A curious and jihteresting development of book-collecting is the formation of the First Edition Club, with a club room at No. 17, Pall Mall Kast, S.W.1. The entrance subscription is one guinea, expiring 12 months after the date of payment, with an annual subscription, after the Hirst year, of only half-a-guinea. It will be the special business of the First Edition Club to give prompt and useful advice to isolated leaders and to bring readers into touch with each other. It is proposed, also, to keep an Index of communications from members, relating to their reading, ranging from the briefest of criticisms to the most elaborate of review, but with this in common, that they are definitely communicative. This Index would form -the basis of a system of ce-relating readers of the same author. Expert information on literary matters will obtainable, and a comprehensive file of information, and annotated bibliographical data, will be available for the use of members.
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