| Show II 1 l J J 3 I P Morgan Morg organ n Invades Invades the it 1 Ranks Ri anks ox of r Boo P i Collectors 1 i f A I 0 i He and Other Americans Amer cans Responsible for the Sudden n Withdrawal of Fine Finc Fine Libraries That Were iVere to Be B r Auctioned OfT Off Of in in London Queer Craze Crae tor lor Nietzsche Reading ding Books to Workmen at Lunch Time LONDON I ONDON Nov 31 l j Some bit hie big tin private HI I JJ vate ate collections of books hool hel helut n put ut t up U 11 1 at auction lately latel and 1111 a thol Cit 1 hove havn hur been suddenly bought hi itt 11 again by ly the owners OlIrs Several other oilier ocher collee Ill which were vera known Imon to lu be nl lot for tho market have havo likewise dropped out lilt lut of rf sight again In 11 the he I fame mUc mysterious 1 manner milner Fur FIr 1 In Instance stance a U fourth edition of IC If l for fO which h the tt I owner 1101 u had bad I announced all ii lila Ills willingness to tl tko take wan a withdrawn on the tiji tIny day of sol On Oh to 10 11 ono one of tile the tie auctioneers about this curious cUllous situation an un ex OX explanation e was furnished Ill Cli by ily h tho 1 I 0 fuel foot that tho the agents of ni II wealthy American booklovers ilaO been recent recently ly In lit 11 buying burll up privately as ts many literary treasures H as they tile could put lilt their hands han iS on III 1 J P Morgan has luw acquired a IL largo large percentage of this tho and 1111 d he I IC Is I s said Ill I I to tl LI I be ho averse ILSO to I o having works which ho hl Intends to tu put pul litI t up Il I at ut auction II 1101 I Ii Ho He I I o would Itt rather rathel I pay ll considerably Coils ill C nobly inure 1 in Ore I Ii for 11 a 0 I look book sale by ly private 11 ute treaty leat than at lit II a public saleA sail A London bookseller who 11 makes a it specialty of ml looks books 10 tells tel me ille there therl is iR a I queer leel run FUll Iun on Oil l books 1 by liv the I lIe morose 1010 cranky Nietzsche who ended his days lays In I a madness i hess and amI 1111 il on iii tho till other hand on Oil books by h the lie 1 robust and 1111 Ill Illalla I 10 litI ID Chesterton Strange Still ugh to tn soy say ba thu tho people who uilo most Illicit enjoy eljo the gloomy pictures if f life portrayed ed by bythe h the ho he German author aro ale the tho very nr ones bilLS who ll delight In III U n 1 K I Chesterton T I Tasked asked aked for fil an explanation of tl ls para paradox paradox dox in iii WITH A PURPOSE I can ean only oll account for fol it said the tw tb hi bookseller II or hy by the fact that t ii a t tho I II 0 person who has hns hUll had a I good dose of or Nietzsche needs Chesterton or ell Mark Twain to Co take the tile taste lasto out but of ot his mouth 1 must admit that in lii II the lust last five fie years earM there thero has his been he en almost ulm bt a It I revolution ution in III I II thought In iii England E A Afew few feti years Clr ago readers were Sur more fond of 01 cheerful books than thun Il they are tile now At t present everybody Is buying books boo which tRill problems 1101 lems leUs of sOle kind 11 rouging ranging from frol marriage to ps choloy TIle The with a tt purpose has como coma back with witha wih a it I vengeance I constantly asked the thc I does 1005 question What ThIat hut social problem this book lok deal lh before a it I read reader er or 11 decides Id ti II lilly buy tt It wits was as for this reason that wo we recently set sel out flit some ome tables In ill II OUI our shop shu on Oil which were hOle spread literary banquets I t do 10 not 1101 regard tho tl present at attitude ft continued the th bookseller oaf as 11 a 0 healthy pile ono atall Ul cit oil Course qI e novelists novelist must study stud tIle the trend of ot events but it seems a It I pity pit that liter literary lIterary ary Ir production should depend KO so solar 5 largely lar elY as its lS It Il hoes does now upon tho lime of themes In order to make mako hooks 10 go A few successful novelists still deal with Ith tho the humanities and alii lovo loto storIes of tile the tle domestic kind but hut sales of such Ruch works are arC dropping off oC ASSAULTED D HIS 1115 CHIEF CHIEFA A curious little story atory lor has hlas 11 just como come cometo to lo 0 light concerning Guy Gu Thorne au an author thor of 0 I a II ii lilLer I of thrilling I hg serials 50 is ind of ot the tue book boo boohen When hen It I Was os Il DorIs Dark and other tales taie Shortly before Thorne Thorna struck He lIe le In IIi real authorship he lIe found It to apply for a position on one ono of tho the big Il London dallies dailies dalle which wo Va might Indicate by saying that it claims the tho largest circulation of any 11 a II halfpenny paper viler published In England En The Ihie rie now no successful author was ln all as assistant a editor on Oi this paper anti and nd It seems poems that the editor persisted In ill put lint putting ting tin up on CO Ii the young man work of o a amore amore amore more or 01 0 less Ignominious character l Owl One I lily day the tho editor sent his assistant out out with inCh wih the tho request Just Tut fetch fotch mo 1110 o a LI 1 glass gla I If r water Wl l please e Thorne presently ro rio reI I with wih the 11 water hut but Instead oC Of 11 I Hiving giving Hiving it Il to tI his illS chief dashed It over oVal i him with wih a I remark to t tho 1110 tw effect that i iI henceforth he lIe h could wait alt on himself I U it i Is hi hardly necessary to Is soy u that thal there thoro Ii was hIltS 1 a I 1 vacancy cnn In iii Mr 1 Thomes depart department i iIII ment ment III OIl I from that ti on In Ii This t will 11 account perhaps for fOI his ha hit trout trod o of any Ull sort dorl of newspaper work i and also mIso for his bitter bitler feeling towards newspapers In ill general despite tile the fact nOt J that most JI t of If f nig iuta hl success lute lias li come from flab t d tho th publication of IC serials In III a largo large 1 number of or t TRIUMPH PH OK OF 01 Till PilE 1 lB SLUM 11 I iii Tile The Eat East End of London ban 11 re to recently 10 a IL Ii literary reputation for fee fol in Iii II tile the tie first place out of or f t the tile East End slums hat haH como om a 11 SOIl Hn wrangler of 01 Oxford U It T ho be mentioned in Iu that It II Is s tho thu i wranglers who Will all tho tw honors honorl t at mu II the the university and neVI never before In tn till the history of that grot gr t Institution has 1105 a It honor holler man come 11 London LIli 1111 I si ill Ili Another 1 0 II I for forthe 1 the Ihl tb East End Ead In II tho fILet fact ct that now lew I l ih libraries 1 ii carl es have hav recently et y sprung up iii t in III II Viii 1109 3 taIls purIM of Di that lu benighted h sec section fl till tion loll and Ind U II ci a Ii f movement lt ii I called 1111 Homo HOI Heading Circle CIrce Is Id making great reat 1 progress 1 Headers who join Ibis cirolo aro itlO aO to make of It cel certain h I tain tal 1 books anti and a 11 to to write unite essays es ays on Oil tho fl subjects they tileY the treat The various Circles aro Iro controlled by h the tue tie National Homo J Heading Union which gives rIc to tl tile the readers who how tho greatest 4 mastery of their theil thel subjects The president dent I nt of tilt tho union la i 1 Princess 1 Louise j 3 J who makes I a ii 1 point II I ot o f signing sl si git I hg all al 0 I I tho of 0 f merit t with wi iVI i ii h lice her own on bund ha ii l I AWAKENING A AlENiN KI lG IN EAST END EN 1 X Tho fhe literary awakening of the tile East EastEnd f End In ill C lii manner Cl is is the tue outcome of 3 the work trolls there by 1 the tile late lato Sit Sir 1 Walter BOrnt who unto helped to build the tho 7 i Peoples Palace in ill tho hl chapel I Iad road ad and IllS his works OIS are 1110 nl Immensely j popular I LIP LI 1111 in I II the thc neighborhood Since Bi B death a number of If Influential j 1 author Including I Itch Ii fi illg Israel I I I Pett Pet Pc tt Jerome K and others have IHo taken talton a IL t keen Interest In lIt Inthis lIti j this i il i movement nt Th rho stranger who goes 1 to tf tho lie East gast End today tOlla and Imagines 0 1 that be bc will wi Int a It class dulls of Ignorant i people similar to 0 those who lived there v lx taken foro time will J be 1 e much mis iiii mistaken f HEADING n CIRCLES Another A nol I Interesting I ii idea la along al the tho f same amo lines lilies Is lit the tile reading of books I dur durIng dl H Ing lug tile the meal mell times of the working I eft lusi as A t number of workers wOI rs for In Instance stance stale Wile wll are C occupied In lit the samo alo building will wi have Until lunch at the tho Ui I same Rame table la and It Is la becoming a ii t OilS cus custom CIS tom to read during lunch hour hou a book which has been boon chosen by bythe I Ithe the tIle cir ia committee tee of every f holy body boi talking about nothing In Ill purlieu j lar br they listen to the tue book and h cuss CUI It when hen they thc meet again at tho the e usual lual weekly gathering The Tho subscription tion len to the tile circle is I 2 cents a it year eal Jj CHARLES NS J |
