| Show End or of Times Book War Var Opens Purses or of London Publishers I SpecIal Correspondence I ONDO XO 12 that tho I L Times Book club war al Is ly Iy settled to tion In III many hook book jue beginning to spend money mone on their wares Tho TI latest evidence of oC this is a Il hUGu of or a I book called John Using the tho novel by b means od of tha th poster postel Is a Il now new In III England and 1111 the thu fact that ono publisher hUb has begun it will wll have u a stimulating ef Jr effect Ceet on un the It may not IlOt bo al altogether a together collect conoe to tho Ilont ot of ns as an 1111 altogether new for Fisher once em employed Aubrey in this It and ordered a U p tI flom Nicholson on but bul it was a Il long till ago ngu and the Hie attempt In 11 I thos days was nut a It success How However ever eer tho revival has IIII begun and SO sov erol eral London aie IlIC thinking out ideas with which lo to hyp hp hypnotise notise the tho public who hao hayo money mone to spend on bonks Thu John Johll Silence simply por a man mun standing at a window looking out Into the thu night Ills His pOhl position tion is somewhat cm ions a al he Is looking away the thc audience ell c as it wore and a has his back tinned to the public The Iho is said to In have sold solda a Rood many copies uC book bon It Mo 11 aie a II poster fir the tho book hoo The Ih Oleat Miss and andone one critic predicts t when Oil pla placard card CUI appears London coachmen think thinking ing from the title that the work worl con COli concerns cerns them will invest in a It book which does not appel at all to ti ho in particular BOOK CLUB WAn AVAR Concerning the groat Hook Club AVar 11 enquiry among booksellers h re reveals r the tho fact that they the me IlIO anything all but satisfied Fn tI tJ ell at the tho outcome of lh th struggle Nor NOI does doc it seum possible to deny that they have a u very Cl real ance anco remaining position Is IH this Tho pub hers have won a II victory over oVe the Times iJ In III the th matter of books book but tho case oa J of or the or 01 I O novel Is Iii still going hard against agn the Is nothing lo to pre prevent vent Hll tho Times rimes Book club after three months publication of a novel putting Its It copies cOllies into the lc je box It IC it wishes to do so This hits the tho hook booK soller largo or 01 for the tho 1 O Is IH ono of his steal mainstays s In of all 1111 that Is said Mid about people not lIot buying books book They rhe do Io buy hu hovels and of cH course they th will not nuL pay flur the tho bookseller which is tho th English cash h Irk for fIJI a 11 O book If Ir by h waiting a they the cnn purchase from the th Times l at athay say hay 30 ao cents or The that the publisher hav been seduced by hy the book clubs enticing promise of oC a bIg first order for fo new works Into to a H set t which Is unjust In the bookselling ing III community There Is a u somewhat peculiar Inside ot r of f this Ilme hork war which a lightly lurid light mi 1111 British diplomacy r It will bo he that It was announced t tl the some OllIe time ago that C Pearson on hud had the Times This was wa considered one InO of the journalistic coups on anil Pear Pearson P son wan all on his cent luck In III acquit Ing the III H Jl might bo hI suid in passing pa that through some hIe cause the tho London Times still t III yields an all despite its fossilized condi 1111 tion find its prohibitive post of oC 0 Ii cents per copy Well clI among the tho people olI mot most In their congratulations to t Peirson hIs bis great the Daily Ian with otherwise Alfred among the As AI soon us liS tho first excitement Is IH over however himself bows lo to th public as liS the actual owner of o the tho Times ami 1111 C A P Is supposed lo to retire oma distance into the rear and u sit lit down clown As soon as fiS Lord found f nd himself fully installed In the Time ha hJ held he a t conference with one olle of r thu th largest III American booksellers Brenta nos to t bo hI exact c Whose diplomacy brought lt the book war tu an and told to 10 the Times tin largo amount of publishers rs advertisements which had been lint I t i IU And now nb the lIl who sits up aloft alo and occupies his time in II bus hils It that and Lord aio am a IV abig big hll enterprise that will be he launch launched ed ell In connection with tho Times and the thu book publishers in America The Academy n IL journal oC k l Is again a n in new 11 hands At leaH it now appoint to tn bo owned wn by II Laid 11 C Instead or bellit nenI by in If I is I Unit hl Sir its last proprietor tor bus 1111 made a IL 1 of the lIlI paper to 10 Lord Loid saying Hert tho Iho Academy and here her is IH somo capital on which to 10 inn IU The Academy hw h seldom paid its It way wu and ii u a It I Is somewhat ot of a II luxury H Jl Is tu to bo anticipated that the assistant lI editor who Is IH Mr 1 W V tl iI of oC Un Unspeakable Scot Lovely Lol Woman null I and al alother other fam Iam will have u 1 still moie frol hand nou no He succeeded In transforming the thc character ot oC the paper considerably con ld for at I Lord Douglas solo olo editorship It had a decidedly ecclesiastical flavor and as has beon Mr 11 Cios lund land wears thc Ihu bIretta with singular Illen e may 1 be I ml ald of oC Crosland Is II no doubt of his originality JIo is if a II of If personality lI being hoim a Il pi Areat eat big fellow with an le desire rill nr tilt the financial 10 Ii wards of rather Ia Ulan than Iho tho glory which is supposed lo tn follow folio till pm suit ot oC Idlers In It 1 i event Inter Interview view Iv with himself in III one of Urn following passage pl o jJ And 1111 now n Mr 11 said th with ami evident awe alvo tit lit my III literary reputation will vou tell nil whom you consider your best ft lends The Th III o 1101 was 11 my m i i 11 espouse POll 8 lj K Iq a with wilh n magnificent hatred of oC his enemies nil HI books have him hosl ot haters hut I i hi In return a situation In which he hc positively po l tIeh glories i I HOOK WHICH ASTRAY tl The Ih latest Dietary heio may Wil pel Imps be hi In a uso U IJ fill tu III 1 Har f a II well ell known who U i at lit a II social Il was Wa with the editor of it II g 11 II t halfpenny journal and I d lo 10 find that Hint th bis editor hint not lIol lead any of his hooks to fond him a volume me of If his short which an good some year made quite a hit The en entitled 11 I titled title nider Eld Con II was 1113 duly dill sent lont 1 to t tho editors but hili unhappily J went astray astuy into u n pile 11 of nf books for 11 One of the halfpenny n K Ii onn men Ion ho was u 1 man for this Is nut for fill catch catchIng t Ing InA Its 11 staff the book bookas as n II now one praising It with patronizing ing moderation and tho 10 ti author to continue tho of liter literature JR II IU hen the notice appealed I silt who Is 16 n a Inn lory Celt It WAI t t tell oven ell more In his language i than is hi 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