Show some books must pass away the di discover scovey by professor cobb of the department of agriculture that documents can be preserved apparently indefinitely in a vacuum offers it if further tests testa verify hla bis results a con ven lent way of exhibiting precious pre cloua and rapidly disintegrating manuscripts while permitting their exhibition un der glass but it does doea not offer much comfort to authors whose work la is printed on wood pulp paper with so BO 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 |