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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928.

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COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING.

during which they were writing their novela.

Popular Favourites,

IMPROVING TRADE.

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LETTER GOLF.

Lucky Lindy made the Atlantic

In the case of such popular fa- |EFFECT OF GOLD STANDARD. NOVELS IN YELLOW BOARDS Reade, Besant and lice, Misa vourites as Wilkie Collins, Charles

The more optimistle feeling about in one hop, but par here is ten, Braddon, Quidn, and others the British trade prospects with which Maybe you can do it in less than sales to the libraries would be the year opened is reflected in the that.

By W. Roberts.)

enormous, and very handsome annual report of the London Cham- terms would roll into the pockets ber of Commerce, which ins Just

From a bookman's point of view of the authors. But the life of been published. It is anticipated LUCKY

decker" was not at all likely to be

When the return was made to the

gold standard which was tanta- mount to a fall in prices and an in- crease in real wages-doubt was felt whether Great Britain could

probably nothing is more peculiar the "B-decker" was not a long one, that 1928 will leave England Hy-and-exclusively-Victorian-than-and-sa-soon-as-the-library-demand-in-a-stronger-position-to-complete-

the two-shilling novel in yellow [End diet down-perhaps in lens with her industrial rivala, pictorial boards. This type of than a year—it would often take cheap fiction came into vogue in on a fresh lease of life in the the late Ferties or early Fifties cheap one-volume form in pictorial of the Great Queen's reign, and boards. The failure as when her lamp went out the yellow-covered volumes had all hut, ceased to Illumine the book- shop windows. Millions of these volumes, poured forth from the press during half a century, and yet weeks and months now pass without one coming across copies. in "mint" slate,

a success in a cheap form; altford to raise the people's standard though, as it happens, several of of living and yet compete in the the 3-decker" failures are enger markets of the world. ly, sought to-day by collectors: at prices far beyoud the original (nominal) cost of 1% guineas,

-Practically all the well-known authors of the Victorian period appeared in yellow boards, and hundreds of standard novels are now only available in these issues, Many of them

are now. among

A substantial reminder of their existence occured recently in Charing Cross-road, where one of the second-hand booksellers had been called In to purchase the wants of public libraries for quantity of these fasues," which "replacementa," for, rebound in Had been stored away in Lon-strong cloth or leather, they will don pantechnicon for many years, last for ages. The yellow-cover- The books were almost exclusive-ed books were by no means by yellow-covered novels, mostly elusively ficlion.

selected with very good judgment

as to authors.

It is real pleasure to handle thene Victorian hooks. They are well printed in good readable type Jon white paper of excellent quali- ty, with ample margins, the sheets hound together with strong thread --not stabbed" with pernicious wire, which

almost invariably rusts, especially when paste, and not glue, is used in the binding.

ex-

Last year "gave. (states the re- port) the clear and declsive an- swer that she could not. Her export industries-téxtiles, iron and steel, and conf-found them- selves severely undercut by their foreign competitors."· `However, towards the end of the period, the economic factors operating here began to be felt abroad, and the stabilisation of foreign currencica started to influence the cost of rival goods. This year, therefore should ace à further improvement of our

altion from this came, Considerable progress, il is An interesting feature of these claimed, has been made in writing cheap issues is that they often down overenpitalised concerns and "carried" several pages of adver-electing drastic reorganisations. tisements of soaps, pills, enamels, Much, however, still remains to be 1-The idea of letter golf is to antent medicines, and so forth, do in this direction, and in the change one word to another and and these must have been a profit-substitution of modern plant into it in par, n given number of able source of revenue-to the the pre-war staple industries. One strokes. Thus to change COW to of the must eticouraging fentares HEN, in three strokes, Cow, publishers, at least. There Was of the year was the headway made HOW, HEW, HEN. nearly always a picture on the by the newes industries, such as artificial stik, mators, chemicals, and electrical machinery."

Advertisements and Pictures.

per cover, based on some striking. Chenpness and Quality,

incident in the story; only now With the possible exception of land then was the illustratiop sign- the house of Murray, in the aus ed--the monographic “CK" "on Fore environment of Albemarle- the cover of H. Herman's “Lending street, nearly all the leading Lon- Lady" undoubtedly points to don publishers entered for the Charles Keene. Now and then, public in producing these yellow- also, we get something quite apart rovared novels, whose cheapnessrom the story itself-in Besant becomes all the more striking and Rice's "This Son of Vulcan" when it is remembered that in the proface denks with the authors those days there were no labour struggle with the overseas pirates; saving mechanical aids such they had written expostulating to linetype, and every letter had to a Canadian editor and threatened

"Deplorable."

The report then speaks of the importance of creating goodwill, and declares that "it is deporable that the Chamber should still be reiving authenticated complaints af failures on the part of British firms to give prompt and courteous attention to correspondence."

The Council joins with numbers

LINDY

2-You can change only one letter at a time.

3-You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbrevia Lions don't count.

4-The order of letters cannot be changed.

One solution is printed оп another page of this issue..

The Admiralty has decided that

the great cout must not then be

When the retiring Japanese Am- not. More-bassador, Baron Mataui, and Baro- over, they fall with crushing effectness Matsui left London for Japan on the manufacturer, whose bust-they were presented by Mr. W. W. ness necessitates the use of land, Grantham, K.C., with a Sussex

be "picked" up by the "comp." to take action. His reply was to of other business men in express-epaulettes are not to be worn by Custom required that nearly the effect that "we might bring an ing alarm at the burden of local naval officers when the great-coat every work of fiction should make action against him and be blank rates. Not only are they regarded is worn with full dress or with "but their inci-epauletted frock-coat dress, but its first book appearance in 3-ed," and that, further, he intends unduly high, volume" form at a urice of nomined to go on reprinting the novel.dence is inequitable. They are taken off. ally one and a half guineas. This In the not far latant future levied not on the harvest of in- form was manufactured exclusive some at least of these yellow-dustry, as is income tax, but on ly for the great circulating Libra-covered novels will become the the need, and are payable whether ries in London and the provinces; sport of the collector, and so will there are profits or very few sols were purchased by "Jump" in commercial value. In the public. The new and less such a coutingeney they must be well-known novelists thus had a in "mint state," and not battered buildings, and labour in much horseshoe decorated with prim- sporting chance of catching the relics, as they nearly always are farger measure than does that of roses. ear of the novel reader by being when, found on the bookstalls and other business men." recommended by the libraries, costers' barrows. In any case, The membership of the Chamber ailed perhaps by a favourable ze-they constitute an extremely in-stood at 8.061 at the end of 1927, view.

teresting phase in the story of and the Statistical and Information One wonders if the first Victorian book activities, for they Department dealt with over 28,000 deckers" of Thomas Hardy or brought vast quantity of good inquries and Issued nearly. 39,000 George Meredith brought them fiction within the reach of every-certificates of origin and other cer- Jenough to pay the rent of the house hndy.

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WHAT?

I SAID COME DOWN TO TAAT BIG HOUSE THAT

AOBODY'S LIVED IN FOR SO LONG!! A MOVIN' VAN IS BACKED UP

IN FRONT OF IT!

YOU ANDUST BE MISTAKEN, OSCAR NOBODY IN THIS ITOWN COULD EVER AFFORD

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SP MY POP SAID!

The Transatlantic tolephone ser- vice from Great Britam to Canada has been extended to afford com- munication with a number of smaller Canadian towns in addi- tion to the centres proviously an nounced.

Newcomers

NO, I'M NOT MISTAKEN=

I SAW THEM TAKIN TUNGS

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2 Rendors void.

8 Ascend.

9 Organe of sight.

10 Make agreeable in sound.

13 Sharp pinnacle of rock.

15 Species of limestone.

18 High mountain.

20 Wayside halt.

91 Vegetable.

24 Even (Contracted).

25 Tidal wave.

28 Blus titmice.

29 Close by,

30-Wandering

31 Hautboy.

33 Parts of fishes.

36 Assume illegally.

38 Pinch,

3D Core.

40 Kindled.

42 Personal pronoun.

14 Tittered.

48 Public speaker,

GI Banterera (Fr).

52 A favourite Spanish disk.

53 Kind of large stove for baking.

64 Makes content.

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Down.

3 Part of a garment.

4 Portrait.

5 The nape (anat).

6 To blind.

7 Chair.

11 European light cavalry soldier.

12 A girdle.

13 Inert gaB.

14 Ireland.

14 Well known Dean.

17. Pitcher. 19 Small fing. 20 Inanares.

22 Makes torpid,

28 Specles of Willow.

26 Cavern (Shak).

27 A race-horse.

81 Efect

82 Brooch.

34 Hop kiln.

35 Heavenly orb,

37 An creTERO.

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89 Equivalent of Mr. (German).

41 Ono hopelessly insane.

43 Mohammedan Nymph of paradise.

45 Fishes,

40 Agus.

47 Exclamation of woo.

149 Invites, an answer,

50 Greasy.

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