New Year Opens with Abundant Yet Cautious Book Sales
Publishing houses report Holiday sales near average with large autumn stock, foreseeing tighter spring output. Major lists promise fiction from Ellen Glasgow and Lorimer, while non fiction covers exploration of Mount McKinley and nature essays, with new editions from Beaumont and Fletcher and Ibsen.
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Ehho
Ellen ‘Glasgow
Miss Glasgow
Doubleday, Page & Co
Virginia
George Eliot
Jack Spurlock
George Horace Lorimer
Saturday Evening Post
Gordon Graham
Frederick A. Cook
Mount McKinley
North American
Mary C. Dickerson
Country Life
McClure
Ernest Oldmeadow
Virginie
C. N
A.A. Williamson
Holland
Mary §. Watts
O. Henry
Marjorie Bowen
Marquesa D'Alpenes
England
Change in taste for translated novels shocks readers
A quote from The Christian World recalls how twenty years ago respectable French families welcomed English translations for their daughters. It notes that such a practice would now be considered a risky experiment.
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Macmillan Company
Winston Churchill
Bjornson
Gertrude Atherton
the Castles
Marion Crawford
Frank Danby
Robert Herrick
Albert Kinross
Jack London
John Luther Long
Churchill
Coniston
Crawford
Margaret
Mr. Herrick
Gulf
Japan
America
Joan of Garioch
Davenant
Agnes
Egerton Castle
Mrs. Atherton
Patience Sparhawk
Kurts
Kjornson
Dodd, Mead & Co
Robert Hugh Benson
Benson
Helma
William T. Eldridge
Josephine Daskam Bacon
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Giles
Phineas Fletcher
George Gascoigne
James Harrington
Oceana
Sir Walter Raleigh
Baker & Taylor Company
Dr. Ellen
Juliet Wilbur Tompkins
California
Sierras
Ruth
Miss Tompkins
Canada
Australia
Clara Barton
Miyakawa
Scribner’s
Ibsen
Edmund Gosse
Norway
F. J. Stinson
Lowell
Longmans, Green & Co
A. C. A. Hall
Vermont
Fond du Lac
Abbé Vacanard
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Henry Holt & Co
West
Primi
Addrr Tropical America Publishing Co
Frankfort Street
New York City
Everyman’s Library
Ruskin
E. P. Dufton & CO
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N. Y
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Wanamaker
Get
Broadway Publishing Company
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Ee Rodrine Bon
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Jennette Lee
William
New York
the Outing Publishing Co
the Book of A Thousand Thrills
Satan
Bettina von Hutton
Pam
the Independent
Sinclair
Whenry Holt & CO
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