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...Colophon (gilt-edged bibliophiles' gilt-edged quarterly) Theodore Dreiser revealed what he believes happened to the first edition of his first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
That, to the industry, was careful reporting and fair writing of an airplane accident. By giving proper emphasis to the fact that the plane was unlicensed and impliedly unairworthy,* the story was a warning to the reader against flying in unlicensed craft, at the same time created in him a sense of discrimination in favor of well-ordered air travel...
...many U.S. magazine readers ever see a copy of Punch, London's most ancient & honorable humorous weekly (founded 1841). Not many who see Punch do more than look at the pictures, read the often ponderously British captions underneath, wonder what the English see in them to smile at. And there the occa- sional Punch reader is too hasty, for hidden away in those oldfashioned, closely printed columns are to be found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor...
...most attractive of the Elizabethan miscellanies, which will surprise the modern reader by the richness and beauty of its poetry...
...pages of Ralph Barton Perry's little book, "A Defence of Philosophy", are very good reading and probably of far greater potential value to the layman than the several hundred that make up Mr. Durant's best-seller on the story of philosophy. Certainly, the essay leaves the reader with a respect for "those qualities of mind that prompt other men to plunge into the deep waters and roam the trackless forests of the great intellectual adventure...