The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-06
100 e NOVELS.
Autumn Output In Engiand-Beet Seller
In eummer-CheaDer hooks.

iFcNboNi mug. u III hohSSy Do.3oH
has bean prod table for English book
sellers. The fact Is rather remarkable,
as the weather has been moro conducive
to outdoor life and outdoor sports than
usual. but the novel reading public Of
Great Britain Is growing in numbers and
even fine weather has not been sufacient
to diminish their increasing desire for
books as a part OF the vacation pastimes.
or course holiday tastes are largely
catered to In the spring and summer
publications. Light love storiea and tales
Of adventure are welcomed by publishers
as being sure Of summer sales. Said q
we'll known bookseller In London Q day
OF two ago: ,-.r..r.
The holiday public in England has
got into such q condition of pampered
hedonism that practically nothing but
the lightest Of light fiction has q chance,
Like Pauline and Claude Melnotte II viii
read no books that are not Of lovers,
no tale that Is not OF love- -
This same bookseller prophesied for the
near future the publication Of new si.6O
novels at rs cents, or a shilling. The
cheap reprints Of stories in ~ cent paper
editions and II cent o~lothbound pocket
editions make such q state Of affairs
probable. for the vogue Of these reprints
shows the enormous public that even the
most popular books missed in their six
shilling form.
there has been 10 great sensation among
them. Far and away the most widely
bought move LIST has bem Baroness 0rozy.
Her three most popular books. The
Scarlet Pimpernel.' Il Win Repay and
"A Son of the People, have sold in tens
Of thousands all over the country. -
Marion Crawford is high up on the list
too. with Soprano Stanley weyman's
wild Geese has sold splendidly, and an
American success has been achieved by
a purely local American story. mir.
Crewe's Career by Winston Churchill.
which is plaoei among the most popular
books Of the day In England. -
In the cheap editions 1t is Rider Has-
gard who has been most bought. -Ayeeha,
has scored over all other reprints In sales,
The autumn book q begins in .
few days, and with such q successful sum
mer an even more prosperous autumn 10
expected. as
Mrs. Humphry Wards Diana Mallory
will be among the first books to appear.
while Miss Marie Corelli's Holy Orders
will follow closely and will be a~nxiously
awaited by q tremendously large English
public who welcome any work Of hers.
The number Of middle class English house:
holds which possess complete sets Of,
Marie Corelh's books Is Lagoon. They
would also have framed pictures of her
and hang them with the royalties who
adorn their drawing rooms. but that her
photographs are not to be had for love
or money. d. %.
Robert Kitchens has Anew novel and
a serious work on Egypt and it's Monu-
,nents.- -" y, -.
The ubiquitous Hall Caipe being deep
in playwriting and d~ramatxing will only
be represented this fall by his auto
biography. which is running now In q
penny ms Magazine. &C.
A real disappointment 10 that there
will be no Kipling book this year. 49,
OF the three noteworthy noveiists
with whom English il an acquired Language
Joseph Conrad's "A Set Of SIX is'already
on sale, and Samuel Gordon's The New
Galatea' will make an early appearance,
The third Of this trilogy .Maarten Martens.
has nothing to contribute to English
literature till after Christmas.
Among the posthumous books are
-Helianthus.' by Ouida; The Royal
End by Henry Harland. and Aunt
Jane and Uncle James, by Allan Raine.
a Welsh writer. who died 4 short time
ago and was little known in London, but
very popular all through the provinces.
H, de vcre Stackpoole. who o fame
with THE Blue Lagoon and caused II
to totter a little with the exaggerated
AID inartistio Cottage on tho Fels.'
will doubtless achieve an American a.
we'll as an English success with -Patssy.'
tho tale Of a wild Irish boy. written in his
best vein.
W. W. Jacobs's 'Salthaven. the Strand
seria! in book form. is oil, he is going to
put on the market. but his prototype.
Petit Ridge, who does In stories Of lands
men what Jacobs does with those who
follow the sea. has q new book, 20 Bernam
Road" another careful and humorous
study Of those who toll.
Among the American writer's who are
included In the publishers lists for au-
tumn novels are Jack London. whose work
is very popular here; Booth Harrington.
Robert Chambers. also favorites. and
Upton Sinclair. whose jungle had q
large English sale. but whose Metropolis
did not score at all
Anthony Hope. Eden Phillpotts. Rita,
Beatrice Harraden. Horace Vaohell. Z. r.
Benson, Mrs. Henry Dudeney. Flora
Annie Steele. q. @. Wells. Fergus Hume.
w. B. Maxwell, who are all International
literary lights, will have novels brought
out soon, as will william de Morgan. the
writer who never had a book published
till he was 40. and now tuns out one a
year. each an improvement on it's prede-
cessor
In all $50 new novels will be issued soon
in London In addition to those there will
be about a hundred or 90 volumes OF
history, travel. biography and theology.
which some Of the famous printing houses
in England publish every year with no
hopes Of big sales but to keep up with
the traditions OF the house.
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