[Footnote 1: It is a remarkable fact that there should be in this country no less than four Colleges of Dental Surgery, while all Europe presents not even a single one.]
Of these last, 17 were original translations.
We see, thus, that the proportion of domestic to foreign products is already more than three to one. How the sale of the latter compares with that of the former, will be seen by the following facts in relation to books of almost all sizes, prices, and kinds; some of which have been furnished by the publishers themselves, whilst others are derived from gentlemen connected with the trade whose means of information are such as warrant entire reliance upon their statements.
Of all American authors, those of school-books excepted, there is no one of whose books so many have been circulated as those of Mr. Irving. Prior to the publication of the edition recently issued by Mr. Putnam, the sale had amounted to some hundreds of thousands; and yet of that edition, selling at $1.25 per volume, it has already amounted to 144,000 vols. Of "Uncle Tom," the sale has amounted to 295,000 copies, partly in one, and partly in two volumes, and the total number of volumes amounts probably to about 450,000.
Of the two works of Miss Warner, Queechy, and the Wide, Wide World, the price and sale have been. $ 88 104,000
Fern Leaves, by Fanny Fern, in six months. 1 25 45,000
Reveries of a Bachelor, and other books, by Ike Marvel. 1 25 70,000
Alderbrook, by Fanny Forester, 3 vols. 50 33,000
Northup's Twelve Years a Slave 1 00 20,000
Novels of Mrs. Hentz, in three years 63 93,000
Major Jones' Courtship and Travels 50 31,000
Salad for the Solitary, by a new author, in five months 1 25 5,000
Headley's Napoleon and his Marshals, Washington and his Generals, and other works. 1 25 200,000
Stephen's Travels in Egypt and Greece. 87 80,000
" " Yucatan and Central America 2 50 60,000
Kendall's Expedition to Santa Fe 1 25 40,000
Lynch's Expedition to the Dead Sea, 8vo. $3 00 15,000
Young's Science of Government 1 00 12,000
Seward's Life of John Quincy Adams. 1 00 30,000
Frost's Pictorial History of the World, 3 vols. 2 50 60,000
Sparks' American Biography, 25 vols 75 100,000
Encyclopaedia Americana, 14 vols. 2 00 280,000