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A. S. Barnes & Company

[From the NEW YORK PATHFINDER, Aug. 1866.]

This well-known and long-established Book and Stationery House has recently removed from the premises with which it has been identified for over twenty years, to the fine buildings, Nos. 111 and 113 William Street, corner of John Street, New York, one block only from the old store. Here they have been enabled to organize their extensive business in all its departments more thoroughly than ever before, and enjoy facilities possessed by no other house in New York, for handling in large quantities and at satisfactory prices every thing in their line.

A visit to this large establishment will well repay the curious. On entering, we find the first floor occupied mainly by offices appertaining to the different departments of the business. The first encountered is the "Salesman's Office," where attentive young men are always in waiting to supply the wants of customers. Further on we come to the Entry Department, where all invoices from the several sales-rooms are collected and recorded. Next comes the General Office of the firm. Then a modest sign indicates the entrance to the "Teachers' Reading-Room "—a spacious and inviting apartment set apart for the use of the many professional friends and visitors of this house. On the table we noticed files of educational journals and other periodical matter-while a book-case contains a fine selection of popular publications as samples. The private office of the senior partner, and the Eook-keeper's and Mailing Clerk's respective apartments, are next in order, and complete the list of offices on this floor. The re mainder of the space is occupied by the departments of stock known as "Late Publi cations" and General School Books."

Descending to the finely lighted and ventilated basement, we find the "Exchange Trade," "Shipping," and "Packing" departments. Here, also, is kept a heavy stock of the publications of the house, while a series of vaults under the sidewalk afford accommodation for a variety of heavy goods. Stepping on the platform of the fine Otis' Steam-elevator, which runs from bottom to top of the building, the visitor ascends to the

Second Story. This floor is occupied by the Blank Book and Stationery Department, where are carried on all the details of an entirely separate business, by clerks especially trained in this line. Here every thing in the way of imported and domestic stationery is kept in vast assortment and to suit the wants of every class of trade. The system of organization mentioned above enables this house to compete successfully with those who make this branch a specialty, while the convenience to Booksellers of making all their purchases at one place is indisputable.

On the third floor are found the following varieties of stock: Toy and Juvenile Books, Bibles and Prayer Books, Standard Works, Photograph Albums, &c. The fourth and fifth stories are occupied as store-rooms for Standard School Stock. During the summer, while all the manufacturing energies of the concern are devoted to the preparation and accumulation of stock for the fall trade, upwards of half a million of volumes are gathered in these capacious rooms at once.

The manufacturing department of this house is carried on in the old premises, Nos. 51, 53, and 55 John Street, and 2, 4. and 6 Dutch Street. A large number of opera. tives, with adequate presses and machinery, are constantly employed in turning out the popular publications of the firm

The Peabody Correspondence.

NEW YORK, April 29, 1867.

TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PEABODY EDUCATIONAL FUND: GENTLEMEN-Having been for many years intimately connected with the educa tional interests of the South, we are desirous of expressing our appreciation of the noble charity which you represent. The Peabody Fund, to encourage and aid com. mon schools in these war-desolated States, can not fail of accomplishing a great and good work, the beneficent results of which, as they will be exhibited in the future, not only of the stricken population of the South, but of the nation at large, seem almost incalculable.

It is probable that the use of meritorious text-books will prove a most effective agency toward the thorough accomplishment of Mr. Peabody's benevolent design. As we publish many which are considered such, we have selected from our list some of the most valuable, and ask the privilege of placing them in your hands for gratuitous distribution in connection with the fund of which you have charge, among the teachers and in the schools of the destitute South.

Observing that the training of teachers (through the agency of Normal Schools and otherwise) is to be a prominent feature of your undertaking, we offer you for this purpose 5,000 volumes of the "Teachers' Library,"-a series of professional works designed for the efficient self-education of those who are in their turn to teach others— as follows:

Should your Board consent to undertake the distribution of these volumes, we stu hold ourselves in readiness to pack and ship the same in such quantities and to suca points as you may designate.

We further propose that, should you find it advisable to use a greater quantity of our publications in the prosecution of your plans, we will donate, for the benefit of this cause, twenty-five per cent. of the usual wholesale price of the books needed.

Hoping that our request will meet with your approval, and that we may have the pleasure of contributing in this way to wants with which we deeply sympathize, we are, gentlemen, very respectfully yours, A. S. BARNES & CO. BOSTON, May 7, 1867.

MEя838. A. S. BARNES & Co., PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK:

GENTLEMEN-Your communication of the 29th ult., addressed to the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, has been hin led to me by our general agent, the Rev. Dr. Sears. I shall take the greatest pleasure in laying it before the board at their earliest meeting. I am unwilling, however, to postpone its acknowledgment so long, and hasten to assure you of the high value which I place upon your gift. Five thousand volumes of your Teachers' Library," and twenty-five thousand volumes of "SchoolBooks for intermediate classes," make up a most munificent contribution to the cause of Southern education in which we are engaged. Dr. Sears is well acquainted with the books you have so generously offered us, and unites with me in the highest appreciation of the gift. You will be glad to know, too, that your letter reached us in season to be communicated to Mr. l'eabody, before he embarked for England on the 1st in stant, and that he expressed the greatest gratification and gratitude on hearing what you had offered.

Believe me, gentlemen, with the highest respect and regard, your obliged and obe dient servant, ROBT. C. WINTHROP, Chairman.