Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — A Literary Yearning. [ARTICLE]

A Literary Yearning.

"I’d give a good bit to get hold of some of old Beadle’s novels,” said the man of forty-five. "I get so weary of the popular novels that are being ground out by the fiction factories that my soul fairly yearns for the good old stories I used to read when I was a boy. So keen has this longing become that I have been going around among the old book stores where sec-ond-hand periodicals are kept In the hope of picking up some of the Beadle’s dime and han-dime libraries. But my quest has been in vain. "I find that there are blood and thunder publications issued today, but they have nothing of the charm possessed by such writers as Col. Prentice Ingraham, Ned Buntline, Edward L. Wheeler, whose Deadwood Dick stories were classics, and Edward S. Ellis, who wasn’t ashamed to sign his stories for Beadle, in spite of the fact that he was also known in the educational field. "These men were artists In their way, and I am sure that many an old boy of my age shares my regret that their work shouldn’t be preserved,"