a circulation of 3,500. The "Bankers' Magazine" also set the example
recently followed in England. Medicine and Law have their numerous and
well supported journals; and Dental Surgery alone has five, one of which
has a circulation of 5,000 copies, while all Europe has but two, and those
of very inferior character.[1] North, south, east, and west, the
periodical press is collecting the opinions of all our people, while
centralization is gradually limiting the expression of opinion, in
England, to those who live in and near London. Upon this extensive base of
cheap domestic literature rests that portion of the fabric composed of
reproduction of foreign books, the quantities of some of which were given
in my last. The proportion which these bear to American books has been
thus given for the six months ending on the 30th of June last:

Republications 169
Original 522

691

[Footnote 1: It is a remarkable fact that there should be in this
country no less than four Colleges of Dental Surgery, while all Europe
presents not even a single one.]

Of these last, 17 were original translations.

We see, thus, that the proportion of domestic to foreign products is
already more than three to one. How the sale of the latter compares with
that of the former, will be seen by the following facts in relation to
books of almost all sizes, prices, and kinds; some of which have been
furnished by the publishers themselves, whilst others are derived from
gentlemen connected with the trade whose means of information are such as
warrant entire reliance upon their statements.

Of all American authors, those of school-books excepted, there is no one
of whose books so many have been circulated as those of Mr. Irving. Prior
to the publication of the edition recently issued by Mr. Putnam, the sale
had amounted to some hundreds of thousands; and yet of that edition,
selling at $1.25 per volume, it has already amounted to 144,000 vols. Of
"Uncle Tom," the sale has amounted to 295,000 copies, partly in one, and
partly in two volumes, and the total number of volumes amounts probably to
about 450,000.

_Price per vol._ _Volumes._

Of the two works of Miss Warner,
Queechy, and the Wide, Wide World, the
price and sale have been. $ 88 104,000

Fern Leaves, by Fanny Fern, in six months. 1 25 45,000

Reveries of a Bachelor, a