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The Placer Herald
Rocklin, Auburn, Placer County, California
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A correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer describes London's Paternoster Row, famous in English literature, as having modest bookstores compared to American ones: narrow like an alley, contracted showrooms, business on upper floors of private-looking houses, e.g., John Murray's, Lord Byron's publisher.
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of the Philadelphia Inquirer makes the fol-
lowing reference to Paternoster row so fa-
mous in English literature:
"The bookstores of London are generally
not to be compared with ours. [Paternoster]
row is no wider than Carter's alley in
Philadelphia and the show rooms are so
contracted that famous [street's]. The real
locality of business is necessarily all done
from the ground floor up. I was hunting
John Murray several days, Lord Byron's
publisher, and at last discovered the name
of Mr. Murray on an inner door of what
appeared to be a private house. Such estab-
lishments as those of the Harpers', the Ap-
pletons', or Peterson & Brothers', would set
London booksellers crazy."
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Correspondent notes Paternoster Row's narrowness like Philadelphia's Carter's alley, contracted showrooms, business conducted from ground floor up in private-house-like buildings; spent days finding John Murray's establishment, Byron's publisher; contrasts with grand American publishers like Harpers, Appletons, Peterson & Brothers.