field previously unfilled. 

 These cheap volumes have strong and 

 handsome covers, and are printed on the 

 finest paper in larga clear type. How 

 they sell them so cheaply is a mystery 

 to all but themselves." 



Royalties to Authors on our 



STAKDABD LIBKABT books. There are 

 those who profess to be unable to be- 

 lieve that we can afford royalty on our 

 cheap books to English authors and 

 publishers. The following letters ought 

 to bring conviction to the most skep- 

 tical mind : 



MESSRS. FUNK & WAGNALLLS : 



G> ntlemen : I beg to acknowledge 

 the receipt through Messrs. Hodder & 

 Stoughton, my London publishers, of 



royalty on your publication of 



my "Oliver Cromwell," right of pub- 

 lication in the United States being re- 

 served to me. I thank you for your 

 generous acknowledgment oft! is right, 

 and will make it known. I would be 

 pleased If you could sae your way to 

 publish others of my books on your 

 royalty basis, etc. 



EDWIN PAXTON HOOD. 

 Islington, London. 

 MESSRS. FUNK & WAGNALUS: 



Dear Sirs : We return our best thanks 

 for your favor containing remittance o" 

 in recognition of our rights in 



Mattieu Williams' "Science in Short 

 Chapters : " also remittance of 

 on account of Haweis* " American Hu- 

 morists." We highly appreciate this 

 spontaneous evidence of good feeling, 

 and hope that your venture may prove 

 successful, etc., etc. 



CHATTO & Wnrams. 

 214 PiccaMUy, London. 



MESSRS. FUNK & WAGNALLB: 



Your favor containing for re- 

 print cf Winks' " Illustrious Shoe* 

 makers," came duly to hand and is 

 placed to the credit of our joint account 

 with the author. Wo need scarcely 

 say that this act of courtesy is duly ap, 

 predated by ourselves and the author. 

 Yours faithfully, 



SAMPSON. Low & Co. 



Lindon Cnvan Building, 188 Flset St. 



MESSRS. FUNK & WAONAIXS: 



Deir Sitt: 



I thank you most heartily for the 

 Three Hundred Pounds ($1,500) you 

 have just remitted as royalty on my 

 Treasury of David" in America. I right 

 gratefully acknowledge tMs. You have 

 acted toward me in a highly honorable 

 and satisfactory manner, and I have 

 great pleasure in having your house to 

 publish my works. Fair dealing, where 

 there is no law to compel it, is not so 

 common that it becomes a matter of 

 course. Long may you prospor, and 

 find it to be all the sweeter to prosper 

 because you deal generously with au- 

 thors. 



I am now forty-nine, and cannot ex- 

 pect as many c.ore years of authorship 

 as I have had. Yours most heartily, 

 C. H. SFUBGEON. 



London, England. 



Rev. Charles F. Deems, L.L.D., 



New York, says: " I have placed the 

 first two volumes of the 1883 Series in 

 our church library." 



