Excerpt from The Men Who Advertise: An Account of Successful Advertisers, Together With Hints on the Method of Advertising W'e also have endeavored to set forth in our pages the superiority of ad vertising in newspapers over that of other kinds. The handbills are thrown away and the posters not read, and it is safe to say that an advertisement cost ing five dollars will reach twice as many people and be read by twice as many as the same money put in a handbill. Take the New York Tribune, charging in the thirty-six hundred dollars a page, and we take this because its rates are the highest and the size of the page the largest. It circulates about two hundred thousand copies. Place this same matter in the shape of a cir calar and distribute it, and it will be found to be much less generally read, besides costing more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.