Alaska sentinel., 1907-07-25

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The first known book catalogue was issued In 1584 In Augsburg Germany. by one George Willer. It was q quarto or nineteen pages. and recorded the titles of two hundred mad ffty-six books arranged in classes.
 Hand lists or posters were printed as early as 1469 by Johann Mentel tor Mentelin), of Strasburg. who printed the first edition of the Bible in 1465 or 1466. The first catalogue in Eng land was printed In 1895 by John Win det for Andrew Maunsell, bookseller.
 Richard Harding Davis will make a contribution to motor fiction with his forthcoming book, The Adventures of the Scarlet Car" It Is an account of some exciting experiences that hap pened to the Scarlet Car and to the girl and the men who were in 1t. The new story will be illustrated by Fred erick Don Steel.
 The Cambridge History of English Literature, which Is to follow the plan of the Cambridge Modern History, will be published in fourteen volumes and will cover the whole of English lltera- ture from Beowulf to the end of the Victorian age. Each chapter will be the work of writer especially familiar with the subject, and the purpose of the history Is to give a connected ac- count of the different movements, to treat the minor writers adequately and not to allow them to be overshadowed by few great personalities.
 The largest library in the world, which Is the Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris, contains three million volumes. The next largest library is In the Brit ish Museum, where reposing on musty shelves are two million books. The Imperial library at St. Petersburg con tains million and a half volumes. The New York City library Is the largest in the United States and contains one million fourteen thousand books The Harvard library Is the largest college library In America, containing nine hundred and ten thousand volumes.
 The manuscript of Arthur H. Smiths forthcoming book, America and China" has reached the publishers from Shanghai. pr. Smiths skill as statesman has more than once called him Into action as an unofficial repre- sentative of the United States in China and as an ambassador of China in America. The new volume attempts to point out Americas opportunities, ad- vantages and disadvantages as well as responsibilities In the new era now dawning in China. The author calls 1t 'an outline sketch In charcoal of the general relations between America and China"
 Commenting on the dispute between MT. Zangwill and Bernard Shaw as to how far they are merely commercial ly minded in joining the Society of Authors, Clement Shorter says: 1T know no author who Is better at bar gain as to 50 much per thou than Mir. Zangwill; I know no journalist who has given editors so mucL trouble in past years as to the precise amount be should receive per column as Der hard Shaw. On the other hand Mir Zangwill has given to the ideal-some of us think a most fantastic ideal of Zionism an inf1nity of labor which If he devoted to writing new novels would have brought him hundreds of shekels that he has had to forego. Der hard Shaw again Is the least mercenary of human beings. He Is generosity personifed, although his hatred of cant sometimes leads to his being mlsunder- stood m this uoint u