Tax On Knowledge

- It oppears that thereis a heavy duty on tbe importation of English books, amounting to about 30 cents per pound. The Emancipator says: "On printed bookg of the present day, ihe tnx is tliirty cents per pound weight - a good octavo volume will weigh two pounds. ín looking at public libraries and private collections, running my eye over bookselier's catalogues, and reading reviews and magazines, and in such intercouse as I liad with well in formed men, I vvas astonished at the nuniber of pnblicaticns yearly issuing from the press in England, many of them truly valuabJe, which are not reprinted in América, and are never known even by name to the great masa even of the reading people of chis country. - A main reason, I have no doubt, is the duty exacted by our government upon the importation of knowledge for the people! Men of business can better ren i izo than other?, how great an obstruction to trade a email tax is fbund to be. A windovv tax, for instance, in England, instantly filis up a vast number of windowe, which wore not prevented from being built by the far greater cost oftnaking them.