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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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vidual works ;the great centres of German higher criti-cism have been also represented ; the house has been the American publisher of the long course of Hibbert Lectures, and of along series of the books of English writers in kindred fields. But with the majority of its English authors in general literature,its connection has been the growth of the last twenty-five years—a time long enough to have given it some of its most interesting associations. During nearly that time it has publislied here the works of )Mr. Froude, ofDean Stanley, and of Professor Max Miiller ;it published )Mr. Gladstones seven volumes of collected essays fifteen years ago ; and (con-stantly through the (quarter of a century the books of men like Bawlinson, Sayce, Jowett, Jevons, George Smith, Forsyth (of Cicero ), and many more, so that no small number of the notable single English contributions to the scholarship of this period appear upon its catalogue. The histories of Mommsenand Curtius were the princij^al continental
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Charles Scribner, Senior, a daguerreotype. additions to its works of this class during the same years; though many others of lessscope might be recalled. The ^predilection for books of this order—what may be called classics of scholarship in the more serious fields — has been a direct legacy from the early members of the house, and is stillespecially noticeable in its list, however ithas extended in other directions. As a con-sequence the number of its books in use as college text-books and in all the depart-ments of higher education has always beenvery large, and has made up an important element in its business. For a number of years—from the later fifties until 1883—an Educational Department, fully organized un-der expert heads, was maintained also for school text-books, and was very successful with some of the best school-books in the THE HISTORY OF A PUBLISHING HOUSE Idl country, such as Guyots Geograpliic^s, Shel-dons lieaders, Cooleys Physics, and the like ;but in view

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