THE MAKING OF BOOKS.
•Do you aspire- to read all the new. books aB they . oomo,.out ?i' If : so. (says, tho New York '.'lndependent") you - will, -have to read at 'tHo,rafo/;bf M '.b'doks' a,'diy tb'.'kcep tip. with ■American."litoraturo'.-alone. Last.year wo broko tho, record:. 2481 more books published in : thfl v States ,thiri,,.'iri .•'1906 •: far aheXd::bf;. 'liny /i)rbvioris.;yeai'.'. The-,total iiliiribor. ■ f0r.j.1907 was. 9620,. from - wliicli may bo leaving; 8925 Yeallyr new-'; books in . the' United States. Of- these 651? wero by ■Amorifcan \ndw .editioris, .iriariiK fdctured.lr-ih; f tho : ' rUnited State's, thd ■'6th6fs ;'lieifig ''byVEnglish', or other; foreignauthor's, ror consisting of"-imported cditfifliis. bo.u'rid or'in'-'sheets.': ; • v.;:.. Ci^o : .ai»'^dflal^'m'ayi^.g(^;'o^litefa^. declaration of independence, overy year producing k iargerf/proportiori' of-tho. books we 'fiction. ; if not . m'gualityj'-wblarh.M Eriglarid;, ytfar/ 9914. bMte' appeared,. only. ■294: ahead of; us, whereas in ISO 6 tho English .. tho v American, by! 1464: ®o'v'Fre'ri'ch .Sri .1907 •pro'duced 10,785,.'of 'which, ; how;bver,' 2000 or 3000 were mero ppdmphle'ts. 1 / -Tho Italian bbok/.production for' mpimVySf-'ivas 70'|0- M the Ariib'nchti list; '.with dl^l J t'itlies.;;/Next -td'-itj: and '-rapidly, gaiiiifig' '6ii ( it,is "itteSol'og-y arid religion 'with ' The classes following are. law, physioitl ahd lnathd-., matical fecienco, poetry and thb drahia. . i. Why .is jt 'thdt . people wili' cdhtiriiid tb say tMt.:r6li&iori is- a (ledd issiiej ftrid/tiihi noi !b^^ ;^^s: '''.ijbel3^;''m: face . tif tho ffict that iKs't ,yoar'iri this 'cduritty tho iiiinibef 6f' iidw Jpublicat'iptis iri relilgiftn was•tridrd,thari,4o 'p.df v ''th"ah' tho year-beford;. hiid the', vblufibs of poetry more than doubled ?'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 12
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