The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-19
Cooks and Jfufhors;
Comment and Gossip

D. appleton and Company, the pub
fishers, have leased new quarters at Nos.
436 and 43s Fifth Avenue corner of
Thirty-ninth Street, New York city, the
old quarters at Seventy-second. Fifth
Avenue. having proved inadequate for
their largely increasing business. Other
reasons for the change are proximity to
the new library, and the fact that the
book center will undoubtedly establish it
self in that vicinity.
This is in lire with a number of other
progr. ssive moves recently made by the
Appletons, their most noted one being
the Establishment Of branch houses; in
London. Chicago and Boston. IN each
of these cities it is now possible for
authors to deal directly with the house.
the same as if they aere in New York.
That this has been fortunate policy
is evidenced by the number Of new and
successful authors recently brought for
ward by ..le Appetons.
D. Appleton anu Company rank among
the Oldest American publishing houses.
and certainly none other has had more
honorable career. For nearly three
quarters Of a century its imprint has
been known to book-lovers throughout
the world. always as a guarantee Of
good litera ture.
MI INlC1ldlC IodOScIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of fall publicat tons gives a most tempt
ing foretaste OF what W emay expect
to see from him upon the book counters
during tho coming season. In general
literature he has A Bunch Of Rope
Yarns. by Stanton II. King. whose Dog
Watches at Sea was hailed as the truest
picture OF the life of a sailor of to-day
then published, and a Bunch of Rope
Yarns is even better than the first book.
In fiction. The Cult of The Purple Rose,
a phase Of Harvard Life. by Shirley E.
Johnson: The Lost Brigade, by Charles
W. Hall; Carita, by Louis Fendieton;
Don, Luis's Wife, by Lillian Human
Shuey; Threads of Life. by Clara Sher-
wood Rollins. and A Romance Of Wolf
Hollow, by Anna Nolffrom. In poetry
Mr.. Badger presents tho finest list Of
fered this year by any publisher in this
country there being among others The
Dancers, by Edith NJ. Thomas: A Reed
by the River, by Virginia Woodward
Cloud: The Great Procession. by Harriet
Prescott Spofford; Cupid is King, by Roy
Farrell Greene; Apollo and Keats, by
Clifford Lanier: The Song at Midnight.
by Mary NJ. Adams: Days We Remem-
her, by Marian Douglas; Thoughts Adrift,
b. Hattie Homer Louthan; English
Lyrics Of Finnish Harp. by
Herman Montague Donner; Tangled
in Stars. by Ethelwyn Wetherald; and
the Legende of Sainte Garibette des DIS,
BY Gertrude Hall. II drama, Mr.. Badger
will issue Macmillan, a play in five acts
by Edgar Lee Masters.
The Worlds Work idea, as the publish
ers of that peculiarly American maya
zine call it, seems to be growing. FOL
lowing the new English Worlds Work,
tor ra1 along the
same successful lines is now a. movement
to publish similar magazines in France
and Germany. Naturally the spirit OF
American invasion in our own Worlds |
Work would not be acceptable to Eng
lish, German or French readers, and SO
the English ma gazine is a. distinct enter
prise started by Henry Norman and Viii
liam Ieinemann to do for England what |
the original Worlds Work does for
However. Henry Norman, NJ P. the
English editor, announces that every |
aspect of American activity will be
lustrated for British readers and he
takes the Prince of Wales words the
Old country must wake up''-to represent
the policy he will try to follow.
Fun,. & wagnans Company, whose
Jewish Encyclopedia entities them to
eading place in the publication of liter
ature pertaining to the Hebrews, Will
ssue. during the last week Of October,
l book of studies of the Jewish Quarter
If New York, entitled The Spirit of /
he Ghetto
1t is by Hutchins Hapgood. whose ar
icles upon the Yiddish drama and dram
ltists. the poets OF the sweat shop, odd
characters in the East Side and similar
appearing IN the Atlantic
Monthly, the Critic, and other leading
publications. have opened the eyes of the .
ientiles to a new and strange world ly-
ng within their own but wholly separate
rom 1t. The best of these form the con-
ents OF the present book The illustra-
ions are by a young Ghetto artist
.acobs Epstein- They are marked by an
Ntreme realism and individuality which
re bound to attract severe censure from
ONE critics and enthusiastic Use from
theirs.
The October number Of Harper's Bazar