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AMERICAN LITERARY **THE PEN 19 MIGHTIES THAN THE SWORD." AND GAZETTE GEORGE W. CHILDS, PUBLISHER, Nos. 628 & 630 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GEO. N. DAVIS, 119 Rua Direita, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Agent for South America. A. ROMAN, San Francisco, California, Agent for the Pacific Coast. STEPHENS & CO., 10 Calle Mercaderes, Habana, Agents for the West Indies. Subscriptions or Advertisements for the “American Literary Gazette” will be received by the above Agents, and they will for i to the Editor any Books or Publications intended for notice. JUNE 15, 1866. OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. months is one dollar and eighty cents, for which sum of money its subscribers will not only receive THERE is a sort of frenzy, just now, for cheap the daily newspaper during three months, but newspapers. I may say, cheap publications, or, the illustrated library edition (containing 200 ilrather, for publications which require little daily lustrations) of M. Victor Hugo's novel, the “Woeoutlay. I have already called attention to the Begone." It ends the article announcing the prize publication of dictionaries, grammars, poetry, offered subscribers: "We have now, unless we are novels, and even such formidable works as greatly mistaken, put the laughers on our side, and Thiers's, and Cantu's and Rollin's histories, in as we are the last laughers just now, it seems to daily numbers, costing two cents each. Just us we have the right to laugh heartily if the pronow we have new cheap newspapers published verb be true: 'He laughs heartily who laughs every day. They are for the most part illustrated last.'" The editor of "L'Evenement" has given, sheets. They cost one cent. I should not be sur- in connection with the offer of his prize, a history prised if the government had not some share in of the negotiations for the purchase of the privilege one of them, in order to keep as many readers in of publishing "Ocean's Laborers" in the feuilleton its hands as possible. It is sold by the provincial of this newspaper. The editor of "Le Soleil" did agents of the petty "Evening Moniteur." These not offer M. Victor Hugo $100,000 for the right to agencies have been organized in a most admirable publish "Ocean's Laborers" in "Le Soleil" before manner by the government, and embrace the whole it appeared in any other form. He offered M. Hugo of France, not a mountain village excepted, as in a so large a share in the profits reckoned on, as to mighty net. They are preparing, as I have said, a lead him to hope he would receive at least $100,000 radical revolution in France by instructing the if he agreed upon this mode of publication. M. people, which schools can never accomplish. They Victor Hugo declined the offer. The editor of do but give the keys with which the fane of know- "L'Evenement" offered $20,000 cash, and agreed to ledge may be entered; newspapers and books are publish the work in feuilletons of sixteen columns to the temple itself. The number of cheap news- complete the publication as quickly as possible, papers has engendered great rivalry between them. that MM. Lacroix & Co. might bring out their ediTwo of these newspapers especially are attracting tion in book-form. The publishers declared that a great deal of attention by their efforts to increase they could enter into no negotiations until M. Victheir subscription list. One of them, "Le Soleil," tor Hugo was heard from. Meantime they postwhich is sold for two cents, purchased from MM. poned the publication of the work until the result Lacroix & Co. the right to publish M. Victor Hugo's of the application to him could be ascertained. M. last novel, "Ocean's Laborers," in its feuilleton. Ulbach, the novelist, was consulted, and he enThis measure increased its sale enormously. The gaged the editor of "L'Evenement" to go and see newspaper-sellers would have the paper in piles M. Hugo on the subject, especially as his newspapers which were marvellous to look upon, and before had several times attacked M. Hugo with great noon not a number of the paper would be left un- vivacity. He offered to accompany the editor to sold. This success irritated its rival, "L'Evene- Guernsey. The offer was accepted, and the party ment," another two cent paper, and it at once en proceeded as far as St. Malo, where they found it tered into arrangements with MM. Lacroix & Co. to would take them a week or ten days to go to M. supply its subscribers with the library edition of Victor Hugo's house. They were unable to spare "Ocean's Laborers." These were the terms: every this time. When this discovery was made, M. person who subscribed to "L'Evenement" for six Ulbach addressed the following letter to M. Hugo. months at the usual terms, $4.40, received "Ocean's "St. MALO, Feb. 23, 1866. Laborers" for nothing. The edition given was the "DEAR MASTER: I write you from an hotel at St. 3 vol. 8vo. ed., which sells for $3.60, and its pub-Malo, where I am fatally detained by the wretched lishers have entered into contract to issue no other organization of the Channel Islands' steamboats. edition during the next three months. I confess II quitted Paris with MM. de Villemessant and do not think MM. Lacroix & Co. entirely free from Dumont, the editor and manager of the new "Evenereproach for selling the same work to rival news- ment," to talk with you at Guernsey of a scheme papers. "Le Soleil" had nevertheless the advan- which needs your consent before Lacroix can ratify tage of giving "Ocean's Laborers" for the same it. Persuaded your new novel, 'Ocean's Laborers,' price as its rival, and allowing the purchaser to is destined to popular success, anxious to give you pay for it in insensible instalments. This is an a token of admiration and to present to the immense advantage here; all our pockets can sup-founder of 'L'Evenement' of 1848, the immense ply two sous a day; few pockets contain $4.40 to buy books; fewer French wives (they wear the breeches, and keep the purse in its pocket) will allow their husbands to "throw away" so much money; besides, French tastes prefer a slice of novel between two bunches of news to a great cake of novel. "Le Soleil" was not satisfied with this advantage, but before I tell you the measure it adopted, let me quote the concluding paragraph of the article in which its rival announced the present made subscribers: "Let us end with a smile. One of my excellent contemporaries announces in every newspaper and on every wall he has attained the ideal of the cheap newspaper. I hope he will do me the pleasure to look in a mirror after he has read this article. He will see he is beaten a whole head." "Le Soleil" at once entered into treaty with M. Heitzel, the publisher of the illustrated edition of "Les Miserables," and announced it would give its three months' subscribers this novel gratuitously. Its subscription price for three publicity of 'L'Evenement' of 1865, these gentlemen came to ask you to give them the privilege of publishing your work before its appearance in volumes. They offered to pay $20,000 cash for this privilege. Obliged to return to Paris, these gentlemen and I send you the courtesies we bore you and which distance half intercepts. I add a summary of the arguments we should have laid before you to conquer the repugnance you have already manifested from this mode of publication. There is a considerable difference between the political newspaper which has not every day a feuilleton open to works of imagination, and the literary newspaper, which is erected and established exclusively for these publications. 'L'Evenement' publishes 45,000 copies a day; it will publish 100,000 the day all France knows it gives the firstling of a masterpiece. The great success the 'Woe-Begone' has had when published in a cheap form, proves with what eager ness popular readers will seize this new work. You will directly and at the first dash, reach the coun |