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By this method they reach directly the whole reading public, multiply their sales ten fold, and place the works in the hands of thousands whose attention otherwise would not be called to them. This enables the publishers not only to give honorable and remunerative employment to a very large class of worthy persons acting as agents, but to expend largely upon their books in their preparation and publication, to illustrate them profusely and to sell them at much lower prices than works of equal cost are sold by the regular trade. They also are enabled by this method to maintain an uniformity of price throughout the country, and to see that all subscribers receive what they actually contract for.

have universally given better books than they promised. They look back with gratification over their list, and the unqualified praise each volume has received from the press and the public. They publish nothing but books worthy a place in the libraries of the educated and the refined; and such books, by their system of agents, they bring to the direct notice of almost every person in the country. No recommendations are given to the public except those sent from voluntary sources; and no unworthy means are taken to procure them.

The sale of our works is an honorable and praiseworthy employment, and is particularly adapted to disabled Soldiers, aged and other Clergymen having leisure hours, Teachers and Students during vacation, &c., Invalids unable to endure hard physical labor, Young Men who wish to travel and gather knowledge and experience by contact with the world, and all who can bring industry, perseverance, and determined will to the work. Women who can devote time to the work, often make the best of canvassers. Our terms to agents are very liberal; we give exclusive territory to operate in; Catalogues and Circulars sent free upon application.

Address AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO., Hartford, Conn.