New-York tribune., 1902-03-10
LITERARY NOTES.

which Doubleday, Page & Co. are about TO
publish, under the title Of THE Empire OF Busi-
ness How far he ranges over the whole sub
5ect is shown by the list of his chapter head
ings. which promise much interesting and strik-
ing discussion The list is as follows:
Business" The A B c. Of Money" Steel
Manufacture in the United States oil and ana
Gas Wells in Pennsylvania" How to WIN
Fortune" Thrift as a Duty" The Road TO
Business Success" The Bugaboo of Trusts
Partners Of the Industrial World" Wealth
and Its Uses" Cost Of Living in Britain ana ana
the United States" The Manchester School and
To-day British Pessinism." The Common
Interest Of Labor and Capital and "What
Would I Do with the Tariff"
A new novel by Mrs. Hunphry Ward is TO be-
gin its serial appearance in the May number Of
'Harper's Magazine It is entitled Lady
Roses Daughter" and will be illustrated by
Howard Chandler Christy.
Mark Twain is so we'll known by his pseudo
nyme that people frequently address him as Mr..
Twain, until his identity has assumed sort OF
Jekyll and Hyde duality, and he doesn't know
himself whether he is Mark Twain or Samuel
Clemens. It remained for the ever ingenious
Office bog TO carry the dual identity theory to
its utmost development Mr.. Clemens called at
a publishing house. but the he wanted to
see was absent. To make that his visit
should be reported, and having no card with
This the latter's report to his superior:
Mr. Clemens was here. He said he wanted to
see Mark Twain
One of the most beautiful Of the special linn
tied editions of Houghton, Miffiin & Co. bids
fair, from the specifications and the prospectus.
10 be a reprint of Sir Walter Raleigh's account
of THE Last Fight of the Revenge at Sea" The
edition is TO be in the style OF the old English
broadside. and bound as an imperial quarto IN
figured paper boards. The title page has deco
rative woodcut border, inclosng a spirited il
lustration by Howard Pyle. The printing Will
all be done on a handpress. the title page from
the original wood blocks and the text from type
There will be three hundred copies printed. on
handmade paper
Josiah Flynt SAYS that he has probably seen
all that he can of Hoboland without everlast-
ingly identifying himself with it, and that he
has no desire TO do. Now he has written his
first piece of fiction, that is TO be published by
the Century Company in about a fortnight 1t Is
called The Little Brother" He does not aban-
don "IIoboland" altogether in it, for his purpose
in writing it has been to let the public see where
a number of stray boys land. He says that a
great many Of the so-called Kidnapped" young
sters are in reality simply runaways with ro-
mantle temperaments, and that tramp life
claims many of them. The book is said to be
true TO life and study of real characters.
One Of the lesser though not inconsiderable
perplexties Of publishers is that of the title. To
find an apt and fitting title for novel seems
almost as difficult as finding a good plot and
one who has grappled with the problem may
recall with some comfort the stories of Dickens
and Balzac wandering, the along the streets
of London, the other along those Of Paris,
searching street signs for a helpful hint in nam
ing their books. Some OF the best novels have
waited long for their titles. Miss Johnstons
ITO Have and To Hold" reached after much
canvassing Of possibilities Audrey" the
other hand was christened at its birth to
speak. But among the other books issued this
spring by Miss Johnstons publishers. Hough-
ton Midlin & Co, there are some interesting in
stances OF a search for title. Mary Hallock
Foote's new novel, THE Desert and the Sown,'
got its present name after at least two others
had been tried. 1t first The Impostor,"
then ''sapphira." But neither of these seeming
quite to hit the mark. a couplet Of the "Rubai-
yat' flashed into the authors mind:
With along the strip OF herbage strown,
That just divides the desert from the sown,
and suggested at once the two contrasting scenes
in the book, Arizona and old New-York, The
Desert and the Sown." Another Western novel
thct has had at least two names is Frank
Lewis Nason's story Of Colorado mining life
This was The Dry Creek Tragedy" but that
sounding somewhat forbidding II has been
named, after trials of other titles. ITO the
End Of the Trail" which gives Just a hint OF
the undertaking progress Of the grim events.
One Of the queerest looking titles of the year is
Roman Biznet" pronounced Biznett). which is
the name Of the odd hero of the book. a French
Canadian half-breed of strange history.
Kate Bonnet" Frank r. Stockton's new
story that appeared only few days ago. has
met hearty public appreciation. The Apple
tons report that the third edition. the
press is already nearly exhausted.
The demand for treatises on bridge whist
tinues with the popularity of the game. A new
one is announced by the Scribners. Bridge
Rules and Reaso Formulated and Explained"
IT is by J B. ElweIl.s who is we'll known as one
Of the foremost instructors Of the game in this
country, and viii therefore speak with author
ity.
Some of the vicissitudes OF the publishing
business are illustrated by the facts that have
compelled the Harpers to postpone the publica-
ton OF The Beau's Comedy" set down for
March I. The copies intended for the English
market, by which the English copyright is Sc
cured, the disabled Etruria- Publication
here and in England. TO gain a copyright must
be simultaneous. Consequently the appearance
of the book must be delayed till the Etruria can
be unloaded and the copies sent to London and
put on the market there.
Richard Bagot. who wrote Casting of Nets"
has story ready for publication by
John Lane, called "A Roman Mystery" The
strange disease called lupomania figures in II as
one Of the chief factors in the plot incidentally
in this book, as in The Casting of Nets" the