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"2079 Sutter Street, San Francisco, January 27, 1922.

Editor, PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY:

Great stuff, that "Culled from an Auction Cat," by Blumenthal on Jan. 21. I suspect that half the dealers in the old U. S. A. are busy with "addenda." I'll bet that very few of the good things you have published will get so much circulation and so many emendations as this list. No. 17 is a stroke of genius-as a radical, not tired yet, I'll say so.

But, lest we forget, how about a few more? Dante's Inferno (but this is too easy-everybody will be in on this. Clever of Blumenthal to leave this one OUT. It's like the first easy pictures in the guessing contests.)

Boxiana, set, two. Shows rough usage. Bowen, M. Leopard and Lily. Spotted all

over.

Reed, Bacon vs. Shakespeare. A fat duodecimo. Pub. in Greece.

Hull, The Sheik. Dusty.

Asquith, Margot. Diary.

binding.

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The Literary Year Book

HE new edition of the English "Literary Year Book" is ready and due from the Custom House. The English publishers have announced marked improvements over their effort of last year, and the book includes a great deal of valuable information for the use of publishers, librarians, literary workers and booksellers. Among other features is a list of all literary, dramatic and moving picture agents in England and the United States, a list of literary and news service agencies, a list of literary prizes, a classified list of British and Colonial periodicals and American periodicals, procedures for copyright, English and American, lists of British libraries, learned societies, dramatic and literary societies, a list of five hundred English booksellers, an exhaustive list of pseudonyms. The American market is handled thru the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLy, and it is expected that orders can be filled by the 10th of February.

Con-fabricoid THE

Clay, Bertha M. Ideal Love. Scarce, if not

rare.

Sindell, M. Satisfied at Last. No record of this in previous sales.

Yours, with apologies as usual,

WM. MCDEVITT,
Peoples Library, San Francisco.
BUY A BOOK A WEEK
1140 Broadway, N. Y.

Editor, PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY:
Apropos the discussion about "Buy a Book
A Week" Campaign:

Going home on the train last night I ran into a neighbor of mine who is connected with the Equitable Life Insurance Company. During our conversation he said he had seen so many advertisements about "Buy a Book a Week" that he had decided this year to do it and since the first of 1922 he has bought one book each week (and one week he bought two). He said he hadn't time to read them yet but the "family is having a good time."

I thought this would interest you so you would know that the hammering about the commercial value of this slogan is not detrimental to the plan. I believe in spite of the argument about commercializing that this is the proper slogan. Yours very truly,

GROSSET & DUNLAP, F. L. Reed, Manager.

Ladies' Night

HE New York Booksellers' League will have a dinner and dance at the Brevoort Hotel on Wednesday February 15. This will be Ladies Night.

Personal

HENRY W. LANGMANN is now connected with the Cornhill Pub. Co. of Boston at its New York office, 7 West 49th St.

SHAW NEWTON is the new advertising manager of the Bookseller and Stationer.

Personal

T. H. SOFIELD, a director of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Ltd., London, and in charge of the antiquarian department, is visiting America for a sojourn of a few weeks.

WILLIAM THOMSON, head of Thomas Nelson & Sons' American branch, sailed for England on Tuesday, February 7th.

Business Notes

BOSTON, MASS.-Goodspeed's Bookshop of 5A Park Street has now opened a second store while keeping the first at the old location. The new branch is at 9a Ashburton Place near the State House and only two blocks away from the present location. The branch will be devoted especially to prints, a business that Goodspeed's has been very largely developing in the past few years, but the activities have now outgrown the space that could be allotted to them at Park Street.

Obituary Notes

LEMUEL W. BANGS

MANY readers of the PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY read with deep regret the obituary of the late Lemuel W. Bangs in the January 7 issue. London representative of Charles Scribner's Sons for 38 years, he was better known to older members of the trade than to the younger men,

LEMUEL W. BANGS

(Photograph taken several years ago) but he was everywhere held in the most affectionate regard. In the London Publishers' Circular there appeared the following letter from Gerald Duckworth.

DEAR MR. MARSTON,-I am sure all publishers and booksellers will hear with very deep regret that Mr. Lemuel W. Bangs died on Thursday, December 15th, in his 82nd year. He was born on April 25th, 1839. Associated with Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, for over 50 years, he came to London and represented the firm for 38 years. He was in active charge except for the last three or four years when Mr. Kingsley came over. I venture to send this note as, besides knowing Mr. Bangs intimately in business when our relations were always of the most cordial, I used to see him continually at the Garrick Club. He was elected a member in 1886, and his great friend and chief, Mr. Charles Scribner, was elected in 1903. He dined at the club most nights, sitting invariably at the same table and we always knew the time at luncheon as, regularly as clockwork, he appeared at 2 o'clock. He was much loved by the members, and everybody called him "The Senator." He wore a peculiar frock-coat made to his own design by Poole, the celebrated tailor

of Savile Row, and he had never had the cut altered since he first arrived in London. He had a pretty taste in ties and wore always some choice flower in his buttonhole. "The Senator" had many good stories to tell his friends, and used to present them with cigarettes the size of a cigar. I feel sure that all those who met him both in business and in private will feel a great personality has left us. May we all, as I know he would wish us, raise our glasses to his memory.-Yours sincerely, GERALD DUCKWORTH.

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ARTHUR HOWARD ABENDROTH ARTHUR HOWARD ABENDROTH, president of the Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, successors to Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, died on January 30th of heart failure. Mr. Abendroth was for many years manager of the old company at 18 Ann street and after the death of Harris B. Dick he organized the present corporation in which he was active until a few weeks before his death. He was member of the Union League and Players' Club and a Veteran of the 7th Regiment.

JOHN BUTLER YEATS

JOHN BUTLER YEATS, painter and essayist, father of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and Jack B. Yeats, also an artist, died February 4, in New York City. Mr. Yeats was born in 1839 at Tullylish, Ireland. He was graduated with honors from Trinity College, Dublin, and a year after being admitted to the bar gave up the law for art. He knew most of the prominent Irishmen of the last forty years. Since 1910 Mr. Yeats had made his home in this country. He was a frequent contributor to magazines of articles on literary and art subjects.

JAMES B. PINKER

JAMES B. PINKER, literary and dramatic agent, of Talbot House, London, died February 8 at the Hotel Biltmore of pneumonia developing from influenza. He arrived in the city February 3 on the Aquitania. Mr. Pinker was 58 years old. Among the authors whom he had represented in this country was Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Frank Swinnerton and Compton Mackenzie. The intimacy and helpfulness of his relations with men like Joseph Conrad were such that not a few great writers owe much of their public success to him. With him at the time of his death was his 17-year-old daughter, Eononie, who crossed the ocean with him. Also surviving are his wife and two sons, Eric and Ralph Pinker, the former associated with his father in business.

Spring Lines of the Publishers and Some of the Men Who Will Show Them

INFORMATION FOR THE TRADE AS TO THE TERRITORY COVERED BY THE TRAVELERS OF WHOM IT HAS BEEN POSSIBLE TO COLLECT DATA, WITH SHORT SKETCHES OF SOME OF THEM AND A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW PUBLICATIONS CARRIED.

FRED M. HARRIS
Representing The Abingdon Press

MR. HARRIS is a native of Canada but has lived on this side of the border for many years. For the last fifteen years he has been in the employ of The Abingdon Press, and has traveled extensively as its representative in the east, southwest and south. During the summer period he is in charge of the Boardwalk Bookshop of The Abingdon Press at Ocean Grove.

Trivelers:

The Abingdon Press

Richard G. Farrell (New York and vicinity.) Fred M. Harris (Atlantic Coast, except New York.)

Harold J. Northcotte (Chicago, Central West, Southwest and Northwest.)

Harry F. Keiser (Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.) W. E. Hutchinson (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.)

John J. Ritt (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.)

J. J. Bauer (Oregon, Washington and Idaho.)

Among the Abingdon Press announcements for spring publication are "The Story of the American Hymn," a study in American hymn

ology by Edward S. Ninde, "American Citizens and Their Government" by Kenneth Colegrove, a textbook in Americanization; "Beyond Shanghai" by Harold Speakman, a book of travel in China; "With Earth and Sky" an intimate interpretation of nature, by Bishop William A. Quayle; "The Open Fire" essay, by William V. Kelley; "A Winter of Content" by Laura Lee Davidson, the story of a delightful winter spent alone on an island in the Canadian wilds; "The Christian in Social Relationship" by Dorr Frank Diefendorf; "Religion as Experience" by John Wright Buckham; "Flames of Faith" by William L. Stidger; "Fundamentals of Faith in the Light of Modern Thought" by Horace Blake Williams; and "A Handful of Stars" by F. W. Boreham, the well-known Australian preacher and essayist. Leaders in religious books are "The New Testament Epistles" by D. A. Hayes; "A Book of Old Testament Lessons, a Lectionary" by Robert W. Rogers; "The Untried Civilization" by J. W. Frazer; "United States Citizenship" by George P. Mains; "The Meaning of Education" by James H. Snowden; "The English Bible" by James S. Stevens; "The Home of the Echoes" by F. W. Boreham; "John Ruskin, Preacher" by Lewis H. Chrisman; "The Opinions of John Clearfield" by Lynn Harold Hough; "Cross-Lots and Other Essays" by George C. Peck; "The Uncommon Commonplace" by Bishop William A. Quayle; "Social Rebuilders" by Charles R. Brown; and "The Contemporary Christ" by Joseph M. M. Gray. Henry Altemus Co.

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B. F. Curran (Boston, Philadelphia, New York City).

F. A. Clinch, sales manager (Canada).

Eleanor Gates, author of "The Poor Little Rich Girl," has written what might be called a companion piece. George Gibbs has written a novel about the flapper. J. C. Snaith tells the story of an "old master." Edith Wharton's new novel is of modern love and youth and wealth and fashion. Stephen Graham has made a study of the capitals of Europe and conditions there. Margaret Münsterberg has made a study of the life and work of her distinguished father.

FICTION

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas. The Rich Little Poor Boy, Eleanor Gates. The House of Mohun, George Gibbs.

Mother, Maxim Gorky.

Jane Journeys On, Ruth Comfort Mitchell. The Van Roon, J. C. Snaith.

Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton.

NON-FICTION

Europe-Whither Bound? Stephen Graham.

Travel in the Last Two Centuries of Three Generations, S. R. Roget.

In the Clutch of Circumstance. The "Mark Twain Burglar's" Story of His Own Life.

Hugo Münsterberg: His Life and His Work, Margaret Münsterberg.

Senescence: The Last Half of Life, G. Stanley Hall. Caruso's Method of Singing, P. Mario Marafioti, M. D.

Light Violin Pieces the Whole World Plays, Albert E. Wier.

The Stock Market, Solomon S. Huebner.

JUVENILES

Over Two Seas, Ralph Henry Barbour.

Scott Burton and the Timber Thieves, Edward G. Cheney.

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted, Laurie Yorke Erskine. Spotted Deer, Elmer Russell Gregor.

Ned Beals, Freshman, Earl Reed Silvers.

The Deep Sea Hunters, A. Hyatt Verrill.

Atlantic Monthly Press

Travelers:

Elbert B. Duncan (New England territory, New York City, Washington, Philadelphia, and Baltimore).

Hugh S. Elliott (Western Coast).

John J. Mullen (South).

Robert A. Coan (School book department).

The Atlantic Monthly press is featuring a collection of letters written by Boswell to Rousseau, Goldsmith and other celebrities; under the title "Young Boswell," edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker; "Finding Youth," the account of a man who at sixty picks up life from a new angle, by Nelson Andrews; "Consolation," a message of comfort to the bereaved, by Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon; "A Glance at Shakespeare," short papers on individual plays, by John Jay Chapman; and "The Iron Man," in which Arthur Pound shows the effect of the automatic machine upon human beings.

The Automobile Blue Books, Inc. The sale of Automobile Blue Books is now carried on thru Grosset & Dunlap. S. S. Glass remains in charge of the Sales Department. The direct sale of Blue Books to the

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John H. Hopkins (New York Central towns in New York State; Toronto and Montreal; New York City and all principal cities west to Kansas City and north to Minneapolis. Charles B. Nourse (Ohio, Western Canada, East of and including Winnipeg; North Dakota, Montana, and all territory West from Denver.

William Haldane (The entire South; Pennsyl

vania and New York State with the exception of New York Central and Hudson River towns.)

Watson M. French (Eastern Canada, West to and not including Winnipeg; Michigan, Wisconsin; Montana; South Dakota; Iowa; Oklahoma; Missouri; Nebraska; Kansas.) Irving G. Hopkins (New York City and Brooklyn; Hudson River towns in New York State; New Jersey; and the entire New England States.)

Joseph Goldman. Horace H. Barse.

Barse & Hopkins announce a number of new series in their gift book lines, including the Nassau, Traymore, Georgiana, Caledonia, Elton, Success, Avalon, Willard and Ambassador Series and special single offerings include "Our Wedding and Anniversaries," "The Open Door," a guest book; and "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," Booklovers' Edition. The juvenile lines are especially strong this year. They include a series of biographical stories entitled "Famous Americans for Young Readers," which is launched with ten titles, including separate volumes on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin and other leaders down to Thomas A. Edison. New titles are announced for nearly all of the other juvenile series, including: The Corner House Girls, Polly Pendleton, The Yank Brown, Bobby Blake, The Kneetime Animal, Mary Jane, Dorothy Whitehill, and Sunny Boy Series.

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T. F. Mahony (Chicago, Middle West, New England.

The Bobbs-Merrill spring leaders include: "Vandemark's Folly," a novel of the middlewestern pioneers, by Herbert Quick; Nevil Henshaw's "The Inheritance of Jean Trouvé," a story of a young man's life struggle; a new novel by Samuel Merwin, "Goldie Green," the tale of an exhilarating heroine; in non-fiction, "Why Europe Leaves Home" by Kenneth L. Roberts; and a new business book, "Modern Methods in Selling" by L. J. Hoenig.

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J. L. Crowder (Middle West.)
Desmond FitzGerald (Coast.)
Julian Messner (East.)

Frank Coombs (The South.)
Richard L. Simon (New York City.)

Boni & Liveright's list is headed this spring by John Paris' "Kimono," a story of the marriage of an English officer and a Japanese girl. Among other novels are, "Revelation," a tale of Jerusalem, by Dulcie Deamer; and Waldo Frank's "Rahab," the story of a romantic love affair showing the interplay in our society of Jew and Gentile. They will also feature Clare Sheridan's chatty memoirs, and "My American Diary," an autobiography of Ludwig Lewisohn, "Up Stream," "The Enormous Room," a human document of the war by E. E. Cummings.

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The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter.

Introducing Irony. Maxwell Bodenheim,

Thru the Russian Revolution. Albert Rhys Williams.

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