'Two classes of people will be: "hit" more certainly than any others by the war, the small publisher and the " pot-boiling" nove-War means that for the time' the reading public wants only one thing—war news. Just! as every newspaper in the world is closed to any contribution that does not deal directly or indirectly with fighting in some form or other, 80, few publishers wil' have a chance of success with any book that is not a war story. An examination of any recent publisher's announcement shows that practically the only books for which there is any demand at the present time deal with politics and topography or with military and naval mat-
A correspondent kindly sends us cutting from the " Electrical Review" of July 24 last, which modus rays, allude issue, by which Signor Ulivi laid claim to having exploded bombs at a distants of three miles It iv stated that Signor Ulivi has left Italy and the "Electrical Review" goes on A quantity, of sodium wae found in deserted wor be bored " tiny he ole in jacket of the bomb, and packed it on the inwith cotton wool, in contact with sodium. In the course' of ten or twenty minutes after the bomb wa the water percolating, through wool reached the sod; quently ignited and e:
corroboration of ters. Such books are only issued fainted, by the big publishing firms, the smaller ones cannot stand the ex-in water. pense. They depend mainly on -distance experiments he odd nove second-rate novels, several hundreds' assist in putting the bombs into the water! of which must have been on the before, proceeding. in a motor-car to the spot where his apparatus was fix: in eve of publication when war broke accusers say that he had not time to do cout, Most of them will now be it. He dared not to take the risk of unsaleable, a fact which spells being far from his generating station at the time of the immersion of the tragedy for publishers and authors] bombs, lest they should go off premaalike. tarely and give away the whole trick.
The allegation, as yet one docs not see that it.is anything more, is interesting. The weak point is that it is difficult to see what Signor Ulivi had to gain by a device which would certainly be found out before he could make any profit from it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.