Show Boos PUBLISHING in America ha attained a wonderful degree of perfection per-fection both as to dispatch and the excellence of the work A telegraphic tele-graphic dispatch in anotner column eaye that a New York pabliabn house received the copy of lennysons 1 new book of poems at 9 oclock am on Monday and on Thursday morning morn-ing the volume was for sale in all of the city bookstores Another instance of quick work is i found in the appearance In Mr Dwyera the other day of Endy mion the Earl of Beaconsfield latest novel It was only a few days ago that the cable was telling of the issue of the book in London While the wires were still ticking about the price paid for the proof sheets ant other similar matters the story was at hand in the convenient and popular popu-lar form of the Franklin Square Library of the Harper Brothers and could secured for tbe trifle of fifteen I fif-teen cents In the case of Endy mien the Harpers made no extra i effort to get out the wcrk keeping it I in hand ten days when three would have given them tme enough The novel occupies eightyfour of the I I large quarto paged of the Library e The type nearly 500000 > ems could be sat up by the Harpers without interfering in-terfering with their regular work in twenty hours tha eectrotyping from the time the pages were cast in wax all through the various processes of dusting with plumbago the metallic bath the capperfacing etc till the plates were ready for the press 1 would require no more than twelve t hours The first edition of 20000 J = i 5 could be printed in fifteen hours and I I the drying Joldinr gathering stitching stitch-ing and trimming could all be done in ex boors ED that in aba at two and a quarter days lion the moment the copy was distributed to the printers 20000 copisa of Endymion might have been in the news store After that the book would be rattled 08 at 35000 a much more lively rate COPE3 a day not crowding matters If the publiahera ore lively so also are the people The first edition of I 20000 Endymions was taken the day of publication 10000 the day afterward and now within two weers Jf ih issue i the story is at the bookstores and news stands from Maine to California And yet the publishing house has not been putout put-out in the least mr J3 sny way neglected the ordinary business of the establishment which moves along as L > 04 it tnese nunureua ui IUUUHBUUH ui o page books had not been issued The art of printing is not in its infancy but it is by no means perect Every year almost evey month brings to it some improvement The Graphic newspaper will contain tomorrow correct and finely executed illuBtrr tons of some accident or event which occurs today but it will not baste in the matter and botch the business The Chicago Times which contains during a week perhaps 900COO ems is soon to do the chief part of its type setting by machinery and thereby save time without hurrying If the art shall go on towards perfection at the rate it has been proceeding during the past quarter of a century the generation eucceeding the one now on the earth will wonder that we could get along with euch dow methods and a century frcm now thev will be as far in advance of UII aa we are of the earliest ages of printing I |