The herald., 1897-01-10
SOMETIME. SOMEWHERE.

Twill come to us sometime, somewhere
Sometime, somewhere, in this world or the
And IN some way. u perfect equipoise
VIM come to souls by troubles now per-
And ali our griefs find compensating Joys;
Go on, brave heart! If doing what you can
Life's burdens, as they come, to fully
bear
Fear not! the Justice that Is due a man
VIII all be yours sometime. somewhere
LOVE CAME BACK AT FALL o DEW
''Love came back at fall o. dew,
Playing his old part
But had word or two
That would break his heart.
HE who comes at candlelight
That should come before,
Must betake him to the night
From a barred door.
This the word that made us part
I'M the fall o. dew;
This the word that brake his heart
Yet II brake mine tool"
CELIA TfIAxTER.
She suffered seemingly apart
From this we call the wider shore
But seas could not contain that heart
On lonely Appledorc.
She welcomed there the sun and showers,
Till, 10, miracle was seen:
Her island bloomed with natural flowers
And amaranths between.
The book trade has been very satis-
factory here during the holidays. and
there WILL of course, be lull now for
q while. as there is all over the country.
But this Is the real season for the lover
OF good books to seek them out and se-
cure them. lie has had an opportunity
TO know about the really good new
books, and the best new editions of old
ones from the liberal reviewing Of the
last few monthsh, and he can buy under
staB6ingly.
There are few volumes now being sen;
out by publishers, and the literary de-
partments of she newspapers will be
small and devoid of important matter
TIL the quiet months of the winter are
passed.
THE BOOK DELUGE.
Well we are row over the fall and
holiday book season, ard it Is worth
ones while to stop ard consider what
has been the absolute gain to literature
from it all. How many of The books
which our hands touched and our eyes
saw are really worth the buying anI
the reading?
In the first place, where do all these
new books come from? In the year 1895
b.5S0 new books were published in Eng
lard, and about 1000 new editions of Old
hooks. Ttia New York Times declares
that 1t has received for review 400 hooks
IN a-sfngle month. From he latest issue
of it's weekly review we make this eX-
tract:
Frederick Macmillan. at a recent din
her in London. stated that his mouse in
l.,.1 i
books out of 315 that were submitted;
while Mr. A. Chatto in a published in .
tcrview, affirmed that his hou7e accept
ed an average of only about thirteen c1r
every 500 submitted
Surrounded as we tave been by
flood, we have therefore to thank the
publishers tha. we are mot in the midst
OF deluge. Assuming tt'at Mr. Macmil-
lan's ratio is the ratio of all publishers.
and provided all submitted manuscripts
had been publi4feG, but excluding the
unknown factor tha. the same mgru.
script was otter submitted to several
publishers, we should have had instead
of $3.50 new books. - $40: while the sal me
con Dut3aion. With Mr. Chattos figures
as a guide, would have given us 212.04O
books. or nearly 700 for each day of the
year. exclusive of Sundays.
The causes of tlis increase in the
number of boks are not far to seek.
Chelpness OF observation-disclosures COM
position. cheaper paper cheaper bind.
irg-is a great ore. but a greater is the
Increase ilf the number who read PoD-
ular education here shows some Of tie
results of fts work But who shall say
why 3l3 persons should continue to writ q,
books whel only twenty-two can have
them accepted. or why 800 should write
them when only thirteen car hope sur
acceptance? Is this also due to the
EnHal6 n .r - t., i
sultant ambition to write?
The ability to write nas become a
common accomplishment; that is. th,
abiiity to write what Is fairly grammat-
ical Scores of persons who write books
which they hope to see published prob.
ably do not realize that something more
than correct sentences is neces sary.
PROVIDED they have u subject. with some
knowledge OF IL. all that remains neces-
sary from their standpoint is to write
correctly. They do not know that cor
rect writing no more makes good writ
er than correct use Of mechanics tools
makes an architect No mere grammar
ian ever was an artist in words; indeed,
tne greatest artists in words have some
times not been grammarians at all.
The future probably holds for us lit
tie hope that the number of books will
decline; on the contrary, they are more
likely to increase in number with the
years. But we need not despair; despair
remains only for the librarians for Mr..
Spofford and Dir. Billings. The great
pubic Will be protected. for the good
Docks viii live and the bad ones will
surely die-and the death will be q ma
rural one. There were millions of houses
IN The ancient world, but only one Pa
rhenon. Italy has had millions of build
lng6, but the Pantheon, st Marks and
St. Peters still stand. as they will stand
for some ages longer. We may get our
5o0O or 10000 books each year, but If will
still remain true tina: not more than one
really great book can be produced IN
century or so. Europe waited several
centuries to get her Dante, her Shakes-
peeare, her Molerc, her Cervantes.
Meanwhile, with the second great ones
came whole regiments of lesser men,
who had their brief reward and then
went each HIS silen, way, book in hand,
into the unknown beyond
AN ITINERANr HOUSE AND OTHER
STORIES, by Frances Dawson, with
characteristics illustrations by Ern-
est Peixotto. foolscap. Svo., beauti-
fully printed on specially imported
paper. bound in cloth, with appro-
pirate designs on si6l,. stamped in
gold; price. $l.50. William Doxey,
San Francisco
This very handsome volume contains
the most striking short stories of Miss
Dawson's. and is. we believe. the first