Show Competition Keen Among Book I Publishers New Plants Founded I Back in the time of Charles DIckens Dickens DIck DIck- ens when America imported many If not most ot of its books from England England En- En gland the busIness ot of publishing was often a race Thero were no copyright laws ot of course so O It was as possible to pirate books and get away with it ft Cass Canfield ot of Harpers Harper's is authority for the statement that when a new book boole appeared in London the tho purchaser pun pur- chaser ot of the rican American rights would meet a a. ship on this side take tako off oll his cop and dash with It 11 to n a plant where prInters worked night and day until it was published Then the copies were rushed to the tho dealers deal deal- ers much like extra editions of newspapers toda in order to beat pirated edItions cow that such a a. condition is merely merel a a. memory book publishing probably is less frenzied But judgIng judgIng judg- judg Ing fr froin m the number ot of houses engaged engaged en- en in it the business Is more e In other respects than It ever er was MANY YOUNG When hen Jl it was announced recently that Jonathan Cape ot of London and Harrison Smith ot of New ew York had organized a a s- s house Cape trie e as a. his reason for comIng corn com lag Ing to AmerIca the unrivaled opportunities opportunities op- op offered herr here Subsequent inquiry discloses that in the United States there are approximately approximately ap- ap proximately publishers ot of books or these more than a score have established them themselves Eh within the past five ears Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith Inc is the see sec onti house to start up in business within 12 months Coward McCann I being the other l Publishing houses it seems like certaIn forms ot of life In biology multiply themselves es Viking Press for instance sprang from the establishments ot of and Boni Mm- Mm ton Balch and company from Scribners Scribner's Scrib- Scrib ners ner's and That is to sn say the founders ot of the younger I I enterprises formerly were editors in inthe the tho older concerns t LEFT OLDER HOUSES I Other publishers who left older houses are aro William Morrow John Day Lincoln Ives Ivea Washburn Coward vard Tom Coward used to be wIth Dobbs Dobbs- Merrill and Capes Cape's associate Harrison Smith came I from Harcourt Brace Another place apparently Is in the colleges es Richard Simon and Lincoln Schuster who made j crossword puzzle books the foundation tion of a a. flourishing business are area a a. couple or of Columbia grad graduates ates And the allIance ot of lacy Masius is the result ot of a friendship between two Yale men Incidentally there has been an increase In tho presses operated b by the themselves Albert and Charles sponsors ot of last seasons season's sensation The BrIdge of San Luis Re fley are among the newer impresarios or of lIterature Others listed by F F. G. G leJcher of Publishers Weekly include Rae lae D. D Henkle Payson 1 Clarke G. G Howard Watt and Harold Vinal All of the foregoing are in New ew York in Boston there is Hale Cushman I I and Flint and In Santa Barbara Darbara Cal Wallace Hebberd S |