filled with high schools, lyceums, and colleges of various descriptions,
fitted to the powers and the means of those who need instruction. All
these make, of course, demand for books, and hence it is that the sale of
Anthon's series of classics (averaging $1) amounts, as I am told, to
certainly not less than 50,000 volumes per annum, while of the "Classical
Dictionary" of the same author ($4) not less than thirty thousand have
been sold. Of Liddell and Scott's "Greek Lexicon" ($5), edited by Prof.
Drisler, the sale has been not less than 25,000, and probably much larger.
Of Webster's 4to. "Dictionary" ($6) it has been, I am assured, 60,000, and
perhaps even 80,000; and of the royal 8vo. one ($3.50), 250,000. Of
Bolmar's French school books not less than 150,00 volumes have been sold.
The number of books used in the higher schools--text-books in
philosophy, chemistry, and other branches of science--is exceedingly
great, and it would be easy to produce numbers of which the sale is from
five to ten thousand per annum; but to do so would occupy too much space,
and I must content myself with the few facts already given in regard to
this department of literature.

Decentralization, or local self-government, tends thus to place the whole
people in a condition to read newspapers, while the same cause tends to
produce those local interests which give interest to the public journals,
and induce men to purchase them. Hence it is that their number is so
large. The census of 1850 gives it at 2,625; and the increase since that
time has been very great. The total number of papers printed can scarcely
be under 600,000,000, which would give almost 24 for every person, old and
young, black and white, male and female, in the Union. But recently the
newspaper press of the United Kingdom was said to require about 160,000
reams of paper, which would give about 75,000,000 of papers, or two and a
half per head.