Show It 1s said that the autumn book trade I will be one of the best the country has had in many years Some of the publishers are already embarrassed with advance orders Thus the representative repre-sentative of one of the largest publishing publish-ing houses in New York said 1 only a few days ago The present season with us Is not merely superior to last year or the year before that but it is absolutely unprecedented We expected I that the season would prove exceptionally excep-tionally good and made preparations accordingly We are publishing a great many books and unusually large editions but despite that we cannot begin to fill advance orders Another thing about the prospective improvement in the book trade is that the demand is going to be for books of the best class Nothing could be more gratifying than this for so far as the public Is concerned there is nothing gratifying in the sale of trashy books |