The sun., 1918-09-08
Books and the People Who Make Them
VOLUME III. Of Valentines Man

Henry Collins Brown, will be ready in
November and will have four features in
cclors. The first Of these is series Of
twelve obi plates of the New York clipper
ships, incluing the Dreadnought, the Three
Brothers and the Flying Cloud. The
fashionable parade in Battery Park in
1929 is the subject Of another color plate.
The third feature is view of Broadway
in 1S48, showing all the buildings on both
sides from 1 Broadway to Trinity Church.
Lastly there is bird's-eye view looking
south from Forty second street and Fifth
avenue in 1855, just the sort Of thing
grandfather saw looking down from an
airplane.
The September Bookman, we under
stand, represents throughout the general
ideas Of George FL. Doran, its new owner;
Eugene +. Saxton, his aid, and Robert
Cortes Holiday, who is actively associated
In the task of editing the monthly. They
are likable ideas. One that is new in the
Bookmdn is serial-Jeremy, by Hugh
WalpOle. The Gossip Shop consists of
news and notes; the Bookman Limited is
intended to be a monthly guide to new
publications; Where to Buy Books enables
the booksellers to put their best foot
or feet-forward. Joseph Hergesheimer
photographers after the manner of
Joseph Conrad in A Personal Record
only Hergesheimer calls 'em Some Vera
eious Paragraphs. Henry van Dyke,
Maurice Francis Egan, H. w. Boynton
and Arnold Bennett are all in together,
but Mr.. Bennett has not brought Christine
with him; he is discoursing upon The Fear
Of Knowledge. Some do dread knowing
as much about the West End of London
as Arnold does Mr.. Holiday writes
about Booth Tarkington's new book two
months before its publication, which is an
almost indecently unprofessional thing
for him to do. Books and the Book World
vii. say what should be said about it
around the end Of October, when the Tar
kingtonian can buy copy.
Mr.. George P. Brett, president of the
Macmillan Company, has been made
chairman of the booksellers and pub
fishers division of the Fourth Liberty
Loan. A very energetic campaign is sure
to develop in the near future.
S. Herzog's The Future Of German In
dustrial Exports will be published by
Doubleday, Page & Company. This is
the full and comprehensive and probably
official plan of the German Government
for commercial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT after the
war of arms is ended. The Herzog plan
is twofold and contemplates the most
ruthless measures ~ to retain in Ger
many certain industries, the products of
which are to be sold to the outside world
willy-nilly; and (2) to obtain for Ger
many the raw materials she must have
These are to be got by using the German
Essential products" as club held over
the heads of manufacturers and con-
sumers in other countries.
A particularly painstaking translation
has been made of this treatise on trade
frightfuness and the American Govern
ment is understood to be anxious that the
book shall be studied as widely as pos
siblc.
Boni e. Liveright have had TO raise the
price of volumes in the Modern Library
from 60 cents to 20 cents 1t is wholly
the result of the increase in publishing
costs. The extra dime will deter no one
who knows these books, and if it would
serve to bring them to the attention of
more people we could wish them to sell for
over 70 cents. There are now fifty titles
in the Modern Library, including some of
the best books written in the last hundred
years, and fifteen more titles are being
added this month by such authors as
Woodrow Wilson, May Sinclair, DAN
nunzio, Tolstoy, Francois Villon, Frank
Norris and Henry James.