Scribner's magazine . American Yachts,the Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, etc.;books of art, like The Arts of Japan, Con-temporary American Artists, and others ; the Cyclopaedia of Painters and Paintings, andthe CycloiDsedia of Music and • Three Years of Arctic Sei^icewas another book first published by subscrip-tion ; and most notable of all among laterworks, Stanleys In Darkest Africa. Thislatter, like so many other liooks, has an inter-esting personal history. The Scribners hadpublished Stanleys first great book, How IFound Livingstone ; and in the rooms of theAldine Club
Scribner's magazine . American Yachts,the Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, etc.;books of art, like The Arts of Japan, Con-temporary American Artists, and others ; the Cyclopaedia of Painters and Paintings, andthe CycloiDsedia of Music and • Three Years of Arctic Sei^icewas another book first published by subscrip-tion ; and most notable of all among laterworks, Stanleys In Darkest Africa. Thislatter, like so many other liooks, has an inter-esting personal history. The Scribners hadpublished Stanleys first great book, How IFound Livingstone ; and in the rooms of theAldine Club hangs framed among other pa-pers of curious interest the last letter writtento Mr. John Blair Scribner by Stanley on theeve of his starting on the Livingstone expe-dition. When the later expedition to relieveEmin Pasha was undertaken, the book whichit was known would result was naturally re-garded as a prize in the pulilishing w(3rld,and it was eagerly competed for, many pro-posals awaiting Stanley at Zanzibar when. General View of the Store, 743 Broadway.
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