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Instances of Protracted Literary Labor--Comparative Insignificance of Periodical and General Literature in the Southern States--The New-York Tribune--Southern System of Publishing--Book-making in America--The Business of the Messrs. Harper--Southern Journals Struggling for Existence--Paucity of Southern Authors--Proportion of White Adults, over Twenty Years of Age, in each State, who cannot Read and Write, to the Whole White Population--Southern Authors Compelled to Seek Northern Publishers--Conclusion.