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By ABRAHAM RIHBANY. A remarkable autobiography of a Syrian who landed at New York twenty years ago with nine cents in his pocket, and who now is an American clergyman occupying a famous pulpit. Illustrated. Net $1.75

THE COLLEGE COURSE AND THE PREPARATION FOR LIFE
By ALBERT PARKER FITCH. A series of addresses dealing with eight "familiar
undergraduate problems," among which are "The Fight for Character," "Losing One's
Faith, and Is Scholarship Essential?" Net $1.25

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THE LIFE OF A LITTLE COLLEGE AND OTHER PAPERS By ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN. One of the best known of Canadian scholars and writers gives here a rich and human impression of life in a provincial college, of the temperament of college girls, and likewise some stimulating essays on a variety of such topics as the sea stories of Herman Melville, the Vanity of Travel, etc. Net $1.35

TALKS TO FRESHMAN GIRLS

By HELEN DAWES BROWN. Four short addresses on "Studies Serve for Delight, for Ornament, and for Ability" (a sentence from Bacon); Real Readers; The Use of the Pen: Everyday Living. The talks are sensible, sympathetic, crisp and pointed. Net 75 cents.

THE LURE OF THE CAMERA

By CHARLES S. OLCOTT. An entertaining account of the author's wanderings with his camera, both in America and in foreign countries. With forty-eight full page illustrations. Net $3.00

SALESMANSHIP

In this book twenty years of selling experience are condensed into less than two hundred and fifty pages of crisp practical advice and forceful illustration. The author is vicepresident of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Net $1.00

THE HOME BOOK OF GREAT PAINTINGS

By ESTELLE M. HURLL. Informal talks on the greatest pictures of Michel-Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Correggio, Van Dyke, Rembrandt and Murillo. With 105 full page illustrations. Net $3.50

DR. BARNADO AS I KNEW HIM

By A. R. NEUMAN. Miss Neuman was closely associated with Dr. Barnado as a
member of his staff for many years, and she gives some intimate views of the famous
doctor-philanthropist,-his personality, characteristics, and methods.
Net 75 cents

VAGABONDS IN PERIGORD

By H. H. BASHFORD. The adventures and experiences of a charming group of people
in their leisurely foot wanderings through France. The book is written with the same
power of keen and humorous observation that marked the author's "The Corner of Harley
Street. Net $1.25
-TWO BOOKS OF SPECIAL TIMELINESS-
PAN-GERMANISM

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THIRTY YEARS

By SIR THOMAS BARCLAY. The author,
truly described as the "man behind the
entente, tells in a pleasant, familiar vein
the story of his struggle in the cause of a
good Anglo-French understanding.

The postage on each of these books is additional.

Net $3.50

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BOOKS ANNOUNCED FOR THE SEASON OF

1914-1915

BY ALL AMERICAN PUBLISHERS

NOTABLE prospectus of the activities of the American Publishing Trade at the opening of the season 1914-15 will be presented in the annual FALL ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER of THE DIAL, to appear, as usual, on September 16. In the regular classified "List of Books Announced for Fall Publication" and in the advertising pages of this issue will be found full advance information regarding all the important new books in preparation for the coming season. THE DIAL'S announcement lists have for many years been recognized as the most accurate and useful prepared by any periodical, and the issues containing them are relied upon generally by the retail trade, librarians, and private buyers of books, in making up advance order lists and planning future book purchases. The FALL ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER is therefore one of the most important and desirable book advertising mediums of the year. Only regular rates will be charged for space. As the display is always large, orders and copy should be forwarded at the earliest moment possible.

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Important New and Forthcoming Macmillan Books

AIKEN. Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse. By CONRAD AIKEN. A work of distinct originality and power.

Ready Sept. 16, $1.25 net* BULLARD. Panama. The Canal, the Country and the People. By ARTHUR BULLARD (Albert Edwards). A revised and enlarged edition of this standard work. Illustrated. Ready Sept. 16, $2.00 net CHAUCER. The Modern Reader's Chaucer. The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Put into Modern English by J. S. P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. New and cheaper edition. Illustrated.

COLCORD.

Ready Sept. 16. Cloth $2.00 net
Leather, boxed, $5.00 net

The Game of Life and Death. By LINCOLN COLCORD. Vivid seastories by the author of "The Drifting Diamond." Illustrated. Ready Sept. 16, $1.25 net* CRAWFORD. Southern Italy and Sicily. By F. MARION CRAWFORD. A new edition of this rare combined work of descriptive travel and illustration.

Ready Sept. 23. Two vols. $5.00 net

CROSS. A History of England and Great Britain. By ARTHUR LYON CROSS, Ph.D. The best comprehensive one-volume work on the British Empire. Maps. $2.50 net FISHER. Why Is the Dollar Shrinking? By IRVING FISHER. A study of the causes underlying the high cost of living.

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HAGEDORN. Faces in the Dawn. By

HERMANN HAGEDORN. A beautiful love

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VEDDER. The Gospel of Jesus and the Problems of Democracy. By HENRY C. VEDDER. An important plea for a reconstructed theology. Ready Sept. 9. $1.35 net*

story of German-American origin. Illustrated.

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Ready Sept. 2. $1.50 net*

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SERIALS VERSUS NOVELS.

Why is it that English novels are better than American novels? It will readily be replied that the audience to which the serious literary artist may appeal is much larger in England than in the United States. But this reply does not take into account the fact that the better English novelists find at least half their audience in the United States. This was true at least as long ago as the time when George Meredith was trying to find a public. He took comfort in his American readers, who, he said, were the first to pay him the tribute of buying his books in considerable numbers. It is true now, when novelists like Mr. Wells, Mr. Galsworthy, and Mr. Conrad have quite as many admirers on this side of the Atlantic as on the other. At this point it will be replied that audiences have nothing to do with the matter while individual artists have everything to do with it. Perhaps this is the reply of wisdom. But there is an economic consideration to be noted.

The actual demand in the two Englishspeaking countries may be the same; the method of supply is not. The United States is above all others the country of the magazine. It has been said, doubtless with a touch of exaggeration, that the United States produces more magazines than all the other countries of the civilized world together. Other countries produce books. Even Japan publishes six or seven times as many books per capita as does the United States. England, though it is second only to the United States in the profusion of its periodicals, is still a country of book-readers. There are something like ten times as many books published in England as in the United States. The result is that novels are written in England for readers of books; in the United States for readers of magazines.

Possibly the American temperament - if there is such a thing-is by nature devoted to the magazine and not to the book. Possibly the tremendous production of magazines in this country is an expression of the race which occupies it. But it seems more probable that an accident in the shape of the secondclass postage rates has been the potent factor

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