Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — Gorged with Its Own Trash. [ARTICLE]

Gorged with Its Own Trash.

I do not believe that the English book hade is affected by what is called the financial depression of the times; I believe it has gorged Itself on its own trash, like the boa constrictor who lately swallowed his own blanket and died thereof. It suffers also from what every other trade suffers from in this lentury—the overcrowding of the tanks. What are wanted are a few great publishing houses—a very few. 'nstead of what should be this choice tew there are scores of firms Imbued with the same views of selling books as a grocer has of selling sugar and spice. Regarded merely os a trade* how far, how very far, is the publish*tog 1 trade of London removed from that 9t Paris? I contrast the cheapest Trench editions of my books with those if the cheapest English editions of them, the first so neat and simple in their glossy, plain paper covers, with their good paper and admirable typo within, and the second so atrocious in the gaudy pictorial cover, which ii deemed needful to attract the eyes of the British multitude! Even in what Is called the “Library Edition” (heaven Bare tho mark!) there are inferior type and inferior paper, in a rough, red, common cloth cover. Why cannot tho French editions be imitated?—Ould% tn the North American Review. v3S snac worm doopoa is free* tadh to an took and a half In length? and of a bright yeHow colon Borne historians say that the menu* faetnre of silk was introduced Intfi Spain by the Moors.—Philadelphia Bub lean. - ... *