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 THE PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT To our many subscribers we extend our best wishes for prosperity and happiness during the coming year. We thank you for your support in the past and trust that we will be favored with your patronage in the future. A WORD TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. The publishers congratulate themselves upon being able to retain the services of the present editor. The present policy will continue, and the present departments retained. The publishers are well satisfied with the conduct of these features. The magazine is now international in its character, but we hope to make it even more so by securing contributions to its columns from able writers in Australia, South Africa and other English speaking coun tries, on subjects of common interest to the legal profession. THE OBJECT OF THIS DEPARTMENT. The purpose of this department is twofold. First: — To boom this magazine. We have set our mark at a list of 5000 subscribers, and propose to keep at it until this is secured. For that reason we wish the co-operation of our present subscribers, for an increased list will mean a still more efficient magazine. . We also want to buy the services of a number of first-class, experienced, and gentlemanly canvassers who can get business, and to such we offer choice territory and liberal terms. Second : — To get into closer touch with the present customers of The Boston Book Company, and to make new customers. This is a business proposition with us. For that reason we are confined to the adver tising pages, and the editor is not to be held responsible or subject to criticism for the broad statements, bad grammar, and poor punctuation, that may appear in this department. It will be our aim to make these pages readable and interesting, but our object is to have you send us your dollars, though we bind ourselves to return value received. We will in this department advise you from time to time of the publication of the new books we are interested in, our own publications or importations. From time to time we purchase large libraries outright, and on such occasions can offer decided bargains. We have correspondents in every English speaking country, who from time to time are able to send us consignments of rare and choice books. We are regular attendants at the large book auctions held throughout the United States and Canada, and usually are large buyers thereat. Whenever we have stock of this kind we will publish lists, with prices that we trust will prove attractive. We will also give from time to time, bibliographical notes, that we believe will prove interesting, and, whenever we can do so, news of the profession and the trades, that could not well be published in the body of the magazine. Look at this department every mouth, read the advertisements connected with it, and send us your orders.