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All who have a regard for the cul­ time when the paper should pass into other hands if it were continued indefinitely. He tivation of literary journalism in prefers the method of "happy dispatch" to America mark with sincere regret the slow and uncertain action of fate. the passing of "The Bellman", which published its last issue on June 28. Perhaps the recent Derapsey-Wil- It was an excellent and a thoroughly lard fight at Toledo is not popularly distinctive publication. Its point of regarded as a literary event. It has, view was sound in wind and limb. It however, literarj^ connotations. In took a considerable pride, to which it one of the most learned and erudite was well entitled, in fostering the editorials which ever appeared in the talent of a large number of our best New York "Times", that paper begins younger writers, not a few of them its article of a column and a quarter little or not at all known when first by reminding us that-: they appeared in its pages. The first William Hazlitt, who in the judgment of article, by the way, which the present Charles Lamb was "one of the finest and wisest spirits breathing" when "in his nat­ editor of THE BOOKMAN had accepted ural and healthy state", wrote a lively essay by a real magazine was published in about the prizefight between Tom Hickman, "The Bellman". The magazine was the "gasman", and Bill Neate, which he wit­ nessed after exposing himself to discomforts ever happy in its alertness to welcome on the journey to the ringside such as pil­ poetry of promise. With its quaint grims to Toledo the past week did not endure. dress, its admirable typography, and Was Hazlitt "in his natural and healthy state" when he reveled in a gladiatorial combat the rich cream paper upon which it between two bruisers with pickled hands, and was printed, it was a pleasure to the described their blood-spilling valor as "the eye. high and heroic state of man"? Thougli the answer be a firm No, the question in­ As the New York "Evening Sun" trudes incorrigibly. Who won? Bill Neate, who gave the "gasman" his quietus in the says editorially, with its passing, eighteenth round. "Where am I? What is "Minneapolis where it was published, the matter?" asked Tom Hickman. It has been a gory exhibition, but to see it Haz­ and the country in general are the litt regarded himself as privileged. One of losers. It had a sense of right, knowl­ his companions on the way back was reading edge, and judgment to guide it, and a "The New Eloise", which prompts the friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb to say: good English style. It is a pity it is "Ladies, after this will you contend that a to disappear." The "Sun" continues: love for the Fancy is incompatible with the cultivation of sentiment?" The motives for its retirement are Just a trifle obscure, as it made its expenses and a profit on tlie investment. It dies out of debt The New York "Evening Post" re­ and returning the original capital to the in­ vestors. It had money to flglit for expansion cently had an editorial on "Books We and simply did not do so, because, apparent­ Lie About" with a guilty conscience. ly, it never felt an impulse in that line. It said that we all cheat ourselves into •Seemingly the chief reason for cessation is that Mr. William C. Edgar, the founder, believing that we have read books that editor and publisher, finds himself precluded we know little or nothing about. So we by other occupations from giving personal do; so we do, come to think of it. And attention any longer to the details of editing and Is averse to entrusting them to any one anybody, anybody at all, will lie about else. Further, he shrinks from the inevitable a book if he is hard enough pressed.

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The Gossip Shop knows a man, knows gins : "For the love of Mike, Mr.——-, him well, in fact he is the Gossip don't change the name of 'The Un­ Shop's own brother, who not long ago pop' !" became involved with a gentleman in The editor explains that the old a discussion of the operas of Gilbert name died hard,— and Sullivan. Said this gentleman to . . . harder with us than with anybody our brother: "Of course, you know else. Neai'ly everybody whom we consulted regarding a new name begged us to hold on this one." It was an uncomfortable to the old one. But they are of the limited situation; but our brother is an constituency that can catch on. The country's honest man, and so he piped up: leading professor of journalism raised a laugh at our expense and his own by unin­ "Nope; sorry but I don't." "Well", tentionally exclaiming at a Century Club said the gentleman, "doubtless you table, "Why! The name is the best thing know that one; you surely must." Our about 'The Review'." brother was in a pretty bad hole now; He unbosoms himself further say­ but his will to right still held out, and • ing that while "The Review" had a he replied, somewhat faintly: "Not greater succes d'esHme than he could that one either." The gentleman was have hoped for,— merciless, quite. "Probably", he pur­ . . . perhaps we may as well own up sued our brother, "probably, then, you that we are now well content to forego a title which, as more than one friend who likes it don't know the other one either." Our nevertheless said "throws down a challenge brother was gone, lost, he could bear to every opponent". We are not as bellicose it no longer. "Oh! that one", he cried, as we were when we took that title: we are six years older, have had two boys in the brightening up, "that one, indeed! I army, and have had enough of fighting. And most certainly do. Delightful thing, in many other ways we have realized that deligTitful thing!" fighting is not as good as informing and explaining and conciliating and co-operating. And in conclusion: "The Unpop" is no more. Or rather Anybody who read the scrap on partizan- it no longer so calls itself. Fact is it ship in the last "Casserole" will know a leading cause of the selection of our present seemed to be too unpop. Yep; "The title. We trust, indeed, that the title applies Unpartizan Review" appeared in to our whole record, and will apply until the end. Yet it gives an impression of more ex­ place of the July number of "The Un­ clusive attention to politics than we intend. popular Review". In a leading article, But there will be an objection to any title among a good many other topics, the that has any meaning of much merit; but ordinary misapprehensions conveyed by a editor discourses concerning the title ought to be easily .corrected by the con­ change of title. When six years ago tents. the magazine was started it was told Speaking merely for itself the that it could never succeed under its Gossip Shop should say that it was in title. One friend of the management sentiment always a kind of a pal of wrote in: "Why in, something or "The Unpop", and it has a hearty other, 'The Unpopular Review'?" He greeting for the magazine under its continued: "I took it for granted new name. that it held nothing I would care for; and so, although it was yours, didn't Joseph Alexander Altsheler, writer subscribe. But one of your readers of stories of adventure for boys and sent me a subscription last Christmas, the editor' of the "Thrice a Week and I find in it much that interests World", died of heart disease at his me." An extract from a recent volun­ home in New York' early in June, teered letter regarding the title be­ aged fifty-seven years. His books for

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED THE GOSSIP SHOP 761 boys include "The Sun of Saratoga", The Gossip Shop is happy to an­ "A Herald of the West", "The Last nounce a new juvenile department in Rebel", "In Circling Camps", "My THE BOOKMAN. Captive", "Guthrie of the Times", Annie Carroll Moore, supervisor of work "The Young Trailers", "The Forest with children in the New York Public Library and a recognized authority on the subject of Runners", "The Free Rangers", "The children's books and reading, will review the Horsemen of the Plains", "The Guns new publications for a twelvemonth in a series of articles beginning with the Septem­ of Europe", "The Rulers of the Lakes", ber number. Since there is at present no sus­ tained reviewing of children's books in this and many others. Probably no pres­ country or in England, the department may ent-day writer of books for boys ap­ be regarded as one of great interest to au­ thors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, proaches, in year in and year out popu­ parents, and teachers. larity, Mr. Altsheler. He had over Miss Moore will contribute articles on the reading of young people (between 14 and forty books to his credit, nearly all 18) as well as on the reading of children of v^hich have run through at least under ten years old. The treatment will be suggestive and Informing rather than pre­ ten generous printings. It is doubt­ scriptive in character. ful if Alger, Henty, or any of the This bimonthly feature will comprise a series of reviews of new books (1919-1920 boys' favorites of the past ever en­ publications), critical estimates and compar­ joyed a larger sale in an equal period ative consideration of older publications, dis­ cussion of principles of selection of children's of time. Shortly before Mr. Alt- books, short reading lists, etc. sheler's death his publishers reported Reviews of children's books are that they were at that time reprinting generally confined to the Christmas fourteen of Altsheler's books. season. An interesting feature of this new department is that among the articles will be a spring review of There are a number of peculiarities children's books probably in the April of the literary supplements of the magazine, and a review of vacation New York "Sun". One of the pecu­ books (old and new), perhaps in the liarities of "Books and the Book June number. There will be several World" may be said to be, in the articles on the fall and holiday books. opinion of the Gossip Shop, its uncom­ mon readability. Another is the habit of its editor, "Bill" Overton, of letting The advertising copy writer for the its front page story deal with any American publishers of Leonard Mer­ book which he has happened most to rick does, the Gossip Shop thinks, the fancy in one week, without any mathe­ public a wrong. He certainly does matical calculation, so to say, as to not follow the authorities on the whether it really is the most "im­ psychology of reading. William Haz- portant" book of the moment. Per­ litt declared that he was never able haps the most peculiar peculiarity, to read a book through after thirty; however, of this newspaper supple­ Samuel Butler, reilecting in his "Note- ment is a technical one, and has prob­ Books" on "What Audience to Write ably not been noticed by the general For", says: "People between the reader; but it is a puzzle to a pro­ ages of twenty and thirty read a good fessional makeup man how Mr. Over­ deal; after thirty their reading drops ton always contrives to manage it. off and by forty is confined to each And this is the fact that no article in person's special subject, newspapers "Books and the Book World" ever and magazines". And so on. There turns the page. is an essay about all of this in "W.

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S. P.". Nevertheless, this copy writer adventures." A portrait of Sidney announces in the papers that: "If Porter hangs in the lounging room of you are past thirty years, have a touch the hotel, the silver and linen is all of sentiment, and enjoy the whimsical marked with his familiar pen name, —introduce yourself at once to Leon­ and in many of the rooms illustrations ard Merrick. Take with you on your from his works decorate the walls. vacation 'Conrad in 'Quest of His Youth', 'The Actor-Manager', and Being a war librarian in Siberia, 'Cynthia'." Man alive! it was a num­ even in midwinter, is not all drudgery. ber of years under thirty when the There- is only one individual occupy­ editorial department of the Gossip ing precisely that sort of a position. Shop first fell upon all these books. He is Professor Harry Clemons, late He found no difficulty at all about reference librarian of Princeton Uni­ enjoying them, and (while he is em­ versity, who was "borrowed" last barrassed at suggesting how a first- autumn by the American Library rate publishing house should write Association from the University of its advertisements) he is glad he was Nanking, where he is professor of not told then that he should wait English and university librarian. Pro­ until he was thirty before introducing fessor Clemons was assigned to es­ himself to Leonard Merrick. tablish a Library War Service for the American troops at Vladivostok. His The "0. Henry" Hotel at Greens­ letters to the Washington headquar­ boro, North Carolina, opened its doors ters form an interesting and humor­ to the public with a housewarming ous record of librarianship under celebration on the evening of July 2. difficulties. Here is one instance he Among the guests of honor were the reports, which he says is unique in author's widow and her daughter, his library experience, and which Mrs. Oscar Cesare, wife of the car­ strikes one also as probably unique toonist, and Professor C. Alphonso among library criticisms: Smith, head of the department of A door-fllling specimen of an enlisted man, English in the United States Naval who had borrowed Douglas Fairbanks's Academy and 0. Henry's biographer. "Laugh and Live", brought it back, mildly It is reported that the guests agreed disgusted. "This ain't what I want. I thought if that no memorial could be more appro­ was a funny book." priate for "0. Henry" than a hotel, "And you didn't find it funny?" I inquired. and that no other would have more "Naw. Say, have you got anything like Elinor Glyn's 'Three Weeks'? Elinor Glyn's pleased his fancy. "A lot of famous so—so—well, scientific, you know." writers", said one guest, "have houses The soldier finally, after much rummaging they, once occupied preserved in their of the shelves of the improvised library, went away triumphantly with Mrs. Humphry honor. But 0. Henry lived most of Ward's "Marriage k la Mode". his life in hotels. A hotel is repre­ It was not the same soldier but an­ sentative of him as no house could be, other enlisted man who remarked to and representative, too, of his stories, Professor Clemons that "The Satur­ which were chiefly concerned with the day Evening Post" was too highbrow transient guests of life, the waifs and for him! And although it has no strays of present-day existence who direct bearing on books, the conclusion found in hotels and restaurants the expressed by one of the officers of setting for so many of their poignant the Siberian expedition that "war-

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED THE GOSSIP SHOP 763 fare unfixed one for the sterner pur­ Durny, General History of the World, Vol. I (Sergeant) suits of life" seems worth recording. Fairbanks, Laugh and Live (Private) Professor Clemons's early efforts Fish, The Development of American Nation­ to "introduce the short story into the ality (Lieutenant) Putrelle, My Lady's Garter (Captain) long Siberian nights" were handi­ Graham, The Way of Martha and the Wa,y capped somewhat by the fragmentary of Mary (Lieutenant) character of the materials he had to Hazen, Alsace-Lorraine (Lieutenant) Hazen, Europe Since 1815 (Lieutenant) work with. These" consisted of sev­ Milyoukon, Russian Realities and Problems eral boxes of books and magazines (Captain) contributed by the good people of Page, How to Run an Automobile (Private) Poole, The Dark People (Lieutenant) Manila and shipped up from the Robinson, Mediieval and Modern Times Philippines on an army transport. (Lieutenant) Wells, Tono-Bungay (Captain) They ranged all the way from an in­ Wiener, Interpretation of the Russian People complete file of "The Bowler's Maga­ (Captain) zine" to a number of non-consecutive For a central library Professor copies of "Butterick Patterns", and demons was assigned a room in an included quantities not only of books army post-office building. This was without covers, but of books whose converted into a library by the simple value lay chiefly in their covers. But process of purchasing a padlock for even for the small amount of wheat the door at a cost of thirty-eight that could be culled out of this chaif, cents. That was the only cash ex­ the soldiers were grateful when Pro­ penditure. The cost in "elbow grease" fessor Clemens, with the aid of Aus­ is best told in Professor Clemons's trian prisoners of war who had in own words: some way or other been brought all The enlisted man who was loaned to me the way from the European front, got several weeks ago to help open and unpack the boxes unpacked and sorted; and the twenty-four boxes of old periodicals and books, nearly broke his back and did break the books were then put into circu­ his hatchet over the job. When I dismissed ^ lation. One package of eighty books him the mess was beyond my powers of de­ sent to a detached unit outside of scription. I judge that the soldier thought the situation was hopeless, for he didn't come Vladivostok had a circulation of three back until one afternoon this past week. hundred and thirty in the first two Meantime the periodicals had been distrib­ weeks. uted, the boxes and the room cleaned out, shelves put in, and books arranged on the And when the books sent across the shelves. As I glanced up from my work I saw him standing in the door, witli mouth wide Pacific from the United States finally open. At my nod he fairly exploded: "My arrived, a'hundred cases of them, how God, you've got it cleaned up!" . . . On eagerly the soldiers did read them! that previous day he had, while rubbing his back, confided in me that he wanted to read ' Here is Professor Clemons's report a book by Marie Corelli. This time it was of the first twenty of the new books waiting for him. taken out: The Siberian nights are long, and Adkins, Historical Bacligrounds (Captain) Austin, Uncliained Bussia (Captain) there is little for the American sol­ Bairnsfatlier, Fragments from France (Lieu­ diers to do there. Just what part tenant) books are playing in the maintenance Boyer and Speranshi, Russian Reader (Ser­ geant) of the men's morale cannot of course Breasted, Ancient Times (Lieutenant) be precisely assessed, but they do play Cliurchill, A Traveller in War Time (Lieu­ tenant) a part. In Siberia, as in the camps Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (Lieutenant) at home or with the A. E. F., the

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 764 THE BOOKMAN librarian, like the chaplain, the Y. M. the distinguished portrait-painter, C. A. man, and the Red Cross worker, Jacques Blanche. They show how the becomes the recipient of many inti­ outbreak of war affected the existence mate confidence's. Knotty problems —and shook the nerve and feeling— covering every question under the sun of a very distinguished and very suc­ in and out of books are put up to him cessful French artist. M. Blanche for decision. can write, and the book deserves a Professor Clemens vi^rites: place, even if only a modest place, in Having been reference librarian at Prince­ every future war library, for it gives ton for five years, I am not without experi­ a side of war life which no one else ence in the range of reference questions. But yesterday I got one from an embarrassed has thought it worth while to give. corporal which even the Justly praised selec­ M. Blanche was at Dieppe in that fate­ tion in the A. L. A. cases failed to answer. ful August of 1914, and he describes After waiting until no one besides himself and your representative was in the little not only his own feelings, but that of library, he sidled up and asked, "How can all the people round him, and rather one get married in Vladivostok?" The "one" was, of course, the speaker, and the girl, a indirectly he includes all that was said Russian. The answer was a matter for com­ to him by the delightful and dis­ manding ofBcers and consuls to express. But tinguished Englishwoman who is the the query led to two long conversations in the library, and gave me an opportunity to mother of Mrs. Winston Churchill. try to make sure that the boy did not alto­ gether blink the future In the glamour of the As a matter of fact no publisher, present. I suppose that here is a bit of our new internationalism. And the United however acute, however sympathetic, States has had two millions overseas! however much in touch with his pub­ lic, knows in the least what that public While one set of English publishers will suddenly discover they desire to are acting on the supposition that the read. It not only frequently, but gen­ reading world is weary of war, and erally, happens that a book destined does not desire to read anything con­ to be "a big seller" has gone the round cerning the conflict which has con­ of the publishers before it found a vulsed Europe for five years, another home. This of course is especially school declares that for as long as the true of fiction. The reading public is present generation endures, the war a dumb public. It has no way of ex­ will be the only reading for thousands pressing its feelings, its likings, and of intelligent human beings. Certain its prejudices. The professional critic it is that any really new historical is as far apart from the big public document throwing light on the be­ as a human being can well be of any ginnings of the great struggle, has body of opinion contemporary to him­ an extraordinary attraction for many self. In the great majority of cases people. Hence the great success of —and it is curious that it should be Lord French's book. The acute in­ so—a "big seller" by a new hand terest aroused in England by Brand receives very bad notices, and so Whitlock's wonderful work, "Belgium makes its way in spite of, and not Under German Occupation", is an­ because of, praise from the news­ other case in point. So far there has papers, and from those who set up been no civilian war diary of the kind to be guides of the public. which former wars, and especially the French Revolution, produced. The Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, ex- nearest approach to anything of the Minister to Denmark, and author of kind were the volumes published by "Ten Years Near the German Fron-

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED THE GOSSIP SHOP 765 tier", received the honorary degree of gained by the unfoldment by the Doctor of Letters at Columbia's one spirit of its own inherent powers'". hundred and sixty-fifth commence­ ment. A bad lot—actors, authors, editors, burglars, etc. The magazine "The Cardinal Mercier has written his Smart Set" does not, according to the memoirs, and arrangements have now periodical "The Writer",—use: been completed for their publication . . . . war stories, war poems, or war in both serial and book form on both plays ; poems of more than forty lines ; stories sides of the Atlantic. It is said that about actors, authors, editors, burglars, pros­ titutes, newspaper reporters, aviators, vice a London daily has paid a great price crusaders, of spies; stories in which the for the right to print portions of the man and girl meet in a Pullman car or in a Cardinal's wonderful story. The book Greenwich Village eating-house; stories of politics, of the occult, of college life, of the will be issued in America in the fall. cow country, or of A. D. 2000 ; Jokes or anec­ The date of Cardinal Mercier's visit dotes ; epigrams that are uplifting or that embody puns; one-act plays, which open to this country is not yet definitely with the plot being explained into a telephone ; fixed, but he is expected to arrive in stories that have been printed elsewhere, October. He says, in a recent inter­ either wholly or in part, or translations, un­ less accompanied by the written authoriza­ view: tion of the original author; or stories or I shall put myself entirely in the hands of poems dealing with death. Cardinal Gibbons on my arrival, and he will arrange my program. I shall probably visit the universities, but I have but one thought, On the day of the death of Joyce namely, to thank the big, wonderful America Kilmer in France, there appeared in for all that she has done for Belgium and Christian civilization, and for the help she THE BOOKMAN the poem by his friend has given in food, clothing, etc. John Bunker referring to Kilmer, and Everyone knows that the final success was called "On Bidding Farewell to a Poet due to the intervention of the American army. The rapid formation of a complete Gone to the Wars". This poem is in­ American army has been a constant cause cluded in a collection of Mr. Bunker's of admiration and wonder, but I have already verse, "Shining Fields and Dark said this to many Americans. Towers", to be published this fall. Another poem in the volume com­ There seems to be a good deal doing memorating Mr. Bunker's friendship in the new magazine way over in Lon­ with Kilmer is called "The Splendid don just now. In June, it is reported, Stranger". The longest and most im­ appeared the first number of "The portant poem in the book is "Quest Story Magazine". It contained a new and Haven", a memorial poem on poem by Eudyard Kipling. About the Francis Thompson. Mr. Bunker was same time was published the second born at Cincinnati and educated at number of "Vision", said to be a Jesuit College in that city. After en­ "magazine and review of mysticism gaging in a variety of occupations and spiritual reconstruction", edited he, as he puts it, "suddenly gave up all by Dorothy Grenside and Galloway work and devoted four years exclu­ Kyle. The London "Bookman" de­ sively to the study and composition scribes the contents as "An excellent of poetry". Upon coming to New miscellany of prose and verse which York, Mr. Bunker at once became in­ challenges the materialistic teachings timately associated with Kilmer in his of scientists and spiritualists, appeals work on the New York "Times" Sun­ to all who are seeking 'true vision', day Magazine and Book Review, "The and holds that 'spiritual truth is

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Literary Digest", and in lectures and Amy Lowell, whom THE BOOKMAN various literary ventures; and on Kil­ is happy to number among the con­ mer's entering the army he succeeded tributors to the magazine, has com­ him as lecturer on poetry at New piled "A Bookshelf of Modern Poets". York University. The collection contains fifty-five titles. Miss Lowell has reviewed all the volumes of the last dozen years in Robert Nichols has apparently got making her list, and only work which home. In a letter from Frank Swin- she deems the best expression of the nerton just received by a correspon­ several writers, as well as work au­ dent in New York Mr. Swinnerton thentically modern, has been in­ says that Mr. Nichols reports that he cluded. Miss Lowell herself, Edgar (Swinnerton) is well known in the Lee Masters, John Masefield, Vachel United States; and Mr. Swinnerton Lindsay, Maxwell Bodenheim, "H. D.", asks if that is really true. Carl Sandburg and other representa­ tive new poets are grouped in this Porter Emerson Browne is at work "Bookshelf". upon an article about Charles Hanson Towne, editor of "McClure's Maga­ Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. zine", which will appear in an early That is, right. Anyhow it is in the number of THE BOOKMAN. Mr. book: "For my part, I should be sorry Towne's latest book, a volume of verse to think that there was nothing be­ —"A World of Windows", has recent­ tween Antony and Cleopatra but an ly been published. economic situation, and it will re­ quire a great deal more evidence than Thomas Hardy, as was the case is ever likely to be available, thank with George Meredith, has always God, to persuade me that Tiberius was been far more interested in his own as blameless a monarch as King poetic work than in the prose he George V". From "The Moon and wrote. That being so, there is some­ Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham. thing peculiarly appropriate in the tribute which a number of his friends When Joseph Hergesheimer wrote have decided to pay him. The tribute "Java Head", the question which is to take the form of a manuscript formed on the lips of those to whom anthology of the work of living poets. Hergesheimer mattered was "What Each poet has been asked to copy out next"? Which question has been on a sheet of paper (uniform with answered by Joseph himself in "Linda that sent to all the other contributors) Condon" now running serially and to the poem—preferably a sonnet—which be published in book form in the fall. he considers his best work. The com­ Speaking of "Linda", the author mittee is headed by the Poet Laureate, says in a letter to Carl Van Vechten: Robert Bridges, and it includes Sir You weU know, my dear Carl, for how Henry Newbolt, John Masefield, and long I have wanted to write the story ot Walter de la Mare. The Honorable Linda Condon, that charming grave child Secretary is Captain Siegfried Sas- with her straight black bang and vivid blue eyes, placed with her light-hearted mother soon, whom many English writers in hotels of amazing adornment. Here, at consider the most remarkable of the last, it is. But—a thing, it seems. Inevitable and which we forgot to discuss—Linda grew now living war poets. up. She lost the childhood that was my

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED THE GOSSIP SHOP 767 first concern and her story developed into sword and revolver, which had been tlie record of a sustained affair of tlie heart. Here, then, is Linda's story—how she left stolen. These he had greatly valued, the luxury of her crisp ribbons, her need for the sword having been worn through g-old, for her moment of almost perfect the Turkish War by an uncle of his, vision. How could I have g-iven her more? And, since I wrote "Linda Condon", it must and the revolver carried by my own be, for the discerning like yourself, funda­ father (General F. D. Grant) through mentally my story as well as hers. his campaigns." The history of an inordinate number of faults! If Linda Condon had no education, neither had I; and if .her companions were Clement K. Shorter is now in his often not selected from among the frugal weekly "literary letter" to "The and correct, neither were mine. Together we rose from the most insidi­ Sphere", informing readers of that ous dangers to a surprising security. You paper of "the glamour of New York". know my life and my friends—what, in the In the issue of that publication just charge of an absent-minded Providence, could be more overpaid?—and you have seen come to hand "C. K. S." discusses sky­ Dorothy. You have, too. generously com- scrapers. New York churches, Broad­ niended my writing. Well, it is honest. I way, Chinatown, the Bowery, hotels, have never, I think, lied there; or if I did, it was such a small evasion as you could and so on. He declares: "Ten days smile at. I must put down what I believe, in New York have made me the most and then hope for support. pro-Arnerican of all England's sons". In his next letter, he says, he will A new publishing house has recently write about the "wonderful libraries come into being in England—Messrs. of New York, public and private. Philip Allan and Company of 5, Qual­ New York is indeed a bookman's ity-court, Chancery-lane, London, paradise." W.C.2. The head of the firm, Captain P. B. M. Allan, who has recently been "The Earthquake" by Arthur Train demobilized, is a Master of Arts of has been translated and published in Cambridge University, and was for­ France under the title "L'Amerique merly subeditor and assistant reader et la Secousse de la Guerre". in the house of Smith, Elder and Com­ pany, and on the staff of "The Corn- Rex Beach has been elected presi­ hill Magazine". dent, and Booth Tarkington vice-pres­ ident, of the Authors' League by the The second of the series of BOOK­ council of that body. MAN articles by Frank Swinnerton, whose paper "Novelist-Baiting" was Writing on Charles Kingsley in the published in the June issue, will be an June London "Bookman" (a Charles article on Jane Austen, soon to ap­ Kingsley number) R. Ellis Roberts pear. has this to say: .Certain superior modern critics are fond of referring to the works of the great Vic­ In her recent book, "Revolutionary torians as "dead" or as "unread". The ques­ Days", Princess Cantacuzene tells the tion of death may be difficult to decide, tor following incident of peculiar interest people's conceptions of life differ; but the other accusation "unread" is easy to meet. to Americans: Prince Cantacuzene I do not suppose all the purchasers of books was arrested by the revolutionists but in popular libraries read all they get; but soon released. "He was none the I am unwilling to believe that any one buys novels of old authors purely out of fashion. worse for his trial", the Princess A sense of duty might make a man buy writes, "except for the loss of his Gibbon or Burke ; but if he buys "The Wo-

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 768 THE BOOKMAN man in White" or "Hard Cash" or "Mary era] years from the pen of the author Barton" he buys to read. So I shall not argue about whether Kingsley is read now of "Sir Richard Calmady". Lucas or not. I merely note that "Westward Ho!" Malet, it will be remembered is the was published in Everyman's Library in daughter of Charles Kingsley, the 1906 and was reprinted in 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910 and 1911; that "Hereward the Wake" author of "Westward Ho". In private was printed thrice between 190S and 1911, life she is Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harri­ and "Hypatia" twice in 1907 and 1910—in son. the same library. I have little doubt that Kingsley's publishers, Macmillan, could tell a story of steady sales; and that other Everybody, everybody that is of popular, non-copyright editions sell as readily as.those issued by Dent. Indeed the modern any consequence, knows Burton Ras- cry of "unread" is frequently, I believe, a coe, of the Chicago "Tribune". Some cry of vexation from young men Indignant few people have accidently heard of that the romance, the humor, and the realism of their parents and grandparents should one James Branch Cabell. Therefore still be preferred to their own more artistic it will interest everybody, everybody and competent productions. The same cog­ noscenti are fond of saying, "No one reads that is of consequence, to hear that Kipling now", a statement which a glance this Mr. Cabell has dedicated a little at the circulation figures of his old or new book of his, soon to appear, to Bur­ books would quickly disprove. Kingsley then is still read—that is, his historical ton. The book is called, we believe, novels, his poems, and his children's books. "Jurgen". It is said to have a sort of His sermons and historical es.says naturally a Casanova air. The "acrostic dedica­ had a more transient appeal. tion" is as follows:

R. Brimley Johnson's "The Women TO Novelists", recently published, is on a BURTON RASCOE Before each tarradiddle subject often largely overlooked in the Uncowed by sciolists, development of English literature. It. Robuster persons twiddle was the women novelists, according Tremendously big fists. to Mr. Johnson, who "developed—and "Our gods are good", they tell us; "Nor will our gods defer perfected—the domestic novel. They R.emission of rude fellows' made novels a reflection and a criti­ Ability to err." cism of life. It seems curious that, So this, your JURGEN, travels with the possible exception of Char­ Content to compromise, Ordainments none unravels lotte Bronte, women were all stern Explicitly . . . and sighs. realists". But this last was nothing more nor less, he argues, than a re­ The following promotions have been action against the prevailing brand of made in the Collier organization: literature "for young ladies" in which Fred Lewis, who has been with the the realities were kept carefully out organization for nine years, during of sight. Mr. Johnson's volume deals the last two of which he has been with the period from 1778 to 1876— comptroller of the company, has been from the publication of "Evelina" to made secretary of P. F. Collier and "Daniel Deronda". Son, Inc. Mark Huntington Wiseman has been appointed assistant to the Lucas Malet has just delivered to vice-president, and manager of the her American publishers the manu­ department of publicity and promor script of her new novel "Deadham tion. Charles Colebaugh has been Hard", for publication in the early placed in charge of the advertising fall. This is the first novel in sev- department promotion.

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A Grass Widow, by R. E. Boyns [San Fran­ cisco: Harr Wagner]. A California tale It is reported that the author of of a faithless wife. "Walking-Stick Papers" declares that -The Holiday Husband, by Doif Wyllarde [I,.anel. A girl's romance during a two nobody but an amateur gets out one weeks' holiday book at a time. Last year he pub­ The Born Fool, by John Walter Byrd [Doranl. An English story of an erratic lished three books, his "Booth Tark- father's son. The Silent Mill, by Hermann Sudermann ington" and the volumes "Joyce Kil­ [Brentano]. A love story involving two mer: Poems, Essays and Letters" in brothers. The Valley o£ the Squinting Windows, by addition to his book of essays. He has Brinsley MacNamara [Brentano]. A'novel of Irish village life. two new volumes coming this fall: Black Sheep Chapel, by Margaret Baillie- "Broome Street Straws" and "Peeps Saunders [Doran], The worldly experi­ ences of a cloistered boy and girl. at People". The Wicked Marques, by E. Phillips Oppen- heim [Little, Brown]. A tale of English intrigue. War Stories, edited by Roy J. Holmes and A. Starbuck [Crowell]. A collection from Admirers of "Anne of Green American magazines. All the World, by Charles M. Sheldon Gables" will be interested to know [Doran]. A reconstruction story. that the heroine is to appear in the Labrador Days, by Wilfred T. Grenfell [Houghton]. Tales of the Labrador coast. movies this fall, as the publishers Mary Barton, by Elizabeth C. Gaskell; Se­ have placed the motion-picture rights lected English Short Stories [Nineteenth Century] ;. Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy of the four "Anne" books, "Anne of [Oxford], Three ' volumes in The World's Classics pocket-edition series. Green Gables", "Anne of Avonlea", Military Servitude and Grandeur, by Alfred de Vigny, trans, by Frances Wilson Huard "Chronicles of Avonlea", and "Anne [Doran]. Sketches of the Napoleonic wars. of the Island"—of which the total Miss Fingal, by Mrs. W. K. Clifford [Scrib- ner]. A reincarnation novel about a circulation, it is said, is nearly 700,000 spinster. —with the Famous Players-Lasky Democracy, by Shaw Desmond [Soribner], A labor story of England today. Corporation. The probable star will In-Secret, by Robert W, Chambers [Doran]. be Mary Miles Minter. A patriotic American girl's experiences as detective. Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson [Huebsch], Tales of small-town life in Ohio. The Home and the World, by Rabindranath Coincident with the announcement Tagore [Macmillan]. An Indian novel of ooyftaofj by the Metropolitan Opera Company The Life of the Party, by Irvin S. Cobb, illus. [Doran]. Misfortunes of a man after of New York of its proposed early a Greenwich Village party. production of an operatic version of Flesh and Phantasy, by Newton A. Fuessle [Cornhill]. Fanciful stories of modern Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird", oomes life. A Life at Stake, by Marcel Berger, trans, by word that the Belgian author himself Fitzwater Wray [Putnam]. Experiences of will make a lecture tour of America in a French auxiliary. -More E. K. Means, by E. K. Means, illus. the early part of next year. As far [Putnam]. Further dialect stories of the Louisiana negro. as it is known to the Gossip Shop The Gay-Dombeys, by Sir Harry Johnston this will be Maeterlinck's first visit [Macmillan], A Victorian novel, present­ ing descendants of Dickens characters. to this country. Red Friday, by George Kibbe Turner [Little, Brown], A story of American Bolshevism. The Undying Fire, by H.. G. Wells [Macmil­ lan]. A religious novel of contemporary England. A book of verse is announced by All the Brothers Were Valiant, by Ben Ames . Williams [Macmillan]; A story of ship­ Iris Tree, the daughter of the actor, wreck and pirates. Saint's Progress, by John Galsworthy [Scrib- the late Sir Herbert Tree. The frontis­ ner], A war story of a vicar and his daughters. piece in the volume is a reproduction "A Smile a Minute", by H. C. Witwer, illus. of a portrait bust of Miss Tree by the [Small. Maynard]. War letters of a base­ ball player. sculptor, Jacob Epstein.

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Now that the war is over, auto­ D. W. EDWARDS graph collectors begin to take heart Bishop Lane Staithe Hull England again, and will indulge a little more Antique Books freely in their chosen hobby. The Specialties: Maps from 1575-1800 death of President Roosevelt has Illustrated Books Poetry and Drama brought into the market a consider­ Books searched for Register your wants and receive Catalogue able number of his letters which for obvious reasons the authors did not care to have made public, even in the limited manner, of an auction cata­ FOR THE BOOK LOVER logue, while he was still living. Let­ Rare books—First editions. Boolis now out o£ print. ters wholly in Theodore Roosevelt's Latest Catalogue Sent on Request C. GERHARDT; 25 W. 42d Street, New York handwriting are not common, and some of these have brought high prices. Those now coming into the market have served to increase the USED BOOKS. Big Bargains. Catalogs. Higene's price of his letters rather than dimin­ M-2441 Post, San Francisco. (Bool£s Bought.) ish it, for some of them are of an inti­ mate character and reveal much of his. unique personality. Such letters will SEND FOR OUR be- increasingly valuable as time NEW CATALOGUE No. 134 goes by. just out. containing many Valuable, Scarce, and Interesting Items. A. J. FEATHERSTONE, /Infignariaii Bookseller 84 Hill St., Birmingham, England Some of the wise autograph collec­ tors started, early in the war, to se­ cure letters and documents of generals and statesmen who have taken a JUST PUBLISHED, Catalogue No, 178, Scientific Books, Periodicals and Publications of Scientific Societies, prominent part in the world-struggle, NEARLY READY, Catalogue No, 179, Books in New Con­ dition at Reduced Prices, with a Selection of Choice but these are not always easy to ac­ Items from our Secondhand Stock, Catalogues' issued on all subjects, and sent free on application. Send us your list of Desiderata, W, HEFFER ,& SONS, quire. A French autograph dealer re­ LTD,, Library Agents and Dealers in Fine 'Books of every description. Cambridge, Eag, cently priced a short and unimportant letter of General Foch at five hundred

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