Show J f t A Successful Book r 7 Hal Hampers Hamper's erf Weekly y gives some very interesting iny Int in- in In- In t facts about the famous novel IT Trilby which everybody read for a 10 f year year and a half and which has few readers readers readers read read- ers today The Weekly says that it is a commonplace that the author of a charming charming charming charm charm- ing book is a public benefactor but perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps few have realized that a successful author is in proportion to his success a more or less eminent philanthropist that he is not less beneficent than the rich man who thrusts his hand into nto his well filled pocket and taking one hundred thousand dollars or half a million or even a million dollars puts that amount into circulation to stimulate industry and to be distributed distributed distri dist i- i buted among working people of all allT T 4 grades and that in illustration of this fact it may be interesting to note that 1 more than one million dollars has been t thus put in circulation as a direct consequence consequence cont con- con t sequence of the publication and draman dramatization dramatization drama- drama n of Trilby It is further stated I r that up to January 25 1896 the sales of I copies of Du Maurier's novel in this i I country added to box office receipts at r representations of the play in N New ew York and other points in the United States and to the royalties upon the book and the play give a total of little less than thana a million dollars and this does not include in- in elude clude the product of sales and in England England certainly certainly ly a large sum although information is lacking in regard to the precise amount This is truly remarkable Com Compare pare it with ith the eight pounds that Milton got for Paradise Lost That is not not nota a proper comparison it is more of ofa a a Contrast contrast contrast Con con- than anything else But compare it with what Scott received for his famous novels or what Macaulay received for his History of England Scott wrote more than a score of as great novels as were ever written novels destined destined destined des des- tined to be famous so long as English literature lives And still they did not make much more of a success financially than has th this s one work of Du Maurier nor was their instant popularity greater reater than that of Du Maurier's novel The success of that work is truly remarkable and is quite unique Ben Bolt and The Laird of Lock Pen songs of Trilby fame fam were written by Lady Nairne a Scotch lady She also wrote Land o 0 the Leal and the Cam Campbells are Coming Corning The manuscript of pf Trilby is written in little exercise books which cost a penny each Du Maurier sold it for a abig abig abig big price and it is in a glass case of the London Fine Fine Art Art Society The following colleges publish daily journals Cornell Harvard University of Michigan University of Leland Stanford Brown Wisconsin and Princeton I Ex College libraries in America are in increasing increasing increasing creasing the number of their volumes The Harvard library contains now ov over r volumes that of University of Chicago j Yale Columbia Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia Cornell University University University sity of Pennsylvania Princeton Lehigh 90 OUO Michigan Dartmouth Brown 73 Amherst and John Hopkins Ex Harvard has graduated more men than any other college in America the number number number num num- ber of her being Yale stands next with graduates and the Univ Universities of Pennsylvania Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan city of New York and Virginia each have over Princeton has Dartmouth Union Brown West Point 3 Columbia Columbia Columbia Co Co- lumbia Amherst Cornell and Oberlin Ex |