Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-07

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burne, w. +. Henley. William Watson.
Arthur Symons. w. r.. Yeats and Bliss
Carman. Here are names popular and
of high standing in fiction and verse
representing the best Of the great
period that Is now generation past,
and their inheritors Of the generation
that has yet hardly reached it's noon
day.
| The record Of circulation is taken for
five months; from October, 1905 to
February, 1906. We will first take the
noveIists. During this period Dickens
maintains the priority of circulation:
10 novels Of his being taken out $50
times; by dividing the total issue with
the number of novels called for, the
results show that each novel was cir
culated q times. On this basis let us
continue with the other Is noveIists In
the order of their priority: Scott. "a
novels circulated 3J4 times, averaging
each II; Trollope, Is novels. total is
sues POI. average each novel s; Cooper
l23 novels, total issues 2O4. averaging
each novel s; Howells, 90 novels. total
issues SO, averaging each novel s;
James, II novels. total issues 80. aver
aging each novel 5; Anthony Hope. 10
novels. total issues ~. averaging each
novel s; Thackeray, 6 novels, total is
sues IS. averaging each novel 12;
Hardy, 10 novels. total issues so, av-
craging each novel 5; Mrs. Humphry
Ward, 9 novels. total issues 81, aver
aging each novel s; J. NJ. Barrie
| novels, total issues 40, averaging each
novel 5; Mary E. wilkins, 3 novels.
total issues SO, averaging each novel
| 10; ZangWill. S novels. total issues g.
averaging each novel 4; James Lane
Allen. 4 novels. total issues 90 aver
aging each novel 5: Hawthorne. nov
els. total issues a. avera ging each
| novel a: Charlotte Bronte, 2 novels.
total issues II, averaging each novel s.
| Among the poets the priority be-
| longs to Tennyson. volumes of whose
| poetry had a total circulation Of 81
| each volume averaging 9: Words
worth. total issues Al, each volume
averaging 10; Browning, volumes,
total issues 35. each volume averaging
IL: Longfellow, s volumes, total issues
81. each volume 5; Whittier. 3 volumes.
total issues 81, each volume 10: Swim
burne. 8 volumes. total issues 30. each
volume 8: Byron. volumes, total is
sues "a. each volume s: Keats. vol
umeS. total issues 20. each 2: Stephen
Phillips. volumes. total issues 20.
each Z; Lowell. volumes. total issues
20 each Z: Lowell. 3 volumes. total is
sues 20, each s; Shelley, volumes.
total issues ~. each s; Emerson. ,
volumes. total issues 49, each 9: Will
liam Morris. 5 volumes, total issues Is,
each 5: Foe. volumes. total issues II,
each 3: RO5Setti. 3 volumes, total is
sues Is. each ;: W. +. Henley. VOL
umeS. total issues Il. each /; William
Watson. volumes, total issues IA.
each ?: Bliss Carman. 6 volumes total
issues II. each :: Frederic Lawrence
Knowles. l volume issued II: Arthur
Dowsop, l volume. issued Q: Arthur
Symons. volumes. total issues .. each
3: w. 3. Yeats. 3 volumes. total issues
Z. each 3; Whitman, l volume. is
sued s.
There are two ways by which the
difference between these figures can he
computed one is by taking the total
circulation Of the books OF verso and
contrast with those Of prose, or by
taking the least denomination of each
total which would show the greatest
number of times an author was issued
by ono book: this latter seems the
fairest and most satisfactory test.
eliminating all accidental influences.
Following this method. then. we find
that the authors whose single volumes
had the most issues Were: Dickens.
81; Scott, IA: Mary +. wilkins, IS:
Tina ckeray, II; Browning. II; Whittier
and Wordsworth, 10: T"nnyson and
Emerson .; TrolIope and Cooper. s;
Byron and Henley. Z; Howells. Lowell
Whitman, Anthony Hope. Mrs. Hum
phry Ward, Hardy and Charlotte
Bronte. s: Longfellow. Rossetti. James.
Barrie and James Lane Allen. s.
This is sufficient to show that with
two or three abnormal exceptions.
single volume of poetry is read quite
as often as single novel by the read
crs who have the privilege of drawing
books from the Public Library.
Apropos literary blunder.. we find the
following in a recent issue of The Acad-
envy. There came into our hands recent
~ a novel. one chapter OF which
devoted to the description of hunt-and
the inevitable accident. The victim
gentleman. We turned to the ;lustra-
ton: the horse responsible for the cntaS-
trophe carried a lady. In a novel we read
years ago. we remember an Illustration
showing two gentlemen in the act of
taking a fence. One wore a beard and
mcuStaChe. the other Il mouStache. Two
pages further on the hero hay prostrlte
on the ground. his faithful friend bend
ing over him and administering restora-
tiveS: both were clean shaver. mere
have been innumera Bile instances of text
and illustration being at Variance. and
Dickens, Of all authors has probably sui
fered the most. Some time ago we re-
fefred 10 the OLIVER Twist poster. IN
which the steps where Nancy met Mr..
Brownlow and Rose Maybe were on the
eastern side of st. Savours church. in
stead of on the western; In "Barnaby
Rudce" Phiz gives Joe Willct first right
arm only. then left: Dickens does not
mention which ne lost in ~" d"f""c" {
the Salwanners. In the sedan chair mol
dent in "Pickwick," Mr. Wrinkle is de-
ricted holding n candle though Dickens
states that il had been thrown away. In
'Dombey and Son stress is laid on the
fact that Or BHmber took only 10 pupils
at a tirle: yet IIablot Is. Browne, in tho
illustration of DIR. Blimbers young gen
tlemen as they appeared when enjoying
Themselves. gives 16-wthout Paul.
Again. we are told that Captain Cutie
was "a man with hook instead of q
hand attached to his right wrist" Phiz