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Show The international postal treaty recently adopted in Paris, is a'ready creating much dissatisfaction among London book publishers. The new rate of postage for printed matter of all kinds, including books, is sixteen ccnlB per pound, and the English publishers say that their country will be flooded with cheap American re- j prints of English bookB. There is certainly some cause for this alarm, particularly in the matter of novels. The best English novels, so popular in this country, aro reprinted and sold here for one half or one-lhird of the price for which they can be ob taioed in London. The English scientific works .and more valuable periodicals are also reprinted here and at a coet that is merely nominal iu comparison with the London prioe. When the new treaty nets into fair, operation we can tell whether or not1 the fears of our English cousins are groundless. |