Great movements, and those who achieved them (1882)
Nicoll, Henry James · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 212
ppears tobe found more profitable to issue a comparatively small editionat a high price than, trusting to a very wide circulation, to vent-ure on a large edition at a low price. Perhaps the most notice-able result of the cheap literature movement is its effect on theprice of school-books, which are… … PENNY POSTAGE. 8IE ROWLAND HILL. When once a great reform has been tliorouglily achievedpeople are apt to think little about it, or, if they do reflect onit at all, to suppose that its achievement could not have beena matter of very great difficulty. They see only the practicalresult: the…
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