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Show WORKS OF FICTION IN PUBLIC FAVOR LONDON". Keb. 4. Fiction In i ran first In public favor In the I'nlted . Klnsdom. as it did In 114. ; Siwioloey now comes second. Instead ; of rellftion, which held that place ln I 1914. , Juvenile literature has displaced science for the third place and tech., ' nolixry comes fourth. , ' , Then follow. In order, religion, science, sci-ence, poetry, history, medicine,- de- f scriptiun and ttloimiphy. Literature i come. List m the list of twelve lead- j in suti)ects. . In the year Just ended 11.004 new , ho.-ks were priblished in tl,e I'mted KinRtlom. an increase of compared with lhe previous year." This brinrs British publishing almr,st back to prewar pre-war level. The foreoins: analysis was i compiled by ihe Publishers' Circular aad JJoukMllera' Kecwrd, |