Most Popular Novels

The novel or story which basprobably enjoyed the largost torm of popnlarity is "EobiusonCiisoo, :' by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. Thia novel attained great popnlarity froru its first appearance aud is one of the very few that have pontinued to be pupular down to the present day, or for more than 175 years. Defoe died April 24, 1731. The next most popnlar works of fiction were the Waverley novels.of Sir Walter Scott, pnblished in 1814-1831. S#Wcessful have these novéis been from then till nov? that no fewer thau 30 men have been ïininterrnptedly eugaged by one Edinburgh firm for the last quarter of a century in producing theui. Of Haxriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Unole Tom'a Cabin," pnblished in 1851, more than a million copies in Engiish have been BOld. -