The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

such books as Janice Meredith, Rich
ard Carvel.' When Knghthood was in
Flower Red Pottage,' and David Ha-
rum The wonderful popularity
of TO Have and To Hold has naturally
revived interest in Prisoners of Hope
with the result that this work now takes
it's place again among the leaders" The
Bookmans" Eastern letter New York;,
says: THE most interesting feature for
the month proved to be the continued de-
mand for TO Have and To Hold which
far outstripped any other title in point
of sale and bids fair eventually to equal
any of the other popular novels of the
day."
In all but two out of thirty-f re-
ports Of book sales made to THE Book
man" for May, ITO Have and To Hold
heads the list,-the exceptions being St
Louis and Montreal, where two books on
the Transvaal and when Knighthood was
in Flower precede it. The Publisher of
1.-The Bookman," in a letter to Messrs
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., said: Never
since the beginning of The Bookman' has
there been such unanmity of opinion as
this The progress of ITO Have and
To Hold since publication is as follows;
February 24.............1 week 49,. $4,000
March ...............2 weeks. So,OO0
March 10 ..............3 weeks. :. 100 900
March IL ............. weeks. .125 900
March 81 ..............6 weeks $50 900
April IA ................S weeks. 115 900
April 20 .......... 10 weeks. 200, 900
The book was published February II,
so that it has been ordered at the aver
age rate of 10000 a week.
s'To Have and tn Hold is at present
the most widely read book of the day.
The Critic" for May, contains as usual
reports from the leading libraries of the
country, each of which, in addition to
stating the most widely circulating books
of a general nature, indicates the novel
most in demand for the month preceding
the appearance of the magazine In %
out of the 90 reports made for the month
of April, ITO Have and To Hold is given
as the most popular novel.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Herman, born Miss Francis
L. Fisher, and known in letters as
christian Reid" has written play, we
learn from the Charlotte News, which
she calls Under the Southern Cross" and
presented it to the Salisbury Daughters
of the Confederacy. 1t is understood that
tUS CiuU VI ludI lO"h wiz 'O"i
the State with the play, the proceeds be-
ing for the benefit of the Davis monument
fund A correspondent who has seen the
play writes that the plot is laid in the
South the characters are Southern SOL
diers and Southern women, with one or
two Yankees to act the villain. 1t is in
tensely Southern in all it's features, and
deals with the South, the Southern soldier
and Southern women as they existed.
Gutenberg, the inventor of printing,
died five hundred years ago this spring.
Anniversary ceremonies are going on about /
this time in several German cities. In
the May Magazine Number on The Out
look Mr.. Theodore L. De Winnie the head
of the famous artistic printing firm the
De Winnie Press writes of Gutenberg S
discovery and its reception. Portraits and
other pictures accompany the article.
Mr. Crockett has written no short story
for several years that has attracted as
much attention as will THE Stickit Min
isters Love Story" which appears in the
May Magazine Number of The Outlook.
In this he returns to the subject and
character which first made him famous.
and describes, with moving pathOs anGf
humor, the most interesting incident in
tho lifa IF tho MiniStpr'