The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-24
The STORY OF"BLACK BEAUTY"
= O,O. OD COPIES HuE BEEN
>OLD IN AMERICA,
Yet u VA, Once Refused by Publishers ~
Promising Ne Preni It's Author =
1rIppIe VINO Sprnt SiN Nears on the
uoaE aud Died when % Was Finished.

. -
,,sr.-,n publishers was when they
,.rn.-I down the chance Ia bring mt
.par. Beauty IN this country II was
o.. .t,. George T. Angel, the friend Ut
. ,.r,raIS. who launched the book IN
Awer.'
Ne r,.,siv,,I his introduction in " m
I.rrrarv 1891. when an English copy
~. ...nt tn him hy "A New York freud
Although u was thirteen years since the
Ian. r,i been brought ont Ia England
l.. had never heard of IL, Int a. soon rs
h.. rr,d o b" knew that he had found the
t.us hc had long been hoping Tor.
=. o.. palr u For NOR. than twenty
v..r, I had been sure that somebody
,...., write book having the same IN
= ..n.,. 10 arol,-hinR cruelty 10 horses
.. .tg,.' Toms Cabin had on the dhnli-
ulr = slavery
4. ..,1u ~ he had read Black Beauty
h.. declared his wish TO live long enough
I, prrt and distribute a million copies.
~. more than realized that wish. Tor
when ha died last year he had been IN
sirlm.ntal ~ causing from two tn thre"
Million copies to he published. and the.
sli was not vet IN sight.
The first American edition was brought
out IN iSsO and at once received more than
A thousand favorable press notices such
fee advertising in the daily papers
through, unprecedented attention to the
horse story and in ninety days from rs
publication 10y the American Humane
Education Society TO.OO copies were
ordered
The same society has recently placed
an order for 5000 copies. and this eX-
ac,lv tNenty years after MIR Angel first
discoy cred the book to the American
reading public The records NJ the
American Humane Education Society
show that that organization alone has
published over Sco.OO copies Of Black
Bsauiy- within a score Of wears.
In the same time the book has
hfen printed by many other publishers
both from plates generously loaned by
The society and by several independent
firms - that Mir Angeles estimate ~ a
total circulation IN America VI about
9aoo1D copies is considered bv experts
not to be exaggerated
Probably IN book since the invention
Of printing. except the Rible. has been
gwen away IN such large quantities
a. has Black Beauty writes Guy
Richardson IN the National HdgnsinS
Friends It horses have sometimes rand Tor
A. many a. a thousand copies Of BLACK
Beauty for free distribution Another
reason for the tremendous circulation ~
The volume Is the readiness with which
periodicals. have used II as a premium
MANY workers in the humane cause
ar" s'ill selling the book al cost ami dis
orninatsly giVing 1t away. 80 that the
American Humane Education society
hnds now after having extensively adj
ver'ired Black Beauty- for twenty years
and having itself gwen away the volume
bv thousands that II requires at least
Is 'su copies annually to supply the de
manis still being received at it's office
One " 10 last shipments. made in July.
"a ~ gOo cruisS n EnClish 10 Robert
C.Iies" 'ni..tantIurpI" vh"r" tho" vii
he Distributed among all N" English
schools Of Turkey. aui ~" ropk 10 T."
translated mt" both IurN ~ ard ~
menian Tor distribution among no" natives
no nave not Learned English
A glance at the library 81 the American
Humane Education Society shows tho
wide extent 10 which this remarkable
'pok has been translated already INTO
foreign languages. These include Aratic, b
printed AZ Beirut SYRIA: HindiI-ian. Luck I
TOW lNto, Hn1Stan. al"'ffa. 1871.
Telugu India. Madras Isas. Italian
.urenc.. Sps Italian. Turn. iSoI Greek
l" dorm Athens. 1885, French. I.au-
sam" Switzerland lS'?. and SSei.~r.
ur"Hrr. 1920
B.-lds. those .di' .ou- rrut.i abroad
'-a 's-pN has u""n putl-t'i 90 German IN
II ..rua'i m Spanish ~ New N0rS and .u
Italian ~ Boston. only ia. uih"r dav
e. 'rl.-'l.r to China related that sn., rai
s"'' ''" story printed A. serial 90 a
ra'.." magazine A. Shanghdr u j.
= 2 liant that the two most -ucc,--fvI
E..rf. stones ever written wrr,. com
.'f uv women. one English ari the
r't.r ausdIan for Mise Saunder- = n,s-"
'h"1 f'Il Joe was a priz" story pi the
h~.r-.. AN Humane Education Sr,I-tv .
l. q ra'y" and resident of Halfah In"
rt'I ..'Ir history Of Anna Sawell las
'r..' nan IN" parallel IN English lItara-
p .-. humble nome in Yarmouth.
o. ''... for IN" from her teens and death
, - after o." Success 81 her book in ing
la... am" Known
He mot ner was writer Of hooks. usr
Ia 90 BUSINESS man whose uutls, re-
a...H1 'oI milo drive from home. II .
40. IRVING her father 10 and from The .
.H.t.u -td'Ipn that Anna Imcon- ,
.,.y studied f7r BLACK B~auty.- An !
.''a...-'.~g RlinTAe oT her and ~ the in
.r " = Horace Bushnell on her work
l - ~, w ~" rrfnni-c~nce Of friend .
w.. "tl h"en yI-lttnK the family:
'... 20" carriage that was 10 take
... station came 20 the door Anna
... - ding ~ the hall enveloped IN
-'s' 'rt -Ir'o~h The futur. writer -
y F"a 4ty ws- to b" my driver. ]
'.... .'t' ~ and her mother were IN
Irving out most days without
r.'- 'f'." the understanding etwean
.'a' -. ..- and the horse being perfect
- .-.-.-'aut rain Obliged rs 10 keep
"'r"Ias Anna seemed simply
.." 's'n- m her hand. trusting
." 'n give all fhs. needed direc-
~. Pep horse She evidently believed
"a .ng . moral nature. u We
~. IL" ~ her mode 81 remons' rance.
N.r "" -ruuldn walk up this hill,
". 80" how II rams, Now. thee
30 4 .''Ie fast ~, thee would he sorry
J.. .... ." t'' a. the station
.. ~ Va- during this drive that
'.. -rT~thInR Horace Bushnell
-. ..' about animals Soon after
=. Z Black Beauty | hada little
.'r written from her sofa. in
-ty- The thoughts you gave