Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-29
LITERARY EDITORS
ORGANIZE SOCIETY
Critics of Papers in Four Big
Cities Join in Co-opera-
tive Club

II has seemed advisable to few
literary editors to form an association or
club, limited at the outset to one repre-
sentative from each of four great popu-
lation ccntors Of the country. This club
has been formed, comprising tho literary
editors Of the New York Tribune, the
Chicago Tribune. the Philadelphia EVEN
ING LEDGER and the Boston Daily Ad-
vertiser The members Of this club will
unite i'm an effort TO improve the quality
Of the present criticism Of books in the
daily press, by printing in their columns
only honest, fearless reviews Of the
literature Of the day. They will exchange
their own reviews Of the vital books Of
the year, for simultaneous publication, In
part or complete, in the four papers
which they serve that their separate
fields Of readers may receive the benefit
OF criticism Of important books 10y more
than one editor
Tho Literary Editors Club has ar
ranged to receive exclusive matter, to he
given to the public only through the
columns of the four papers concerned
Letters from authors, apprcciatlons Of
we'll known writer's by other equally we'll
known writer's important plans I'm the
publishing worlds of this and other coun-
tries, will he features Of this exclusive
material
In every season Of publishing there are
a few books of supreme value for their
treatment OF intricate problems, mainly
social. economic and political At inter-
walls books of this nature will be reviewed
by men and women who are recognized
as authorities i'm their particular fields
and their reviews will appear only I'm the
New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune,
the Philadelphia EvENING LEDGER and
the Boston Daily Advertiser.
The Literary Editors Club is a union
of four editors who are convinced that
much of determinate good can be accom-
plished through cooperation. There will
be no compulsion on any one Of the four;
each IS free to say exactly what he thinks
of any book or any author. In printing
a consensus Of opinion on a book fixed
upon as a subject of Joint criticism ad-
verse and favorable views will appear in
the same column,
Already the French publishers have
notified all writers that they will not pub
lish, when peace is restored any books
on the war;" writes a Correspondent to
thte London World. "As i'm the case of
books, so il will be i'm everything as re-
CARDS the theatre. No doubt there will
he some patriotic pieces and dramas of
kindred nature, but for the most part
theatre managers will stage serious PLAYS
or really bright comedies dramatic
author said to me recently; DO you not
imagine that the two or three million
young men now at the front will, after
the war, prefer to hear something which
VIII give them "A variation from the noise
of shells and shrapnel?' I believe this
a ID frFNf s1t,I
theatre will be decided by these young
men"
The John Lane Company is Issuing a
new volume to its handsome edition Of
the Works of Anatole France i'm an Eng
lish Translation, edited by Frederic Chan
man. The new volume contains Grain
quebille, Putois, Riquet and Other Pro-
htable Tales" The English version is
by Winifred stephens.
The first volume of the official history
OF the Panama-Pacific International Ex-
position will be ready for the press within
a few weeks after the exposition closes,
on December 4.
Dodd Mead & Co., the American pub
fishers Of the late Henri Fabre, the en-
tomologist. who died on October II, have
issued an illustrated pamphlet describing
his life and works, which may be had
free on application. The firm has Just
issued Fabres THE Hunting Wasps."
Under the title, "Women at The
Hague" the Macmillan Company will
issue shortly an account of the interna-
tional congress of women held at The
Hague in April of this year. The authors
are Jane Adams, Emily Greene Balch
and Alice Hamilton. The volume will
also contain an appendix on continuous
mediation by a delegate to the congress
from the University of Wisconsin, as
we'll as the resolutions adopted