Reading a random group of advertisements for books published in November 1909, I get the impression that 'what goes around comes around.'  I recognize few of the titles or authors. Only a few books in any era appear to survive and become classics, although many are initially advertised as 'instant classics.'  I wonder if the Da Vinci Code will be remembered 100 years from now? Penguin Canada has just announced (March 2006) that they are reissuing Anne of Green Gables among other Canadian classics. This book was originally published in 1908 (by a Boston Publisher!) and, in 1910, Montreal Star was serializing Anne of Avonlea. The red book above is the cover of the original edition.

Houghton Mifflin:

Labor and the Railroads: J.O. Fagan. A fearless analysis of labour conditions…

Why American Marriages Fail by Anna A Rogers. With brilliant essays such as "Why American Mothers Fail."

Doubleday:

The Story of the Negro by Booker T. Washington: A positive triumphant record of progress.

Men the Workers by Henry Demarest Lloyd. A collection of essays and addresses on labour questions from the viewpoint of an intimate.

Harper and Brothers:

The Valour of Ignorance: Homer Lea. Its object to show the unpreparedness of the US for war and discusses a plan by which the Japanese might attach the Philippines and Hawaii.

Imagination in Business: By Lorin F. Delano. Meaning the power to comprehend the prejudices and instincts in human nature and to carry them to success in business.

Fiction:

The Silver Horde by Rex Beach

A story epic of love and victory, with Alaskan atmosphere, deep passion and stirring action.

Northern Lights by Sir Gilbert Parker

With characters that are French Canadian, English, American and Indian.

The Century Co.

Two Racy Romances:

Zandrie, by Marian Edwards Richards…Flowerlike, startlingly innocent, surprisingly touchingly passionate, that's Zandrie's poor little convent bred struggling child.

An Unofficial Love Story by Albert Hickman:

If eve a girl was indiscreet, it was Marjorie. If ever a girl was bewitching, it was that same Marjorie.