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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 20, 18 October 1918, Page 5

(The cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in that journal, but only whore expressly stated is such newß the editorial opinion of the "Times.") In view of the paper shortage someone recalls old Ben Franklin's remarks: "One can scarce see a new book without observing the excessive artifices made use of to puff up a paper of verses into a pamphlet, a pamphlet into an octavo, and an octavo into a quarto, with scab-boardings, white lines, sparse titles of chapters arid exorbitant margjns, to such a ' degree that the selling of paper seems now the object, and printing on it only the pretence. I enclose the copy of a page m' a late comedy.. Between eyorj; two. lines there is a white space equal to another line. You have 0 a law, I think, against butchers blowing veal to make it look fatter P Why not one against booksellers blowing books to make the» look bigger; P."