THE BOOK READERS.
“To-day one book in every four is a novel, and those who hold that fiction has had its day have to reckon with the indisputable fact that more novels are written and read every year,” says the “Daily Telegraph.” “Nor are our fiction readers to be lightly dismissed as mere seekers after mental diversion, indifferent to quality. For the statistics show that for >very two new novels published this year,'three older ones were reprinted. The public were evidently reading (or at least buying) more of the old tried favourites than of the new aspirants for popularity. This, it must be recognised, is quite a healthy sign of the nation’s taste.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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113THE BOOK READERS. Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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