The age-herald., 1901-12-16

graphics Is offered in '"rhe Private Life of The Sultan" by George Dorys. The | interest shown in this work has been ac- | centuated doubtless by the curious l prominence of the Sultan in recent | events.
 | Another interesting tendency of Ameri- l can readers is shown in the demand Tor | Nature books, which has been illusTa- | ted in the success of Mir. F. M. Chap mans book on Birds Professor Com stocks standard work on Insects and | MT. Mathews Familiar Trees" which l are accompanied with colored plates; and | 1t seems to be illustrated again in the story for young people entitled "In the Days of Audubon" which Mir. Butter
 worth has just published.
 So far as the conditions of the autumn business are concerned, they seem to D. Appleton & Co., to be most favorable. Their own books have been meeting an extremely satisfactory success, and
 everything indicates that the demand for good and well made books is con stantly growing.
 As regards what are termed trade
 books" D. Appleton & Co., plans con-
 template several important publica-
 tions in the immediate future, with many
 others beyond, which can not be men
 toned at present. remarkable work,
 which includes some striking studies of
 American financial conditions, has been
 written by the Hon. Theodore E. Bur
 ton, chairman of the rivers and harbors
 committee and this book, which is en-
 titled Crisis and Panics, and Periods of
 Industrial and Commercial Depression" will be published early in the year. A very important new series entitled "Ap- pletons Worlds Series," will be begun | early in the year also, under the edi- , torship of Dr. H. J. Maclxinder of Christ church, Oxford. The first book will be en- titled Britain and the North Atlantic" by the editor; and the second, "The Nearer East" by Dr. D. G. Hogaeth, di- rector of the British school at Athens. Dr. George Brandes, the well known scholar, will publish with D. Appleton & Go. his new work entitled Modern Scandinavian Literature" A large and elaborate illustrated book by Dr. H. N. Hutchinson, will present "The Living Races of Mankind" Early in the year D. Appleton & Co. will publish MT. Frank R. Stocktons brilliant new novel, Kate
 Bennett, the Romance of a Pirates Daughter" They will also publish new novel of MT. c. c. Hotchkiss, author of | Tn Defiance of, The King and "Betsey | Ross
 | It will probably not interest general readers to learn of the proposed educa- l tional medical and Spanish works which
 are under preparation by D. Appleton & | Co.,, but in connection with the subscrip- | tion department, the announcement may
 be made that D. Appleton &c Co have
 become the publishers of Anthony Hope | and Conan Doyle whose works are to be | issued by them in elaborte and def1nitive | collected editions. Within the last year | D. Appleton & Go. have increased their
 lists and have made many new impor- | tant plans for the future. which will be | made known later. From their point of | view, the demand of the American public i for good literature is constantly increas- | ing
 THE RIGHT OF WAY"
 | Harper & Brothers said: Amongst the | publications of Harper & Brothers, the | book which has reached the highest | sales is 'The Right of Way" by Gill
 bert Parker This novel has sold equal | ly we'll in all parts of the United States. Its sales have been larger than any other
 recent publication of this firm, with the | exception of Mrs. Humphrey Wards 'Eleanor," which had a similarly rush | ing sale "The Right of Way has now | gone ahead of Eleanor" and Is still
 booming. It's author, MT. Gilbert Park
 CT, will arrive in this country early in ! December. The book was also published | in England, but the American sales have | exceeded the British. "The Right of | Way" is considered to be Mr. Parkers
 masterpiece.
 l Close behind "The Right of Way" in | popularity and in sales comes Car | digan," MT. Robert W. Chambers latest novel "Cardiban" represents a new de- parture for this author, and is acknowl- | edged to be the strongest work that he | has ever done It is full of string ad- | AolIo A1ao afYor lowe at
 and depicts the exciting scenes just be- | fore the Revolution.
 | Miss Wilkins great novel, 'The Por- | tion of Labor" which has been running in Harper's Magazine has also met with | large success, so far as the advance sale | is concerned for the book was publish l ed on November 8. Besides the large ! American edition, there will also be English and Colonial editions of this
 most mature work of Miss Wilkins. It
 is the story of the life, love and ideals
 of a young New England girl, whose | parents are working people, but who is | herself superior to her surroundings. This
 is a field in which Mill Wilkins is para
 mount.
 The new Peter Newell edition of
 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
 with forty full page original drawings | by Newell has also made distinct hit | and is in demand in all book markets. | The edition is so beautiful and artistic
 that no library would be complete with | out it.
 Another book which Is equally suited | for gift book is "A Japanese Nighting- | ale" by Anote Watanna, dainty Ja- 1 panese-American love story, bound in
 aesthetic green with decoration in cherry
 blossom. This book is selling very rap
 idly.
 | Mir. Howells' new work "Heroines of | Fiction" in two volumes, is, of course, | one of the principal publications of the 1 year, and is meeting with the usual
 steady and widespread demand which | awaits all of Mr. Howells' books | General Alger's "Spanish-American War; has met with steady and exten-