The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-23
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The London Book Monthly gives some In
teresting data concerning Nude. the great
lending library of England. When a new
story by Mrs. Humphry Ward comes out
Nude takes 5000 copies OF moro Of 1t, a
Marie Corelli story is also ordered in the
same number OF copies, while a book by
Hall Game will be ordered to the number OF
1000 copies. People who think that In the
old days there were no u large orders OF
books will be surprised TO learn that Nude
took 900 copies Of "Silas Manner and $500
Of Disraei's -~Endymion,' both of which
came out in three volumes. When the third
and fourth volumes OF Macaulay's History
Of England appeared In 1855 Nude bought
$500 copies, and 900 copies were ordered in
1859 of Tennyson's @Idyls OF the King
1t Ia q significant fact that In a recent list
Of the most popular books made up in Can
ada not an English author is quoted. The
House Of a Thousand Candles "St. Cuth-
bert q, " -The Conquest Of Canaan, ''Nedra.'
sThe House Of Mirth' and Fair Margaret
by Crawford are the books engaging the
attention OF our Canadian neighbors.
A mong the misleading book titles In
| the seasons publications the most notable
are THE Jungle" which is not q story OF
India, but of the beef packing trade In
Chicago; sThe Spur which Is not a horse
story, but a tale Of q New Zealand sheep
shearer, and "A Lame Dogs Diary which
doesn't concern q dog at all, but a soldier
who was shot in the legs and confldes his
emotions to a diary.
The third book Of the trilogy by Thomas
Dixon, Jr., Of which "The Leopard's Spots
and THE Canaman have already appeared,
will be called "The Traitor 1t will deal
with the downfall Of the Kuklux Khan, and,
unlike the other Dixon books, will scarcely
touch the race problem. Mr.. Dixon de-
scribes it as "a novel Of love end hate
The late Henry Demarest Lloyd made
elaborate preparation and Investigation
for his new book Man the Social Creator
For ten years he contemplated writing a
book on what he called social love- and
during that time he investigated the CO.
operative movement in England, the adj
vanoed legislation Of New Zealand and
Australia and various activities in Switzer-
land. He regarded all these social works
as evidence OF q coming religion that would
| uplift the people. The introduction to the
new book Is written by two Of Mr.. Lloyd's
friends, Miss Jane Adams Of Hull House.
Chicag 60, and Miss Jane Within gton Of the
Woman's Educational and Industrial Union
of Boston.
The new serial; Seeing France With
Uncle john" by Anne Warner, will begin
in the June Century. The story is largely
told in the form Of letters from a young
a III - 10. N~thA- t11rNlA
John" is the chief actor and promises to
be a worthy rival Of Susan Clegg In the
art Of being amusing without knowing
how funny he is.
In sThe Intellectual Miss Lamb Florence
Morse Kingsley has added another to her
creations OF modified spinsters.' which
include THE Singular Miss Smith, @The
Transformation Of Miss Philure" and THE
Resurrection Of Miss Cynthia" Mrs. Kings
ley Is herself the authority for the state
ment that sThe Intellectual Miss Lamb
has no exact prototype in real life-al-
though the father Of an instructor OF psy-
chology in one Of the best known women's
colleges thought he recognized the sketch
as a portrait Of his daughter. The char
acter and the story grew out of a visit to
Wellesley College, a review Of a treatise on
physiological psychology, and the vague
remembrance Of a pretty grind" who was
afellow student Of the authors at Wellesley.
Mrs. Kingsley's most widely read story is
her first, entitled Titus, A Comrade Of the
Cross"
The following letter, written by John
Hay to DR.. s. Weir Mitchell soon after the
publication Of Hugh Wynne,' was found
by DR.. Mitchell a few days ago in looking
over some papers which had been mislaid:
s. CARLETON HOUSE TERRACE. S. W.
October Is, 1897.
| MY DHAR MTrcHELLI: The moment ] had finished
@Hugh Wynne" ! went TO the Berkeley TO tell you
what ! thought of it-but you had gone and ]
have been brutally busy ever since then.
/ can hardly speak calmly OF the book. 1t is
little 70 say that II Is the best historical novel !
know, written In our generations; II ranks with the
best In our language. IL is a picture al once broad
and mlnute-of a most interesting time and place.
painted so lovingly and wei that nobody need try
to do II again. II is full OF characters tha, stand
and walk by themselves and take their place at
once among our lifelong acquaintances. II Is
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