Show I MILLION MARK MARKIN IN LONDON BOOKS Our London Literary Lefter I Special Cor Correspondence I ONDON Belt Se A. A Just Just begun ha he hethe has ha's hasL LONDON the British fall CaU season ot of pub pub- L from now flOW to lt lishing It will lU last Christmas From Prom reports I ha have v the tho season gathered I can c'an wifely safely the publishing will be b ba a n record one in notable world One Ono million copies of ot and important works will w b bt b novels put in circulation Inside the next nett few weeks number One million I IK is an enormous figures that each copy is a when 0 rove rovel one or nr a work priced at volume Yet this estimate estimate esti esti- per or more London's mate is 18 give m mt one of ot greatest publishers There Thore are 20 Important publishing In London They are each averaging averaging aver aver- houses these the aging fully 10 books Giving normal edition of or copies each you reach the million mark The cheaper pr novels no and nna publications will wUl add to thia thi total of ot course many thousands perhaps mil dl of 1 lions But tho the majority of ot these willbe will willbe be reprints of or the thc 25 nn and 1 10 cent varlet vail vail- et Ct oty which ar are just now so popular with the publishing departments of or magazines and n newspapers CHEAP EDITIONS NO GO Unquestionably the thc cent 60 novel novel- the half a n. crown experiment Is Is as dead deaI as ns a n. door nail Th The reading public in England prefer to pay It h ha hai paid this sum Bum for tor many years rears ane and hates drastic changes and experiments Among tho the notable novels will h hound ba be found many by American writers Elizabeth Elizabelh Robins has two new books Mrs Airs Hodgson Burnett Marion Manon Crawford Craw Craw- ford iford Mrs en and ond Gertrude Atherton arc also in the list This month wIli Hi see the latest books booles of at Anthony Hope Rider Haggard tho Co Castles sties Gilbert Parker Crocket Crockett Stanley Weyman Darr Barry Pain Maurice Maurice- Hewlett Baroness von on Hutten anti and other first lighters QUEEN EN VICTORIA'S VICTORIAS L LETTERS But nut an outstanding feature of oC the thc fall tall season eason will vill be he the thc publication next month of or Qu Queen en Victorias Victoria's Letters The Thc work is in three volumes and has been c edited and compiled by Lord LOr Esher Esh- Esh er tr and Mr r. r A. A C C. Benson King Ed Edn Edward n l has persona personally 11 revised the proofs It h may maj bo be remembered that an attempt was made to publish this remarkable work worl last year but the king Icing stopped it lie He had fiad found letters etters In one of ot the thc early volumes which he refused to allow V to be made public On no previous occasion has haR the thc correspondence of or a a. SO en been published nor has the ruling monarch revised re a books book's proofs This work worl is 19 therefore unquestionably abl ably tho the most Important of oC this tilts genet genC gen gen- cn- cn C et atlon tat Ion There here is 18 a deluge of or talk ab about ul the thc i t J L. L V Lf t preservation o of old houses In or near London which have ha been made famous by great literary lights On th the outskirt out out- skirts skirt of or town Is la Hill Hili hou house where Murk Mark Twain lived In 1 1900 1000 Tho The house was wu built some 90 years rs ag ago h hy by the tho Lord Aberdeen of r the th period and stands In the acre park now owned by the village SIlage council It Is suggested sug sug- 1 that the house be turned into a Gladstone museum and the he park be called colled Gladstone park after England's grand giand old man who ho week ended there Jor man many years earlS it was there also that Gladstone and Joe Chamberlain dined together previous to their es over o home rule Mark I Irl rl Twain was fascinated by bv the place and wrote wr of or It I hI have lived in lit a a. great groat man many places s. s but havo have neI nev nev- er CI I seen anything so satisfactorily sitUated sit sit- It as us this with Ilk Us t ts noble trees treC-J and stretch of ot and country everything that goes oes to make nake life lira pleasant and peace peace- ful Hoods Hood's house at Wanstead also on the thc outskirts of oC London will soon Boon bo Le pulled down to make mal way for modern building opera operations lions The Thc hous and Immediate grounds were offered the Hood society for Cor but the moncy moncy money mon mon- cy ey could not be bo found A linni at attempt at- at tempt is to be made to save tho place but Lut I hear huar It Is s scarcely likely to suc sue Tennyson's house at Somersby is tho the subject of or an appeal to the public Many fan Amei Americans leans yearly earl visit the thc old place pay their 2 25 cents an and 1 even cven penetrate Into the thc bedroom where the Poet Laureate ate was born ThIs Tills room I Is used Usel nowadays b by the tho present oc occupants occupants oc- oc as their bedchamber The Tho Thorest rest of oC the the- house Is In sad repair The walls are losIng paper and plaster and the arc are full of ot holes As there thre is already a proposal on foot cot for Cor the tho celebration of oC the Tennyson Tenny Tenny- son soil centenary In 1009 1109 there ma may bo be boa bea a chance that the old and beautiful house ma may be properly preserved Tho The poet spent Ills his Inter later years and years and In Indeed leed died died died-at at and It is proposed for the centenary to enact scenes from th the Idylls of ot the King KingIn In the thc grounds and also to build a 1 Tennyson hall ball at Haslemere Something Some Some- thing thins will wiil undoubted undoubtedly be bc done for tor Lord Tennyson's memory and his works are arc dearly beloved by the Englishman TITLED NEWSPAPER MAN Lord Aldenham who has Just juet entered entered en en- en his ninth eighty year ear Is an old newspaper man who owes his title to the old St. St James' James Gazette There is talk taU that he ma may write rite his reminiscences which would be of oC intense In Interest In- In terest He was Hank Hucks GIbbs when during a law case he ho had to give an account of oC the heavy cost of ot running an evening newspaper In London H Ho lie financed the thc Gazette and lost several sevel ban barrels els but ns ns as he explained In the witness stand stanl 11 n. was devotion to his political party not nol expectation of ot money-making money which made him con conk Ills His grateful party had to give Sl him a 0 title after that It n Is curious that hitherto there thero has been no full tun and adequate life of ot Geol so Sand mp Jl's Ih Imagined herself making history and I look pains to leave material for tor a a. account account or ot all ull these Interesting episodes Francis GrIbble Is H the author of ot George eorge Sand SantI and Her Lovers which Is Just about to bo be given to the tho public It la Ia sure Hure of or a LL b hearty welcome in England if It not In tho the United States Slates It Il is said that every ery book has a his his hl- tory Certainly a a. most pathetic ono OHO attaches to Bonaparte in E Egypt and antI the the Egyptians of or Today It bears the name o of Mr 11 Haji hail Browne He lie was an Irishman who had the most 10 ro- mantle of at lives ending ending in turning Mohammedan Mo Mo- 10 His His ambition for tor years e ls l's was as to write this book A As Ae ho lie finished the thc last chapter o of the tho manuscript he he- dropped dead CHARLES S. 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