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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 555, 9 July 1909, Page 4

l : , e Jjponny. cbftyright novel' continues .'. to bo the' subject of"correspondenco in the j " Bookseller,". ~v A ymyer of theso .handy ; 'books, 'fii" tfib' cbursol'of 'a •■letter,: says:— J ''Th'ftfe'the'clioap .sevenpenhy copyright, novel B , isa boon to thousands of English readors is • made; manifest by thq-fnumber of them i which ,' 'can-be' r seen. "oil >'tho /shelves- of every books'- seller's Shdj); , 'and v this, too, in spite of the booksoller's declared Opinion that thei profit I sale .is insufficient, and that the extension of the system ivill send every booki' 's'ollb'rßtit'd': bailWtfptcy; Three '■years; 'ago a. i certain number of persons spent a not iu- , considerable.-sum upon six-shilling novels— i jsbme of them specially worth the,money. ■ji'To'day,-. is it, not;ahnost certain that,-as the' t' ;noff;pfice ; istoiiily;:.bn'e-eig'hth of-the ojd, the: ~! ;pra'ctibalyTesu]itl i i.wilft bo that eight ■.timesias_ s many books will bought, 'so that" ,]Vbn'Jthe.svhol(sfthbJbookseller, at,:-any- r'atb; £ 'wflf-*nqt i 'lose Very'inuch." It is quito clear, - this correspondent thinks, that tho result of '•' the*revolution;is;- as is; usual,'ifi revolutions, f. •in'at*Hhfeniittyf; : »re'itt>,- oßJby. -and b|ady*niae.es j^'vMali-set .Anartrf or ■ih&.J&i+ :