hent exemptions from the laws of trade can have place in 

 matters of trade."* It is in full knowledge of this having 

 been said, and that it is in accordance with observed facts, 

 that I have undertaken the risks of my enterprise, and I 

 do not ask for any protection against the operation of the 

 laws referred to. But, as I have intimated, I shall be glad 

 to have in the prosecution of my scheme the co-operation 

 of any who may share my views in regard to the expedi- 

 ency of extending our literature in forest science, though 

 to do so may not be immediately pecuniarily remunerative. 



The progress of successive publications is likely to be 

 slow. Should any one, or any association, be willing to 

 expedite the work by meeting the expense of putting on 

 the market, on like conditions to those stated, any one or 

 more of the treatises prepared, I shall value highly such 

 co-operation, and duly acknowledge it : it is only in con- 

 sequence of my being required to abstain from doing so 

 that I do not state the name of the Society to whose 

 grant in aid the first volume of the series owes its 

 publication. 



Prices, I may mention, are determined by the number 

 of copies printed. If an edition of 500 copies cost in 

 printing £100, or 4s each, an edition of 1000 copies would 

 cost in printing not £200, but £120, or less than 2s 6d 

 each copy ; while an edition of only 250 would cost £90, 

 or 7s 2|d per copy for paper and printing. The difference 



* Tajlor expresses himself much more strongly than is done in the words cited. He 

 says : — " The simple circumstance that books have become one of the most considerable 

 articles of commerce has reversed the direction of the influence of which the press is the 

 medium. Our literature is commanded, or controlled, by the people ; and only in a 

 secondary sense commands them. The reader has grown into an importance that makes 

 him lord of the writer. Authors furnish — how should they do otherwise ?— that which 

 readers ask for, or will receive." In regard to the articles of artificial life mentioned, 

 he says : — " Who does not know that the purchaser of any such commodity must, 

 whatever special circumstances may seem to disguise the fact, stand in the relation ox 

 master to the manufacturer, the artist, the workman 7 Mind struggles much against 

 these mighty powers, and writhes under their tyranny ; but its resistance is successful 

 only in single instances, or for an hour. Our modern literature has one reason, and of 

 tliis reason the buyer is the sovereign, and the vendor is the interpreter, and the writer 

 is the slave." 



