Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

Julian Ralph says that in Yokohama he found the steps of his hotel littered with Trilby circulars, and the reading public in that city not less in love with the book than are its readers in all parts of America and England. In Shanghai it was the same story: applications for the next available copy of Trilby at the libraries resembling petitions, in the numher of signatures attached. The more or less sad plight of people who live in the suburbs of New York City, and must come to town each day is considered Julian Ralph in a valuable article which he contributes to Harper’s Young People. He estimates that 300,000 people come in in the morning and go out at night; 130,000 go over Brooklyn bridge each day; 100,000 come in through the Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations. All this takes no account of theenor mous army that moves down town and up town morning and evening— i sometimes eight hundred thousand in one day on the elevated.