The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events Volume 9 ; Embracing political, civil, military, and social affairs public documents ... science, agriculture, and mechanical i Books Group

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...the year preceding, and the number of them that take high rank in the scale of literary appreciation is proportionately less. The causes of this depression are doubtless the same that affect other departments of business. Special reasons are to be found in the effect of the tariff as it now stands to favor the foreign book-manufacture at the expense of the American trade, and the increased prominence of newspapers and periodicals as sources of literary nutriment to the mass of readers. As these publications have gained in strength and in solid literary and scientific value, they more completely satisfy the mental cravings of their readers, and in the same proportion diminish the disposition to purchase books. This form of competition with the book-trade is not without its compensations, for it cannot be but that the appetite for books is stimulated in many cases by the same means that dulls it in others. The increasing tendency on the part of book-publishers to have each one or more periodical organs of communication with the public seems to imply on their part no dread of injury by one branch of their business to another. The diminished product of books may be due in part also to the draft made on the mental energies of the American people by the important public and social questions demanding attention. It is a very common complaint that many of our best men are apathetic on our most pressing public interests. Yet it must be that a large amount of study and thought is given to matters of this sort. To the pressing political problems bequeathed by the civil war, which are nearly concluded, have succeeded those of revenue and taxation, of protection and free trade, of woman"s suffrage and other assumed rights of the sex, and the semi-political, semi-ecclesi... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events Volume 9 ; Embracing political, civil, military, and social affairs public documents ... science, agriculture, and mechanical i (Books Group)