| Show V Norl S The Tho literary path ath does not seem strewn with gold In England Englund Mr Ir the tho publisher declares that thai I Itla there ro pro are not U novelists In Inthe the United Kingdom who make over 1250 a n year Simultaneously a writer In the tho London Academy and an another another another other In the Monthly Month Review estimate tile the average overage earnings earning of or a professional literary man holding no salaried josi position lIas I tion at about or r 1150 a n year ear Ten Tell years ago the prospects for the tho Amen Ameri American can novelist were vere equally gloomy gloom To Today Today day owing In part to the tho International copyright laws but In part also to the Increase In the numbers the Intelli Intel Intelligence Intelligence gence and the monetary liberality of the tho reading public he ho Is III l to be bo congratulated congratulated on possessing an excellent trade The dime novel noel has haR disappeared anu the romantic novel a sort of glorified dime novel has hilI taken Its HH place selling always as all largely and often oCten far for more moro I largely large nail and retailing at ala a dollar and a half Instead of a n dime with an enor enormous enormous enormous multiplication of profits to both publisher It would be easy to number at ot least fifty OUr works of or fic fiction tion which In the past palt twelvemonth sold over copies Half a dozen of or them then reached Into the hundred thousands Now the copyright paid on ona ona a book would not be bo beless beless less than fifteen cents and might be bemore bemore bemore more according to the reputation ot or atthe orthe the author lie Be on the safe side how however however ever CIer Put It at fifteen cents per copy and the he royalties on a 0 note 1011 ole of would auld amount to At this rate u it novel a year would bring In a comfortable ble competency quite Irrespective of oC what hat the author might be he able to make mak out of oC the magazines the papers and other sources of oC Intermittent revenue 0 This Is the tho age nRC apparently of re revivals reo revivals A Philadelphia firm Afar Is III publish publishIng log Ing In complete editions of ot and Sand Band and resuscitating Harri Harrl Harrison Harrlson son from the grave Another publisher has lisa found Cound fAme fortune in the lie revival of oC rols Wandering Jew I wonder no publisher h r has deemed It worth while to revive an ei n bit of oC humor the best English specimen of oC this sort cart of or which was waR published anonymously mouRI In ISIS IUS under the title The Th History of or John De Dc Castro Perhaps revive Is a wrong term Inasmuch an OR anthe ORthe the book most unaccountably drooped almost from trem the press R Yet It It known to a n select circle of oC admit ers era i The humorous ot the subscription tion book business U Is frequently C In evi evl evidence dence hut but It Is only now nail nn again that It 11 presents a n fresh side tilde Tho The following loiter lAtter was ns received rech lb by the publishers publisher the other day Ilay from a n prominent New ew England after examining a It set Pet lt of Mark Twains Best nooks Hooks issued by bv Mers le rR Harper ft Brothers It H must be bo noted by b the way wn wa that these theRe book books have Mo uncut edges eMeR the uncut edges being a feature which It Is difficult to r ret jt 1 tho the average ert e man manto mAnto to tn and the explanation of which Is III n II severe tax on the tIll reSources resource t of the he salesman Thereby hangs this tale of woe way M Gentlemen You do not find nn nr nc e eilie 1 the ilie payment you nrc exporting hut you ou are no more than were Ill w WI when hf WP we opened l our of ot bookfor books book for instead In of at what Wf we f bought viz a set et of 0 nl d l books bonks we find fini hooks honks tonic edges nil all ox nt the I lOll irni P Id edge IR which looked ax a HI hud hi b been n chewed oft off bv hv r rat t Instead of oC oCI I cut only nn they were pre Ont chewed cep enough There Tb re were left Innumerable IM which the reader must disconnect ITI ere erl h Iw hI could pursue his narrative Very truly trul yours ours The craze crue It Is evident Is II not no yet ret et at nn an end Experts Expert In literary fashions ore are predicting pre that It will III hold holdon on n for Cor at lit least half a dozen dOE n year tar ears long longer er r Most JOlt of the leading rn heart hea thair Lh lr hits of or autumn announcements announcement with novel whose whore vry et titles are pro pre of battle nod It It not lot therefore timely time U th drop a II hint to the he r might work w rk with a great Grent measure of oC success In Eng Bog England land where It has hall been even more fa Ca a reviewed than In this country a S S SEven Even If It one docs does not consider Th The Helmet of oC Navarre the most moat remark remarkable remarkable able historical novel ever e r written ni attitude quite conceivable even In on one who wino Is 18 not a II critical acre one no cannot but enjoy enjo the descriptions of or Hertha Kunkle Bunkle the tho fresh and unaffected young girl who wrote It ItU It U seems that at her summer home homi homent at nt Onteora In tine the she Is th the tho most roost light lIht hearted of youthful beings ages removed from rom the bluestocking oven even the v dY fy modern carefully die woman loman of the world bluestockIng Ing of today She goes gocs about by day da In Ir Ira Ina a short hort skirt with her hair hanging In Ir two thick braids down her lion back and In Ir Inthe Inthe the evening she Is just ns as eager for UK the dances at nt the Inn as nil If sine she had novel never written a n line The first thing she did with the tho money she received for Cor or her tale was to 10 buy bIJ a apony 1 pony and a cart with which she drove over oer the mountains When she sine was ns obliged to come back to the city she drove droo In the precious ve ye vehicle C hide hicle to New York with her mother motherS S SS Tho The place that Miss Charlotte Yonge shall hold among the Immortals of lit literature literature literature Is a subject ot of considerable moment In England just now when the Interest In literature Is 18 In Ilia a rather languid state and Mr Ir Edward Cooper devotes half halt a dozen pages In a recent number of The Fortnightly to the tho weighing of oC testimony te In the Ule endeavor to define just what her title Is ts to a niche In tn the tho Temple of oC Fame He lie e marshals marshal a abrao bravo brave array of names namos In lien her support and kindly kind brings forward a n host of reasons wIny why h her hir work should foil and will willbe willbe be reckoned among al ons the undying forces force that have made for nt s ex ox extending eXtending tending through a II large lalle Portion of the nineteenth century lie He Mils calls to mini mind the fine quality of oC the tine character of ot the woman which stood behInd all of oC her ber writing which was always addressed d to ta the young oun readers of her day da and nd which aimed almod snot not at an older audience at atall atall all nil but for all thAt curls urh men M as Lord Tennyson Dr Whewell th the famous amous Master of at Trinity William Morris and the present bishop of nC Winchester found great delight And no little satisfaction in inn reading and In ho Infrequent frequent cases adlor Miss Tangos Yonges books book All this Is fume fame fa lOt letting fame farina And Mill m endure beyond the pr present nt de demand demand mand inand for and unhealthy satisfaction In ephemeral of th the d day y Mr lIr Cooper thinks think that a grownup folk today antI and for years eera eara to come com have hll t one OM ami and will RO go ROto F goto to Charlotte Yong n for pure love lov of studying such scions eren faith and Idl AS nl live In tn them th m Hut But It U Is I as u a writer for tor young oun folk that UM Miss s Yonge onge appears mot mOlt strongly to our sur Judgment The critics fire art absolutely wrong who dt tro that children now do not read her books I A thousand hl Ui I i i are arc at hand bOnd to pick to pi eis our ur souls and show vw Ow us u when the ma n 0 pea coon wrong and whys why tout till the few lew to who how chow us WI tho tb way a aso so writer In the person of Adeline AdelineM M 1 eske whose book Where tIne the Maple Grows s will shortly ap tip P J pta a nun the press pre S of at U 8 F Fenno Ac Acio io 0 MH bile Te key haH ban produced In these theae th e Idylls Wylie of ot a n Canadian village something In tIne the way Ia of 0 character studies oqual In nil all respects re to the tho quaint types of Jr Beside the Bonnie Bush Hush S S The achievement nt of Miss Clara Clam Morris In ranking making for herself a reputation as asa asa a n writer of stage biography graphy which may equal her ner reputation as LOS a player Is la re to No Xo one ever mind had n a wider or Jr more IMro Intimate acquaintance with so 80 great actors as had hud she and slim alic knows how 1101 to picture these stage lu Ia a writes orItes In a way wa that makes make them live IIVO again for tor a younger generation Th Tine many letters lutter ret from rena the of oC Me f lures Magazine lal prove proC this Th rh the has greeted nor hilt of oC the Stage and Its People leople Ito le in serial form Conn gives Promise unit that Miss lIps Morris orris II book Life on tho the Stace Issued by McClure Co In iii September will III become the elM clan classic sic of ot American stage stace biography to his pecuniary advantage and to the of or the render reader Remember that your our audience has bus not up for the tho occasion and may bo be IM les I learned than yours yourself lf Ho lie careful t therefore to let them thorn know ut at the start exactly the time tune and the locality with which you oU are dealing Often It Is not until several chapters oha ter have hare b been buen cn read road that the tIre In Tom Tom Watsons words word Nalles where he h is at I am ran firmly con COlt convinced vinced Indeed hUl eed that It would be an In ex ox excellent excellent If It the novelist would ito Imi Imitate tate ta te the dramatist t and affix to his hi novel nun I a n table showing who are ure the characters and what Is I their relation tu to each ach other to the thu fictitious episode and to real history Nor would there be anything amiss If it the novelist would stoop stool to add just a small of oC the th historical hl which entered Ink the th warp and am woof of ot his story storyS to y yIn S i j S SIn In a recent recant Issue of or the London Pall Patt Mall Mail Gazette Omette we yo find the tim following amusing sentences In a review of Mr r Will N re recently e published by b the Harpers We have read with Interest be lie because because cause It deals with society and stirS stir out of at th the common The Jh of New Now J villages mage has ha been bien described de by b writer after writer ve ye e know the slums of ot New el York ni nl a most ns nM well as ns QUI cur own the far CRr Wl t l no undiscovered country But Dut while O U W V Cable and others othera have hl re vi lied In negro humor the white pop population of oC the South has been beeb rather neglected and the tho lonely townships where an sob ant the tho th rare arrivals of ot the tho malls mails form orm the tho chief excitement are well vell worth know knowIng log InK as Mr Ir Harben knows knowl them theIn This study stud of life down South well welt repays 8 reading r Tho English reading public line has been lieen accused of o blind Ignorant concerning American literature and non the charge has hUll not ben been b on without While we ire ure for tins this English appreciation of at Mr I ir r work It must airier be admitted that praise tins has been blen bc be upon him hum with nn nIl Indiscriminate regard for previous Southern writers tonS Mr tr Cable described as revelling In negro nORro humor Is n a sorry jest that Imp has frequently frequent III m England And arp arc the names of Thomas Nelson Nelion on Page age Charles Charle Egbert I Joel ice Chandler horns HArrl Jamea Allen and others well wll known In England J gland ns IS well ell ns au In III this country ah as distinguished of It the charac characters characters of oC the tho white whit of ot South Speaking of Mr We wo 10 o observe that the tho book Is Ia meeting I S S Sass S to victory always and whoso work leads kids young YOUJI enthusiasms and shapes ambitions and dreams cannot be bo to die In truth they do not die dla Cs That the sales of or Ir Church Ills books are running fn ln tow fow toward the th million murk mark In the tine three and niI a 1 half halt years since the publication of ot The f Celebrity Is a fact tart that will nyu ho bo hoof hoat nf of Interest t to not a n tow Cow American pub Jle II It hag hilI been stated nn on good au art authority that Mr Churchill first book was wa declined by six sl lc publishers if IC this Is III tine the race ease and there IH is little reason to doubt It It Is a I ii good Instance In of the he unknown quantity with orith which n IL pub publisher usher lisher deals 11 l from day to day da It H Is as much a II of chance ns as of or judg judgment meat ment lI generally a shrewd combination of pf both S S S The company who were tine tin publishers of or Elizabeth J Anil her Garden Jarden will Issue Ail w another other anonymous work ork shortly This time of American outdoor out life lira that olds bIds fair so 0 sor so 1111 those wh who 10 have hale read It to rival book Tho The Garden of oC ofa oCIl a Il Commuters Wife The record recon of oC u a garden that hogan began In III Autumn will ap sip pair In hi time thou for Cor the tile holiday season It U Uis ItIs is Iou II now tiow Ir press The Tho publishers of or the tine anonymous nov noVo novel el ci When a Witch Is In Young have hac 10 mc c many man te II thoU the mysterious author of ot tints this Immediately successful book Borne nf or these letters are lire congratulations to tin th author autho some are solicitations for fur autographs and some seine are arc from rain theatrical cal III managers who Iho are lire keen keln to secure tine tho dramatic rights to tin th novel f The mysterious dl of Q thousand In I bank batik notes note and tint n series lierle of oC crimes In oOn Into a I romance from he pint of ot n a new detective novel by lIu tord Delannoy 11 It F p F Fen Fenno Fm no Co have already sold old three oct edi editions of this thrilling narrative narrativeS S S S The Tho Crystal Sceptre a n novel of oC ad by ll Philip au ou author thor timer of Nella Neila tIne the heart Hoart of ot the tho Army Arm IR is perhaps the tho first book the tine scones M of which are arc laid on the tho Island IslanI of or Suma Sumatra Sumatra tra Mr Ir has succeeded In nick mak making nickIng ing n a romance of f the tine most mo t thrilling type S Se Canada has bias produced a II new and a ci or orS orA S A A A A S S A A 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