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Show POPULAR AUTHORS. The Preacher ' Finds Ready Sale for His Books in His Parish. Bent on an errand of mercy, a city prowler made his way into a strange neighborhood. What impressed him most was the bookstore windows. In every one for blocks around were stacks of a new book he had never ' heard of by a writer of whom he had never heard. "W7ho is this man?" he finally asked. "Why is he so popular hereabouts?" "He is the pastor of the Presbyterian Presby-terian church down in the next block," said the stationer. "Every bookseller in the neighborhood is making a specialty spe-cialty of his book. That is the usual way of doing things when a clergyman clergy-man brings out a new book. Anybody else might appear in the publishers' catalogue every month without arousing arous-ing local pride, but with the preachers it is different. When a minister turns author that old saw about the prophet being without honor in his own coun- try is disproved with a vengeance. Every spring there is a considerable literary output by the pastors of New-York New-York churches. The first place where these volumes are put on sale is the bookstores near the church where the minister preaches, and usually the largest sales are made there." |