Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1875 — A Remarkable Book. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Book.

In 1808 P. T. Barnum wrote his Autobiography for Burr A Co., the celebrated publishers In Hartford, Conn., for which they paid him 118,000. It made a book of 800 pages, wee profuzely illustrated, gave a particular account of Barnum’s eventful life In all parts of the world, and included his celebrated lecture on “The Art of Money Getting.” Horace Greeley pronounced the book " worth a hun-dred-dollar greenback to many a beginner in life.” The publishers sold 90,000 copies of the book by subscription, at three dollars and a half a copy. In 1871, when Mr. Barham started his great traveling shows, he bought back ths copyright and stereotype plates of his book for 810,000, added aa Appendix bringing the account of his Ilfs up to that date, printed an edition of 100,000 copies, sent them with his traveling shows, and sold the whole of them at cost, one dollar each. He has added an Appendix each year, which has now increased ths volumeAo a thousand pages. It averages a sale of 100,000 copies each year. They are neatly bound in muslin, gilt, and sold in all his traveling shows. As his patrons emerge from his great show tents with his books under their arms, they look as if coming from a circulating library! No book in this country ever had such an enormous sale, or so abounds in curious incidents of real life and valuable experiences.—Buffalo Courier. y ; The most eminent organists of Paris and London, as well as Warren, Morgan, Zundel, of Trinity, Grace and other principal churches In New York, have given to the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company written testimonials to the superiority of their cabinet organs, which they declare to have excellencies not found in others.