New-York tribune., 1904-10-17
Wbaf ~. y. Booksellers Say obey
Are Telling Most,

Of preserving their wide margins. sent to Nc
Clure-Phillips recently for a copy Of wagner's
The Simple Life" He wrote back that he was
not pleased with II because the book was mot
finished" the pages not having been cut. He
went on to say: You would not Ike to have
your shoemaker make pair Of shoes with nails
sticking in them. or your tailor send you a coat
without sleeves. Let US try TO practise little
Christianity. The Macmillan Publishing Com
pany has also played the same trick and
hereafter viii have to specify that want a
finished book or don't want Il at all" This
complaint is ripe with suggestions for un-
christian publishers. Most Christian readers
prefer the vide margins and even the rough
edges which collect the dust but grudge the
time IT takes to cut the leaves and often bungle
the Job. besides. 1t is merely a matter of i'm
position Cand paper to have the margins of as
liberal dimensions the bibliophne desires
and to have the edges trimmed too. A book
was received the other day which was so folded
that the leaves had 20 be cut at the bottom.
This was truly a matter Of imposition"
John Lane announces that after the 25th Of
the current month the price OF The Interna-
tional Studio" is to be advanced from SO 30 to 50
year and from 80 cents to 80 cents a copy.
Some Familiar Letters Of Thomas Jeffer-
son." not before published. which viii be print
ed In the November "scribners." are said TO
give a peculiarly attractive insight into Mr..
Jefferson's home life at Monticello. and Incl
dentaly TO throw occasional sidelights on the
political events OF his time.
Wolf Won Schierbrand, whose work, Ger
many" has recently been brought out in a re-
vised and lower priced edition by Doubleday.
Page Co. formerly a correspondent OF
The Associated Press at Berlin. He had intl-
mate access to high official orders. and at one
time published some Information about a GER
tain plan of the Kaisers which caused the EN-
peror 70 order his arrest Won Schierbrand's
house was surrounded by the police. who had
seen him enter. MIR Won Schierbrand put a
dummy with mustache at his study window.
The police. who believed him there watched
the front of the house while he escaped through
a rear door. He the last man to write an
Interview with Prince Bismarck at Friedrichs-
run, six weeks before the Iron ChanceIlors
death, and secured the dramatic interview with
Bismarcks successor. Count Caprivi. on the
night he resigned the Ministry.
American Familiar Verse" '"Vers de Gociete"
edited with an Introduction by Brander Mat
thews. will be issued this month by Longmans.
Green Co as the third volume of their "Wam-
pun Library Of American Literature" Seec-
tions are given from long list of authors, rang
ing from Benjamin Franklin and John Quincy
Adams to H. C. Bunner and Anne Reeve AIdrich.
an exception having apparently been made in
this volume TO the rule not TO include the work
OF writer's whose birth has occurred since De-
cember 81. 1850"
Il is reported that J. n Barrie intends TO
write play around the character OF Nudge. in
A E. w. Mason's new novel. "The Truants"
Nudge is a gentleman who has risen from pow
erty to wealth. but ands himself lonely In his
suecess. ana hungeTs for the old days when he
suffered and dreamed So he keeps a worn suit