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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1908
Page
15
Autumn book trade in London provokes drastic pricing ideas
A London bookseller entertains a radical plan to curb the flood of novels by raising prices to about 250 dollars for an initial edition of a thousand libraries. The scheme would weed out weak works, letting only the best survive, while publishers and readers would gain from a streamlined market. He adds a quip about waiting for a fool to buy a foolish book as the buyers determine stock.
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Critics Weigh Biographies and Wagnerian Histories
The piece debates the biographical boom and its merits, noting the mix of decay and value in new lives of writers and artists. It then profiles Wilhelm Neumann and his Bayreuth linked fight to stage Wagner’s Ring, detailing conflicts with Leipsic officials, Fors ter, and Wagner’s exacting artistic control.
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Leipsic
Tristan
Seidl
Neumann
Richard Wagner
Berlin
Wagneriana personal recollections of Wagner by Neumann
Angelo Neumann chronicles his devotion to Richard Wagner and his bold, practical role in promoting the composer’s works. The memoir blends admiring portrait with sharp business insight, recounting Forster’s doubts, Ring rehearsals, and Neumann’s backstage tactics and clashes.
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Wagner
Edith Shivermore
Henry Holt & Co
Richard Wagner
Neumann
Forster
Marie Wilt
Library advertising reveals hidden trades in plain sight
A Chicago Dial note recounts a painter finding trade books in a local public library near Spofield Massachusetts. Mimeographed lists of available works were publicized by papers, boosting library circulation by 25 percent in a year, proving a library on a hill can reveal its hidden resources.
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