Tug of War-Won by Western Team, John Stanton, captain. Golf Approaching and Putting Contest-Won by J. R. Frazer; second prize by F. Greenwood. Golf Putting Contest-Won by P. A. Murkland; second prize by W. D. Harvey. At 7:30 the one hundred and two in attendance sat down to the banquet, which was voted a big success. E. F. Brewster was toastmaster, and after presenting the prizes to the winners, called upon Arthur Brentano, Jr., and J. R. Frazer, who instead of talking, sang a few Scotch songs, to the great delight of the entire crowd. He was followed by that old war-horse of oratory, W. F. Donohue. Interspersed with the speeches, there was a musical program, as usual in charge of that master hand, J. J. Mullen, and to say that his efforts were appreciated is to put it mildly. As at the Booksellers' Convention in Detroit, Mr. Mullen appeared as "Mr. Gallagher," and Adam Berger as "Mr. Shean," but with new and appropriate verses about some of the more prominent members present. The crowd could not seem to get enough of this, and encored until the boys were exhausted. George Lea again had to sing "Silver Threads Among the Gold," which the crowd insists on his singing each Field Day. At ten o'clock Mr. Brewster closed the banquet to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne," and one hundred and two tired but happy men wended their way back to Chicago by auto or train. Those Who Were Present Brewster, E. F.-1258 Asbury Ave., Winnetka. Cappeller, Geo. E.-Milton Bradley Co. Dexter, Chas. S.-Western B'k & Stat'y Co. Forrest, Howard J.-Western News Co. Graham, D. B.-P. F. Volland Co. Houston, James R.-National Pub. Co. Lilja, R. H.—Rand-McNally Co. Munk, Arnold H.-Platt & Munk Co. Schlamm, E. D.-U. Suellenburg & Co. Vaughan, L. B.-Fred J. Drake & Co. Popular Science Reading List TH 'HE reading list of 110 books, entitled "Popular Books in Science," was compiled by a committee of the Washington Academy of Sciences, with the assistance of other members of the Academy. This list has been reprinted by the American Library Association in booklet form, and provides an excellent guide for booksellers who are finding that the general reading interest of science has been greatly increased. The user of the list is reminded that the field of science cannot now be sharply divided into little compartments, but the volumes are put into different groups to facilitate selection. The books listed are such as the bookstore could easily hope to find a market for. Another interesting evidence of the interest in science is a series of sermons in one of the large New York churches on the general subject of evolution, and at the church there was given to attendants a list of books on evolution, including five volumes on the general subject, such volumes as "Evolution," by Thomson and Geddes (Holt), and "Evolution," by S. Schmucker (Macmillan); five volumes on evolution in animals and plants, including Darwin's "The Origin of the Species" (Appleton), and "The Origin and Evolution of Life," by Henry Fairfield Osborn (Scribner); five volumes on human evolution, including "Man of the Old Stone Age," by Henry Fairfield Osborn (Scribner), and "Man's Place in Nature," by Huxley (Appleton); and five volumes on the philosophical and historical aspects of evolution, including "The Direction of Human Evolution," by E. G. Conklin (Scribner) and "Evolution in Modern Thought," by John Dewey and others (Boni & Liveright). Cleaning Up Subscription Book Selling HE Saturday Evening Post of June 16th THE carried a full page advertisement of the Subscription Book Publishers' Association, launching an extensive promotion campaign which will run over a long period. This Association includes the leading houses selling educational and reference sets by direct canvass, and has headquarters at 58 East Washington Street, Chicago. The Association believes that a great deal of misunderstanding has grown up in people's minds with regard to book canvassing which has prejudiced them against the competent representatives of substantial publishers. This campaign is to be an educational one, intended to offset that general opinion. The Association claims that "its members send out only trustworthy and trained representatives on educational books of accurate scholarship and quality workmanship." The first advertisement pictures the young Lincoln reading a book by the fireplace, and the advertisement says, in part: "Whatever your schooling, age, sex or occupation, you can enjoy at home additional education that young Lincoln would have walked across the continent to obtain. A great group of publishers in the United States and Canada has dedicated millions of dollars' worth of printing plants and equipment to continue education where schools stop or cannot reach by producing books for home education. "These books are of practical educational value-Bibles, encyclopedias, histories, collections of great literature, books on agriculture, sciences, arts, professions, industries, and trades of handicraft and skill." The Association has adopted a seal to be used only by its members, the seal of the open book and the lighted torch, with the quotation, "Knowledge is the greatest bargain in the world." The same Association has brought complaint, thru the Federal Trade Commission against such subscription publishers as use unfair methods in canvassing. Especially complained of is the method by which the subscriber is led to believe that a set of books is being given to him free, while supplemental matter is charged for at a rate that makes the whole transaction really profitable to the publisher. "Have you got 'Black Oxen'?" COUNTRY BOOK DEALER: No, but I've got Moore on "The Diseases of Cattle." -Life S The Bookman's Manual By Bessie Graham III. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE* HAKESPEARE has had more editors than any other author who has ever lived. Over one hundred editions of his works were published between 1623 and 1821, the years of the first folio and of the third folio, respectively. All of these are out of print today, but are found on the shelves of the rare and second-hand bookshops. More than one hundred editions have appeared since 1821 and of these nearly all have remained in print. In selecting an edition of Shakespeare from the vast number published today, the choice is principally one of text. Which text is the most authentic? Which comes nearest to the original as written by Shakespeare? To choose between the merits of the various editions of Shakespeare now current, a knowledge of the principal editors of the plays is essential. A chronological list of the more important editors of Shakespeare follows: Editors of Shakespeare 1709. NICHOLAS ROWE. 7 vols. (Poet Laureate of England. The first critical editor of Shakespeare. His text is based on the Fourth Folio.) 1723. ALEXANDER POPE. 6 vols. 1733. LEWIS THEOBALD. 7 vols. (An edition put forth to undo the harm Pope had done.) 1765. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 8 vols. (Johnson's notes on the plays are all that has survived of this edition. They are published as "Johnson on Shakespeare," edited by Walter Raleigh. Oxford.) 1766. GEORGE STEEVENS. 4 vols. (The twenty plays printed in quarto before the Restoration.) 1773. GEORGE STEEVENS AND SAMUEL JOHNSON. IO vols. 1790. EDMUND MALONE. 10 vols. bowdlerize, to expurgate unjustifiably, to suppress with squeamishness.) 1821. MALONE-BOSWELL EDITION. THIRD VARIORUM. 21 vols. (Malone's edition revised by James Boswell, son of Dr. Johnson's biographer.) 1838-42. CHARLES KNIGHT PICTORIAL EDITION. 8 vols. (The earliest illustrated edition. Knight is the first of the new school of editors who went back to the First Folio. Now published by Winston with 400 drawings by Gilbert.) 1851. WILLIAM HAZLITT. 4 vols. (Coleridge and Hazlitt inaugurated a new school of commentators who gave us editions of admiration and appreciation of Shakespeare.) 1852. "LANSDOWNE EDITION." I vol. (Now published by Warne.) 1852-7. REV. HENRY NORMAN HUDSON. II vols. (The Hudson edition, now called the Harvard edition, is published by Ginn & Co. It rivals Rolfe's as an annotated edition for schools. Hudson aims to help the student to a love of Shakespeare rather than to a mere knowledge. His commentaries are elaborate and run more to praise than to analysis.) 1853. JOHN PAYNE COLLIER. I vol. (Owner of a copy of the Second Folio of 1632, known as the Perkins folio, in which he forged marginal annotations in a simulated seventeenth-century handwriting. The Payne Collier controversy has as strong sides as the Bacon-Shakespeare.) 1853-65. JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL (afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPS). 16 vols. (This edition is out of print. It did almost nothing to correct the Shakespeare text. Halliwell-Phillips's contributions to Shakespearian scholarship were biographical rather than textual. His Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare in two volumes, Longmans, is the standard "Source" book of the few facts known about Shakespeare. Neilson and Thorndyke in "Facts About Shakespeare," Macmillan, have read Halliwell-Phillips for us and subtracted facts from source.) 1857. RICHARD GRANT WHITE. 12 vols. (White was an eminent American philologist as well as a Shakespearian scholar. His edition is still one of the best. It is pub lished by Houghton Mifflin. White based his work on the First Folio and restored many corrupted passages.) 1860. MRS. MARY COWDEN CLARKE. I vol. (The only woman editor of Shakespeare. A very judicious work but now out of print. Her Complete Concordance to Shakespeare, Scribner, still remains a work of value. It is not so full as John Bartlett's New and Complete Concordance, Dutton, but it often completes Bartlett. The Clarke Concordance and Mrs. H. H. Furness's Concordance to the Sonnets are the two greatest Shakespeare contributions by women.) 1864. THE GLOBE EDITION. I vol. (This is the standard one-volume edition by Clark and Wright, editors of the Cambridge. Its division of acts, scenes and lines is the one always referred to by Commentators. Its fine print, six-point type, makes it impossible to use for continued. reading. Its only rival, the one-volume Oxford Shakespeare, is well printed in clear type easy to read.) 1863-66. THE CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE. 9 vols. (Dr. Furness says that "the Cambridge edition created an era in Shakespeare's literature and put all students of Shakespeare's text in debt to the learned editors, William George Clark, John Glover, and William Aldis Wright. It collates the Quartos and Folis yet it omits to note the adoption or rejection of them by the various editors who pronounced in its favor . . . It was this omission in the textual notes of the Cambridge editors which first led to the present undertaking (the New Variorum).” The Cambridge Shakespeare, Macmillan, is the best text and the most scholarly edition we have with the exception of the far more elaborate New Variorum by Furness. 1869. NIKOLAUS DELIUS. 7 vols. (The best German textual critic.) 1871. THE NEW VARIORUM BY HORACE HOWARD FURNESS. 19 vols. (This is the greatest of all editions of Shakespeare. It aimed to supply the deficiencies of the Cambridge and after fifty years "to form a supplement to the Third Variorum of Boswell's Malone." Fifteen volumes were completed by Dr. Furness and four by Horace Howard Furness, Jr., who is continuing his father's work.) 1876. GEORGE LONG DUYCKINCK. I vol. Winston (An edition that avoids notes and gives all information in prefaces. Contains also a history of the stage.) SHAKESPEARE. Funk. (A revision of the edition of 1852.) 1884. WILLIAM J. ROLFE. Ginn & Co. 40 vols. (Sometimes called the "Friendly Edition." An expurgated edition, with notes, suitable for ready reference and for school use. The out-of-print Harper edition contains extracts from noted critics. These have been omitted in the new edition of the American Book Co.) 1888. BANKSIDE SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare Society, N. Y. 22 vols. (Edited by Appleton Morgan and containing the First Folio and Quarto editions printed on parallel pages.) 1894. THE TEMPLE EDITION. Dutton. 40 vols. McKay reprint. 39 vols. (Edited by Israel Gollancz and using the Globe text. The pocket size, the beautiful printing, and the complete annotations of these volumes make it the most popular edition ever published.) 1899. THE EVERSLEY SHAKESPEARE. Macmillian. IO vols. (Edited by C. H. Herford. The text founded on the Globe and Cambridge editions. An excellent edition but so badly printed in its American issue that it has gone out of print.) This chronological list of the more important editors of Shakespeare covers the most conspicious of the Shakespeare editions in history. There are, however, many other wellknown and well-liked editions at the present day of which it may perhaps be said that the editions are more famous than the editors. A list of all the editions of Shakespeare's works, arranged alphabetically by publisher, will show that there are almost as many editions as there are publishers in the world. The best of the one-volume editions and of the many-volume editions intended for the general reader will be found listed below. One Volume Editions of Shakespeare Burt. Complete works. 39 illustrations. CENTURY. Shakespeare's Principal Plays. (20 plays.), Edited by Cunliffe, Brooke, and MacCracken. DODGE. Complete works. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. FUNK AND WAGNALLS. Complete Plays. Facsimile First Folio. Cassell's Complete Shakespeare. The Leopold Shakespeare. 13 vols. Swan Edition. 13 vols. MACMILLAN. Cambridge, Shakespeare. 9 vols. Edited by Clark, Glover, and Wright. Tudor Edition. 39 vols. Neilson and Thorndike, editors-in-chief. Granta Shakespeare. 15 vols. Edited by J. H. Lobban. Complete Works. New Cambridge Edition. (6 vols. ready.) Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Pitt Press Shakespeare for Schools. 12 vols. Edited by A. W. Verity. The Student's Shakespeare. 3 vols. MCKAY. Edited by H. N. Hudson, I. Gollancz and SCRIBNER. C. H. Herford. "The small volume, large type Shakespeare." GINN & Co. Complete Works. "Harvard Edition." 20 vols. 40 rub. Complete Works. Caxton Series. WARNE. 3 vols. Lansdowne India Paper Edition. 6 vols. |