Arizona republican., 1899-10-13
THE NEW BOOK APPETITE.
Satisfying It Here and in England Is
 Entirely Different.

At this season, when new books ap-
 pear at the rate of enc day, and are
 talked about from London to San
 Francisco in a manner to rouse ones
 curiosity. ruin ones eyesight and emp i ty ones purse. the bookworm Of s1en- | der means leads a weary life. Public 1 libraries have few copies of a new
 book and many applications for the same Even department shops can
 not sell a bound volume, much in de
 mand, for less than eighty-five cents, and eighty-fiVe cents multiplied by the
 number of new books the bookworm thinks necessary to her happiness amounts to very respectable sum at the end of the year. The book club and the book lending habit never four ished in this land af independent peo
 pie as they have in England In Eng
 land three volume novel has advan
 tages other than mere weight or
 length. single edition can keep a
 whole community in various stages or
 interest and suspense, and when the
 rector's wife looks anxious. the doe
 tors daughter ecstatic and the squira's
 sister complacent one may know that
 volume I, containing Edwin and Ange-
 lina's budding love affair, is in process
 of perusal by the lady of the rectoTy;
 volume II, in which the plot develops
 intricate and thrilling situations, has reached the hands of Miss Squills; and
 volume III, in which they live happily
 ever after, is in possession of the Hon. Miss Amanda.
 Impatient, impetuous, nervous America does not take kindly to long novels, and, above all, to waiting for some one else to read whatever is be- oh y111 int it ones self A little advertising, big name, pictures by MT. Gibson, a frontispiece by the lamented Boards ley, a preface by MT. Lang, and the edi- tion is swallowed" as one book read CT says. The village community, with its one copy of each talked about book, would be as impossible in America as the halting London lift would be in a New York hotel
 Various expedients are adopted by the reader of new books who wishes to keep up with current fiction without running into debt. One woman buys | all the new books worthy of afternoon 1 tea notoriety and gives them away as Christmas presents. She reads them | first herself, and in this way pays her | debts of friendship, and satisfies her | appetite for Anthony Hope, MT. Davis | and Marion Crawford. Another w0 1 man buys certain books and lends | them to few careful friends, who in their turn do the same, different books, of course, being bought by each wO- man. They conduct their transactions in a very business like manner. The of each book can be as certained by each member of the circle by consulting a list, and if volume fails to go the rounds within a reason able time, note is sent to the slow reader to jog her memory. When each member who carss to do so has read the book, it is returned to it's owner. The members of this circle nave each accumulated quite a little library, and as they are young women )f similar tastes, their reading has been a source of much pleasure and some profit at an infinitesimal expense compared to the sum the bookworm who buys all her own current fiction i would be obliged to spend.-New York Commercial Advertiser.