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Show A SaecoMful Unknown Book. I was talking with a subscription publisher, pub-lisher, and in the course of our conversation conver-sation he reached in his library and pulled out a book the title of which 1 never heard. It was called "God. Home and Heaven," a book as pretentious in size as in title. "What is there peculiar about tho book? Well, I will tell you. Of that work there have been sold over one million copies," said the publisher, "and yet Til wager that there axe salesmen sales-men in the biggest New York stores who never heard of the book, and wiU tell you there is no such work printed" This struck me as rather odd and I determined de-termined to make the test. I went into aix of the largest book stores in New York that day and asked for a copy of "God, Home and Heaven." It proved exactly as my friend predicted. I encountered en-countered only one man who ever heard of the book, and he said he had no idea where I could get a copy. "Doubtless out of print for years," he added. And yet within two blocks of that man's store there was at that time printing an edition edi-tion of 50,000 copies of the book on the presses! Edwin W. Bok's Letter. |