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��Euilding ; of the breaking-up of the house in 1880 into two branches, James R. Osgood & Co. and Houghton, Mif- flin, & Co. ; and of the retirement of Mr. Osgood in 1885.

In July, 1885, the name of Ticknor & Co. once more appeared, after nearly twenty years of abeyance. The mem- bers of the copartnership as re-consti-

��judge and historian, well-known in ht- erary circles.

Amid the continual changes of the nineteenth century, literary reputations suffer in common with all things that are aging. Bacon and Brockden Brown and De Quincey, and many other intellectual Titans, are relegated to the libraries of scholarly old gentle-

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��tnted are Benjamin H. Ticknor and Thomas B. Ticknor, sons of the founder of the original house, and George F. Godfrey, a gentleman of refined literary tastes, and long and varied business experience in both hemispheres. Here, again, appears the traditional good for- tune of the house in receiving from time to time accessions of fresh North-Coun- try life ; for Mr. Godfrey is from Bangor, Me., where his family has long occupied a prominent and honorable position, Jhis father having been a distinguished

��men ; and the men and women who read to-day demand new views, fresh themes, the clear and vivacious and realistic literary treatment of social problems, geographical explorations, theological and ethical ideas, and all things, abstract or concrete, pertaining to modern life. Ticknor & Co. have always fully recognized this tendency, and assumed their share in its direction. In their earlier days they gave us the choicest works of the great authors of that time ; and now they bring forth.

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