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THE DISCOUNT QUESTION. Writing to us ' o...
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Tolstoi's New Work in America. —A new ch...
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accompanied who is known the to have glory composed . Simonides his works is the with first
what a keen was eye perhaps to business the most , and spirit yet -stirring he lived age in of
Greek j ^ Eschylus history and . died He was in the a contemporary year in which of
he Socrates used to was , say born , " . the "He one kep for t two presents pockets and , "
found thanks always , the other empty for ; the pay latter . The full former . " Bay he le
takes the saying to mean that , , finding the presents to be insufficient reward for his work ,
he had been led to fix a price for his verses ; and no poet Jy __ it is — said _ ever _ _ surpassed him in
the art of ____ making , rich . , - The philosop ^ hers can hardly be said to have sold their works or even
to £ — 350 — -, _ . hav — for — e — taug three _ — ht books - _ for — _ pay _ of , a al P thoug ythagorean _ - ^ h -- Plato p hilo paid
sop orig her inal ; manuscr but it i is pt thoug and ht not that a sale it was copy the for
w 300 hich volumes he paid in this his lifetime sum . E . p The icurus object publis of h the ed
pu his b lica t t rines ion was and doub his tl p hiloso the phy dissemina of life t ion ther of
than besides gain mus ; the t have mere been number again of st his any books com- ,
mercial , success they might in themselves have
attained .
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1068 The Publishers' Circular Sept ' . 1 , 1890 ]¦ „ ... _ 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^™ _„____ ; : ^ — I
The Discount Question. Writing To Us ' O...
THE DISCOUNT QUESTION . Writing to us on the above question , * A
Youn ' I g believe Publisher that ' sa the ys : — first step towards
imlishers proving .- _ - should the present unite among condition < c > themselves is—that , ( 1 pub ) Sto
regulate the discount which they will allow ; ( \ 2 ) / to — undertake — — — to — bind those to whom they «/
do allow these discounts not to supply their goods at excessive discounts ; ( 3 ) to boycott
and expose to the public any and all who act against these conditions /
' They will find help no doubt from the large trade booksellerswho are enlightened on the
subject and naturall , y interested in the welfare of the book-trade generally . To this body
would be added all booksellers who would acquiesce J . in the conditions laid down by the
pressure Corporation 1 — •— — — broug — — . ^ j ht Some upon — * mi them ght revolt at first against ' , but they the v
would soon see that it was to their own advantage , and they would be forced to join
suc enoug h a h combination and suppor , t if it by were the onl majority y powerful of
pub 44 lishers 1 T <_ J should should , . ' advise adviaa JL JL . anv one one who who would would « F wish wish 4 / to to any
j enl pos ition ghten which himself the united upon the lis subj hing ect and of book the - selling trade would hold towards the public
to stud CJ y the regulations of the German A . , ' Buchhandler Yerein . ' These are so stringent
of so a po very werfu few l , that years they put have down within almost the entirel course y ,
booksellers any and every are unfair as a rule competition better educated . German and
but more through intelligent the than bigger their profits English which brethren they ;
and make mean by s not to underselling cultivate and , they improve have them time
selves 1 , ' *
Assistants' Outing . —The assistants of Messrs . SimpkinMarshall & Co . held their
first 23 zo . at at annual Unisleh Chislehurst outing urst , . an and on a were were Saturday favoured favoured , August with with
beautiful , weather . , During the afternoon sport jr ^ s — were — — vi - — gorous ^^ ly . # engaged ^^ — n — in , each " — ' — — — —— item ¦»»» ^^< k 4 ^^
on the programme being well contested . In which wnicn the evening the tne chair cnair a smoking taken tanen concert bv was Shavlor held , at
and durithe evenin was was the by i Mr Mr zes . . w ttnaylor ere dis ., tributed b y Mr . Wiseman g . The party returned — -
to enjoyable town in da the y , evening , having spent «/ a very —^
Tolstoi's New Work In America. —A New Ch...
Tolstoi ' s New Work in America . —A new chapter was added on Friday last ( the
x •\ — 8 th ) to the history of the * Kreutzer Sonata . ' Following U its seizure , vendors ap p eared upon M .
Tolstoi the st ' s now ts wi famo th u s wor h-car k ts to loaded which they with
called the attention of passers , -by with con - spicuous signs of ' Suppressed . ' Captain
b McLaug the crowd hlin , of ha the d a First number Precinct of the , attracted vendors y
captured , tak , ing them with their wares to the Tombs Police Court . The prisoners said
P in ub cour lish t tha Company t the pub / ' from lishers w , hom * The the Pollard books
< - * x , offere were purchased d for sale , was told not them the that true the translation edition they of
nothing Tolstoi ' s that original was work offensive , and . th The at it men contained were
paro Saturday led in morn the ing cus . tod On y of Saturday their counsel Mr . Walter until
Pollard t , at of the the Tombs Pollard Polic Publishing e Court Co with ., was his presen
lawyer JL swear t and here a number nothing of w immoral itnesses in read their y to
edition of Tolstoi ' s ' Kreutzer Sonata . Justice White said that while he did not consider the
any book thing strictl liable y moral to hurt he did anyone not think ' s morals there in was it .
H b the thoug vendors ht , however that , the that book the si had gns been displayed - y sup
pressed by the , Czar of Russia and the Postmaster-General of the United Statesshould
be that there troyed was , as something they were o shocking meant to in the insinuate , book ,
Mr and . thus Pollard make said purchasers that the among si the should curious be . gns
prisoners A destroyed , and and ordered the court that discharge the 240 d cop all JLies the of
to the them book . — confiscated Publisliers * b Weekl y the y police ( New be York returned ) .
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last year by the Income Tax Commissioners , on pap accoun ers , which t of certain dwelt upon paragrap his hs popularity in the news , and - , the vast sums that he must be % iring M . M . from
his Commissioners VXM . XJ pen V UOU . KJUAA "If 1 M UAAMI , that , u V AAV you is AAAUMV your have inc 'V greatl acqu CW ome ^/^ M , " y said ~ , ^ under the
stated it to us , and must owe us some arrears .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1890, page 1068, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091890/page/14/
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