Preface

"In New York" is the last of the Baxter Letters for the present.

We think it well to stop before we get bad. We make but one claim

for distinction--the largest circulation America has ever seen

or heard of. The people, up to date, have actually demanded over

three and a half million copies, or nearly five car-loads of our

little books, and there is no telling where it will stop. We have

Robinson Crusoe backed clear off his island, and Uncle Tom's Cabin

burned to the ground. Still it would have been a different story

had we asked a dollar apiece for our books; so we are not so much

after all.

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