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Mary Pickford has secured from the Page Company the world motion-picture rights of "Pollyanna,” and “Pollyanna Grows Up," by Eleanor H. Porter, of which together nearly three-quarters of a million copies have been

sold.

Charles W. Wendte, D.D., 165 Hunnewell avenue, Newton, Mass., is writing a memoir of Rev. Thomas Starr King, and would be glad to have sent to him material that would be of service in this task. Material sent will be returned.

"The American Book Trade Manual for 1919," including a directory of publishers of the United States and Great Britain and a list of book trade and kindred periodicals, is published by the Publishers' Weekly, New York.

Doubleday, Page, & Co. announce for fail publication a new life of Walt Whitman, 'o be entitled, "Walt Whitman the Man and the Artist," by the French scholar and writer, Leon Bazalgette.

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Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell" (Charles Scribner's Sons) is a complete record of the observance held under auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, February, 1919, with portrait of Lowell.

"Dickens, Reade, and Collins : Sensation Novelists," by Walter C. Phillips (Columbia University Press), is a study in the conditions and theories of novel writing in Victorian England.

"George Meredith," a tribute by J. M. Barrie, is published by Thomas B. Mosher (Portland, Maine ).

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"Century Readings for a Course in American Literature," edited by Fred Lewis Pattee (Century Company), is an anthology of American prose and verse dating from 1787 to the present time, compiled with a view to furnishing literary material for teachers and students of American literature.

A memoir of the late Cecil Chesterton has been written by Louis J. McQuilland, with the assistance of "J. K. Prothero" (Mrs. Cecil Chesterton) and will be published in London by Palmer & Hayward, who will also issue a separate tribute to "C. C." by his brother, G. K. Chesterton.

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Essentials of Expert Typewriting," by Rose L. Fritz and Edward H. Eldridge, assisted by Gertrude W. Craig (American Book Company), aims to teach the principles of touch typewriting.

"Style Book of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering," compiled by George Summey, Jr., and published by the College, at West Raleigh, N. C., is a pamphlet showing the style used in the College printing office.

"Every-day Greek Greek Words in English, Including Scientific Terms," by Horace Addison Hoffman (University of Chicago Press), is a brief course in the derivation of English words of Greek origin.

The International Book Publishing Company, 5 Beekman street, New York, is a new publishing firm, the purpose of which is to bring Russian authors to the attention of American authors.

Harcourt, Brace, and Howe is the name of a new publishing firm, located at 5 West Fiftieth street, New York.

The Country Bard is a new magazine of verse, edited and written by Clarence A. Sharp, of Madison, N. J.

William Morton Payne died in Chicago June 6, aged sixty-one.

John Fox, Jr., died at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, July 8, aged fifty-six.

Nathaniel Gould, author of about one hundred novels, said to be among the "best sell

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Mary Pickford has secured from the Page Company the world motion-picture rights of 'Pollyanna,” and “Pollyanna Grows Up," by Eleanor H. Porter, of which together nearly three-quarters of a million copies have been

sold.

Charles W. Wendte, D.D., 165 Hunnewell avenue, Newton, Mass., is writing a memoir of Rev. Thomas Starr King, and would be glad to have sent to him material that would be of service in this task. Material sent will be returned.

"The American Book Trade Manual for 1919," including a directory of publishers of the United States and Great Britain and a list of book trade and kindred periodicals, is published by the Publishers' Weekly, New York.

Doubleday, Page, & Co. announce for fail publication a new life of Walt Whitman, 'o be entitled, "Walt Whitman the Man and the Artist," by the French scholar and writer, Leon Bazalgette.

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"Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell" (Charles Scribner's Sons) is a complete record of the observance held under auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, February, 1919, with portrait of Lowell.

"Dickens, Reade, and Collins: Sensation Novelists," by Walter C. Phillips (Columbia University Press), is a study in the conditions and theories of novel writing in Victorian England.

George Meredith," a tribute by J. M. Barrie, is published by Thomas B. Mosher (Portland, Maine).

"Main Currents of Spanish Literature," by J. D. M. Ford (Henry Holt & Company ), is a history of Spanish literature for the general reader.

The Harpers are publishing in their "Opportunity" series "Opportunities in the Newspaper Business," by Dean Lee of the New York University School for Journalism.

"The Story of Dr. Johnson," by S. C. Roberts (Harvard University Press), is a biographical notice, intended as an introduction to Boswell's "Life."

"Century Readings for a Course in American Literature," edited by Fred Lewis Pattee (Century Company), is an anthology of American prose and verse dating from 1787 to the present time, compiled with a view to furnishing literary material for teachers and students of American literature.

A memoir of the late Cecil Chesterton has been written by Louis J. McQuilland, with the assistance of "J. K. Prothero" (Mrs. Cecil Chesterton) and will be published in London by Palmer & Hayward, who will also issue a separate tribute to "C. C." by his brother, G. K. Chesterton.

"Essentials of Expert Typewriting," by Rose L. Fritz and Edward H. Eldridge, assisted by Gertrude W. Craig (American Book Company ), aims to teach the principles of touch typewriting.

"Style Book of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering," compiled by George Summey, Jr., and published by the College, at West Raleigh, N. C., is a pamphlet showing the style used in the College printing office.

"Every-day Greek Greek Words in English, Including Scientific Terms," by Horace Addison Hoffman (University of Chicago Press), is a brief course in the derivation of English words of Greek origin.

The International Book Publishing Company, 5 Beekman street, New York, is a new publishing firm, the purpose of which is to bring Russian authors to the attention of American authors.

Harcourt, Brace, and Howe is the name of a new publishing firm, located at 5 West Fiftieth street, New York.

The Country Bard is a new magazine of verse, edited and written by Clarence A. Sharp, of Madison, N. J.

William Morton Payne died in Chicago June 6, aged sixty-one.

John Fox, Jr., died at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, July 8, aged fifty-six.

Nathaniel Gould, author of about one hundred novels, said to be among the "best sellers" in England, died at New Haven, England, July 25, aged sixty-one.

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