The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
DEMAND FOR FOREIGN BOOKS
~ IWPORTl ELEMENT IN
THE TRADE ~ NEW IORk.

ltCSmes Prem English speaking Reader
~ We'll Ra prem FUrelEnrrs ~ th'
G'ily nnd Coyers = wise Rann, a
Literature New French Publications
A glance through any Of the monthly
guides 10 current literature will give
one q fair notion Of the booksellers tasl
IN keeping up to date. II seems ariuow
enough to deal with the hooks Of one
language alone. hut a great part II ths
trade, in one book store of this city al
least is IN foreign made hooks
Even the managers Of Brentano'
themselves couldn't tell how many foreign
hooks thew sell without going 10 a deal ol
computation: hut they know that their
patronage is steady and covers all the
/ ramifications Oi the prominent foreign
literatures. chiefly the German and French
An Interesting point in the foreign
hook trade. the reporter was told, is
, that Il rests almost entirely upon the
native English speaking population. II
We should depend upon the French colony.
| for instance. for the sale Of our French
books, we'd have a pretty hard time
II II. The German colony is larger.
Of course. and has larger and wider de-
mSnds for literature.
One class Of our hest patrons IL COM
posed Of educated women who read French
a. they do English Il has been q part
81 their education and they naturally
keep up with French editions AZ they
do with English The large majority
II such patrons of course. ask for fiction.
and We have n be able to supply these
demands 70 the minute; but fiction is
by no means the only branch 81 French
literature in constant request
The fact that in this city French plays
40 large a part in education creates a
demand for childrens books including
hooks for boys and albums of verse for
young children. all for general reading
apart from text books The same holds
good for German. though In a possibly
less degree. there is a supply for all wants.
As YOU might suppose. the book COT
lectors are among our best patrons.
They may want rare editions oi the old
Classics. or they may want gradually
% get together a French library. or
German or Italian o. spanish. with vol
umes in uniform binding II was in
realization q this want that We produced
our series n works Of the great French
writers. having the hooks speCiAllv hound
in Paris. and Of such wide selection that
our patrons car make up themselves a
Lin rary according to their own tastes.
Then there are men. worker and think
ers in various lines, who regularly read
what ia 90 their interest in the other
languages. TRANSACTIONS are many. but
IN these DAYS Of continual research and
advance no amount ~ translation can
keep mace with the scientific the religious
the political and al the other lines 81
thought and activity that ara constantly
Appearing IN foreign articles and books
and which never get translated into our
LnguHge.
There are many places which cater 20
this want and IN our catalogues YOU can
500 We do also. We keep up n date
catalogues. including an departments
for French hooks German, spanish and
Italian text books for the study II all
foreign languages You can see the
SCOPE
poeucal anthOlogies. literary ezsT ~
biographical works, standard fiction
looks Tor children in French. novels and
stories guide books. ar criticisms, his
t1ricdl literature. dramas, scientific dis
zertatloRs and even cOuk hooks In German
showed something 81 the vide range q
the foreign literary product Consumed IN
this city.
We even have hargain sales con-
tinued the speaker
And SURF enough over in one front
corner NJ the big basement SalesrOom
long tables were decorated with posterN
bearing inscriptions such a.; French
books. 10 cents. German books 10 cents
We have 10 have a clearing up ever
so often" he continued There h little
81 everything there-and some Of the
books sold a. hugh a. 81 apiece
over by the tables an oddly assorted
crowd Was inspecting the wares. There
was an Episcopal clergyman. a school
younEster. a fashtonahly dressed young
woman. a woman whose appearance he
tokened the teacher. and others drawn
by the ten cent lure The assortment
u books was a. various. u held MignOrs-
plenty aud simple recitatiOns for the
child Of TO year,, and with a vide
leap books public par une sOCi"fe a emi
nents professors de litterateur franCaise
IN Angleterre
This boob store IN ne realization Of
the importance ~ US foreign buying
clientele regularly devoles space to
comments on foreign hooks and writers
IN It's ROCk Chd'. which IL publishes
monthly for he book buving public
and the collectors % rare hooks For
instance the department Books and
Bookmeu- vas opened thus IN the issue
for the last month.
The more well known women writer's Ia
france have been busy lately and have
succeeded IN grIuns some very saccsssful
novels Col0tts Nusr. the lady who wrote
- Princessp- De Science takes The emguci- /
pat ION NJ women for her subject ~ Les .
Danes 90 P1lats The hook 10 a fue pierre b
81 pleading for he possibilities " women
a. LAWYERS
AnOthT lady. Madame Marcel Tinayrs.
vas in Turkey NJ the time ~ the recent /
revolution vhi,h resulted IN he overthrow .
~ tho Old sultan Her impressionsin Notes
dune NovaEeIse IN Iurduie- are we'll .
worth reading, more especially FOR her .
description 0f NE in iha harem Pierre
7 0t has already dealt with ms Interesting
matter In hiS Dissnchanted. blt NADIA ne
riuayre because NJ her sex. hss had or
pOrtuutttss Tor observation which could
not b" open ~ Pierre i.ofi. Her new novel.
]. Ombre De Amour II cert ain 10 he
" delv read Another side Of Tho woman
question j. abiy deaf with nv Madame
l.ucie Delarue Mardrus M LAcharner