Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
LITERARY NOTES.


for publication the fourth volume ofthe
newly revised edition Of Bancroft's
"HIstory Of the United States"
1t is said that George Munro has
built a publishing house nine stories
high, and costing 81 ,0O8. 600, out Of his
profits on the reprints OF English books
Which have no copyrights.
1t Is said that for every novel printed
and published in England ten are writ.
tell and rejected. This makes an aver
age of three thousand novels which are
written In that country every year.
Harper & Brothers will publish soon
Mrs. ELEPHANTS new book, chester; .
S DRY Of Contemporary Life" and Gold
Mark Langston; Tale OF Dukes
Creek" by Mr.. Richard U. Johnston.
Cassell 4 Co. purpose adding two val.
liable volumes to their manuels OF tech.
nology: "Worsted and Wooden Indus.
tries,n by Mr.. w. s. Bright M'Lsren,
and "Steel and lron," by w. II. Green
wood.
Porter & Coates announce an edition
de luxe of the "Ingol6sby Legends"
EN- bellished with etchings and illustra-
tons. This il des gned To be one OF the
finest editions ever produced, and will
be limited to $50 copies, each numbered.
An English translation OF NJ. de Mau.
pas "Memoires du Sc cond Empire"
in which is told the story OF Louis Ma.
po.con's coup d'etat, is to be brought
on, 10y &. 7. Putnanl's Sors, VINO an.
noUpce the work as in press, TRANSLATED
b. Caroline Tilton.
Sterne's Sentimental Journey" Is to
:ie illustrated by Maurice Leloir and
published in Paris In the Librairie
AIiistique. Two hundred copies OF the
edition will be issued In luxurious style
| at 350i. and 3O0f. each. the price OF the
ordinary copies being 6Of.
The town Of Norwich, In England,
has o newspaper 10 years old-tae
"Mercury-which was started, or is sup
posed to have been started, In TIA.
From the year l727 the file i'm the Office
| Of The proprietor il complete. Reprints
OF the Issues in 1927 are being made.
The some time promised Bewick sale
at Newcastle will take place on Febru.
airy 5tb, 9th and 7tb, aud will comprise
| all the copies OF Bcwick's illustrated
books that were In tho possession OF
| the survivor of his two daughters, with
many notes and corrections In his hand,
besides the entire remainder OF the
"Eewick Memoirs"
Charles Dickens once received check
for 81 900 from Holloway, the pill'msn.
which was placed at the authors dis
po>nl on condition that one line OF COM
plimcHtary reference TO Hoilowsy's
cures should appear in the book which
Dickens was then puhl-hing in month.
Iy numbers. Dickent sent the check
back by the messenger without any
answer at all.
Mr.. Charles Reade and Mr.. Wilkie
Collins are said to have lost ground,
and Ouida, too, is not so popular a. OF
old, nor il Mr.. Henry Wood. New
novels Of Miss Braddon. Mrs. Oliphsnt,
and Mrs. Alexander are widely read.
Of French authors, Dumas, Daudet,
Halevy, and Gaboriau are the greatest
favOrites, and In the order named. The
reading OF lola II discouraged, but he IL
popular Interview with New York
Librarian.
Sometime during the coming spring
Rand, Avery Il Co., OF Boston, viii
publish by subscription story dealing
with Mormonism, for which they pre-
die, large sale. Having had their i'm.
print on some 400, 900 copies Of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" in slavery times, they
look for an approximately similar suc-
cess for the new story, since II "wilI
serve purpose not unlike" that served
by "Uncle Tom" Neither the name OF
this story nor the authors name is yet
mo 6a pt,blir