The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-17
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The New York Timss's Saturday Re view thinks that the London book publishers arc disoussing with sur prfsing frankness," the over-produo- ton of books. Quite . number oi them. 1t says. trace the blame in par' to the 'copoetition of royal authors. or rather the great popularity oi Queen Alexandra's picture book and Queen victorta's 'Letters," which. to- gethsr with q much advertiser cheap edition of Morley's Life of Gladstone. detracted from the sale of other books But this is not the only nor is 1t held to be the principal cause of the un- satisfactory book season. Out of eleven leading publishers who express their views. no less than seven unite in saying that "overproduction" was the chief underlying cause of poor business. This is rather startling present-day confirmation of the Bibli- cal assertion that ''of making many books there Is no end" Several of the publishers elaborate upon the class and character of the books issued. Tn my opinion." says MT. Gerald Duck worth. there are too many authors. too many books published. and too many publishers" Mr. Eveleigh Nash writes: Tho market was flooded with mechanical fiction. and the public detected the grinding of the machine" The Hon. L. J. Bathurst remarks: ''The publishers are to blame. The public arc weary of the 'machine-made' novel. Far too many novels are issued, and most of them are appallingly bho. Finally. Mir J. M. Dent says: There ing value in the market last year: at least so it appears to us"
 Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. in recent symposium in The Times. thus "sar- casses" the antisuffragfsts: Having been so recently assured that the anti suffragists have all the common sense, I hesitate to take up your valuable space with arguments that lack Of this saving grace. l reel aiso that 1t would be much more womanly to go into the highways and the byways to secure votes for my cause by means of personal charm and attractfvenes. but the thought that there are over million and a half voters in New York city alone makes this method seem rather appalling even win the help of the other suffragtsta
 Then, too, all women can not be Recamiers and de Staels--some be- cause they have not enough beauty and others because they have too much principle. If they could, however, there are not enough kings and emperors to so around. and when 1t comes to usinG personal charm on some Of the legis- lators and political bosses who must be influenced. we'll. really one must be pardoned for prefering to use the pen.
 "The dominating wish of those who are striving to secure political power for women Is to relieve them from the dearedation of having to get what they wanted by means of personal charm A car load of 'antis will de- scend upon the legislators next We'd nesday fully equipped with personal charm to be used for the purpose or preventing any action that would eh- able other women to obtain what they need except through this same means They will play directly into the hands of such men as already take that same point of view, and are only too siao to put the responsibility for IL on the women themselves"
 The Baroness von Suttner has just written a history of her life. whieh has been published by the Dsuts.n' Verlanganstalt" of Stuttgart and Leip- zig. The "Memorien von Bertha von suttner" Is full of the warm sympathy and keen intelligence which has char acterized the life of its author. Many experiences and incidents in the lives of many characters prominent Tn nineteenth century history are to pc found among its pages.
 In 1887 the Baroness first heard or the existence of the International Peace and Arbitration Association and in 1890 was published her Lay Down Your Arms" which has since been translated into all European languages and sold in hundreds of thousands of copies.
 The firm of Ginn and Company has secured the rights to publish the ''Memorien'' in all English speaking countries, and will shortly bring out an English edition.
 London society was interested and surprised this week to discover that the Duchess of Marlborough has be- come literary.
 Excerpts from her article on "wo- mans Place in the World" published in The North American Review. are being printed in London. and are at tracing much attention. Society suf- fragists are led to believe that the Duchess has become one of them. Ger tainly the tone of her article proves that she believes in the widest legal rights for women. The Duchess's lit- erary style is generally admired. though some critics suggest that 1t is too masculine.
 The Duchess discusses the relative standards of honor among men and women. All we wish to establish.' 9 she says. lis that woman's sene of honor Is not expected to be either logical or rational; and that It's con ception is purely masculine. One of the first reforms women should set themselves when franchise enables them to do so Is to establish a moral standard for women in which every iota will not be relative to the sex question"
 If the Duchess would write her ex- periences of London society as she found 1t she would create the literary sensation of the year She remains in Switzerland with her children until the spring. She skates daily at the rinks of St. Moritz. Mrs. Tiffany is staying with her.
 Mrs. Grace Whitney Hon, the friend of the American girl student in Paris. has been active in establishing a stu dent hotel in the French capital on the Boulevard St. Michel. Formerly convent the building was turned into It's present use of a model hotel for American girls after the religious orders were driven from France
 Thirty women have been nominated for places on the school board of Phil adelphia. Among them is Miss Emily Hallowell, sister of Miss Ann Hallo- well. the first woman ever appointed to the Philadelphia Board of Educa- ton. Miss Emily Halloweu was for number of years the head of a pri-