The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-07-12
THE MANAGER OF THE B & A.

THE MANAGER OF THE B & A.
We have found it hard to convince
some of our readers that the fiction
contained in the Review is really
high grade literature. If they read
the stories and were conversant with
the best magazine literature of the
day they would know, but the trou
BILE is that if story appears in a
county weekly they put it down as
trash, without reading.
During the past year the Review
has given its readers number of
the best of the Sherlock Holmes
series, the Raff1es series and a
number of copyrighted short stories
such as have been published in
Harpers, Scribners, the Century and
McClure's during the past year.
Those who are fortunate and wealthy
enough to have access to all the
high-grade magazines, have read
these stories before perhaps, but the
mass of the people are not in position
to pay out SIS to 500 year for maya
zine literature. Through the agency
of the American Press Association the
careful and enterpriisng editor can
now give his readers the very best
fiction published in America not
cheap stuff old stuff that was
published in the New York Ledger
fifty years ago but the latest and
best, current fiction.
For three months the editor has
been seacrhing for just the right
story for Review readers during the
summer months Not less than a doz-
en- stories have been examined and
rejected until we hit upon "The
Manager of the B & Az which SEEM
ed to be just what was wanted for
good summer reading. The story is
typically and entirely American and
has to do with the type of young
American manhood which we all adj
mire. 1t will serve as an inspiration
to the young and will stir the blood of
the oldest reader. Into the plot WOW
en- a pretty romance, while the mob
scene and the race against the flames
are as exciting as the chariot race in
Ben Hur. Another thing the old
system of publishing serial stories
has been abandoned by US entirely. 1T
used to be the universal custom and
it is now followed by the "'ready
print" houses which our competitors
still employ to take some long, old,
classic novel and publish it in INSTALL
ments of about column and half or
two columns so that the story ran its
dreary length through almost year
of the paper. The man who sub
scribei in July found himself in the
middle of a story that would last
until January. He was not interest
ed and for six months the fiction
page was dead letter to him.
Even if he commenced with the first
number, it came in such homeopathic
doses that he became impatient, then
tired and then disguised with the
whole thing.
The Review has adopted the plan
of publishing not less than one page,
six columns, in each issue. In this
way the novel is quickly completed
and new one begun, and each in
stallment contains enough to fully
interest the reader.
We would say to our readers that
they cannot afford to 'stick up their
noses" at the Review fiction. YOU
CANNOT BUY BETTER LIGHT
LITERATURE. 1t is the "creme de
la creme of the magazine world.
The Manager of the B & A >"
it has recently been published in book
form and can be obtained through
your news dealer for $3.50, the price
of the Review for year-will begin
in the next issue of the Review.
1t will be published in installments
of not less than page and will be
completed October LIST. 1t is not a
heavy purpose story but delight
fully thrilling, wholesome romance
just suited for the summer months
when the brain as we'll as the body
seeks recreation. We would ask our
readers to read the opening chapters
next week for we know that if they
do they will hereafter have high
regard for the fiction pages of the
Review