The age-herald., 1898-06-05

whom is assiduously counting popular favor, hoping thereby to add to their fame, not to mention so materialistic an advantage as book sales Like unto every other trade un- der the sun, the book trade has its own peculiar ways of advancement, and publish CTS do not hesitate to seize every advan- tage possible in the manner of bringing some new author to the public notice. Hence it is that we never can tell from the notices that appear in notes on books and other periodicals gotten up by the enter prising publisher just the amount of merit each one possesses.
 Emerson said, ''When a new book comes out, read an old one.'' This may be a very commendable and safe plan; and sure, too, to save one the trouble of perusing a great many new books, not really worth purchasing, much less worth reading. But the discriminating reader can with a proper amount of caution feel the pulse of the re- viewers in the private periodicals, and learn easily to select only those books which pos sess some herit. 4t
 It is not because we feel the need of '1et- ter books that we turn to late literature for a selection, but because, like in other lines of thought, we desire to keep abreast t of the young writers who arise in our day and generation, giving us their talent and originality; and because to be broad-mn6ed and liberal in our literary information we
 
 speaking acquaintance with the popular authors of the day. MT. Norman Hapgood is a recent graduate of Harvard university who has already made himself felt in sev- eral departments of literary effort.
 He is the dramatic critic of the "Com- merial Advertiser and his work is serious and intelligent His Literary Statesmen and Others has been spoken of very high ly. and he is said to possess not only a splendid style. but wonderful amount of penetration and literary qualities which en- able him to criticize with clear sharp freshness of judgment. As some one says of him, "To herald as of equal importance with the grand victory at Manila the rise of a penetrating and well-equipped critic, who. is not an avoider, but courageous solver of difficulties attending the develop ment of our literature and drama, savers perhaps of dogmatism, but his advent in the literary field of criticism is of the ut most importance"
 MT. Egerton Castle is another young writer who is gaining an enviable reputa- ton for himself It has often been sa d tbat a real love story is almost the rarest thing in literature. Its achievement is the aim of ninety-nine out of hundred novel, ists, yet the whole field of fiction is crowd ed with failures, while the success are curious1y few and far between.
 In .sThe Pride of Jennico'' Mr. Castle in collaboration with his wife, is said to have achieved this rare success and to have written real love-story, charming by the sole might of that single fact.
 Mir. Robert Herrick is another young as- pirant of popular favors. He was born. in Massachusetts some thirty years ago. Af- ter graduating at Harvard he. in 1893. en- tered on his present appointment in the University of Chicago as assistant profess sor of rhetoric and english composition His work has become well known. 'sThe Gospel of Freedom is called a study of the modern woman, and Is said to be eot a book to be read and forgotten within the hour, and it's greatest merit is that there are big ideas behind it.
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 Young MT. Grover Flimb is a son-ia-law of Professor John Fiske. of CazEDridge,