New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-07
DINE NOVELS.
A1-runRS AND PRICES.

Men, York Letter to The Boston Transcript
went down into Nllllaln7st. the otneT uaY
md made visit TO the father of the dime novelfrasus
r. Beadle. The head II the house Mr. Beadt Is an &c
I'VE PT f n WIS received me Cordially and told quite
an interesting story about the orig ana ue eolr, ol
in 40 ana BEGAN publishing in 60. The state OF the
hook arket then peculiar Every one was puDush-
S S So%NI t thew Could give their readers dollar
or dollar and half Publishers exchanged oe9Ks' ana
took back ch were not sold Well TOOK the otheT
tack. and thought l would see now much |
could give for ten cents cash sses, no S STeG
is 6n it didn't We first published dime sone-books
cpTer NO yeiowc6vered dimes were
never sent out by the color Is salmon Inc yeIOW
s1trr while started the dime novel Mrs Ann g. Ste
uhens was The OF the first one Madeska prize
maid her $3.50 the right to reprint the story We
sud 10000 copies right off, aud then 29OOO more our
ItaeI Here & Mr. Victor an friend OF Horace
Greeley my editor many years he knows more about
Mr. Victor took up the thread Of the narrative and
went on us follows: "OW authors are WeIEknGWh men,
Tnere's book by man who was once member OF the
Ohio Legislature; another by an e1oN einor 0i ONO,
He never wrote US lad nae Eewhu o E IN YOU
know hm-wIote Us oar most popular novel lie was
Methodist and ne went to 1is 2ns5er 70 KTT in
Trenton and wasn't wentyOne when he wrote his nrst
dim roS nor which s Broke In Mr. n' BoaGe
unable To restrain his enthusiasm. Eve psstered
the excitement ran high answered the question WIN
that picture you see on that cover IN En- 09nsS
we V ,ou 80 coTtinnrd Tie editor these novels intro
oueed either historical local characters They followed
RIGHT after 'Coopers Tae,' which suggested them mrs
M Denuison wrele historic fiction; Judge
Jared Hall Of OHIO wrote The slave Sculptor, story
of Mexico in MoHleznLas time good Then there
was cara AuEuSt1 w herG Wan mar doesn't sneak
very well Tor culture She's famous wrlter lhi5
was very humiatng, but had to bear up under thG
genial editors reprOachcs ana defended Boston as well
- could Ellis exclusively for us, ard We nave
p.id him a. hi ID $3.50 for novel o. 10000 words
Why We pay better i'll proportion TO tlequsntty OF mat
ter we accept, than he Atlantic N1Rby dees' lAgaln
was crushed aud felt the usceSssrss Of attempting 10
match New-Eusand culture against the dime novel
our stories SaTrr were and ss9 he Caade Duy seesbsd
boOks-begm 10 spring up. nnet ara We 90
than we used TO; held own against them. But
ours are stories OF excitiny adventure only tIes moth
ea,. Rectg for July. 1SG4 wherein they are described
and criticised. They are pronounced 'eNcepuohany
excite passions The libraries have sent these oldaty
dime novels into background though We Keep stock
The Rows Library Giye cents, tie DafDme Library
and the Dime IIbruNthe last beng d0uO.c lhc S u
and m lyht 10 bring 40 or 300. THAT'S T75 story you
have there Antelope Abe; the Boy GUIDE IRE pubIi
style; give them sweet niue stores Oh cotse nSgl'
bu not immoral wouldn't touch anything OF that KIND
The stuff For the tine size, containing 10000 words,
we never pay less than $3.50, and from that TO 500; tie
Tayne Kcidl We have large list Of his works He
would have sunk into obscurty II We hadn't sustained
for US lie working Tor Us exclusively for eight o.
nine year. We made double number Of his scalp
bis request He retained OF course the English rights In
bis works We paid him less than 5000 for story
that the standard price, though We may nave p'ld
NJ Bret Hsrtei Yes; he signed a contract to write
Gabriel Conroy for us Tcut 20 4orstoWl ana ar
Dessee that might announce II; and then hist We
70 knev. Scrbner announced The book Oh Hartcs a
scalawsgl his story had been scnt in here should
have rejected It"