Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-06 | Page 21 | Fiction Outclasses All in New Publications

FICTION OUTCLASSES ALL IN NEW PUBLICATIONS LONDON, Feb 5. Fiction in 1920 i ran first In public favor in the l ulled! i Kingdom, as it did in 1914. Sot lolog now comes second, instead ! I of religion, which held that plac In I 1914. j Juvenile literature has displaced scl- I Once for the third place, and technol-I ogy comes fourth. Then follow, in order, religion, set-' ence, poetry, history, medicine, do-1 Crlptlon and biography. Elterature I comes last in the list of twelve lead- lng subjects. j In the year Just ended, 11)004 new I books were published in the United I Kingdom; an Increase of 1.3S2 ro.rn-j pared with the previous year. This j brings British publishing almost back I I to its prewar level. The foregoing an- alysls was compiled by the Publishers Circular and Booksellers' Record.