Facts About Stanley's

Bush Advocate, Issue 355, 19 August 1890, Page 3

Facts About Stanley's

Here are some, facts for the 6uri6li¥aboli^^%^iiew boot :- pn Friday , June 28th, at 6 o'clock thousands of copies ,of Stanley's, l«j«tei¥^ikstii'ißmd ! f6 M 'tity¥a I de; v ' md by Monday it was circulated throughout the length japcLbreadth if the latfd: iT ™ r firsf TEnglish odition numbered 20,000 copies ( this is inclusive of the luxe edition, (tc). It is estimated (says an '. Snglish paper) that during the last ijour months nearly 11,000 men, Employed upon it. In England alone 60 compositors, 17 readers, 1 2 reading boys, 200 machine and Warehousemen were at work on it. in the binding}^, 1 4Q,ipOO volumes 500 men* and 600' women were employed. There are ten foreign (Editions, /ink consumed amounts "to i ton lOcwt ; Multiply these figures by eight for ijhe foreign editions, and you arrive at the enormpjis i( ;. ; qu > a.iltity of 12 ijons. The paper for the English edition weighs 65£ tons. As the foreign editions are not so largo as the Engli^utiifßifigwTefi ittre multiplied by four only, which produces ii total of 262 tons. The binders' cloth used for England amounts to f 500 yds, mi America^ '9ooo, and in other countries to 1000 (they have paper covers in many cases). £t is estimated that 268 printing ; wessejMjbaYeufieen'i in 1 '• Us©^ TO'p^int he book. The French edition of ! \iv Stanley's work is entitled " Dans iesgTenebres .Usbl'Af&que." Mr i Stanley's book, "In Darkest Africa," appeared on Sunday in a 1 Jerman translation~at Leipzig. It :s prefaced, says a Berlin correspondent, by a letter to the publisher, in wMcK*Mr> -Stanley tells jiim that he does not understand a word of German, that he is vory fatigued,. f 4«d \tti&b'(h&. is: about, to >c married to a certain beautiful !ady who will, he hopes,.. bear him off to the •hap' ftp regions where :narried people are said to find >eace. The letter, which was : yritt©^'^ete''> f tlie *' terms' l! 6 l f' ' tKe Treaty were published, concludes with the opinion that it would be besT for England &nd Germany to remain together in <on, tjerms of; flomjet jtiqn. ri ;. , ,