Tho Paris correspondent of tho "Daily Telegraph'' ■ says The 'works of /.Balzac, Dumas pore, Zola, and other famous novelists at a penny apiece will bo the oheapest offer on recordJn : tho publishing business. A Paris firm; will mako tho venture at tho beginning of tho coming book season in tho autumn. The novels will bo brought out in a curious form—eight pages of . tho sizo of a daily newspaper, each containing .seven columns of print. • This 'hardly seems very handy, but tho publishers say tlioy have invented a "new arrnngemont of tho columns of. print" which will prove a great tho reader. The first edition of the first penny, elassio liovels will bo, 100,000, and tho publishers hropo that tho saio will very soon t reach a million, copies of cach work in their "penny library of ancient and 'modem classics." . Frenzied with Fear . Are many who develope lung tfouble, Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery, for Coughs and Colds will . Qiito tttem. -Prid? Is, fid. and 3a, :
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 4
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166Untitled Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 4
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