Fifty years ago . 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 up
Fifty years ago . 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. WITH THE WITS 193 finest paper; they were illustrated with the most lovelysteel engravings, the like of which could not now be
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