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Show THE OUTLOOK FOR AU.i- Ueslly Good Writers Need Ns. Discrimination. The rush of the crowd to i book which may havo no literary or vitality, either of material o.- v' presentation, simply because- I. i talked a'jout. Is never wholesoT." r If the crowd has grown more c It'c and cleai-'inlnded in its Judr.1' J' and has ceased to move upon ft. ".oi Impulses and learned to decide f Itself, tho loss will fall, not on writ iv of real merit, but on a few whoce rewards re-wards wero generally boyond their doserts. The avcrago of literary work in this country in many departments Is high. If great books arc not produced pro-duced in largo numbers, good books nro produced in very considerable numbers, and In soundncrs of knowledge, knowl-edge, In good tasto and literary workmanship, work-manship, a great advance Is evident over the work of an earlier generation. It is a period of quiet progress, a tlmo of preparation rather than ,a tlmo of accomplishment. ,f'l |