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Who is Arthur Brentano?

August Brentano (1828–1886) founded his eponymous newsstand, bookstore and publishing enterprise in New York in 1853; eventually it operated in several American cities with satellites in Paris and London. It was among the first shops in the United States to import newspapers from London and other cities in England.

August’s nephew Simon (1860-1915) led the firm in 1912 when Brentano’s published the first of eleven American editions of George Moore; all the rest came out when the firm was led by Simon’s brother Arthur (1858-1944).

The Brentano Uniform Edition of Works of George Moore included eleven titles: Spring Days (1912), Impressions and Opinions (1913); Celibates (1915); Muslin (1915); Confessions of a Young Man (1915, 1917); A Mummer’s Wife (1917); Sister Teresa (1918); Lewis Seymour and Some Women (1917); The Brook Kerith (1917); Esther Waters (1917, 1921); and The Untilled Field (1917).

Two years before I began studies at New York University, Brentano’s opened on University Place at 8th Avenue, just up the street from Washington Square Park. I still have books that I purchased there, though none are by George Moore.