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��down to a solid and reliable list. The amount that has 3'early to be chars^edto '• protit and loss " is a[)palling. Men of h\gh stntion and great wealth are among the delinquents. It Biu«t be rememberetl that the bills for paper, piinting. and postage must be paid regularly. If the fards sent out are promptly answered, the bu^ine-s part of the magazine is at- tended to and all goes suiouthl}'. De- lays greatly embariass the publisher.

The price of the Granite Monthly was originally plnced at $1.50, to make it a populai' magazine, which might be afforded I)}' the huml)iest family in the state. Compared with other local pub- lications, the price is very low. Every volume is woith, intrinsically and com- paratively, at least $3. Their value, of course, depends on the couipletion of a set. Like ;ill other books, a broken set of the Granite Monthly is depreci- ated in value.

For many months it has been the de- sign of the publisher to re-issue the early numbers, commencing with the first, and I'cplacing the grotesque wood cuts used in man\' instances with ele- gant steel engravings.

The sum of §1.000 will pay for the printing of Volume I, edited by Henry II. Metcalf. No one man likes to as- sume the responsibility of expending so much money for the enterprise, bet Avhere a nmltitude aie interested, it be- cwmes compaiatively easy. The book, bound in cloth, will cost $2, and there are more than 500 peojde who want it, iniduding librarians of libraries which liave a world-wide reputation.

Orders for Volume 1 should be accom- panied by tlie cash; the money shall be deposited, and used only for the pur- j)Gse intended, viz., the publication of the volume.

��If some enthusiastic friend ©f the Granite Monthly' will prepare the manuscript copy for the Index of the first seven volumes, the publisher will issue it as part of the December u umber.

��The Bay State Monthly was under- taken in Januarj", 1884, to do for Massa- chusetts wliat the Granite Monthly was designed to do for New Hampshire. There was an ulterior motive behind its publication, viz., the securing of funds to more successfully carry on the Gran- ite Monthly. It is steadily growing in favor in the old Bay State, and bids fair to withstand the buflctings of time.

��shire, by Captain George E. Belknap, U. S. N., was originally intended for the Granite Monthly; and very appro- priately will forai one of the series.

��The portrait of President Chester A^ Arthur, and the very able article ac- companying it, by Major Ben. Perley Poore. also deserve a place in the series, for he is not only chief magistrate of the United States butdeservd well not only of his party but the country which he has served so ablyjand uprightly.

��The administration of President Arthur has been ver}' successful. He has been surrounded by able counsellors, not the least am.Mig whom is our distinguished feilow-citizei:, Honorable William E. Chandler, the Secretary of the Navy. AVe should be very willing to annex our signature to a petition to the next Presi- dent of the United States to retain him in his present position.

��Only men of wealth, however, can afford to take a cabinet pwsition; we should be obliged to decline the tender of any such office — however deserving. When the salary is raised to about $25,000 per annum, as it should be, the place would be desirable.

��Hon. Moody Currier, Governor-elect, had a biographical sketch in the fifth number of the second volume of the Granite Monthly. Hon. John M. Hill, the defeated Democratic candidate for the same office, is the son of the late Governor Isaac Hill.

��A sketch of the life of Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, Kepresentative-elei-t in the Second Congressional District, may be found in the second volume of the Granite Monthly. Thut volume, by the way. is out of print, and should be reprinted.

��The article in the Bay State Month- ly on a distinguished son of New Ilamp-

��For the information of nianj' Inquiring friends, we w^ould state that of volume one of the Granite Monthly, there were printed 920 copies of each number. The early numbers were on sale at the bookstores. The able eulogy pronounced by Colonel Daniel Hall on Hon. Daniel M. Christie, caused the sale of a large number of the part number 2, contain- ing it, thus rendering that the scarce nmn- ber of the volume. The same number of copies of volume two were printed, viz., 020. The Life of Gov. Nalt Head exhaust- ed number 4 of that volume, making it the scarce number. The present editor succeeded to the management at the com- mencement of voluuie three. Of the:

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