New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-27
BOOKSELLERS ERRORS.
THE WAY IN WHICH TITLES ARE TRAya
MOGRIFfED
From The Argosy.

From The Argosy.
OF course the most unIitcrary Of bOoksele,,
are the discount booksellers for whose very sy'
istcnce Mr.. Gladstone is 10 DO praised n,
blamed-for ii was his bill which abolished tho
former net price monopoly. Though. if the pnh.
lie thinks it gejs siXpe lnyWorh ~ literature n,
fourpence half-penny, IT greatly 1a,ters itsey
But then 1t generally does DO 80. Who drive.
fat oxen should himself be- fat" and the bool
seller ought TO take some literature in At the
pores" That he does not always DO 50 l. sho,v,
by orders given 10y the retail trade 10 Messr1
Simpkin Marshall, Messrs. Hamilton Nessr,
Kent & co.. during the year 1885, There NAV
have been some sarcastic intention in asking n,
the "Repubic Of Plato as the "Krpublic .,
Flats'': but why Gid bog Myrtle and Peat and
1.-THE Worcester Diocesan Calendar become
boy, Muscle and the Peas" and "Worcester's
Diseases Of the Calender" and Why did In tho
Track of the Storm become The Treacle n,
Storm? "PhOtograms. lN!il' may easily have
become photo Frames. $50 and "Nobly
Born" may h1Ve become Nobody Born
through intensely literary handwriting
Would Or. Conan DOYLE have recognized
Stories from the Diary Of Doctor" a. Stories
from Diary Adoptcd"? We all know that Uni.
vcrsity men have a language u their own and
that may be why Acts % the Apostles Cam
bridge Bible" became Aces and the Apostles Of
Cambridge An evident friend ~ and SYM
pathizer with the agricultural interest turned
"Gaudeamus. BY Farmer" into God Aim Us
by a Farmer" "DuOogucs By Sintson" an
yleciated TO Jewel Logs by Simpson,
Thoughts for Working Days" were the no les,
suggestive Thoughts for Washing DAYS.
"Caudle's Curtain Lectures" were with grea,
difficulty recognized in "Gourdals Cart IN Lec,
Ure' Similarity in sound made "Nansen's Voy.
age TO Greenland" into "Nancy's VOYAGE N
Greenland" The titular length Of The Rev.
erend Frazers Silent Gods and Suns,eeued
Lands" may have led To- Its recognition in River
Frozen, Silent Gold and Jnstceped Lands"
How did Mr.. Crockett Ike % hear Play Act.
ress. by Crockett, Pseudouyn Library" De-
scribed as PLAY Actress and Cricket in the
Pandemonium Library"2 Charlotte might have
been pleased to find that 'Chari0ttes Inheri.
lance turned up a Charlotte in loneliness
Some embryo engineer wanted How 20 Make
Hand Camera" under the name y How TO Make
a Hand Camel" Lord Lytton must be losing
ground. for Alice: or the Mysteries" became
Alice and Her Mistress though lis lordshp Is
only in the same boat with living authors. for
"Farrars Life of Christ became needless Of
chronology. "PharaOhs Life of Christ COM
ing Darwin, instead u Birth and Growth Of
Worlds" asked for Birth and Growth o.
Worms" One. ignorant ~ Latin. wanting
| "Frondes Agrestes," requested Founders and
Heretics," and Key t. Parsng and Analysis
became Key to Carving and Analysis This
seems. by implication, . combat the theory that
learning grammar has no effect On the literary
taste, for it IS evident that the unliterary book
seller knew no grammar. or he would have
known that analysis Is not q carving away os
what is useful, but pIllnS ur OF what is super
fluOus Internal evidence shows that suburban
or provincial mind asked for the Brown Am
bassador' as Brown Ant.mac assar." Most Ike
ly spshod pronunciation on the part O. GUS
toner was the cause Of French Herolnes ap-
pearing as "Frenche owen" and the same may
be said OF Across Russian SHOWS and Across
the Russians Nose" "Morgans St Pau. In Bit
ain" became "Morgan's St Paul In Brigh,ona
place wherein 81. Paul might find himself more
AZ sea than he did elsewhere on certain not.
able occasion. Biblical books received very bad
treatment for "Camtriige Bible Timothy and
Titus" was can Bridge of The Timothy and
the Titus; "CambriGge Bible Genesis. &C
Genius, or Generous. or some such thing VINE
probably about Boatrace Day and the inteTa'