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Cooper did not resisted of one hundred and fifty dollars, drawn from port himself. The occasion was pleasantly sugges the Chambers' Street Savings Bank, and such know- tive. In the "New York American," of next day, ledge of the business as I had picked up. Yet my Mr. Charles King said that "the Booksellers' Festi new friends seemed to be content; and my first mis- val was one of the best conducted, most spirited, sion, after a laborious and dusty account of stock, and most agreeable entertainments it was ever our was a trip to Europe to arrange foreign purchases fortune to be present at." and correspondence. This voyage and tour of eight cessful festival will leave impressions which cannot months are referred to in another place. The errand but tend to good." was executed satisfactorily, and led to a business of considerable interest and value extending over several years. * * "This most suc It is natural here to recall the next affair of the same kind seventeen years later, and in which it was again my fortune to have a rather excessive share of-the work; and these things make work for some one. The cards for this occasion read thus: The New York Publishers' Association Request the Honor of Mr. A. B.'s Company COMPLIMENTARY FRUIT FESTIVAL, NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE. The cultivation of friendly personal intercourse between the trade and between authors and publishers had already begun to be a topic of talk; and in March, 1837, George B. Collins, John Keese, and the writer of this started the idea of a Booksellers' Dinner to authors. A committee of a dozen or so was formed, and held meetings at David Felt's "Stationers' Hall," in Pearl Street, till they matured the plan of an entertainment, which "came off" at the old "City Hotel," on the 30th March. This, I suppose, was the first time American authors were ever recognized by the publishers as being worthy to be This ovation (?) to pen-craft was effected at a cost fed in public. The number of authors and editors (if I may descend to such statistics) of about $4000, present was about one hundred; these, with as all subscribed by that portion of the New York city many of the "Trade" from other places, were the booksellers who formed the "Publishers' Associa guests of nearly one hundred booksellers of New tion." As far as numbers present were concerned, York. Many will yet remember this as a credita- it was doubtless the most extensive attempt to enble and pleasant affair, and for several reasons in-tertain the literary world ever achieved. No less teresting as significant of the progress of book- than seven hundred persons sat down to the inno making. For a dignified president we resorted to cent feast spread out on six immense tables in the the stationers, who furnished Mr. Felt. The spark-north wing of the palace of glass. Of these, about ling Keese officiated as general aid, supervisor, and one hundred and fifty belonged to the irritable "toast-master," with an introductory speech. The speeches were by Col. Wm. L. Stone, of the "Commercial;" Charles King (now President of Columbia College), of the "American;" Philip Hone; Dr. J. W. Francis; Major Noah, of the "Star;" Matthew L. Davis, the biographer of Burr; Harrison Gray, for the Boston booksellers; James Harper, for those of Gotham; and Washington Irving. of regret," were Bancroft, Prescott, Longfellow, Everett, Kennedy, Simms, Emerson, Winthrop, Agassiz, Dana, Holmes, Halleck, Melville, Paulding, Sparks, etc. genus of authors, including twenty of the female persuasion. To quote a tithe of their names, fami liar as household words, would be tiresome. Here were Irving and Bryant, at the head of scores of the lesser luminaries of the world of letters; Morse, Davies, Olmsted, Loomis, and other savans; Bacon, Beecher, Chapin, Cheever, Dewey, Osgood, Prentiss, Spring, Tyng represented the clergy; Duer, BradThe dinner-sayings and doings of twenty-five ford, Jay, Daly appeared for the bar. Of the inyears ago would scarcely seem to be worth repro-vited, who unavoidably were represented by "letters ducing; yet, as one glances over the four columns of the report in the "N. Y. American" of April 1, 1837, it is pleasant to note the way they talked, and to think of those stars of the occasion that have since disappeared beneath the horizon. The genial and humorous Dr. Francis was, as usual, professional in his witty good sense, and abundant in his reminiscences. Chancellor Kent (of the "Commentaries") toasted "the Booksellers: they merit our gratitude, and especially when they zealously disseminate American Law.'" Ex-Mayor Hone gracefully complimented Irving, Halleck, and Bryant. The two poets were modestly silent; but Mr. Irving, in spite of himself, was enticed into a little speech, which he accomplished with positive success; it was a tribute to Rogers, the poet, as a friend of American genius, and (incidentally) to Halleck. Col. Stone, with "profitable length," supplied the solid facts and statistics, aided by the "Booksellers' Advertiser" before mentioned. Mr. W. H. Appleton, President of the Publishers Association, and a munificent contributor to the festival, presided. The material entertainment, as promised in the cards, was simply a collation of fruit, with coffee, &c.; but as the whole affair was intrusted to that "prince of caterers," Mr. C. A. Stetson, of the Astor House, the display on the table was agreeable to the eye as well as to the taste. The most famous cultivators of pears and grapes in every part of the country were put under contribution, and the varieties obtained were choicer than the guests probably appreciated in the confusion. A full re port of the speeches and letters was given in the PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR of September and October, 1855, and a great part of them should be preserved in some permanent shape for future reference, for they were full of good things, and of special interest as illustrative of the progress of American book. making. In 1838 my mission as partner in the firm seemed to be a foreign one. It was proposed to establish in London a branch of the house, there to import Ame rican books for the English market, and to purchase |