| Show 1 PRINCE AND PEDDLER 0 V VV V V j A A. toyal European Studying Life In to America Ills Ia Notable Predecessors V V V C For somo some months it has been V V known almost to a certainty that a V i V prominent ot 01 Europe is now J in America in disguise and is canvassing canvassing can can- V 1 vas sing for books that he may in inthis V this manner learn more of the tho real J li life e of the tho American people Twice vlee j has hM he been boen identified in the East and each time changed his disguise and V his field of action for to bo be known knO V would entirely defeat the object of V V his visit Lately something has hast V transpired t which leads the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- V V V V phia Times to tho the conclusion that V this same prince is now selling books booksin in Texas V A list of eminent men who havo have been book agents comprises ma many y authors and statesmen George Georgo Washington was a book agent ent and a good one Pi Prior to tho fateful Braddock Braddock Brad Brad- V V dock d ck expedition ho sold over V copies in Fairfax Fairfa and adjoining counties in Virginia of a work on the American Savage e. Jay Gould Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark V V Twain vain werT in early life lifo book can can- So also was Longfellow V Vand t and his success was remarkable There is now in possession of the V Massachusetts historical society a. a a prospectus tho the poet used and on one one- V V V V of tho the blank leaves are the skeleton V lines of the cole celebrated bra ted poem Excelsior Excelsior Ex V V- V V which ho evidently n ly VV was wa e then incubating Daniel Webster V 1 paid his second terms tuition at Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- Dartmouth V mouth by selling books General V V V one time took an agency for r Irvings Irving's Columbus Bret Brat Harto Harte was vas a book agent in California in fri 1849 President Ex t. t Hayes footed V Vit V it all over Southern Ohio selling soiling V Baxters Lives of the Saints After the siege of Toulon Bonaparte thena then V Va a young lieutenant employed at the tho V V capital and too honorable to duplicate cate cato his pay account took the agency V V for tho the History of tho the Revolution Bismarck Cardinal Count V Metternich Canning Lord Donham Denham V and Coleridge the poet were were all at V some period of their lives ook book V agents Sc S also were Mme Mine de deStael deStael deStael and Mrs 1 Jameson and Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus canvassed for a work on Marine It Explorations James Lamos IT G. Blaino Blame began his business career career career-as as a Do canvasser in Washington V I county Pennsylvania where he s sold ld the tho Life of Henry Clay tI Many others whose names emblazon the tho j history largely owe their J I I 1 obtained en tho tho experience d I c laudable and andea H V e dici te ged in the tho rne ea ta e alling of book agent n I-n taJ J |
