The Washington herald., 1922-02-05
LITERARY LOCALS.

Fannie Hurts has engaged passage
on the Olympic" and will sail on
February IS for Egypt. Italy. and
France. While abroad. she will
finish a novel on which she Is work
ing, and which will be published by
Harper & Brothers. who brought out
her first novel. Star Dust" last
year.
How ! Would Sell Ny Book il
| Were a Bookseller" a series OF
articles in THE Bookseller. News
dealer and Ststioner." is TO give
authors a chance TO tell how they
would do il. Waldo r. Browne. who
complied, What's What in the Labor
Movement" (Huebsch) approaches
the task with proper humility. He
begins his contribution TO the series
with a quotation from Felix Dahn:
ITO write q book is an easy task;
it requires only pen and link and
some patient paper. To print a book
is slightly more difficult. and to
read n book still more difficult. as
one must struggle against sleep.
But the most difficult task that any
one may attempt is TO sell a book. q"
Mr.. Browne writes that his own
book grew directly out OF his OK
perience as a bookseller. u recalled
the need" he writes, $50 often in
dicated by many OF our customers for
what might be called a primer or 4.
B. &. OF labor affairs and relations
and problems-a popular handbook
covering the whole groundwork OF
elementary information which is es-
sential TO anv intelligent grasp Of a
subject that vitality concerns every
human being today. There was no
such book available and 80 ! prepared
one. This suggests a new and
proper school for training authors
OF non-fiction at any rate; forced
apprenticeship to booksellers would
have the salutary effect of reducing
the number of unnecessary books.
Near Eastern Affairs and Condi-
tions." by the Honorable Stephen
Panaretoff, Bulgarian Minister to the
United States. will come from the
presses next week: IL is the first of
the six volumes that The Macmillan
Campany will publish. to cover the
entire series OF lectures given at the
first session of the Institute OF Poll
tics at Williams College. Mr.. Panare-
toff sketches the history OF the
Balkan Slavs, tells OF the course of
religion. education. and politics
among them, and gives an illum'nat-
ing account OF reform tory efforts
In Turkey and their results in the
Balkan states. His summary of che
work of the Paris conference as af-
fecting the Near East is especially
worthy of attention, coming as Il does
from one who can speak with
authority.
Charlie Chapiin's first book. My
Trip Abroad" will be published by
Harper & Brothers early in February.
1t is a breezy story told with all
the favor of the stars funniest work
on the screen, and Is an unusual
chance for his great public TO become
really acquainted with him.
While Cyril McNeile's play. Bull
dog Drummond" Is having a sue
cessful run at the Enickerbocker,
George II. Doran Company will
bring out another work by Mr.. Nc
nellie called The Man in Rat
catches" which is the best colIec-
tion of mystery stories that have
been published in some time.
Nina Wilcox Putnam, author OF
west Broadway" (Doran) has been
in town for several days. She is
leaving for Tampa. Fla, where she
intends to spend the balance Of the
winter. Her new book Tomorrow
We Diet" will be published short
ly by George II. Doran Company.