The Boston offices of Ginn & Company have been at Tremont Place, Beacon Street, in the old John Hancock house, and are now at 15 Ashburton Place. The prototype of the Athenæum Press was started by Ginn & Company in the early 80’s. The building which now houses this establishment is located in Cambridge, and was erected in 1896. ALLYN & BACON.--Mr. John Allyn began business in 1868. He imported and published a line of books, chiefly Greek, but in 1886 he issued Pennell’s Histories of Greece and Rome, Comstock’s _First Latin Book_, and Kelsey’s _Caesar_. In 1888 Dr. George A. Bacon joined Mr. Allyn in equal partnership. Dr. Bacon had been, before he entered business, the principal of the Syracuse High School. Shortly after the partnership was formed, the house purchased Walker’s _Physiology_ from A. Lovell & Company, but the book had already been in existence for some time. Both Mr. Allyn and Dr. Bacon are still living and carrying on their business. THE CENTURY COMPANY.--This company was organized July 21, 1870, by Roswell Smith and Josiah G. Holland. It is a corporation. Mr. Smith was the first president; he was succeeded by Frank Scott, he by W. W. Ellsworth, and he by Dr. W. Morgan Shuster, who is at the present time in office. Strictly educational publications were first brought out in 1904, Fetter’s _Principles of Economics_ being the first volume to appear. Failor’s _Plane and Solid Geometry_, Forman’s _Advanced Civics_, Smith’s _Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry_, and Thorndike’s _Elements of Composition and Rhetoric_ were published shortly afterward. FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY.--The founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company was Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk, who established the business in 1876 with _The Metropolitan Pulpit_, now _The Homiletic Review_. Some months later he was joined by Adam W. Wagnalls, and the two entered into partnership, forming the business of I. K. Funk & Company. These two men were joined in 1879 by Mr. Robert J. Cuddihy. In 1891, Funk & Wagnalls Company was organized with Dr. Funk as President, Adam W. Wagnalls, Vice President, Robert J. Cuddihy, Treasurer and General Manager. William Neisel joined the staff of the publishing house in 1883, and was appointed head of the Manufacturing Department. In 1884, Dr. Funk founded _The Voice_ and in 1890, _The Literary Digest_. Edward J. Wheeler joined the staff as editor of _The Voice_ in 1884, and in 1895 became editor of _The Literary Digest_, which position he held until 1905, when William Seaver Woods became editor.