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Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1930, Page 5

“PRIVATE LIBRARY HAS GONE.” “Tlio private library lias gone with the private cellar of wine, the gig, and the locked pew in church, of the good old middip class. Modern democracy demands its reading cheap and handy and immensely wide in range, and does not want to be bothered with the care of a lot of volumes that it has read once, may never want to read again, and which will probably be worn out and certainly superseded if it did. Tdo not grumble at this state of things; it is a. sum of life and health. Mass production and distribution are blettinu out the age of individual commercialism just jy-i it wiped out the previous ‘age of private property defended hy privilege. Publishing and bookselling are no longer the affair of a few. almost dilettante persons catering for the known taste of a limited select clientele. They are great roaring modern industries.”—Mr H. H. Mottram. the well-known novelist, speaking on “The Author’s View with regard to Publishing and Bookselling,” at the Lil>rary Association. A selected variety of summer coat nnd blazer tweeds are now showing at McKay's.—Advf,