consumers is about $700,000. The quantity of paper required for a single
one of them is about 16,000 reams of double medium, being one tenth as
much as has recently been given as the consumption of the whole newspaper
press of Great Britain and Ireland. Every pursuit in life, and almost
every shade of opinion, has its periodical. A single city in Western New
York furnishes no less than four agricultural and horticultural journals,
one of them published weekly, with a circulation of 15,000, and the
others, monthly, with a joint circulation of 25,000. The "Merchants'
Magazine," which set the example for the one now published in London, has
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:


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