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Show BOOKS AND AUTHORS. A visit to all tbe booksellers confirms the broad suspicion that no particular book is just now taking the lead or be ing sought after. There seems to be reason for this whether the booksellers will admit it or not. The enterprise of the publishers is responsible for the condition of the book market. The error seems to date back to the time when David Harum, by virtue of its own intrinsic merit, leaped into popularity almost in a single day. The publishers, after the imitation of showmen, thought they could force upon the public any book they chose, simply BOOKS THE SHEPARD BOOK COMPANY Offers to the book buyers of Utah and book-love- rs uest of the Misrisslppi river. tlon of New. Old and Rare Books ever brought together whether they buy fro volumes of 15,000 stock our Everybody is welcome to inspect us or not. carry the tarjcjl and heal JlocK of Mormon and minii-Mormboo fa in ihc toorld. XUe on and If you want any book ever published call on us or ask for Telephone 1420 x, we will do the rest. Remember the place. y Ihc goohe glwppr. by strenuous advertising. Like mounte- banks they plastered advertising on billboards and dead walls, until the and patent medicine vendors were forced into temporary re- -, tirement. And all this exploitation was not to promote the reading of good literature, but rather to crowd the sale of the most nondescript rot that was ever sent broadcast through the world. The reaction has come and now the discriminating public refuses to believe what is said of books. The labored book reviews that are printed in daily newspapers are prepared in the offices of the publishers. The daily papers print these reviews because there is no expense attached to the effort. So it is that throughout the 'entire country there is a distrust of book comment or book advertising, soap-make- rs SHEPARD BOOK COMPANY, SALT CITY. UTAH. U. LAKE Pad-doc- ks . ard, the well known lawyer, has al- ss s, Mac-Lan- Coz-zen- s. -- 8. A. enter the arena. Spar-rowgra- on 72 SOUTH STATE STREET. Opp. Knutsford Hotel. d pre-ten- ft ft The Conquer- tory of Salt Lake sells for a good round out the first edition. one is and there of sum of a is money, only story & Gertrude C. Atherton, A. or, by McClurg Co., of Chicago, anThis nounce the Alexander Hamilton, and is meeting copy known to be in existence. publication of a history of with a remarkable sale. man was a by published directory the Lewis and Clark expedition reft ft named G. Owens, in 1867, and contained printed from the edition of 1814, with The Shepard Book company has a 134 pages. The publisher was a resi- introduction and index by James K. rare collection of old books, including dent of New York City, and estimated Hosmer. It will be issued in two volumes with portraits and maps, and many first editions. Richard B. Shep- the population of Salt Lake at 30,000, ways been a book collector, and to his of private library he has added besome found the most valuable books to not the of shelves bookstores, on the ft ft in but EngUnited in the States, At the bookstore of A. R. Derge & only land as well. Co. some of the books of last year are ft ft these Notable lead. the among Mr. Shepard has recently received a taking the of Mrs. Cabbage Patch, bound volume of the famous is Wiggs Caldwell Alice Ilegan. This book by Papers published in the has won its way without being boomed. Rnickerbucker Magazine in 1854. The old subject, but in a It deals with an new way. It is a charming story of Sparrowgrass Papers have been the tenement house life and is becom-ip- g long forgotten except by the collectors justly popular on its own merit, of literary curiosities. They were ft ft written by Frederick Swartout,Coz-zena genial wine merchant of the Strange as it may seem, the book by untutored the young time, who lived at Yonkers, New York. Mary MacLane, woman from Butte, is having quite a They are chiefly valuable as showing remarkable sale, not only in the west, the kind of vulgar humor that seemed but also in the east. - The sales are no to please the people of half a century doubt due to the fact that when the ago. That the fame of Frederick book first appeared it was frowned up- Swartout Cozzins should be perpeton by all the librarians as unfit fore uated is somewhat of a puzzle, yet the Miss girls to read. It is said that that the Sparrow-gras- s has received $15,000 in royalties biographers say an and is now trying to break into Papers gained for the author, eastern seminary in order to obtain a reputation as the first of American some polish and education. humorists. It requires some boldness ft ft to quote from the writings of Mr. In one of his incidental book The very latest addressed to My Big Sweetpoems, to make its appearance reached the heart by a supposititious little boy, booksellers this week. It is an im- occurs the following: mense volume of 633 pages, under the I passed your garden and there On the clothes-lin- e title: The Story of the Mormons. hung a few Alexander William Linn, is Pantaletts, and one tall pair The author Reminded me, love, of you. and the publishers, the McMillan comto is said and $4.35 for pany. It sells I thought as I swung on the gate history of Mormonism And tea complete In the cold, by myself alone, 1901. down to How soon the sweetness of hoarhound dies. The Deseret News company has an But the bitterness keeps on and on. extensive line of new novels that covft ft ers the entire field of fiction. Among It is not often that an ordinary city the new books are Hearts Couragedirectory becomes a valuable piece of ous, by Hallie Erminie Rives; The and yet the first city direc 13th District, by Brand Whitlock; literature, The Strollers, by Frederick 8. Isham: Young Barbarians, a juvenile story The Fighting Bish-o- p by Ian MacLaren; M. The Hopkins; by Herbert Thomas Dixon, Leopards Spots, by William Jr Forest Neighbors,At by Back of the Davenport Hulbert; Deseret The Barlow. Jane Beyond, by sale of brisk a News company reports Patch the of Cabbage Mrs Wiggs and Dorothy Vernon of Iladdon Hall.to Tbe Mississippi Bubble proves have been a sort of bubble, although the flash advertising seems to have sold anti-Morm- BOOKS NOTHING BUT Alfred II. Henry, a Methodistminis-te- r who formerly preached the gospel in Salt Lake, has written a Mormon novel under the title: By Order of the Prophet. Numerous novels have been written with some phase of Mormonism as their theme, but they have all fallen flat. Those who buy books that to deal with Mormonism want facts and not romance. Among the novels that have been written m!ght be mentioned Salt Lake Fruit, by an anonymous author, Gashs False Star, Ellisons Nadine, Do u galls Mormon Prophet, Mrs. Paddocks Fate of Madam La Tour and In the Toils, Mrs. Hudsons Esther the Gentile and Archibald Clavering Gunters Miss Dividends. Not one of these has ever paid the publishers for the ink that was used in printing it with the single exception of Mrs. two books that had a limited sale. All this is cold comfort for the Methodist preacher who now essays to his estimate being based on the number of names in the directory. The book has a peculiarly interesting history, which accounts for its value as a literary curiosity. Its publisher was indiscreet enough to incorporate within its pages what he was pleased to term a Chronological table of This table contained many Events. were distasteful to the peothat things were who ple expected to buy the book. When tbe directories arrived from New York City, where they were printed, the citizens seized them and they were burned. On the back page of the directory is the announcement that the Union Pacific railroad had begun to run trains to North Platte, Ne- will be ready about October 15. George N. Ifft, editor of the Pocatello Tribune, ha9 been in the city for a few days, getting pointers on several things. He relates that his town is fa9t coming to the front; that the opening of the reservation helped it; that mineral discoveries contributed to the material prosperity of the town, and that all in all, tbe little city has a good future. George declares the Tribune, of Pocatello, of course, is doing well and that since he he has made a daily of it, he has lost all hankering for a' consulship across the pond in Germany, but wants to remain right where he is and die in the harness. Ifft left for home Wedbraska, a distance of 300 miles west of nesday full of hope and Salt Lake Omaha. In the Table of Events are victuals. ft ft many strange announcements. There is also much valuable data not conIt may not have occurred to the tained in directories of the present but the fact is, this day. The directory says that a weekly powers that be, newspaper called Valley Tan was city is full of the toughest kind of started Dec. 4, 1859, by Kirk Anderson, toughs. There are a hundred men and the subscription price was $8 a right here who should be told to get year. On Nov. 30, 1863, a weekly news- out and not stand on the ceremony of paper called the Union Vidette made its appearance at Fort Douglas. It going. Main street, from Second South was conducted by officers and enlisted to Third South and Third South from men of the California and Nevada vol- State to West Temple are infested with unteers. July 4, 1864, the Daily Tel- the most kind of propositions, October 17, male and impudent egraph was published. The first named defemale. 1864, Harrison & Tullidge began the mand an effrontery seldom money with publication of a pamphlet called The excelled to curse hesitate do and not In November, 1865, the the Peep o Day. not does y if he produce. passer-bUnion Vidette was moved from Camp A few would do clothes officers in plain Douglas to the city. On Monday. a fall, and rushing business after night kindness April 8, 1866, I. M. Weston, editor of this all in made suggestion is the Vidette, received a death no- for the benefit of the head of the police tice to get out of town. In July, 1866, the first poems of Miss Sarah E. Car- department. ft ft michael were published. On Monday ' Save your money and when you get a night, October 3, 1866, the editor of the Vidette, together with his foieman, dollar deposit it with Zions Savings received a terrible beating at the hands Bank and Trust Co., No. 1, Main of a dozen men, who made them prom- street. The largest and oldest Savings ise to leave Utah immediately. It will thus be seen from the evidence of a Bank in Utah. Joseph F. Smith, President, city directory that the' editors of early were not without their troubles. days George M. Cannon, Cashier. |