Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-20
Booksellers Are Famed fer
ignorance In Literature.
TWO AMUSING ANECDOTES.
Is There No Way TO Preserve the
Stories Of Newspaper Literaturef
AN ODD NEW READING FAD.


try a vast quantity OF matter rs phpilshuu'
which. owing to tho short life OF tho news
paper. is lost irretrieyably. In all tho large
cities there arc newspapers that arc rarely
seen by readers In other cities. no" 10
bring together this vast store OF interesting
matter Is a problem that has never been
fully solved. Outside Of the news features
IN these newspapers. there 10 vast guam
tty OF excellent literary matter published
which is seon only by the few-and these
the exchange editors Of the metropolitan
journals So much space is given over to
local and toegruphlc news in all the nows-
papers that no space Is left TO encompass
this vast treasure. In a iew Of the large
libraries efforts have been made to gather
articles from the newspapers from day TO
day. covering large held. This scheme
was attempted In the Brooklyn public IL
brary. so also at the Aston Library IN New
York: but no great was the quantity Of
clippings gathered that It was found I'M
possible to keep them. The idea. unior-
tunatey. had to be abandoned.
A publication that was devoted entirely to
tho publication OF the best literary and nils
eellaneous matter Of the kind indicated,
would DO a boon. Edited by capable hand
1t would DO Of vast worth Being eclectic in
SH4, Ne''' - -, - Thar,
s'uu',' as w., - -. - a t,,,r,,I
hate Uson c'' ,i, ,Ii'ot n,vcr va, able To-
eet torether lust what tho public wanted.
The Ignorance OF booksellers IS proycrblal.
Never out Of sight OF books ono would
naturally suppose that they, above all others
would DO posted In literature. That they
are not Is known to everybody who deals
with them. They devote their entire aiten-
ton 10 now buokA ana neglect tho clanjcs.
Almost every book lover has a story TO Illus
trato the Ignorance Of his bookseller. One
OF these yarns that l lately heard Is very
VOL worth repeating. book hunter had
boon on tho lookout for good copy OF
Buffers poBthumoua works-ho who wrote
tho lnlmitablo "nulbrus" Not finding
en-, "a, ana, ~ Oh, htf-e,.5t ss,,pd hand b,,t.
-, ha Id, ~ m. ,,r,,,r,.,ar ,h.t ,,,,.r
"'''e'' N' F, ~. 80
eopy slilo ia no 'u'oa am ~ l'' u
aside FOR HIN. me BOOKSELLER replied that
he was pretty sure that hu would fail "
secure copy, since very few humorous
worka came mi" This is ON par win IN.
nsy5r reSd "pietSieE Pspsrs" b , thst I H.
''Wlfo brought thum home every Saturday
night"
IL Woulh seem as II the ton-ccnt maya
flhe had como TO quay but' OF course, II
wiz h%uF 90 po'Hp'V 10 IurhiAh maya
zine with 80 many page. az mo hlBh-prlced
magazines contain al tne low price OF ad-
m"A'hh' III ihe uahulHc'uro OK maya
hlno thefe are A-oA' h'nks mat cat up
poet ir9nl circulation anl aaNcrtiaing-
ihna''auens' paper ana poa'Agc' by max
ms tho magazine e'npaG' ana si law paRol
end BY the use OF half-tone enErayings, the
expense OF pfldueuua u very materially
rodueed. by curtsuur oxpensea in this
va, IL sbo,,id IA, no,riht, T., ,r,1,,,, A.,
iBtsros,lng and nrssontabl, nroSn Su t pr
uihi'' IhiA u ehaouy "hat the low priced
mssA@ihe people arc attempting TO accom-
pish. Inat tn'y haIe Sueeueded IN
ho, ,heIr sa,n. ns,sn,i ou ~, ny o,a,
ana win eIro,,Iation csfnns nGy.rttsi,'','
England has cheap magazines. "Tit.
Bits" sells for one penny ON tho other
aide Of tho pond, and there are others about
As cheap, out they cannot approach In
SeiiS "'efH'S OF "''suu' our hoh9 pro-
III. n,hu, 10, r..,,n. ga. mt.
p"Nhs LAS fosuins '"uh IKE any
thing else few weeks ago Napoleon was
inc lad. now strange to relate. the old
English dramaists have tho run. Tho other
dav | hard a wall l.no,y, hoolsettar So.
"wnl somebody tell mo how these reading
fadB originator purlpg tho ma, W. :
have sold an unprocodented number a,
coplea OF Ben Johsop's and Boanmont and
Fieteher's pl.ysl To-day 1 sold foir ,otg AZ
Jonsonsi Not In az many months during
the past ten years have l aold 40 many
can't aecou,t for tina r,aa,n do,,,,I o.
,bose b,,ps ~ 49, - .','''u lvI
,s'a "a" ,,,.t na's ss ISL soNural people
a. =, ,is, Pu - NJ, VIA sussesteu mo
csntloS ihat thev MA s9 ion, "..nou' an s cA-
=. - - -. - .e".ti..s ""Ii''u .Huhe
good a dina ss sny IA eei ii,en ,,S N0u'u W Aa
The success OF 'Triiby" has boen nm.
predeconted One bookseller informs mo
that he sold 1000 coples the wosk hetoro
Christmas, One OF thu strange things anon,
the Immense success OF tho book ia that H.
commanded no special attention WHOM II
was published Ia serial form. The boom
commenced when It appeared In book form
WhlHter'a antics over the portrait Du Mau-
rlcr drew Of him attracted GOOD deal OF
attention to tue book = attention that It
inn' "p. Ssps'wiao nave received. How
praised--in America II fai, sino s,' az ny
England. Indeed. no attention was naia co
It till after it's American success.