Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Little, Brown & Co.
Little, Brown & Co.—Summer is setting in and our worthy citizens with their families are wending their way to country retreats, and seaside resorts,—the majority of them to pass months away from the dust and turmoil of Boston. Yet even in the country, and within the sound of the surf, there are blue days,—days when the routine of pleasures begins to tire, and the satiated mind seeks more solid and substantial enjoyments. When sea-bathing, riding, walking, chess, billiards and bowls are exhausted, when music has lost a portion of its charms, and the warn weather puts a veto upon Terpsichorean rites, the inveterate resource is a book. And therefore every one should leave town well provided with books sufficient to make the weary hours pass happily.
A visit to the bookstore of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., and a glance at their well stored shelves will induce the visitor to purchase ere he departs. The high character of these publishers’ issues, the excellence with which their reprints are edited, the typographical appearance of their works on sale,—these facts have established the reputation of the firm, and their name upon the title page of a volume is a sufficient guarantee of its excellence.
The works of John Adams, edited by his grandson, Charles Francis, the writings of Bancroft, Sabine, Bowen, Frothingham, Eliot, Goodcich, Theodore Parker, Sparks, Quincy, Story, Winthrop, and Hillard, Professor Childs’s edition of the British Poets, and the recent volumes of the British Essayists, sufficiently evince the tone of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.’s issues. Such publications as these, emanations from some of the master minds of the present century, are of infinite service to the vast reading public of America. Those who eschew the ill digested attempts at the novel of the writers of this country, and prefer the perusal of what induces thought and reflection, will appreciate the signal advantage to be obtained by a liberal patronage of such commendable publications.
The lawyer, who, entering upon business, desires that sine qua non,—an excellent library,—will find at Little, Brown & Co.’s, the only full collection of legal works in this vicinity. Extreme care is paid to this department of publishing. The durability of their binding—(a great desideratum with lawyers)—and the quality of their type and paper are worthy of all praise, while Messrs. L., B. & Co., are ever up with the times, keeping a keen eye on all important decisions, and so amended and alterating as to be ever within “the letter of the law.”
They receive by every steamer a large assortment of recent European issues, and among other important publications and reprints which they have now in press, may be instanced, “The Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America,” by the Hon. Luther S. Cushing, a new edition of Shakespeare, by Richard Grant White; a new edition of Plutarch’s Lives, and the Poems of William W. Story, Esq.
For years the reputation acquired by Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., has been preserved intact, and from the spirit of enterprise which characterizes their business operations, we have no fear of their energy ever flagging.