New-York tribune., 1903-08-24

Robson & Co, London. in their latest cata-
togue offer unique page of the manuscript Of
Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers" At the time this
book was written Dickens was little known, and
his manuscript had so little interest that little of
it remains. After nearly seventy years search
the collector who has made this matter his
peculiar interest has given up hope Of any more
of the manuscript coming to light. Not so
much a line Of 1t exists in the Forster col
lection at the South Kensington Museum.
Thirty-three pages of the manuscript are owned
IN this country. But in England. and. generally
speaking, in The market. this seems to be the
only page obtainable. It contains part Of the
humorous Christmas chapter-that is. Chapter
XXVIII-describing the wedding breakfast, and
how Mr.. Pickwick listens to the "reminiscences
Of Mrs. Wardle. The passage
Then the cake was cut and passed through the
ring, and the young ladies saved pieces to put
under their pillows to dream Of their future hus-
bands on, and a great deal Of blushing and mer-
rlment was thereby occasioned-
Is written on the back Of the manuscript as an
insert, ElC wing it an afterthought- The page
which measures 9 by ~ inches is almost free
roTn corrections.
! Walker McSpadden has prepared a special
revision Of "45sop's Fables for children's read
ing. He writes an introduction telling Of the
real H5sop ana how his fables came to be told.
rhe book, which is from the press Of Thomas
y CroweI & Co. has a frontispiece IN color and
e number of animal pictures in illustration
The Boston Literary World" gives the fol-
lowing account by George Ade Of the manner in
which he came to write his fables:
In 1890 having risen to weekly income Of
S15, lit out for Chicago, where l got JOB on
The Morning News" later The Record" as a
reporter. The following year I had pretty good
assignments, and in 1893 I did special World s
Fair stories. When the fair closed up became
the father Of a department in the paper called
Stories of the Street" I had TO I'll two col
pnnns every day, which, with a cut or two,
meant from twelve hundred to two thousand
words. My stuff was next to Eugene Field s
'Sharps and Flats" When Field died l got his
desk. 1 used to get desperate for Ideas some
times. One lucky day 1 wrote story on a
church entertainment in which Artie was the
spokesman. That was in 1885 heard from
that story so much that Artie was given q show
once a week In 1895 ran up against the fable
Of the old serio-comic form. l had learned from
writing my department that all people and
especially women. are more or less fond Of par
lor slang In cold blood I began writing the
fables TO make my department go. but had no
idea that those fantastic things would catch on
as they have. Ny nrst one was entitled, The
Blond Girl Who Married Bucket Shop Man"
Soon other papers asked permission to copy the
fables and then TO share them with The Rec
ord" and by and by publisher collected them
and made Up a copyrighted book. There you
have the whole thing in nutshell
Brentano's have just published the fourth
volume IN the Colloquial series. "Colloquial
Spanish" The book aims TO give students a
careful analysis Of Spanish sounds. and TO be a
reliable and serviceable phrase book for trav-
elers.
The Life Publishing Company is getting out a
collection Of the vers de socete Of Tom Mason
10 be called In Merry Measure" The book will
be ready early in the fall, and Will be similar IN
makeup TO the volumes Taken from Life" and
-'Rhyrnes and Roundelays."
Morrison !. Swift has written a book TO show
how the mutimillionaires ought 10 behave He
calls It The Monarch Bulionaire." The book is