The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-09
BOOKS WITH LARGE SALES
FIRST or an ~ TBE BIBLE
-DTCkENS STILL POPCLAR.
~ Rs.Ir Toms Cabln' N0 Loagsr . Rest
settler a.reat Pront Ia "BeO lsur''
statistics SG the safe 90 Nsodega Fls-
ton Demand Tar ire Oadrr BOsAA.

statistics OG the safe Sr WoaegR Fte-
Ilsn demand Tar Inc Oaarr wssAn.
IN an the hst- nf hest sellers the old
books maintain iN~ir place ~ the head,
t"pDed Nv the olde 81 OC all. the one whose
very name means the book FOr ~
the Bible the sales are recorded IN figures
hsyond the grasp Of the average mind.
not IN hundreds or thousands ar mil
. lions even. but IA hundreds Of millions.
IL" American Bible Socisty alone
has distributed m the last ninety years
over ~ SD.UN The British and Foreign
Bible Su'leiy sends nut from London
alone 1tsD volumes = day. every day
, IN the week every week In the year.
, tot alhng 10 900 day with its ont of town
. depois ia one year n issues over 5000. =
{ nsD copies; sinCe its commencement a
total Of ISL. ID.uOO. Two hundred dit
ferent languages. many OT them rapidly
dying. are represented in the yearly
editions
IN ingenious calculator. computing
that about eD.OOOO copies were in
circulation and reckoning the average
s,Ge ~ he 5X6' .NI', inches. figured up
that i.GI2 va c,Ibc feet % Bibles are in
existence. from which a wall siX feet
high could I've built 10 reach 900 miles.
from New York to Buffalo. or from Lon
don to G-nsva. Switzerland. One sheet
made Trofn the pAper used would cover
SIS ~ AIRES volume by volume an area
of I 90 acres would be covered. A Feet
NJ eighty vessels esould be required TO
transport the volumes. each vessel aver
sgBg I3lOtuns.
10 English speaking countries second
90 the demand for the Bible comes that
FOR shakespeare None ~ the almost
numberless editions Al various prices
= recent edition hroke the worlds record
Cor coat by containing 10 volumes at
~ .O0o each ever goes begging.
Washington Irving'S hooks were un-
usually profitable for the period. bringing
HIM ~ s25O on IN the last fifteen years Of
hts life lFter his first set of books had gone
cut Of print Throughout the nineteenth
century "R!D Van winIla- held its own 40
one " the Rest sellers The works Of
Scott and II Hawthorne. especially Ivan
hce and The Scarlet Letter sell stead-
iv
There are those who say that Dickens
is not generally iead any more. hut the
record ~ sales shows that he 10 bought
nevertheless For more than seventy
yesTs -pickwick Papers has headed the
lie, for humorous fiction up 90 the present
nav ant David Copperfield- has held iSs
own - well
Vanity Paw still remains best seller,
though there - not a. great demand
for ThacksraV a. for Dickens lev
Nall4 - Ben HUI WAS one 81 the e7rly
Ayuert..1n novels 20 climb up into the
kWi.lrSd thousand class and " still keeps
,'s popularity. \ strange similarity Is 20
=. he fHanra - ~ lauA
su'hor and George du MAurier. The
FIRE, books 20 zach, The Fair God and
Peter Ihb~tson.- were barely success-
tul tho second two. Zen Hur- and
-Triley. had extraordinary aales: the
third books The Prince ~ India and
The Nnrttgn." were awaited with great
sxpsf ltiuns only ." futter Ia a speedy
AMI 1uie' teeth
n 10 eSrfuga,e,' that R@n Hur- 10 still
bringing - he family ~ its author some
tnln= Ike 49, 81 a year- Seven or eight
v@srS e. when the nov.n was drAmatized ,
= fresh spir' came m sales When first J
published the book dragged and had been
nearly gwen No when a. an age when the
average novel Of to-day "a forgotten
v entered upon lie lsng career a. a best
SELLER
-CncIe Toms Cabin sold over SOoO0o ,
copies during 10 first four years; within .
. very few vears It~ sales had 80 fallen I
&C a. 10 remove u from the ranks % the
best seller
Only few ~ the noveIists can stand
w against the most popular poets. In
this country LonRfellow Dutssils the
pcets 80 ell Countries ave Shakespeare.
whittier comes next. TennySon outsslla
the nnoet ~ the native poets, With Brown
iug m \ 'cios~ a~cnud. The rale ~ Fitz-
Gerald translation ~ Omar Khayyam
since the expiration 81 the copyright
tv@ntv wear age has h~en = breaker -
oil records
Clsss'hAd roughly according 90 the
nature - their appeal. the following
recent story books show the trend -
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sooss ~ WEEKDAY LIVE
sps,r- H.rur Weston 5.5.@o
'HTs w,ss- % the cabbage PA'ch.- Ahce
H-g-n Pb. saS nm
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-. ~ Pilo' Rslph ConRor ..... 1o.@D
IRE Nsr from Glengsrrg Ralph C0an0r. iso.1D
The Ss'En 81 Isw Isms, lane ABeu is0Io
FoN,NrIr.
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'roro'h, 'erroH Cnsriss Naicr ssa@D
-The "snIusn Nan Csine 1909
-Vbsn Enighthood Wa IN Flower
Carries Major sDwD
10 Hs's snd ~ Hold Mar Johnston NOWO
-1.ers, Mar, Johnston Iss0p
-Ths Heins' % N4,srr- Bertha RunkIe iOa0oo
- NJ Jungle BOOK Fudl ard kIptag i7aOo
-rne~ HoId~- irving Rs~hclisr sn0 m0
"pNf anI~afs 7 H-Ee hnoWn Ernest
S,tcr rsour.or . ID0o
Ito 'rfsl- george cable IsoDo
~Co-o'r Erttr ThoTnss Nelson Psge g0O0
"Hugf Nrrn~ or Nt-hst ... i.sOD
Nof long ago an Indiana firm sold more
than 100 on cloth hound copies Of twenty
i've volumes Nv Mrs south worth. Mary
.lnna Hr.lrnea and Ananiafa 4 Erana A