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Show IS. So Many, After All r.vry literary magazine and every newspaper column 'ran-criticism and gossip remarks quite frequently that -jutry is fairly being deluged with a flood of new books .tthers that more books are being printed in America before. -tatistie?. however, prove the contrary to be true As jai as 1910 there were 13,470 different books published ;?" country. In 1928, when we were supposed to have rxiie authors and publishing houses, the total had fal--"-. I0.:45. . Fjiihermore, fiction itself shows a falling off. Away . in 1901 there were 2234 different novels published in rhi. Last year there were only 1809. Apparently we're not being flooded with literature as E 'r?.s we have supposed. |