The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
|ENGLAN GAINS IN
new BOOKS IN 1905 )
Total Output for the Year Is
6,s17 Against 6,456
in 1904. 49,.
New York Herald Special Cable Service. Cop
risht 1905. hY tho New York Herald.

New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy
right, 1909, by tho New York Herald.
London, Jan. 27.-From clearly ar
ranged analytical cables given by the
publishers circular, one finds that the
total number Of new books published
in this country in 1905 was 6,S17, as
compared with 6,45e In 1904. Among
these fiction in 1905 accounted for
1873 books, and in the preceding year
for Just two volumes less.
Looking back over previous years it
is found that the total number of new
books has increased In almost every
year since 1890. For the years before
that figures are not accurate. In that
year the number was 4,414.
|, In the case Of new works of fiction
an almost constant increase for the
same period is shown, tho there were
occasional lapses. For instance, there
was fall from ], 147 in 1892 to 935
in 1898, while SO long ago as 1897 the
number of new novels was more than
200 in excess Of that for 1905. Still,
that enormous public which regards
literature and new fiction as synony-
| nous could read four fresh novels and
part of a fifth every day Of the year.
Church1u S BOOK out. 10
Winston Churchill has signalized his
| accession to his new liberal faith by
publishing the book Of the season, and
A. E. w. Mason, who has won manu-
featuring constituency, has reached a
| pleasant position without showing the
| stigmata Of popular novelist. Among
the younger men Hilaire Belize has
written brilliantly on many subjects
including some excellent verse both of
a light and serious kind. C. F. G.
Masterman is effective both as a speak,
er and writer. He made a stir by
that striking little book, "The
Abyss, and recently published cir
Peril Of Change G.. P. Gooch is .
Cambridge historian who has writter
"The History Of English Democratic
Ideas in the Seventeenth Century,
and "Annals Of Politics and Culture
l492-lS99.''
The success which Winston Church
ills life of his father is having ma,
be gathered from the fact that on,
London circulating library has now
1900 copies Of it in use.
4 Voyages Of Columbus.
i Ellison Young is at present engaged
On a life and account Of the voyages
| Of Christopher Columbus, which Gran
Richards hopes to have ready for pub
LEGATION in the autumn. English litera
ture on the subject Of Columbus lif
is comparatively meagre, partly OWN,
to the fact that most Of the origina
documents are widely scattered thru
cut Spain and Italy. Moreover, Their
| is reason to believe that collectors hav
in their possession a good MANY orig
inal charts and documents relating t
voyages. Filson Youn
hopes that any one who has portraits
charts, maps, letters or other docu
ments Of this kind will assist him b
communicating with him on the sui
ject at the address of the publisher.
There will be issued shortly HVe1
sailles and It's Court Under Loui
XIV" by James e. Farmer. Begir
hing with the inception Of the plan
! for the palace and the laying out o
The grounds, the author goes on to dc
scribe in detail the glories. Of the fir
ished work. There is also much abou
, the method Of the work, the dali
routine, the foibles and the characte
or the grand monarque.
New Novel by Lucas Malet.
q Lucas Malet, who, of course, is Mr..
st. Leger Harrison, has decided to ca
her rev novel The Far Horizon. = ]
will be issued in the spring b
I Hutchinson.
A new story by Robert Kitchens
tc appear in autumn. It's title will +
"3The Call Of the Blood and tn
! scene and action are laid in Sicily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson have wri
s ten story which they entitle Lad
f Betty. Across Water. It tells of th
j. experiences and adventures of youn
: English girl who goes to America f
the first time. It abounds in contrast
sharply comparing English and Amer
Can manners and customs. A 10,
' story begins on the ship that taxi
d Lady Betty to America and runs thu
the book.