This popularity was the poet's greatest reward, for we learn that the actual money remuneration was only ten dollars. Poe makes us think of the early writers, like Bacon and Browne, whom we have seen take to printing their books to save them from the errors of the unlicensed publisher. In a preface to this volume he writes: "These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random 'the rounds of the press.' If what I have written is to circulate at all, I am naturally anxious that it should circulate as I wrote it...." From the original straw-colored paper covers in which it appeared, about December, we learn that the book was issued as one of a series, _Wiley And Putnam's Library Of American Books. No. VIII._, and that its price was the unusual sum of thirty-one cents. Among the other volumes, its companions in the set, were _Journal of an African Cruiser_, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne; _Tales_ of Edgar A. Poe; _Letters from Italy_, by J. T. Headley; _The Wigwam and the Cabin_, by W. Gilmore Simms; and _Big Abel_, by Cornelius Mathews. Duodecimo. COLLATION: _4 ll., 91 pp._ CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816-1855) 83. Jane Eyre. | An Autobiography. | Edited By | Currer Bell. | In Three Volumes. | Vol. I. | London: | Smith, Elder, And Co., Cornhill. | 1847. Under date of August 24, 1847, Miss Brontë wrote a letter to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., in which she said: "I now send you per rail a MS. entitled 'Jane Eyre,' a novel in three volumes, by Currer Bell." The novel was accepted, was printed and published by October sixteenth, and on the nineteenth the publishers received the following: "Gentlemen,--The six copies of 'Jane Eyre' reached me this morning. You have given the work every advantage which good paper, clear type, and a seemly outside can supply;--if it fails, the fault will be with the author,--you are exempt. I now await the judgment of the press and the public. I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully, C. Bell." Their judgment was decisive, and the book was so great a success that a second edition, dedicated to Thackeray, was issued January 18, 1848. Octavo. COLLATION: _Three volumes._ HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) 84. Evangeline, | A | Tale Of Acadie. | By | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | Boston: | William D. Ticknor & Company. | 1847.