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Show Kristofer Janson, the well known author and Unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis, writes in a private letttr to a citizen of Christianlj, says our correspondent at Chicago, the following concerning Norwegian literature In America: "It is impassible to find any publisher here, who will pay I cent for a manuscript even if you have gained a name in the old country. I, myself, have been obliged to pay cash for every book I have had published. . . Besides all the book dealers live by means of robbery. They copy all the new book?; to which they take a liking and pay neither author nor publisher a cent, and of course do not, under snch c remittances, care to buy a manu-scr'pt. manu-scr'pt. . . A3 to their literary tastss, ycu nay regard in general the Scandinavians Scandi-navians as a crowd of peasants from the old eooatry. Many of them are not able to read books printed in Latin letters." |