Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1913 — Some Books Must Pass Away. [ARTICLE]

Some Books Must Pass Away.

The discovey by Professor Cobb of the department of agriculture that documents can be preserved apparent ly indefinitely in a vacuum offers, if further tests verify his results, a con venient way of exhibiting precious and rapidly disintegrating manuserpts while perinltting their exhibition under glass. But it does not offer much comfort to authors whose work is printed on wood pulp paper. With so many books in the world, to try to preserve sample copies in a vacuum would be, far too ambitious an undertaking. Whatever books survive will have to be kept alive by the process of reprinting from time to time, and not many modern books stay in vogue long enough for that.