Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-15
HERE AND THERE.

half miliiou copies and their orders from
this country amount 20 at least 5000
each. Their merits sell them, but the
large colorcd prints which they furnish as
supplements to their holiday editions are
very effective in Increasing their sale.
American agents and especially tho retail
ers mako very fair profits on these papers.
A gentleman who has been long and con.
spicuously identified with one OF the lead.
ing news agencies of the country told me
recently that there are American establish.
ments which can make Just as good prints
IN co'ors as these, out" he said tths
public will not believe il, and no home
publication however meritorous could
command the market that has been madc
for these Eoglish Christmas numbers.
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The political campaign did not hurt
Hirpsr's Weekly it has been gaining cir
oulstion. Tho NIaSflrs Weekly which
was started as Republican rival of Harp
er's fell dead fiat. J.ago aud The Judge.
| which tried to crowd Puck to the wall
were failures Speaking Of the break down
OF 7he Continent aud TIE Manhattan two
high class magazines, which recently
| failed, my informant said he believed both
conld havo been msde an ultimate success
had all the money that was spsnt on them
been wisely applied in pushing them from
the start, or had they been in the hands of
men willing to spend and risk more on
| them. No new publication can bs made a
success or rival to old established peri.
| odicals without vast expenditure of
money, and that is nearly certain 10 bring
| results James Ev,rson gave away
. 1000 900 copies of his Golden Days when
he started it, and thC profits ol the ven.
ture so far justified it that he is getting
ou another edition Of million for graf
| uitous circulation. The EceaiR1 Telegram
| OF New York, made its circulation by such
a stroke of enterprise and nerve. On DIT
that the Herald is losing money by its 70.
| ouced price and its fight with the news
| dealers and that the big papers which
reduced to two cents, wish they hadn't.
| sss
| The sale Of flash papers and sensational
| literature is not nearly so great as 1t used
| 10 be and of half dozen series of blood
and thunder papers for boys, which
started year or two ago, inspired by the
| temporary success of one such, all have
persisted. Fox's villilnous Weeks D0iRCs
has died the iguoninious death such an
organ of the brothel deserved, and his
Police Gdssae alone keeps tho bad emf
nence OF being the greatest success of its
kind.
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Beadle was the pioneer of cheap liter
ature-and his was not always nasty and
peruicious. When he started he set up the
type for his dina novels himself, but he
developed the busiuess until he quit a
prince In wealth Geo. Munroa caught the
idea from him and leaped from ten
dollar week c'erkship to the direction oi
| n great business. With his various
publications, including the Seaside library.
he has an income OF $500, 600 year, and
| puts his surplus into real estate, stores,
blocks of flats and other city buildings.
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The cheap reprints como out now at the
rate of at least one day, but they have
exhausted nearly al the standard authors
and their aale is not IS great as it was
some years ago. The taste in books now
runs to rare editions, old prints, editions
de lRrs, and sumptuGus binding and
| Typography.
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Rev. DR.. ]. II. Dubbs of this city has in
course of preparation aa "Historioal
Manual of the Reformed church. Il
will be an octave volume of $50 pages aud
will meet demand which has not only
been widely felt in the church, but which
has been formally expressed by the synod,
wa1GA y,ls aataAa ave aaRih Rev ns n"hA' a.
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The success Of the new North AuerEcan.
of Philadelphia, at its reduced ono cent
rate, has not been striking the Esening
Cal never scored any great success the
ECsnIng Ntl5s has its future before IL the
Star has been dimmed by the increased
number OF dailies, its circulation and
profits have shrunken the Rem, which
never reached respeotability has only
spasms OF prosperity, and an expedition
lifted out to discover the EeeRing ChrOai
ctes circulation would have perilous
voyage. And yet there are psople who
think somebody ought to start q Demo
cratic afternoon paper ia Philadelphia
Perhaps if all the candidates for office
would subscribe it might be made to 90.
But then if all the disappointed would
drop it after the March Forth, what fall
my countrymen!
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To thoroughly understand dramatic
artist one needs TO see him off the stage as
well as when he wears the buskin.
most excellent opportunity was
offered me on Saturday night of
studying Henry living under these
two situations. At the Chestnut
street theatre, Philadelphia, l had hung
fascinated by his vivid deineation of
Lous XI and though some of the critics
declare it historically inaccurate, to me it
seemed a most splendid intellectual con
ception. To say that he who can bring
before the eye of the mind a living. NOV
ing picture of the troubIous times France
went through iu the fifteenth century
under the cruel and crafty Louis, is a
mere stage manager is most arrant nom
sense.
.as
Irving does not impress ono as having !
the great power that stands out promi |
nently in the acting of Edwin Booth. |
When you see the latter. all else is eclpsed. |
His support is so constituted as to make a |
frame out of which looks at you at all |
times the speaking picture of the great
trsgedian. Even the footlghts andthe stage |
setting seem subordinated to this central
idea. Irving, on the contrary, is one of O
number of parts that go TO make up
iramatic whole Though he is the central
igure OF the picture, the background and
The pretty landscape that adds SO much to
'he completeness of the work, are ever
present. | am told that be personally
'uperv;ses the details OF the stage manage.