Are You One of the Americans Who Never Buys a Book? the Novel As It Was on the Stage
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Are You One of the Americans Who Never Buys a Book? The novel as it was on the stage. land. France and America. It is yrrlt. tense psychic atmosphere of the play ten especially for children. If Your Name Is jWomen and in the So, Legion Jewels is only imperfectly preserved Miscellaneous book. There are some things that can¬ HEART TROUBLES: THBIB Ppr**!*-^ iWÊm. not be adequately expressed in words, TION AND RELIEF. By The Into ger-s M. 1« LoalV «S* Average, Including School Books Is One for Heroine .Gets Trouble by Her Fondness and a sense of Blahop, Publish««] fc. S__Z mysterious supernatural &. W a«rial Is, New 1 : '.* L for forces at work is one of them. A popular, non-technical Each Person Diamonds bt¡£ At the same time, "The Invisible Foe" thoritativ«.« treatment of the _n. which sub'ect" is a good story. The mysterious theft should prove extremely useful' end the old mil¬ to any one who is suffering By Fred B. Pitney from which book publishing is quite WOMEN are always getting many readers will therefore find inter¬ which hastens the of form of heart trou'. / from any as much a gamble as a business. Some into lionaire, the clueto tho crime, which is THERE are 104,000,000 persona COMING themselves trouble est in this part of the story. But when THE AUTOMOBILE OWNER'S amm thirty years «go two eminent book about Jewels. Sometimes, Quelch makes love to her she in¬ concealed in a dusty book in the dead By Frank B. 8« in this country *nd 104,- gets "¦ ¦¦¦ u- publishers were at luncheon de man's library; the thrilling psychical Appleton & Co., 000,000 books aro sold here in talking as with Guy Maupas¬ sulted and frightened and pretends she Full about the young authors had on processes by which the innocent man and explicit information the course of the but they sant, they turn out to bo imitations; didn't know the gifts were from him. advice about the and year, their lists from whose books ex¬ is vindicated and the criminal revealed, baying, repairing let It not they as with Mr. Hergesheimer's Loree's acceptance of Quelch's dia¬ and of cars. be supposed from these figures to sometimes, to the driving pected make* fortunes, while the are real In mond necklace causes the death of all these elements contribute that America is a nation of book buyers. "Blue Ice," they enough. INSECTS OF BCOI « vr~ writers made reputations. One of them frail making of an unusually fascinating By «,;. nn IV H« There is no occasion for undue in both cases they lead humans into Frederick Huffe, because Huffc sold it Macmillan pride had Thomas Hardy, while the other had to The well ordered flirtation be¬ v., it tho fact that one the grim reality of a tragedy. It has Quelch and used the money for his plot. book per capita is sold W. E. Norris, and each thought the tween Dr. Latham and Mrs. Hilary re¬ A study of destructive insects in this always seemed to us that if jewels are own banking house, when the necklace the best means of and annually country. That is not a other had the winner. The result was lieves the strain of the narrative. The combating their to be mixed up in the pot of a really belonged to Huffe's client, Rachel ravages..vages. particularly high average, and such as that, as a sporting going of the novel should be enhanced proposition, they for a Solano. HufTe shoots himself. appeal * it is, it is lowered a writer's tale-ingredients tragic Caught, LEECTURES ON 1* considerably by traded. The house that traded W. E. the widespread interest in C_OGY. By '¦ PSYCBOt effect the effect to be Mrs. Cork, a widow at Loree's hotel, by present "* little For one learns almost ought tragic by E. P.P utton Ce N .-.- v delving. Norris for Thomas Hardy has made to experiments. Co.. ..;. and not have a lived-happily-forcver who ¡3 trying raise money to edu¬ psychical a_ cc.* * .--,. ...:.._.:.- immediately that of the books sold here lnrge sums from while An effort to Hardy's books, at the end of it. The writers cate her son, also falls in the power, to the apply met«*. 40 per cent are schoo'books, which are AV. E. Norris has gone from the twi¬ grin ods practical problems of em¬ above mentioned, being true curses! of Quelch, because Mrs. Cork ployment, iri~í¡a¿vi;,er. t and given away to the pupils in the public light zone into the outer darkness. artists, Books Received produc¬ built about jewels and let has stolen a diamond from his mine. tion. schools of. states that follow that polioy. Ralph Mayhew was another gamble. tragedies them stand as such. Not so with Both women are blackmailed for a Fiction TRACTOR ENGINES. By T. r Hallo,* Then one learns tnat there are exact¬ Mnyhew was a clerk in the advertising Published by in however, in her time. Mrs. Cork is coerced into THE BREATHLESS MOMENT. By Mu¬ :in« .i.-:. I. AuromoMtg bookstores in the department of Harper's. Several years Cynthia Stockley, story the John Lane Digest, ly 9,000 United States, with the hammer-blow title: "Pink Quelch's confederacy to Loree riel Mine. Published by A and so ago he conceived the idea of intrigue Company, New York. complete'course of] or. th» among them, publishers say, one writing Demons." so he can threaten into construction and económica! some for children and insert¬ Gods and Blue (Georgo II. her submission A romance touched by the war. operation only is able to live on sales of books jingles he will down of the tractor engine. in the book with the two Doran Company.) by saying "pull the temple TOUNO HEARTS. By J. B. Buckrose. alone. Boston is the best book town in ing jingles of H. Doran Com¬ MOODERN FRENCH or three records of the The are diamonds and the (her) reputation into the dust." But Published by the George COMPOSITION.- B. the country. More books are sold there phonograph pink gods pany, New York. P Quelch turns out to be an awfully nice G. P. Pul i. New York. In proportion to the population than in jingles set to music. He called the blue demons are Loraino Loreo Tem¬ Tho adventures and misadventures conscience. Loree's villain by freeing Mrs. Cork and Loree. A\ work designe<i<^... .. coveri\*er thetha «?.» »ny other city in but not a idea "The Bubble Book" and talked ple's husband, Pat, of an amateur farmer add a consider¬ first America, The former's son is drowned trying to humor to this love yea r's work in French. few of the bookstores there live on about it so much that his fellow clerk3 leaves her alone in Kimberley while he able element of ' save Quelch's son at an school their business and sidestepped him at luncheon and tries to sell cold storage plants to English story. stationery expect to far away, and the news is cabled. Loree GITS HARVKY. By Captain Charlton T.. other convivial times. After six' or merchants in Rhodesia up north on the Marshall Jones go through the process of bankruptcy, escapes to her minus her dia¬ Smith. Published by the dissolution and reorganization about seven years of continual harping on borders of the Congo. Loree, silly hubby Company, Boston. " monds, a frightened girl who has the of once "The Bubble Book one of the men girl, plays with Quelch, a wealthy dia¬ The story of boy skipper every three years. "learned a higher up in Harper's said It would mond man of Kimberley. He puts dia¬ lesson." Let readers take Cape Ann. Mr. Aldrích's Cnstont heed. Mrs. Cork and Quelch bemoan THE EVE OF PASCUA. By Richard Ds- be a good thing to print an edition of monds in her room, and she wears han. Published by the George H. Doran the mutual loss .of their sons. Thomas Bailey Aldrich used to be on© 1,500 copies of the book, so that the them. For a while it looks as though Company. New York. other men in the office could a rest. Cynthia Stockley often says that A collection of short stories by the of the most regular customers of a cer¬ get Loree is going to be a bad girl, and "The Bubble Book" is now in ita elev¬ Quelch takes Loree in hi3 arms with author of "The Dop Doctor." tain Boston bookstore. Mr. Aldrich had his to is a new trick. WHERE THE SUN SHINES. By Ger¬ enth edition and the sales this year eyes, which, us, Published the made a deal of trude Capen Whitney. by Próvida for good money by -writing are estimated at 1,500,000 copies. May- There are other brilliant repetitions, Christopher Publishing House, Boston. pleasanter and had married a good deal more. He HT HE Book Caravan which such as when Loree, with hair the color The romance of a little moon hours for yourself or yonr hew, drawing many thousands a year in ¦*¦ fairy friends lived in a fine house and had a big royalties, continues meekly and lours New England. of the back of a fiddle, stands on the prince who, by struggle and aspira¬ by securing tk» humbly Any becomes a sun man. latest and best library-, and spent a not inconsiderable at his desk in the advertising depart¬ book by any publisher, if it "perilous precipices" where "fire- tion, part of his time in this bookstore, sit¬ ment of Harper's.