New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-08

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tempt 10 keep body and soul together by various
enployments decidedly unliterary in their char
acter while working and studying on mere lit
e.ary lines. AT one time the author became
streetcar conductor in this city and worked
for some time exhorring the general public 20
step lively and taking up their fares. He
writes OF combining the study Of Greek with the
work Of a conductor follows:
All you need is good health and spirits. 8
sa q Of your hSnd m Of he %oTe Won zv is
70 learn. And then for ten or twelve hours a
day you go about running car with your body
and with your u1in6-hammering hammering,
Il is an excellent discipline-it is fighting all
soot-Thirtv-fourtn-st, Crosstown East and
West-pous, podos. the FOOT And then when
you get home late at night. are there not the
great masters who love you?
John Lane is about 20 publish Constance Maud's
'Eeroines OF Poetry" with the Illustrations pre-
pared by Henry Ospovar- Heroines have been
chosen from the poems Of William Morris.
Mallory. Edwin Arnold. Longfellow. Browning,
Keats. Tennyson and others. The pen and ink
drawings prepared by the illustrator have been
reproduced by Photographic process but are
printed from the plates On a rough surface light
paper, which gives them deep tone in the
shadows rather like woodcuts. The artist keeps
UP the picturesque Bohemian traditions, and
has q surprising way OF disappearing from
view in the East End OF London for weeks at
time, and emerging again at his publishers
with no end Of sketches and drawings.
The LampHghter' IS announced in q new
and authorized edition by Houghton, Mifhin &
Co This novel was written forty-eight years
ago by Maria S. Cummings. and seems 10 re-
tain its popularity II is estimated that the
sales have reached 10000 volumes. OF course
this is not an astounding array Of figures when
put beside the editions OF a successful novel
Of the present day. Forty thousand in two
months. however. was not so much as dreamed
of as a possible rate OF publication in the days
when The Lamplghter" appeared
Under the title The Great Marques" the
Scribners are importing book on the life and
times OF Archibald. eighth Earl and first and
only Marques OF Argyll The Rev DR.. John
Wilcox is the author. He makes an exhaustive
study OF the Marques as the champion OF the
Covenanting movement. In the appendix six
letters are published in full which were treach-
erously supplied by General Monk to procure
ArgyTs conviction IN 1861 Hitherto these let
ters have never appeared IN full and authentic
text Two were published from imperfect copies
IN Scotland and the Commonwealth" brought
out by the Scottish Historical Society.
The speculation as 70 who the author Of The
Confessions OF a Wife" may be has met a re-
action lately which is most distasteful TO the
publishers The idea that the publishing OF the
hook under a pseudonyme was a scheme OF the
publishers for advertisement has been put forth
The Century Company can no longer bear the
Wins and scorns OF time. and seeks its quietus
in denial The idea Of Withholding the true
name was no idea OF theirs. they say but OF the
author-shau we say. itself2 The manuscript
If the story came in the ordinary course TO
The Century Magazine and was accepted
with the understanding that the name should
not be revealed. a lawyer represented the
author in making the arrangements AS q
guarantee OF good faith. however, the authors
name was made known 10 an editor. Mr.. Glider
was the fortunate man TO whom the secret was
Entrusted. He was bound in strictest confidence
and he has maintained an unmoyed ignorance TO
al hints or suggestions or guesses, among MS
business associates as well az IN the world out
ride A. a member OF the firm expressed it,
'sIr Glider only knows. and he won't tell
John Lane is bringing out book similar Ia
tone 10 the tales Of children by Kenneth Ora
harne. called "A Romance OF the Nursery" The
author is L Allen Harker. and the illustrations
are done by Katherine n Roberts
The liebtest BOOKS viii at times hang heav-
lest" said a publisher lately. There is no more
means Of telling definitely how book is going
20 take than there is 10 determine now play
Is going 70 GO Some comedy makes a MT N
NeW-York that causes old theatre goers 10
stare what happens? The managers Mt out
one or rv-o other companies with the same play
ana start them on the road, and as likely as
NOT the West and the rest OF the country viii
have nothing 70 do with the entertainment.
Il used IA be something Of test 10 see how a
play pleased an audience in some smaller town
But nov, though the practice OF trying il on
The dog Is SIN a convenient way 70 get into
shape for a metropolitan performance. there Is
no pretence OF thinking IL criterion OF POSSIBLE
flies. The same situation exists in oookseHihs
Nobody knows what successful London BOOK
VIII lie like Lead on the American market, u
what English failure would sell like hot cakes
over here sometimes wish the TWO countries
spoke different languages. II would be less
rantali-ing You often hear IL said that any
book can BE- soils IN enormous editions II II is
only advertised enough and properly. That Is
pr.Eurnptuous nonsense The career OF a beos
Is IN the hands OF fate and no mere man with
ist q magazines and pail OF paste can se'
stlce the eternal DEGREES. why the tommy to'
sun and nonsense OF one hour should De sue
eess.ul and the work OF merit In the next 50
70 ths wall no one win ever know. There are
si~sys those chances OF exception 70 the norma
rue, and when they come. nine times our %
Zen they are lnexplicable- The truth IS ths'
many books are CONGRATULATED. But IL never