| Show ot ChicAgO During A large tarje put part of the years of It its existence the house has bas st od for splendid literary as well as AI business Its III books it s its lesser lesler publications have been the of introducing some ome of the tho greatest writers of each succeeding decade to this pUblic Why misfortune should hould have overtaken ken It la is not rp fp parent on the surface e but It I is reason reasonable able to sU suppose that It its conservatism hM has suffered by the aggressive compe litton of men or of nm new methods Such Ruth Is apt to be the story of at every old busl buel ne ness unless its managers are Quirk to adjust them themselves to the Inevitable changes f In the world about them for change chango itself sometimes conduces conduce to stability Milwaukee Wisconsin The tailing of the of time the tern tem temple pie ot of I which hat stood for three thousand not startle the tho American public liD an much all as time the announcement that the th great publish In lag firm of Harper t Is 3 In financial straits or nearly the period of three generations which is II a long time lame In the rapid century the firm of oC Harper Brothers has bu stood a as solid as al a tock rock and hasL has L been known from one end eod of the land Jand I to the other by everybody able to mead No other business bouse In America hn has been equally welt willi known Kansas Kans I City Star The American people ople may be said to possess an interest in the house of Harper Brothers and would be glad to see aee the name nane retained d in 11 the be business world To the firm first and last the tho American people have been boen placed under n a great grent obligation It could not be an exaggeration to say that to this one publishing house houle Is largely due the fact that the Americans are 1 a reading people For more than halt n a Cl century they have ns as purveyors of the lIterary taste arid and demand ot of the country countr furnished the best A high standard raised at first him never been lowered The American rending reading public would deeply regret to see the name the have read liD so often otten on time the title pares pages of Df so 0 many good and great books blotted ou out t |
