Fifty years ago (1888) (14778460221)

Identifier: cu31924102773813 (find matches)
Title: Fifty years ago
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901 Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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d Quins Voyage downthe Danube, all commanded a sale of 1,000 copieseach at least. Works of religion, of course, always suc-ceed, if they are written with due regard to the religiousleaning of the moment. It shows how religious fash-ions change when we find that the copyright of theworks of Eobert Hall realised 4,000/. and that of CharlesSimeons books 5,000/. ; while of the Eev. AlexanderPletchers Eook of Family Devotions, published at 245.,2,000 copies were sold on the day of publication. Idare say the same thing would happen again to-day ifanother Mr. Fletcher were to hit upon another happythought in the way of a religious book. I think that one of the causes of the decay of tradeas regards poetry and fiction may have been the bad-ness of the annuals. You will find in any old-fashionedlibrary copies of the Keepsake, the Forget-me-Not,the Book of Beauty, Flowers of Loveliness, Findens Tableaux, The Book of Gems, and others of that nowextinct tribe. They were beautifully printed on the
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WITH THE WITS 193 finest paper; they were illustrated with the most lovelysteel engravings, the like of which could not now be