Show HOOKS ASH AND 1 NG Perhaps no imo show sho more plainly the time progress of or tho the world than luau netting forth the demand Iemand for book l and periodicals There won Will a n time loll when simen hn n a 1 book represented a It little fortune Only the time wealthy people could afford to own n a few lew volumes Tile Tho valuable products of literature were chained to the tue walls llIs of oC libraries nod scholars l far In order to toeo tolien pee lien eo rend read works that were famous Then n time the art of ot printing was wan made POH PO ditto sibie by b the time Invention of cheap miami books bolca became to tin tha th people coille Stilt Still only a 1 century ago age III Di bles blet were so scarce that a girl U is said cold to have tolled saved caved for six years to 10 buy a IL and then than ulin had to walk nik fifty lift to find a 1 person tereon ulmo could tell toil her hr whore wh rc to find a 1 copy rol that watt was 1111 for or 01 soIl sale At that time few tew were ivero ero able uble to read Time The of at hooks books school hoe has remedied oil nil this now books are In every e r rhome home besides tho the volumes reposing In thousands of ot libraries Tha Tho secretary of ot the time els Inter liller International notional national Institute M t tPaul Paul estimates that thai the total of at printed j the Invention of the theart theart art of or printing to 10 the beginning of ot 1000 I OO to no imo less iese le s than differ on oat works and that tho time dumber humber of at periodicals I 11 from roil to it If HillA It IB itt renumbered that tha t pome of oC these have been printed prill tOIl In lii millions of copies cople ill III il of or r them III In thousands time tho en total of ot hook books I may to some extent le It I bo bu realized ren II The Tite of oC tho time Publishers PuLl Weekly e kl gives given timo tho following output of books tom for the countries anti and years mentioned representing ing vety el nearly heir I present Annual output I II Ii I i i 0 if ii te B i I i iI a I 11 II mD 11 ll y Russia 11 10 Prance I Ut y l I 1 2717 2781 United 11 low IO IDu I 73 1 I mi iti 1 JW Jv IMS 1 1 I isn un unI I I roi W HIJII Holland I fl sa 1 tip WO fl 1001 Ies V 9 M 94 I I 1001 lii I II l 1 M ioU 11 I ln 12 leiti it 28 B and I Jf U 2 IM 1 ut UI kl key 90 1111 tit m a 3 c I SR III tIM jiG 1911 41 m Canada m lIP liD Uti 00 k I hlll hile teal 3 t 21 I as j I 1 W ll r I IiII iII Tho Time feature of this timI table IH Is that time tho United Is In U lou H being bolna behind t amid 1111 ua us UBell well meli ell nc nl ri time and Italy 1111 III In tue tho yearly production of hooks books and PU itt ml Ilin iio explanation iou however Is found In time the tart fact Unit tho the newspaper literature Is IsDO Isso isIto DO so fur fimm ahead of at nil all the other othet countries nt rue n to entirely distance them Whether thin hue IB la for tor or time the benefit ben IH of ut t the country countr or 01 not Is Ic ii a different News New vapor paper articles not lIol H well ill III ire ted are nrc often owing to tt the utter Impossibility ut of fol tol ui I i t lowing everything c up for verification aton before bOCON It In the time dally daily press v n It ItIs ItIs Is g different with books pamphlets that lire are wired and again be before b before fore taro sent out for the tho enlightenment of ot tho the public Americans It I have hao bud little time for solid reading Their literary wants have been satisfied by tho the skim mine over of and lend tho time cursory cursor at lit the body of the articled that may appeal to their thelt curiosity or po lie literary taste Hut But It Is III claimed that a I chance change lor or tho Iho ho better bolter In Os taking place People have bo more mora time to o 0 read Hooks Jook informatIon und and In III I are In lii better hetter demand The I newspapers nrc arc aiming nt nL literary ex cx All Mi 11 this timi shows that wo we 0 are uro |