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More Books Read The opinion of M. Georges Duhamel, the French novelist, that the reading of books has suffered seriously from competing interests has been expressed again and again in English as well as in French intellectual circles, says the Christian Science Monitor. It is observed, both in the United States and in Europe, that more and ever more time is spent in picture shows or in listening to radio; that games and motoring and the lighter kinds of journalism encroach upon the place once held by books. But the record of libraries during recent years does not confirm the view that there is a decline in the activity of serious reading. Lending libraries, so far from issuing fewer books, issue more and more. In the administrative County of London, for example, where there are 4.500,000 people, the issues of books rose from 14,512,112 in 1928 to 19,941,654 last year. Not only was the total much higher, but the regular readers read more books rather than fewer. The average number per registered borrower rose from 29.3 to 31.1
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 6
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182TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 6
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