and Theodore Roosevelt took office on September 14. Though this was a
year of financial panic, famous novels sold in the hundreds of
thousands. The first book of a previously unknown author, _The Helmet of
Navarre_, made such a success as a serial in _The Century_ that it was
published in an unprecedented first printing of 100,000 copies. Turning
from the Revolutionary setting of _Richard Carvel_ to the Civil War
scene for his new book, Winston Churchill established _The Crisis_ as
the best seller of the year. _Alice of Old Vincennes_ climbed from tenth
place on the best seller list of the previous year to second place, via
national advertising and promotion such as books had seldom before been
given. _Graustark_, with the Chicago imprint of Stone & Kimball,
established a lasting reputation for George Barr McCutcheon, another of
the Hoosier school of writers. Together with Harold MacGrath’s _The
Puppet Crown_, it marked a new trend in fiction--toward the light
romance of intrigue and adventure in high society.
1902
Fiction
1. THE VIRGINIAN, by Owen Wister. Macmillan
2. MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH, by Alice Caldwell Hegan. Century
3. DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDON HALL, by Charles Major. Macmillan
4. THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE, by Emerson Hough. Bowen-Merrill
5. AUDREY, by Mary Johnston. Houghton Mifflin
6. THE RIGHT OF WAY, by Gilbert Parker. Harper
7. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, by A. Conan Doyle. McClure, Phillips
8. THE TWO VANREVELS, by Booth Tarkington. McClure, Phillips
9. THE BLUE FLOWER, by Henry van Dyke. Scribner
10. SIR RICHARD CALMADY, by Lucas Malet. Dodd, Mead
* * * * *
While “ragtime” swept America, Debussy’s _Pelleas et Melisande_ was a
popular success in Paris. The first “skyscrapers” were being built. the
best seller list. Advance orders for Mary Johnston’s _Audrey_ exceeded
100,000 copies. Several new writing reputations were established by 1902
sales--those of Owen Wister, Emerson Hough, and Alice Caldwell Hegan
(later Mrs. Rice). The book, the play, in which Dustin Farnum acted for
ten years, and the movie in which Gary Cooper portrayed “The Virginian”
have made the hero’s famous words “When you call me that, _smile_,”
familiar in many an American household. Eventually _The Virginian_ was
to sell well over a million and a half copies. Owen Wister dedicated it
to his lifelong friend, Theodore Roosevelt. The Hoosier school added
Booth Tarkington to its best-selling membership with his third book,
_The Two Vanrevels_. His first novel, _The Gentleman from Indiana_, had
been published in 1899. On this list too a detective story appeared for
the first time. It was _The Hound of the Baskervilles_, by that most
famous writer of detective fiction, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
1903
Fiction
1. LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER, by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Harper
2. GORDON KEITH, by Thomas Nelson Page. Scribner
3. THE PIT, by Frank Norris. Doubleday, Page
4. LOVEY MARY, by Alice Hegan Rice. Century
5. THE VIRGINIAN, by Owen Wister. Macmillan
6. MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH, by Alice Hegan Rice. Century
7. METTLE OF THE PASTURE, by James Lane Allen. Macmillan
8. LETTERS OF A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SON, by
George Horace Lorimer. Small, Maynard
9. THE ONE WOMAN, by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Doubleday, Page
10. THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME, by John Fox, Jr. Scribner
* * * * *
1903 was the year of the first successful airplane flight, made by the
Wright brothers on December 17. The past few years had been a period of
financial crisis; now the era of great industrial expansion was
beginning. Big business and high finance were introduced as themes for
the best seller by Frank Norris, _The Pit_. With _Lovey Mary_, Alice
Hegan Rice repeated the success of her _Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch_. Both were in the Century Company’s famous series of short dollar
novels, a series which reached its sales climax with _The Lady of the
Decoration_ in 1907. A new author, John Fox, Jr., appeared with the
first of two novels that were to become almost synonymous with the words
“best seller.” There was only one English author on the list, Mrs.
Humphry Ward; but her _Lady Rose’s Daughter_ was in number one position.
For the first time, a non-fiction title appears, autobiography by the
famous _Saturday Evening Post_ editor. Up to 1912 no distinction was
made on the lists between fiction and non-fiction.
1904
Fiction
1. THE CROSSING, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan
2. THE DELIVERANCE, by Ellen Glasgow. Doubleday, Page
3. THE MASQUERADER, Anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston). Harper
4. IN THE BISHOP’S CARRIAGE, by Miriam Michelson. Bobbs-Merrill
5. SIR MORTIMER, by Mary Johnston. Harper
6. BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
7. THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME, by John Fox, Jr. Scribner
8. REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Houghton Mifflin
9. MY FRIEND PROSPERO, by Henry Harland. McClure, Phillips
10. THE SILENT PLACES, by Stewart Edward White. McClure, Phillips
* * * * *
The Russo-Japanese War was raging, and Americans were, on the whole,
sympathetic to Japan. Advertisements of the year offered new rolls for
phonographs, automobile road maps, one-piece collar buttons, and
Sapolio. The World’s Fair was on in St. Louis, the New York subway was
opened, the Panama Canal was begun, and the first successful tunnel
under the Hudson River was finished. In the magazines and newspapers the
“literature of exposure” was appearing. Lincoln Steffens was writing;
Thomas W. Lawson produced _Friday the Thirteenth_; and Ida Tarbell’s
_History of the Standard Oil Company_ was running in _McClure’s
Magazine_. Among books, historical and romantic fiction dominated the
best seller lists and the “sex problem” reared its head. Again Winston
Churchill topped all other novelists of the year. An edition of 110,000
copies of Ellen Glasgow’s _The Deliverance_ was published; like most of
these early 20th-century novels, it was priced at $1.50.
1905
Fiction
1. THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM ASHE, by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Harper
2. SANDY, by Alice Hegan Rice. Century
3. THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, by Robert Hichens. Stokes
4. THE CLANSMAN, by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Doubleday, Page
5. NEDRA, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
6. THE GAMBLER, by Katherine Cecil Thurston. Harper
7. THE MASQUERADER, Anonymous (Katherine Cecil Thurston). Harper
8. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, by Edith Wharton. Scribner
9. THE PRINCESS PASSES, by C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Holt
10. ROSE O’ THE RIVER, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Houghton Mifflin
* * * * *
Novels were beginning to utilize motor cars and wireless telegraphy, the
new inventions of the period, in their plots. “Realism” appeared in
literature. Novels and plays on business themes were popular. One of the
stage hits based on a business theme was Charles Klein’s _The Lion and
the Mouse_. Maxine Elliott and Mrs. Fiske were stars of the period. The
first issue of _Variety_ was published on December 16. _The Clansman_,
Thomas Dixon’s novel of the Ku Klux Klan, which was to become, as _The
Birth of a Nation_, one of the most famous feature pictures of the
silent movies, was well up on this year’s best seller list. The
Williamsons made the list with one of their first automobile romances.
They specialized in the type of story in which the heroine falls in love
with her chauffeur, who is actually the scion of a titled British
family. “Motormania” hit the nation in a big way and practically all the
publicity pictures of authors showed them at the wheels of their 1905
automobiles.
1906
Fiction
1. CONISTON, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan
2. LADY BALTIMORE, by Owen Wister. Macmillan
3. THE FIGHTING CHANCE, by Robert W. Chambers. Appleton
4. THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES, by Meredith Nicholson. Bobbs-Merrill
5. JANE CABLE, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
6. THE JUNGLE, by Upton Sinclair. Doubleday, Page
7. THE AWAKENING OF HELENA RITCHIE, by Margaret Deland. Harper
8. THE SPOILERS, by Rex Beach. Harper
9. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, by Edith Wharton. Scribner
10. THE WHEEL OF LIFE, by Ellen Glasgow. Doubleday, Page
* * * * *
One of the most influential novels ever published in this country, Upton
Sinclair’s _The Jungle_, awoke the American public to the menace of the
“meat trust” and resulted in the passage of the Pure Foods and Drugs
Act. Theodore Roosevelt, who took the “big stick” to some of the big
corporations, championed simplified spelling as well as trust busting.
John Philip Sousa was the March King of the nation. William Vaughan
Moody’s _The Great Divide_ was a Broadway success. William Randolph
Hearst was defeated for the governorship of New York State. Here for the
first time was an all-American best seller list, which Winston Churchill
headed for the third time, with another novel which, like _The Crisis_
and _The Crossing_ made good use of the letter C. Robert W. Chambers’
_The Fighting Chance_ was published in a first printing of 50,000
copies, in six weeks went to 100,000 and soon to 200,000. One of the
first hits in the mystery-adventure field which was not a costume
romance was Meredith Nicholson’s _House of a Thousand Candles_.
1907
Fiction
1. THE LADY OF THE DECORATION, by Frances Little. Century
2. THE WEAVERS, by Gilbert Parker. Harper
3. THE PORT OF MISSING MEN, by Meredith Nicholson. Bobbs-Merrill
4. THE SHUTTLE, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Stokes
5. THE BRASS BOWL, by Louis J. Vance. Bobbs-Merrill
6. SATAN SANDERSON, by Hallie Erminie Rives. Bobbs-Merrill
7. THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON CROW, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
8. THE YOUNGER SET, by Robert W. Chambers. Appleton
9. THE DOCTOR, by Ralph Connor. Revell
10. HALF A ROGUE, by Harold MacGrath. Bobbs-Merrill
* * * * *
1907 was a year of financial panic. Harrison Fisher was the popular
artist of the time, along with Howard Chandler Christy, who illustrated
_Beverly of Graustark_, and James Montgomery Flagg. The Harrison Fisher
“gift book” annual was called _A Dream of Fair Women_, each colored
illustration inspired by a popular poem. 1907 was the year in which Ian
Maclaren died; he was the great popular novelist of the previous decade
and author of the first best seller of these yearly lists, _Beside the
Bonnie Brier Bush_. Novelist Stewart Edward White was photographed in
his two-cylinder Maxwell runabout; Mrs. Pat Campbell arrived to tour the
country; Farrar and Chaliapin were singing at the Metropolitan, and Mary
Garden at the Manhattan Opera House; the _Lusitania_ made its first
voyage to New York; and _The Man from Home_, by Booth Tarkington and
Harry Leon Wilson, was the theatrical hit of the year. The Century
Company’s short dollar fiction series, which had started with the
publication of _Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch_, reached another high
with _The Lady of the Decoration_. Robert W. Chambers’ new novel, _The
Younger Set_, marking the interest in sophisticated society romance, had
sales of 200,000 copies, equaling the sale of his _The Fighting Chance_
in 1906. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis publishers, had four titles on the
list, to the envy of many an eastern publisher.
1908
Fiction
1. MR. CREWE’S CAREER, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan
2. THE BARRIER, by Rex Beach. Harper
3. THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE, by John Fox, Jr. Scribner
4. THE LINE OF THE MASK, by Harold MacGrath. Bobbs-Merrill
5. THE SHUTTLE, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Stokes
6. PETER, by F. Hopkinson Smith. Scribner
7. LEWIS RAND, by Mary Johnston. Houghton Mifflin
8. THE BLACK BAG, by Louis J. Vance. Bobbs-Merrill
9. THE MAN FROM BRODNEY’S, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
10. THE WEAVERS, by Gilbert Parker. Harper
* * * * *
Belgium annexed the Congo. Maude Adams was playing in Barrie’s _What
Every Woman Knows_, and Augustus Thomas’ _The Witching Hour_ was another
theatrical success. The Harrison Fisher annual was _Bachelor Belles_.
Winston Churchill was again first on the best seller list, having
deserted his southern historical scenes for a New Hampshire setting. The
first printing of _The Trail of the Lonesome Pine_, third on the list,
was sold out in a few months. One of the best-known popular songs used
the book’s title--a songwriting habit that has persisted. Frances
Hodgson Burnett was still a best seller twenty-two years after her
greatest hit, _Little Lord Fauntleroy_. Nine of the authors were
Americans, but all were “repeaters” from previous years, a
characteristic of the fiction lists, which report favorite writers year
after year.
1909
Fiction
1. THE INNER SHRINE, Anonymous (Basil King). Harper
2. KATRINE, by Elinor Macartney Lane. Harper
3. THE SILVER HORDE, by Rex Beach. Harper
4. THE MAN IN LOWER TEN, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Bobbs-Merrill
5. THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE, by John Fox, Jr. Scribner
6. TRUXTON KING, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
7. 54-40 OR FIGHT, by Emerson Hough. Bobbs-Merrill
8. THE GOOSE GIRL, by Harold MacGrath. Bobbs-Merrill
9. PETER, by F. Hopkinson Smith. Scribner
10. SEPTIMUS, by William J. Locke. John Lane
* * * * *
William Howard Taft was inaugurated as President of the United States;
the first “Model T” Ford rolled off the assembly line; Peary reached the
North Pole; and suffragettes were chaining themselves to London railings
in this year 1909. Rube Goldberg’s _Foolish Questions_ was a regular
feature of the New York _Evening Mail_, Frances Starr was appearing in
_The Easiest Way_, and Mary Garden triumphed as Salome. “The art of the
moving picture is still in its infancy,” wrote Frederic Taber Cooper.
Dr. Eliot’s _Five-Foot Shelf_ made its first appearance. In the
publication of Basil King’s _The Inner Shrine_, best-selling book of
1909, Harper used anonymity to build up curiosity. The same publisher
had also employed that method in selling Katherine Cecil Thurston’s hit
book of 1904 and 1905, _The Masquerader_, and was to use it again in
1910 with Basil King’s _The Wild Olive_. This promotion stunt can be
used only infrequently or its effect is blunted. Another example of its
success, twenty years later, was the publication of Ursula Parrott’s
_Ex-Wife_ in 1929 by Cape & Smith. _The Man in Lower Ten_, by Mary
Roberts Rinehart, was the first American detective story to make the
annual best seller list. It was illustrated in color by Howard Chandler
Christy. William J. Locke, who had long been popular and is best
remembered for his _Beloved Vagabond_, was introduced to the list, in
tenth place, with one of his typically whimsical tales.
1910
Fiction
1. THE ROSARY, by Florence Barclay. Putnam
2. A MODERN CHRONICLE, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan
3. THE WILD OLIVE, Anonymous (Basil King). Harper
4. MAX, by Katherine Cecil Thurston. Harper
5. THE KINGDOM OF SLENDER SWORDS, by Hallie Erminie Rives. Bobbs-Merrill
6. SIMON THE JESTER, by William J. Locke. John Lane
7. LORD LOVELAND DISCOVERS AMERICA, by C. N. and
A. M. Williamson. Doubleday, Page
8. THE WINDOW AT THE WHITE CAT, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Bobbs-Merrill
9. MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVE, by Eleanor Abbott. Century
10. WHEN A MAN MARRIES, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Bobbs-Merrill
* * * * *
The end of an era had come with the death of Edward VII of England. 1910
was also the year of the death, in her ninety-second year, of Julia Ward
Howe, author of _The Battle Hymn of the Republic_. Japan annexed Korea.
The _Mauretania_ was queen of the Atlantic. Edmond Rostand’s
_Chantecler_ was produced in Paris; and Maeterlinck’s _Blue Bird_, in
London. Montague Glass’ _Potash and Perlmutter_ stories were running in
the _Saturday Evening Post_, and the newspaper “funnies” of the day were
_The Hall Room Boys_ and Bud Fisher’s _Mutt and Jeff_. Everyone was
humming Ethelbert Nevin’s song, “The Rosary,” which was used in the plot
of the year’s best-selling novel--the first to take precedence over a
new Churchill novel at the top of the list in a number of years. So
popular and profitable was the book that its publisher’s new building on
West 45th Street, in New York, was dubbed “The Rosary.” But its author,
Florence Barclay, along with such other authors as the Williamsons and
Eleanor Abbott, is almost forgotten today. On the other hand, Mary
Roberts Rinehart, represented by two books on the 1910 list, is still a
best seller.
1911
Fiction
1. THE BROAD HIGHWAY, by Jeffery Farnol. Little, Brown
2. THE PRODIGAL JUDGE, by Vaughan Kester. Bobbs-Merrill
3. THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH, by Harold Bell Wright. Book Supply Co.
4. QUEED, by Henry Sydnor Harrison. Houghton Mifflin
5. THE HARVESTER, by Gene Stratton Porter. Doubleday, Page
6. THE IRON WOMAN, by Margaret Deland. Harper
7. THE LONG ROLL, by Mary Johnston. Houghton Mifflin
8. MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVE, by Eleanor Abbott. Century
9. THE ROSARY, by Florence Barclay. Putnam
10. THE COMMON LAW, by Robert W. Chambers. Appleton
* * * * *
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” was the song of the year. It swept the
country in 1911, and staged a return some twenty-seven years later. As a
result of the 1938 movie of that title, an additional 1,000,000 copies
of the song were sold. Along with ragtime came the first big wave of
mechanized music--the player piano and the phonograph, forerunners of
radio, talking screen and TV. The New York Public Library at 42nd Street
and Fifth Avenue, which, with other libraries, is a final repository for
many of the forgotten best sellers of yesterday, was opened on May 23.
Top seller of the year, _The Broad Highway_, by the new English writer,
Jeffery Farnol, marked the last high spot of this long era of the
historical novel. A total of 305,000 copies were sold in both original
and reprint editions. Here was the first appearance of Harold Bell
Wright, who built an extraordinary following, perhaps largely among a
public not generally buyers of books. Gene Stratton Porter, many of
whose books are among the big American best sellers of all time, made
her first appearance on these lists with _The Harvester_. _Freckles_ had
been published in 1904 but had missed making an annual list largely
because its great sale came after it had gone into a 50-cent reprint
edition. _The Winning of Barbara Worth_ was priced at $1.30 and
_Queed_, a first novel that caught the public fancy, at $1.35--both
prices typical of their time.
1912
Fiction
1. THE HARVESTER, by Gene Stratton Porter. Doubleday, Page
2. THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT, by Basil King. Harper
3. THEIR YESTERDAYS, by Harold Bell Wright. Book Supply Co.
4. THE MELTING OF MOLLY, by Maria Thompson Daviess. Bobbs-Merrill
5. A HOOSIER CHRONICLE, by Meredith Nicholson. Houghton Mifflin
6. THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH, by Harold Bell Wright. Book Supply Co.
7. THE JUST AND THE UNJUST, by Vaughan Kester. Bobbs-Merrill
8. THE NET, by Rex Beach. Harper
9. TANTE, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. Century
10. FRAN, by J. Breckenridge Ellis. Bobbs-Merrill
Non-Fiction
1. THE PROMISED LAND, by Mary Antin. Houghton Mifflin
2. THE MONTESSORI METHOD, by Maria Montessori. Stokes
3. SOUTH AMERICA, by James Bryce. Macmillan
4. A NEW CONSCIENCE AND AN ANCIENT EVIL, by Jane Addams. Macmillan
5. THREE PLAYS, by Eugene Brieux. Brentano
6. YOUR UNITED STATES, by Arnold Bennett. Harper
7. CREATIVE EVOLUTION, by Henri Bergson. Holt
8. HOW TO LIVE ON TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY, by Arnold Bennett. Doran
9. WOMAN AND LABOR, by Olive Schreiner. Stokes
10. MARK TWAIN, by Albert Bigelow Paine. Harper
* * * * *
Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States, defeating
both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; the latter’s Bull Moose
candidacy split the Republican party. Arizona and New Mexico were
admitted to the Union. The dramatic sinking of the great liner
_Titanic_, with many notables on board and with enormous loss of life,
stunned two continents. In this year began the heyday of the Harold Bell
Wright-Gene Stratton Porter popularity. Both their 1911 best sellers
reappeared on the 1912 list, Mrs. Porter’s reaching top place. Anne
Douglas Sedgwick’s _Tante_ gave a note of literary distinction to a none
too distinguished group of novels. _The Publishers’ Weekly_ added
non-fiction best-selling records this year and again in 1913, then
dropped them for three years until the sales of books about World War I
made non-fiction titles big sellers again. Previously fiction and
non-fiction had been lumped together, with the result that the list
consisted entirely of fiction and a book of general literature seldom if
ever reached a yearly best seller list. Not until the 1920’s did
non-fiction sales equal those of fiction, when such books as H. G.
Wells’ _Outline of History_ began to come along. Non-fiction best
sellers tell more about the subjects in which the public was interested
than which authors were their favorites. The first non-fiction
best-seller list featured “self-help” books, biography, travel, social
and economic problems, philosophy--recurring topics through all the
later years. Notable was the appearance of two books by Arnold Bennett
on the list.
1913
Fiction
1. THE INSIDE OF THE CUP, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan
2. V.V.’S EYES, by Henry Sydnor Harrison. Houghton Mifflin
3. LADDIE, by Gene Stratton Porter. Doubleday, Page
4. THE JUDGMENT HOUSE, by Sir Gilbert Parker. Harper
5. HEART OF THE HILLS, by John Fox, Jr. Scribner
6. THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN, by Jeffery Farnol. Little, Brown
7. THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST ME, by Hall Caine. Lippincott
8. POLLYANNA, by Eleanor H. Porter. Page
9. THE VALIANTS OF VIRGINIA, by Amélie Rives. Bobbs-Merrill
10. T. TEMBAROM, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Century
Non-Fiction
1. CROWDS, by Gerald Stanley Lee. Doubleday, Page
2. GERMANY AND THE GERMANS, by Price Collier. Scribner
3. ZONE POLICEMAN 88, by Harry A. Franck. Century
4. THE NEW FREEDOM, by Woodrow Wilson. Doubleday, Page
5. SOUTH AMERICA, by James Bryce. Macmillan
6. YOUR UNITED STATES, by Arnold Bennett. Harper
7. THE PROMISED LAND, by Mary Antin. Houghton Mifflin
8. AUCTION BRIDGE TO-DAY, by Milton C. Work. Houghton Mifflin
9. THREE PLAYS, by Eugene Brieux. Brentano
10. PSYCHOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY, by Hugo
Munsterberg. Houghton Mifflin
* * * * *
In 1901, 1904, 1906, 1908, and again in 1913 a novel by Winston
Churchill headed fiction sales. Hall Caine’s _The Woman Thou Gavest Me_
sold 346,000 in the year. _Pollyanna_ made her first appearance,
beginning a series that continued to sell over many years, although
latterly as juvenile reading. Non-fiction included (a year before the
outbreak of World War I) a book on Germany and President Wilson’s
statement of his program. Brieux’ plays appeared for the second
year--one of the few books of drama in all these lists. The discussion
of one of the plays, _Damaged Goods_, when performed in New York, on a
startling theme for its times, probably accounted for the book’s large
sale. Milton Work, first bridge authority to achieve a national sale for
his instruction book, was later succeeded by Culbertson and then Goren.
1914
Fiction
1. THE EYES OF THE WORLD, by Harold Bell Wright. Book Supply Co.
2. POLLYANNA, by Eleanor H. Porter. Page
3. THE INSIDE OF THE CUP, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan
4. THE SALAMANDER, by Owen Johnson. Bobbs-Merrill
5. THE FORTUNATE YOUTH, by William J. Locke. John Lane
6. T. TEMBAROM, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Century
7. PENROD, by Booth Tarkington. Doubleday, Page
8. DIANE OF THE GREEN VAN, by Leona Dalrymple. Reilly & Britton
9. THE DEVIL’S GARDEN, by W. B. Maxwell. Bobbs-Merrill
10. THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK, by George Barr McCutcheon. Dodd, Mead
* * * * *