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VOL. XIII. No. 8.
1879.
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 20 TO DECEMBER 5, 1889.
$3.00 PER TEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
because these two books were more wonderful than his
earlier brilliant literary productions, but for the reason
that the struggling, intriguing politician had at last
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reached the "dizzy" heights of diplomatic triumph.
An enormous sum has been realized from the sale of
Webster's Spelling Book, more than fifty millions of
copies of which have been issued. As the writer to
whom we have referred remarks, " Could Dr. Webster
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and his heirs have enjoyed the royalties from it they
would have found it more valuable than the cave of
All Checks, Drafts, money Orders, Postal
Monte Cristo. Yet Dr. Webster wrote it that he might
Motes and Mall matter should be
procure the means to support himself while engaged in
made to
other work, notably his dictionary, which was really
an elaboration of the spelling book."
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"Mr. Barnes of New York," and "Mr. Potter of
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Texas," were gold mines to their author and publishers,
for the reason that they offered brief amusement to the
great herd of the shallow-pated. No explanation is need-
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ed of the financial success of Zola's works, or of
" The Quick and The Dead." " The Wide, Wide World "
SUMCBIPTIOH (including postage) United States and Canada
$».oo per year, in ad ranee; Foreign Countries. $4.00
also paid well, but because it touched the chords of the
simple, honest natures with which, fortunately, the world
, $3.00 per inch, single column, per insertion;
abounds. Mrs. Stowe is almost the only American
nnlesB inserted upon rates made by special contract.
writer of fiction who has made a large fortune thereby.
That her descriptions of the horrors of slavery were ex-
Entered at the New York Put Office at Second Chut Matter.
aggerated is conceded by many. If John Bunyan had
written " Pilgrim's Progress" and " The Holy War"
in the latter part of this century he would have been a
millionaire.
Money was made out of the early books of Rider
Haggard. There was about them an air of mysticism
which for a time exercised a peculiar fascination. By
and by the charm seemed to cloy, and this author's later
Thomas Power O'Connor, M. P., wrote a scathing bio- stories, according to some publishers, have fallen flat
graphy of the great Earl of Beaconsfield, who admitted upon the market.
the truth of the impeachments contained therein. Con-
And so it goes. Many excellent authors, whose works
sidering the picturesqueness of D'Israeli's career and
have given them more than a passing renown, have
character, the halo of romance that surrounded him, and
found it necessary to the gaining of a decent livelihood
the absolute idolatry of which he was at one period the
to take up ordinary newspaper work, or even to engage
subject among a not inconsiderable portion of the En-
in commercial enterprises. The financial success of a
glish people,one would have thought that this work,bear-
book depends upon circumstances. There must always
ing the emphatic impress of truth on every page, would
be something definite to appeal to—a fact, a sentiment,
have circulated by the million. It had a fair circulation,
a new set of ideas, a new development of public taste,
but the pecuniary results were altogether out of propor-
or otherwise.
We Manufacture all sized Organs from
tion to the pains expended upon it by the talented
Good educational works, such as school text books,
author. The reason of this probably was that at the
$25.00 to $50,000.00.
time of publication Lord Beaconsfield was rapidly are among the most profitable from a pecuniary point
attaining the very zenith of his fame. The blaze of of view. Still, it would be well if every man and woman
literary ability, and possessing original ideas
DETBOIT, MICH., glory which surrounded him drove people mad. Com- possessing
the
publication
of which would be likely to benefit and
paratively few—these few being, however, of the best
mental calibre and ihe highest moral worth—cared to elevate his or her fellow-citizens, would express such
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delve into the the History of the political unscrupulous- ideas in print. We have only touched upon a small
ness of a man whom half Europe had come to regard as portion of the fringe of a vast subject, and that in a
a
demi-god. If the book had been written ten years pre- very perfunctory way. Let somebody else say a word.
DOES THE WHITING OF BOOKS PAY?
viously, when D'Israeli was one of the chief defenders
of the Irish church establishment against the assaults
SOMETIMES IT DOES, AND SOMKTIMES IT DOESN'T.
MR. A. J. BROOKS, with the Sterling Company, Derby,
of Mr. Gladstone, it might have considerably expedited
Conn., made a pleasant call at the office of this paper
the
passage
of
the
Grand
Old
Man's
measure.
T " * H E subject of the financial successor failure of
on Thursday last. Mr. Brooks had just completed a
I
authors and writers of books has been exercising
Under the titles of " Edward the Seventh " and " The very successful Eastern trip as far as Maine, and had
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a contributor to one of our daily papers. This Coming K
," Evelyn Douglas Jerrold wrote some started on a tour westward through New York, Penn-
writer points out that great popular successes are possi- brilliant satires upon the Prince of Wales. They were sylvania and Ohio. He reported that the enormous
ble without notoriety for the book or fame for the au- sold in book-stores and on the streets of London, but business of the Sterling Company gave no signs of
thor, instancing a work—probably the most successful the pecuniary returns were small. The reason was that diminition, but rather of the reverse.
recently put upon the market, whose title and the name the books were too clever—the satire and ridicule were
of whose author are very seldom mentioned. The suc- too deeply veiled to be enjoyed by any but readers of
MALCOLM LOVE, the genial chief of the Waterloo
cess of this work is due to the fact that the real and more than average intelligence. Less pains and more Organ Co., Waterloo, N. Y., was in town last week. He
actual history of a mighty nation is told in a manner vulgarity would have yielded a yellower harvest.
reported that the organ trade of his firm was in every
that thrills and fascinates the reader. The same tale
An established name is a great producer of money. way satisfactory, also that the first batch of new " Mal-
might have been told in a dull, matter-of-fact style, in Tennyson, great as he is, has on one or two occasions colm Love " pianos were rapidly approaching comple-
which case it probably would not have acquired a hun- written woful rubbish in magazines, receiving for it as tion. One of them is already perfected, and intone and
dreth part of its present circulation. Its subject is one much per line as ii the pen from which the clumsy num- appearance more than fulfils Mr. Love's anticipations.
of intense interest to every thoughtful mind, but the bers flowed had been dipped in the fountains of Helicon. A quantity will be ready for shipment very shortly.
fairy-like garb in which it is draped is the obscure au-
Lord Beaeonsfield made more money by " Lothair " These "Malcolm Love" pianos are expected to justify
thor's source of profit.
and " Endymion" than by all his otHfcr works—not to the full the epithet of " first-class,"
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