Are English men and women growing more studious?
Several publishers and librarians declare that a rapidly increasing number of book readers are demanding works of a serious nature, instead of the lighter forms of literature.
Lately there has been a boom in works on economics and social subjects.
have had a remarkably good market for them recently," said a director of Messrs. Leonard Parsons, Ld., to a "Daily News" representative. "We find a growing demand for this kind of literature, especially in the North.
"T attribute it to the war. Men who were in the Army lost touch with the newer movements, and when they returned to civil life they heard of theories that were strange to them. They wanted, for- instance, to know what Bolshevism was.
"The working classes generally are showing a much keener interest
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