howing this to have
been a happy thought. It is interesting to look back and find many
of those young authors to be identical with names that are now
famous in art and literature, then presenting with much fear and
trembling, their first efforts.

Mr. Lothrop considered no time, money, or strength ill-spent by
which he could secure the wisest choice of manuscripts. As an
evidence of his success, we name a few out of his large list: 'Miss
Yonge's Histories;' 'Spare Minute Series,' most carefully edited
from Gladstone, George MacDonald, Dean Stanley, Thomas Hughes,
Charles Kingsley; 'Stories of American History;'' Lothrop's Library
of Entertaining History,' edited by Arthur Gilman, containing
Professor Harrison's 'Spain,' Mrs. Clement's 'Egypt,'
'Switzerland,' 'India,' etc.; 'Library of famous Americans, 1st and
2d series; George MacDonald's novels--Mr. Lothrop, while on a visit
to Europe, having secured the latest novels by this author in
manuscript, thus bringing them out in advance of any other
publisher in this country or abroad, now issues his entire works in
uniform style: 'Miss Yonge's Historical Stories;' 'Illustrated
Wonders;' The Pansy Books,' of world-wide circulation;' 'Natural
History Stories;' 'Poet's Homes Series;' S.G.W. Benjamin's
'American Artists;' 'The Reading Union Library,' 'Business Boy's
Library,' library edition of 'The Odyssey,' done in prose by
Butcher and Lang; 'Jowett's Thucydides;' 'Rosetti's Shakspeare,' on
which nothing has been spared to make it the most complete for
students and family use, and many others.

Mr. Lothrop is constantly broadening his field in many directions,
gathering the rich thought of many men of letters, science and
theology among his publications. Such writers as Professor James H.
Harrison, Arthur Gilman, and Rev. E.E. Hale are allies of the
house, constantly working with it to the development of pure
literature; the list of the authors and contributors being so long
as to include representatives of all the finest thinkers of the
day. Elegant art gift books of poem, classic and romance, have been
added with wise discrimination, until the list embraces sixteen
hundred books, out of which last year were printed and sold
1,500,000 volumes.

The great fire of 1872 brought loss to Mr. Lo