The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-12

waited. The Atlantic Monthly win
please take notice and IL there Is any
place more remote from the literary
center of this country than that city
which used formerly to be called the
Athens OF America and the Hub of the
Universe, II had best retire to 1t in
time.
But these are pretty schemes and
runnors with which 1 have been deal
ing. There is on the horizon q heavy
cloud and q distant rumbling is borne
In on my ears. The word trust, hated
shibboleth of modern comnercialism,
has more than once been mentioned in
connection with books but not till now
has II entered into the realm OF maya
zinedom. Now, however, hear of the
preliminary Morganesque operations
of certain prominent New York pub
Usher of books of a monthly magazine
and weekly illustrated newspaper and
other periodicals. who 1t is said con-
templates making a combination of all
magazines not already connected with
publishing houses and running them
from single central management.
Here is hard luck story from the
publishers Of the Two VaureveIs
which throws a little light on the diff
fculties of getting out big edition.
Some of the difficulties of book-mak-
ing, of which the reading public never
hear, are exemplified in the case of
Booth Tarkington's new novel, 1.-THE
Two Vanrevels," the advance demand
for which has almost swamped the
publishers. In the first place, the cover
of the book requires cream leaf. With
the making of the first %, 600 the cream
leaf market began to run short Agents
were sent out to collect IT.. BY the
was no high grade creans leaf in
America. Germany was appealed to by
cable, but there Is a shortage of cream
leaf there also, aud several thousand
copies of the book had to be sent out
stamped with white leaf Then there
was difficulty about the gliding. Ex-
pert gflders are becoming rare. High
class gilt is scarce. The publishers put
out the books &c enc glider after an
other until there are now five gliding
shops busy with 1.-THE Two Vanrevels''
and two binderies at work on it, and
the supply is still 10000 behind the or
ders.
Reused into rivalry by the variorum
Edition Of Fitzgerald. another company
now announces complete edition of
the works of the translator of CAL
deron and Omar. Fitzgerald has had
a rather one-sided reputation in con-
nection with single book, so it is a
matter of congratulation that through
editions like these his fame will be
now soundly based on other things as
good in their way as his popular mas
terpiece.
While LADY Roses Daughter Is
running in magazine serial form its
author, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, is pre-
pairing the dramatic version of her
Eleanor" for the stage in London and
New York. Here in America Eleanor
Robson will create the title role.
I have not yet had the opportunity
to read George Horizons last novel.
'@The Long Straight Road" but, some
OF the authors friends tell me that it
Is a story Of his own domestic affairs,
and life. Whether the reading public
is interested in the ashes and embers
of Mr.. Horizons life or not, is. OF
course, a question, but the story Is
something more than a raking over OF
old fires. In the words of the penny
dreadful barker, here is a story which
gives the lights and shades Of a life in
a great city, written with an UNDER
standing which gives ii the stamp Of
truth.
Richard Harding Davis has just pur-
chased a 200-acre estate near Mount
Kisco. about thirty miles north of New
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