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Show Literary Notes. A new volume by Marie Corelli, entitled "Temporal "Tem-poral Power," is about to emerge from the hands of I)odd, Mead & Co. It has been intimated by one of the would be knowing ones that the wierd stories emenating from the versatile pen of this prolific writer receive re-ceive the stimulus of aii Eastern drug in their weawng. Were this truth rather than fiction one might say with the immortal Abe Lincoln when Grant's leaning towards the bottle which cheers was reported as against tho general, "I wish that some of the rest of the officers would buy the same kind of whiskey." Jerome K. Jerome has embarked In his first long novel venture and Dodd, Mead & Co. are bringing out his "Paul Kelver." J. K. J. knows the world and its strength and weaknesses and can narrate its lights and shades with a pen dipped, in honey or vitrol and his short stories line up with the lives of the average men of today in nature's colorings. color-ings. Book critics are congratulating their fellows on H the influx of unique bindings for the coming fall D books and are predicting the eclipse of paper- H covered editions. The demand for cheap editions B is increasing and as goes the demand so must re- H spond the supply. B v H The Flemming H. Revel Co., Chicago publishers, H have given a prominent place in their stock to B "Those Black Diamond Men," the unique story H from the pen of William P. Gibbons, illustrating B in graphic finesse life among the dusky laborers B m the anthracite coal fields. H B A. L. Burt & Co., New Yrk publishers, report B that the sale of Kipling's writings have fallen off B in sale to next to nothing. m B Thompson & Thomas of Chicago report sales B for last year of 40,000 copies of "Peck's Bad Boy," B 50,000 of "Shams" and 60,000 of "Remarks by Bill Nje," while the- old-time tale, "The Hoosier B Schoolmaster," illustrated by Opper, has reached B a sale of 20,000 volumes since August last. Bl B Boston publishers roport an increasing demand B in books bound in burnt wood, burnt leather, limp B leather and lizard skin. B B Dana Estes & Co. of Boston are having a great B run on Laura E. Richards' latest production, "Mrs. B Tree," a sequel to "Goeffery Strong," and predict B for it a larger sale than accorded to any of her B former writings, although they have reached an B aggregate sale of over 600,000 volumes. H! B Sew ell's "Black Beauty" is reported as reaching Ba sale of 50,000 each year. Its publishers, the B Henry Altomus Company, report the surprising B fact that -the imposing folios illustrated by Dore B are no longer salable. B The typical modern novel that deals in million- B aires and sycophants, society and politics, may B not be elevating, but it is awfully quotable. For B instaiu e: B Women who owe nothing to their dressmakers Brarelj owe anything to their gowns. B He was too much of a gentleman to attempt to Boerhar a conversation that could be of no pos- Bsible vse to him. B Tin were perfumed with second-rate scents and BBgg'sted cheap emotions. B To the student of criminal upholstery the house Bpvas an inexhaustible museum. B "Gnhis in England seems to be an infinite ca- BPaeiu for taking drinks. B His time was money and he could not spare it Bfr thr really vital things of life. B All that eminent financiers had done in tho past Bl bririS themselves into publicity he had copied to the letter. As he amalgamated patent soaps, non-intoxicating whiskies, ineffectual pills, so he had amalgamated all the vulgarities, and incidentally inci-dentally all the mistakes of his predecessors. His had been a mania for amalgamation. Such a rumor seemed scarcely improbable in the case of a man who posed as a financial providence. If the nation wanted any little things, such as an ironclad or a public park, Taubman always seemed to have an ironclad or a public park for which he had for the moment no possible personal use. The twentieth century appeared to be the ago of innocence, and Taubman apparently was the millennium. It will be a long time before the public pub-lic will understand that when a man gives away things to the public it is because he intends to give the public away. Laird & Lee of Chicago are publishing the latest of Opie Read's pen pictures from the blue-grass country, entitled "The Starbucks," which promises to rank with tills charming writer's past successful success-ful portrayals of Kaintuck life. "Prisoners of Russia," a powerful story of Russian Rus-sian penal life, dealing mainly with the island of Sakhalien, where only the most desperate convicts are confined, makes out a strong case for the penal code among this class of degenerates. The well-known well-known standing of Dr. Howard as a leading penologist peno-logist entitles his opinion to a hearing and tho comparisons drawn between Russian and American Ameri-can methods of practical reformation In prison life are startling, nor does Russia suffer by the comparison. com-parison. D Appleton & Co., of New York are publishing pub-lishing "Prisoners of Russia." "The Little Brother," the maiden effort of Joslah Flynt in his vivid portrayal of tramp life in all its grotesque, pathetic and realistic colorings . deserves more than passing notice. While tho slang and language of hoboism are rather too plainly plain-ly in evidence, the real inner life and longings of the man who failed and sought oblivion in the obscurity of tramp life are vividly portrayed. The little runaway boy who is taken in charge by the typical Dusty Roads and in the midst of filth and dirt, hunger and deprivation, criminality and danger, retains the simplicity and purity of home life, is strikingly portrayed and the closing chapiters chap-iters bring the wanderer back to the old fireside where the story and his life close together in mingled pathos and simplicity of childhood's fearless fear-less entrance Into the great unknown. Mrs. Cotes's new novel, "Those Delightful Americans," is winning its way rapidly in tho good graces of Eastern readers. It Is pronounced one of the most delightfully humorous sketches of Inner American character ever penned. D. Apple-ton Apple-ton & Co. are placing it before the people with the hearty indorsement of the New England press. |