Show prominent men prefer high class of reading that sound reading habits are the rule among business and professional men as well as among academic educators has been established by research experts employed recently bv american book publishers A survey among more than two score of the prominent professional and business leaders of the country showed each to be interested in good books and little inclined to the ephemeral publications licati ons that litter the book stores autobiographies biographies his tory economics political science poet ry and the best novels have been and are the favorites with the men of business affairs A lawyer of nation al reputation chooses the great au thors of the past as his companions and thinks the english classics print ed in good type and compact volumes would find ready sale he urged the publishers to exercise great care in selecting biographies for publication because his experience has been that such books are widely read and ex a tremendous public influence the important point in the dum was the evidence that busy men have regular reading habits one or more hours of each day and they prefer the serious reading such a practice Is helpful to anybody high or low regardless of vocation and con ducloe to the perpetuity of orderly society ohio state journal |