New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-02
IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE.
-, INTERESTING TALE. OF BOOKS.
.,, VOLUMES WHICH SOME OF THE
vr1L-KNowN PUBLISHERS DISPLAY ON
-,,,,,p ATTRACTIVE CoUNTERs-EF-

dhs uaav season. Whatever he may say to the
Inc Tive author with an unnecessary book in
s'ruee no tells himself and those curious enough
emV's 're Of him. that for bringing out book there
" ~" ,,roe better than the period between Thanks
Nv and Christmas That. it seems, is an axiom
o ,be trade. and so MS a'ti'uue JUST HOW Is one
" ', aoodwill toward all men.
Of 10, as we are concerned, said representa-
% ore Of the big houses to Tribune reporter
tive .the publishing business this autumn has
yes'eiuas, prosperous" The words spoken in
oe. Of D. Appleton & Co, In their new place at
No u Fitn-a' .o,ora, ,.raaro,es 90 tho hus,-
/" The season." continued the speaker. In re-
ness h,rther questions. I'VE may say that the
ply w, law has exerted beneficial influence in
co"".,g American authors from pirated reprints
Pv,so in placing the business upon more con-
an 1 basis We note a constant and increasing
S..rss, IN history, standard biographies and pop
nv scientific books. and there seems to be a
.,,bv tendency to care more and more for ois-
.,on of American subjects. In fiction there are
.,rse times when there appears TO be gen
", nental perturbation on the part OF novel-read-
O." ND there are curious and unlooked-for hits
CO. 40 think the tendency is constantly toward
.,rhsr standard. and the demand for the very pest
,cres sing in historical fiction. now more popular
-oys,s of analysis or IN novels with purpose
.r, every point Of view it seems TO us that pres
=. Conditions extremely satisiaC'oi! anu '"e
outlook most encouraging.
THE DEMAND LARGE.
,.,. ,,s ease of some of our publications" added
-, .nresentative of the Appletons passing from
' aaneral 10 the particular and from assertion
=. illustration. like Hall Gaines 'Manxman' and
". Great subscription book. The Art OF the
80, the chief difficulty has been to supply the
souond Our principal holiday books IKE the
S,arr,ce Leloir edition de luxe OF Ihe Ihree
,,u.ta,eers.' Paul and Virginia, illustrated d!
J',o,r. The Farmers Boy by Clifton Johnson
.rd Songs OF the Soil by Frank L. stanton VINO
s.eus 10 be regarded as the James " hi'cohio
p,Iey Of the South. have all had very iaVorao.e
-a.on,,on. while standard books like Maclay
.,,,s,orv Of the Navy 'Womans Share In Print
H. culture by Professor Mason; Miss Radclihes
.sohools and Masters OF Sculpture; PROFESSOR
Maspero's important work, The Dawn OF OiViil%h-
lion. F1ammarion's Popular Astronomy Con
~,vs Climbing in the Himalayas' Mehe'ai
memoirs the Great Commanders SERIES the
comnlste set Of Huxey's works. and biographies
NE those of Dean auckland. Sir Richard owen
Il youmans and Werner Won Siemons. nave APP
parently secured permanent place In the regard
=, the reading public. In fiction. the trade agree
that The Manxman is. next TO 'Triloy the most
r,ccessful Of recent novels. and Or. conan Do!ie
.Round the Red Lamp Mr.. Crocketts Lilac sun
bonnet' and novels by the Hon Emily La"iess'
Mrs. W. X Clifford and others are having most
satisfactory sale This may be said also OF our
Juvenile hooks by Messrs. Butterworth and Stod-
dard and Miss Seawell and Of The Golden Fairy
book
"our mos, important subscription art book II
The Art Of the World which illustrates the paint
ings sculpture and architecture OF the 'o'u'noi"
Exposition and is regarded as the hnest ART pooh
that has been published in this country We nave
also inst published great work which depicts the
NJ Of no
.rh. 1-n,ted States of America 1t has been edited
nv Professor ~ : Shaler. OF Harvard University
and has been written by the highest authoriues'
IKE Edward Atkinson Professor MacMaster, Pres'-
dent Gilman Of Johns Hopkins; Charles Dudiey
Warner Professor Judson. OF the University orChi-
caeo: Judge Cooley and others who have given a
picture Of our own times. summarizing modern
American achievements and tendencies IN the Nafi-
aus fields Of industry-commerce. education, htera-
ture and science. There has beer no book on these
lines and such a work can hardly be ignored by IN
teligent and progressive Americans we nave en-
tirey revised Johnsons CycioPaeoio' WHY" "
now practically complete
.,rnors tho hooks TO be published shortly we have
~r,o presidents of the United States, containing
nonlar deliberately illustrated biographies OF the
presidents by d. c. Gilman. Carl Schurz' "lna"'
= Russell, John Hay, the late WhilaH "d'o'
Phelps and others. and edited by deherai 'ai,eS
Gran, Wilson We shall also issue The Lana OF the
A
Reid"
u.k from Appleton's and Macmillans and the
o,ber nlaces in lower Ffth-ave. TO the two familiar
hook selIers shops in West Twenty-third-st may De
suggestive II one chooses TO make IL So i"e ~"
latter are only another example OF the gresar'ou'
,n.tinc, of the bookseng kind-the same interest
IN a lesser degree. as that which has made BOOK
sellers Row, in London. and filled the quays ol
Paris with countless Volumes and now mere III va"
us,ronol,tan town has given character 10 u''
loc.,,es In West Twenty third-st; the nous ~ a
button and the house OF Putrain ihriva eno,ably
Aockng together. and apparently
side by side
c. F. PUTNAMS SONS.
r., has ,,s Individuality. G. =. Putnams sons
N, Instance are making leading book this year
out Of a volume that has been more OF ies' . "
tilted with their house for the last ha'i-C 49,,
Thsv find II still pays well as ever ~
ago as ls4s George Palmer putnam Putnam '1 irving
OF the house, brought OUT d" e''''
II rather think it is Significant sad me epo
Of the present firm. that we shou, sfer ali these
years I suppose OF course. the creat Is ~ mar
the ske,ch-Book more ,nap 10 us nonular three
quarters OF a century after 1t was "ri''e" ''e"
to hold honored place. -. privilege Of ex-
Hereupon the reporter had the piNnmoh ,,s ar
aiming this iatter-day sketch-Book, IN m general
!sc holiday edition 1t Is sdi ah,rs''o Of The Al
Enbrs S''a and "Grarada, in two handsome octave
volumes with specially designed o0r ha wtborne
each page. Ivy. misletoe. noly a Tha thirtv-two
ShotOgTavures from orsnsi d ns4naud F. s.
Chnrch md liners There Is also large,pape
edition TO be known as the Westminster Eai'ion,
and to be bound in full English call VIII" o."
Sex' continued the maker OF books i,s,i tf HOE
land ard Us peonle and Spain and the span
!aIds And to shoT You smd Isn 10 n u. It's
hut a
says that the editions by US have from the oT nd
set. been published with my autho, ,n In. each
year the au,hors share Of the proceeds OF l ,
sales Caroline Tilton has translated u" Go,land'
there are eighty-four illustrations from design ny
r. Swain Clifford Charles a: Plati, 1os S9 n,hers
Next is the Ariel SHAKESPEARE now compete 1nren n,
forty volumes This Lorenzo Lotto by mn
Art Criticism' as you see from the utIe-Iissi I
contains thirty fupage heliotype pn nd