New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

,,,, y.,,h obooo notifications An irsuuso Rod hccn
given however aud higher literary taste had heen a.
velope1, the evidence OF Which waa seen III 'no 'e'
class of periodicals which followed
glance over the catalogues of the leading pupSers
shows tie great progress made in the production ana
circulation OF cheap literature. Perhaps enc oi he most
SIGNAL instances IL furnished 10y Haper bro'heIs'
Their Library OF Standard Literature" and tdelr
Family Iibrlry," which began in 1880, AMI the o..
i,rt of which WAS furnish % law price various "OrNa
in the different Departments oi era'tce ere ven hno%u
and their select Library Of Novels, Whch wiz -
ia 1882, and has rcacncd thr f6J Nplnh. ll "
pamphlet form tie writings OF many popular au!ioIs'
The circulation Of tins Library 81 H9Yen = VT! Ia
From Brother jondthdn to HqTlsS 5laga-e ~ LII
distance, and the latter may h;iy represent le M
wafer mark OF MAGAZINE cnieiprst. IN ia pages may DC
found the best novels of the century, TOT i''iH
nuihOr OF wide reputation has at some iie cor u
10 lis columns Here GeOrge Eliot Dickens, ann iHch'
hiiatc almost in the hour in which they dtlghitu
o9 Win The telegraph and gIre. The public
demand it times increased more rapidly even .na
~ o dSirovcd M, f in 80 80 Adams
poWer-prcssses kept in constant operaiiOi nhu
iOur new Lad inst been put up lor tnG oh,y
OF HaiTers story Books" OF WHEN %o'ooo copeS
had already been printed
One OF the most popular series in the higher class Of
cicap literature is The Leisure Hour series" About
eighty volumes have been sucd. making their appear
lnce ut intervals Of month or three weeks Mrs, NY
apdct;s "Wooiug OF reached sale Of 10000 copies,
te largest sale OF the series. and the iis WORK ht
called esrccIai attention TO IT, Her Dearest Foe lad
circulation Of IG 900 and "Ihe Heritage Of Langdae'
when in fourth week, was in its TENN tiohsitni.
Thomas Hariys novels attain sale OF seven or egnt
thousand each. Far from the Maddng crowd :, hi'
ben the most popular but "A Pair of Blue Eyes mas
been published four years, aud Tie number OF ei'cn
which purchased up TO Tue present tiiie ~
alout the same, namely, 5000 Auerhachs hoFes ser
yeTy well in this series. especially his recent
work 1.-THE Convicts." "Walfricd" aud on
the Heights" lave attained their ninth ana
tcptl, thousand respectively TurgcnCf is nos WdHy
read IN Ell glish. His novels sell 1000 copies at me
start and the rate OF 1000 year. iheoofe
Winthrop the only American rtr septed III the strS.
OF his five novels Cecil Drene" cTculates LOO copies
AID John Brent" and the Others only 1000 year
me yoiume entitled Life in the Open Air mas soInr
what greater popularity, doubtless due 10 thG lfes me-
Of the famous Love and Skates story 1heFDuieZ anu
roz like lie majority writer's in the Rccue des Dt
NondeS sell very slowly. Most OF theL admirers US
viii those Of Speihagen, FreyIag and IurEeneii i'
the works Of their favoIites ia the original AOout
comes in the same category. His Noarys Nose ana
The Man with the Broken Ear" have epla Ell ony ia
sales Richardson's "ClaIls5l HdricWeC cvuuelscl
from seven EncIisn volumes into OF the Leisure
Honr Series" has AN average circulation. .
The No Name series, published 10y i'0Ortts bro'1cis,
has also been very successful short time In lnckiS
al tine demand for cheap literature, II l. noteworthy ';i.
while Srribnes's NOEfhB has circulation ci IoOo re
Atlantic MOHiity 1900 aud the Gdd[y lo,ODOi dhs
Neir York Weekly, sensational paper cIculcs I'o'oVo
copies.