country no less than four Colleges of Dental Surgery, while all Europe
presents not even a single one.]

Of these last, 17 were original translations.

We see, thus, that the proportion of domestic to foreign products is
already more than three to one. How the sale of the latter compares with
that of the former, will be seen by the following facts in relation to
books of almost all sizes, prices, and kinds; some of which have been
furnished by the publishers themselves, whilst others are derived from
gentlemen connected with the trade whose means of information are such as
warrant entire reliance upon their statements.

Of all American authors, those of school-books excepted, there is no one
of whose books so many have been circulated as those of Mr. Irving. Prior
to the publication of the edition recently issued by Mr. Putnam, the sale
had amounted to some hundreds of thousands; and yet of that edition,
selling at $1.25 per volume, it has already amounted to 144,000 vols. Of
"Uncle Tom," the sale has amounted to 295,000 copies, partly in one, and
partly in two volumes, and the total number of volumes amounts probably to
about 450,000.


_Price per vol._ _Volumes._


Of the two works of Miss Warner,
Queechy, and the Wide, Wide World, the
price and sale have been. $ 88 104,000