A BOOK A DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 6

A BOOK A DAY.

The "Evening Bulletin*' of Philadelphia has just published a sensational 307-page octavo book entitled "One Day." Most of the book is printed in ordinary ten-point book type, though some pages are in finer print, and all of it is abundant! v illustrated. "One Day" looks like a two or threedollar book: it is sensational because it reveals graphically what a Philadelphian can buy any day for two cents. "One Day" is simply a reprint of the reading matter—the advertising is omitted —contained in the issue of the •'Bulletin'' for June 4, 1928. And that issue was a little smaller than the average issue of the "Bulletin" in the first six months of 1928. The modern newspaper, the greatest bargain in the history of literature. is a sort of daily encyclopaedia: its rani.'" of interest as well as its bulk would a maze the editors of half a century aero almost as much as a modern chemist's shop would astonish the simple apothecary from whom they bought their pills. The newspaper buyer to-day, though he is seldom aware of it, is subscriber to a book-a-dav club which offers him each morning or evening a fat volume containing a scrapbook of art. the solid meat of statistics and the spice of jest, articles and bedtime stories, an almanac of weather, shipping, radio and sport, dissertations on evervthim_r from politics to religion, and chapters in a hundred serial stories, all—or almost all—true.