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The Green Bag

THE ORIGINAL BUILDING At 254 Washington Street, Boston, the home of the concern from 1830 until the fall of 1909 his youngest son after the eminent London publisher. Mr. Brown was a man of fine presence and affable manner, cultivated and liberal. At the time of his death he had won the enviable distinction of being considered by his fraternity the most representative mem ber of the profession he loved so well, and to which he was an honor. After Mr. Brown's death, Augustus Flagg, who entered the employ of Little & Brown when he was twenty-one, and who was admitted to partnership in 1846, became purchaser abroad of for eign books for the house. From 1869, when Mr. Little died, to the time of Mr. Flagg's retirement from business, in 1883, he was managing partner—and no one was better acquainted with the book trade of a half century ago. He was succeeded by John Bartlett, author of "Familiar Quotations" and other

works. On Mr. Bartlett's retirement, John Murray Brown, the youngest son of James Brown, became the senior partner, and he remained at the head of the firm until his death in April, 1908, maintaining the high publishing stand ard which his father and his associates had established. In the present firm are associated Charles W. Allen, James W. Mclntyre and Hulings C. Brown, who, through years of training in this house, and backed by its traditions, are carrying the work along in the same lines, but are gradually widening and broadening its scope. The old Little & Brown store at 254 Washington street, in a building owned by Harvard College, came to be the rendezvous for those who sought the standard or the newest legal literature, and for lovers of the best and rarest

THE NEW BUILDINGS At 34 Beacon Street, on Beacon Hill, overlooking Boston Common