The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-19
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news and
Views Of
tbe Book
WcrId.
(BY HERBERT BREwsTER)


(BY HERBERT BREWSTER.)
THE book and magazine publishers
are likely 10 be seriously delayed
with their output because of the
strikes now going on among their en-
ployes. With every printing plant run
ming there is not sufficient means OF
production for the extra large numbers
of books TO be issued this fall Almost
every publisher is far behind IN his
work-some books are entirely out OF
print and orders for many Of these are
piling up daily. Now comes a strike
among the pressmen. and scores Of
shops are closed. Even though the
strikers return TO work in a few days,
the publishers will be delayed still fur
ther. and it Is not at all unlikely that
many orders for books will be unified
for weeks 10 come.
In spite of minor difficulties, how
ever. the book trade has most prom
ising outlook this fall. The heavy ad-
vance sales of many new novels indi-
Gates a confident feeling on the part
OF the dealers. Booth Tarkingtons
The Two VanrsVels" has sold TO ne
number of so. OO0 copies, and the story
has just been published. The For
tunes of oliver ECrn," by F. Hopkin-
son Smith, is near to 80. 900 copies; Gil
bert Parker's Donovan Pasha" is
being ordered heavily, and the serial
publication of THE Little White Bird,
Barrie's new novel, has created large
advance demand for the book. These
are but a few of the best books whose
popularity is already assured.
Kipling's Just So Stories" are at
tracing more attention than Is usual
with a Kipling book, because the au-
thor has illustrated the stories HIM
self-and even the most severe critic
must acknowledge that the work is well
done. Mr.. Rudyard Kipling Inherited
not only the ink fever from his father,
but a keenly developed sense of the
artistic in other expressions than that
Of letters. The elder Kipling Is well
known as an artist, and but for his
more brilliant son he would probably
have made a worldwide reputation as
a man of great learning. He has a
marvellous memory; he knows more
about India than any other English
man. The editor under whom Rudyard
Kipling worked in India once described
the father as the most delightful COM
panion he ever met.
The whole family seems to have the
passion for writing. It is said that
more poems by KIpling's mother and
sister are to be published this fall. The
sister, now Mrs. Fleming, has the repu-
tation of being able to quote every line
in Shakespeare's plays.
In this seasons output of American
fiction, two distinct types are 10 be
noted-the psychological novel, such as
THE Wings of a. Dove" by Henry
James: Our Lady OF the Beeches, by
Baroness Won Hutton, and in the Con
LESSONS OF a Wife" and the realistic
novel which records contemporary life
and business, such as Captain Mack
lin" by Richard Harding Davis; Don
Ovan Pasha," by Sir Gilbert Parker;
The Fortunes OF Oliver Horn" by F..
Hopkinson Smith, and THE BlaZed
Trail" by Stewart Edward White. The
latter book is net exactly fall book,
having appeared in the spring, but its
growth in popular esteem has been so
continuous that it ranks now with the
better class of fall books.
At the present time four English
novels are running seriaIly in Paris
newspapers. st Ives" in the Temps;
THE Last Days of Pompeu' in the
Soliel, doubtless because of Frances
interest in Mout Pelee; "Dr. Nichols"
in the Vie Hustle. and "The Mystery
OF a Hanson Cab in the Matfn. In
addition TO these, another leading pa
per there is anxious to increase the list
~ publishing a translation of THE
Hounds of the Baskervilles."
Those Black Diamond Men," COM
bination of short stories and a novel.
was fortunate in having made its ap-
I pearance Just at a time when almost
everyone was beginning to discuss
coal, coal strikes and coal operators.
The book has enjoyed a good sale and
probably will continue to be called for
all winter.
OF similar timeliness is a volume just
( published. called 1.-THE Anthracite Coal
! Industry. which purports to be study
| OF the economic conditions which pre-
vail and of the existing relations be-
/ tween capital and labor in the Pennsyl-
vania coal fields.
Another book just published which
is TO be recommended for the relief its
titles gives the reader. is "A Country
| Without Strikes" Such a country ex-
lists. but il is our antipodes-New Zea-
land.
AS an echo of the Dumas centenary
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