The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ntary and ad-vanced education, styled The National Series of Standard Barnes did not go into this enterprise haphazard, but gave everymanuscript submitted for the series a critical personal examination, forwhich he was admirably qualified through his experiences and acquit-ments. His industry at this period of his career was untiring, and hissound judgment and vigorous energy were never more conspicuous. Hejustly prided himself on the fact that no book ever bore his imprint thatwas not pre-eminently a good book. In this
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ntary and ad-vanced education, styled The National Series of Standard Barnes did not go into this enterprise haphazard, but gave everymanuscript submitted for the series a critical personal examination, forwhich he was admirably qualified through his experiences and acquit-ments. His industry at this period of his career was untiring, and hissound judgment and vigorous energy were never more conspicuous. Hejustly prided himself on the fact that no book ever bore his imprint thatwas not pre-eminently a good book. In this lay the grand secret of his extraordinary financial success ; it issaid that his personal accumulations at the time of his death were hardlyless than four millions of dollars. Many of the school-books prepared andissued with such discriminating care had each the phenomenal sale of morethan a million copies. These books were in numerous instances revised andimproved to meet the fresh wants of advanced scholarship and taste in the ALFRED SMITH BARNES 36;. 368 ALFRED SMITH BARNES schools, while others of sterling value were added to the list from year toyear. The publications of A. S. Barnes & Co., as a rule, have been confinedto school-books through the entire half-century of the firms existence. Afew works only of a miscellaneous character have been issued by the house, among which, says a writer in the PublisJiers Weekly, Mrs. Martha History of the City of New York and the music books used in manychurches have added considerably to its financial prosperity. Mr. Barnes made Brooklyn his residence after his first year in NewYork, his home being in Garden Street. He purchased later an acre ormore of land in Clinton Avenue, then on the very outskirts of Brooklyn,and built the roomy mansion to which he removed his family in the springof 1854. In this attractive and hospitable home he resided for thirtysuccessive years. Here his four younger children were born, and here hisw
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