The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-04
OF and Ab0ut the
Makers of Books.
Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes and
Chats Concerning Literary Men and Women
And did you go after him .

And did you go after him.
Not l; his mother wanted to-didn't
you mother? She was nearly crazy, but l
said; He's Hubbard-leave his alone
he'll take care of himself
But didn't he write to you?
i" Yes; said he'd gone off 10 get rich
''Of course that is what they all say,
and then come sneaking home the next
week
But you're wrong-dead wrong. He
didn't come back for zen years. and when
he did he was we'll enough off to buy the
whole village three times over, and then
what do you think he did,?
Try 10 get richer. l suppose
No; you're wrong again. He'sa Hub
bard: you can't never tell what they'li
do. He sold out. quit business. put his
money in bonds and real estate. and went
of to Harvard university. Why, he might
have been u millionaire.
But you are not sorry he went to col
lege?
40. no. Besides college he's been to
Ireland England, Europe and Alaska, and
Mexico and everywhere. But I'm no,
afraid to trust him anywhere. / brought
him up right; he never uses tobacco nor
drinks nor swcars.'
But about his books
"Nes. he's wrtten several books Some
he's proud of and some he's ashamed Of
But those Little Journeys'-why, good
ness me! how many is 1t they print every
month? Mother, how many is 1t 10000 or
20 OC0, 600?
"'And where is his home now?
e He did live in Buffalo but he calls
East Aurora. n. Y, his home now. lie
has farm there.
DR.. Conan Doyle is certainly playfully
satirical upon his adopted calling. I'm
novels he says, 1.-The small complaints
do not exist. No one gets qu;nsy or
shingles or mumps in novel. Think of
Angelina having the mumps and Edwin
f.,l,f fV,.r No., f,.,, 1.
posterously swollen cheeks, but as loving
as ever. Heart disease" he says, lis
common, but then heart disease as We
know 1t is usually the sequel Of some fore
going disease of which we never hear any
thing in the romance. Then there is the
mysterious malady called brain fever
which always attacks the heroine after
crisis but which Is unknown under that
name 10 the text books. People when they
are overeXcited In novels fal! down In a fit
In fairly large experience ! have never
known any one to do so in real ife All
the diseases, too, belong 10 the uppermost
part cf the body. The novelist never
strikes below the belt"
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AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
William Morris new edition of Chaucer.
printed at the Kelmscctt Il press, is one Of
the dearest books published The copies
on vellum cost l2O guineas. $50 each An
edition of Morris Earthly Paradise" TO
De Issued III eight volumes, Will cost $3.50.
Some of the letters relating to Burns,
discovered recently, along with Telegraph
reproductions of Scott, Byron. Moore, Dick
ems, Haydn, Beethoven and Weber, in an
Old castle in Caithness, will Iks--incol, ,,or-
ated In MIR. Henley's edition of Burns
Life and Letters. a. be issued next year.
Marie Anto!nettet copy of La Fontaines =
ta'oes was sold atE recent London auc-
ton for $50; the elebrated Fermiers
Generaux edition of Fontaines Contes
brought $3.50: Diver. Voyages Touching
the Discoverie of Anne a and the Isla nds
Adjacent to the Same, 5S2. black letter.
500; "A Declaration d he State of tho
Colony and Afaircs in Virginia." 1920. 500:
Lord Byron's copy of "Rme de Antichi
Autori Toscani," with an autograph note,
S32.
In the life of Professor Huxley"
which is in course of preparation by Leon
ard Huxley, son of the late dis stingushed
scientist, there will be embodied con-
siderable number of letters on subjects
social and political, as well as scientific,
addressed by the professor to an extensive
circle of correspondents. In his epistolary
work--and, as far as circumstances per-
ns.tte1, Professor Huxley replied per-
sonaly to all communications addressed
to himself-a genial courtesy and toll
erance cvinced that We're not always
conspicuous In the professors controyer-
sial writings.