Part 82 (1/2)
Edward Everett Hale's ”Man without a Country” will be read as long as the A flies
Hawthorne's ”Mosses from an Old Manse” are stories of unique interest, and ”The Scarlet Letter” is known to all well-read people
Of Rudyard Kipling, read ”Ki”
Pierre Loti's ”Iceland Fisher, 100
S Weir Mitchell's ”Hugh Wynne” sold 125,000 copies
Thoe's ”Gordon Keith” sold 200,000 copies
If you read only one of Walter Scott's novels, take ”Ivanhoe,” or ”The Talisman” Five more of those most read are likely to follow
Henryk Sienkiewicz's ”Quo Vadis” is most notable
Robert L Stevenson's ”Treasure Island,” and ”Doctor Jekyll and Mr
Hyde,” and ”The Merry Men and Other Tales,” are fair exaht of this author
He who reads Frank Stockton's ”Rudder Grange” is likely to read more of this author's books
Mrs H B Stowe's ”Uncle Toreat stories of the world
Of Mark Twain, ”Huckleberry Finn,” ”The Innocents Abroad,” and the ”Story of Joan of Arc” are representative volumes
Miss Warner's ”Wide, Wide World” is unique in American fiction
John Watson's ”Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush,” sold 200,000 copies in Areatest of scriptural roht authors It would have been easier to name a hundred authors and two hundred books
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_Books of Every-day Life_
”David Harus of the Cabbage Patch,” by Alice Hegan Rice 345,000 ”The Virginian,” by Owen Wister250,000 ”Lovey Mary,” by Alice Hegan Rice 188,000 ”The Birds' Christin 100,000 ”The Story of Patsy,” by Mrs Wiggin100,000 ”The Leopard's Spots,” by Thomas G Dixon, Jr125,000
_Romantic_
”Richard Carvel,” by Winston Churchill400,000 ”The Crisis,” by Winston Churchill 400,000 ”Graustark,” by G B McCutcheon300,000 ”The Eternal City,” by Hall Caine 175,000 ”Dorothy Vernon,” by Charles Major 150,000 ”The Manxman,” by Hall Caine113,000 ”When Knighthood Was in Flower,” by Charles Major400,000 ”To Have and to Hold,” by Miss Johnston300,000 ”Audrey,” by Miss Johnston165,000 ”The Helmet of Navarre,” by Bertha Runkle100,000
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